Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabarceno Somali wild ass

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Kifaru Bwana

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Parque de la naturaleza Cabarceno keeps a group of 5.1 Somali wild ass. I suspect the keep a breeding pair (the female is called Beyle) and a bachelor herd. The males are named as Silas, Jonás, Tutú, Enzo and Chiclo.

Parque Cabarceno, 16/2/2007
 
The EEP is actually want on looking for new holders, both for breeding groups and bachelor herds. So, the fact that the Cabarceno park has taken both groups is more than welcome. The bachelor herd were the first to arrive (6.0) in 2005.

It is also encouraging to know the European population is growing year on year. Currently (2005 EEP Yearbook records), the population stands at 43.58 individuals and 5.7 calves were born in 2005 (with only 2.1 deaths). Not a bad result for the rarest equid on earth!
 
it is good to see so many new holders, cabarceno, kessingland, beauval and woburn amongst others, but surely the genetic make up of the european herd needs a boost.
 
kiang,

It is not a question of introducing new founders, the current population of Somalis needs to breed up quickly first to retain 95% heterozygosity within the EEP.

The Somalis in Europe (and even the US for that matter) are derived from the Basel line and a group imported into Hai Bar, Yotvata in Israel. For the latter group the genetic pedigree is not fully understood, and currently the Coordinator is looking into the matter.

The most urgent needs for the programme are finding new holders for both breeding groups of asses and bachelor groups (those excluding fully adult stallion as these tend to fight eachother).
 
jelle;23204. The Somalis in Europe (and even the US for that matter) are derived from the Basel line and a group imported into Hai Bar said:
I seem to remember the original import to Basel in the late 1960's(where I saw them) was 5 animals-either 2.3 or 3.2.
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3.2 grant, it amazes me how well they have done over the past few years, similar to the situation with the bongo for long enough they extremely rare in europe and now they are the second most common antelope in europe, hopefully now the somali wild ass population will find itself coming into the same situation.
 
do marwell have any further plans to bring in more animals from israel
 
i think i'm right in saying it is the blackbuck, i think eland would be up there too
 
kiang said:
3.2 grant, it amazes me how well they have done over the past few years, similar to the situation with the bongo for long enough they extremely rare in europe and now they are the second most common antelope in europe, hopefully now the somali wild ass population will find itself coming into the same situation.
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Yes,it would be good to see Somali Asses in more collections. A truly beautiful animal and much in need of conservation, so a high profile zoo species on both counts.

Bongo seem to be everywhere nowadays- its unusual to find a zoo(or even a Safari Park) that DOESN'T have them now. Conversely, I saw some Eland at Woburn recently, the first I've seen for many years as very few
mainstream zoos have them anymore.

Blackbuck in UK; I only currently know of them at; Chester, Howletts/PL, Colchester(few) Edinburgh(?) where else?
 
edinburgh don't hane any, west midlands and whipsnade, cotswold wp
 
Cotswold don't have any - they were moved to another UK zoo this summer (don't know which).

According to ISIS Exmoor Zoo have 1.2
 
Why are we discussing antelope in wild ass thread? :confused:
BTW, Colchester sent their blackbuck to W Mids (if I remember rightly) to make way for Philippine spotted deer.

Alan
 
Ok, back to Somali wild ass. And let us not deviate .. too much :eek:!

San Diego have a big group running in the Wild Animal Park. Further down the line Saint Louis Zoo have 2.3 ... and that's about it in the US.

Certainly, Europe has the largest population with just over 100 individuals. Al Wabra in Qatar have a group of 3.6 (derived from EEP stock).
 
i think oklahoma city in the us also have a group, the most successful groups in europe are in basel, tierpark berlin, peaugres, stuttgart and nuremberg.
 
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