It is a relatively new innovation in the United States at least it seems like.
Not many places do it. Oregon Zoo has its orangs mixed with white-cheeked gibbons. San Diego and Fresno have their orangs and siamangs together.
Are there any other zoos in the U.S. that mix their orangs with other species? I am not aware of any.
It is a relatively new innovation in the United States at least it seems like.
Not many places do it. Oregon Zoo has its orangs mixed with white-cheeked gibbons. San Diego and Fresno have their orangs and siamangs together.
Are there any other zoos in the U.S. that mix their orangs with other species? I am not aware of any.
The mixing of orangs with other species is much more common in European zoos but there are a number of USA zoos that have in the recent past or even at this very moment contain mixed-species exhibits featuring orangutans.
The first 7 zoos on this list have orangs with a species of gibbon:
Oregon
San Diego
Fresno Chaffee
Cincinnati
Miami
Metro Richmond
Omaha
Orangs with turtles:
Houston (with Malaysian Giant Turtles and Yellow-Headed Temple Turtles)
The only way I could see that happening is if there were bats in the indoor Day Room, however, fruit bats can only be found in the early part of the Pavilion building.
