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A Northern White-Handed Gibbon has been born at the Bronx Zoo. Apparently it's the first gibbon born in JungleWorld in over a decade.

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ThylacineAlive said:
A Northern White-Handed Gibbon has been born at the Bronx Zoo. Apparently it's the first gibbon born in JungleWorld in over a decade.

~Thylo:cool:
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I remember when the last one was born there. I was a docent at the time. Used to love going to Jungle World early in the morning and watch them before any guests got there
 
Last time I went the zoo had several young Galapagos Giant Tortoises on exhibit in the Reptile House. Will they be apart of this exhibit as well?

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ThylacineAlive said:
Last time I went the zoo had several young Galapagos Giant Tortoises on exhibit in the Reptile House. Will they be apart of this exhibit as well?

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This is the first thing I have heard about this planned exhibit. If I were to speculate, I would guess no, for two main reasons. First, they are too small to be with a 600 pound tortoise. Second, Rocket is an Aldabra Tortoise, and the youngsters in the World of Reptiles are Galapagos Tortoises. Since they want Rocket to breed, they are not going to put him with tortoises that aren't even sexually mature yet, and are a different species.
 
BeardsleyZooFan said:
This is the first thing I have heard about this planned exhibit. If I were to speculate, I would guess no, for two main reasons. First, they are too small to be with a 600 pound tortoise. Second, Rocket is an Aldabra Tortoise, and the youngsters in the World of Reptiles are Galapagos Tortoises. Since they want Rocket to breed, they are not going to put him with tortoises that aren't even sexually mature yet, and are a different species.
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I was talking with separate exhibits outside. One for Aldabras, one for Galapagos. I know they grow slowly but last time I saw them was about a year and a half ago and I remember it looking like they were beginning to outgrow the exhibit. I'm just saying I think it's about time to move them into an outdoor exhibit and turn their current exhibit into something else. Any speculation on where the other Aldabra might come from?

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BeardsleyZooFan said:
I thought that some people might be interested to knowthat ZooLex made a new entry featuring the Bronx Zoo's "Madagascar!"
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Two things, one, has the zoo added many new things since June 2011 (last time I've managed to see Madagascar!) because I never saw many of those fish and bird species? And two, I thought the Bronx Zoo's spiny-tailed iguanas were O. cuvieri not O. cyclurus?

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I wonder if the Madagascar Killifish are the species in the small, label-less tank in the Small Wonders, Big Threats zone?
 
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I found this video from 1973 about the Bronx Zoo's "World of Birds." I'm guessing they don't do those "thunderstorms" anymore? :p

 
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AnaheimZoo said:
I wonder if the Madagascar Killifish are the species in the small, label-less tank in the Small Wonders, Big Threats zone?
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This is a picture of Pachypanchax sakaramyi (Critically Endangered):
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Do any of the small fish in that tank look similar?

Also, do you think the dambas are mixed with the Marakely in the Nile Crocodile tank?

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Chlidonias said:
that was cool (especially the Picathartes!). The World Of Birds is the exhibit that has always made me want to visit the Bronx Zoo (and The World Of Darkness, but I gather that's gone now?).
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Unfortunately yes. It closed in 2009. I also gather that the monkey house closed?

As for what I asked earlier about the fish species in Madagascar!, AnaheimZoo told me in a PM that the dambas would be in the Nle Crocodile tank and the killfish I posted does look similar to the small fish in the unlabeled tank he mentioned.

He also said the Grey-Headed Lovebirds were in the Ring-Tailed Lemur exhibit.

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Anaheim- Thanks very much for the video link. It's always fun to see bits of history from a zoo.
Indeed, the World of Darkness is closed, along with the Rare Animal Range, Blesbok/Oryx exhibits, and Monkey House.
 
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