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After a break of 20 ( ! ) years visited today Apenheul ! It was changed quite a bit - not strange after 20 years - and althrough it was for 20 years already very good, it's now even better !
Lots of young seen - squirrel monkey's, bonobo's, Crowned sifaki, orang utan, gorilla,s Golden Lion tamarin and so on. Also the variaty of none-primate-species has grown conciderably and the free-flying Rainbow lorikeets and Macaws were impresive !
Education and conservation are still 2 important issue's for Apenheul and I'm sure it don't will last another 20 years for my next visit !
 
5 Cusimanses ( Crossarchus obscurus ) born recently at Apenheul. Apenheul is the only Dutch zoo with this species in it's collection.
 
Marcel said:
Kevin the 33 years old Bornean Orang Utang will be moving to the Apenheul in early september.
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At last - 4 1/2 years of isolation on the roof will have an end. Many of the regular visitors to Berlin Zoo are so happy about this twist in his life,- and even more so, as the destination will be Apenheul. Enjoy him! And a happy life for Kevin!
 
Hopefully he will breed too- he is completely unrepresented in the captive Bornean Orangutan population.
 
Apenheul will receive 2 new male proboscis monkeys in two weeks time. So hopefully this species still has a future in Europe.
 
What's the source for this Information ?

But without any females, can be there a future for this species in europe ?
 
The source is a Dutch zoo forum, which is really reliable, especially on this kind of news.

Offcourse the European populations needs females, but Apenheul is now testing if they are able to keep proboscis monkeys in a European climate. If this experiment is successful Singapore will probably send females in about 2/3 years time.
 
According to Apenhuel's facebook today, the male proboscis monkey 'Bagik' was joined by two new males- a 3 year-old named Goalie and a 4 year-old named Jeff. Both came from Singapore Zoo.
 
Together with Singapore Zoo they are also setting up an international studbook for proboscis monkeys
 
Apenheul recieved the 31 year old Orang Utan-male Kevin from West Berlin Zoo. At West Berlin Kevin was kept in an indoor-enclosure so his 'new 'live' at Apenheul should be a huge improvement for him. Also coming into contact with other Orangs - and hopefully breed with them - is something complete new for him !
 
vogelcommando said:
Also coming into contact with other Orangs - and hopefully breed with them - is something complete new for him !
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Genetically he's very important- wildcaught with no offspring to date- pretty rare nowadays- so breeding if possible will be a priority I guess.
 
vogelcommando said:
Apenheul recieved the 31 year old Orang Utan-male Kevin from West Berlin Zoo. At West Berlin Kevin was kept in an indoor-enclosure so his 'new 'live' at Apenheul should be a huge improvement for him. Also coming into contact with other Orangs - and hopefully breed with them - is something complete new for him !
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Very good news for him and, hopefully, the EEP gene pool.
 
I'm delighted to hear about this move, I really hope Kevin settles in well, breeding would be a bonus top of his improved welfare.
 
OrangePerson said:
I'm delighted to hear about this move, I really hope Kevin settles in well, breeding would be a bonus top of his improved welfare.
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Yes its excellent news alround,and to top it off he gets to go to one of the top primate collections in the world!

And this time this site hasn't messed up the move by breaking it until it happened this time!!
 
vogelcommando said:
At West Berlin Kevin was kept in an indoor-enclosure so his 'new 'live' at Apenheul should be a huge improvement for him. Also coming into contact with other Orangs - and hopefully breed with them - is something complete new for him !
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Although all that really matters now is the happy end for Kevin - a slight correction: He was not only kept in an indoor enclosure for more than 4 1/2 years, but in solitary confinement in a cage for the sick on the roof, from where he could only watch the chimpanzees he had learnt to be afraid of, when he shared a 6qm cage with two of them in the circus for years.
Before being banned to the roof, he had a female partner for many years who suddenly died of cancer. I believe, she had a stillbirth once.
Thanks to the information I got on ZooChat here, it soon became clear, that nobody had ever told us visitors the truth when we asked about plans for his future. But exactly this fact finally opened the door for intervention.
By the way, in the meantime our director has to go too.
News from Kevin: He appears to be very relaxed, in beautiful surroundings, already to be seen in public. The friendly keepers want to give him plenty enough time to adapt, before introducing him to the first female.
 
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