As reported by @Patrick Keegan in the Sydney Zoo News 2022 thread, Sydney Zoo now have Southern white rhinoceros.
Exotic Mammals in Australian Zoos
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As reported by @Patrick Keegan in the Sydney Zoo News 2022 thread, Sydney Zoo now have Southern white rhinoceros.
From today’s visit to Wildlife HQ, the zoo has received a pair of Siamang – a male from Darling Downs Zoo and a female from the National Zoo and Aquarium: Siamang - ZooChat
@Zoofan15 So Anjalee has arrived at WP now, am sorry to see her and Burma leave Auckland Zoo really am man as AZ had some really good plans from the sounds of it that if had been possible to of seen done would have been a potentially nice small matrilineal herd; hoping the very best with how circumstances have gone the way that they have and just wishing the very utmost best for Anjalee and her bonding with her fellow Eles' in the herd/group at Dubbo and maybe even a son or daughter for Anjalee some year very soon will make her happy, same for Burma with her integration with the Sumatran females at Australia Zoo. Wow that's interesting that after a century+ of different Asian Elephants being on Aus' shores (sadly mostly under not very nice living circumstances) that Anjalee is the first from the Sri Lankan subspecies to be in Aus'.
Hoping only because WP has more space that Anjalee will actually enjoy the move from her point of view but that is the furthest thing from a critique of Auckland Zoo, Dubbo is has a rare fortunate standing of being able to roll out a lot more acres for its animals due to its space which only Monarto, Orana and Werribee can also afford at present.
Hoping only because WP has more space that Anjalee will actually enjoy the move from her point of view but that is the furthest thing from a critique of Auckland Zoo, Dubbo is has a rare fortunate standing of being able to roll out a lot more acres for its animals due to its space which only Monarto, Orana and Werribee can also afford at present.
As a founder, Anjalee is a valuable new addition to the breeding programme and will hopefully breed successfully at Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
The fact she’s the first of the Sri Lankan subspecies in an Australian zoo is partly a reflection on where animal dealers were able to source elephants from in the wild. Many were wild caught in India and Burma and arrived as gifts presented to zoos by the benefactors or governments as a gesture of goodwill.
Nyala are now at Sydney Zoo creating three holders in Australia. Four males have been introduced to the mixed savannah exhibit: Log into Facebook | Facebook
Six male Bolivian Squirrel Monkeys are now on display at Wildlife HQ. They were imported from Auckland Zoo, NZ - reported on social media.
Darling Downs Zoo have a pair on display currently; saw them there last month. Before the Mansfield transfer the zoo had a total of five individuals with some off-show macaques housed just behind the main exhibit space.
Thanks for clarifying @WhistlingKite24 I didn’t realise they had 2 groups
Are the three housed seperate from the breeding pair viable breeding animals?
Hopefully the breeding pair at DDZ are successful in breeding soon. This species has a birth interval of 1-2 years and females can breed up to the age of 20, so there’s a lot of potential for this pair.
From one of my DDZ trip reports in 2020:
“The zoo currently has 3.2 Rhesus Macaques; an elderly breeding pair, the pair’s daughter who has been partnered with a new male, and a hand raised male (Ronny) who was the last offspring of the original pair. They hope to continue breeding macaques with the young pair.”
So the trio sent to Mansfield were the elderly breeding pair and the hand raised male (Ronny). Any idea where the new male came from?
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Their transfer takes Mansfield’s population to 4.1 (non breeding due to the female’s age).
I would assume DDZ’s new male came from Mansfield as Banana Cabana have elderly non breeding macaques and Crocodylus’ macaques (now deceased) were the elderly remnants of the Alma Park troop.
No problem.
Mansfield’s troop consists of four males and a female following the DDZ transfer, so prior to this their troop had been reduced to two males.
I’m not sure where their founders came from, but DDZ successfully bred in the 2010’s so I imagine there was swapping between the two. If DDZ did indeed receive a young male from Mansfield, they presumably bred also in the last decade.
I can find records of a female at Mansfield named Bubbles in the early 2010’s who was possibly the mother of their two current males that were joined by the trio from DDZ.
Sri Lankan leopard successfully bred at Darling Downs Zoo:
As reported by @Zorro in the Darling Downs Zoo news thread, they've successfully bred Sri Lankan leopard (two cubs). I thought it was worth noting in this thread given they're only the second zoo in the tegion to achieve this accomplishment.
As reported by @Zorro in the Darling Downs Zoo news thread, they've successfully bred Sri Lankan leopard (two cubs). I thought it was worth noting in this thread given they're only the second zoo in the tegion to achieve this accomplishment.
Excitingly, one of the cubs is a female making her the first female Sri Lankan leopard born in the region. Hopefully the formation of a third breeding pair will result from the first generation offspring of the two pairs.
I'm thinking Mogo is the best option for a third facility. Adelaide are still years away from building a Sri Lankan Leopard enclosure, and Melbourne's stance on the situation is unclear. Melbourne could plan to import Sri Lankan Leopards as part of a replacement for their Elephants; but this all depends on whether they're wanting to fully replace the entirety of the elephant complex or not.
It's exciting to see a new species becoming established within our region.