Mixed species enclosures with marine mammals?

equidae

equidae

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I know of Longleat’s sea lions and hippos; the mixing of various dolphin species with one another or killer whales (e.g., SeaLife Park and Seaquarium Miami); and I believe walruses have been mixed with seals before as well.

What other mixes are there or have there been successfully? Does anyone know of an exhibits with carnivorous marine mammals and fish, perhaps a shark species?
 
Sort of cheating but polar bears have been mixed with brown bears and I think black bears potentially as well in the past.

Manatees have been mixed with a variety of fish as well. I think a Dutch zoo (Blijdorp?) mixes or mixed California sea lions with penguins.
 
I've seen a beluga/Commerson's dolphin pool at Duisburg and a bottle-nosed dolphin tucuxi pool at Antwerp. Unfortunately, I didn't identify the tucuxi in the latter.
 
Fallax said:
Sort of cheating but polar bears have been mixed with brown bears and I think black bears potentially as well in the past.

Manatees have been mixed with a variety of fish as well. I think a Dutch zoo (Blijdorp?) mixes or mixed California sea lions with penguins.
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Elsewhere, penguins got eaten by sealions:)
 
There's a great video on youtube somewhere of a finless porpoise at an aquarium in Japan that somehow got into an enclosure it was not supposed to. It's nipping at fish and harassing hammerheads, just having a grand old time.

I believe it was Okinawa that had spotted dolphins mixed in with their whale sharks/mantas/tuna etc. in their kurishio sea exhibit. Not sure how long that lasted.
 
Bronx Zoo received its first elephant seals in 1957; they were acquired from the New York Aquarium which had attempted an unsuccessful mixed exhibit of walrus and elephant seal.

Unfortunately the elephant seals proved too aggressive towards the walrus "Olaf" and kept biting it, so were transferred to the zoo.
 
Mystic has harbor seal, spotted seal, northern fur seal, and gray seal all together. Several places have harbor seal and gray seal, or harbor seal and CA sea lion together.

Columbus's manatee exhibit has rescued manatees (one permanent resident), a sea turtle, various fish, ray species, and pelicans.
 
L'Oceanographic in Spain has now an enclosure that mix harbor seals with fishes and some birds (I just saw short videos some months ago so I don't really remember the specie)
 
CMTM said:
There's a great video on youtube somewhere of a finless porpoise at an aquarium in Japan that somehow got into an enclosure it was not supposed to. It's nipping at fish and harassing hammerheads, just having a grand old time.

I believe it was Okinawa that had spotted dolphins mixed in with their whale sharks/mantas/tuna etc. in their kurishio sea exhibit. Not sure how long that lasted.
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I think it is Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium or Minami-Chita Beach Land
 
LiSom said:
L'Oceanographic in Spain has now an enclosure that mix harbor seals with fishes and some birds (I just saw short videos some months ago so I don't really remember the specie)
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Do they mix their belugas with anything? I faintly recall hearing about belugas and puffins but I might be getting mixed up with the seal exhibit.
 
equidae said:
Do they mix their belugas with anything? I faintly recall hearing about belugas and puffins but I might be getting mixed up with the seal exhibit.
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Not that I have heard about it.

Their beluga enclosure is right in front of this seal enclosure (which used to be for walruses but they were send to Hamburg zoo few years ago)... Could be the birds sharing the enclosure with these seals are actually those puffins you mentioned.
 
Browsing around the internet brought me to a Hungarian zoo website listing various mixed enclosures, with one in particular being most unusual:
  • California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus
  • Celebes Crested Macaque, Macaca nigra
  • Gelada, Theropithecus gelada
  • Capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
  • Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Now, ignoring the obvious risks that mixing all these species would pose, the given combination is so bizarre I can't even reasonably imagine a coherently designed area for all these species. Unfortunately, the site states this is found at an "unknown institution", leaving the case for finding this menagerie to run cold.
 
Marshall Mannella said:
Browsing around the internet brought me to a Hungarian zoo website listing various mixed enclosures, with one in particular being most unusual:
  • California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus
  • Celebes Crested Macaque, Macaca nigra
  • Gelada, Theropithecus gelada
  • Capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
  • Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Now, ignoring the obvious risks that mixing all these species would pose, the given combination is so bizarre I can't even reasonably imagine a coherently designed area for all these species. Unfortunately, the site states this is found at an "unknown institution", leaving the case for finding this menagerie to run cold.
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I literally did post a link to Zoorope the same day when this thread was first made.
 
While occupying different habitats in the wild, could walruses be mixed with emperor penguins if enough space was given?
 
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