Carnivores in mixed exhibits

[vogelcommando]

Just found a note from around 2010 that the Opel Zoo in Germany keeps / kept Bat-eared foxes together with Ostriches. Don't know anything aout how this was / is working and how the enclosure looks / looked like. Maybe anyother ZooChatter has more information about this combination...

 

[Jennings]

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I sometimes like to look at their stock list and mentally spend vast sums of money.

 

[FBBird]

Just found a note from around 2010 that the Opel Zoo in Germany keeps / kept Bat-eared foxes together with Ostriches. Don't know anything aout how this was / is working and how the enclosure looks / looked like. Maybe anyother ZooChatter has more information about this combination...

Coombe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park has Bat-eared Foxes sharing with Meerkats.

 

[vogelcommando]

In the International Zoo Year book vol. 24/25 there's an intresting article about the enclosure at Osnabrück Zoo - Germany were Maned wolves and Giant anteaters were kept together :
Drüwa P. ( 1986 ) : Maintaining Maned wolves and Giant anteaters together in one enclosure,
Int. Zoo Yb vol. 24/25 pp. 271-274

 

[vogelcommando]

Don't know at which zoo this video was made but it is nevertheless very intresting :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2699256250123898

 

[Keiikoa]

There are white rhino and cheetah at Attica Athens. Borås in Sweden did this first a long time ago although I'm not sure if they still do.
African elephants and meerkats at Lisbon.

really late but Sweden still do!

 

[Bubalus]

Flamingo Land should have their White Rhino and Cheetah mixed later in the year depending on covid-19 and how long it continues. A UK first with White's at least although Cheetah and Black Rhino have been mixed in the UK before

 

[Westcoastperson]

What I haven't seen here yet is the EXTREMELY common mix of aquatic animals like smaller fish and sharks of predatory fish like eels.Or with birds, reptiles, or semi aquatic mammals (hippos and bears). You can find all three at the San Diego zoo.

 

[amur leopard]

What I haven't seen here yet is the EXTREMELY common mix of aquatic animals like smaller fish and sharks of predatory fish like eels.Or with birds, reptiles, or semi aquatic mammals (hippos and bears). You can find all three at the San Diego zoo.

Hippos and bears mixed at SDZ? Where?

 

[aardvark250]

Hippos and bears mixed at SDZ? Where?

I think he mean fish mix with bird, reptile, and hippo/bear. Not hippo mixed with bear.

 

[aardvark250]

Are there bear mixed with fish though? Won't bear catch them?

 

[lintworm]

Are there bear mixed with fish though? Won't bear catch them?

Many Brown Bear and Polar Bear enclosures in Europe have some fish, mostly trout or salmon, in them, they must get caught sometimes, but that is intentional and just a way of enrichment.

 

[birdsandbats]

Columbus has Polar Bear mixed with Rainbow Trout, as well.

 

[vogelcommando]

Brown bear and wolverine at Amneville :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=140194437413212

 

[vogelcommando]

In the renovated Alfred-Brehm Haus at Tierpark Berlin now 2 Sun bears are living together with a pair ( and their 2 cubs ) Binturongs :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2721458534736458

 

[PossumRoach]

Servals and asian golden cats use enclosures of chimps and orangutans, respectively, at night (in rotation with apes). I saw it online in one zoo in Asia or South America, cannot find now which one.

Fennec foxes with trumpeter hornbills - Augsburg. Fennecs could be good in mixed exhibits with animals larger than themselves.

Yellow mongoose with vultures and secretarbirds in a walk-though aviary - Magdeburg. Is this the first walk-through enclosure with carnivores of any kind?

Would meerkats be suitable to a walk-through exhibit? Prairie dogs are exhibited this way in Rotterdam, and visitors somehow can resist touching them. Meerkats bite, of course, but probably no more than any rodent of similar size.

Nagasaki bio park let’s their meerkats get out of their enclosure and roam amongst visitors

 

[OstrichMania]

Nagasaki bio park let’s their meerkats get out of their enclosure and roam amongst visitors

Same story with Longleat Safari Park.

 

[Mehdi]

Servals and asian golden cats use enclosures of chimps and orangutans, respectively, at night (in rotation with apes). I saw it online in one zoo in Asia or South America, cannot find now which one.

Fennec foxes with trumpeter hornbills - Augsburg. Fennecs could be good in mixed exhibits with animals larger than themselves.

Yellow mongoose with vultures and secretarbirds in a walk-though aviary - Magdeburg. Is this the first walk-through enclosure with carnivores of any kind?

Would meerkats be suitable to a walk-through exhibit? Prairie dogs are exhibited this way in Rotterdam, and visitors somehow can resist touching them. Meerkats bite, of course, but probably no more than any rodent of similar size.

Didn't Zlin have their Gambian mongooses in a walkthrough exhibit with vultures too?

 

[Rayane]

Didn't Zlin have their Gambian mongooses in a walkthrough exhibit with vultures too?

Yes they did

 

[Andrew Swales]

Many Brown Bear and Polar Bear enclosures in Europe have some fish, mostly trout or salmon, in them, they must get caught sometimes, but that is intentional and just a way of enrichment.

It is widely believed that feeding live vertebrates to other animals is illegal in the UK, but we have never actually managed to get this confirmed...