MOG2012
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1st Exhibit - Meerkats, Crested Porcupines, etc.
2nd exhibit - European Lynx, Wolverine, Red River Hog, Wild Boar, etc.
3rd exhibit - Fennec Fox, mongeese, Patagonian mara, Degu, agouti, etc.
Spec. Zoo Design questions
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2nd exhibit - European Lynx, Wolverine, Red River Hog, Wild Boar, etc.
3rd exhibit - Fennec Fox, mongeese, Patagonian mara, Degu, agouti, etc.
1.Is it doable to hold Red Wolves in Canadian facilities, I don't know whether the US allows them to be exported
2. What is the lowest degree of Celsius that Monke Parakeet and Thick-billed Parrot can be displayed outside I know that in New York they can be displayed outdoors during winter
2. What is the lowest degree of Celsius that Monke Parakeet and Thick-billed Parrot can be displayed outside I know that in New York they can be displayed outdoors during winter
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Paul.Haerle
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If there's a heatable house that the birds can enter at every time they could be displayed outdoor at about 7 C°
Paul.Haerle
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How could the courtship of grouse (Black Grouse and Greater Prairie Chicken) be shown to visitors?
AmazonianHippo
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Unsure how I should present a large, mixed bird aviary in a heavily themed Indian area. Any ideas?
Depends on the theming and species, really. With songbirds you can do a palace garden, with wading birds you could do a boat dock, etc
Paul.Haerle
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Maybe near to tigers or leopards, which are sometimes hard to see, so the visitors can at least watch the birds during they wait for tigers or leopards.
If you use LED lamps in a nocturnal house using a reversed day/night cycle, can you have live plants in a nocturnal house?
MOG2012
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It could work as long as the plants have enough light and are tolerant to have low to medium light
No, read the legislation. There's literally a section stating ZAA and AZA are exempt with appropriate permits.
MOG2012
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What species are rare/nonexistant in the US (captivity) but have a realistic/high chance of being imported/sent to the US? The only species that I could think of is the quokka (the only 2 facilities with quokkas outside of Australia acquired them in the last 5 years with LA zoo having a high chance of acquiring them next)
Aardwolf
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Yes. John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, mixes kelp gulls with Magellanic penguins. Which is not to say that problems could not occur, but just to indicate that it has been done successfully.
In a very large enclosure, how big of a group of Cape fur seals can you have? Additionally, what would the ideale gender ratio be?
MOG2012
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1 male to 15 females with some subadult/castrated males and juveniles
As far as a traditional, city-zoo type setting goes; what are some crowd-pleasing African megafauna that could do well with such a smaller, savanna-type enclosure?
Being a 0.5-acre large exhibit; very large animals like giraffes and white rhinos, alongside ungulates considered to be “flighty” by nature will not work in this scenario.
Furthermore, could having an enclosure this large be feasible enough to support a tall, aviary-like setup?
Being a 0.5-acre large exhibit; very large animals like giraffes and white rhinos, alongside ungulates considered to be “flighty” by nature will not work in this scenario.
Furthermore, could having an enclosure this large be feasible enough to support a tall, aviary-like setup?
Paul.Haerle
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Antwerp‘s Buffalo Aviary is 2250m² big, so you could definitely have an aviary-like enclosure.
My idea would be an aviary housing Nile Lechwes, Cape Buffalos, Eastern Crested Guineafowl, African Comb Duck, Cape Teal, African White-backed Whistling Duck, Speckled Pigeon, Dusky Turtle Dove, Hartlaub‘s Turaco, Black-winged Stilt, Crowned Lapwing, Spotted Thick-knee, Abdim‘s Stork, Hadada Ibis, African Spoonbill, Western Cattle Egret, Madagascar Pond Heron, Hooded Vulture, Rüppell‘s Vulture, Crowned Hornbill, Lilac-breasted Roller, Green Woodhoopoe, Red-and-yellow Barbet, Magpie Shrike, African Golden Oriole, Common Bulbul, Wattled Starling, Red-winged Starling, Superb Starling, Spotted Palm Thrush and Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
@Paul.Haerle, that’s a start, and I like the avian selection especially.
As for the mammals, would it be too risky to cohabitate something as large as a zebra with the majority of these birds?
I ask this because I’m planning for a rather unconventional mix by most standards, even for a savanna-type aviary.
As for the mammals, would it be too risky to cohabitate something as large as a zebra with the majority of these birds?
I ask this because I’m planning for a rather unconventional mix by most standards, even for a savanna-type aviary.
