Mandrills haven't been mixed, that I know of. Drills are a smaller family member that have been mixed before. With Sitatunga, Eastern bongo, Pygmy hippo and Red forest buffalo (Not at the same time though)
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Mixed species exhibit ideas
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Mandrills haven't been mixed, that I know of. Drills are a smaller family member that have been mixed before. With Sitatunga, Eastern bongo, Pygmy hippo and Red forest buffalo (Not at the same time though)
Corangurilla
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Doesn’t South Lakes mix Mandrills and Pygmy Hippos? Or are they not doing that anymore?
Also, Bronx keeps/kept Mandrills with other African monkeys as well as Red River Hogs.
South Lakes has mixed all kinds of things, not always successfully
Corangurilla
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Tapirs and lemurs and otters and monkeys and capybaras and bears, oh my….South Lakes has mixed all kinds of things, not always successfully
Reminds me of Zoo Tycoon 2 with how you could safely mix any species that shared a biome and wouldn’t eat each other.
Corangurilla
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I believe San Diego has Dromedaries and Pronghorns mixed in Elephant Odyssey.
They do, I've seen it.
Camels are occasionally mixed with a variety of hoofstock, usually sturdier species that can tolerate occasional aggression.
Persephone
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I know Black Pine Animal Sanctuary kept them with emu, fallow deer, and a variety of domestic species for a time.
Shamba Safari mixes Bactrian Camel with Common Waterbuck, Domestic Guineafowl, Asian Water Buffalo, Greater Rhea, Scimitar-horned Oryx, and Indian Rhino.
Shamba Safari mixes Dromedary and Bactrian Camel with Addax, Common Eland, Impala, Addra Gazelle, Common Ostrich, Emu, Greater Rhea, Domestic Cattle, and Aoudad.
Special Memories mixed Dromedary with Grant's Zebra.
The Wilds mixes Bactrian Camel with Persian Onager and Indian Rhino.
Persephone
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The rhino-camel mix was discontinued after a rhino killed a camel.
San Diego Zoo Safari Park has Dromedaries with their Somali Wild Asses.
Safaripark Beekse Bergen in the Netherlands has both camel species mixed in a safari park type setting.
Bactrians camels are mixed with Przewalski's horses, Père David's deer, Vietnamese sika deer, Blackbuck and Javan banteng in the Asian exhibit. That exhibit does have a forest and a plains section, and the camels are mostly seen around the horses on the plain.
Dromedary camels are mixed with Addax, Ostrich and Goitered gazelle in the desert exhibit.
Basel Zoo has Indian Rhinoceros, Short-clawed Otter, Indian Muntjac and Visayan Warty Pig sharing.
They also have a variety of birds (Superb Spreo, Royal Starling, a small Hornbill species, Cape Turtledove and Cuban Finch) sharing a large indoor area with Nile Crocodile and Dwarf Mongoose. The water area is full of African Cichlids
They also have a variety of birds (Superb Spreo, Royal Starling, a small Hornbill species, Cape Turtledove and Cuban Finch) sharing a large indoor area with Nile Crocodile and Dwarf Mongoose. The water area is full of African Cichlids
How would you keep the birds contained? If they are flightless than no, mixing with ungulates is a bad idea.
The mongooses eat the eggs and birds and the crocodiles don't eat the cichlids?
Crocodiles usually aren't interested in the cichlids, as they're fed and lazy
The birds have access to a whole upper part where the mongoose don't come and crocodiles aren't interested in small fish generally. A lot of zoos mix crocodiles and fish and if you keep the crocodiles fed there isn't a problem.
There is a thing called an aviary
. Aviaries with ibex exist (Nordhorn and la Garenne) and could be used for birds as small as kites etc.