I really wonder if the cloud rats and the loris are intended to be displayed in the old koala nocturnal house at some point...otherwise what is the point of having them at the zoo?
The San Diego Zoo's loris exhibit in the Tiger River complex is also a diurnal exhibit like this one. I just don't get it.
The only cloud rats that I have actually seen were in the World of Darkness at the Bronx Zoo (maybe these are them since they closed that exhibit apparently?). The only active loris exhibit that I've seen was the nocturnal exhibit in the San Francisco Zoo's primate complex which also has apparently closed.
The only cloud rats that I have actually seen were in the World of Darkness at the Bronx Zoo (maybe these are them since they closed that exhibit apparently?).
Nope, ISIS still shows the Bronx Zoo as having Cloud Rats. Also, Bronx Zoo has Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats (Phloeomys pallidus), while the LA Zoo has Panay Cloud Rats (Crateromys heaneyi). The other two zoos with Panay Cloud Rats are Prague Zoo and London Zoo, so they most likely came from one of those two.
Although Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats are nicer looking, I'm glad we got the more endangered Panay Cloud Rats.
Nope, ISIS still shows the Bronx Zoo as having Cloud Rats. Also, Bronx Zoo has Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats (Phloeomys pallidus), while the LA Zoo has Panay Cloud Rats (Crateromys heaneyi). The other two zoos with Panay Cloud Rats are Prague Zoo and London Zoo, so they most likely came from one of those two.
Although Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats are nicer looking, I'm glad we got the more endangered Panay Cloud Rats.
RP had a species of Phloeomys in the 1980s which were kept (and bred) in the Moonlight World. Sorry, I don't remember which form.
They were quite visible, but the Panay form are just hopeless - they never show themselves, despite being in the nocturnal house also. But as you say, it's good to be trying to do something for an animal that needs help.
The cloud rats at London Zoo in the 1980s were always labelled as Phloeomys cumingi but I know Frank Wheeler always insisted that they were wrongly identified.
