I'd love to make it back to Chicago and see all three zoos again (last time I was 8 years old), but unfortunately it's a little too far to be a reasonable trip for me right now. Hopefully I'll make it there eventually though!Come visit Chicago's zoos and you can scratch both of those small antelope off your list as well as dwarf mongoose, bat-eared foxes, black-footed cat, swamp monkeys, and red-tailed genouns.
I would actually say primates seem to not be so often held within larger Africa complexes in my experience but often in dedicated areas due to their unique needs. It might actually be interesting to seem the more integrated in biogeographic sections.
Making African Sections More Unique
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Completely understandable as travel has always been quite difficult for us too, but I hope the chance comes your way sooner instead of later!
Yes, I've seen gorillas in pairs or even separated from each other.
Can we get a petting zoo wirh Set Animals ?
You would love the vulture aviary in the Tierpark Berlin, which only recently became walk trough. It has a large collection of rare species
What are Set animals?
Do other birds mix well with vultures?
Corangurilla
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A fictional species that represents the Egyptian god Set. Looks like a lot of different animals, but doesn’t resemble a specific one.
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Yes. Besides the commen mixes in europe like kites and bald ibises. I have seen them mixed with ducks, ravens, cranes, sectrary birds, guniea fowl, hornbills and many more.
The Taiga aviary in GaiaZoo for example has besides griffon vultures, cinereous vultures and egyptian vultures many duck species, a few wader birds, rock pidgeons, azur winged magpieas, bald ibises, demoissele cranes and kestrels
Detroit mixes four species of Old World vultures (Hooded, Lappet-faced, Cinerous, and Eurasian Griffon) with Sandhill Crane.
Milwaukee mixes Cinerous Vulture with Southern Ground-Hornbill, Black-crowned Crane, and American White Pelican. There's also Thompson's Gazelle and (formerly) Impala in this mix.
Lincoln Park Zoo mixes Cinerous Vulture with White Stork.
Binder Park Zoo mixes Cinerous Vulture with Common Ostrich and Marabou Stork (as well as a variety of hoofstock).
Corangurilla
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Phoenix keeps Lappet-faced & Ruppell’s Griffon Vultures with crowned cranes, Ostriches, and guineafowl (as well as Masai giraffes and Thompson’s gazelles).
Are the vultures wing clipped?
Some of the ducks are thoughA little off topic, but...
...none of which are Taiga species
Corangurilla
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Most definitely.
There are quite a lot of smaller African fish species in the hobby outside of the Rify Lake cichlids which might male for an interesting exhibit as part of a themed section. From West African forest streams there are many species of small characins and cichlids especially, as well as various Aphyosemion killifish. From drier areas the verty vividly coloured annual Nothobtranchius killifish (manyy of which are sadly threatened) would make for a very interesting display alongside various African amphibians and water birds.
What are the largest groups of Mandrill/Drill/ Gelada that anyone has seen? Maximum counts of groups in these species in the wild get well into 3 figures or more!
Problem is most killifish are very short-lived and would require a lot of dedicated work to keep them consistently on exhibit.
The by far largest gelada group is in rheine. With to large breeding groups. Both probely arround 40-50 animals
Kilimanjaro Safaris at Disney. Well their exhibits are pretty much adjescant but with Disney's practically unlimited budget you can fit all of them quite nicely onto one big 105 acre land.
Busch Gardens Tampa has them on the Serengeti Plains and adjacent/attached Edge of Africa area, other than the elephants being Asian the rest of the stock is included (as well as both black and white rhino). I don't believe they have cape buffalo right now, but they have in the past.