Toronto Zoo Toronto Zoo Births, Deaths and Transfers 2024

Thanks for the welcome and the answers to my questions!

As you can see by my profile picture, I have a major soft spot for the Przewalski's Horse, and find it fun when visiting that area of the zoo to walk by people trying to figure out how to pronounce it from the sign and tell them the correct way LOL. Good to hear more visibility for the super cool breed could be in the future.
 
@Blitz if you love Przewalski's you might find the complete history of them at the zoo interesting. Go check out the family tree thread. I think they are on page 1.
 
hyena142 said:
@USZOOfan42 First off welcome to the Toronto forum! Always nice to see a new face here

Unfortunately yes the river hippos are leaving, the zoo determined that we just don't have the space for them and the bill they'd need to foot for refurbishments wasn't worth it. Right now the zoo is looking for takers for our girls and come up empty handed so far, but a transfer could happen any time. As for the pygmy hippos they'll be sticking around.

Currently the animals in the Eurasia Wilds are Amur tigers, mouflon, West Caucasian tur, snow leopards, Steller's sea eagles, Bactrian camels and red pandas. There might still be a barbary sheep or two in there somewhere as well, I'm not sure. We also have Przewalski's horses, yak and lion-tailed macaques only viewable from the zoomobile as well as a wattled crane. The red pandas are currently off-exhibit as we await a few transfers, and the Sumatran tigers from Indo-Malaya are currently on vacation in the Amur tiger complex while renovations are done on their normal exhibit.

As far as I know the only new species planned for Eurasia is markhor, and that was back in 2020 and we haven't heard anything about it since so that might've changed. Saiga are unlikely since I don't think they have a population in NA zoos anymore.
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@Blitz This may be what you're referring to, but if not... For the last couple of years they've had Przewalski's on view year 'round...they keep two of the "retirees" together in that field across the pond from the pathway next to the Tur. They even cut back a lot of the brush by the path to make it easier to see them. It's been great for people like me who love them to be able to see them easily all the time, even if they aren't close up.
 
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Blitz said:
Thanks for the welcome and the answers to my questions!

As you can see by my profile picture, I have a major soft spot for the Przewalski's Horse, and find it fun when visiting that area of the zoo to walk by people trying to figure out how to pronounce it from the sign and tell them the correct way LOL. Good to hear more visibility for the super cool breed could be in the future.
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To add to Judache’s comment, you can get a really good view of the Przewalski Horses in the warmer weather in their lakeside paddock as they are normally restricted to in their grassy area during the day. They are also my favourite animal so it’s always a pleasure to see some of the individuals. Hopefully, we have more foals this year.
 

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To add to Judache’s comment, you can get a really good view of the Przewalski Horses in the warmer weather in their lakeside paddock as they are normally restricted to in their grassy area during the day. They are also my favourite animal so it’s always a pleasure to see some of the individuals. Hopefully, we have more foals this year.
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Yes! That's usually the part where I pull out what I call my "super spy" camera lens to try to "see" them up close through the camera. Last summer I also started forking out the money for the Zoomobile to see them closer sans camera too.
 
Not entirely sure if this is the right place to post I suppose it depends on the answer.
During COVID I believe we recieved two Asian turtles or tortoises that as were confiscations and I believe they were held in the Malayan Woods, not the Big Headed Turtle, does anyone know where they are now?
Also has anyone heard anything about putting inverts back in the Malayan Woods?
 
Does the Toronto zoo still house marsupial frogs or did they get phased out?
Are you talking about the asian brown tortoises?



Just curious, Which former malayan woods animal is most likley to be added back?
 
antilio capra said:
Does the Toronto zoo still house marsupial frogs or did they get phased out?
Are you talking about the asian brown tortoises?

Just curious, Which former malayan woods animal is most likley to be added back?
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The Zoo definately used to have marsupial frogs but on my last visit the volunteer I talked to didn't seem to think they had them anymore at least one exhibit I suppose they could still have them behind the scenes.

They still had the Asian Brown Tortoises on my last visit after Christmas but before the new year
 
@kingoffreaks the marsupial frogs have been MIA for at least a few months now. Seeing how hard they were to find in the exhibit, I doubt they will be missed by any but the most avid of zoo-goers. It's anyone's guess where they've gone but hopefully they are still being kept behind the scenes. I think the red poison dart frogs had been at the zoo since at least the publication of the last animal plan but they weren't on display until fairly recently.

How recent was your last visit? I've also noticed a lack of lemur leaf frogs in the last couple of months. They've always been on-and-off though, so I figure they're just out for their annual anal prolapse treatment or something.
 
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@kingoffreaks the marsupial frogs have been MIA for at least a few months now. Seeing how hard they were to find in the exhibit, I doubt they will be missed by any but the most avid of zoo-goers. It's anyone's guess where they've gone but hopefully they are still being kept behind the scenes. I think the red poison dart frogs had been at the zoo since at least the publication of the last animal plan but they weren't on display until fairly recently.


How recent was your last visit? I've also noticed a lack of lemur leaf frogs in the last couple of months. They've always been on-and-off though, so I figure they're just out for their annual anal prolapse treatment or something.
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My last visit was January 2nd, I got a picture of at least one juvenile Lemur Leaf Frog that still had its tail, most if not all the Golden Frogs were in amplexus (mating). Knowing that most frogs will eat anything that fits in there mouths could be the keepers are taking precautions against the Marsupial eating the eggs or tadpoles. Though I suppose if they've been gone a while might not factor in.
Also just saw there's a Veiled Chameleon, Dolf just posted about it on his Instagram story, its name is Georgie.

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Is this anal prolapse or a juvenile?
 

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It's a juvenile! Anal prolapse will look like a pink rosebud. Neat to see them back or starting to come back at least. I honestly wonder if this juvenile just evaded the capture of its friends as a tadpole and just grew up in the exhibit while the others were gone.

I always find it slightly amusing how often we get new chameleons. It feels like every few months the exhibit is shuttered and then a few months later we have a new one and the cycle continues. I read that Meller's chameleon is highly prone to stress and don't tend to do well in captivity. It doesn't seem like the case for Veiled, but we've had far more Meller's than Veiled in the last six years.
 
If stress is the problem maybe they should try a bigger terrarium where the Home's Hingeback and Radiated Tortoises besides the wadding birds and pygmy hippos used to be, so that people physically can't touch the glass.
 
The zoo has officially announced the arrival of a pair of young southern tamanduas, one male and one female. They don't seem to have names yet but the zoo says to stay tuned regarding that. They currently aren't viewable but like the armadillos they will be going on-exhibit in the Kids Zoo starting in the spring, as well as will be taking tours of the zoo with the outreach team.
 
This is quite exciting. Two is extra exciting. I am assuming siblings given their arrival at the same time but nothing official on that front.

As much as they would be exciting in America Pavillon, I think the kids zoo will get a much needed upgrade in excitement this summer with these two as well as the two new armadillo species. It was getting quite quiet there so glad there are some new faces.
 
Jefferson said:
This is quite exciting. Two is extra exciting. I am assuming siblings given their arrival at the same time but nothing official on that front.
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Not really a fair assumption. Oftentimes, when dealing with international transfers, there will be inter-country transfers first (and/or after) so that the paperwork for imports/exports only needs to happen once. Assuming these tamanduas came from outside Canada, this is what likely would've happened.
 
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Not really a fair assumption. Oftentimes, when dealing with international transfers, there will be inter-country transfers first (and/or after) so that the paperwork for imports/exports only needs to happen once. Assuming these tamanduas came from outside Canada, this is what likely would've happened.
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If anyone finds out where these tamanduas came from, please post it here. I'm just curious, thanks!
 
@Jefferson I agree with your sentiment that the Kids Zoo is the right move even if we'd prefer them in Americas. Last year the Kids Zoo was struggling with just a few birds, a skunk and a ferret. It needs new faces and big species like armadillos and tamanduas are great choices to make it feel relevant again, hopefully this is the beginning of a full overhaul of that area
 
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