Why don't more zoos have this species? Gladys Porter zoo claims to have the last one in captivity. If these species are so endangered why are they just letting them die out in captivity? Are they difficult to breed or keep alive in captivity? It seems like every zoo has yellow backed duiker are they more endangered?
jentiks duiker
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Because there are too many Jentink duikers, zoopeople are not interested in this common species. The breeding isn't the problem, they breed like rabbits, as they did at Brownsville. But because they are not endangered and they are very common, the Us-Zoos have stoppedd keeping them, but there are a few asian zoos with them, so in japan, so i've seen them in two japanese zoos last year.
zooboy28
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But they are endangered....
Cephalophus jentinki (Jentink's Duiker)
or did I completely miss the sarcasm
Cephalophus jentinki (Jentink's Duiker)
or did I completely miss the sarcasm
This is a nice and honest attempt at sarcasm but goes closer to being like most other of your other pessimistic blabbering around here.
I wanted to ask him that too, but we would probably only get a sarcastic answer back so I can't be bothered.
KCZooFan
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Though it doesn't answer the question, this is an interesting read.
http://library.sandiegozoo.org/studbooks/ungulates/duiker2002.pdf
http://library.sandiegozoo.org/studbooks/ungulates/duiker2002.pdf
A good find, too bad it's 9 years out of date, was anything newer available? (I guess not, otherwise you would have used it instead
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@Baldur. Don't be afraird, you won't get an sracasm answer. From my posting, just the fisrt part was not that serious, altough I have to say, the wild population of jentinks duiker is growing. The rest of my posting is not sarcastic.
I have no problem that this species is going to be phased out in the USA, a lot of other endagered species are also dissapparing from the zoos, and nobody cares, so Addax for example. The USA are not anymore interested in Jentink duiker, so anybody has to accept this.
I have no problem that this species is going to be phased out in the USA, a lot of other endagered species are also dissapparing from the zoos, and nobody cares, so Addax for example. The USA are not anymore interested in Jentink duiker, so anybody has to accept this.
What is the evidence for a growing wild population?
What Japanese zoos have Jentinck's duikers?
Thank you.
I myself was under the impression that the population was now under 3000 in the wild? I didn't realize there population was growing. But you are right with hoofstock in general being phased out of many zoos which I find disheartening..San Diego Zoo in particular was always one of my favorites to visit for the hoof and horn mesa.... Which unfortunately was phased out for the elephants. Which to me was very disappointing. Forest buffalo and White tailed wildebeest are other species which I have seen disappear.
As for San Diego, I always thought it would make more sense to focus the Safari Park (aka Wild Animal Park) on hoofstock and have less at the zoo. I do not miss the outdated Horn & Hoof Mesa, although I do not like what they did with Elephant Odyssey either.
As for Addax being phased out, I think there are several groups in the U.S. still. Two weeks ago I visited three zoos in South Texas and two of the three had them. My zoo (Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona) was recently donated a 750 acre ranch which we will convert into an arid hoofstock breeding center and we may have a large herd of addax, among other species.
However, I do agree that letting the Jentinks duiker die out in captivity is a real shame. One of the three zoos I visited recently was Gladys Porter Zoo and I can tell you it is a very striking antelope.
As for Addax being phased out, I think there are several groups in the U.S. still. Two weeks ago I visited three zoos in South Texas and two of the three had them. My zoo (Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona) was recently donated a 750 acre ranch which we will convert into an arid hoofstock breeding center and we may have a large herd of addax, among other species.
However, I do agree that letting the Jentinks duiker die out in captivity is a real shame. One of the three zoos I visited recently was Gladys Porter Zoo and I can tell you it is a very striking antelope.
This is what I noted down on my visit last September:
Gladys Porter Zoo – Ungulates
White-tailed Deer
Przewalski‘s Horse
Gaur
Addax
Camel
White Rhinos
Sable Antelope
Pigmy Hippopotamus
Beisa Oryx
Grant‘s Zebra
Dama Gazelle
Reticulated Giraffe
Bongo
Bontebok
Greater Kudu
Jentink‘s Duiker
Arabian Oryx
Yellow-backed Duiker
Harness Bushbuck
Bornean Bearded Pig
KCZooFan
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Kind of off topic, but is the word "pigmy" a European spelling, because I'm more familiar with the spelling "pygmy"?
Have no idea to be honest, although I think I've always spelled it this way.