Bronx Zoo A very special Hatching

[kiang]

The Bronx zoo has announced the hatching of 3 maleo (Macrocephalon maleo). The Zoo is now home to nine maleos, including the three new chicks—this is the only place these birds can be seen outside of their native home on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
Needless to say this is a very exciting development.

Bronx Zoo hatches 3 rare maleo chicks - WSJ.com

http://gothamist.com/2013/03/19/rare_maleo_chicks_hatched_at_the_br.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PyI4GXYvAag#!

 

[Chlidonias]

I wonder if this is a first captive breeding?

"this is the only place these birds can be seen outside of their native home on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia." - technically this should just say "outside of Indonesia" because they are also kept in zoos on other Indonesian islands. I've seen them at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta (Java) and I *think* they may be in some others as well.

 

[vogelcommando]

As far as I know the maleo hadn´t been bred outside Indonesia, how the sithuation in Indonesia is, I don´t know.
The species has been kept only rarely in western zoos :
during the beginning 20th centuary at Dutch zoos ( due to the connection the Netherlands - Indonesia
San Diego -I mean in the 1970ties - 1980-ties
Antwerp Zoo also 1970-ties
Walsrode I've taken care for the last 2 females they had at the end of the 1980-ties

 

[FBBird]

Bronx Zoo

Further captive records of Maleo:
J.H.Gurney [private collection in Norfolk, UK] had a pair in the 1930s
According to his book 'The Wildest Game', animal collector Peter Rhyiner [spelling?] caught a group [date uncertain, probably post 2nd World War] which were confiscatred by officials who then ate them.