Strix
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Would the sitatungas have access to the guest path? I think they are too large for it to be definitely safe.
Mixed species exhibit ideas
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If it's an all-female group it should be fine. It's been done before in Germany and Japan. Maybe keep a breeding male separate if needed, though it could just be a bachelor group
@Strix as a way for me to answer your questions lightly, only the talapoins would have the most access to the guest walkway, whilst the sitatungas would generally stick to either one or possibly both sides of the pathway. And just like what @Mr Gharial pointed out, all of the sitatungas contained within this enclosure will be an all-female group and thus they are fully capable of tolerating the majority of guests that are in the same space as them. I think that should help answer your questions in the best way that I can easily address at the moment as possible.
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Ztlabraptor211
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Could fallow deer be housed with European badgers? I know American badgers are carnivorous and there would be a lot of risks but I couldn't find much on the predatory tendencies of the European species
Rhinos have been in shared habitats before, though I can't recall any black rhinos. According to ZTL they have been mixed with lemurs, Cheetahs, Gazelles, and giraffes though. But I'm not sure of the sizes of those habitats
Badgers mainly hunt smaller animals like rabbits and mice, so they'd probably leave the deer alone. But I'm fairly certain that the deer would be spooked constantly by the badgers and probably be stressed, or prone to attack.
Also: the badgers would dig burrows that the deer would trip in, so probably a bad idea
Just wondering if these species would be able to co-exist:
- Chilean Flamingo and Peruvian Pelican
- Capybara, Southern Viscacha, Patagonian Mara, Mountain Tapir, Darwin's Rhea, Pudu, Giant Anteater, Horned Screamer and Ocellated Turkey.
- Linnaue's Two-Toed Sloth, 9-Banded Armadillo, Scarlet Ibis, Toco Toucan and Andean Cock-Of-The-Rock
- Meerkat, Fennec Fox, Aardvark, Crested Porcupine
- Chilean Flamingo and Peruvian Pelican
- Capybara, Southern Viscacha, Patagonian Mara, Mountain Tapir, Darwin's Rhea, Pudu, Giant Anteater, Horned Screamer and Ocellated Turkey.
- Linnaue's Two-Toed Sloth, 9-Banded Armadillo, Scarlet Ibis, Toco Toucan and Andean Cock-Of-The-Rock
- Meerkat, Fennec Fox, Aardvark, Crested Porcupine
1. Yes
2. Viscachas dig holes which can cause broken legs, trampling of viscachas by tapirs and others could exist too.
3. I don't know
4. No, because fennecs would disturb meerkats and eat their cubs, and territory fights could occur between porcupines and aardvarks. Meerkat and porcupine or meerkat and aardvark mixes has been tried and they should work.
Duisburg keeps Sloths, Tamanduas and multiple bird species together in a greenhouse, and armadillos are a ground-based species that shouldn't be bothered by the birds
OkapiFan
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Would this work if there was a big enough exhibit (Like REALLY big)
- Addra Gazelle
- African Buffalo
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black Wildebeest
- Blue Wildebeest
- Cape Bushbuck
- Common Ostrich
- Common Waterbuck
- Gerenuk
- Grant's Gazelle
- Grevy's Zebra
- Helmeted Guinea fowl
- Impala
- Nyala
- Plains Zebra
- Reticulated Giraffe
- Roan Antelope
- Rhim Gazelle
- Sable Antelope
- Sitatunga
- Southern White Rhinoceros
- Springbok
- Thomson's Gazelle
- Vulturine Guinea fowl
and would African Elephants work too?
- Addra Gazelle
- African Buffalo
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black Wildebeest
- Blue Wildebeest
- Cape Bushbuck
- Common Ostrich
- Common Waterbuck
- Gerenuk
- Grant's Gazelle
- Grevy's Zebra
- Helmeted Guinea fowl
- Impala
- Nyala
- Plains Zebra
- Reticulated Giraffe
- Roan Antelope
- Rhim Gazelle
- Sable Antelope
- Sitatunga
- Southern White Rhinoceros
- Springbok
- Thomson's Gazelle
- Vulturine Guinea fowl
and would African Elephants work too?
Definitely not! Two different rhinoceros species is already way too big of a risk. Gerenuks are rather fragile animals that probably shouldn't be kept in mixed exhibits in the first place and two different species of zebra will definitely lead to hybridization (Same for black and blue wildebeest and some others too).
Also, just in general, there's too many variables for this to work. Mixed exhibits can often be dismissed simply because of a single aggressive individual, and this many different species can quickly lead to a dozen aggressive individuals that would all need large separation enclosures
Armadillos are also however I very skittish species and also a disease vector. Place a large, noisy, and curious bird with them (toco toucan), and the armadillos would be extremely stressed out. Could the armadillos work with some birds? Sure. But not large, aggressive, or noisy species. Try mixing them with tanagers, euphonia, red-crested cardinals, etc. instead of ibises, toucans, and cock-of-the-rocks.
Ztlabraptor211
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Could aardvarks and meerkats coexist well?
Armadillos will eat any fledgeling birds that sit about on the floor
Actually, armadillos have been kept together with Fruit bats, skunks, pigs, macaws, night monkeys, white-faced sakis, Giant squirrels, Pygmy marmosets, Lion tamarins, Emperor tamatins, all sorts of other tamarins, ducks, pied stilts, and lots more!
Certainly!
I never said they can't be mixed at all just said I don't think that specific mix would work.
I just meant to say that they've been kept with noisy and curious species just fine!
Another thing from my experience is that when armadillos are mixed with tamarins or other dominant species, they tend to be extremely difficult to find, as they have to hide from the tamarins, birds, etc. For those reasons I tend not to be a fan of armadillo mixes, as I feel it's a clear indicator that the armadillos are stressed out from the other animals.
If there was to be a very large, safari-orientated exhibit what would be the ideal combinations be out of the following species, providing size was not an issue; White Rhinoceros, African Buffalo, Greater Kudu, Mountain Nyala, Giant Eland, Impala, Secretarybird, Thomson's Gazelle, Hartebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Roan Antelope, Sable Antelope, Mountain Zebra, Common Ostrich, Southern Ground Hornbill and Giraffe.