Is this animal represented in captivity?

Even zoos in Australia outside the range of those ants don't keep Thorny Devils. PLus, they live in Central Australia where the ground temperature can get up to 45C +. Hot and dry. For a zoo to replicate that environment for a large colony of ants to feed a small lizard that most people have never heard of would to spend a lot of money that could be better used elsewhere.

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i had already realised that, i hadn't ment to miss that in what i wrote. sorry. but yes that would cost a bit. since you would want to make sure the colony can recover. they do reproduce's fast, it's just if the thorny devil might reproduce aswell. huh.... i keep thinking of the aquatic iguana... okay so they don't eat ant's but they still be costly.
 
Sealife park in Hawaii has a female Frigate-Bird. They also have boobies (masked ,red footed ,and Nazca ,I think) Shearwaters ,Terns ,an Albino Albatross and I think they have a few petrals.
 
dreamingspider said:
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.
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If bullet ants got out they are unlikely to cause big problems. They live in small colonies (usually only a few hundred per colony - nothing like the many thousands in colonies of most ant species) that are easy to find and kill, are slow breeders for ants, are quite slow moving for ants, not really that aggressive (you pretty much have to squeeze one to get stung) and only survive in a humid tropical climate. I guess Rio Grande Valley and south Florida are the only places where they perhaps could survive long-term in mainland USA.

I would be much more afraid of someone mistakenly releasing Australian bulldog ants/jumping jacks of the genus Myrmecia. Fast, very aggressive and depending on species can survive in a wide range of climates. Their bites are less painful but in some Myrmecia it regularly cause allergic reactions that can kill humans.

Anyone know of a zoo outside Australia that has a colony from the genus Myrmecia?

edit: found this http://www.zoochat.com/136/bulldog-ants-myrmecia-pavida-munich-zoo-33135/ and google search indicates that species and others are kept with some regularity even by private people.
http://www.world-of-ants.com/en/ants/australia.html

How about the most dangerous ones, like Myrmecia forficata and Myrmecia pilosula?

(here is the entry for bullet ant: http://www.world-of-ants.com/en/ants/america/paraponera-clavata.html - Like they say it is a calm and unaggressive species but I still wouldn't recommend hand feeding it!)

jordan-12 said:
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.
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Like lintworm said those are really Kordofan giraffe. The only way a zoo could get real west African giraffe is if they imported them from Niger.
 
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Does anyone know if the following animals are in captivity:

-Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey

-Elephant Seal (southern or northern)

-Any form of manatee (besides the West Indian)
 
Raja Harimau said:
Does anyone know if the following animals are in captivity:

-Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey

-Elephant Seal (southern or northern)

-Any form of manatee (besides the West Indian)
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Golden snub-nosed monkeys at several zoos in China. I don't know if they're still there but also in Everland in South Korea (at least until 2009) and Zoorasia aka Yokohama Zoo in Japan (at least until 2008). A few black snub-nosed monkeys in Beijing zoo and perhaps elsewhere in China.

Elephant seal:
http://www.zoochat.com/2/elephant-seal-your-last-time-21512/

Amazon manatee in Goeldi Zoobotanic Park in Brasil. African manatee:
http://www.zoochat.com/2/african-manatees-zoos-155741/
 
LA Zoo were meant to receive golden monkeys but the deal fell through in the end. Amazonian manatees are also present in several research and rehabilitation centres across the Amazon basin - at least in Peru, Brazil and Guyana. I saw them at the 'bosque da ciencia' in Manaus, Brazil.
African manatees are also kept by at least one zoo in China, and possibly an aquarium in Taiwan. I'm not aware of anywhere in West Africa where they are kept on permanent display.
 
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