Animals from Tipperary.

Has it been posted here yet that the latest Taronga birth [a male] has died?

Mum would not nurse it [as with the previous birth] and the keeping staff tried a different approach to raising it this time. Didn't work.

Sorry if this has already been noted - I'm a bit behind with a lot of these threads at the moment.
 
Steve Robinson said:
Has it been posted here yet that the latest Taronga birth [a male] has died?

Mum would not nurse it [as with the previous birth] and the keeping staff tried a different approach to raising it this time. Didn't work.

Sorry if this has already been noted - I'm a bit behind with a lot of these threads at the moment.
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Nope hadn't heard anything about that. Glad to know that I was correct about the impending birth but saddened to hear of the death. Can you tell us any more info Steve? Like the details of when he was born etc
 
That was kept pretty quiet!

As for the Tipperary female, deafening silence from ARAZPA
 
phoenix said:
we all have made comments on the overly strict policies of the queensland government regarding the importation of many of the ungulates from tipperary into their state.
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In the interests of accuracy it should be pointed out that this particular animal never did reach Queensland's jurisdiction.

She was still "regulated" by the Northern Territory government.
 
thats true steve,

but my point being that we have all heavily criticised the QLD governments draconian policies regarding keeping exotic wildlife in the state labelled their requests to have many of the tipperary animals desexed as irrational and excessive. we argued that no zoo owner would ever be so irresponsible as to let such rare animals escape, and we questioned how likely a conspicuous exotic animal could evade detection in the wild anyway.

and yet here it is. a clear cut case where the zoo owner who was arguing against the governments stance, has allowed a scenario to play out whereby a endangered hippo, of all things, was intentionally abandoned into the wild.

what i'm saying is - whilst there are good people who would never let this happen in the industry. there are plenty that would - and did.

i think we have to accept that the QLD governments distrust of zoos is rather warranted....
 
I would not hang up the Qlds govt. stance on one wildlife park alone. Besides, the wildlife park from its inception was fraught with foreigner-feindlichkeit und not exactly a paragon of mutual collaboration. ARAZPA and the Australian govt. are as much to blame for the eventual debacle at TWP as anyone else ... ;)
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I would not hang up the Qlds govt. stance on one wildlife park alone. Besides, the wildlife park from its inception was fraught with foreigner-feindlichkeit und not exactly a paragon of mutual collaboration. ARAZPA and the Australian govt. are as much to blame for the eventual debacle at TWP as anyone else ... ;)
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sorry, but i don't actually understand the above statement.
 
Steve Robinson said:
Has it been posted here yet that the latest Taronga birth [a male] has died?

Mum would not nurse it [as with the previous birth] and the keeping staff tried a different approach to raising it this time. Didn't work.

Sorry if this has already been noted - I'm a bit behind with a lot of these threads at the moment.
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I don't know the details and there may be a reason, but why try a different approach at raising the baby. If it was successful with the first baby wouldn't it make sense to use the same method the second time round.
What a s h i t week for hippo's.
 
boof said:
I don't know the details and there may be a reason, but why try a different approach at raising the baby. If it was successful with the first baby wouldn't it make sense to use the same method the second time round.
What a s h i t week for hippo's.
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it was a different situation. the baby was able to stay with mum for the first few days but didn't get any colostrum and got an infection that it couldn't fight.
 
since the cairns pygmy pair have no (surviving) female offspring. lets all cross our fingers the petre and timmy can manage to produce at least on more young and that its female. this would at least maintain the region at two pairs of this species.
 
phoenix said:
since the cairns pygmy pair have no (surviving) female offspring. lets all cross our fingers the petre and timmy can manage to produce at least on more young and that its female. this would at least maintain the region at two pairs of this species.
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Lets hope so
 
I posted here before about knowing a bloke whos brother works at Tipperary. About the time the existance of this hippo in the wild was being talked about here, he mentioned that his brother had seen a hippo.
I sent him an email to see if he had heard any more about the hippo being shot, but he had not heard abot it.

Unreal.
Hard to believe it came as a surprise to them that it was there!
Didn't ever get up there to see it.
***** (brother) will be upset as he use to see it on his rounds and said it was quite tame.
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If it was tame and regually seen it would not have been hard to catch.
 
or hard to have informed any hunters that were given permission to hunt on the ranch that there was a hippo there.

amazing that the authorities, zoos etc all just turned a blind eye to this. that with all the laws and regulations, you get in more trouble for keeping a smuggled boa constrictor than you do a pygmy hippo. ****, if i'd known that it was that easy and that she was there for the taking i'd have happily gone and caught her and brought her back to melbourne myself.

someone better get prosecuted over this...
 
One article I read said it was the manager of the station where it was shot who shot it. From that I thought it was off Tipperary and may have travaled some distance across other properties.
 
Monty said:
I tried to translate it in Google Translate.

Nothing happened when I used Dutch, but when I tried German to English it said "foreigner-phobia"
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I believe he is refering to the fact that Gill was not an Australian maybe?
 
The group was recently sold. Tipperary Group of stations is made up of a number of cattle stations worth over $200 million. massive properties with tens of thousands of head of cattle. There are a number of managers and dozens more staff there is a school, pub, shop, airstrip. A massive place. So it is not entirely unbelievable that some people were not aware. I believe they have recently hired a number of new staff including farm managers.
 
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