PaddyRickMFZ
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Do WORZ plan on breeding the eland? Or is it a stagnant group?
Werribee Open Range Zoo Future of Werribee Open Range Zoo (Speculation/Fantasy)
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PaddyRickMFZ
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Not to mention the eland and waterbuck just hide in the woodland, not making a very cohesive Savannah appearanceWerribees antelope species has certainly dwindled over the years and appears underwhelming today.
Exactly, The pubic expect to see something for their day out and if they consider it is nor really worth coming back its the zoo that loses out. Its one of the things are also wrong with Australia zoos African Savannah, no antelopes and just 2 zebra, if they never had Giraffe and rhino it would be just about empty not even one Ostrich in sight!
What annoys me is when Dubbo phase out the endangered Persian onanger, but continue to breed generic zebras; or Werribee decide to phase out the critically endangered Addax, but continue breeding Indian antelope.
Considering how much trouble the WPZ had gone to to acquire Onager from Rotterdam and the USA, what a waste of time money and effort. I would be surprised if any were ever offered to another zoo/s within the region, just another centric species for TWPZ.
PaddyRickMFZ
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What are some other species that Taronga didn’t attempt to share with the country? I know of dholes and onagers, but not sure of many others?
It appears the Asiatic lions (later revealed to be hybrids) remained within the Taronga/Dubbo collections. I don’t have any information to suggest whether that was due to other zoos not wanting them, or Taronga not wanting to disperse them.
A pair of Clouded leopard were imported by Taronga in the 1990’s. They were the only holder in the region, but there’s no reason other zoos couldn’t have imported them; and since they never bred at Taronga, there was no opportunity to share. They did in fact send the elderly female to Melbourne, where she lived out her retirement years.
The breeding group of Scimitars are in the arid section. The bachelor group were in the lower Savannah but moved off display a few years ago.
Re. The eland, yes Werribee do breed them, and they have quite a large group at the moment (numbering in the 20’s).
Re. The eland, yes Werribee do breed them, and they have quite a large group at the moment (numbering in the 20’s).
PaddyRickMFZ
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So which group is now in the lower Savannah?
If you saw them recently, I’d assume from the above that a second bachelor herd has been generated from the young adult males born late 2021. They would have been housed in the breeding herd up until now.
It may very well be that same bachelor group that was previously there as the off display paddocks they were in are where the elephant complex will be.
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