Luke da Zoo nerd
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They are referring to a sub population of beluga in that post. Not the species in all.
IUCN Red List 2019 - Discussion
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Good to see the vireo and warblers recovering; however, I think my biggest take-away is that a country that is literally the epicenter of the Asian songbird crisis is still hosting a singing bird competition...
Another jump in Red List status I have noticed on the IUCN website is for the white-thighed colobus Colobus vellerosus, which has gone from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered.
The latest update of '25 Most Endangered Primates' lists this species and recommends that either Barcelona Zoo and Duisburg Zoo start a captive breeding programme for them.
The latest update of '25 Most Endangered Primates' lists this species and recommends that either Barcelona Zoo and Duisburg Zoo start a captive breeding programme for them.
Luke da Zoo nerd
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Interesting. Has this species been successfully bred before?
I don't know for certain if the white-thighed colobus has been bred in captivity before.
However, I have a book called 'Small Mammals of West Africa' published by Angus Booth in 1960 that, among other things, talks about the suitability of twelve of the sixteen listed species of West African primate as pets. Of the white-thighed colobus (referred to as the black colobus and given the Latin name Colobus polykomos, but the image and description make it quite clear it is referring to the white-thighed) it says they 'are not difficult to keep in captivity' unlike the red colobus which is described as 'impossible to rear in captivity' and the olive colobus, whose 'record in captivity is even worse than that of the red (colobus)'.