Mixed species exhibit ideas

Mickey said:
Afaik they can't be mixed with anything but very small birds that can be easily ignored by the condor, and said birds are never mixed because condors aviaries are usually with nets with holes big enough for the birds to escape, so unless you plan a big Andean indoor closed aviary, I'm afraid they'll be the only species in their enclosure
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They are mixed with carcaras in paridaza and with ducks and in the past ibises, and in Timmendorfer Strand with falcons
 
What about Northern rockhopper penguins and Gough moorhens (not kept in captivity at the moment bus has been in the last two decades at multiple places) in an indoor exhibit, that's different from the usual icy penguin exhibit and is instead rocky and full of grass, with an large pool as well.
 
Besides grey gulls, Inca terns and white-breasted cormorants, what other seabird species are commonly mixed with penguins besides other penguins?
 
Ztlabraptor211 said:
Could colobus monkeys be housed with vulturine Guineafowl?

Also could warthogs be housed with either marabous or black storks ?
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To be honest, I wouldn't. There was an excellent article written a few years ago in Animal Keepers' Forum (AAZK's journal) about mixed-species ungulate-stork exhibits. The premise was that, while it's a very common combination, it generally results in poor welfare for the storks - flight restriction, stress from the ungulates (sometimes trampling and goring), reduced reproduction (it suggested that the fondness for exhibiting storks in this manner is one of the reasons for the decline in stork numbers in zoos since they don't breed reliably in these conditions). I'm increasingly inclined to agree. And this was for exhibits with antelope - warthogs are pushier, more curious, more assertive, and more inclined to omnivory.

I think zoos need to do a better job of viewing storks and other tall birds as animals with their own separate welfare needs, not as living lawn ornaments in hoofstock exhibits.
 
in a suitably large freshwater aquarium, would a display of American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) alongside alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) be safely feasible, do we think?
 
Swampy said:
in a suitably large freshwater aquarium, would a display of American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) alongside alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) be safely feasible, do we think?
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Perhaps, but it would be very risky. Alligator Snapping Turtles generally prefer smaller enclosures anyway, so it would probably just be better to keep them separately.
 
Charles said:
Also does anyone know what birds/small mammals you can mix with with village weavers?
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Village weavers can be mixed with different types of African birds, including starlings, guineafowl, francolins, doves and turacos.

I had an idea for a large aviary set-up, much like Antwerp's savanna/buffalo aviary, but rather than with a mammal, doing so with a ratite. Would this be possible in terms of animal mixing and would any species have to excluded from such a set-up?
 
All of the ratites are omnivorous to some extent, so I'd probably limit it to birds that either are a) small, flying, predominately arboreal species that will just fly around and over the ratites, or b) too large to be considered possible prey (though even then there is the risk of chicks or eggs being consumed). But it could work.
 
KevinB said:
Village weavers can be mixed with different types of African birds, including starlings, guineafowl, francolins, doves and turacos.

I had an idea for a large aviary set-up, much like Antwerp's savanna/buffalo aviary, but rather than with a mammal, doing so with a ratite. Would this be possible in terms of animal mixing and would any species have to excluded from such a set-up?
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Do you think that they could be mixed with Eurasian hoopoes? As I think they may be in an avairy with them in my local zoo soon
 
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