Bonobo troop at San Diego Zoo

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betsy

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Does anyone have any information on the original bonobo troop and their 10 offsprings? I am looking for names and date of births and where they might be now. Is there a database with that information like the one for gorillas (www.gorilla-haven.org/jrdavis-gorilla-studbook/)? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
 
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No idea where to find actual data about captive Pan paniscus. But it is nevertheless an interesting question.
 
So after much research this is what I learned.
The original breeding pair were Linda and Kakowet.

LINDA-wild born 1954
Antwerp Zoo-1954-62
San Diego Zoo-1962-1982
Yerkes National Primate Research Center-1982-95
Milwaukee Zoo-1995-2010
Euthanized-2010

KAKOWET-wild born 1958?
San Diego Zoo 1960-80
Died- 1980 Heart failure
Sperm recovered 6 hours after Kakowet's death is kept viable in the "frozen zoo" at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research.

They produce 10 offsprings 3 male and 7 female

LAURA (female)- captive born San Diego Zoo-1967
Milwaukee Zoo-1993-present

LENORE-(female) captive born 1972

LORETTA (female) -1974
Matriarch at the San Diego Safari Park

KEVIN (Male)-1976
Fort Worth Zoo?

KALIND (Male)-1978
Drowned in moat?

LANA (female)-1979
Matriarch at San Diego Zoo

KAKOWET II (Male)-1980
Twycross Zoo

LOUISE-?
LESLIE-?
UNKNOWN FEMALE

Please feel free to add any information or to correct any misinformation.
 
mazfc said:
That's a very short gap between babies. Were the babies handreared?
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Yes, they were all hand raised. Quote from the book "Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape" By FRANS DE WAAL

"These two were so prolific that they produced the greatest number of children and grandchildren known of any bonobo couple, captive or wild, in the world. Part of the reason was that every newborn was taken away to the zoo nursery; this allowed Linda to skip the long nursing period and deliver at unusually short intervals: ten children in fourteen years."
 
Thanks Betsy. I see the twycross bonobos quite regularly, though I can't distinguish them yet. I've been focusing my id skills on the chimps groups first. twycross currently have 2 infants just approaching a year old both being mother reared thankfully :)
 
betsy said:
So after much research this is what I learned.
The original breeding pair were Linda and Kakowet.

LINDA-wild born 1954
Antwerp Zoo-1954-62
San Diego Zoo-1962-1982
Yerkes National Primate Research Center-1982-95
Milwaukee Zoo-1995-2010
Euthanized-2010

KAKOWET-wild born 1958?
San Diego Zoo 1960-80
Died- 1980 Heart failure
Sperm recovered 6 hours after Kakowet's death is kept viable in the "frozen zoo" at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research.

They produce 10 offsprings 3 male and 7 female

LINETTE (female) captive born San Diego Zoo 1966
Antwerpen -1970

LAURA (female)- captive born San Diego Zoo-1967
Yerkes-1969
Atlanta-1978
Milwaukee Zoo-1993-present

LOREL-(female) San Diego Zoo-1969
Ft.Wayne-1975
Atlanta-1978
Yerkes-1979
Jacksonville-1998

LOUISE-(female)-San Diego Zoo-1972
San Diego WAP-1989
Cincinnati-1991

LORETTA (female) -1974
San Diego WAP 1989
Matriarch at the San Diego Safari Park

KEVIN (Male)-1975
Cincinnati-1988
Fort Worth Zoo-1992

KALIND (Male)-1977
San Diego WAP -1989
SDZ-1990
Ft. Worth-1991
Died-1992 (Drowned in moat?)

LESLIE (female) San Diego Zoo-1978
Died-1985

LANA (female)-1979
San Diego WAP-1989
SDZ-1993
Matriarch at San Diego Zoo


KAKOWET II (Male)-1980
Antwerpen-1988
Leipzig-1989
Twycross Zoo-1992


Please feel free to add any information or to correct any misinformation.
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Thanks to a generous Zoo Chat member I was able to add to and correct my information. Thank you, Bjoern!
 
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