Omaha actually has two of these mixed species exhibits, one in the dome and the other in the African Grasslands area
Mixed species exhibit ideas
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Depends on the ground bird, and nutria are opportunistic feeders, so a baby squirrel monkey who falls on the ground may not be safe, although I'm not sure what would happen. Maybe try something more herbivorous, like capybaras.
What about separating the monkeys and the nutria would that work.
No, foxes will eat eggs and chicks of cranes.
Zooplantman
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Then is it a "mixed exhibit"?
Well in that case I can probably just add new species to mix with the monkeys instead just saying.
It isn' t correct geographically, but otherwise it should work.
I wasn't thinking it for a geographical exhibit. I was thinking about a possible exhibit on the order Carnivora yesterday- and was wondering about this mix. The other mixes in the exhibit would be Spectacled Bear with White-Nosed Coati, and Asian Small-clawed Otter with Binturong. Does anyone else know of any mixes between two Carnivorans that would work?
Do you guys think that an multi-species exhibit for African Elephants,Common ostriches and Kenyan Impala would at least feasibly work
Noah Butas
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Mixed Species Exhibits
1A.Masai Giraffe, Grevy's Zebra, Common Ostrich, Helmeted Guineafowl, Common Warthog, Thompson's Gazelle, East African Grey Crowned Crane
2A.Impala, Lappet-faced Vulture, Blue Wildebeest, Dama Gazelle, Saddle-billed Stork, Common Eland, Greater Kudu
3A. Bontebok, Marabou Stork, Crested Guineafowl, Springbok, Griffon Vulture, Hooded Vulture
4.Okapi, Red River Hog, and Yellow-backed Duiker
5. Saurus Crane, Indian Guar, Chital, Barashinga, Blackbuck, Nilgai and Indian Peafowl
6.Moose,Beaver, Wood Duck, Mallard, Hooded Merganser, and Trumpeter Swan
7. Blue-footed Booby, Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Booby, and Marine Iguana
1A.Masai Giraffe, Grevy's Zebra, Common Ostrich, Helmeted Guineafowl, Common Warthog, Thompson's Gazelle, East African Grey Crowned Crane
2A.Impala, Lappet-faced Vulture, Blue Wildebeest, Dama Gazelle, Saddle-billed Stork, Common Eland, Greater Kudu
3A. Bontebok, Marabou Stork, Crested Guineafowl, Springbok, Griffon Vulture, Hooded Vulture
4.Okapi, Red River Hog, and Yellow-backed Duiker
5. Saurus Crane, Indian Guar, Chital, Barashinga, Blackbuck, Nilgai and Indian Peafowl
6.Moose,Beaver, Wood Duck, Mallard, Hooded Merganser, and Trumpeter Swan
7. Blue-footed Booby, Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Booby, and Marine Iguana
Mixed exhibits of hoofstock and cranes often end up in crane fatalities. Bad practice to keep Mallard with other duck species, which they will rape and bully. Vultures and hoofstock is only acceptable in many quarters if the vultures are full winged under netting. BIAZA, and I believe EAZA, regard flight restricted vultures as outdated and inappropriate.
1: The cranes might be trampled and would almost 100% not breed, the warthogs might cause giraffes and other hoof-stock to trip by digging in the ground and the gazelles might be to fragile (I know both case where it did and didn't work).
2: Pinioned vultures and storks is just a bad idea, they breed very bad/not at all (especially the storks) and might again be trampled. Unpionned in a large aviary this could work. Dama gazelles might be to fragile for the wildebeest and kudu.
3: Same story for the birds
4: Okapi and hogs might end bad for the okapi due to stress, wouldn't risk it myself
5: Besides the birds I see no real problem with enough space
6: Not a fan of pinioning, especially not of tree-breading species like wood duck. The mallards and swans might cause trouble.
7: Most of those birds don't do really well in captivity and are very rare to find, but this might just work with rescued birds.
Zooplantman
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Yes exactly what I was thinking
Zooplantman
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Then I'd have to say Yes, it is feasible
First of all the otters can cause multiple problems, which is why I generally recommend to not mix them. See this for example: https://www.eaza.net/assets/Uploads...sa-EAZA-Best-Practice-Guidelines-Approved.pdf
1: The otters could kill piglets
2: The male pigs and possibly even the tapirs or females with young could kill the otters (pups for sure, possibly even adults)
3: The otters could bully the tapirs, something observed with other species
The second aspect is the mixing of the tapirs and the pigs. According to the AZA ungulate tag mixed species manual, two collections in the US mix Malayan tapir with Visayan wharty pigs. One of them has them in a breeding setup with a tapir calf. They state that a separation area for the pigs is important. The other exhibit houses a non-breeding pair of tapir and a female-group of pigs, which seems the safest option to me.
Sizewise, one of them is less then 5.000 square feet (the non-breeding one) and the other one is between 5.000 and 10.000 square feet