capybaras and beavers in Australia?

Like I said, I'm almost certain - clearly my interest lies outside of conures, macaws and agoutis :) I'll find out where they are these days....
 
ZooPro said:
The Vertebrate Pest Committee - responsible for allowing or denying entry of species into Australia that have pest potential Vertebrate pests committee

And you seem to know more about me than I do!
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Yeah, my bad. Too many people with similar nicknames!

:)

Hix
 
The agoutis were in with sun conures next to old macaw aviaires - but these aviaires have been replaced with native species of parrots and cockatoos, all the south american parrots were moved into the Helmore park aviary and the cockatoos moved elswhere, the agouti and currasow are temporarly off display - but the plan is to intriduce them to the helmore park aviary... currently there is blue and gold macaws, green wing macaws, severe (i think) macaw, brown throated conure, sun conure, nanday conure, crimson bellie conure, blue headed conure, patagonian conure, and two rare species of amazon parrots - some were zoos collection and some were siezed smuggled birds for educational purposes. hope this helps?
 
I thought the Helmore had a concrete floor? Surely the agoutis won't be put on that?

:)

Hix
 
Danale said:
The agoutis were in with sun conures next to old macaw aviaires - but these aviaires have been replaced with native species of parrots and cockatoos, all the south american parrots were moved into the Helmore park aviary and the cockatoos moved elswhere, the agouti and currasow are temporarly off display - but the plan is to intriduce them to the helmore park aviary... currently there is blue and gold macaws, green wing macaws, severe (i think) macaw, brown throated conure, sun conure, nanday conure, crimson bellie conure, blue headed conure, patagonian conure, and two rare species of amazon parrots - some were zoos collection and some were siezed smuggled birds for educational purposes. hope this helps?
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That is a very impressive collection of exotic parrots for an Australian zoo, even the biggest in the country. Are they breeding (or attempting) all species, and are they working in conjunction with others zoos and PRIAM?
 
tetrapod said:
That is a very impressive collection of exotic parrots for an Australian zoo, even the biggest in the country. Are they breeding (or attempting) all species, and are they working in conjunction with others zoos and PRIAM?
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There would appear to be a risk of hybrid breeding between the two Ara macaw species and also between the Aratinga conures. I guess Taronga's bird people would have taken that in to account and set up this aviary with same sex occupants of those species - hence no breeding????

What Amazon species are housed there Danale?

It would be wonderful if they were able to breed the Patagonian Conures - Australia needs more of them!
 
Slightly off-topic, but does Melbourne Zoo still have Oriental small-clawed Otters? ISIS has not listed them.
 
I'm almost certain that they do. The group is split over two exhibits. The larger family group in the Pygmy Hippo Exhibit and a pair in the normal otter exhibit.
 
wow, went all out with the import didn't they? Three animals.....
 
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