Uilen- en Dierenpark "de Paay" Small news De Paay

Recently 2 Indian crested porcupines (Hystrix indica) were born.

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Instagram of Dierenpark de Paay (10/08/2022)
 
Unfortunately it was announced today that the little grison has passed away, meaning that this species is no longer held in europe:(
 
pangolin12 said:
Unfortunately it was announced today that the little grison has passed away, meaning that this species is no longer held in europe:(
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Although, with that said, according to zootierliste Tierpark Donnersberg hold a Little grison, is there any truth behind this as I certainly don’t remember them at the time of my visit?
 
pangolin12 said:
Although, with that said, according to zootierliste Tierpark Donnersberg hold a Little grison, is there any truth behind this as I certainly don’t remember them at the time of my visit?
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This is one of many (many many) examples of Donnersberg holding a more commonplace species and claiming it's something rarer for the bragging rights :p in this case, it's a Greater Grison. Other past examples include passing off Screaming Hairy Armadillo as Pichi, Central American Agouti for Mexican Black Agouti, and Linneaus' Sloth for Hoffman's Sloth!
 
TeaLovingDave said:
This is one of many (many many) examples of Donnersberg holding a more commonplace species and claiming it's something rarer for the bragging rights :p in this case, it's a Greater Grison. Other past examples include passing off Screaming Hairy Armadillo as Pichi, Central American Agouti for Mexican Black Agouti, and Linneaus' Sloth for Hoffman's Sloth!
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Did they not at one point also claim to have a three-toed sloth (which was quite obviously false:p)??
 
This seems like a really weird thing to lie about in the first place. To most visitors, a sloth is just a sloth, and an armadillo is just an armadillo (and I'm not sure if your average visitor even knows what an agouti is and won't just confuse it with an overgrown guinea pig), and it doesn't matter to them whatsoever whether the sign says "Linnaeus's" or "Hoffmann's". The people who do care if the armadillo or sloth they're looking at is a rare species (i.e. only their colleagues in the zoo world and layman zoo nerds) would be able to tell by seeing the species that the Donnersberg folks are lying.
 
pangolin12 said:
Did they not at one point also claim to have a three-toed sloth (which was quite obviously false:p)??
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They do use a three-toed sloth in their logo.
But to be somewhat fair, three-toed sloth are a species which are considered more 'photogenic' than two-toed animals - and are more common in photography and commercials - even if their two-toed relatives are more common in captivity by a fairly wide margin. And so, in the promotional material of a number of zoos, one can see a three-toed sloth being used - though the animals are, invariably, two-toed.
 
dillotest0 said:
They do use a three-toed sloth in their logo.
But to be somewhat fair, three-toed sloth are a species which are considered more 'photogenic' than two-toed animals - and are more common in photography and commercials - even if their two-toed relatives are more common in captivity by a fairly wide margin. And so, in the promotional material of a number of zoos, one can see a three-toed sloth being used - though the animals are, invariably, two-toed.
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The difference in this case being that Donnersberg *did* claim to have offshow three-toed sloth at one point of course :p
 
TeaLovingDave said:
The difference in this case being that Donnersberg *did* claim to have offshow three-toed sloth at one point of course :p
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I suppose in a similar manner to how children tend to claim to have the latest cool gadget to their friends - but insist that for some grandiose reason or another, they are unable to actually show the cool thing in any capacity !
 
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