Mixed species exhibit ideas
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Husbandry guidelines recommend tree-kangaroos are not housed with avian species due to the risk of avian tuberculosis.
This document cites multiple incidents of inter-species aggression where Matschie’s tree-kangaroos have attacked wallabies; while tree-kangaroos (species unspecified) have killed Nicobar pigeons, swamp hens, Cape Barren geese, kookaburras, Bourke’s parrots, grey goshawks, Gouldian finches and Edward’s lories.
https://aszk.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mammals.-Goodfellows-Tree-Kangaroo-2008DD.pdf
Haliaeetus
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In Beauval the Tree Kangaroos are housed with a couple of extremely shy Bettongs.
Nonetheless this mix don't seem to be problematic, and the Bettongs bred successfully several times.
Can you hold Red-fronted lemurs and Crowned sifakas with Malagasy giant jumping rats
Check out Bioparc Doue in France. There are some European zoos that house okapis inside aviaries, and it's something I wish some US zoos would attempt.
AndyJ08
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Honestly, that mix seems like it would work, but seeing as we both live in Alabama, and we know how it can be during the summer
, I don’t know if these Himalayan species would work well in our climate.
As Neil mentioned, they've been held with a number of birds before.
Sadly I'm not too familiar with Doue de la Fontaine so I can't provide a species list. But Blijdorp zoo also has an aviary with Okapis, this one holds:
Common hoopoe
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
Purple glossy-starling
Superb starling
Speckled mousebird
Northern carmine bee-eater
Barn swallow
Western plantain-eater
Guinea turaco
Violet turaco
European turtle dove
White-faced whistling duck
Marbled teal
Yellow-necked francolin
I believe Doue at least has Goliath herons, Guineafowl, Palm-nut vultures and Black-crowned cranes. So I'm fairly certain there's no real limits to Okapi + Bird cohabitation. If you want a suggestion for Central African birds I can help with that
Honestly, that mix seems like it would work, but seeing as we both live in Alabama, and we know how it can be during the summer
I'm not sure it would work with males of all species. Antwerp once tried to keep tahrs and takins together, but the male tahr died after picking a fight with a takin, and loosing.
Anteaters and Maned wolves have been mixed before, but I'm not sure about mixing Maned wolves with Rheas or Capybaras
I would imagine that they would probably be fine with adults, but juveniles would get eaten.
Maybe, but it's probably not ideal. The puffin and eider prefer colder temperatures than the pelican generally does. The pelican might also be a bit intimidating for the puffins and plovers.
Would 1.7 acres be considered enough space for the following mix and/or what changes would be suggested to make it adequate (I'm doing a redesign of a zoo where expansion wouldn't be possible):
- 1.2 Masai giraffe
- 1.2 sable antelope
- 3.0 greater kudu
- 0.2 ostrich
- 4.0 white-bearded wildebeest
- 1.5 impala
- 1.5 springbok
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Osedax
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It should be fine. Many zoos have pulled it off, mostly with things like ring-tailed or ruffed lemurs, the sort of species at are usually the ones that go in walkthrough exhibits. It seems if it's safe enough for zoo visitors to be in the same exhibit with a lemur species, it's fine for a tortoise too.
Van Beal
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Toronto Zoo mixes their Aldabras with ring-tailed lemurs and grey crowned cranes during the “off-season” while the tortoises also have an outdoor enclosure to themselves in the summertime.