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Is there an opening timeline for Forests and Jungles yet? I haven’t heard any updates on it in a very long while.
 
Does anyone have any photos or information on the zoo's Cuora trifasciata? Someone has added their animal to ZTL as the subspecies luteocephala from Hainan, but I'm not sure on what basis. Besides for some confirmed luteocephala at the Turtle Survival Alliance, all photos I've seen of this species in the US have been of the nominate subspecies. I'm sure there are more luteocephala out there, but it would be nice to be able to confirm Fort Worth's claimed animal.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Does anyone have any photos or information on the zoo's Cuora trifasciata? Someone has added their animal to ZTL as the subspecies luteocephala from Hainan, but I'm not sure on what basis. Besides for some confirmed luteocephala at the Turtle Survival Alliance, all photos I've seen of this species in the US have been of the nominate subspecies. I'm sure there are more luteocephala out there, but it would be nice to be able to confirm Fort Worth's claimed animal.

~Thylo
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Not sure if this photo will help you due to the poor quality, but this is one I took back in 2018
 

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King of Komodo Dragons said:
six Axolotls have hatched.

https://x.com/FortWorthZoo/status/1923155023338537149
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They be hybrids and not the pure-bred species axolotl. I am afraid all individuals outside range and outside Mexico have no conservation value and breeding programs for them take away valuable space from the real article as well as any other threatened and/or (critically) endangered amphibian species both regionally and globally.

The only pure-bred axolotl have their natural distribution in Lake Xochimilco, Lake Chapultepec (the forests around the Miguel Hidalgo neighbourhood) and Lake Chalco within the confines of Mexico City or just around it. In Mexico City the other locality with pure-bred axolotl is at one of the Universities in Mexico City (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco is driving the research).

SOURCE: https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/30307/1/WBBY901_2023_Charlotte_Kloetstra.pdf
 
Anyone noticed the fences put up around the former bird areas and old cafe that have pictures of animals that might be in the future Forests and Jungles exhibit, here are the animals pictured;
  • Jaguar
  • Black-Handed Spider Monkey
  • Giant Otter
  • Squirrel Monkey
  • Blue-Throated Macaw
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Sumatran Orangutan
  • Red Panda
  • Asian Small-Clawed River Otter
  • Agile Gibbon
  • Okapi
  • Eastern Bongo
  • Eastern Black and White Colobus
  • Saddle-Billed Stork
 
ZooFan1 said:
Anyone noticed the fences put up around the former bird areas and old cafe that have pictures of animals that might be in the future Forests and Jungles exhibit, here are the animals pictured;
  • Jaguar
  • Black-Handed Spider Monkey
  • Giant Otter
  • Squirrel Monkey
  • Blue-Throated Macaw
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Sumatran Orangutan
  • Red Panda
  • Asian Small-Clawed River Otter
  • Agile Gibbon
  • Okapi
  • Eastern Bongo
  • Eastern Black and White Colobus
  • Saddle-Billed Stork
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Great Selection of African, South American, and Asian Animals following the Theme of Predators of Asia & Africa.
 
ZooFan1 said:
  • Agile Gibbon
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are you sure it's this species of gibbon and not the White-Cheeked Gibbon? as the zoo already has this species, so I feel it would make more sense to move them from W.O.P. to Forests than to bring in a new gibbon species.(and what is the population of Agile Gibbons even like right now, to my knowledge only Omaha and Gladys Porter have them.)
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
are you sure it's this species of gibbon and not the White-Cheeked Gibbon? as the zoo already has this species, so I feel it would make more sense to move them from W.O.P. to Forests than to bring in a new gibbon species.(and what is the population of Agile Gibbons even like right now, to my knowledge only Omaha and Gladys Porter have them.)
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Not even Gladys Porter - their rare gibbons are pileated and Muller's. I think it might just be Omaha now.
 
So what about the area where the other great apes: Gorillas, Bonobos once the Orangutans move out, what's the plan?
 
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