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wild boar said:
Are there currently five species of gibbon at the zoo (siamang, white-handed gibbon, Müller's gibbon, buff-cheeked gibbon, northern white-cheeked gibbon)? Where is the Müller's gibbon right now?

Is there any day of the week or time of day that I would be more likely to see some of the Grey's crowned guenons, or is it completely random?
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Yes the zoo is currently home to five species of gibbon. The müller's gibbon rotates with the Lar Gibbon between the indoor and outdoor orangutan habitat. There is no schedule that I have noticed sadly.
 
wild boar said:
I didn't realize there were any zoos in North America still intending to breed pottos. Do you know anything more about them?



This is just the former gibbon island, right?


Are the saki monkeys now off-exhibit? Also, I know the zoo has had howler monkeys for a while, but where were the females before they started rotating with the guenons (which I take it are once again rotating on-exhibit indoors instead of always being off-exhibit like last summer?) and colobuses, and where is the male now?
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The zoo is not intending to breed any more Pottos. They have 2.2 non-breeding pairs, but the North America population is under 11 animals and all highly related/aged. Space is wanting to be utilized now for more sustainable nocturnal prosimian SSPs- Pygmy Slow Loris, and Moholi Bushbaby.

This is similar to the zoo's recent historical success with breeding the Northern (Garnett's) Greater Galago. The few zoo's that still hold this species are being encouraged to move over to the larger Moholi Galago population
 
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PossumRoach said:
Hey, at least the animals that remain in AZA zoos have right now can have more space and welfare by utilizing the space left from Visayan Warty Pigs.
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@PossumRoach, I agree to disagree.

FWIIW: The US population is the only ex situ and out of range population for the Panay subspecies of the Visayas party pigs and there is only one dedicated facility in the Pilipinas in country (Panay). The species is more rare in the natural range as the related Negros warty pig.

As such the AZA IS accorded a SPECIAL role as an assurance colony for this critically endangered subspecies of Visayas warty pigs. Essentially, the AZA part of the program seems to be a failing (only Jacksonville and San Diego Zoo have had more recent breeding success).

The latest set of AZA species program set ups seems to indicate that it is paying very little attention to the Panay Visayas warty pig and - IMPO that does not look very good on the organisation!
 
@Kudu21, how bad/noticeable has inbreeding depression been in Visayan warty pigs? While there are certainly examples of successful programs with a very small founder base (e.g., babirusa, takin), these are the exceptions and not the rule. Given that warty pigs only had five total founders, I'm curious if this could be part of the lack of breeding success.

tigris115 said:
Ah crap. I feel like unless something changes, ungulates as a whole are screwed.

With the import laws being so strict and the lack of interest from zoos, it's starting to become worrying. I'm sure something will come up to help ungulates in the future but right now, I'm worried about the status of ungulates in zoos that aren't the super basic species.
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While there's certainly a lot to be critical about, I just want to say that I think a lot of people on this site forget that there's also a lot of reasons to be optimistic. For example, the brand-new Saint Louis Zoo Wild Care Park will provide a lot of new space for ungulates- in state-of-the-art enclosures. Brand-new spaces like these will allow some ungulate populations to grow, filling in these newly created spaces. Secondly, mixed-species exhibits are becoming more common in many cases, which will hopefully benefit those species which can safely mix and breed with high-profile megafauna like giraffes and white rhinos.

While it is undeniable that the number of ungulate species being housed in zoos will decline in the coming years, this is largely since the number which have historically been housed was unsustainable to begin with and reflected different zoological practices and management techniques which were dated and out-of-touch with the current mission of zoos. Really the main reason I have for pessimism is that CWD regulations have decimated AZA cervid populations, but outside of cervids I suspect we'll reach a point within a decade or two where the AZA works with a manageable number of ungulates housed in sustainable populations.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Great come back for bull Sabu and at least now in with a chance!

I wonder if he - as seems to be ... rather suggestively - that he has left a legacy at Columbus Zoo.
(is Sabu or the cows he bred to originator/carrier of the EEHV virus?)
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Now days almost every asian elephant in the North American Elephant Population is carrying some form of the virus. Sabu and Phoebe has both been exposed to the virus and lost calves too it hence the extra protection Cincinnati is taking by giving plasma to Kabir and Sanjay. Sabu has indeed left a legacy at the Columbus Zoo that will hopefully be announced soon.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Great come back for bull Sabu and at least now in with a chance!

I wonder if he - as seems to be ... rather suggestively - that he has left a legacy at Columbus Zoo.
(is Sabu or the cows he bred to originator/carrier of the EEHV virus?)
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Sabu has indeed bred all three cows, so I'd say Columbus has a great chance of having multiple calves on the ground. However we won't be able to tell for sure until later this year, as the absolute earliest calves could arrive is in December or January! Fingers crossed!
 
I went to the zoo early this morning and here are a few things I’ve noticed:
- The Golden Headed Lion Tamarins and Male Black Howler monkey were out in the last indoor exhibit in the African Building in Jungle Trails
- Kip and Skittes were out but no sign of M&M
- Still No sign or signage for the blue duiker
-The macaws have been relocated to the secondary bird enclosure across from the outdoor bonobo exhibit
- The female black howler monkeys were in the indoor sifaka enclosure
- The sifakas were in their new outdoor enclosure (the former outdoor white faced saki enclosure)
- The Angolan Colobus Monkeys have made a return outside
- The new outdoor monkey habitat that’s under construction seems to have a lot of ground level and ground level hiding. Wonder what that’s for?
 
 
ZooNerd said:
I went to the zoo early this morning and here are a few things I’ve noticed:
- The Golden Headed Lion Tamarins and Male Black Howler monkey were out in the last indoor exhibit in the African Building in Jungle Trails
- Kip and Skittes were out but no sign of M&M
- Still No sign or signage for the blue duiker
-The macaws have been relocated to the secondary bird enclosure across from the outdoor bonobo exhibit
- The female black howler monkeys were in the indoor sifaka enclosure
- The sifakas were in their new outdoor enclosure (the former outdoor white faced saki enclosure)
- The Angolan Colobus Monkeys have made a return outside
- The new outdoor monkey habitat that’s under construction seems to have a lot of ground level and ground level hiding. Wonder what that’s for?
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0.1 M&M the Buff-Cheeked Gibbon has passed away unfortunately along with the zoos female Siamang, Lady. The ground level and hiding is for the Blue Duiker which will be going into the mixed South American primate enclosure.

Some other updates from the zoo recently:
The zoo lost one of their female cheetahs named Nia.
Kip the Bat-Eared Fox, whose mother refused to care for, has been moved to the cheetah run where he will be apart of presentations as an ambassador animal next year.
The Potto are no longer on-display in Night Hunters (Unsure what is taking their place) but you can still see them in Jungle Trails in the mixed species enclosure with Aye-Aye and Greater Galago.
The pygmy slow loris have been taken off display in Jungle Trails as they have had a baby.
The 1.0 Red Fox named Scampers the zoo rescued can be seen from the windows in the back of the Goat Petting Habitat in the Children's Zoo.
I've heard rumors that once Mai Thai and Schottzie move down to Elephant Trek the pair of Black Rhinoceros, mother and son, will be moved up to Elephant Reserve in the meantime until the zoo is ready to renovate the space for a new giraffe exhibit. If so this will be a great move for the rhinos as their current space is quite small.
The Guam Kingfishers the zoo has hatched will be released onto Palmyra later this fall.
 
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