Carnivores in mixed exhibits

[FBBird]

Bat eared foxes have been mixed with rock hyraxes and leopard tortoises

Also with Meerkats….not your typical fox, they’re largely insectivorous

 

[Westcoastperson]

Also with Meerkats….not your typical fox, they’re largely insectivorous

Yes it is a fairly versatile species for mixing.

 

[Dhole dude]

Minnesota Zoo keeps Red Fox with Great-Horned Owl, & used to keep Red Panda’s with Chinese Goral, & Binturong with Malayan Tapir.

Lake Superior Zoo keeps Kinkajou with Six-Banded Armadillo & Two-Toed Sloth.

Hemker Park & Zoo keeps Taveta Gold Weaver with Meerkats (although I would assume a mix similar to this has been done many times before).

 

[birdsandbats]

Minnesota Zoo keeps Red Fox with Great-Horned Owl, & used to keep Red Panda’s with Chinese Goral, & Binturong with Malayan Tapir.

Lake Superior Zoo keeps Kinkajou with Six-Banded Armadillo & Two-Toed Sloth.

Hemker Park & Zoo keeps Taveta Gold Weaver with Meerkats (although I would assume a mix similar to this has been done many times before).

So the fox is with the owl now? Does Minnesota no longer keep North American Porcupine?

 

[Aardwolf]

So the fox is with the owl now? Does Minnesota no longer keep North American Porcupine?

I was there last month and the owl and porcupine were together.

 

[Aardwolf]

I find it interesting that European zoos seem to mix Andean bears so readily, but US zoos don't seem inclined to.

Another one I forgot from earlier - Baltimore does snapping turtle with bobcat. Years ago, that same exhibit was red fox and snapping turtle.

 

[birdsandbats]

Another one I forgot from earlier - Baltimore does snapping turtle with bobcat. Years ago, that same exhibit was red fox and snapping turtle.

Those both sound like terrible ideas.

 

[FBBird]

Minnesota Zoo keeps Red Fox with Great-Horned Owl, & used to keep Red Panda’s with Chinese Goral, & Binturong with Malayan Tapir.

Lake Superior Zoo keeps Kinkajou with Six-Banded Armadillo & Two-Toed Sloth.

Hemker Park & Zoo keeps Taveta Gold Weaver with Meerkats (although I would assume a mix similar to this has been done many times before).

Meerkats will kill and eat any small birds they can catch. Weavers should be able to feed safely at ground level.
I wouldn’t trust a Red Fox not to eat an owl, or a big owl not to have a go at the fox

 

[Dhole dude]

So the fox is with the owl now? Does Minnesota no longer keep North American Porcupine?

One owl is with the fox, while the other is with the porcupines.

 

[birdsandbats]

One owl is with the fox, while the other is with the porcupines.

I only remember one fox in with the raccoon. So where is this owl/fox exhibit?

 

[Dhole dude]

I only remember one fox in with the raccoon. So where is this owl/fox exhibit?

Where the old Minnesota Aviary was.

 

[Rajang-GOAT]

What exhibits you know of carnivores mixed with other species?
This excludes mixed species of pinnipeds (relatively common), and institutions where tame animals knew each other and were compatible.

For example, sometimes bears are kept with smaller, agile species.
Brown bears and wolves are sometimes kept.
I am interested also in small carnivores kept with larger species - e.g. hoofed animals, primates or bears.

I belive Sun Bears and Binturongs are together in Chester

 

[1Squirrel monkey]

Could the Sun bear-Binturong mix be combined with Asian small-clawed otter?

 

[OstrichMania]

Could the Sun bear-Binturong mix be combined with Asian small-clawed otter?

Chester Zoo already has this mix if I remember properly.

 

[Rajang-GOAT]

Chester Zoo already has this mix if I remember properly.

Paradise are going to get it

 

[Rizz Carlton]

I've heard report that Surabaya Zoo once had their cheetah, gifted to them from the South African government, mixed with their tigers for unknown reason, leading to the cheetah being mauled and eaten by tigers. What a way to be thankful for that gifts I guess...

 

[cornu aspersum]

Fota Wildlife Park mixes meerkats with kikuyu guereza.

 

[Enzo]

If you include carnivores with non-carnivores, San Diego Safari Park has (or had) bat eared fox with warthog.

Years ago (but no longer), Arizona Sonora Desert Museum had black bear with gray fox.

Chester Zoo (and others in Europe maybe) has (or had) spectacled bear with coati to this day.

I can confirm the coati-spectacled bear mix is now being done in South America as well. Animália Park (Cotia, state of São Paulo, Brazil) mixes their bears with Nasua nasua.

 

[Monoceros]

Ree Park in Denmark mixes American Black Bears with Plains Bison in a large enclosure. The two species do not seemed particularly bothered by each other, but I wonder what they do if a calf is born.

 

[Enzo]

Ree Park in Denmark mixes American Black Bears with Plains Bison in a large enclosure. The two species do not seemed particularly bothered by each other, but I wonder what they do if a calf is born.

The bears seem to breed fine.

Not sure about the bison, though. Maybe when a baby buffalo is born, the calf and its mother are sent to a sepparate paddock until the staff believe releasing them back in the exhibit would not result in a bloodbath.