Mountain Anoa - 1990

October 1990

Are there any Mountain Anoas left in zoos around the world?

Krefeld Zoo in Germany maintains a very small breeding group; I believe a few were sent to one of the Berlin zoos a few years ago but I do not know of their fate.

Subsequent to marketing their anoas as mountain anoa, San Diego reclassified all of them as being of the lowland species.

So San Diego never truly had mountain anoas?

Affirmative ... although anoa taxonomy is still up in the air

Man, ruin my WHOLE childhood won't you?

The last two pleace you can see mountain anoa in Europe are indeed in Krefeld (not breeding any more) and a sibbling pair at a little zoo Decin in CZ.

@Jana: Mountain anoas are currently kept in Berlin Zoo too,when I visited the zoo in 2005, this informatiom was confirmed to me, Berlin zoo was the first with breeding success in 1972, they have given some animals in Krefeld, and the offspring in Krefeld was given in Decin and Berlin, there is no hope to import new animals, they will be phased out from the european zoos, they do not breed anymore owing to inbreeding.

@Jakub I´ve checked it up and must say - you are right. I don´t know why, but I thought Berlin´s anoas were hybrids lowland x mountain.

That's a shame - firstly that the pic wasn't of a Mountain Anoa, and secondly because it appears the species will disappear from captivity.