Chiba Zoo

Bagger Jan

Bagger Jan

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This zoo which opened April 28, 1985 ist about 50 minutes drive from Tokio Ueno Park and easily accessible via train and monorail. The zoo covered 33,5 ha and has a good animal collection (asian elephant, recticulated giraffe, grevy's zebra, red pandas, gorillas, chimps, borneo orangutan, mandrill, siamang, celebes crested macaques, purple-faced langur, deBrazza Monkey, Patas monkey, guereza, siamang, sealion, penguins as well as a shoebill stork - to mention a few species.
In March 2014 the Zoo published a "Restart Initiative" in order to update the facilities and introduce new species. (http://www.city.chiba.jp/toshi/koenryokuchi/dobutsukoen/documents/restartzentai.pdf)

In this context they opened an african lion exhibit in April 2016. In Juni 2018 they closed the enclosures for Bison, Camel, Yaks, Llama and Water Buffalo to make room for new exhibits for cheetahs and hyenas.

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New Cheetah and spotted hyena exhibits have been made. There will be 3.4 cheetahs that arrived from Europe last month. The males are from Prague zoo. Two females are from France while the other two are from Norway. there is a 140 meter run course for the cheetahs.
 
Bagger Jan said:
This zoo which opened April 28, 1985 ist about 50 minutes drive from Tokio Ueno Park and easily accessible via train and monorail. The zoo covered 33,5 ha and has a good animal collection (asian elephant, recticulated giraffe, grevy's zebra, red pandas, gorillas, chimps, borneo orangutan, mandrill, siamang, celebes crested macaques, purple-faced langur, deBrazza Monkey, Patas monkey, guereza, siamang, sealion, penguins as well as a shoebill stork - to mention a few species.
In March 2014 the Zoo published a "Restart Initiative" in order to update the facilities and introduce new species. (http://www.city.chiba.jp/toshi/koenryokuchi/dobutsukoen/documents/restartzentai.pdf)

In this context they opened an african lion exhibit in April 2016. In Juni 2018 they closed the enclosures for Bison, Camel, Yaks, Llama and Water Buffalo to make room for new exhibits for cheetahs and hyenas.

35°38'41.67"N 140° 7'43.22"E
千葉市動物公園
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They still hold some domestic donkeys (a pair), some domestic horse (single sex), a single Przewalski's horse and a breeding group of Grevy's zebra (1.2).
 
PossumRoach said:
The zoo will start a crowdfunding project to improve the gorilla enclosure by adding 16 different types of plants to the gorilla enclosure(s). It is hoped that this change will improve the expression of natural behavior of the 1.1 gorillas and contribute to academic research.

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It seems that Japanese zoos are interested in ape enclosure renovations nowadays.
 
PossumRoach said:
The zoo will start a crowdfunding project to improve the gorilla enclosure by adding 16 different types of plants to the gorilla enclosure(s). It is hoped that this change will improve the expression of natural behavior of the 1.1 gorillas and contribute to academic research.

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@PossumRoach, I do not know the kind of accomodation indoor nor outdoor Chiba Zoo has for its gorilla's. Fact is that in a setting of 1.1 pairing given the social disposition the species and structuring in a silverback with harem group of females.

Whereas I welcome a redevelopment of their exhibit, I do feel it would be helpful to have several females for breeding purposes. What is the current accomodation look like, both spacewise indoor and outdoor?
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
@PossumRoach, I do not know the kind of accomodation indoor nor outdoor Chiba Zoo has for its gorilla's. Fact is that in a setting of 1.1 pairing given the social disposition the species and structuring in a silverback with harem group of females.

Whereas I welcome a redevelopment of their exhibit, I do feel it would be helpful to have several females for breeding purposes. What is the current accomodation look like, both spacewise indoor and outdoor?
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I never looked into Chiba’s gorilla enclosures but from what I seen I believe it might be a grotto enclosure. @Veno might know better, I believe they have been to Chiba before.

Getting more females is near impossible with strict restrictions in (legal) primate imports and the small number of individual gorillas found in Japan.
 
PossumRoach said:
I never looked into Chiba’s gorilla enclosures but from what I seen I believe it might be a grotto enclosure. @Veno might know better, I believe they have been to Chiba before.

Getting more females is near impossible with strict restrictions in (legal) primate imports and the small number of individual gorillas found in Japan.
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If I may ask, what types of plants will be implemented in the gorilla enclosure?
 
PossumRoach said:
The zoo has revealed plans for a new forest and marsh zone with habitats for capybara, shoebill, and American beaver as headliners.
https://www.city.chiba.jp/toshi/koenryokuchi/dobutsukoen/documents/04kihonkeikaku.pdf
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Other animals planned for the area will be fishing cat, scarlet ibis, short clawed otter, great grey owl. Unfortunately the otters and fishing cats won’t be getting enclosures as impressive as the headliners.

zoogeekmaelstrom said:
This seems interesting, hopefully there are other animals and if you know me, I'm hoping for something rare.
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Oh about that… the pdf has a collection plan which seems to include proposed yet rejected including bush dog, jaguar, and giant otter.
 
PossumRoach said:
Other animals planned for the area will be fishing cat, scarlet ibis, short clawed otter, great grey owl. Unfortunately the otters and fishing cats won’t be getting enclosures as impressive as the headliners.


Oh about that… the pdf has a collection plan which seems to include proposed yet rejected including bush dog, jaguar, and giant otter.
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I can excuse bush dog and jaguar as they have stable populations but as to giant otter I'm quite disappointed.
 
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