African mixed species

Well, it is possible that an error in this or this picture was taken just when the hippos that have not been locked up in night shelters, but have already released the servals ... I don´t know :)
 
That seems like a bit of a stupid mix IMO. I know the Serval's are small, but if the three of them ganged up on the hippo...
 
God, who thinks up these things lol.
 
This pic was taken in Fuengirola too, (in the "forest clearing" exhibition) and in one occasion the serval attack a night heron (I don´t known the exact species) but this it´s not a permanent enclosure.
 
Some experince about mixed-species exhibits with Black Rhinos

The San Diego WAP has attempted to house Black Rhinos in multi species exhibits on two occasions. The first time, they had their Black Rhinos in a 90 acre exhibit with 10 other species. The other species included Giraffe, Thomson's gazelles, Cape Buffalo, Waterbuck, Roan Antelope, Wildebeest, etc. This mix worked for several years with minor problems. According one of the Animal Care Supervisors most of the problems were with the Rhinos injuring neonate antelope by stepping on them or chewing on their legs. The Rhinos never seemed to bother the smaller antelope species or Giraffes for some reason. Then they had a serious Cape Buffalo/Rhino fight and the Rhinos got their own exhibit. After that (around one or two year earlier) they put three Plains Zebras in with a pair of Black Rhinos in a two acre exhibit. This was OK for about a year and then one of the Zebras was gored by a Rhino near a hay feeder. The Zebras were removed from the Rhino exhibit. So their breeding pair of Black Rhinos are now housed alone with no future plans of introducing any other species.

About Port Lympne WAP: they mixed Cape Buffalo with Black Rhino and for a number of years they had no problems. Then one day the bull buffalo attacked the bull rhino over a pile of food and a big fight started. The rhino was badly beaten and the zoo had to separate the two species after that. It seemed the Cape Buffalo and Black Rhino mix never works well.

I am sure that a zoo in Japan (sorry I do not know which one) had or have an exhibit Black Rhinos mixed with Impalas. Another Japan Zoo, Shirahama Adventure World has done an other mixed-species exhibit with Black Rhino since 2004. One single male arrived to the zoo at the age of three, and the zoo started to keep him with several Common Elands, a herd of Japanese Sika Deers and four Roan Antelopes. After 2007, because a competition happened between the greatest eland and the rhino, they separated the species. Now, the juvenile Rhino is kept alone in principle, however some Japanese Sika Deers can enter his exhibition and there is no argument between them.

In the next period some interesting mix are cooming soon: African rhino species, both of the two (of course separately, each of them in different zoos) will being mixed with African Canids ;)
 
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Have White Rhino ever been mixed with elephants or cape buffalo successfully?
 
It is not Thomson's gazelles in Doué-la-Fontaine, but Dorcas gazelles, Addra (Dama) Gazelles, Gray Crowned Crane, Spur-winged Goose and White Stork, with black rhinos !

Others african mixed-species exhibit in France (I don't know if they have been posted, sorry !)

ZOOPARC DE BEAUVAL :

Females Red Lechwe - Somali wild asses,

Dromedary - Watussi - Grant Zebra,

White rhino - Giraffes (Hybrid, Reticulata & Rothschildi) - Grevy Zebras - Springbok - Sable Antelope - Blue wildebeest - Blesbok - Marabou Stork - Ostrich,

Sitatunga - Griffon vulture - Marabou Stork.


PARC ANIMALIER ET BOTANIQUE DE BRANFERE :

Sudan Giraffes - Scimitar Oryx - Blesbok - Greater Kudu - Blue wildebeest


ESPACE ZOOLOGIQUE DE LA BOISSIERE DU DORE :

Nile Lechwe - Giraffes (Rothschildi) - Blesbok - Scimitar Oryx - Ostrich - Gray Crowned Crane - Grater Kudu


NATUR'ZOO DE MERVENT :

Ostrich - Dromedary - White stork - Blesbok - Watussi


CERZA :

Giraffes - White rhinos - Grant Zebras - Scimitar oryx - Common eland​
 
Marwell Dalek said:
Have White Rhino ever been mixed with elephants or cape buffalo successfully?
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In the 1960-70s Borås Djurpark exhibited the following species altogether in its old African Savannah exhibit (huge area, approx. 2,3-2,5 hectares): African Elephants, Whites Rhinos, Reticulated Giraffes, Grant’s Zebras, White-tailed Gnus, Blackbucks, Ostriches, Crowned Cranes, Abyssinian Ground Hornbills, Helmeted Guinefowls. As far as I know there were no major problem with this mix, but something must been happenned, because after this perid they did not mix their elephants and rhinos. At the moment the White Rhinos live in a separate enclosure with Cheetahs, so the following species are on public display in the Savannah exhibit: African Elephants, Grant’s Zebras, Rothschild’s Giraffes, Blesboks, Cape Buffalos, Elands, Ostriches and Helmeted Guineafowls. In certain period of the history of this Savannah exhibit at Borås they used to keep the White Rhinos together with the Cape Buffalos (only female buffalos), and that time their elephants only sometimes had access to the paddock, when the rhinos separated. I think after that the current situation was developed, so the rhinos moved to the their separate enclosure, and the elephants have access to this area again.
In a safari drive through park (I do not know exactly where) a very similar co-existense was created around the 1990s, where all of the three species mentioned by You were exhibited together, so: African Elephants, Whites Rhinos, Cape Buffalos, plus Giraffes, Zebras and Elands … but unfortunately I have no more information about this.
Another successful mix with White Rhinos and Cape Buffalos (plus several other species) in the repeatedly mentioned San Diego WAP. Safaripark Beekse Bargen used to mix their Whites with Cape Buffalos, plus many other species. They had to separated these species during night and feeding time.
 
Pygmy hippos used to be exhibited with Kirk's dik-dik at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Rhinos and cheetahs were mixed at Cleveland as well at one time.
 
Tropic World held pygmy hippo alongside mandrill, colobus, swamp monkeys, and other small monkey species and birds for over twenty years. The monkeys had sufficient arboreal space to avoid the hippo.
 
I remember that Chimelong Safari Park mixed black rhino with nyala and lechwe before, maybe in around 2012, quite peaceful for a long time.
 
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