Mixed species exhibit ideas

MOG2012 said:
Can aardvarks be in the same enclosure with bat-eared foxes and crested porcupine ?
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It would probably be fine, but you would have three burrowing ground animals of similar size, so it might work better with a mix of just two of those animals
 
Do these work;
  1. Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Lesser Kudu, Soemmerring’s Gazelle, Speke’s Gazelle
  2. Leopard Tortoise, Speckled Mousebird, Spotted Dikkop, Superb Starling, Violet-Backed Starling, White-Fronted Bee-Eater, White-Headed Buffalo Weaver
  3. Kori Bustard, South African Springbok, Steenbok
  4. Eland, Gemsbok, Greater Kudu, South-Central Black Rhinoceros
  5. Baja California Rock Lizard, Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard, Desert Spiny Lizard, Great Basin Collared Lizard, Sonoran Spiny-Tailed Iguana
  6. Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Banded Rock Rattlesnake, Great Basin Rattlesnake, Sidewinder, Speckled Rattlesnake
  7. Agassiz’s Desert Tortoise, Costa’s Hummingbird, Gambel’s Quail, Hooded Oriole, House Finch, Mourning Dove, White-Winged Dove
  8. Central Blue-Tongued Skink, Eastern Pilbara Spiny-Tailed Skink, Inland Bearded Dragon, Shingleback Skink
 
MOG2012 said:
Do these work;
  1. Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Lesser Kudu, Soemmerring’s Gazelle, Speke’s Gazelle
  2. Leopard Tortoise, Speckled Mousebird, Spotted Dikkop, Superb Starling, Violet-Backed Starling, White-Fronted Bee-Eater, White-Headed Buffalo Weaver
  3. Kori Bustard, South African Springbok, Steenbok
  4. Eland, Gemsbok, Greater Kudu, South-Central Black Rhinoceros
  5. Baja California Rock Lizard, Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard, Desert Spiny Lizard, Great Basin Collared Lizard, Sonoran Spiny-Tailed Iguana
  6. Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Banded Rock Rattlesnake, Great Basin Rattlesnake, Sidewinder, Speckled Rattlesnake
  7. Agassiz’s Desert Tortoise, Costa’s Hummingbird, Gambel’s Quail, Hooded Oriole, House Finch, Mourning Dove, White-Winged Dove
  8. Central Blue-Tongued Skink, Eastern Pilbara Spiny-Tailed Skink, Inland Bearded Dragon, Shingleback Skink
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1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 should all be perfectly fine

4 would not work. Black rhinos don't mix well, especially not with larger ungulates. A similar mix with White rhinoceros instead should be fine though.
 
Would a nine-tailed armadillo and ringtail work? How about a brush-tailed bettong and Tammar wallaby? Or short-tailed echidna and southern hairy-nosed wombat?
 
Would Inca Tern, Grey Gull, and Humboldt Penguin work? Would the gulls bully the penguins? Also, would white-bellied cormorant, African Penguin, and pyjama Shark work?
 
MOG2012 said:
Would Inca Tern, Grey Gull, and Humboldt Penguin work? Would the gulls bully the penguins? Also, would white-bellied cormorant, African Penguin, and pyjama Shark work?
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The gulls would probably harass the Inca terns and possibly even eat their young, so breeding is a definite no go.

The idea with the sharks, penguins, and cormorants is fine, but younger sharks may be viewed as prey by both the penguins and the cormorants.
 
MOG2012 said:
Would a nine-tailed armadillo and ringtail work? How about a brush-tailed bettong and Tammar wallaby? Or short-tailed echidna and southern hairy-nosed wombat?
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Perhaps you mean nine-banded armadillo and short-beaked echidna.
Also as much as this channel is open to as many messages and replys as one would like, maybe it would be better if instead of randomic trivia questions You (and other members that I'm sure have done it, but I have no intention in going back to 173 pages to point fingers) would stipulate an, as much as possible, complete and extended list of mixes You'd like to inquire about to avoid repetition.

To answer your questions:
  • Perhaps, the ringtail is surely too small to try and do anything do the armadillo, but I think breeding may be compromised due to stress;
  • macropod species get mixed oftentimes, so I'd say it's a safe mix;
  • not sure if these animals are compatible, maybe if acclimated to, albeit short-during if the behaviour of these animals is anything similar to other specimens' I've seen in person, each other's presence during feeding times maybe yes; echidnas in general tend to be more nocturnal, so maybe they could be of disturbance to each other during different times of the day (like someone suggesting to mix 2 type of birds, one very loud during the day, the other very active at night some time ago in this same thread I believe).
 
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