Any weird mixed exhibits?

To add up to Haliaeetus, this is especially true when blue peafowl are free roaming species in many zoos. Back when I was working at Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo there used to be peafowl entering the emu, muntjac+grey crowned crane, Galapagos giant tortoise, leopard tortoise, and Florida box turtle enclosures. Wow that must be so weird.
 
I've seen bush hyrax in with Northern tree shrew at Prague, though the signage regarding the latter's importance for pest control makes their inclusion have some semblance in logic. Past that, I've seen llamas and rheas (South America) and fallow deer (Eurasia) in with American bison and Roosevelt elk at Six Flags, and dromedary camel/pronghorn at San Diego Zoo (though that mix has been discontinued for a while).
 
I saw one really concerning mixed-species exhibit recently: white-faced capuchins and Patas monkeys at Southwick's Zoo. Not only is there a concerning disease transmission risk of mixing a New World and Old World monkey, but I also observed repeated aggression from one of the Patas monkeys directed at a much-smaller capuchin. If this mix continues, I suspect it is only a matter of time before the zoo loses a capuchin as a result.
 
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PossumRoach said:
To add up to Haliaeetus, this is especially true when blue peafowl are free roaming species in many zoos. Back when I was working at Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo there used to be peafowl entering the emu, muntjac+grey crowned crane, Galapagos giant tortoise, leopard tortoise, and Florida box turtle enclosures. Wow that must be so weird.
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Ive known free ranging peafowl landing in lion enclosure….great enrichment for the lions.
 
FBBird said:
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Ive known free ranging peafowl landing in lion enclosure….great enrichment for the lions.
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Mary the Sun Bear at Taronga once ate a peacock that landed in her exhibit in front of many astounded guests. I was speaking to a volunteer that saw it happen, and he said that after Mary had caught the peacock, a guest turned to him and said "So, do you do this often?". They thought it was a planned live feeding!
 
Pairi Daiza's new main farm/petting zoo area now houses a mix of domestic goats, domestic sheep, domestic chicken, domestick duck, domestic turkey, domestic rabbit, domestic guinea pig, Patagonian mara, greater rhea and red-necked wallaby.

Pairi Daiza also a walk-through with domestic goats and African spurred tortoises, and a walk-through with chickens and African spurred tortoises.
 
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