EAZA news magazine

kiang said:
Spring 2013 is now available, with articles on Diana monkeys in Ostrava zoo (Europe's largest group), turacos, saola conservation and others.

http://www.eaza.net/News/EAZA_Magazine/EAZA NEWS Magazine/ZA81.pdf
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I found the article on the Ostrava Diana Monkeys interesting. Basically their successful management is just about applying commonsense really and with no special techniques. Points such as 'don't handrear'/ 'don't allow new animals access to each other till aggressive interactions stop'/ don't leave non-breeding females too long without adding a new mate/ only transfer related females to form new groups etc. could be applicable to most Primates I think.

I am always sad more attempt isn't made with this beautiful Monkey in our UK Zoos, apart from at Edinburgh and Port Lympne that is, the other groups are small and do not prosper, due mainly it seems through lack of interest and/or apathy on the holders' part. There is no reason otherwise why these Guenons can't be bred in better numbers, as demonstrated by Ostrava.
 
Thanks for drawing attention to this kiang. I see next month is saola awareness month. I was a bit disappointed that, after choosing it for the logo of the EAZA SE Asia campaign I'd not really heard much more. So obviously I just needed patience!
 
kiang said:
Indian rhino and Iberian lynx breeding programmes
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The Indian Rhino write-up is very simple- its a request for new holders. There are 62 Rhinos in the EEP programme and they need new homes for some of the upcoming younger ones.
 
I'm really surprised Port Lympne don't take up the request- that flat marshland at the bottom end would be perfect. They have enough room there to take more than one pair too!;)
 
kiang said:
The Spring 2014 edition is available for reading.

http://www.eaza.net/News/EAZA_Magazine/EAZA NEWS Magazine/ZQ85.pdf
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Page 20-21 basically confirms what some had suspected but it's nice to see that the zoos/aquariums are working on resolving the matter. There are no Aetobatus narinari in Europe, contrary to what zoos/aquariums and zootierliste currently label them as. They're all of Indo-Pacific origin = Aetobatus ocellatus and Aetobatus cf. ocellatus.

Following studies in the last few years, Aetobatus narinari is only found in the Atlantic and Aetobatus cf. narinari (=Aetobatus laticeps, if recognized as a separate species) in the East Pacific. I assume some of the North American aquariums have the real Aetobatus narinari.
See:

Richards, Henning, Witzell and Shivji. 2009. Species delineation and evolutionary history of the globally distributed spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari). J Hered 100(3):273-283

White, Last, Naylor, Jensen and Caira. 2010. Clarification of Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) as a valid species, and a comparison with Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) (Rajiformes: Myliobatidae). in: Last, White and Pogonosky. 2010. Descriptions of new sharks and rays from Borneo. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
 
LATEST ISSUE: Winter 2016,

New legislation on invasive alien species
An interview with the Chair of EAZA's Threatened Asian Songbird Alliance
The new Let It Grow Campaign
Surplus management techniques for White-faced Saki
Alopecia syndrome in Spectacled bears
Saving Asian turtle species from extinction
New 'Six Islands' exhbit at Chester Zoo
Planting great ideas: zooplants.net

http://www.eaza.net/assets/Uploads/Zooquaria/Zooquaria-92.pdf
 
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