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Recent Animal Activities
September 1-30:


Births and Hatchings:

0.0.1 Black Duiker
1.0.0 Calamian Deer
0.0.1 Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby (joey in pouch)

Arrivals:

0.3.0 Squirrel Monkeys(from the San Francisco Zoo)
0.1.0 Okapi(from the Dallas Zoo)
1.0.0 Blue-billed Curassow

Departures:

0.1.0 Black Duiker(to the San Diego Zoo)
2.0.0 Burmese Star Tortoise
4.0.0 Dunn's Hog-nosed Viper(to the San Antonio Zoo)
0.0.11 Komodo Dragon(half of the 22 hatched in August sent to the Columbus Zoo,
which owns the father Buru. The other 11 belong to the Los Angeles Zoo and
will eventually go to other zoos as breeding loans are arranged through the
Komodo Dragon Species Survival Plan)
 
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Thanks for the update. Nice to see that the zoo acquired a female okapi! Maybe this means that the zoo plans to breed them soon. Also, the three squirrel monkeys are all females.
 
Yes the addition of a female Okapi is the fulfillment of one of my big wishes for the zoo. And breeding them is exactly the intent, as stated in the recent Zoo Scape. Thanks for the Squirrel Monkey info.
 
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Recent Animal Activities
October 1 - November 30


Births and Hatchings:

0.0.9 Giant Horned Lizard
0.0.2 Red-flanked Duiker
0.0.1 Southern Gerenuk
0.0.1 Chacoan Peccary

Arrivals:

0.0.1 Green Mamba
0.0.18 Poison Dart Frog (6 each of three different species)
0.0.2 Giant Desert Centipede
0.0.1 Sonoran Desert Centipede
0.0.2 Emperor Scorpion
0.0.2 Tarantula
0.2.0 Asian Elephant (Jewel and Tina from the San Diego Zoo)
0.0.2 Tadjik Markhor (from the San Diego Safari Park)
1.0.0 Koala ( from the Riverbanks Zoo)
0.0.2 Harris Hawk (training to appear in the World of Birds show)
0.0.10 California Condor (arrived from the wild in need of medical attention then released)

Departures:

1.2.0 Fennec Fox (after a temporary stay, sent on to Adelaide Zoo in Australia)
0.0.4 Komodo Dragon
1.0.0 Bighorn Sheep (to the San Diego Safari Park)
1.0.0 Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby ( to the San Antonio Zoo)
0.0.1 Laughing Kookaburra
0.0.1 White-crested Turaco
0.0.1 Masai Giraffe
0.0.3 Tadjik Markhor
0.0.1 Red-rumped Agouti
 
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Recent Animal Activities
December 1 - January 31


Births and Hatchings:

0.0.1 Mexican Beaded Lizard
0.0.1 Rock Dove
0.0.1 Cape Griffon Vulture
0.0.1 Southern Gerenuk
0.0.1 Red-flanked Duiker
0.0.1 Speke's Gazelle
0.0.2 Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
0.0.1 Tammar Wallaby


Arrivals:

0.0.18 California Condor (for medical treatment, mostly lead poisoning)
0.1.0 Steenbok
2.2.0 Panay Cloud Rat
0.0.4 Leaf-tailed Gecko
0.0.5 Pygmy Chameleon
0.0.4 Gray's Monitor


Departures:

0.0.21 California Condor (released back to the wild)
0.0.1 Southern Gerenuk (to the San Diego Zoo)
2.0.0 Babirusa (to the San Diego Zoo)
 
blackduiker, have you seen the Panay cloud rats? I have never seen that species before.
 
Blackduiker, the "2.2.0 Panay Cloud Rat" do you know specifically which species this is? Is it the Panay cloudrunner (Crateromys heaneyi)?
 
Giant Eland said:
Blackduiker, the "2.2.0 Panay Cloud Rat" do you know specifically which species this is? Is it the Panay cloudrunner (Crateromys heaneyi)?
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Yeah, I think Panay Cloud Rat is another name for that species. I've been by their exhibits to see them several times, but still no luck.
 
mstickmanp said:
Yeah, I think Panay Cloud Rat is another name for that species. I've been by their exhibits to see them several times, but still no luck.
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Yes indeed, C. heaneyi.

The Gray's monitors ex the Philippines are some of the most endangered varanids abound! Having been only discovered in 1845, for a long time only 2 specimens were known untill another was found by Auffenberg et al in 1976 triggering fresh expeditions to the Philippines that finally led to its "re-discovery" on Luzon.
 
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Kifaru Bwana said:
Yes indeed, C. heaneyi.

The Gray's monitors ex the Philippines are some of the most endangered varanids abound! Having been only discovered in 1845, for a long time only 2 specimens were known untill another was found by Auffenberg et al in 1976 triggering fresh expeditions to the Philippines that finally led to its "re-discovery" on Luzon.
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Los Angeles also has several other specimen, away on temporary loan, in addition to the recent arrivals. Some or all of them will be put back on display after the completion of LAIR.
 
Recent Animal Activities
February 1 - 28


Births and Hatchings:

0.0.4 Mexican Beaded Lizard
0.0.1 Dwarf Plated Leaf Chameleon
0.0.1 Sichuan Takin


Arrivals:

1.0.0 Steenbok
0.1.0 Yellow-backed Duiker


Departures:

0.0.2 Fennec Fox (to the Saint Louis Zoo)
0.0.1 Cape Coral Snake (to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens)
0.0.1 Tadjik Markhor (to the Bronx Zoo)
0.1.0 Lowland Anoa (to the World Center for the Conservation of Tropical Ungulates,in Punta Gorda , Florida)
 
Thanks for the update Blackduiker! Hopefully the Plated Leaf Chameleon will go on exhibit when the LAIR opens. Those guys are tiny! Also, it's sad that the young female Lowland Anoa is now gone. She was so cute and used to play with some of the volunteers.
 
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mstickmanp said:
Thanks for the update Blackduiker! Hopefully the Plated Leaf Chameleon will go on exhibit when the LAIR opens. Those guys are tiny! Also, it's sad that the young female Lowland Anoa is now gone. She was so cute and used to play with some of the volunteers.
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I remember the video of the young Anoa when she was first put in the perimeter enclosure. And those Pygmy Plated Leaf Chameleons should make for a unique opportunity to display them in LAIR.
 
Now that she is gone I wonder what will be exhibited in that yard. Long ago there was rumors of switching the Giant Eland to that yard and then bringing in a group of Somali Wild Ass to the current Giant Eland yard, but that never happened.
 
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