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Malacca Zoo now has over 530 wildlife species
In a bid to inculcate the love for wildlife among the people, the Malacca Zoo now has over 530 species of wildlife for the public to view.

Its director, Ahmad Azhar Mohammed, said the species included 1,340 animals.

“Of the species, about 10% are endangered,” he told Bernama at the closing of 2010 Wildife Week at the zoo in Ayer Keroh yesterday.

Among the endangered species are the red panda, tapir, banteng (a species of cow), tree tiger and black panther.

Ahmad Azhar said the zoo also conducted animal breeding programmes, especially for endangered animals.

The Malacca Zoo started operations as a transit centre for wildlife in 1963, before it was launched by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Aug 13, 1987.
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*inculcate means "To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition" (I had to look that up :D)
*I think a "tree tiger" is the clouded leopard
 
Are there not feral banteng in the Northern Territory so does that mean they are just Vulnerable outside their natural range or is this just referring to their IUCN category inside their natural range?
 
the feral banteng in Australia are just that - feral banteng (i.e. domestic banteng from Bali run wild): they are not the same as pure wild banteng, of which the status is endangered; although I understand many authorities include the Australian banteng in the overall population but if you're going to do that then you may as well also include all the farmed stock in southeast Asia in my opinion
 
Chlidonias said:
the feral banteng in Australia are just that - feral banteng (i.e. domestic banteng from Bali run wild): they are not the same as pure wild banteng, of which the status is endangered; although I understand many authorities include the Australian banteng in the overall population but if you're going to do that then you may as well also include all the farmed stock in southeast Asia in my opinion
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I never realised this, thanks for that info!
 
I would be more interested to know what they have in terms of civets and other small carnivores and mammals; but it is one that I must see. I only had time for Zoo Negara before I took the train down to Singapore (spent around 11 hours there on my birthday back in 2008 as it was open until late evening :rolleyes:)

And thanks for clarifying what a tree tiger was! :D (although I suspected of course that it was a Clouded Leopard)
 
The Malay name for Clouded Leopard (Harimau Dahan) is literally "tiger of the tree limbs"!

I certainly don't recall Zoo Melaka having that many species. There is a small carnivore house, but I tend to mix up the Malaysian zoos so I'm not sure what's displayed. I sort of remembered seeing Golden cats...
 
Zooish said:
The Malay name for Clouded Leopard (Harimau Dahan) is literally "tiger of the tree limbs"!

I certainly don't recall Zoo Melaka having that many species. There is a small carnivore house, but I tend to mix up the Malaysian zoos so I'm not sure what's displayed. I sort of remembered seeing Golden cats...
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Indeed, often when they translate to English it becomes Spanglish and as such one ends up with tree tiger.

E.G. Arabic al-ghazal turns out as deer in English. Well, we all know there is a big distinction between Antilopinae and Cervidae.
 
I visited the Melaka Zoo last month and it turns out the figure given in the press releases of 530 species is grossly overblown -- I counted fewer than 180 species there. Potentially the 530 quoted was actually 230, but even that leaves 50 species unaccounted for (they can't all be off-display).

I posted a review of my visit here, with a full species list: http://www.zoochat.com/249/visit-september-2011-a-246355/
 
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