Adelaide Zoo Baby Langur

[Electus Parrot]

A new female dusky langur has been born at Adelaide Zoo. This brings the zoo's group to 6.

http://www.zoossa.com.au/fun-stuff/blogs?article=199293&postid=199293

 

[Baldur]

These are the ones mixed with Malayan Tapirs, right? I thought it was a wonderful exhibit when I saw it three years ago.

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

A species I would like to see raised to ZAA breeding programme level. Quite easy to acquire further stock as poaching for wild animal trade is alas yet rampant.

What will become of the Malayan tapirs?
Would it not be better to sent out to whole lotta from Australia to Singapore et al ..?

 

[Electus Parrot]

Yes, the dusky langurs are displayed with the Malayan tapirs. There are currently two malayan tapirs, both female (mother and daughter, daughter born in 2000), the male passed away a year or two ago. Unfortunatly unless the import laws change malayan tapirs will die out in Australia, as there are only 4 left.

 

[Coquinguy]

Unless things have changed its not the import laws preventing this species from dying out in Australia but a shift in focus off the Malayans after almost all the animal's in the region starting to develop serious eye problems, possibly from too much UV exposure.
so the program was disbanded and a not so concerted effort has shifted focus back to Brazilians, which appear hardier and are in greater numbers in Australia.
At one point, the Malayan Tapir program looked promising, with several calves bred and Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne coming on line for the program. Changing priorities due to unforseen husbandary issues-though I did find it stupid that even after the point Sydney and Melbourne only started providing animals with 'canopies' in their exhibit-though Taronga's decision to include tapirs in Wild Asia as recently as 2005 in an expensive purpose built exhibit astounded me. Its now half empty unless the tapirs are planned for a comeback??/
as for the langurs, great news! Perth and Melbourne Zoo now need to align with either the Francois or Dusky program; whilst i am all for regional cooperation I cant see why the Primate TAG cant support two asian langur species; we all know apart from that the only managed Asian primate species we will have in the future will be two species of gibbon and siamang. Macaques are a no-no and the space and resources allocated years ago to Sulawesi macaques could in theory be redirected to this second langur species.

 

[Electus Parrot]

Thanks for clearing that up glyn.
How are lar gibbons doing in Australia, will they be around much longer?

 

[Jabiru96]

Thanks for clearing that up glyn.
How are lar gibbons doing in Australia, will they be around much longer?

ISIS lists 1.1 at Dubbo and 0.2 at Mogo

 

[jay]

Does anyone know the gender and name of the one born in 2008?

 

[Shirokuma]

Macaques are a no-no

Why is this the case?

 

[zooboy28]

Macaques are being phased out of the region, they are now, at least in ZAA zoos, in relatively low numbers, with most members of each species clustered at just one zoo, with breeding prevented. For example, all the bonnet macaques are kept at Auckland Zoo. As they are reasonably long-lived species, they may persist in the region for a while, but many have been transferred to non-ZAA zoos. One of the reasons given was the risk of Herpes transmission, which was a pretty weak argument I thought. Clearly the six or seven species in the region couldn't have all been maintained, but one (or two) could easily have been. Especially one like the Sulawesi Macaque, which ticks all the ZAA boxes (endangered, Asian).

 

[Hix]

the only managed Asian primate species we will have in the future will be two species of gibbon and siamang.

And Orangs.



Hix