They are beautiful aren't they? And for those of us that are fortunate enough to have ever seen them anywhere on exhibit, photos don't do them justice.
There was never any chance to save the too small population in captivity. The best thing what zoos can do now is to give money to protect this highly endangered species in the wild.
The animal in the foreground looks like pregant. I don't think, its fat, because its very difficult to feed a duiker "fat".
L.A has send his last zebraduiker to Cincinnati in 1997. Between 1979 and 1991 20 zebraduikers were born at L.A, five were deadborn, six died within a week, nine became older than two years, 2,2 were send to other zoos, so the zoo wasn'tsuccesful to save his own stock. Because of the new imported black duikers, the zoo decided to stop keeping zebraduikers and send the last one to Ohio. In 22 years, the zoo has imported 13 zebraduikers !
They are beautiful aren't they? And for those of us that are fortunate enough to have ever seen them anywhere on exhibit, photos don't do them justice.
They are beautiful aren't they? And for those of us that are fortunate enough to have ever seen them anywhere on exhibit, photos don't do them justice.
Very true. Photos do not do this wonderful species justice, but I sure do wish I had some photos of them. I thought for sure I had a few, but I can't seem to find any. Hopefully some will show up eventually.
Possibly on some of my old slides. But I don't really remember ever being able to successfully photograph them. Though I observed them here on numerous occasions.
Frankfurt and New York Bronx, both sent males to L.A. to attempt a successful breeding with our female. She killed one of the males, I don't quite remember which one though.
