I think the Carpon Park's Zoo has Emu and Red Kangaroo
I know it;s not rare but I just don't like it
I know it;s not rare but I just don't like it
Worst Mixed-Species Combinations?
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Corangurilla
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Henry Vilas could've had an Arctic Fox? Aw, man.
But speaking of Henry Vilas and keeping to the theme of this thread, the zoo added a pair of Von der Decken's Hornbills to their Meerkat habitat last year. Then the meerkats jumped the female hornbill when she was on the ground and tore her to bits. The male still lives with the meerkats.
I was also told that the zoo used to keep their two-toed sloth with golden lion tamarins, but the tamarins were harassing her and so they separated them: Slothra now lives in the walk-thru part of the Aviary, and I believe the Golden Lion Tamarins are still in the Animal Health Center as "time out" (their current habitat now belongs to the Geoffroy's Marmosets).
Why not? They share wild range and they seem to get along.
Also I'm visiting Henry Vilas tomorrow (I also visited the International Crane Foundation today).
I've seen foxes and bears mixed on a couple occasions in the past. It seems to work out fine, or at least I've never heard any horror stories about it which is more than can be said about wolf-bear mixes.
~Thylo
Barring whichever zoo it was that mixed Arctic Fox and Polar Bears... that one didn't end well as I recall.
Corangurilla
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I think that was Central Park.
Edit: It wasn’t Central Park, but they did keep Arctic Foxes and Harbor Seals. Not sure if that ever went poorly.
Corangurilla
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Ew, who pronounces “Hyacinth” like that?
Anyways, on the topic of old zoo guides with confusing pronunciations, “A Zoo for All Seasons” gives a tour of the Detroit Zoo in 1973, and there are some highly questionable mixes (and pronounces “reptiles” as “reptulls”).
At around 18:00, there’s at least four different bear species living together (the narrator states they get along because they were reared together). There’s brown bears, an American Black Bear, a Sun Bear, and a Sloth Bear (only visible for a few frames).
This looks leaps and bounds ahead of other zoos for the time period for the most part though, these enclosures were immense
Somehow nobody mentioned that accidents happen usually between particular individuals, although whole species is incompatible with another.
Also, compatibility depends very much on size and structure of the exhibit. As evidenced by an immense zoo in North America, where black bears are successfully mixed with deer...
Also, compatibility depends very much on size and structure of the exhibit. As evidenced by an immense zoo in North America, where black bears are successfully mixed with deer...
Elephant seals and sea lions at Pittsburgh zoo. Not to mention that they even have a separate sea lion exhibit, they just put a few sea lions in with the seal to make the habitat (and accompanying viewing tunnel) seem more lively.
What makes this mix bad particularly?
Outside of the breeding season, elephant seals are relatively solitary. Behaviorally, they are polar opposites. The seals submerge and sit at the bottom all day, while the sea lions zip around the pool. Then taking into account that all the seals that have been housed are rescues with physical disabilities, which makes them even more on edge. There was a period when Coolio was still around when he didn't eat for months.
They aren't mixed, though? They rotate.
He is saying Hyacinthine, not Hyacinth.
In Burgers' Zoo in the bush they kept African pygmy goose with black pacu. This was only for the adultbirds a good combination.
In Zoo Leipzig the combination of cheetah and patas monkey was not a good combination. I think the monkeys were fast enough but to reach a save zone when they were "hunted" was difficult. Now the monkeys have a separate exhibit and thankfully it don't ended fatally.
In Zoo Leipzig the combination of cheetah and patas monkey was not a good combination. I think the monkeys were fast enough but to reach a save zone when they were "hunted" was difficult. Now the monkeys have a separate exhibit and thankfully it don't ended fatally.
When Utah's Hogle Zoo's African Savannah opened in 2014, they had Nyala with Zebras, Giraffes, Ostriches, Guineafowl, and Egyptian Geese. But the antelope didn't get along with the other animals, so they haven't had Nyala since they moved them to other zoos.
But a couple of years ago, they did add Warthogs to the exhibit...
But a couple of years ago, they did add Warthogs to the exhibit...
Nyala constantly tend to be a problem in mixed species exhibits. It's either a hit or miss. Here in Iowa at Blank Park the zoo's okapi was mixed with nyala and they ended up killing the okapi
Especially when considering that Lowry Park Zoo, just a few miles away, still primarily had iron bar cages until 1987 - twenty years after this video was made.
Did the chukar make a nice snack for the owl?