Parque de Cotia (new zoo in São Paulo)

Jana said:
An antelope shipment went to this park at the beggining of April. It included a 1-year old male white-tailed gnu from Olomouc, 5 female Nile lechwes from Ostrava and 2 male Nile lechwes from Dvur Kralove.
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but why only 1 wildebeest? they should have brought at least 5 or 6 animals since they are animals that live in herds.
 
Jana said:
An antelope shipment went to this park at the beggining of April. It included a 1-year old male white-tailed gnu from Olomouc, 5 female Nile lechwes from Ostrava and 2 male Nile lechwes from Dvur Kralove.
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Wow, wouldn't have expected to ever see these species in Brazil, but I definitley like it!
I still hope that the park will receive some gaurs too, as South America seems to be a better option that die out the European population.
 
Haliaeetus said:
I don't understand.
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EAZA is planning on phasing out gaur, as far as I know, due to few founder animals and to give more space to Banteng. I think it's a pitty, specially as Zlin imported some new founders from India some years ago, so I would really like to see these in Brazil, as we don't really have wild cattle.
 
arafan said:
EAZA is planning on phasing out gaur, as far as I know, due to few founder animals and to give more space to Banteng. I think it's a pitty, specially as Zlin imported some new founders from India some years ago, so I would really like to see these in Brazil, as we don't really have wild cattle.
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they would be great additions to a brazilian zoo.
 
Jana said:
An antelope shipment went to this park at the beggining of April. It included a 1-year old male white-tailed gnu from Olomouc, 5 female Nile lechwes from Ostrava and 2 male Nile lechwes from Dvur Kralove.
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That is a very interesting shipment. Just like @arafan, I have to say I didn't expect to see these species being kept in brazilian zoos. At least not in a near future.
 
arafan said:
EAZA is planning on phasing out gaur, as far as I know, due to few founder animals and to give more space to Banteng. I think it's a pitty, specially as Zlin imported some new founders from India some years ago, so I would really like to see these in Brazil, as we don't really have wild cattle.
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It would be better to reduce the numbers (not phase out) of many other non-threatened / domesticated species of cattle, as Yak / Water Buffalo / Ankole Cattle / Zebu / Plains Bison!
 
Haliaeetus said:
It would be better to reduce the numbers (not phase out) of many other non-threatened / domesticated species of cattle, as Yak / Water Buffalo / Ankole Cattle / Zebu / Plains Bison!
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That may be true, but many of the species/breeds mentioned by you, don't need warm stalls during the winter, and Gaur need some really strong fence (not really sure about Banteng), which also makes is a bit more expensive to build their exhibits.
 
arafan said:
That may be true, but many of the species/breeds mentioned by you, don't need warm stalls during the winter, and Gaur need some really strong fence (not really sure about Banteng), which also makes is a bit more expensive to build their exhibits.
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1) I'm not sure if the warm stalls are needed in all the countries. That could be true in Germany or Czech Republic, but maybe not in Southern France or Portugal. In the Jardin des Plantes de Paris (not in the warmest part of France), a Gaur herd thrives for more than 20 years, with very basical conditions of housing.
2) If strong fences are required, many former Elephant enclosuresof last century (increasingly abandoned due to the upgrading of Elephant husbandry) would be a good option to raise Gaurs.
 
hey guys, i have some good news, looks like someone got permission to visit animalia park before the official opening and looks like they got camels now.
 
also, a friend of mine just showed me some photos of an instagram's account called @artificialrocksbrasil and he told me that they will have a piraña's tank and they are building the hippo's habitat.
 
and today i discovered in the instagram account i mentioned about the park, that they are building a sea lion exhibit
 
I've seen the hippo exhibit and some others both in this instagram profile and in some drone videos published on youtube. Also, I've obtained images (from other sources) of exhibits like the pied tamarin's, and I can say this place is really surprising me each time more in therms of structure.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
I've seen the hippo exhibit and some others both in this instagram profile and in some drone videos published on youtube. Also, I've obtained images (from other sources) of exhibits like the pied tamarin's, and I can say this place is really surprising me each time more in therms of structure.
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me too, i didn't even know about these sources,i can say this is so exciting, i bet this is gonna be one of the biggest zoos in latin america.
 
hey guys i was seeing some videos of the animalia park and i discovered new instagram profiles of people who are working in the construction of the park, and in one of the profiles i saw the park already got ostriches but at the moment there's only one but i believe they will have more, and as david mentioned about the pied tamarin exhibit, looks like i discovered too lol.
 
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