Batu Secret Zoo Batu Secret Zoo news

 
LeMandaiEnthusiast‧ said:
So I'm completely unfamiliar with the Batu Secret Zoo but I have quite an interest on it after looking through its media.

Does the Zoo happen to still have the Night House, I couldn't find any footage online. And if so, what species are still there
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They still do actually, weirdly as an entrance for a rather mundane aquarium.

If I remember correctly from a footage from April 2024 they have (In exhibit order) nutria, sugar glider, long-tailed chinchilla, Javan ferret badger, Javan slow loris, brush-tailed possum, spectral tarsier, common spotted cuscus, and sunda pangolin.
 
Guess the video did not film finish the entire night house....If I remembered correctly there was a striped possum exhibit or I am wrong..
 
Rizz Carlton said:
They still do actually, weirdly as an entrance for a rather mundane aquarium.

If I remember correctly from a footage from April 2024 they have (In exhibit order) nutria, sugar glider, long-tailed chinchilla, Javan ferret badger, Javan slow loris, brush-tailed possum, spectral tarsier, common spotted cuscus, and sunda pangolin.
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They actually still have the Spectral Tarsier? That's really cool I thought it must've passed a long time ago

But seems like quite a good collection still, thank you for the update
 
@PangolinLover0514 @LeMandaiEnthusiast‧ Batu Secret Zoo's night house collection often rotated very often without much information.

The pangolins used to be in one of the smaller glassed exhibits when the echidnas was still displayed until it was put off-display on and off before eventually the echidnas was pulled off.

Regarding the tarsier, it was also one of the many species affected by the constant rotating display list. Previously it houses another brush-tailed possum. Though there's possible chances that this individual might be a different, new one.
 
PangolinLover0514 said:
Guess the video did not film finish the entire night house....If I remembered correctly there was a striped possum exhibit or I am wrong..
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Correct, but if I remember correctly it doesn't last for more than a year before being rotated once again.

PangolinLover0514 said:
@Rizz Carlton Thanks for the info :)
One more question how many pangolins are on display at the night house as of now?
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Looks like there's only one on display.
 
Some updates regarding Batu Secret zoo's collection and exhibits (April 2024)
  • A group of common marmosets occupy the former Guianan squirrel monkey aviary, as they were moved to the new South American walkthrough aviary called "the Secret of the Amazonian Jungle".
  • An grizzled tree-kangaroo became the zoo's newer resident, occupying a exhibit which used to house the zoo's former bear cuscus.
  • A group of Papuan agile wallaby occupy the former Javan muntjac exhibit.
  • A group of meerkats occupy the former African spurred tortoise exhibit near the binturong and yellow-throated marten exhibit
  • The Secret of the Amazonian Jungle aviary are a rather small and barren aviary which houses a family of South American tapir, as well as a group of Guianan squirrel monkey, white-faced whisting ducks, and innaccurately some red-eared sliders. A sloth (Possibly Linnaeus's two-toed sloth) was supposedly also inside the aviary, though its probably easier to view it during the "VIP tour" (And here I though Taman Safari are more capitalistic lol)
  • An Aldabra giant tortoise were housed together alongside several African spurred tortoises and Patagonian maras in a quite spacious enclosure
  • An Komodo dragon was added as one of the Reptile Garden roster, occupying one of the bigger terrarium. Its possible that this was the originial individual that the zoo keep before the larger Komodo dragons arrived from Surabaya and occupy the main dragon exhibit.
  • A group of yellow-spotted river turtle occupy the former green anaconda exhibit.
  • The former Papuan agile wallaby was revamped into a false gharial exhibit complete with waterfall. A couple of gharial used to be displayed in the now proboscis monkey and glossy ibis aviary, where its possible to view these gharials underwater.
  • The lone red-bellied piranha in the zoo's Fantastic Aquarium was moved to a smaller tank for some reason and their tank are instead occupied by assorted tetras.
  • The zoo's aquarium also seemed to hold several interesting species, which include papyrocranus afer, arothon nigropunctatus, and gymnothorax fimbriatus.
  • In what currently is my most favorite addition, a new frog and toad zone has been added, taking some parts of the reptile section of the Fantastic Aquarium. The species hosted there include Rio Azuela glass frog, harlequin tree frog, Indonesian bubble-nest frog, Sumatran tree toad, cross toad, and pearly tree frog all in a decent terrarium. Aside from Asian horned frog and several other terrrariums that will come, its not confirmed wether the zoo's mossy frog and mission golden-eyed tree frog will also be exhibited here too.
  • An turqoise monitor has been added as part of the zoo's already interesting varanid collection.
  • The turtle section received some minor updates, now only consisting four medium to small-sized exhibits. The first exhibit houses a pair of alligator snapping turtle, the second houses an matamata, the third houses an common snapping turtle, while a new exhibit houses a couple of unidentified snake-necked turtles (Though the zoo did previously display an New Guinea snake-necked turtle).
  • An spotted hyena has occupy the former cougar exhibit, becoming one of the two only Indonesian zoo to keep this species of hyena, the other being Gembira Loka. Its possible that both zoo's spotted hyenas were acquired and arrived at the same time, though we do know more about Gembira Loka (two pairs imported from Africa), we barely have any information on what seemed to be the zoo's lone hyena.
  • A group of silver pheasants seems to be temporarily added in the future red panda exhibit.

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From the list of animals they has now I think the interest has decreased. They have animals that normal zoos have. It's not like before when they had animals that were hard to find, such as Long-beaked echidna , Otter civet
 
Rizz Carlton said:
Some updates regarding Batu Secret zoo's collection and exhibits (April 2024)
  • The zoo's aquarium also seemed to hold several interesting species, which include papyrocranus afer, arothon nigropunctatus, and gymnothorax fimbriatus.
  • In what currently is my most favorite addition, a new frog and toad zone has been added, taking some parts of the reptile section of the Fantastic Aquarium. The species hosted there include Rio Azuela glass frog, harlequin tree frog, Indonesian bubble-nest frog, Sumatran tree toad, cross toad, and pearly tree frog all in a decent terrarium. Aside from Asian horned frog and several other terrrariums that will come, its not confirmed wether the zoo's mossy frog and mission golden-eyed tree frog will also be exhibited here too.
  • An turqoise monitor has been added as part of the zoo's already interesting varanid collection.
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These are definitely the additions that have me interested the most, some of these species seem genuinely really cool
 
Zz123 said:
From the list of animals they has now I think the interest has decreased. They have animals that normal zoos have. It's not like before when they had animals that were hard to find, such as Long-beaked echidna , Otter civet
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Normal zoo as in the rest of other Indonesian zoos? I wouldn't say so tbh. Batu still have a number of interesting species only rivaled by Taman Safari Indonesia and maybe Gembira Loka in term of number of them.

The zoo's Sumatran hog badger is still remaining, which is probably the only one in the world to keep one. While Batu itself is currently the only holder of emperor tamarin, white-faced saki, giant anteater, giant otter, black lemur, mantled guereza, rock hyrax, red river hog, Cape ground squirrel, mainland clouded leopard, black-backed jackal, and blesbok in Indonesia.
 
Rizz Carlton said:
The Secret of the Amazonian Jungle aviary are a rather small and barren aviary which houses a family of South American tapir, as well as a group of Guianan squirrel monkey, white-faced whisting ducks, and innaccurately some red-eared sliders. A sloth (Possibly Linnaeus's two-toed sloth) was supposedly also inside the aviary, though its probably easier to view it during the "VIP tour" (And here I though Taman Safari are more capitalistic lol
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Ok, I've done messed up. Apparently the sloth wasn't present back then, arriving at the zoo since April 24 and was only displayed on June 18.

An very cute Linnaeus's two-toed sloth named Nacho was acquired from Warsaw Zoo and become one of the roster of the Secret of the Amazonian Jungle aviary. Its not detailed if Nacho is the only sloth acquired or if its the only species that came from Warsaw.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8tseOUpcW4/?igsh=MXY5dGdpNGR6M2x0YQ==
 
Zz123 said:
From the list of animals they has now I think the interest has decreased. They have animals that normal zoos have. It's not like before when they had animals that were hard to find, such as Long-beaked echidna , Otter civet
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That's very sad, especially for the otter civet :(
 
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