Per last year's TAG meetings, the Chinese goral will likely be managed to extinction. The species has had really poor breeding success despite a lot of effort and institutional interest, and the population is aging quickly. There have been four calves born in the last year, which is better than most years, and the facilities housing them seem committed to them, however, so we might still see them around for awhile longer.
I just dont get it. Goral are attractive, interesting exhibit animal, can be in multi species with takin et al. Surely, the poor breeding should have made AZA think what they eere doing wrong a population do not age out of nowhere.
The collection of 2 young male southern pacific rattlesnakes on zoo grounds for exhibit animals is interesting. I’ve never heard of zoos collecting animals from their own grounds for an exhibit.
He had moved to Brandywine as part of an SSP recommendation. Here’s the link the Delaware’s government website reporting the news.
Are bird flu cases spiking in the west coast or something? When I visited California in February, basically the height of the pandemic, all the zoos there had their birds fully on exhibit. Its strange that just as the east coast zoos start to ease their closures, LA heightens theirs.