Guess the zoo

vogelcommando said:
Did the hybrids went to Carl Hagenbeck, founder of Hagenbecks Tierpark in Hamburg ??
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Yes, that's correct. :)

Carl Hagenbeck ordered eight of the hybrids from Cossar Ewart, but rejected two, eventually purchasing six. (Two of these Hagenbeck subsequently sold to the British army.)

Hagenbeck also bought the male Chapman's zebra from Cossar Ewart so you were close with your first answer but Hagenckbeck bought the zebra from Cossar Ewart (after he had finished his breeding experiments); he didn't sell it to him initially.
 
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OK thank you Tim May this was again not an easy one !
Here comes the next one : now and then animals with 2 heads turn up in zoos and at some zoos even 2-headed animals have been born/hatched. Esp. turtles and snakes are known groups in which 2 headiness occur but I'm looking for a zoo which had in the 1960-ties a breeding-result with an animal from a complete different animal-class. It was bred in good numbers at this zoo and among the young a 2-headed specimen was discovered. Because it was quite weak, it was taken apart and 'hand'fed with small pieces of salat, a food-item which doesn't fit in the normal diet of this species but it was eaten by it and the young was raised succesfull.
At which zoo was this 2-headed animal ?
 
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A complete day without any guesses ??? I'll give another clue to this zoo : also in the 1960-ties a condor-egg was succesfully incubated by 2 Silkie chickens ( one the first 30 days, the other the last 30 days ).
 
Ok, here's another clue : the zoo is located in a big city ( and I will tell which 2-headed animal was bred in this zoo... ).
 
Hard question Vogelcommando. I think that with so difficult questions you should give as many clues as possible in the question, like in which country the zoo is located in and so on, and so on. But anyway my guess is utterly random: Dublin.
 
Sorry Norwegian moose, it wasn't Dublin.
And althrough I guess it will make the question to easy, the zoo is located in the Netherlands.
 
Yes I was looking for Artis - Amsterdam Zoo ! During the 1960-ties the Artis-photographer came with the idea to photograph the hatching of a Stick-insect but discovered already soon that it would need a whole lot of Stick-insect eggs to archieve this goal ! A breeding-project was set-up and 150 female Stick-insects produced the unbelieveble number of 55.000 eggs which were all close monitored around the time they were due to hatch. They succeded to photograph the hatching ( very nice pictures ) but also they noticed the hatching of a very strange young. By closer examination this animal proofed to have 2 heads and was very weak. They succeeded in raing it by hand-feeding it with small pieces of salat ! Even so the animal stayed quite weak and died after 5 or 6 sheddings. Even so, also several photos were made of this animal ( of course ) and one of these I'll upload in the Artis Amsterdam Zoo Gallery.
So, now it's your turn again sooty mangabey !
 
Okay...

Drawing together two of my great loves - zoos and music....

At which zoo is there a plaque commemorating Johnny Cash next to a reptile enclosure, and one commemorating his wife, June Carter Cash, close to an enclosure for aquatic mammals.

And the answer isn't Nashville Zoo!
 
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