Fishing Cats in California

DavidBrown

DavidBrown

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Arizona Docent said:
On September 19 (2019) Fishing Cat Conservancy will do a presentation at the zoo from 6:30-9pm. Tickets range from ten to thirty dollars. (This is a great organization and I encourage everyone in the area to attend).
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Do any zoos in California besides San Diego still have fishing cats? Sacramento and Happy Hollow in San Jose used to, but no longer do.
 
DavidBrown said:
Do any zoos in California besides San Diego still have fishing cats? Sacramento and Happy Hollow in San Jose used to, but no longer do.
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There are four in California (two already mentioned):
San Francisco Zoo (San Francisco, CA)
San Diego Zoo (San Diego, CA)
EFBC Feline Conservation Center (Rosamond, CA)
Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund (Occidental, CA - closed to public)
 
DavidBrown said:
Do any zoos in California besides San Diego still have fishing cats? Sacramento and Happy Hollow in San Jose used to, but no longer do.
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When did Sacramento Zoo keep Fishing Cat? I don't remember them ever having the species.
 
Great Argus said:
When did Sacramento Zoo keep Fishing Cat? I don't remember them ever having the species.
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They kept them for several years in the 90s and into the early aughts. They were in the row of small cat cages that got torn down several years ago next to the former cheetah (now kangaroo) exhibit. Over the years there were many small cat species in there including Canadian lynx, caracals, jungle cat, black-footed cat, pallas cat, and servals. Originally there were even larger species in them when they were built in the 1960s including wolves and hyenas apparently. By the time I went to the zoo in the 1970s the larger species had been replaced with small cats.
 
DavidBrown said:
They kept them for several years in the 90s and into the early aughts. They were in the row of small cat cages that got torn down several years ago next to the former cheetah (now kangaroo) exhibit. Over the years there were many small cat species in there including Canadian lynx, caracals, jungle cat, black-footed cat, pallas cat, and servals. Originally there were even larger species in them when they were built in the 1960s including wolves and hyenas apparently. By the time I went to the zoo in the 1970s the larger species had been replaced with small cats.
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Ah ok. Just before before my time then!
 
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