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A Rolloway monkey was on the loose for a few hours today in the park and it was rounded up and returned to enclosure without any drama, but of interest is the fact that its a male called valentino. So they have managed to procure a male to add to the two resident females. No details on age or zoo of origin though.
 
dublinlion said:
A Rolloway monkey was on the loose for a few hours today in the park and it was rounded up and returned to enclosure without any drama, but of interest is the fact that its a male called valentino. So they have managed to procure a male to add to the two resident females. No details on age or zoo of origin though.
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Do they live on a moated island?

Also, do the new Drills also live on an island? Any photos of their enclosures you can post?
 
The Drills live on a very large island on the main lake and the Rolloways and grey cheek Mangabeys also live on fair sized grassy islands. The water is not very deep and they use electric fences to help keep the monkeys at home but there have been a few escapes (mostly lion tails) over the years. The Asian section has really nice islands with loads of natural tall trees and plants for the Gibbons and Francois Langurs. There are a dozen or so Primate species and all bar the Lion Tailed Macaque are housed on islands.
I will load some photos of all the Irish Zoos later as there are very few recent ones in the gallery.
 
The four 18 month old Asiatic lioness's are soon to move to Paris lumigny in France. Is this Parc de felins?
 
Thanks, I was'nt sure if it was the same place. Is it uncommon to have four females in a litter, and also unusual that the same zoo is taking all four. Although it is a cat specialist zoo.
 
@dublinlion All asian lions coming to Parc des Félins will stay here until death and will not breed. This was the deal when the park got its first asiatic lions (to prevent illness transmission from african lions).
 
Antoine said:
@dublinlion All asian lions coming to Parc des Félins will stay here until death and will not breed. This was the deal when the park got its first asiatic lions (to prevent illness transmission from african lions).
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Interesting. I always wondered why they had both subspecies, even though EAZA don't approve. Cheers, you've answered a question I've had for sooooooo long, and I didn't even have to ask it! :D
 
You're welcome @Brum.
EEP for asian lions was in need of room and Parc des Félins was asking for the species and has plenty of space to separate the animals. So the deal was good for all.

I think it was a good idea, even more when you know that la Boissiere and Besançon are leaving asian lions (which is a shame in my opinion).
 
Antoine said:
@dublinlion All asian lions coming to Parc des Félins will stay here until death and will not breed. This was the deal when the park got its first asiatic lions (to prevent illness transmission from african lions).
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@Antoine I'm sorry to sound dumb but why is the Asiatic Lion Breeding Programme suggesting that certain Asiatic Lions don't participate in the Breeding Programme? Surely as a critically endangered species any Asiatic Lion Cub's born are vitally important.
 
The Hedgehog said:
@Antoine I'm sorry to sound dumb but why is the Asiatic Lion Breeding Programme suggesting that certain Asiatic Lions don't participate in the Breeding Programme? Surely as a critically endangered species any Asiatic Lion Cub's born are vitally important.
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Its not as simple as just breeding for breeding sake. There is a lot of work done in matching animals and moving animals to create a diverse gene pool.
 
@The Hedgehog As @taun said some blood lines are more represented than others and the eep coordinator has to decide sometines that asiatic lions don't need to breed or don't need to breed more.
Regarding the Parc des Felins (cause I was speaking about it), as said, usually you can't hold african and asiatic lions in the same zoo to prevent illness transmission for the second ones (as they are important). So it was decided that the Parc des Felins can get asiatic lion but these ones must never leave the park alive. In this way, if the lions can't leave alive there is no reason to breed them.
 
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