Mixed species exhibits with primates

gentle lemur said:
At one time Edinburgh kept Diana monkeys with their gorillas. However in the long term, I don't think that either of these combinations was particularly successful.

Alan
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Bristol did the same mix but again it seemed shortlived. The Dianas have since left the Zoo and now ( we think;) ) reside at Porfells Animal Park/Rescue Centre in Cornwall
 
Arnhem: pig-tailed macaque with banteng, muntjac, hog deer & browl-antlered deer.

Apenheul: Gorilla with patas & l'hoest guenon
squirrel monkey with darwin rhea & wild turkey
red titi with golden-headed lion tamarin & pied tamarin
red howler monkey with emperor tamarin, gouldi, red-legged seriema, white-faced saki, silvery marmoset who all have access to the viasayan warty pigs.

Artis: white faced saki, pygmy marmoset, gouldi, a tamarin species, flying fox, short-tailed bat, green iguana, tree shrew, ground cuscus, owl monkey, some pheasant species and some frogs and a partridge species in the monkey house.
 
Yorkshire Wildlife Park have a mixed exhibit with squirrel monkeys. I can't remember exactly what it had, even though it was only a few weeks ago I was there but I think it had Mara, agouti & capybara?
 
Dierenpark Emmen has black-faced spider monkeys with crested screamers & white-faced saki with golden lion tamarin, Geoffroy's marmoset, sunbittern, sun conure & cuban amazon.

Dierenpark Amersfoort has hamadryas baboons with barbary sheep.

Safaripark Beekse Bergen has hamadryas baboons with African elephants & mantled colobus with gorilla
 
zooman said:
Great video thx for sharing.

The enclosure looks fantastic as well!
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Dublin. With the excellent new enclosure, and a much better balanced Gorilla group (sex ratio-wise) than previously, and containing two offspring, plus the new Mangabey/Gorilla mix, Dublin's Gorilla display definately moves into the higher bracket.
 
Port lympne and howletts mixed gorillas with white fronted guenons/samangos. Both the latter are now longer at the park i believe.

Bristol used to mix de brazza's with gorilla, as did port lympne also if memory serves. Or was it howletts?

The new amazu at cherssington has several mixed bird/callatrid and monkey species together.

I think woburn mixes bongo with barbary macaques and patas monkeys. Longleat used to mix water buffalo +/- blackbuck with the rhesus macaques.
 
Chester mix Orang, Lar Gibbon and Asian short clawed otter.

Forgot that south lakes mix hamadryas baboon with giraffe and Rhino
 
There were unsuccessful attempts to (separately) mix diana and colobus monkeys with gorillas at Port Lympne. I believe males of each species were killed by the silverback. The small primate cage connected via a now unused, overhead tunnel to 'Palace of the Apes' is perhaps the only remaining indication of the intention to mix other primates with gorillas there, however I believe the attempted mixings occured in the former chimp cage rather than here. At Howletts, the mixings were more successful (as in, the monkeys survived), and I think only took place in the newer gorilla complex. Howletts have held both greater and lesser spot-nosed monkeys, but I believe it was only the lessers that were mixed with the gorillas. An elderly pair were kept in an off-exhibit cage I think at the back of the gorilla complex and one or both may still be there, given that this species is still listed on the park's website. I'm pretty sure the Samango monkeys didn't breed, but there seemed to be more of them on their transfer to Port Lympne (5 at some point), when for a while it was just a pair that were mixed with the gorillas at Howletts. The two guenon species were not mixed with the same gorilla group as far as I know.

More recently, Port Lympne was mixing a single black rhino with the baboons, and I *think* they may mix their agouti with one of the howler groups. Also the De brazza and colobus mixed exhibit seems to work very well there.

It was indeed Bristol that connected its De Brazza monkey enclosure to the gorilla island, although I have never heard of them having been mixed with the gorillas while they were there. Its a real shame Bristol chose not to introduce the drills to this enclosure instead of spider monkeys, I think limited rotational access to enclosures is useful for olfactory enrichment.

Similarly, while I have seen photographs of colobus in the main Gorilla Kingdom at ZSL prior to the bridge being removed, I have no knowledge of them ever having attempted to mix them with the gorillas.

I believe the anoa/macaque mixing at Paignton was short-lived and therefore not successful.

Woburn I think is one of the most interesting mixed enclosures, successful in part I'm sure due to the huge section of woodland available to the monkeys. I believe there were colobus at one point, before the drills, along with the patas monkeys and macaques which are still present? I think this is one of the few examples I know of where it doesn't appear as if the monkeys have been 'added' to an exhibit designed for ungulates or great apes. Given the precarious state of many African monkey populations in captivity, it does surprise me when declining, hard-to-breed species are added to rather busy mixed exhibits where cover and escape routes seem lacking.

I think the new okapi sanctuary exhibit at Doue Biopark in France looks sufficiently promising, given they have been allocated Hamlyn's monkeys for the exhibit. Does anyone know whether the monkeys are restricted to a part of the exhibit or do they have free range throughout its entirety?

Bioparc - Zoo de Doué la Fontaine | Videos
Bioparc - Zoo de Doué la Fontaine | Okapi Sanctuary
 
Communityzoo said:
I believe males of each species were killed by the silverback. .....however I believe the attempted mixings occured in the former chimp cage rather than here.

It was indeed Bristol that connected its De Brazza monkey enclosure to the gorilla island, although I have never heard of them having been mixed with the gorillas while they were there.
I think in the case of the Colobus at Port Lympne, the mixing may(but I don't know this for sure) have been more in the way of finding a 'spare' cage to put the Colobus in, more than for exhibition value. The silverback 'Jomie' killed and partly ate it- he was later transferred to ZSL(who owned him) but died after contracting Hepatitis B- which, as he was zooborn at Howletts and the only(?) Gorilla there to suffer this, I can only think came from the monkey?

It was in the former chimp cage.

Bristol- Their De Brazzas were mixed with Gorillas at least sometimes, there is a photo in the gallery of a young Gorilla and a De Brazza on one of the climbing frames together.
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Mixed species......

Longleat had Domestic Water Buffalo in with Rhesus Macaques for many years. The Buffalo had enormous spreading horns that the monkeys would sit on.
 
Tunanta said:
Yorkshire Wildlife Park have a mixed exhibit with squirrel monkeys. I can't remember exactly what it had, even though it was only a few weeks ago I was there but I think it had Mara, agouti & capybara?
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That's correct currently, there used to be rhea in there also but they didn't like the bearworks so they are off show.
 
Unless I've missed it, no one has yet listed London zoo's rainforest inhabitants: two 2-toed sloths plus baby, emperor tamarin family, two golden-headed lion tamarins, two red titi monkeys, two or three red legged tortoises, two tamanduas, sun bitterns, one pope cardinal, two curassows, montserrat orioles... quite a mix.
 
volvox said:
Unless I've missed it, no one has yet listed London zoo's rainforest inhabitants: two 2-toed sloths plus baby, emperor tamarin family, two golden-headed lion tamarins, two red titi monkeys, two or three red legged tortoises, two tamanduas, sun bitterns, one pope cardinal, two curassows, montserrat orioles... quite a mix.
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And some armadilloes! (And a lot of house mice!!!)
 
Oooops, knew I'd forget someone! Thank you. Two armadilloes, Amy and Rolex. I debated long and hard whether to mention the mice but decided to be diplomatic and leave them out!
 
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