Mixed species exhibit ideas

outdoor Tanzania area walk through avairy with
1.Bat-eared fox
2.southern carmine bee-eater
3.Von der Decken's hornbill
4.helmeted guinea fowl
5.common duiker
6.rufous sengi (low chance)

i think this is do able ,maybe not the sengi, but this as a walk-through would be amazing
 
gerome said:
outdoor Tanzania area walk through avairy with
1.Bat-eared fox
2.southern carmine bee-eater
3.Von der Decken's hornbill
4.helmeted guinea fowl
5.common duiker
6.rufous sengi (low chance)

i think this is do able ,maybe not the sengi, but this as a walk-through would be amazing
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I don't think that would work.
Although Bat-eared Foxes usually eat insects, they would stress the birds.
 
Paul.Haerle said:
I don't think that would work.
Although Bat-eared Foxes usually eat insects, they would stress the birds.
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I remember hearing a story about bat-eared foxes almost catching red or yellow billed hornbills despite their age. Definitely not a good idea unless you somehow have a very large aviary.
 
Would a large air-conditioned hall with an outdoor aviary for the Atlantic puffin, the common eider, the common scoter, the king eider, the black-legged kittiwake, the common murre, and the razorbill be feasible? Could there be any animosity, or even a risk of hybridization?
And could a walk be considered in one of the two areas?

Also, would an aviary for the Cabot's tragopan and Père David's rock squirrel be feasible?
 
Tamandua56 said:
Would a large air-conditioned hall with an outdoor aviary for the Atlantic puffin, the common eider, the common scoter, the king eider, the black-legged kittiwake, the common murre, and the razorbill be feasible? Could there be any animosity, or even a risk of hybridization?
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King eider and Common eider could definitely hybridize, maybe even with Common scoter but that's less of a risk. Other than that it should work fine

Tamandua56 said:
Also, would an aviary for the Cabot's tragopan and Père David's rock squirrel be feasible?
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P. D. Rock squirrels have been mixed with birds before, and Cabot's tragopans aren't known to eat vertebrates, so this mix should be fine too
 
For a representation of Ice Age La Brea Tar Pits:
Plains Bison for the Ancient Bison (Bison Antiquus)
Przewalski's Horse for the Western Horse (Equus Occidentalis)
Dromedary Camel for the Western Camel ( Camelops Hesternus)
Mule Deer
Rocky Mountain Elk
Pronghorn
Sichuan Takin for the Shrub-Ox (Euceratherium Collinum)
Baird's tapir for the California Tapir(Tapirus Californicus)
Collared Peccary for the Flat-Headed Peccary (Platygonus Compressus)
 
Cody Raney said:
For a representation of Ice Age La Brea Tar Pits:
Plains Bison for the Ancient Bison (Bison Antiquus)
Przewalski's Horse for the Western Horse (Equus Occidentalis)
Dromedary Camel for the Western Camel ( Camelops Hesternus)
Mule Deer
Rocky Mountain Elk
Pronghorn
Sichuan Takin for the Shrub-Ox (Euceratherium Collinum)
Baird's tapir for the California Tapir(Tapirus Californicus)
Collared Peccary for the Flat-Headed Peccary (Platygonus Compressus)
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And for Teratornis & Direwolf?
 
FBBird said:
And for Teratornis & Direwolf?
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For the Teratornis I would say an Andean Condor for the Dire Wolf, Grey Wolf though despite the physical similarities the two are not closely related. The closest relatives to the Dire Wolf (as far as I know) are the African Jackals and the African Wild Dogs. Evidence suggests that Grey Wolves and Dire Wolves were actually too far apart genetically to interbreed.
 
In the AZA Ungulate TAGs Mixed-Species Manual 2017, what do the numbers in the parenthesis mean? As an example:
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Eatonville, WA – Current Exhibit
Current Species:
American Bison (Bison bison) (9.11.5)
Black-tailed Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) (~0.0.26)
Californian Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) (8.14.13)
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) (9.7)
North American Moose (Alces americanus) (2.3)
Rocky Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) (0.2)
Roosevelt Elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) (10.22.7)
 
300-acre safari park exhibit featuring:
Cape Buffalo
Southern White Rhino
Masai Giraffe
Masai ostrich
Blue Wildebeest
Grant's Zebra
Impala
Greater kudu
Sable Antelope
Bontebok
Ankole-Watusi
Gemsbok
 
Cody Raney said:
300-acre safari park exhibit featuring:
Cape Buffalo
Southern White Rhino
Masai Giraffe
Masai ostrich
Blue Wildebeest
Grant's Zebra
Impala
Greater kudu
Sable Antelope
Bontebok
Ankole-Watusi
Gemsbok
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This would have to be one well-stocked space, given that some entire zoos cover the land area you are using for a single exhibit (the space you've proposed is roughly 7x the area of the entire Rosamond Gifford Zoo, and slightly under half of the entire Toronto Zoo's area). The one note I do have is that, likely, the potential for inter-species aggression initiated by the zebras would decrease significantly.
 
Van Beal said:
The potential for inter-species aggression initiated by the zebras would decrease significantly.
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That was the main idea. Inspiration came from Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, they have a 435-acre habitat that has exhibited with Bison, Elk, Bighorn, Mountain Goat, Moose, Caribou, and Black-tailed deer since 1975 and as far as I know they haven't had an incident of interspecies aggression. The only change they've made was Pronghorn were phased out for health issues due to the weather of the Pacific Northwest.
 
Cody Raney said:
That was the main idea. Inspiration came from Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, they have a 435-acre habitat that has exhibited with Bison, Elk, Bighorn, Mountain Goat, Moose, Caribou, and Black-tailed deer since 1975 and as far as I know they haven't had an incident of interspecies aggression. The only change they've made was Pronghorn were phased out for health issues due to the weather of the Pacific Northwest.
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Wait until you hear about Jardin Zoologique De St-Felicien, they're a zoo up in Quebec that has an 800 acre enclosure with American black bears, moose,
white-tailed deer, elk, bison, musk ox, two different species of geese, prairie dogs, and caribou!

You can ride on a train through it.
 
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