Vietnamese sika are a phase-out taxa — they are only maintained by the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and The Wilds, and neither facility is breeding them.
Is this a particularly long-lived species? I normally associate ungulates with an approximately 10-15 year lifespan, so if it's been a long time not being managed, I'm surprised there are still as many tahr left as there are (it's still in the double digits, right?)
In the AZA, there are 0.3 at the Bronx (all over 20 years of age), 3.0 at Toronto (all over 20 years of age), and Granby with 5.3 (1.2 over 15 years of age, with 4.1 confiscated animals under the age of five). As I and @TinoPup have said, though, they are still prevalent in the private sector.
The Vietnamese sika may be extinct in the wild, but there are plans to reintroduce it. How can the USA help it if the captives are being phased out and are not breeding?
We can't. I do not think the population was ever particularly large or stable, but we are down to 3.2 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and 0.3 at The Wilds. There is only one intact male left in the population. The SDZSP continued to breed them for much longer than other facilities, but there just aren't any animals left, and there's no chance of any more being imported.
Mystique is also a Melanistic Amur Leopard who transferred to Tanganika zoo from San Diego then mothered a litter of 3 melanistic cubs, 04/13/2021 I think.
There haven't been parakeet auklets at the Aquarium of the Pacific for several years, if ever. They do however have the only crested auklets that I'm aware of.
I'm looking now and they still do have parakeet auklets.
Since I apparently forgot to respond to this - it's a public (but privately owned) facility called Butterfly World. I looked into it and they don't keep any hummers anymore, but within the past few years they had various species of exotic hummers, including Sparkling Violetear, Cinnamon Hummingbird, Green-tailed Trainbearer, and one of the streamertails.
I think he might’ve been referring to crested auklets, which are kept at AOTP.
Sad to hear about the Giant Hummingbird. Did they die or were they transferred out. Was DWA the last holder?
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DWA was the last holder. I imagine they probably died, although it's possible they just went into Daryl Richardson's private collection indefinitely.
Very few, unfortunately. We lost two holders (Miami and San Diego Zoo Safari Park) this year, so there are only two confirmed public holders remaining -- Abilene and Disney, with 2.2 and 1.1, respectively. Texas Zoofari Park has a single individual; however, I do not know if that animal is on display or not. There is at least one private facility housing multiple animals, but I do not know of any others.
Appreciate the reply. You wouldn’t happen to know from where these animals were originally imported?
