I wonder how LA became a center of zoo duiker diversity? Maybe they had a curator who really liked duikers?
As of 2012 the zoo has black, yellow backed, and red-flanked duikers. Has the zoo had any other duikers species besides these species and zebra duikers over the years?
I wonder how LA became a center of zoo duiker diversity? Maybe they had a curator who really liked duikers?
As of 2012 the zoo has black, yellow backed, and red-flanked duikers. Has the zoo had any other duikers species besides these species and zebra duikers over the years?
Those are the only four species I ever remember seeing here. With Zebra and Red-flanked being the first ever brought into the collection back in the 1970s.
I always find it sad when a zoo which has many years of experience with an unusual species suddenly discontinues its keeping. Even more so when the species is low-maintenance and hardly has a significant cost or space impact on a major collection. It would have been nice to keep up the good work.
I wonder how LA became a center of zoo duiker diversity? Maybe they had a curator who really liked duikers?
As of 2012 the zoo has black, yellow backed, and red-flanked duikers. Has the zoo had any other duikers species besides these species and zebra duikers over the years?
Warren Thomas--for many years the LA Zoo director--was a collector of many things (including rare hoofstock). If you follow his career (Omaha--Gladys Porter Zoo--LA), you will find record of many duikers--and lots of other rarities--along the way.
Once he left, the massive collection at LA began to get pared down, which is just as well for the animals but a loss for zoo nerds who loved the extraordinary diversity that was there from the early 70s to the mid-eighties.
Not to doubt you, but have you any documentation of that Fuzzball? I trained as a keeper here in 1985 and that's one species that totally escapes my memory. Possibly listed in the International Zoo Yearbook and kept off exhibit maybe?
Wow! Thanks Chlidonias. Having never missed a single year visiting the LA Zoo since its opening in 1966. And even training as a keeper there in 1985, this is one species I'm totally unaware of ever being housed here. And I can remember most everything that's been here at one time or another. Especially mammals.
