India's Richest Family Building World's Largest Zoo

Jana said:
For those interested in their animal roster - this place is EARAZA member. You can find their list of animals kept on 31.12.2024 in this link to earaza annual report. Just search name Джамнагар (=Jamnagar in Cyrilic) and you can pick Latin/English names and number of animals per species kept.
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I looked at EARAZA's annual report and learned for the first time that Vantara keeps Orinoco crocodiles. Honestly, I thought this species was almost never kept in Asian zoos at all.
 
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captain alligator said:
I looked at EARAZA's annual report and learned for the first time that Vantara keeps Orinoco crocodiles. Honestly, I thought this species was almost never kept in Asian zoos at all.
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I think the Madras Crocodile Bank may have held them ... (don't shoot me over it, as I am not completely sure of that...).

UPDATE: I checked and Madras Crocodile Bank did not exhibit Orinoco crocodiles previously. I got confused with the equally threatened Morelett's crocodiles they have from Mexico.

Incidentally: The Madras Crocodile Bank does have a good variety of crocodilians beyond the regular 3 Indian Sub-Continent species....
 
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Similar question: what herps do they keep currently? I try hard to find Vantara on Zootierliste, but there are no results.
 
Charlie said:
A little question, what primates species Vantara keep currently？
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Iguana_Cabana said:
Similar question: what herps do they keep currently? I try hard to find Vantara on Zootierliste, but there are no results.
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captain alligator said:
Is it true that Vantara keeps Galapagos land iguanas? I know this species is kept at iZoo in Japan and Aramaru Aquarium in South Korea.
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There was a link provided on this very page of this thread.
 
I find this very interesting it was in the 23-24 report. It is odd that they mentioned a higher capacity incinerator because they did not really have that many deaths for that year. I do understand moving the incinerator to a different location because I think it said it was located in the veterinary complex.
 

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There is currently a show on Animal Planet hosted by Forest Gallante called:
Vantara tales from the sanctuary. I know there is a lot of controversy about how at least
some of the animals have been accumulated (perhaps even illegally) but there does not
appear to be any doubt they are receiving a high degree of care and resources. One stat that completely floored me was they said that they had 7 kitchens and 300 staff in those 7 kitchens to service the animals. That is more than most Zoos have staff total! I may have misheard but they said they process 25 tons of food per day, but that doesn't seem to make sense as they would need something like 40 tons per day just to feed their 200 elephants. Maybe that doesn't include
fodder like hay or browse.
They have not mentioned any breeding success, though they have off hand mentioned breeding programs.
 
Daktari JG said:
There is currently a show on Animal Planet hosted by Forest Gallante called:
Vantara tales from the sanctuary. I know there is a lot of controversy about how at least
some of the animals have been accumulated (perhaps even illegally) but there does not
appear to be any doubt they are receiving a high degree of care and resources. One stat that completely floored me was they said that they had 7 kitchens and 300 staff in those 7 kitchens to service the animals. That is more than most Zoos have staff total! I may have misheard but they said they process 25 tons of food per day, but that doesn't seem to make sense as they would need something like 40 tons per day just to feed their 200 elephants. Maybe that doesn't include
fodder like hay or browse.
They have not mentioned any breeding success, though they have off hand mentioned breeding programs.
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200 freaking elephants? Can’t they share some of them and their other rarities to other facilities around the globe? That would be neat. Sharing is caring! :cool:
 
Daktari JG said:
There is currently a show on Animal Planet hosted by Forest Gallante called:
Vantara tales from the sanctuary. I know there is a lot of controversy about how at least
some of the animals have been accumulated (perhaps even illegally) but there does not
appear to be any doubt they are receiving a high degree of care and resources. One stat that completely floored me was they said that they had 7 kitchens and 300 staff in those 7 kitchens to service the animals. That is more than most Zoos have staff total! I may have misheard but they said they process 25 tons of food per day, but that doesn't seem to make sense as they would need something like 40 tons per day just to feed their 200 elephants. Maybe that doesn't include
fodder like hay or browse.
They have not mentioned any breeding success, though they have off hand mentioned breeding programs.
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Unfortunately if you look at the space allocated to enclosures on show when these sort of paid for pep pieces are made and those on an actual map of the site as linked earlier in this thread, coupled with the vague numbers and lack of information on sourcing, mortality, overcrowding etc, there is actually every doubt that all the animals are receiving a high standard of care.

As for the 200 elephants seeing as a good number of them appear to be from dodgy sources with faked histories, none of this does this place much credit.

No doubt the areas shown to animal planet are excellent. That's what PR is about.
 
Daktari JG said:
There is currently a show on Animal Planet hosted by Forest Gallante called:
Vantara tales from the sanctuary. I know there is a lot of controversy about how at least
some of the animals have been accumulated (perhaps even illegally) but there does not
appear to be any doubt they are receiving a high degree of care and resources. One stat that completely floored me was they said that they had 7 kitchens and 300 staff in those 7 kitchens to service the animals. That is more than most Zoos have staff total! I may have misheard but they said they process 25 tons of food per day, but that doesn't seem to make sense as they would need something like 40 tons per day just to feed their 200 elephants. Maybe that doesn't include
fodder like hay or browse.
They have not mentioned any breeding success, though they have off hand mentioned breeding programs.
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It's a TV show... Do you also believe that Disney movies are real?
Now, more seriously, in a TV show they manipulate what they let you see. A facility that smuggles exotic animals will never have my trust.
 
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