BRIN Animalium news

I have been eyeing their social media for a while now, and their main selling point has been that they showcase a lot of life-sized and large scale models of living and extinct animals. To put it most offensively, it looks to be doing successfully what Museum Satwa in Jatim Park 2 tries to do (that is, to make non-living animal models interesting, particularly to children).

This is despite the fact that they DO showcase a respectable number of animals, including Small Clawed Otters, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians (including what appears to be a Siren?). Will definitely want to visit this place when I get to Bogor next time.
 
Mossman Joe said:
I have been eyeing their social media for a while now, and their main selling point has been that they showcase a lot of life-sized and large scale models of living and extinct animals. To put it most offensively, it looks to be doing successfully what Museum Satwa in Jatim Park 2 tries to do (that is, to make non-living animal models interesting, particularly to children).

This is despite the fact that they DO showcase a respectable number of animals, including Small Clawed Otters, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians (including what appears to be a Siren?). Will definitely want to visit this place when I get to Bogor next time.
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It's not a siren, it's actually Three-toed amphiuma, as said in this video:
 
Mossman Joe said:
I have been eyeing their social media for a while now, and their main selling point has been that they showcase a lot of life-sized and large scale models of living and extinct animals. To put it most offensively, it looks to be doing successfully what Museum Satwa in Jatim Park 2 tries to do (that is, to make non-living animal models interesting, particularly to children).

This is despite the fact that they DO showcase a respectable number of animals, including Small Clawed Otters, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians (including what appears to be a Siren?). Will definitely want to visit this place when I get to Bogor next time.
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And as seen here, there is an aquarium section, with barbs, knifefishes and an aquascape. It's mostly unfinished since BRIN Animalium is still in soft opening. There's also an insect section too!
 
Fargusno said:
And as seen here, there is an aquarium section, with barbs, knifefishes and an aquascape. It's mostly unfinished since BRIN Animalium is still in soft opening. There's also an insect section too!
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Seems to be a very interesting place. Definitely not a fan of their museum, as I'm more into the traditional-style zoological museum (Like the one in Bogor and Batu). The walkthrough aviaries are quite mid, but I'm glad that they have separate aviaries for two different ecosystem aside from just mixing them into one. The one which I guess is suppose to be a bird-of-prey area is really, meh (It's never without a bird show lol).

The mammal section is something, just wish the enclosures are more larger and not so barren while also not using cement bedding. Aside from several minuses, the terrarium and paludarium section looks wondeful! I'm curious on what's going to be on that massive one. The aquarium section also looks great, though some tanks make it as if it was a seafood restaurant.
 
Fargusno said:
It's not a siren, it's actually Three-toed amphiuma, as said in this video:
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The video couldn't be played for some reason, probably deleted by the uploader.

Still, amphiuma is a interesting species and I'm glad we finally have them in a Indonesian zoo (Or museum). The "greater siren" of Gembira Loka zoo might be a amphiuma, what do you think?
 
Nandito said:
Seems to be a very interesting place. Definitely not a fan of their museum, as I'm more into the traditional-style zoological museum (Like the one in Bogor and Batu). The walkthrough aviaries are quite mid, but I'm glad that they have separate aviaries for two different ecosystem aside from just mixing them into one. The one which I guess is suppose to be a bird-of-prey area is really, meh (It's never without a bird show lol).

The mammal section is something, just wish the enclosures are more larger and not so barren while also not using cement bedding. Aside from several minuses, the terrarium and paludarium section looks wondeful! I'm curious on what's going to be on that massive one. The aquarium section also looks great, though some tanks make it as if it was a seafood restaurant.
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The paludarium housed forest dragons, a smooth fronted caiman and a snake (i forgot what it was) on separate tanks. The caiman seemed to be a temporary one, since it was a bit too small for it.
 
Nandito said:
Seems to be a very interesting place. Definitely not a fan of their museum, as I'm more into the traditional-style zoological museum (Like the one in Bogor and Batu). The walkthrough aviaries are quite mid, but I'm glad that they have separate aviaries for two different ecosystem aside from just mixing them into one. The one which I guess is suppose to be a bird-of-prey area is really, meh (It's never without a bird show lol).

The mammal section is something, just wish the enclosures are more larger and not so barren while also not using cement bedding. Aside from several minuses, the terrarium and paludarium section looks wondeful! I'm curious on what's going to be on that massive one. The aquarium section also looks great, though some tanks make it as if it was a seafood restaurant.
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The big terrarium houses lizards and frogs from West Java's clouded forests.
 
Fargusno said:
The big terrarium houses lizards and frogs from West Java's clouded forests.
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Looks like we got a clearer picture of the inhabitants of this amazing biodome. Which include maned forest lizard, chameleon forest dragon, keeled slug-eating snake, and other unspecified species including a land snail and tree frog. They even have pitcher plants in there and a misting system too.

This seems to be indeed a Java-themed biodome with several local species. It's great that we finally get a mixed herp exhibit in a wonderful exhibit with actual interesting species, compared to reticulated pythons, green iguanas, macaws, and predator fish again for the million times. Other smaller, uncommon critters deserved more spot light too ;-)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumLn-RL8sO/?igshid=YmM0MjE2YWMzOA==
 
Nandito said:
Looks like we got a clearer picture of the inhabitants of this amazing biodome. Which include maned forest lizard, chameleon forest dragon, keeled slug-eating snake, and other unspecified species including a land snail and tree frog. They even have pitcher plants in there and a misting system too.

This seems to be indeed a Java-themed biodome with several local species. It's great that we finally get a mixed herp exhibit in a wonderful exhibit with actual interesting species, compared to reticulated pythons, green iguanas, macaws, and predator fish again for the million times. Other smaller, uncommon critters deserved more spot light too ;-)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumLn-RL8sO/?igshid=YmM0MjE2YWMzOA==
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Not surprising since BRIN is a scientific organization, so they focus a lot on native species. It was formerly comprised of LIPI and a number of other institutes.
 
Nandito said:
Looks like we got a clearer picture of the inhabitants of this amazing biodome. Which include maned forest lizard, chameleon forest dragon, keeled slug-eating snake, and other unspecified species including a land snail and tree frog. They even have pitcher plants in there and a misting system too
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I can't help but notice the Bromeliads though, and I'm not a big fan of how "artificial" everything looks. Still, this is impressive just for the fact that there's not quite anything like this here in Indonesia, a cohabitation space filled with smaller animals many of which are unknown to the general public.
 
Looking into the walkthrough aviaries, I actually grow quite a liking of two. The Bird-of-Prey stage is definitely not great, small, concrete bedding and wall for aviaries.

The same case might also apply to the parrot aviary, which is quite decent minus the smaller aviaries, which suffer from the same issue. I don't know how they choose what species are free-flying and what are not. The black-capped lory, eclectus parrot, and Tanimbar corella are much better for free-flight in my opinion, rather than in a small, dim aviaries.

The wetland and passerine aviaries are quite decent, definitely two of my favorites in the institute. Though they seems to be lacking in term of species, despite the decently large aviary for atleast several species. The wetland aviary have a group of cormorants, the passerine aviary I aware have brown-cheeked bulbul and white-breasted woodswallow. I definitely liked the attention given to the smaller passerines that are more known in the songbird trade, as opposed to the usual parrots, peafowls, and birds-of-prey.

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Salt Merchant said:
Looking into the walkthrough aviaries, I actually grow quite a liking of two. The Bird-of-Prey stage is definitely not great, small, concrete bedding and wall for aviaries.

The same case might also apply to the parrot aviary, which is quite decent minus the smaller aviaries, which suffer from the same issue. I don't know how they choose what species are free-flying and what are not. The black-capped lory, eclectus parrot, and Tanimbar corella are much better for free-flight in my opinion, rather than in a small, dim aviaries.

The wetland and passerine aviaries are quite decent, definitely two of my favorites in the institute. Though they seems to be lacking in term of species, despite the decently large aviary for atleast several species. The wetland aviary have a group of cormorants, the passerine aviary I aware have brown-cheeked bulbul and white-breasted woodswallow. I definitely liked the attention given to the smaller passerines that are more known in the songbird trade, as opposed to the usual parrots, peafowls, and birds-of-prey.

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I really hope they add great arguses, peacock-pheasants and crested firebacks in the walkthrough aviary instead of peacocks!
 
Animalium Science Center has added an kinkajou, named Kika, into it's Mammal Exhibition. Kika was acquired or donated from a private collection. No information if it have a mate or not.

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This is certaintly a rather interesting addition to the museum, though it's worth noting that it was due to the fact that it was donated by a private collector (I'm not aware if Animalium had prior plans for the kinkajou). I always liked small mammal exhibition in zoo, though there's certaintly problems in Indonesian zoos and definitely handful of those in Animalium.

Regarding the exhibit, it was quite decent. There's somewhat of a natural ground bedding and several climbing platfroms, but I also prefer adding more foliage for the kinkajou privacy and natural design.

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A look into Animalium's "Pisces Exhibition", essentially a freshwater aquarium.

The exhibit include some great planted tanks, though with some man-made color variations. There's also a mixed South American tank with ocellate river stingray, oscars, peacock bass, tiger sorubims, silver arowana, and some North American species like some vieja cichlid as well as jaguar cichlid and Florida gar.

Additionally, a mixed Australian or Papuan tank is present, displaying interesting species like blue salmon catfish, coal grunter, and Mangrove red snapper.

There's also apparently a classic exhibition-style tanks in the exhibit, mostly housing larger fishes like the tinfoil barbs, Asian arowana, and some interesting species like the Javaen barbs and hemiarius stormii.

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I definitely loved the design of the main planted tank in the exhibit, though I'm not intrigued by it's content. It definitely should've been a rainbowfish or a Papuan small fish tank, since it have several species of rainbowfish. The addition of several man-made morphs just makes it off for me.

The South American mixed tank was almost perfect for me, no hybrid or deformed catfish and a decently sized tank with some scaping. But, they had to add those gars and cichlids because they all came from a "America". The Australian mixed tank was quite decent, though I definitely prefer more scaping and several interesting species like glossamia aprion or datnioides campbelli.

I grow quite a liking on the idea of the classic, single species tanks in some cases, though it won't be suitable for larger fish. I was surprised that they didn't have a "mega tank", which is a quite a large trend in Indonesia thanks to a certain internet influencer.

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Although this place only functions as a fauna research center rather than a mini-zoo, several enclosures are interesting. These enclosures can be imitated by large zoos such as Taman Safari for example because the mixed-species exhibits are truly out of the box.

In the reptile section, there is a giant terrarium containing a chameleon forest dragon (Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus), lesser tree agamid (Pseudocalotes tympanistriga), maned forest lizard (Bronchocela jubata), olive tree skink (Dasia olivacea), keeled slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus), blunthead slug snake (Aplopeltura boa), Reinwardt's flying frog (Rhacophorus reinwardtii), pearly tree frog (Nyctixalus margaritifer), and Hose's frog (Odorrana hosii).

The Australasian tank contains fish such as Papuan black snapper (Lutjanus goldiei), barramundi (Lates calcarifer), coal grunter (Hephaestus carbo), spotbanded scat (Selenotoca multifasciata), snakehead gudgeon (Giuris margaritaceus), and blue salmon catfish (Neoarius graeffei).

In the Pisces area, some tanks are grouped based on the geography of the animals they contain. The Africa tank contains fish such as Nile arowana (Heterotis niloticus), reticulated knifefish (Papyrocranus after), saddled bichir (Polypterus endlicherii), barred bichir (Polypterus delhezi), featherfin squeaker (Synodontis eupterus), giraffe catfish (Auchenoglanis occidentalis), frontosa cichlid (Cyphotilapia frontosa), and African pike characin (Hepsetus odoe).

The Americas tank contains fish such as oscar (Astronotus ocellatus), tucanare peacock bass (Cichla monoculus), Orinoco peacock bass (Cichla orinocensis), jaguar cichlid (Parachromis managuensis), green terror cichlid (Andinoacara rivulatus), redhead cichlid (Vieja synspilum, now become Vieja melanurus), silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum), Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), ripsaw catfish (Oxydoras niger), barred sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum), and ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro).

The Greater Sunda Islands tank contains fish such as twisted-jaw sheatfish (Belodontichthys dinema), domestic shark catfish (Pangasius djambal), Hoeven's catfish (Hemibagrus hoevenii), armoured sea catfish (Hemiarius stormii), giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), fire eel (Mastacembelus erythrotaenia), clown loach (Chromobotia macracanthus), signal barb (Labiobarbus festivus), and emperor snakehead (Channa marulioides).
 
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Jonathan Harry said:
Although this place only functions as a fauna research center rather than a mini-zoo, several enclosures are interesting. These enclosures can be imitated by large zoos such as Taman Safari for example because the mixed-species exhibits are truly out of the box.

In the reptile section, there is a giant terrarium containing a chameleon forest dragon (Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus), lesser tree agamid (Pseudocalotes tympanistriga), maned forest lizard (Bronchocela jubata), olive tree skink (Dasia olivacea), keeled slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus), blunthead slug snake (Aplopeltura boa), Reinwardt's flying frog (Rhacophorus reinwardtii), pearly tree frog (Nyctixalus margaritifer), and Hose's frog (Odorrana hosii).

The Australasian tank contains fish such as Papuan black snapper (Lutjanus goldiei), barramundi (Lates calcarifer), coal grunter (Hephaestus carbo), spotbanded scat (Selenotoca multifasciata), snakehead gudgeon (Giuris margaritaceus), and blue salmon catfish (Neoarius graeffei).

In the Pisces area, some tanks are grouped based on the geography of the animals they contain. The Africa tank contains fish such as Nile arowana (Heterotis niloticus), reticulated knifefish (Papyrocranus after), saddled bichir (Polypterus endlicherii), barred bichir (Polypterus delhezi), featherfin squeaker (Synodontis eupterus), giraffe catfish (Auchenoglanis occidentalis), frontosa cichlid (Cyphotilapia frontosa), and African pike characin (Hepsetus odoe).

The Americas tank contains fish such as oscar (Astronotus ocellatus), tucanare peacock bass (Cichla monoculus), Orinoco peacock bass (Cichla orinocensis), jaguar cichlid (Parachromis managuensis), green terror cichlid (Andinoacara rivulatus), redhead cichlid (Vieja synspilum, now become Vieja melanurus), silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum), Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), ripsaw catfish (Oxydoras niger), barred sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum), and ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro).

The Greater Sunda Islands tank contains fish such as twisted-jaw sheatfish (Belodontichthys dinema), domestic shark catfish (Pangasius djambal), Hoeven's catfish (Hemibagrus hoevenii), armoured sea catfish (Hemiarius stormii), giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), fire eel (Mastacembelus erythrotaenia), clown loach (Chromobotia macracanthus), signal barb (Labiobarbus festivus), and emperor snakehead (Channa marulioides).
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I have placed these species on Zootierliste. Do you have a list of what else is in the collection?
 
Sicarius said:
I have placed these species on Zootierliste. Do you have a list of what else is in the collection?
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They have a small mammal complex that consist of Sunda porcupines, Javan slow loris, Javan binturong, Bornean small-toothed palm civet, brown greater galago, kinkajou, African genet (Couldn't tell of the exact species), Sumatran palm civet, Javan yellow-throated marten, Javan mongoose, Asian small-clawed otter, red fox, and serval.
 
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