Gibbons in Latin American Zoos

Enzo said:
There has been at least one single lar gibbon individual kept in Rio. I was looking for some data about the Asian black bears kept at the zoo and I ended up finding a newspaper on a website called Docpro, which said that in 1970, the zoo had bought a female lar gibbon, a female Asian black bear and a king vulture from São Paulo.
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Interesting! I keep imagining how enormous were the collection of zoos such as Rio and São Paulo in the 70's and 80's. Of course, animal welfare wasn't a reality at the time, and almost all the exhibits were awful, but everyday we discover more about new species that were kept at these zoos in the past.
 
Yeah, the Gibbon at Bubalco is named Tobias and he is one of the zoo's major attractions. I just found it, Tobias was the first White handed Gibbon born at Zoo de Lagos in Portugal and was sent there on April 2010 in exchange for Scarlet Macaws. He was born on 2 September 2002 and his parents are Tina and Donald which to 2013 had produced 5 offspring at Zoo de Lagos.
 
Jungle Man said:
Yeah, the Gibbon at Bubalco is named Tobias and he is one of the zoo's major attractions. I just found it, Tobias was the first White handed Gibbon born at Zoo de Lagos in Portugal and was sent there on April 2010 in exchange for Scarlet Macaws. He was born on 2 September 2002 and his parents are Tina and Donald which to 2013 had produced 5 offspring at Zoo de Lagos.
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Hmmm, that's pretty nice.Hasn't Tobias ever had a mate? Do you know how his exhibit looks like?
 
Jungle Man said:
No, he hasn't had a mate and I don't know how it look like but I searched for pictures on the web and there's only 1 picture which doesn't show all the exhibit just a part of it, so I don't really know.
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Ah, yes, thank u so much for the info! For me, gibbons are one of the most interesting primates; hope this individual is being well kept at Bubalco.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
It doesn't look like such a bad exhibit but its not great either.

The enclosure and Tobias appear in this video in 1:06 minutes.


Apparently the gibbon also was / is permitted to leave the enclosure and interact with the public too.

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Oh, it looks like the exhibit is similar to Foz do Iguaçu zoo guarani's monkey exhibits. Not actually bad indeed, but I really dislike the fact that the animal is able to have direct contact with the public...
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Oh, it looks like the exhibit is similar to Foz do Iguaçu zoo guarani's monkey exhibits. Not actually bad indeed, but I really dislike the fact that the animal is able to have direct contact with the public...
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Yes, I hope they discontinued that practice as someone is bound to get bitten or kicked in the face by the gibbon or it will end up ingesting some human food or plastic and end up with health complications.
 
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