Taronga Zoo Changes at Taronga

dragon(ele)nerd said:
Are their major changes at Taronga because of Tong Dee's baby? I haven't been there since late 2006.
Congratulations to you guys, i spoke with the Melbourne keepers their jealous as hell! You can only hope for a healthy birth,
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Yeah theres a mad rush on to get the old Elephant enclosure prepared as they will need to separate Tong Dee from the others.
And im not a keeper, im just a TTI student(Intern Keeper) but yes I say congrats to the team involved they have done a great job.
 
stretch andy- they do not want to separtae tong dee from the others rather gung. They will want her to stay with the group. Elpephant hbirths are very social. The otehrs will learn from tong dees birth. GUng on the other hand needs to be moved because 1. current exhibit needs for space, plus he may not be best around the babay, thoyugh he is a very well behaved bull (so far). Also, the courts told taronga they have to move him.

Melbourne will not doubt have a new arrival within 2 years in my opinion.

As for giraffe, the problem is moving adults, all of taronga's are adults. In fact all of taronga's current giraffe orginally came from dubbo, but when they were about 15-18 months, whilst they can still fit under powerlines, bridges, and able to handle a 500 km trip, and it's not all straight- you have to get a across the blue mountains, which is extremely annoying logistically due to the amount of turns, and very very very slow pace moving over the mountains. then you have about 300 km to dubbo from base of mountains, though all highway, you pass 3 major suburban towns, again slow moving. Take in accordance moving 4 adults, and you cans see it's a logistical nigth mare.

It still is an option, but another is also building a temporary enclosure at the zoo.
 
Also, it takes about 5 hours buy car to drive to sydney, from dubbo. So take in the fact moving 4 aniamls, including all support vehicles of such a move, and more than likey green light treatment whole way, with police escotrts (which is a norm when moving large animals between dubbo and taronga.)

Then 18 months later complete the whole operation again!
 
Zoo_Boy said:
stretch andy- they do not want to separtae tong dee from the others rather gung. They will want her to stay with the group. Elpephant hbirths are very social. The otehrs will learn from tong dees birth. GUng on the other hand needs to be moved because 1. current exhibit needs for space, plus he may not be best around the babay, thoyugh he is a very well behaved bull (so far). Also, the courts told taronga they have to move him.

Melbourne will not doubt have a new arrival within 2 years in my opinion.
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Alright, googled can't find anything hard, so does anyone knoew when the new bull exhibit will be done? And if so when will gung move, 10? 13?

Personally i don't think the exhibt should of been made for away from the herd exhibit, but i guess there isn't enough room, and the only room would be the old elephant exhibit.
For Melbourne zoo there is a glimmer of hope, i think. Apparently, A keeper once told me that breeding will naturally occur, he is a boy and he knows what to do. I don't think that is the case, mataining a close relationship with Mek Kapah since he was extremly young Bong Su never learnt how to mate, new girls just come and nothing big has happened, yet. Although in the wild bulls mate at around 30, but there is no competition. Then again Rex of Rockton Safari had his first calf at 36.
 
dragon(ele)nerd said:
Alright, googled can't find anything hard, so does anyone knoew when the new bull exhibit will be done? And if so when will gung move, 10? 13?

Personally i don't think the exhibt should of been made for away from the herd exhibit, but i guess there isn't enough room, and the only room would be the old elephant exhibit.
For Melbourne zoo there is a glimmer of hope, i think. Apparently, A keeper once told me that breeding will naturally occur, he is a boy and he knows what to do. I don't think that is the case, mataining a close relationship with Mek Kapah since he was extremly young Bong Su never learnt how to mate, new girls just come and nothing big has happened, yet. Although in the wild bulls mate at around 30, but there is no competition. Then again Rex of Rockton Safari had his first calf at 36.
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Umm i can have a look at it when im there on Thursday. I dont think you will find anything online about it some times word of mouth on here is better.... sometimes.
Maybe they want to have some distance between the enclosures, it might cause less problems????
 
stretchedandy said:
Umm i can have a look at it when im there on Thursday. I dont think you will find anything online about it some times word of mouth on here is better.... sometimes.
Maybe they want to have some distance between the enclosures, it might cause less problems????
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That's the thing, I don't know anyone who knows personally someone who knows that information (hope that wasn't a togue twister) thanks anyway.
Xie Xie 谢谢
 
The exhbit will ,open in december 08 in line with the hearing tribunal outcomes of 05 in accordance with permission for the importantion of 1.4 asiastic elephants to taronga zoo.

The information is out there, you just are not looking in the correct places. Look for other threads on this forum (ie gungs new facility i think is a title of a thread) and you will find the actuall plans for his new exhibit. On the zoo website, you may b able to find the tribunal report produced buy the zoo last year.
 
Zoo_Boy said:
The exhbit will ,open in december 08 in line with the hearing tribunal outcomes of 05 in accordance with permission for the importantion of 1.4 asiastic elephants to taronga zoo.

The information is out there, you just are not looking in the correct places. Look for other threads on this forum (ie gungs new facility i think is a title of a thread) and you will find the actuall plans for his new exhibit. On the zoo website, you may b able to find the tribunal report produced buy the zoo last year.
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See what i mean about the info being here its great.
 
dragon(ele)nerd said:
I wonder if Taronga is the kind of zoo that holds naming competitions?
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yes tey do all the time. the lates gorilla, the first dhole pup, the lion cubs and the latest snow leopard cubs are all examples of animals that were named in this way.

why do you ask?
 
torie said:
yes tey do all the time. the lates gorilla, the first dhole pup, the lion cubs and the latest snow leopard cubs are all examples of animals that were named in this way.

why do you ask?
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I didn't know that, torrie. Melbourne zoo doesn't do that kinda thing. But they do that at Healesville
 
Zoo_Boy said:
I have no confirmeation, but if you look at the annual report from last year, in the first few pages it mentions africa could be ready to open in feb 2010, brining 14 new exhibits to the zoo.
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14 exhibits seems like heaps. Obviously it would feature new homes for the Zoo's lions, meerkats, bongos, barbary sheep, hippos, gorillas, chimpanzees and debrazza's guenons (or are being fazed out) plus a mixed exhibit for giraffe, zebra & ostrich (or would they pointlessly have seperate enclosures?). Any ideas what the remaining exhibits will house? I'll guess possibly African crested porcupines (replacing Indians), mandrills or baboons, ring-tailed lemurs and colobus monkeys.
 
Melbourne did it for the tiger cubs and the siamang baby but apart from that i can't think of any others. I also can't think of any other major births that would herald a anming contest.
 
well melbourne doesnt have an elephantbaby yet to have a naming competetion for, although neither does taronga i guess...yet.
anyway, whilst all this information is available in other threads, albeit older ones, I will repost what species WERE SUPPOSED to be in the African Tropical Savannah exhibit. once again though the species composition will almost certainly be scaled back to reflect quarantine restrictions, just as Wild Asia missed out on the babirusa and Philippine Spotted Deer slated for this precinct.
chimpanzee and gorilla will stay in their current enclosures.
new enclosures for meerkat and porcupine will form a 'kopje' area above the food market, whilst the giraffe and zebra exhibit will extend over the area currently divided by a low wall into two seperate exhibits. greater flamingoes, bongo, duiker and pygmy hippo are supposed to find a home in this precinct too but this may well not happen.
on the other hand, lemurs, mandrill and the colobus monkeys proposed for the development will almost certainly feature.
 
PAT said:
Melbourne did it for the tiger cubs and the siamang baby but apart from that i can't think of any others. I also can't think of any other major births that would herald a anming contest.
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But wasn't the tiger naming competition a voting one where there was already assigned names?
 
I'm not sure but the interviewed the people who named that dead cub after he drowned. And i thought of a currnet naming contest at zoos victoria, Th baby hippo. The only problem is that you need to visit the zoo to drop your entry form in.
 
Good news if Colobus, Lemurs and Mandrills come to Taronga.

ISIS shows 4 male and 8 female Mandrills at Adelaide and Melbourne zoos. Are they very inbred?
 
I think melbourne got a new male 5 or 6 years ago from another country.
 
im not 100% sure of the level of inbreeding within this species regionally. i do know that the dominant female Oprah was born in 1987 in Columbos Zoo, US and imported to Australia in 1996.
sadly, mandrill are in the 'needs fresh genes' basket, along with a whole range of other potentially viable species including maned wolves, brazillian tapirs and a range of primate species.
on another note, the zoo population of scimitar horned oryx and a number of others seem to be dropping quite low!
 
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