Tree Kangaroos » Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

31-05-2007

ahh, that would explain a lot... Allthough didn't someone in this thread mention Lumholtz tree-roos in the port douglas one? Anyways, guess i'll have to book a ticket to Papua to see the others then...

01-06-2007

there may be a few wildlife parks in australia holding the native tree-kangaroo species, and their ar certainly a few zoos and parks wanting to hold them, but only melbourne, taronga, currumbin and adelaide have any PNG species. at the moment its looking as though the matschie's are going to be phased out too.

there used to be grizzled greys at a zoo in phoenix or somplace like that, but they were all female and i think they have since died out anyway.

with all the expertise in marsupials here in australia i think we should be able to manage more than one tree-roo species, but if not, i support the decision to focus on the rarer goodfellow's.

i think long-term there may be a few secret desires here in australia for the golden-mantled supspecies or a tenkile or two...

31-07-2007

Lumholtzs are held at Fleays on the Gold coast and at the Rainforest at port Douglas in north Qld, I hope we can still get some new bloodlines from NG for our breeding programs of Goodfellows TKs in oz

01-08-2007

look, out there on the horizon, he's returned! it's, it's........MARK!!!!
(theme song to magnificent seven plays)

01-08-2007

Thanks for the welcome Pat, LOL

17-02-2008

Rainforest Habitat in PNG holds 4 species of tree kangaroos including Goodfellow's, Matchie's, Grizzled's, Doria's. In total they have about 23.

17-02-2008

Yes it would be nice if we could get a couple of new TK from there with some new bloodlines for our Australian breeding program

17-02-2008

Mark,

I guess the only candidates for the ARAZPA region are the D. goodfellowi. Kapal has just relisted them at Rainforest Habitat as only 5.2. So, the only realistic imports from there outside range are a few unrelated males.

I sincerely hope that the EEP tree kangaroo programme will mirror the ARAZPA one or eventually be integrated into it (I do not care personally who takes on the helm, just that it is vis-a-vis coop full stop). This is also the WAZA policy regarding small populations in captivity .........

Hoped for scenario.
on loan:
2.0 to ARAZPA from Rainforest Habitat
1.0 to EEP from Rainforest Habitat
in return:
0.1 from either region back to Rainforest Habitat
+ co-financing another in-situ tree kangaroo programme (not the Tenkile one)

17-02-2008

I thought I saw somewhere on here yesterday that one older females was going to Europe

20-04-2008

I believe it was San Antonio, TX

21-04-2008

correct. that it was.

05-07-2008

Yes, she has already been exported to Krefeld.

Regarding the ARAZPA tree kangaroo programme run by Adelaide Zoo:
1. Is the Dendrolagus matschei on "phase out" in ARAZPA Zoos (considering only Adelaide itself maintain a small breeding group)?
2. Will there be exchange of Dendrolagus goodfellowi bloodlines with the Rainforest Habitat in Lae, Papua in the foreseeable future?
Are the Rainforest Habitat Dendrolagus goodfellowi (un-)related to the current ARAZPA stock?

05-07-2008

Jelle in regards to your questions,

1, I am very sure the Matscheis are on the phase out list,

2, I have been trying to find out if any zoos here in ARAZPA were to get some new bloodlines from Papua for some time now but I have come to a bit of a dead end on that .

I would be surprised if any of the Goodfellows at the RFH are related to stock here, maybe Zoopro could throw some light on this matter.