Bengal Tiger
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Ok cool!!! Thanks
Mixed species exhibit ideas
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I believe Zoorasia in Japan mixes (or mixed) Cheetahs with Giraffes, Zebras, & Elands
Besides the mixes with black rhinos, white rhinos, zebras, Elands and giraffes, they were mixed with Cattle in the Safaripark Pombia, with glapagos tortoises and African Spurred Tortoises in the
Houston zoo and with pygmy hippos in Safari World Bangkok.
Platypusboy
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How about Himalayan tahr, Domestic yak and Blue sheep in a large mountain enclosure?
No problem
Wouldn't it be a good idea to mix lemurs with adabra giant tortoises or with pygmy hippopotamuses to recreate the extinct malagasy giant tortoises and the dwraf hippopotamuses of madagascar ? Lemurs are abd will become more and more common in Zoos, and this gives a unique, intresting and educational mix of species
Platypusboy
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Lemurs have been mixed with aldabra tortoises in Dallas zoo.
ChIkEn NuGrEt
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Lemurs and Aldabra tortoises have been mixed together before with no problem (see Dallas zoo), however I’m not sure about pygmy hippopotamuses, I do not know much about them so I am unsure how they would react in an environment like this.
They have been mixed quite often with other primates, big and smal, aboral and terrestrial. So I see now problem. Even with big and more agrasive species like mandrils and gibbons.
Haliaeetus
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For me there isn't any problem with most North American birds (except predators as eagles, hawks and large owls).
Bengal Tiger
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I'd avoid most other ground-dwelling or ground-feeding birds. Not as much for the turkeys sake as it is for the other birds' sake. Turkeys can be fairly aggressive and can also be stress-inducing to other ground birds.
Haliaeetus
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Yes, I've thought too late to the other galliformes (Quails, Bobwhites, Sage-grouses...) that may be disturbed by the Turkeys.
Sorry.
Bengal Tiger
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What has been mixed with African elephants?
I believe Dallas Zoo has mixed them with zebra, ostrich, guineafowl, and possibly giraffe.
Platypusboy
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Safari park beekse bergen has African elephant with Hamadryas baboon
Mr.Ivory
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Beekse Bergen keeps them with Hamadryas Baboons, Dallas keeps them with Zebra, Impala, Giraffe, and guinea fowl, Boras Djurpark keeps them with Giraffe, Eland, Zebra, African buffalos, blesboks and ostriches, Tampa's Lowry park zoo keeps them with Impala, Rhenen keep them with red river hogs, and Safari de Peaugres keeps them with Wort Hog, and Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo keeps them with Zebra
Would Komodo dragon and Bali mynah be a reasonable mix?
Komodo dragons are sometimes mixed with finches, and the birds generally stay high up anyway, so any birds with the dragons ought to be safe as long as there are plenty of perching opportunities and I suppose sources of water away from one the dragons can use.
Komodo dragons are sometimes mixed with finches, and the birds generally stay high up anyway, so any birds with the dragons ought to be safe as long as there are plenty of perching opportunities and I suppose sources of water away from one the dragons can use.
The issue with this is that if you want to mix birds with a potential predator (dragons, crocodilians, etc.) you need to use "low value" species as accidents are going to be inherent, if rare. Bali mynahs are too valuable of a species for this mix to be worth it.