When Meranti was alive, I only ever saw them as a pair in the paddock in the photo, with Malayan tapir in the adjacent woodland enclosure, but after she died, he was regularly mixed with some of the tapirs in the woodland enclosure. I assume he was also mixed with them in the more open paddock?
At the time, I knew what a unique sight this was, to see two such 'prehistoric' mammal species like this together, and watched them in awe, but it was also with sadness, knowing Torgamba would be leaving before I returned, that the project had failed and was part of a wider failure globally to keep an ex situ population alive, let alone breeding. I appreciate that PL didn't have the most viable animals to work with. It was bittersweet that at least they were able to repatriate Torgamba.
In another thread I posted that I think that the Sumatran rhinoceros "Jackson", that died at London Zoo in 1910, is probably the one exhibited in Bristol Museum.
I have now had it confirmed that the Bristol Museum specimen definitely is that individual.
In another thread I posted that I think that the Sumatran rhinoceros "Jackson", that died at London Zoo in 1910, is probably the one exhibited in Bristol Museum.
I have now had it confirmed that the Bristol Museum specimen definitely is that individual.
I didn't know they had been kept together. Somewhere I do have a photo I took of the female Meranti in one of the yards with a Tapir in the adjacent one- sizewise there wasn't too much in it.
