Same species in different parts of the zoo

elefante said:
How common is it to exhibit widespread species in different parts of the zoo? For example, keeping gray wolves in a North American and Asian-themed area? I seem to remember seeing this in Omaha but can't remember what species they were. What do you think of this in zoos? It seems like there is lots of educational value to me since it can illustrate how widespread some species are. It could also be effective since different subspecies could be exhibit, for example Mexican wolves and larger gray wolves.
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At Colchester zoo there are 2 separate pairs of sloths (both 1:1) kept apart in simular South Amerkca rainforest walkthrough themed enclosures
 
That’s interesting, I didn’t realise it became official as recent as 1996.

Australasia was comparatively ahead of their time - with Taronga Zoo breeding the last of their 22 hybrids in 1987 and Melbourne Zoo breeding the last hybrid in the region in 1990.

By this time, Auckland Zoo had already been working for close to a decade on a purebred Bornean colony and Perth Zoo were exporting their hybrids to streamline their colony into purebred Sumatrans.
 
Jambi said:
I didn't realise this until I looked at the map on their website the other day, but Chester Zoo now has orangutans in two different areas, on opposite ends of the site. Sumatran orangutans in their Indonesian Islands zone, and Bornean orangutans in the "Realm of the Red Ape" exhibit in another area.
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The same is true at Chester for babirusa, they have them at Islands, Realm of the Red Ape (where they share an exhibit with short-clawed otters) and a third exhibit viewed from the Bat Bridge
 
elefante said:
I didn't see fallow deer there this summer. But I do remember them in the African plains exhibit and South America one. I don't remember seeing pronghorn ever.
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Oh, interesting. If there wasn’t signage for them, that means they were probably phased out pretty recently.

The pronghorn are a pretty new addition. I believe they’ve only got two females.
 
Azamat Shackleford said:
Detroit had Collared peccaries, but as far as I know they’ve been phased out for awhile now.

Wanted to note that sometimes its also due to space requirements which is why animals of the same species would also be split to other parts of the zoo.
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birdsandbats said:
When did Detroit get peccaries and what species are they?
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More recently, what I think was/is just a single collared peccary, named Arnold, arrived at the zoo. They got him in 2018, I think, and he was still there in 2020 at least.
 
evilmonkey239 said:
More recently, what I think was/is just a single collared peccary, named Arnold, arrived at the zoo. They got him in 2018, I think, and he was still there in 2020 at least.
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Are you sure? Where in the zoo was he? There was no peccaries on exhibit or signed during my visit in 2019.
 
Helsinki zoo has vicuña in the old Bharal enclosure as well as with patagonian maras in a different enclosure.
 
ThatOneZooGuy said:
From what I remember when I visited in early 2019, San Diego Zoo has Amur Leopards both in their Africa Rocks exhibit as well as elsewhere nearer to the old Giant Panda exhibit. This is due to the zoo replacing African Leopards with Amur as most AZA facilities do.
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Also right now San Diego Zoo has tigers in the Tiger River section and the Asian Passage section.
Grey Crowned Cranes can be found in a few different parts of the San Diego zoo safari park.
 
This topic did come up a few months ago in the thread for Marwell Zoo in the UK section. Somebody asked why there were three enclosures for Lowland Anoa, each in a different part of the zoo.

Somebody answered that outside of the breeding season, being aware of another Anoa nearby can cause them stress,

I wonder if this practice is going to become more common for breeding programs of solitary species.
 
Perth Zoo, Western Australia has/had two families of Northern White Cheeked Gibbons from 1999 onwards; the first pair (& at times offspring) and the Australia/New Zealand regions longevity record holder Philip (b c.1972 and been at zoo since October 1974) and his second partner live on an island in the zoo's main lake. The second pair (& at time offspring) live in a 30m x 10m aviary like exhibit in the north east corner of the zoo between the Sun Bears and Red Panda exhibits.

The Zoo also has/had a group of Black and White Ruffed Lemurs living on another lake island but also a second group of B+W Ruffed Lemurs living in one of the exhibits in the zoo's 'Lesser Primates' precinct on the other side of the zoo.

For a very short time in the mid to late 1990s there was a second smaller in number group of Meerkats in the zoo's African Savannah precinct that were apparently individuals who were kicked out of the main group, at one point one of the Meerkats from this much smaller group dug a tunnel into the next door exhibit inhabited by a Serval named Mungo who consequently ate the poor Meerkat and as a result the rest of the Meerkats were moved (to off public display holdings I believe). There were about four exhibits (Hunting Dogs, Cheetah, Scimitar Oryx, Mungo the Serval) between the first group of Meerkats and the second group.

Apparently there was for a brief time (I haven't been back to Perth Zoo since 2006 so this is just from trying to keep up to date with news) another double up of Meerkat troops in the zoo's Savannah precinct in the last ten years (again for a short time I believe) but by then the descendants of the first troop had moved from their old exhibit opposite the White Rhino exhibit to a new bigger exhibit (former Spotted Hyena exhibit though renovated beyond recognition with a path for visitors into the exhibit space with 1m (approx') high glass for viewing the Meerkats. The second group (again wonder if they were exiles from the main group) were again in the same second exhibit (though I wonder if the zoo had cemented under the sand now to avoid tunneling escapes) and their neighbours to the left were now a couple of Fennec Foxes as Mungo the Serval died in 2003 (aged 18, I loved that Serval thats why its easy to keep mentioning him by name and with details lol but back to the same species relevence), by this time there was only two exhibit between the two Meerkat groups. First was an indoor nocturnal exhibit in a mock rock cave that rarely had any animals living in it (until recently had a Madagascan Boa which has since died but at the time of the second Meerkat double up it probably wasnt in use) and which was on the other side of the path (the Rothschild's Giraffes and Grant's Zebras) and visitors could easily choose whether to go look at the main Meerkat group first instead of the Giraffe/Zebra (there was only about a 40m walk between the the visitors viewing of the two Meerkat groups at that time).
 
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I may be mistaken, but I think Bioparc keeps crowned crane in multiple parts of the zoo (I recall seeing them in the forest buffalo and bongo exhibit and with the rhinos) and Oceanografic definitely keeps green sea turtles in multiple exhibits, including Mediterranean tunnel, sea lion and harbour seal exhibit, entrance exhibit and the exhibit next to the sea lions and seals (these latter ones are rehabs though)
 
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