Are there any Long Beaked Echidnas in Captivity?

PossumRoach said:
Batu secret zoo seems to have them listed on their website.

Batu Secret Zoo
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The last time I knew about it is that it have been put off display due to exhibit renovation since September last year. Not sure if it have been displayed again.

StellarChaser said:
Is Batu Secret Zoo currently the only zoo in the world displaying long-beaked echidna?
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I would say currently the only zoo in Indonesia (Maybe outside of Indonesian New Guinea). Since Taronga Zoo have them too.
 
I'm trying to work out if I saw long-beaked echidna at London when I was young. I remember seeing echidna in the Clore in the very early 90s. Did London have short-beaked echidna at the same time as the long-beaked specimens?
 
oflory said:
I'm trying to work out if I saw long-beaked echidna at London when I was young. I remember seeing echidna in the Clore in the very early 90s. Did London have short-beaked echidna at the same time as the long-beaked specimens?
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In 1992-1993 they still had both short-beaked echidna and eastern long-beaked echidna.
 
oflory said:
I'm trying to work out if I saw long-beaked echidna at London when I was young. I remember seeing echidna in the Clore in the very early 90s. Did London have short-beaked echidna at the same time as the long-beaked specimens?
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The long-beaked echidna enclosure said it had Bruijn's echidnas (Zaglossus bruijni), which would have had 3 or 4 toes per fore foot. I was suspicious and spent a long time watching one of the echidnas walk round its enclosure. I counted 5 toes on a fore foot, so I presumed it was a Barton's echidna (Z bartoni). The other species, the Bubu echidna (Z bubuensis), also with 5 toes per fore foot, was known from few specimens; I have seen one of them. Soon after this, all long-beaked echidnas were included in Z bruijni until it was broken up into 3 species, Z bruijni, Z bartoni (including the former Z bubuensis) and the Attenborough;s echidna (Z attenoroughi).
 
ShonenJake13 said:
In 1992-1993 they still had both short-beaked echidna and eastern long-beaked echidna.
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Dassie rat said:
The long-beaked echidna enclosure said it had Bruijn's echidnas (Zaglossus bruijni), which would have had 3 or 4 toes per fore foot. I was suspicious and spent a long time watching one of the echidnas walk round its enclosure. I counted 5 toes on a fore foot, so I presumed it was a Barton's echidna (Z bartoni). The other species, the Bubu echidna (Z bubuensis), also with 5 toes per fore foot, was known from few specimens; I have seen one of them. Soon after this, all long-beaked echidnas were included in Z bruijni until it was broken up into 3 species, Z bruijni, Z bartoni (including the former Z bubuensis) and the Attenborough;s echidna (Z attenoroughi).
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Did they have short-beaked in 1994, do you know? If not, I definitely saw the long beaked...
 
oflory said:
Did they have short-beaked in 1994, do you know? If not, I definitely saw the long beaked...
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They had both at the beginning of 1994, but the long-beaked left for Taronga towards the end of May. By all accounts the long-beaked were in the largest enclosure in the basement of the Clore. You would remember if you’d seen one or the other, as long-beaked are closer to the size of a wombat whereas short-beaked are quite a bit smaller!
 
ShonenJake13 said:
They had both at the beginning of 1994, but the long-beaked left for Taronga towards the end of May. By all accounts the long-beaked were in the largest enclosure in the basement of the Clore. You would remember if you’d seen one or the other, as long-beaked are closer to the size of a wombat whereas short-beaked are quite a bit smaller!
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When I say young, I mean 5 or 6! I don't really remember seeing them, just being excited that I had done...
 
oflory said:
Did they have short-beaked in 1994, do you know? If not, I definitely saw the long beaked...
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From memory, London Zoo had short-beaked echidnas after the long-beaked echidnas left
ShoneJake13 is correct. The long-beaked echidnas lived in the enclosure currently occupied by bats
 
Interestingly, that London Tachyglossus looks much closer to the New Guinean spp than did the other members of the species around in Europe during the 1990s!
 
I'd always thought that I'd seen the long-beaked echidnas but following this conversation I'm now not so sure. I remember echidnas c1985 in the enclosure that, at a later point, held water rats.
 
The long-beaked echidna in Batu Secret Zoo has died a while ago. The species is no longer present in a public facility throughout Asia to my knowledge.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Interestingly, that London Tachyglossus looks much closer to the New Guinean spp than did the other members of the species around in Europe during the 1990s!
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The London short-beaked echidnas all came from Adelaide but yes I can definitely see your point!
 
I was lucky enough to see the long-beaked echidna in Taronga in October 2019. But i’m struggling to import the picture, how can I import one here… sorry
 
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