Captive Chinese red pandas (Ailurus styani) population?
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There are a few more US holders than that. Roger Williams Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Woodland Park Zoo, and Utica Zoo come to mind.
Evirapo
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It's strange that Europe has no this species considering most zoos are very collector
There's lots of holders in the US, they're even in the private trade.
Sicarius
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This isn't 1900 anymore, zoos do not collect species for the sake of having the greatest collection. I'm sure EAZA has ruled out the Chinese red pandas so there could be a unified focus on maintaining the Nepalese one. You see this kind of stuff happening quite often, and it's sometimes a result between EAZA & AZA decisions. For example: Europe is breeding the goodfellow's tree kangaroos and America is breeding the matchie's tree kangaroo. Zoos don't really get a saying in this.
Evirapo
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Aren't there a few or at least one European zoo housing animals like Matchie’s tree kangaroo, Coquerel's sifaka, and others that the USA focuses on?
Also, That's not what I mean by “Collector”. Chinese red panda is an endangered species too and EAZA seems to be good at managing multi-species as they did with 2 sifaka species and multi-panthera leopards. Kinda surprised that 0 European zoo has these ngl
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Matschie's Tree Kangaroo is held by Beauval in France, and three European zoos (Chester, Koln and Berlin Tierpark) hold Coquerel's Sifaka. So not a population of either species, but they are technically present.
By the way, you don't have to wonder what species are kept in Europe - you can check for yourself on this website: ZootierlisteHomepage
Evirapo
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Someone told me that this site is outdated information bc it says no sloth bears are kept in Europe and in reality, there are over 25 individuals kept in Europe. Is that true?
The site has accurate listings for sloth bears.
The confusion may arise that sloth bears are listed under the Indian subspecies and not "generic" sloth bear. All sloth bears in Europe are if the Indian subspecies.
As for what you asked earlier regarding the tree-kangaroos and sifakas, there is only one Matschie's tree-kangaroo left in Europe and it is off show and elderly. The Coquerel's sifakas in Europe are a recent import from Duke Lemur Center in the US.
I mean, the site is outdated to some degree, but only because all sources are inherently outdated to some degree. Zootierliste is user updated, which means it can only reflect the knowledge of users and is subject to some degree of human error - but it also has other people fact-checking and correcting those errors. It gets a bad rap in some sectors of this community but it's by far the best source out there and generally gets most things right.
Checked it just now and I see that no less than 9 zoos are listed as holding Sloth Bear - that check could have taken you 5 seconds tops, but here's the link anyway: ZootierlisteHomepage
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Evirapo
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Ah that makes sense