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Dresden Zoo - Gelada

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A gelada baboon in Dresden Zoo, Germany. This primate shares it's exhibit with a group of vultures.
July 2008
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Would there ever be the opportunities for females and for breeding with the birds of prey?
Foz, this reads as if you want to make crazy vulture-babboon hybrids :D
 
Foz, this reads as if you want to make crazy vulture-babboon hybrids :D

Whooops! I just realised this, thank you Ash. what i meant was: would it be safe to have a breeding group of geladas in this exhibit along with the vultures? or would the vultures present too much of a risk to young geladas?
 
ISIS lists a total of 73.71.3 in Europe (across 16 collections) and 11.4 in the US (almost all at Bronx). Never realised there were so few outside Europe (although of course, ISIS does not have full coverage).

According to the EAZA TAG information, the Bronx animals are managed in conjunction with the EEP population as there are so few of them in the States.

A couple more UK zoos- Whipsnade and Jersey- have indicated a wish to keep this species in future. Seems there may be a bit of a waiting list.
 
This enclosure has held only birds of prey for a few years now. There have not been any geladas at Dresden since 2011. Whether their departure came about because there were problems with the exhibit, or for other reasons, I do not know; the enclosure is now simply a rather wonderful, and typical, German vulture aviary, with several species on display.
 

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