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TinoPup said:
-There's sort of a sign, it's just black-on-black, but the exhibit was empty. I'm finding it hard to believe I managed to miss an entire section on dozens of visits? It's not exactly a big or complicated building...
-I was there yesterday, there was no exhibit set up for a pair of monitors. Unless you mean the exhibit that is signed for Travancore now holds them?
-Just knowing they're no longer there is enough, there's no need to bother grieving keepers to find out all of the details.
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Yes, the exhibit signed for Travancore now holds the monitors, the Travancore sign has been removed and replaced by a sign that says “New to this exhibit: Black tree monitors. Before the renovations when the old pair of monitors were on exhibit with the Travancore, the monitors were not signed, so many people thought they never existed.
- I always like to know why an animal died, because I go there almost every week and occasionally twice a week.
 
JVM said:
Terrible to hear about Storm's passing, though definitely not unexpected. I had noticed nobody had mentioned him in a while and considering he was a zoochat favorite it was starting to feel a tad conspicuous. Glad it's been reported now. I recall telling a friend about the douc langur and finding out only a day later the animal had passed away months earlier.
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I don’t know why Storm was not mentioned for a while, but he just passed away last Wednesday. Due to his age and diabetes, we were expecting it for a very long time. With the help of medications and limited fruit in his diet, if you looked at him, he never really showed signs of diabetes so you can’t really tell. I saw him last Sunday in the Treetop Trail and he was eating and pretty active like he is a lot. Although his passing came sort of unexpected, we knew were were close to the end.
 
Kevin2342 said:
I don’t know why Storm was not mentioned for a while, but he just passed away last Wednesday. Due to his age and diabetes, we were expecting it for a very long time. With the help of medications and limited fruit in his diet, if you looked at him, he never really showed signs of diabetes so you can’t really tell. I saw him last Sunday in the Treetop Trail and he was eating and pretty active like he is a lot. Although his passing came sort of unexpected, we knew were were close to the end.
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He was so cool and awesome!
 
Kevin2342 said:
- I always like to know why an animal died, because I go there almost every week and occasionally twice a week.
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Knowing is nice, but you really need to keep in mind that to the keepers, these animals are family members. Asking for info while they are grieving is like asking someone for the details on why their parent, spouse, etc. just died. It is upsetting to them and difficult to talk about, but they have to reply to people because someone might complain if they don't.
 
It seems odd that there is only one red-tailed monkey given that primates are social unless I am missing something about the guenon living with another primate.
 
wild boar said:
It seems odd that there is only one red-tailed monkey given that primates are social unless I am missing something about the guenon living with another primate.
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Perhaps it could live with the colobus monkeys since in the wild, red-tailed monkeys often live alongside colobus, mangabeys, and blue monkeys. I saw it in a National Geographic documentary The Nile where a red-tailed monkey led a group of Angola colobus to a grove of eucalyptus trees outside Nyongwe Forest in Rwanda.
 
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