Any weird mixed exhibits?

Van Beal said:
Toronto has Scarlet Ibis living with Galah, Eastern Rosella, Crested Pigeon, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Tawny Frogmouth, Scarlet-breasted Parrot, Nicobar Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon… oh, and Fly River Turtle
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Scarlet ibis is the only outlier though. Was it a recent addition?
 
MOG2012 said:
Scarlet ibis is the only outlier though. Was it a recent addition?
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It’s been in the aviary for going on four or five years now. They closed their Central/South American aviary around the time the pandemic started and have kept them there ever since.
 
There's an odd mix in Surabaya Zoo's nocturnal house consisting of a Sunda Pangolin, African Pygmy Hedgehogs and Papuan Sugar Gliders
 
Though not at a zoo, I have seen a photo of privately owned animals in which two bobcats were housed in an enclosure with two domestic cats. At least one (but likely both) of the bobcats was very overweight, which presumably would make them less of a danger to the domestic cats. There was no word regarding whether all four felines had possibly been raised together.
 
Disney's Animal kingdom oasis also has a bunch of waterfowl ponds that have no geography whatsoever, coscoroba swans with hotntot teals, freckled ducks, and spotted whistling ducks, and in a different pond African and roseate spoonbills, white faced whistling ducks, red breasted goose, mandarin ducks, plumbed whistling ducks and eastern spot bill ducks
 
Cypselurus said:
In Shanghai, the main zoo and the aquarium often have strange mixes, due to just plain lack of knowledge or lack of caring. For example, mixing Chinese Sturgeon with Red-tailed Catfish, Malawie Chiclids with goldfish and for some reason, a giant Pleco with a even bigger albino Chinese Softshell Turtle in a massive tank with pretty much nothing else. I think I remember the zoo at one point mixing African Painted Dogs with Grey Wolves...apparently, that didn't go so well as they were later separated, with the wolves keeping their exhibit, and the painted dogs getting an exact duplicate, despite their varying requirements for habitat (you would think even the most amateur designer can tell grassland from tundra, but no, not here). They also mixed one of the last Swinhoe's Softshell Turtles with Chinese Alligators. The alligators were fed fish, so it wasn't too much of a risk, but putting one of the earth's last Swinhoe's turtles in a tank with alligators isn't a risk I'm willing to take. They also allowed (or just didn't care) for visitors to throw coins at the turtle, and I saw some pale marks on the shell where people had thrown heavier things. And this, reminding all of you, is one of the last of it's kind, an animal that should be under heavy protection. In America, you don't let people throw beer bottles at Whooping Cranes.
Then there's also the thing where they throw live ducks and chickens into the reptile tank (I say tank here because often its a giant area filled with trees and bushes and vegetation about the size of an average living room, maybe a bit more, with around 10 large reptiles in it), because many children TOTALLY need to see the blood and gore of a little duck getting torn to pieces by a Chinese Alligator, or going down the digestive tract of a python. Totally.
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there was one zoo in germany (forgot the name) that euthenised a giraffe calf just because i couldent be apart of a breeding program and was feed to the lions
 
Conor McGarry said:
Seneca Park Zoo used to house a spurred tortoise with meerkats in the winter in the old main building.
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Conor McGarry said:
Disney's Animal kingdom oasis also has a bunch of waterfowl ponds that have no geography whatsoever, coscoroba swans with hotntot teals, freckled ducks, and spotted whistling ducks, and in a different pond African and roseate spoonbills, white faced whistling ducks, red breasted goose, mandarin ducks, plumbed whistling ducks and eastern spot bill ducks
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Both of these are fairly common mixes in captivity.
 
Unsure if this mix still exist but I found it odd that the Los Angeles Zoo mixes Yellow-Footed Rock Wallabies with Rhinoceros Hornbills due to their geographical range. Another mix which was a first time for me was from my recent/first visit to Santa Ana Zoo with a exhibit holding a Two-toed Sloth and White-faced Saki with alongside a Red-rumped Agouti (I say alongside because I’m not 100% sure if it has access to both areas, it is one of those exhibits that share an holding area with two exhibits front and back)
 
Cleveland has Mexican gray wolves and beavers in a mixed exhibit. Don't worry, the pond is deep enough for the beavers to deep dive to escape back to their dam if they feel threatened by the wolves, although most of the time the wolves perfer to stay in the back of the huge forest area.
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Fresno Chaffee mixes (or used to, don't know if they still do) their Sloth bears with Asian small-clawed otters.

Bioparque do Rio's african savannah exhibit mixes Common ostrich, Barbary sheep, Blackbuck, Javan rusa and Indian peafowl alongside some other african birds and south american waterfowl (the asian hoofstock are currently there as placeholders, but the whole mix does end pretty weird in the end).

As more of a honorable mention, Cheyenne Mountain zoo is currently housing their Okapi in one of their Mountain tapir yards, where both animals can interact with each other via the fence and gates. They haven't put the two animals in the same exhibit yet from what I've heard of, but this "semi-mix" is probably one of the (if not the) weirdest combination I've ever seen.
 
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