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Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo enclosure

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June 2010
June 2010
 
This is only about half the height of the tree.
 
Am I correct that D. lumholtzi are not listed on ISIS?
So, David Fleay's Wildlife Park is not a member?

The only one on ISIS being the Cairns Wildlife Safari Preserve.

Correct to assume DFWP is the only facility to exhibit (breed) D. lumholtzi? :confused:
 
Am I correct that D. lumholtzi are not listed on ISIS?
So, David Fleay's Wildlife Park is not a member?

The only one on ISIS being the Cairns Wildlife Safari Preserve.

Correct to assume DFWP is the only facility to exhibit (breed) D. lumholtzi? :confused:

There were two facilities keeping this species when I lived in Queensland for the best part of 2007: David Fleay's down in the south and the Port Douglas Rainforest Sanctuary up in the far north, where I got to see this species. The CWSP does not, or at least did not, have them; in fact, when I was there, I don't recall a single native species, unusual for an Australian collection, although I think they were making a mixed macropod exhibit at the time.

Port Douglas also breeds them; in fact, they had just a few months before I was there and I caught a glimpse of the joey.

I believe that the animals at each park used to be housed together at a closed-access facility by the Queensland Park and Wildlife Service in Townsville for some experiment, but were later dispersed to the two zoos. How or why these two were chosen, I don't know though.

On a personal note, this exhibit looks almost idendical to the one in Port Douglas!
 
Correct to assume DFWP is the only facility to exhibit (breed) D. lumholtzi? :confused:

They weren't breeding them when I was there - they only had a single female.

:p

Hix
 

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