Marsupials in Indonesian Zoos

Fargusno

Fargusno

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Taman Safari Indonesia (Cisarua park)
  • Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)
  • Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii)
  • Grizzled tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)
Taman Safari Indonesia (Prigen park)
  • Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)
  • Agile wallaby (Macropus agilis)
  • Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
  • Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii)
  • Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
  • Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, still in planning stage)
Faunaland Ancol
  • Albino Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
  • Grizzled tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)
  • Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus)
Batu Secret Zoo
  • Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii)
  • Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus)
  • Black spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus rufoniger)
  • Sulawesi bear cuscus (Ailurops ursinus)
Lembang Park & Zoo
  • Grizzled tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)
Jakarta Aquarium
  • Dusky pademelon (Thylogale brunii)
Formerly housed
  • White-striped dorcopsis (Dorcopsis hageni, TSI Cisarua)
  • Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso, TSI Cisarua)
 
Chlidonias said:
What is the source for this species being kept?
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My experiences. I used to frequent TSI back before the pandemic, but I took a long hiatus from visiting TSI from 2014-2017.
TSI used to house them at Kampung Papua back in 2008-2011, but since 2013 they were taken off-display. The same exhibit used to exhibited White-banded dorcopsis as well, but the dorcopsis only lasted a year.
 
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Taman Safari Bogor also houses sugar gliders, agile wallaby, and Sulawesi dwarf cuscus.

Faunaland keep black-spotted cuscus. Not sure what happened to their albino cuscus.

Batu Secret Zoo also keep sugar glider, agile wallaby, Sulawesi dwarf and ornate cuscus, and Western long-beaked echidna.

Taman Safari Prigen used to keep several red kangaroos in the original Australia exhibit.
 
Nandito said:
Taman Safari Bogor also houses sugar gliders, agile wallaby, and Sulawesi dwarf cuscus.

Faunaland keep black-spotted cuscus. Not sure what happened to their albino cuscus.

Batu Secret Zoo also keep sugar glider, agile wallaby, Sulawesi dwarf and ornate cuscus, and Western long-beaked echidna.

Taman Safari Prigen used to keep several red kangaroos in the original Australia exhibit.
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Just found some updates according to my memory and photos from Joel Sartore and BioLib
  • TSI has two Dorcopsis species currently on exhibit: Dorcopsis muelleri and Dorcopsis luctuosa. They're mixed with the Dusky Pademelons, and they're pretty hard to spot. Dorcopsis hageni is no longer exhibited.
  • TSI used to had Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo back in 2013-2018, replacing the dingiso.
 
Fargusno said:
My experiences. I used to frequent TSI back before the pandemic, but I took a long hiatus from visiting TSI from 2014-2017.
TSI used to house them at Kampung Papua back in 2008-2011, but since 2013 they were taken off-display.
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Do you have any photos of the animals? I'm sceptical of the claim.
 
The wallaro in Ragunan to my knowledge was once kept near the Sumatran elephants and Komodo dragon around the western portion of the zoo. They no longer have it and instead a group of dusky pademelons took over the exhibit.

The grizzled tree-kangaroo in Cisarua has been on and off-display for unknown reason, probably for more focus on breeding if they still have them. I'm aware that Faunaland, Lembang, and Batu have this species on display full-time.

In a very interesting discovery, the bird park and PKSBI member in the West Papuan island of Biak keep and displayed several species of spilocuscus and even more interestingly an ursine-tree kangaroo. This would make it the second confirmed species of tree-kangaroo keep in a public facility in Indonesia after the grizzled tree-kangaroo, fourth if the claim that Cisarua once kept dingiso and Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo were true.

Here are the videos of the tree-kangaroo and cuscus in the Biak bird park:
 
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