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But the skeleton is far more easy to make! Even the whales are being built, that are huge comparing to elephants.
A method for the laziest ones is to put roughly-cleaned bones into the groung and dig out 1-2 years later whan soft tissues are gone. Then long hard degreasing process, that's more easy with fresh bones.
Many zoos leave the dead specimens for own exhibits, take Riga zoo, that has an elephant and many other animals in a museum that once was elephant house.

I myself handled 2 hippo feet, manually cleaned, and this was a wonderful experience!
 
@Elephas maximus
Museums are often not interested in dead zoo animals - they lack space!

Elephants, hippos, whales and suchlike animals with naked skin are also difficult to mount realistically. Museums normally show models from plastic or fiberglass, not real skins.

On the side, my local zoo used to auction some dead specimens. Most went to the film industry, handful to private persons, some nobody wanted.
 
While whales are incredibly hard to mount with super-thick fat-saturated skin, and 99% of cetaceans in museums are replicas (seen real dolphin mounts though), pachyderms were mounted since long ago and the techniques becoming better and better over the ages.

The mounts don't crack now like vintage ones, and no fiberglass replica can provide natural-looking skin with all tiny hair, wrinkles and pores modeled. A badly made model looks like a giant toy.

Taipei zoo has a new full body mount of Asian elephant, and each year some full-body mounts are made from trophy hippos, rhinos and African elephants (trophy heads are cheaper but look unhappy without the rest of body). No visible seams, those are sealed with modern polymers. The only difficulty is carving a fitting form, since these animals often vary greatly in size and body shape among the species.
They should have made an exception for Radza, for his fame.
Any captive pachyderm has an advantage over trophy shot in native country - its skin comes whole and fresh, not salted and cut to several pieces for easier shipping.

And which animals at your zoo were unwanted ones? Deer and peccaries?
For me, every species is fascinating from outside and from inside.
 
Radza is dead, period! Focus on living animals, instead of dead ones. That's how it is, and how it should be. And besides, it was an elephant, not a human being.
 
vogelcommando said:
Mingalar Oo, an Asian elephant gave birth to a baby boy :)
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Bummer, not again …. (a male :eek:)!

I really tend to the theory - though any scientific fool-proof and concrete evidence is yet lacking - that when several matriarchal herds are maintained the sex gene competition is favoring males and that this will only change when a stable non one matriarchal unit is maintained.
 
Fur seals will soon arrive in the zoo. The building of the new zoo is on schedule, hopefully it will keep that way....
 
Johnny said:
Fur seals will soon arrive in the zoo. The building of the new zoo is on schedule, hopefully it will keep that way....
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Hi I am curious where will these seals come from?

Do seals easily breed in captivity?
 
zooman said:
Hi I am curious where will these seals come from?

Do seals easily breed in captivity?
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I don't know where these are coming from, but in respect to your second question -- yes, fur seals and sealions breed very well in captivity.
 
Thank-you Chlidonias,

I have not heard of this in Australia as most of ours are rescue seals l think.
 
zooman said:
Thank-you Chlidonias,

I have not heard of this in Australia as most of ours are rescue seals l think.
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the only exotics in Australasia are the Californian sealions in both countries, and the harbour seals at SeaWorld. Most Californian sealions in captivity around the world are captive-bred. With the rescue/rehab native pinnipeds they are generally individuals which are unreleasable and there are usually stipulations that they are not to be bred from (at least in NZ, probably in Australia as well).
 
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