Bachelor Groups

[foz]

I was wondering what species would benefit from the creation and management of Bachelor groups. for exmaple I already know that There are Bachelor gorilla groups out there to withstand the surpus of males which cannot be placed into a group. what other species could do with this arrangement or more bachelor holdings.

This could be on a small or worldwide zoo (obivoulsy america are not going to send surplus males to europe and vice versa so there would have to be regional groups.)

Of course this is most applicable to those specie which onlytolerate one or teo males within a group.

 

[Rookeyper]

We have maintained bachelor groups of small fruit bats to control breeding. The same strategy has also been successfully used with grey kangaroos to avoid inbreeding.

 

[lintworm]

I know bachelor groups of antelopes, zebra, giraffe, gorilla, rhino an flying foxes.

 

[Mike11]

Bachelor groups of lions work normally a coalition of brothers or cousins.Can also work with other groups of cats be it a pair of tiger brothers can be very close.

 

[James27]

I think they may need to do this with elephants soon, I know a couple of places already do. I'm going out on a limb a bit saying it as I'm not sure of statistics, but recently we seem to hear a lot more about male elephant births than females.

 

[Zoogoer2000]

african wild dogs, asian small clawed otters, zebra, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and gorillas are all ones that pop to mind