Carnivores in mixed exhibits

Bat-eared foxes and aardvarks could be candidates to mix with animals of similar size, not only much bigger ones. Both have very reduced teeth, which could convince zoo curators they are not going to kill/eat their neighbors.

Fennec foxes could work, too with things like porcupines, warthogs, dromedaries, some domestic ungulates, mid-sized antelope etc. Most foxes of all species are very mobile animals, which have an innate drive to run for kilometers every day. They should be kept in much larger exhibits than their size alone suggests, and adapting an exhibit of larger animals to a mixed exhibit is an option.I saw fennecs put temporarily into an empty wild dog paddock in Dvur Kralove, and they were well visible and looked very happy.
 
Wildwood keeps - or used to keep - a breeding pair of Grey Heron in the same aviary as a range of ducks whose breeding record was probably a lot less impressive.
 
Combe Valley have Bat-eared Foxes and Meerkats together in a large enclosure.
 
Why do some zoos/aquariums keep California sea lion and harbor seal together and others separately? Do these two species generally get along, with the exception of some individuals that might need to be separated?
 
Why do some zoos/aquariums keep California sea lion and harbor seal together and others separately? Do these two species generally get along, with the exception of some individuals that might need to be separated?
Yes they do get along well but they also both live in the same area in the wild and have very little conflict there
 
Need I remind everyone of the absolutely explosive combination that was southern white rhinos, plains zebras (I think), olive baboons, common hippos and American black bears, all living together mind you, in Safari Madrid? Now the bears have their own pen, but the other four remain together. Surprisingly, no animals were harmed in the making of that mixed exhibit.
 
Taman Safari have defassa waterbucks, ostriches, hippopotamus, and saltwater crocodiles living together in a large exhibit called African Panorama. Although the crocodiles can't get to the other side of the exhibit, the waterbucks often seen resting right next to the crocodiles .

They also have an buffy fish owl, wreathed hornbills, and large flying foxes in a large walk-through aviary, living together with other birds like lory, parrot, myna, bird-of-paradise, cockatoo, pigeon, pheasant, and several species of water birds.

During my visit three days ago, they also have Asian forest tortoises and a juvenile saltwater crocodile in the same exhibit.
 
I'm not sure if any of these were said, but they have worked in zoos.

Buff-crested Bustard
  • Barbets
  • Rollers
  • Pigeons/doves
  • Guineafowl
  • Waterfowl
  • Waxbills
  • Starlings
  • Bee-eaters
  • Woodhoopoes
  • Turacos
  • Egyptian Plover
  • Robin-chats
  • Lovebirds
  • Hamerkops
  • Small hornbills
  • Grey Parrots
  • Common Bulbuls
  • Cattle Egrets
  • Blue-breasted Kingfishers
  • Magpie Shrikes
  • Ibises/Spoonbills
  • Thick-Knees
  • Purple Gallinules
  • African Spoonbills
  • Abdim's Storks
  • Weaver
  • Boubous
  • Inca Tern
  • Sunbitterns

Maned Wolf
  • Tapirs
  • Giant Anteaters
  • Capybaras

Banded Mongoose
  • Colobus monkeys
  • Meerkats
  • Guenons

Meerkat
  • Rock Hyraxes
  • Dik-diks
  • Aardvarks
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Yellow Mongooses
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels
  • Zebras
  • Lechwes
  • Giraffe

Yellow Mongoose
  • Meerkats
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels

Narrow-striped Mongoose
  • Malagasy Giant Rats

Asian Small-clawed Otter
  • Babirusas
  • Binturongs
  • Black Hornbills
  • Butterflies
  • Peafowls
  • Gibbons
  • Great Hornbills
  • Muntjacs
  • Prevost's Squirrels
  • Proboscis Monkeys
  • Slender-snouted crocodiles
  • Oriental Giant Squirrels
  • Rodrigues Flying Foxes

African Clawless Otter
  • De Brazza's Monkeys

North American River Otters
  • Beavers
  • Deer
  • Foxes
  • Porcupines

Spotted-necked Otter
  • Lesser Spot-nosed Monkeys
  • Allen's Swamp Monkeys
  • Francois Langurs

Coatis
  • Raccoons
  • Striped Skunks
  • Capybaras
  • Spectacled Bears
  • Squirrel monkeys

Raccoon
  • Coatis
  • Striped Skunks
  • Woodchucks
  • Red Foxes
  • Arctic Foxes

Red-legged Seriema

  • Waterfowl
  • Boat-billed Herons
  • Peafowl
  • South American conures
  • Crows
  • Pigeons/Doves
  • Grey-winged Trumpeter
  • Guans
  • Hyacinth Macaw
  • Toucans
  • King Vultures
  • Laughing Kookaburras
  • Red-billed hornbills
  • New World ibises
  • Storks
  • Tawny Frogmouths
  • Thrushes
  • Turacos
  • Brazilian Tapir
  • Capybara
  • Collared Peccary
  • Giant Anteater
  • Guanaco
  • Common Squirrel Monkey

Red Panda
  • Reeves' Muntjac
  • Koi
  • White-naped Crane
  • Chinese Goral

Sea Otter
  • Rockfish
  • Sea stars
 
I'm not sure if any of these were said, but they have worked in zoos.

Buff-crested Bustard
  • Barbets
  • Rollers
  • Pigeons/doves
  • Guineafowl
  • Waterfowl
  • Waxbills
  • Starlings
  • Bee-eaters
  • Woodhoopoes
  • Turacos
  • Egyptian Plover
  • Robin-chats
  • Lovebirds
  • Hamerkops
  • Small hornbills
  • Grey Parrots
  • Common Bulbuls
  • Cattle Egrets
  • Blue-breasted Kingfishers
  • Magpie Shrikes
  • Ibises/Spoonbills
  • Thick-Knees
  • Purple Gallinules
  • African Spoonbills
  • Abdim's Storks
  • Weaver
  • Boubous
  • Inca Tern
  • Sunbitterns

Maned Wolf
  • Tapirs
  • Giant Anteaters
  • Capybaras

Banded Mongoose
  • Colobus monkeys
  • Meerkats
  • Guenons

Meerkat
  • Rock Hyraxes
  • Dik-diks
  • Aardvarks
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Yellow Mongooses
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels
  • Zebras
  • Lechwes
  • Giraffe

Yellow Mongoose
  • Meerkats
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels

Narrow-striped Mongoose
  • Malagasy Giant Rats

Asian Small-clawed Otter
  • Babirusas
  • Binturongs
  • Black Hornbills
  • Butterflies
  • Peafowls
  • Gibbons
  • Great Hornbills
  • Muntjacs
  • Prevost's Squirrels
  • Proboscis Monkeys
  • Slender-snouted crocodiles
  • Oriental Giant Squirrels
  • Rodrigues Flying Foxes

African Clawless Otter
  • De Brazza's Monkeys

North American River Otters
  • Beavers
  • Deer
  • Foxes
  • Porcupines

Spotted-necked Otter
  • Lesser Spot-nosed Monkeys
  • Allen's Swamp Monkeys
  • Francois Langurs

Coatis
  • Raccoons
  • Striped Skunks
  • Capybaras
  • Spectacled Bears
  • Squirrel monkeys

Raccoon
  • Coatis
  • Striped Skunks
  • Woodchucks
  • Red Foxes
  • Arctic Foxes

Red-legged Seriema

  • Waterfowl
  • Boat-billed Herons
  • Peafowl
  • South American conures
  • Crows
  • Pigeons/Doves
  • Grey-winged Trumpeter
  • Guans
  • Hyacinth Macaw
  • Toucans
  • King Vultures
  • Laughing Kookaburras
  • Red-billed hornbills
  • New World ibises
  • Storks
  • Tawny Frogmouths
  • Thrushes
  • Turacos
  • Brazilian Tapir
  • Capybara
  • Collared Peccary
  • Giant Anteater
  • Guanaco
  • Common Squirrel Monkey

Red Panda
  • Reeves' Muntjac
  • Koi
  • White-naped Crane
  • Chinese Goral

Sea Otter
  • Rockfish
  • Sea stars
This thread is talking about carnivores as in Carnivora, not literal carnivores.
 
According to en/Mixed exhibit Canidae, the following mixed-species exhibit exists at Zoo sauvage de Saint-Félicien (Quebec, Canada):
  • Grey Wolf, Canis lupus
  • American Black Bear, Ursus americanus
  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus
  • Moose, Alces americanus
  • Wapiti, Cervus canadensis
  • White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus
  • Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus
  • Muskox, Ovibos moschatus
  • Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus
  • Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis
  • American Bison, Bison bison
Is anyone aware of how this exhibit works? A lot of these species are prey for wild wolves, while prairie dogs would be prey to bears as well.
 
According to en/Mixed exhibit Canidae, the following mixed-species exhibit exists at Zoo sauvage de Saint-Félicien (Quebec, Canada):
  • Grey Wolf, Canis lupus
  • American Black Bear, Ursus americanus
  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus
  • Moose, Alces americanus
  • Wapiti, Cervus canadensis
  • White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus
  • Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus
  • Muskox, Ovibos moschatus
  • Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus
  • Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis
  • American Bison, Bison bison
Is anyone aware of how this exhibit works? A lot of these species are prey for wild wolves, while prairie dogs would be prey to bears as well.
I would assume the exhibit is very large and the wolves are well fed
 
According to en/Mixed exhibit Canidae, the following mixed-species exhibit exists at Zoo sauvage de Saint-Félicien (Quebec, Canada):
  • Grey Wolf, Canis lupus
  • American Black Bear, Ursus americanus
  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus
  • Moose, Alces americanus
  • Wapiti, Cervus canadensis
  • White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus
  • Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus
  • Muskox, Ovibos moschatus
  • Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus
  • Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis
  • American Bison, Bison bison
Is anyone aware of how this exhibit works? A lot of these species are prey for wild wolves, while prairie dogs would be prey to bears as well.

I highly doubt that they actually mix black bear and wolves with those ungulates or prarie dogs.

Even if wolves and bear were exceptionally well fed they would still eventually give in to instinctive predatory behaviour towards those other animals and there would be carnage.

African hunting dogs and gray wolves are also listed as being kept together on that website. This also strikes me as a totally unnecessary and moronic combination I wonder if it was done at Joe Exotic's "zoo" or perhaps at South-Lakes :rolleyes:.
 
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According to en/Mixed exhibit Canidae, the following mixed-species exhibit exists at Zoo sauvage de Saint-Félicien (Quebec, Canada):
  • Grey Wolf, Canis lupus
  • American Black Bear, Ursus americanus
  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus
  • Moose, Alces americanus
  • Wapiti, Cervus canadensis
  • White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus
  • Reindeer, Rangifer tarandus
  • Muskox, Ovibos moschatus
  • Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus
  • Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis
  • American Bison, Bison bison
Is anyone aware of how this exhibit works? A lot of these species are prey for wild wolves, while prairie dogs would be prey to bears as well.

Interesting! I took a look at some photos people have uploaded on Google maps from the park and between some of the species it seems to be hidden/natural barriers that create an effect of them being together? Might be something new though and that they actually had the species together before? Seems odd though.

EDIT:
After looking around a bit more I'm finding photos of the black bears being together with for example Wapitis. But I can not find any other photos or information about the wolves being in there as well.
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Interesting! I took a look at some photos people have uploaded on Google maps from the park and between some of the species it seems to be hidden/natural barriers that create an effect of them being together? Might be something new though and that they actually had the species together before? Seems odd though.

EDIT:
After looking around a bit more I'm finding photos of the black bears being together with for example Wapitis. But I can not find any other photos or information about the wolves being in there as well.
The bears are in with the other animals, but the wolves are in a separate enclosure within the area.

Review here: Zoo_enthusiast's Canadian Roadtrip
 
Meerkat
  • Rock Hyraxes
  • Dik-diks
  • Aardvarks
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Yellow Mongooses
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels
  • Zebras
  • Lechwes
  • Giraffe
You could add the Western lowland gorilla, Roloway monkey and Red-crested turaco to this list.
Asian Small-clawed Otter
  • Babirusas
  • Binturongs
  • Black Hornbills
  • Butterflies
  • Peafowls
  • Gibbons
  • Great Hornbills
  • Muntjacs
  • Prevost's Squirrels
  • Proboscis Monkeys
  • Slender-snouted crocodiles
  • Oriental Giant Squirrels
  • Rodrigues Flying Foxes
You could add the Sumatran orangutan and Red panda to this list.
North American River Otters
  • Beavers
  • Deer
  • Foxes
  • Porcupines
You could add the Raccoon dog to this list.
Red Panda
  • Reeves' Muntjac
  • Koi
  • White-naped Crane
  • Chinese Goral
You could add the Red-crowned crane and Asian small-clawed otter to this list.
 
Okay, so since a lot of people had other animals I could add, I made an updated one

Maned Wolf
  • Tapirs
  • Giant Anteaters
  • Capybaras

Banded Mongoose
  • Colobus monkeys
  • Meerkats
  • Guenons

Meerkat
  • Rock Hyraxes
  • Dik-diks
  • Aardvarks
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Yellow Mongooses
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels
  • Zebras
  • Lechwes
  • Giraffe
  • Western Lowland Gorilla
  • Roloway Monkey
  • Red-crested Turaco

Yellow Mongoose
  • Meerkats
  • Cape Porcupines
  • Fennec Foxes
  • Cape Ground Squirrels

Narrow-striped Mongoose
  • Malagasy Giant Rats

Asian Small-clawed Otter
  • Babirusas
  • Binturongs
  • Black Hornbills
  • Butterflies
  • Peafowls
  • Gibbons
  • Great Hornbills
  • Muntjacs
  • Prevost's Squirrels
  • Proboscis Monkeys
  • Slender-snouted crocodiles
  • Oriental Giant Squirrels
  • Rodrigues Flying Foxes
  • Sumatran Orangutan
  • Red Panda

African Clawless Otter
  • De Brazza's Monkeys

North American River Otters
  • Beavers
  • Deer
  • Foxes
  • Porcupines
  • Raccoon Dog

Spotted-necked Otter
  • Lesser Spot-nosed Monkeys
  • Allen's Swamp Monkeys
  • Francois Langurs
  • Red River Hog
  • Red-tailed Monkey
  • African Forest Buffalo

Coatis
  • Raccoons
  • Striped Skunks
  • Capybaras
  • Spectacled Bears
  • Squirrel monkeys

Raccoon
  • Coatis
  • Striped Skunks
  • Woodchucks
  • Red Foxes
  • Arctic Foxes

Red Panda
  • Reeves' Muntjac
  • Koi
  • White-naped Crane
  • Chinese Goral
  • Red-crowned Crane
  • Asian Small-clawed Otter

Sea Otter
  • Rockfish
  • Sea stars
 
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