animal kid
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I was wondering about the smaller cat species in aus, what species do we have and where?
Also have any of the fishing cats in Aus bred?
Also have any of the fishing cats in Aus bred?
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fishing cats have bred at a few zoos.
Servals are another type of small cat.
There is a web site that has a list of all species kept at zoos. That would probably answer your questions better. I can't remember the name of the site, I think it is ISIS or similar. Hopefully someone else might post a link to it for you.
Servals are another type of small cat.
There is a web site that has a list of all species kept at zoos. That would probably answer your questions better. I can't remember the name of the site, I think it is ISIS or similar. Hopefully someone else might post a link to it for you.
this is the ISIS page: https://app.isis.org/abstracts/abs.asp
There are also a couple of threads on Zoochat covering the small cats in Australia
There are also a couple of threads on Zoochat covering the small cats in Australia
Electus Parrot
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The caracal from Adelaide went to Melbourne so is still in the country, Adelaide's asiatic golden cats went to New Zealand, the clouded leopards and bobcats I think all died out and there may possibly be an ocelot up at Crocodylus Park I think.
Electus Parrot
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In the 80's I think Adelaide also had a pallas cat.
Oops! My bad! It was Adelaide I was thinking of!
I've even got a photo of it in the Gallery:
http://www.zoochat.com/18/pallas-cat-1984-a-29976/
Hix
Melbourne had a great feline collection when I would visit as a child (not really that long ago.) You could see clouded leopards, persian leopards, snow leopards, jaguars, pumas, sumatran tigers, lions, fishing cats and servals. Nowadays you won't see the clouded leopards or jaguars but you can see the caracal that came from Adelaide recently.
animal kid
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So there are now no clouded leopards in Australia?
I have some questions based on melbourne's cat area when the old persian leopard dies what do you think will that be used for? more snow leopards?
how many puma's do melb have and how old are they, have they bred or are going to be bred from?
and in small cat alley is there now just fishing cat, serval and a caracal?
I have some questions based on melbourne's cat area when the old persian leopard dies what do you think will that be used for? more snow leopards?
how many puma's do melb have and how old are they, have they bred or are going to be bred from?
and in small cat alley is there now just fishing cat, serval and a caracal?
I'll see how I go.
Clouded Leopards are non-existent in Australia. The last one was the one at Melbourne Zoo.
There could possibly still be two pumas but When I went on the weekend I only saw one.
And There are also bintourong in the small cat exhibits.
p.s. A few years ago there was also a bobcat in the small cat alley that I had forgotten about.
I can remember the bobcat and I couldn't remember if the golden cats were real in my memory or not. Cheetahs, ocelots and caracal (before the current one) I can't remember at all.
Out of interest where were the cheetahs kept?
In the open topped enclosure at the end of the big cat walk, last time I was there (years ago) it was occupied by maned wolves.
Going back a lot longer I can just remember cheetahs (and hyenas) in the lion row, a series of steel and concrete cages that stood where the small cat walk is now. It was knocked down when the lion park (the first "modern" enclosure at Melbourne Zoo) was built.