Binturong Exhibit

Ahh yes - the famously arboreal dhole, in an exhibit that would much better suit the binturong in the neighboring sad-sack cage.

Honestly, my memories definitely blinded me to think that these glassed exhibits were great just because of the animals.

Also, you can see the binturong sleeping on the upper far left, so I don't think these are for the dholes. Regardless, these are just a row of barren glassed exhibits only compensated with those rare animals.

There is a row of glassed-in exhibits that are all quite poor for their inhabitants. The best one is arguably this Binturong enclosure. There's 6 species: Sunda Clouded Leopard (Bornean subspecies and perhaps the only individual in captivity), Asiatic Golden Cat, Serval, Caracal, Dhole (Sumatran subspecies?) and Binturong. There used to be Flat-headed Cats in this part of the zoo.

@snowleopard marbled cats as well, these dholes are from Sumatra but had been bred in a private facility that also have ownership of the zoo.

The same facility (PT. FaunaIndonesia1) also bred the two cats, which is how Faunaland are able to get those two (Albeit unsuccesfuly). The serval and caracal (Both originated from Ukrainian farm, if I'm correct) were donated by the zoo's previous manager.

The Bornean clouded leopards are rescues from Central Kalimantan after they entered a village and was donated in 2018 by the local government, attempts to bred them has been unsuccesful. The other Sunda clouded leopards in Indonesian facilities are the Sumatran subspecies, so you would be correct that these are the only pair atleast outside of Kalimantan.

So far, no idea about the origin of the Asian golden cats and the binturong are presumebly from a private farm.

@Rizz Carlton Thanks for all that information and you are a valuable Indonesian resource on this site! On a side note, there's only the one Sunda (Bornean) Clouded Leopard left now and the cat seems very old, frail and half blind.

@snowleopard thank you for the kind word

Yikes, they're the zoo's few original inhabitants from the early days after all. This condition suggest that the other one had died, sadly. I don't think the single cat would survive the next year, very unfortunate that they were unable to bred (If you can already tell by their living condition, you didn't have to wonder why).

@Rizz Carlton @snowleopard My apologies, I genuinely didn't notice the binturong in the top left corner.

@StoppableSan well, you're not entirely wrong!

The dholes during my last visit in 2023 are also held in a somewhat arboreal exhibit, though the pair are suprisingly quite active.