Onychorhynchus coronatus
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I was originally planning to do similar threads on the history of ex-situ conservation efforts for the 1970's and 1980's .
The problem is that for the 80's you have only a couple of species that arrive like babirusa, Pzewalski's wild horse and snowleopard which arrive at the zoo don't really achieve anything remarkable and then get phased out in the 1990's.
Conversely there are others in the 1980's like the golden headed lion tamarin and black and white and red ruffed lemurs which arrive during that decade and do well at the zoo and are in fact still there today (except the tamarin). However, nothing pioneering achieved like with the Lac Alaotra gentle lemur or aye aye during the 90's.
A couple of species are interesting from a conservation perspective that arrive in the 80's like the Mallorcan midwife toad while there are some historic failures which are also of interest like the Saint Lucia whiptail.
The 1970's is quite an interesting period and you do have some notable species success stories like the Rodrigues fruit bat, golden lion tamarin, Jamaican hutia (though these no longer at zoo), Mellers duck, pink pigeon, St Lucia Amazon parrot, Bali starling, radiated tortoise, Round Island boa and rhinoceros iguana.
There are also some interesting historic failures from this period like the St Vincent Amazon parrot, volcano rabbit and Round Island skink (new chapter begun with this species I guess as it is now kept at the zoo again).
The problem is that for the 80's you have only a couple of species that arrive like babirusa, Pzewalski's wild horse and snowleopard which arrive at the zoo don't really achieve anything remarkable and then get phased out in the 1990's.
Conversely there are others in the 1980's like the golden headed lion tamarin and black and white and red ruffed lemurs which arrive during that decade and do well at the zoo and are in fact still there today (except the tamarin). However, nothing pioneering achieved like with the Lac Alaotra gentle lemur or aye aye during the 90's.
A couple of species are interesting from a conservation perspective that arrive in the 80's like the Mallorcan midwife toad while there are some historic failures which are also of interest like the Saint Lucia whiptail.
The 1970's is quite an interesting period and you do have some notable species success stories like the Rodrigues fruit bat, golden lion tamarin, Jamaican hutia (though these no longer at zoo), Mellers duck, pink pigeon, St Lucia Amazon parrot, Bali starling, radiated tortoise, Round Island boa and rhinoceros iguana.
There are also some interesting historic failures from this period like the St Vincent Amazon parrot, volcano rabbit and Round Island skink (new chapter begun with this species I guess as it is now kept at the zoo again).
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, thanks for the kind words !
) that is currently held by Jersey was loaned to the zoo by the Duke lemur center and similarly another male called "Imp" kept by Jersey who sadly is now deceased was also loaned to the zoo by Duke.
to wit, the only animals sent to other collections were animals beyond breeding age, or known to be problem animals, whilst all the viable stock was kept at Jersey.... which rather backfired when the breeding stock at Jersey all suddenly died off in the mid-1990s and there were no viable reserve populations around elsewhere.