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DavidBrown said:
Keep in mind that the vision plan is not a concrete list of what might happen years from now. If a new curator or director decided at some point that they wanted to start a new red uakari program and it was feasible, that might happen. Conversely the zoo could decide that it does not want to build a tamarin exhibit when they get to the renovation of the South America exhibit years down the road.
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That’s true really anything could change, we could see a new ukari pair as soon as next year depending on availability
 
DavidBrown said:
Keep in mind that the vision plan is not a concrete list of what might happen years from now. If a new curator or director decided at some point that they wanted to start a new red uakari program and it was feasible, that might happen.
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Westcoastperson said:
That’s true really anything could change, we could see a new ukari pair as soon as next year depending on availability
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While that's technically a possibility, my two cents is that I would be extremely surprised - shocked, even - if LA acquires more uakari after the current individual passes. Maybe 15-30 years from now when the new South American area is built that will change, but at the moment I can't see them bringing back a species that is not in demand, not present elsewhere in the country, was not demographically successful, and which has not even been on full public display.
 
Coelacanth18 said:
While that's technically a possibility, my two cents is that I would be extremely surprised - shocked, even - if LA acquires more uakari after the current individual passes. Maybe 15-30 years from now when the new South American area is built that will change, but at the moment I can't see them bringing back a species that is not in demand, not present elsewhere in the country, was not demographically successful, and which has not even been on full public display.
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But if the AZA decides they want to push to integrate more red ukaris into American zoos they will most likely go to LA but the zoo itself probably won’t push to include them for a while as you said, although they did promote how they had the red ukari
 
Westcoastperson said:
But if the AZA decides they want to push to integrate more red ukaris into American zoos they will most likely go to LA but the zoo itself probably won’t push to include them for a while as you said, although they did promote how they had the red ukari
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I highly doubt the AZA will go into Red Uakari, even though the species is vulnerable. The interest is not there, plenty of other South American primates are readily available.
 
Coelacanth18 said:
Considering the cottontops have been gone a long time and not replaced, I think it's safer to assume that the little island would *not* suit more tamarins well. In any case, I never saw a cottontop when they lived there so I question the visibility also.
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I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that the tamarins kept getting eaten.

~Thylo
 
African Grey said:
I asked a keeper and they said that both of them were killed by hawks.
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It's always unfortunate when a zoo loses animals to a wild predator, especially when the species is endangered. In reality many species are at some risk of being killed by a wild predator in open air exhibits, it's not unheard of by any means. I remember reading an article a couple months ago that the SDZ Safari Park was having to work with Fish & Wildlife to keep the local mountain lions out of the hoofstock areas while they were shut down due to COVID. The park being so much quieter emboldened the cougars to consider going for the confined hoofstock, and the park was having to go to a lot of trouble to keep them out. I've heard plenty of other stories of zoos losing various animals to cougars, hawks, and other predators. Sometimes it just happens, despite best efforts to prevent it.
 
drill said:
three in US with Serow, Hemker in Minnesota, Roosevelt in North Dakota, and Trevor in New York.
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Circling back to this in light of the goral's death, I can't tell when they were loaned to Roosevelt Park, but they were sold to complete the transfer in August of 2019 (I needed to know)
 
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