Tree kangaroos in Europe

20-02-2008

Cotswolds!!

20-02-2008

Great to have YOU around, Jelle !

I did an extensive google research and scanned the archieve of a Krefeld and Melbourne newspaper to find infos about the tree kanagroos, which worked pretty well. I wish I had any inside information about when the US males will arrive.

Al, if you get the young female from Krefeld, her name is Buna. And I think Epe and Wissel are the same park (Jelle will probably know this better, my knowledge about the smaller dutch zoos isn`t the best).

20-02-2008

Epe is the town which is nearest to "Wissel Zoo", so they are the same park idd...

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08-03-2008

I checked the Krefeld Zoo site this morning and came up with these listings:

New arrivals 2007:
November
0.1 Goodfellow's tree kangaroo "Loomy", ex Zoo Brisbane (on their website)
- sent on to Dortmund Zoo in November/December 2007.

Births 2007/2008:
January
0.1 Goodfellow's tree kangaroo to female "Summer"


The previous entire listings were:
quote[Yassa
Pair 1
1,0 Bud (b. San Diego)
0,1 Summer (b. San Diego)

Pair 2
1,0 Wango (b. 2004 in Krefeld Zoo)
0.1 Belisi (b. 2005 in Melbourne Zoo - parents BagixTimika)

Surplus
0,1 Buna (b. 2006 in Krefeld Zoo)

So Krefeld has now 2 pairs, one old breeding pair and a young pair, plus one young female.] unquote

Does this mean we have 2.4 in Krefeld with Buna due to leave for Belfast Zoo shortly?

29-06-2008

Buna/Krefeld has left to Epe recently. And the old breeding pair in Krefeld has a new joey, again a female, not sure if it has been already mentioned here.

29-06-2008

I've been to Krefeld this month and I only saw 3 Goodfellow's tree kangaroos, in both exihbiths. A young one and a pair.

30-06-2008

1. Krefeld have 2.3 individuals after the export of Buna to Wissel Zoo in Epe.

2. The Krefeld Zoo still maintains 2 breeding pairs + pouch young (at the moment just 1, but keep fingers crossed for the new Melbourne/Krefeld pairing).

30-06-2008

Hi!
Here's a few more info...
Concerning Beauval, they have both Dendrolagus species found in european zoos (Goodfellow's and Matschie) and both bred.
They currently have two goodfellows pair (+ young) and 3 matschies (1.2) + young if not left for another park.
Concerning Walsrode, they have a pair of goodfellow's tree kangaroo, one comes from Frankfurt and one from Krefeld.
As far as Dendrolagus goodfellowi is concerned, there are some interrogations about the subspecies in european zoos.
What is sure is that Krefeld, Beauval and most parks holding Goodfellow's have the buergersi subspecie.
But Frankfurt (and one of the tree kangaroos from Walsrode) is said to have shawmayeri subspecie... Is it really true? Is this subspecie valid... that's the problem!

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30-06-2008

No, actually only one subspecies naming is valid (viz the Melbourne Zoo trees assignment). At the end of the day buergersi and shawmayeri are synonymus in taxonomic terms. So, no hybridisation at all!

I guess the Currumbin people actually pull the string in trees and perhaps they would be the best folks to start up an international studbook and WAZA assigned coop breeding programme (since the entire population is spread out over US, European and Aussie/Papuan collections).

30-06-2008

I believe the US zoos are going out of the goodfellow's, exporting their animals to Europe and Australia, to concentrate on matschie`s. This certainly makes sense to me. If I remember right males are expected from US zoos in europe soon to form new breeding pairs with the young females in Dortmund and Epe.

30-06-2008

Hi Jelle, there is already an international studbook for all Dendrolagus species - it is held jointly by the PNG Museum and Adelaide Zoo.

The program in Australaisa, and therefore, any exports out of Australasia is managed by the regional species coordinator.

Zoo Brisbane ?
30-06-2008

0.1 Goodfellow's tree kangaroo "Loomy", ex Zoo Brisbane (on their website)
- sent on to Dortmund Zoo in November/December 2007.

I wonder which place they are referrring to here , as there is no "Zoo Brisbane" per se , although Jay and others would dearly wish there was .
It could be referring to
(1) Alma Park
(2) Lone Pine
(3) Australia Zoo
(4) Currimbin
(5) David Fleays park

though the last 3 options are not really in Brisbane

30-06-2008

Alma Park definitely has no tree kangaroos

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30-06-2008

As far as I know, Fleay's and Currumbin are the only institutions close to Brisbane that have had tree-kangaroos, and Fleay's haven't had Goodfellow's.

I suspect they mean Currumbin Sanctuary.

01-07-2008

Loomy is from Melbourne zoo, it`s a mistake on the website of Krefeld zoo.