Exotic Mammals in Australian Zoos

Might've been me with the Gorge thing - they definitely had an exhibit for tree shrew in September last year, but I didn't actually see the animal/s (at that time the one at Adelaide was also off-display but had a sign saying it was with the vet).
 
Chlidonias said:
I don't know what the story is with Gorge and tree shrews. I know someone on here at one point said they had an enclosure for them, but I don't know whether they had the Melbourne animal which has died or a separate individual. If anyone knows the current situation with Gorge let us know.
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I saw tree shrews (plural - I think 2) at Gorge in Nov 2013. They had a fairly new enclosure which was adjacent to one for common marmosets or cotton-top tamarins, and of the same design. I'm fairly sure they were ex-Adelaide.

I don't think they got the Melbourne shrew/s, I think it just died.
 
Chlidonias said:
there were five agoutis at Taronga last year (one being the 2011 female, the others all very old animals) - the ones at National are the old ones "retired" to make room for new stock. I would guess the young female would have stayed at Taronga for breeding with a new male. However I'm not sure how many there are at Taronga currently - if any - so I have added National to the listing but left Taronga on there (and also Melbourne, although I'm not sure if their old animal is still alive either).
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so with some further information, it seems like there are now no agoutis at either Taronga or Melbourne any more.
 
Can confirm that both the tree shrew at Adelaide and Gorge have passed away. Both passed away at least 6 months ago.

Adelaide has replaced one enclosure with Gippsland water dragon and the other with rhinoceros iguana.

Gorge is still yet to fill the enclosure.
 
Sunbear12 said:
Can confirm that both the tree shrew at Adelaide and Gorge have passed away. Both passed away at least 6 months ago.
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thanks for that. I have removed them from the list - an entire Order gone from Australian zoos.
 
I've finally got around to finishing up a list of "lost species", and added it into the third post on the first page of this current thread. I have restricted it to post-2000 so that reasonably reliable information could be found.

For more species lost between 1980 and 2000 there is a whole lot of information in this thread - http://www.zoochat.com/24/australian-zoo-mammal-questions-385275/index3.html - from post #42 on page three onwards.
 
Chlidonias said:
*Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) – Adelaide; Altina; Billabong; Crocodylus; Darling Downs; Gorge; Halls Gap; Hunter Valley; Melbourne; Mogo; Monarto; National Zoo; Perth; Royal Melbourne Childrens Hospital; Symbio; Taronga; Tasmania Zoo; Werribee; Western Plains Zoo; Wings Wildlife Park; Zoodoo

Kept since the 1980s (probably earlier) at all the major zoos: Adelaide, Melbourne, Taronga and Perth. Indeed Adelaide at least had them in the early 1900s (but probably not continuously since then). There have been many many later imports since the 1980s and they are widely bred. There are now around 150 Meerkats in Australian zoos.
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According to ZAA's website (http://www.zooaquarium.org.au/index.php/meerkat/):

Meerkat have been continuously kept in Australasia since they were first imported into Melbourne Zoo in 1974 from Namibia.
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Adelaide did hold them in the early parts of the 20th Century: four specimens arrived in 1906, but had died out by 1911. They were held again in the 1920s, with one animal received in 1924 and 9 in 1926, but there were no further records of them according to the history book that chronicles Adelaide Zoo between 1878 and 1978.
 
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zooboy28 said:
According to ZAA's website (http://www.zooaquarium.org.au/index.php/meerkat/):



Adelaide did hold them in the early parts of the 20th Century: four specimens arrived in 1906, but had died out by 1911. They were held again from 1924-1926, and potentially longer, but there were no further records of them according to the history book that chronicles Adelaide Zoo between 1878 and 1978.
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thanks for that. That's sort of what I had figured - a few isolated imports and then the continuous holdings - but I didn't really have any proper dates.
 
Chlidonias said:
thanks for that. That's sort of what I had figured - a few isolated imports and then the continuous holdings - but I didn't really have any proper dates.
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I haven't been able to find any references to Meerkats at Taronga or Melbourne any earlier than 1974, but I reckon there would have to have been some scattered holdings. I can't find anything in the few zoo history books I have here though.
 
*White-fronted Lemur (Eulemur albifrons)
Perth Zoo used to breed these until the 1990s. The last three were sent to Western Plains Zoo. I think one died there and the last two went to Gorge Wildlife Park around 2009 or 2010 where they survived until 2015.
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Saw both white fronted lemurs in the past couple of weeks. They are still surviving for now.
 
Sunbear12 said:
Saw both white fronted lemurs in the past couple of weeks. They are still surviving for now.
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ahg, I keep getting told they're alive, they're dead, they're alive...

Back on the alive list they go then!
 
I can't find thread Exotic mammals in New Zealand zoos, is such thread exist, Chli? I am interested whether there are currently gorillas in New Zealand, or there were, as I read on one page for captive gorillas this morning, New Zealand was mentioned as holding country. I will don't mind if you delete this post after you read, because it not fit well into this thread. ?
 
Are you able to check something:

1. I may be wrong, but I'm sure that Mogo have Blackbuck.

2. I'm almost positive that both Mogo and Adelaide have Common Marmoset.

Apologies if I've got this wrong.
 
Grant Rhino said:
Are you able to check something:

1. I may be wrong, but I'm sure that Mogo have Blackbuck.

2. I'm almost positive that both Mogo and Adelaide have Common Marmoset.

Apologies if I've got this wrong.
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I'll see what I can find out. There were definitely no common marmosets at either zoo at the start of the year so if they have them they only got them in the last five or six months, and I can't see anything in the media about that.
 
What is the demography of Godfellow's tree kangaroo in Australian zoos, any rougly info, and whether there are also Matschie's tree kangaroos (actually I saw on first page, that only one female remains in Australia).

Seems that Matschie's tree kangaroos are harder captives than Godfellow's tree kangaroos, what was the reason of declinig of Australian population of Matschie's?
 
Grant Rhino said:
Are you able to check something:

1. I may be wrong, but I'm sure that Mogo have Blackbuck.

2. I'm almost positive that both Mogo and Adelaide have Common Marmoset.

Apologies if I've got this wrong.
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I've checked - it seems that Mogo doesn't have blackbuck or common marmoset, and Adelaide doesn't have common marmoset.
 
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