Nice to see them committing themselves to the speciesA nice development. Dreamworld is building a new, larger enclosure for their Lumholtz's Tree-Kangaroos. The new enclosure is situated near the cassowaries. It remains to be seen what will happen with their original enclosure in the former aviary - reported on the Gold Coast Theme Park's FB page with the images coming from their page.
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Pi (generic tiger) has transferred out:
Pi has transferred to Zambi Wildlife Retreat:
1.0 Pi (19/07/2010) Hari x Louise
His transfer leaves Dreamworld with 3.5 tigers:
Sumatran:
0.1 Jaya (09/06/2008) Raja x Soraya
0.1 Shanti (09/06/2008) Raja x Soraya
Generic:
1.0 Javi (26/04/2019) Pi x Adira
1.0 Zakari (26/04/2019) Pi x Adira
1.0 Khan (25/05/2019) Raja x Nika
0.1 Kali (02/11/2015) Imported 2016
0.1 Kiko (02/11/2015) Imported 2016
0.1 Adira (29/11/2015) Raja x Nika
Pi has transferred to Zambi Wildlife Retreat:
1.0 Pi (19/07/2010) Hari x Louise
His transfer leaves Dreamworld with 3.5 tigers:
Sumatran:
0.1 Jaya (09/06/2008) Raja x Soraya
0.1 Shanti (09/06/2008) Raja x Soraya
Generic:
1.0 Javi (26/04/2019) Pi x Adira
1.0 Zakari (26/04/2019) Pi x Adira
1.0 Khan (25/05/2019) Raja x Nika
0.1 Kali (02/11/2015) Imported 2016
0.1 Kiko (02/11/2015) Imported 2016
0.1 Adira (29/11/2015) Raja x Nika
Even when transferring out the hybrid tigers to some of the private zoos ..., it is just off-loading the big pink elephant in the room ... on other facilities.
To be Frank, the Real Issue is Dreamworld continueing without redux on the road of having conservation non-valuable generic / hybrid tigers (Damnit, even importing 2 more as late as 2016) and now a group of generics in the age ranges 6-10 years of age ...! Meaning this population may well persist / survive another 10-15+ years till the generics are gone by natural attrition.
At the same time, the current conservation value Sumatran tigers are both 17-year old post reproductive ... tigers!
In an ideal zoo population management world, Dreamworld should have none of the former and a breeding group or potential one for Sumatran tigers....
Any thoughts on this?
I agree. Dreamworld would do the Australasian Sumatran tiger population a favour if they just stopped breeding hybrids. Every hybrid is taking up a space that could otherwise be occupied by a purebred Sumatran tiger, which actually has conservation value.
The additional issue is Sumatran tigers being made available to privately owned small zoos within Australia. This needs to happen, otherwise their easiest alternative is acquiring generics - and when they have staff/bills to pay, who can blame them for taking the easy option.
A surplus of Sumatran tigers can easily be generated via repeat breeding recommendations as and when required.
It appears new tiger cubs are handed out with a tea spoon to other regional zoos around the region, It appears a small few are able to hog the bulk of them with others if they are lucky getting sent a spare and or old individuals
Really is like that with them hey. Perth Zoo should ask for one (if they can fix that broken water pond in time) if the demolition and renovations of that area really is several years away from happening anyway.
This is not correct in reality.
There are currently up to 20 spaces available for Sumatrans - without counting the number of animals that will soon be dying off.
Plenty of room for generics yet if that's the way it has to be.
Thanks for the info @Steve Robinson.
Would you happen to have a breakdown of the capacity of each facility that holds Sumatran tigers, so I can get a greater understanding of where these additional 20 spaces are? No worries if you don’t have this information to hand; or are unable to share it publicly, but just curious where a theoretical additional 20 tigers could fit it.
I assume some of this is theoretical capacity e.g. Auckland Zoo have three tigers in two groups (breeding male; breeding female and 22 month old offspring). No further breeding will be undertaken until the 22 month old cub moves out as they have to account for the inevitable separation of mother and offspring; but had a litter of (surviving) quadruplets been produced instead of one surviving cub, they could be holding six tigers right now without issue.