Is this animal represented in captivity?

A magnificent frigate bird was briefly kept at Chester zoo in 2005. He was received in a very weak condition after being blown to the UK by strong winds, and died shortly after arrival at the zoo. He was found in Shropshire, approximately 70 miles from the coast, by a farmer who first thought he had found an injured crow.

Of course, according to the anti-zoo brigade, the reason for his death was being in captivity.

I'm sure London had gannets in the past. Living Coasts is a great place for sea birds if you're in the UK.
 
Cincinnati Zoo still has (or has had recently):
Parakeet Auklet
Least Auklet
Crested Auklet
Whiskered Auklet (I think)
as well as penguins and puffins.
I remember seeing somewhere that some zoo had White-tailed Tropicbirds.
 
Javan Rhino said:
. Since there are so few, taking any out of the wild would severely damage numbers, more than breeding in captivity would increase them.
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The Kakapo's breeding system is so complicated it would probably prove near impossible to breed in captivity.
 
kiang said:
Fanalouc, a relation of the fosa, i heard a rumour that there may be one in a private collection in the USA, does anyone have any info on this?
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Yes, I believe there is one at a little zoo in Texas. The Capitol of Texas Zoo just outside of Austin. Hopefully, I will get there in the next few weeks for a report.
 
Not sure where Living Coasts is (and don't have transport to get). If there were still gannets in captivity, it would be great to have a 'cliff-face aviary' so that they could dive into the water at the bottom and there could be underwater viewing :D. How cool!
 
Javan Rhino said:
Not sure where Living Coasts is (and don't have transport to get). If there were still gannets in captivity, it would be great to have a 'cliff-face aviary' so that they could dive into the water at the bottom and there could be underwater viewing :D. How cool!
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Living Coasts is in Torquay,and Mablethorpe Seal Rescue Centre has a small group of rescued Gannets
 
Planckendael Animal Park in Belgium holds a herd of this species of giraffe in it's new African Savannah exibit. Last year 1.1 were born.

10 French institutes also keep this species.
 
Javan Rhino said:
Flightless Cormorant.
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None in captivity and I don't think any ever will enter captivity because Galapagos authorities are very strict. Species like marine iguanas would be cool in a zoo and are not as rare as the Flightless Cormorant but I'm sure export of marine iguanas wouldn't be allowed either by the Galapagos authorities. The only Galapagos endemic that I know is kept in captivity outside the archipelago is the tortoise. There used to be some of the dove in private aviculture but I don't know if there still are any left.

Javan Rhino said:
West African Giraffe.
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I don't think there are any real West African Giraffe (G. c. peralta) in captivity and I think the captives still called West African Giraffe only is because of outdated taxonomy. It was believed that giraffe from Cameroon were the West African race but it is now known that they really are the Kordofan race (G. c. antiquorum). That's the race the zoos that say they have West African Giraffe really have.

Quote: 'Our study has direct implications for conservation management, as we show that no subspecies peralta is represented in any European zoos, only in Niger, with a small population of less than 200 individuals.'
From study Mitochondrial DNA variability in Giraffa camelopardalis

That is also why IUCN write that G. c. peralta only survive in the wild.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136913/
 
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Sorry to bring up an old topic, but are there any Marine Iguanas in captivity? If not, would it ever be likely they will enter captivity.
I am interested in knowing since I think they would make a fascinating exhibit, and if I ever had a wildlife park with an aquarium or reptile house, it is one of the first species I would try for.
 
Javan Rhino said:
Sorry to bring up an old topic, but are there any Marine Iguanas in captivity? If not, would it ever be likely they will enter captivity.
I am interested in knowing since I think they would make a fascinating exhibit, and if I ever had a wildlife park with an aquarium or reptile house, it is one of the first species I would try for.
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This topic has been discussed on another thread:-

http://www.zoochat.com/38/marine-iguanas-1930s-89053/

London Zoo kept marine iguanas in the 1930s; they are listed in the guides for both 1933 & 1934.

Belle Vue Zoo (Manchester) kept marine iguanas briefly; three arrived in 1964 but they did not survive for long.

The species has also been kept in Brookfield Zoo (Chicago) and Frankfurt Zoo; doubtless other zoos have kept them too in the past.

I am unaware of any zoos currently exhibiting this species and I think it highly unlikely that any will be exhibited in zoos again.
 
Tim May said:
This topic has been discussed on another thread:-

http://www.zoochat.com/38/marine-iguanas-1930s-89053/

London Zoo kept marine iguanas in the 1930s; they are listed in the guides for both 1933 & 1934.

Belle Vue Zoo (Manchester) kept marine iguanas briefly; three arrived in 1964 but they did not survive for long.

The species has also been kept in Brookfield Zoo (Chicago) and Frankfurt Zoo; doubtless other zoos have kept them too in the past.

I am unaware of any zoos currently exhibiting this species and I think it highly unlikely that any will be exhibited in zoos again.
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That is a shame. If they could ever be sourced, they would make a fascinating exhibit. Given the resources that we have today, it would be brilliant.
 
Yes a shame about the marine iguana. Most of the trouble mentioned in the other thread are not likely to be problems:
Temperature: Marine iguanas are found on almost all islands in the Galapagos including some of the north-east islands where water temperature above 25C is common in the warm months like March and temperatures below 18C are unusual even in cold months. That's still cold water for a place on equator but with the variation between the islands it's well within range easily created in captivity. Could be recreated with a cooler for the water and heat lamps for the ground section. Cold is generally a bigger problem than heat for the marine iguanas. When their body temperature reaches in the mid to upper 20s they exit the water to sun and only seek shade when the body temperature reach 36-37C. The reason for declines in El Nino years is believed to mainly be because the native algae found on the Galapagos don't deal well with the elevated temperature. As many Galapagos fish populations rely on the algae this also result in trouble for species like the penguin and the cormorant. That's the big problem for saving things in the Galapagos. For many of the really rare species El Nino is the main problem and that is much harder to solve than introduced species or too many tourist visitors. Interestingly completely land based animals like most of the finches often get higher populations in El Nino years.
Stress: After decades of protection marine iguanas are not at all afraid of humans. If one is sunning it won't even lift its head if a human walks just by. I guess they would be less stressed than most animals brought into captivity.
Feeding: Not known to be picky eaters. There are just not a lot of choices in their coastal natural habitat where plants on land are rough and adapated to arid climate. Like Jurek7 say in other thread if they are hungry and they get the chance they will eat all kind of strange things like fresh vegetable matter that probably is okay for them and human food that is not good.

I know it is speculative but I guess today they would be relatively easy to keep for someone with resources to have a big indoor exhibit with both water and ground section. But no way Galapagos authorities would allow export.
 
South Lakes have 1.1 West African Giraffe now Katoumi arrived last month from Doue La Fontaine two others are due to arrive in march.
 
i don't think it would be as difficult to keep a few of the thorny devil. but the main thing that most likely keep many zoo's from keeping them is having a few strong colonies of those ant's and keeping the ant's fed. you would have to have more than two so they can recover. i thing that make it a bit of a challange or that none of the us zoo's or other's have thought of it like that.. also what could happen if those ant got out?

i think of the problem that occured when a small research lab had two colonies of bullet ant's and some got out... do not remember the detail's. do not know if there are still some roaming in south part of cali. but since the new's and the net's been pretty quite about it... doesn't guarantee anything. look at the Africanized honey bees, or the fire ant's.



not trying to make anyone feel bad.... having an ouside zoo try would be cool just need to be prepared on if they got out, for any reason and prevention method's. just like if other animal's got out, or natural disaster hit. and on if the goverments would be okay with it. there are plently of zoo's in us that have animal that would be very harmful for the native wildlife.
 
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