Australia Zoo Komodo Dragons

MARK

MARK

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G/day all,

Great news here in Queensland with Australia zoo now having five Komodo Dragons, thats three boys and two girls, they have built some really large breeding pens for them behind the scenes, there is some information about them on their website.

Does anyone know when the Komodo Dragons at Adelaide zoo will be arriving? or any other details about them like how many. :cool:
 
i think the plans are to get 2-3, and they are still searching for some to the best of my knowledge, but it will take about another year for teh facilities to be finished, they will be housed it what is currently teh Hamadryas Baboon enclosure
 
OH, Thanks for that 2, 3 is a nice number to have they should do well with them, I think Taronga zoo is looking for a adult female to pair with their huge male.
 
dun no , dnt trust me on tht one , jst somewere in my head says he has , i will try to find some info
 
ZooYouthBen said:
i think the plans are to get 2-3, and they are still searching for some to the best of my knowledge, but it will take about another year for teh facilities to be finished, they will be housed it what is currently teh Hamadryas Baboon enclosure
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If they plan to house the lizards in the baboon enclosure, then what is going to happen to the baboons? Will they be staying at Adelaide or are they moving to Monarto? I haven't been to Adelaide for about 6 years. It was a very neat and tidy zoo, I hope it still is.
P.S. How are the girls from Taronga going?
 
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boof said:
If they plan to house the lizards in the baboon enclosure, then what is going to happen to the baboons? Will they be staying at Adelaide or are they moving to Monarto? I haven't been to Adelaide for about 6 years. It was a very neat and tidy zoo, I hope it still is.
P.S. How are the girls from Taronga going?
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The girls are good loving all the attention, the baboons are going to where the Gorillas are.

Adelaides Hippos are going to monarto as soon as a sutible area of land is found (free of salinity)
 
THey ahave 2 nile hippos and 2 pygmy, matk if you have msn messenger please message me so i can answer all your questions quicker, i fell i am being a little too brief
 
taronga currently keeps tuka who came from an indonesian zoo in 1982. i remember as a kid before serpenteria was built that there were two komodos in an exhibit in what is currently the koala photo spot. but i cannot find any record of her now.
in the past taronga had a pair of dragons, the female died of salmonella shortly after getting to the zoo but the male apparently held the record for the longest lived komodo in captivity.
 
the amle does hold the record and he is going strong, he a kind old thing and great with the keepers, but not to the ladies, he kills all partners he has had. i got confirmation from an ex keeper
 
Death of female Komodo

Ironic that she died of Salmonella -- thats how Komodos kill their prey -- one bite will be all that it takes with all the bacteria in their teeth .
Its good that the male has a good rapport with his keepers , though .
 
well the male is actually very smart and when the exhibit originally opened he manged to op-en the lock, and he walked right into the public, he didnt harm anyone and went for astroll, the keeper came up nad sat on his back and told the public all about him, but he has killed all mates tht have been introduced to him
 
'asian' komodo dragons

i really love the indoor/outdoor thing at tarongas serpentaria especially the freshwater crocs and of course the komodo dragon. its funny that all our zoos keep building exhibits for komodos in their "asian rainforest's" when technically komodo dragons are not really asian or rainforest animals. they are found open grasslands and forest on a few small islands in western indonesia that is actually, biogeographically speaking, more australian than asian. these islands are called the lesser sundas and as a region are known as wallacia, after the naturalist alfred wallace. he drew an imaginary line through bali and lombok that ran up between sulawesi and borneo. east of the line is (geographically) southeast asia, to the west is australiasia. wallacia is known as a bit of a mix zone between asia and australia, but some islands are definately more one than the other. sulawesi for example has mostly asian fauna (primates and dwarf buffalo etc..) but still a couple of possum species (some scientists therfore dismiss sulawesi as not part of wallacia). nonetheless as far as mammalian fauna goes sulawesi is the exception and if you take out the introduced animals, wallacia is all possums, australian rats, bandicoots and lorikeets. the islands are all remnants of what was once a larger australian continent - one that had many giant goannas!

so really, komodo dragons belong in the australasian section of a zoo!
well sort of. maybe we should push for a wallacian section!
 
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