Monarto Safari Park black-footed rock wallaby release

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Rare wallabies set for outback release - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Five black-footed rock wallabies born in captivity are to be released in the outback soon, to give the endangered species a boost in the wild.

Five warru have been cared for by keepers at Monarto Zoo, south-east of Adelaide, since a breeding program achieved success.

Authorities are working with traditional land owners on a plan to release the animals into a fenced enclosure in the far north of South Australia this month.

Matthew Ward of the SA Environment Department says the program promotes both conservation efforts and job opportunities in the far north.

"It's a massive collaboration and everyone's working really well together, but first and foremost in our minds along with the conservation of warru is to ensure that this process develops employment opportunities and training opportunities for Anangu [people] of the APY lands," he said.

"APY Land Management through this process now employ at least 12 waru (Anangu) rangers."
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Rare rock wallabies returned to outback

Rare rock wallabies returned to outback - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Six rare rock wallabies taken from the far north-west of South Australia as joeys have returned home to the APY Lands.

A project aimed at saving the endangered species has brought together Anangu people with government agencies, zoos staff and university students.

They transferred more than 20 black-flanked rock wallaby joeys, or warru, into the pouches of surrogate yellow-footed rock wallabies.

Monarto Zoo staff kept them safe until adulthood and six of the wallabies have now been returned to the APY Lands and released into a 100-hectare predator-proof enclosure.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-29/community-pitches-in-to-save-endangered-wallabies/2816812

[video]http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/statelinesouthaustralia/video/201107/r806881_7167784.flv[/video]
 
Are they on display at Monarto? I don't recall seeing them when I was there last.

:p

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Sim said:
Rare rock wallabies returned to outback - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Community pitches in to save endangered wallabies. - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[video]http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/statelinesouthaustralia/video/201107/r806881_7167784.flv[/video]
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The project seems to be going well then, and the video was quite interesting, and rather informative for a breakfast programme. I do have two questions though:

-What was with the disclaimer at the very start of the video, is it culturally offensive to show videos of deceased Aboriginal people?

-When they transplant the joeys into the surrogate mothers pouches, do the mothers have to have a joey removed first (ie did they already have to have young), or not? I don't know if milk production would start immediately in marsupials, but I wouldn't have thought so. And if a yellow-footed joey is removed, what happens to it - euthanasia?
 
zooboy28 said:
-What was with the disclaimer at the very start of the video, is it culturally offensive to show videos of deceased Aboriginal people?
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In some (most?) Aboriginal cultures it is forbidden to mention the name or view an image of a person within a set period of their death. So this is a warning in case an aboriginal person is watching. and they think that somebody recently deceased is in the video.

zooboy28 said:
-When they transplant the joeys into the surrogate mothers pouches, do the mothers have to have a joey removed first (ie did they already have to have young), or not? I don't know if milk production would start immediately in marsupials, but I wouldn't have thought so.
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Yes a joey is removed.

zooboy28 said:
And if a yellow-footed joey is removed, what happens to it - euthanasia?
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Yes
 
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