Species no longer in the collection at Rotterdam, the last one in Rotterdam and the Netherlands died in 2013, and sadly also no longer kept in any European zoo, as the last one in Europe died in Valencia, Spain in 2022.
A species non existent in Europe, but common here in the US. Why are there none in Europe? Are they hard to manage? Sort of a spotted necked otter situation?
@MonkeyBat I don't really know to be honest. Given that the species seems to do relatively well in the US I doubt it is super hard and I don't see why it couldn't do well in Europe. I did look at Zootierliste and found that the number of zoos ever keeping kllipspringer seems relatively small, so perhaps it has more to do with smaller population and lower breeding numbers, resulting in the species not becoming established and eventually being phased out or dying out.
@MonkeyBat A historically small population with low breeding levels. In recent decades it was only in Frankfurt that this species bred regularly. So when breeding ceased there, the population just died out. There have been plenty of rumours of zoos wanting to import new stock from Africa or the US, but given the difficulty of importing hoofstock into the EU it never materialized. But if there are enough spare animals in the US, maybe a yellow-backed duiker scenario is possible...
