FrancoiseLangur

Red-shanked douc langur enclosure

6 August 2014
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Zoorasia received one female in 2012 and another in 2013, both from Singapore Zoo. A baby was born in December 2013 and is now being hand-reared because her mother became ill shortly after her birth.
 
Zoorasia received one female in 2012 and another in 2013, both from Singapore Zoo. A baby was born in December 2013 and is now being hand-reared because her mother became ill shortly after her birth.

I somewhere read this, probably in the Nagoya zoo threads, … it is great you have finally after so many years had a douc langur birth! The males are unrelated to the current captive stocks.

I am sure before long you will have a mother reared douc too! It is a question of time / timing!


AKA similar with the Zoorasia proboscis group. Also had a first in 2012 or so ...
 
The infant being hand-reared now is in fact the third red-shanked douc born at Zoorasia. Very unfortunately, the first baby was killed by a parent (her father, I think) and the second baby also died (I do not know what the cause of its death was). But anyway, three births in less than two years must surely be a positive result of the zoo's efforts.
 
The infant being hand-reared now is in fact the third red-shanked douc born at Zoorasia. Very unfortunately, the first baby was killed by a parent (her father, I think) and the second baby also died (I do not know what the cause of its death was). But anyway, three births in less than two years must surely be a positive result of the zoo's efforts.

Yes, Yokohama Zoo seems to be a Colobinae specialist!
 
The infant being hand-reared now is in fact the third red-shanked douc born at Zoorasia. Very unfortunately, the first baby was killed by a parent (her father, I think) and the second baby also died (I do not know what the cause of its death was). But anyway, three births in less than two years must surely be a positive result of the zoo's efforts.

Depends on how many animals the zoo had to import to reach three births.
 
Depends on how many animals the zoo had to import to reach three births.

Just two, two females. The zoo had to wait for 13 years to obtain the females for their two males.

There might be another birth soon - I visited Zoorasia more than ten times this summer and autumn, but one of the two pairs was never on exhibit.
 

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