Giant forest hog etc

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Hi Everyone, random thread but i'm researching the history of some species that used to be exhibited but are no longer to my knowledge. If anyone has any info on past holdings please post!

Giant forest hog
Giant armadillo
Northern pudu (any other south american deer species - marsh, pamaps etc)

Tamaraw

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San Diego Zoo used to have a giant forest hog on elephant mesa. It was in the side exhibit that has now been converted to the cheetah/wolf animal ambassador yard. I think it lived with another animal, but cannot recall which (red river hog maybe?). I saw it, this was sometime around 2000 or 2003 or so, but unfortunately I do not have any photos.
 
Arizona Docent said:
San Diego Zoo used to have a giant forest hog on elephant mesa. It was in the side exhibit that has now been converted to the cheetah/wolf animal ambassador yard. I think it lived with another animal, but cannot recall which (red river hog maybe?). I saw it, this was sometime around 2000 or 2003 or so, but unfortunately I do not have any photos.
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There have been a few discussions of this interesting animal on the site. It almost certainly was/is not a Giant Forest Hog, but appears to be a dark form of bushpig.
 
There was a pair of giant armadillos at Regents Park in the early 1970s. They were kept in one of the pens the Stork and Ostrich House (which have now been combined with the sea lion pool as the pens for the pygmy hippo and the giant tortoises). They spent most of their time asleep inside under a heat lamp if I remember correctly.

Alan
 
I think San Diego still has them in the Ituri Forest. The time I saw them they live with Red River Hogs, Forest Buffalos, Bongo, and some monkeys.
 
Northern Pudu - a pair was imported from Ecuador by Berlin Zoo in 1972, but both animals died within a few months.
 
Al,

Manilla Zoo used to maintain tamaraw. Nowadays, I know only of the captive-breeding facility on Mindoro (with several, but I fear they may be post-reproductive or close to ...).
 
As far as I am aware, Bioparque los Ocarros (Ocarro means Giant armadillo) in Villavicencio, Colombia, still holds Giant armadillos.

I visited South America earlier this summer, and found that native deer species, including marsh, pampas and various brocket deer were commonly kept in captivity, as well as the ubiquitous white-tailed deer.
 
if i remember correctly, they used to have giant armadillos in texas zoos, i think san antonio zoo was one of them

also regaurding marsh deer krefield zoo had them along with some zoos in south america

pampas deer they had at san diego zoo and also at san antonio zoo

as for tamaraw id really love to see one of those amazing bovids at a zoo outside of the philippines like in the US
 
if i remember correctly, they used to have giant armadillos in texas zoos, i think san antonio zoo was one of them

also regaurding marsh deer krefield zoo had them along with some zoos in south america

pampas deer they had at san diego zoo and also at san antonio zoo

as for tamaraw id really love to see one of those amazing bovids at a zoo outside of the philippines like in the US
 
You are correct. San Antonio did at one point have giant armadillos. There has only ever been one Tamaraw in the US. It was confiscated upon arrival in San Francisco and unfortunately destroyed by the US customs or USDA.
 
I wish I had more details. I got this info reading the notes from Marvin Jones' personal library.
 
I seem to recall a pair were kept at either Madrid or Barcelona zoo, can anyone confirm?
 
Kiang..no i dont think so-the only captive record in a zoo per se is at Manila as per the pics in the Philippines Gallery[and very welcome they are too].
 
Re.the Giant Forest Hog[ivoriensis]at San Diego..it certainly wasnt a dark Bushpig;although it was kept with a Bushpig[wonder what happened to those at S.D.?they were not on show two years ago].I think everyone expected a huge warty specimen of the type seen in Kenya[nominate ssp] whereas apparently western forms are much less spectacular-and the one at S.D. was a female anyway.Upon reflection i think the zoo was correct in its identification
 
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