This mix has been done many times before and will be fine.
This is impossible. Brook Trout require much cooler water than the other two species.
This would work fine, as would just about any butterfly mix you can think of. The only butterfly species I could ever imagine being an issue in mixed exhibits is the Harvester. Just about anything else would be fine.
Would the gar and paddlefish work if the trout are removed? Would it be fine to move the trout in with the bass, bluegill, and pumpkinseed?
August of 2019.
It will be probably feasible.
The species mix looks fine, but the space seems a bit small.
@Kudu21 would know for sure, but one thing I'd be concerned about are those sex ratios. I know in a lot of ungulates the males will display a lot of (potentially dangerous) aggression to each other, especially in the presence of females. There's also the problem of genetic management, as you wouldn't necessarily know who sired offspring when there are multiple intact males on the savanna. While there could possibly be some things you do with rotating males, I still think you'd be better off with, say, 1.6 Thompson's gazelle instead of 3.4.
Milwaukee mixes Abdim's Stork and Hamerkop.
Beauval too. But there aren't Shoebills in their aviary.
@Neil chace is correct about the sex ratios here. You would definitely not want more than one intact male in either the gazelle, wildebeest, or giraffe herds. There would be a lot of aggression between the males whenever the females are cycling. This could not only result in potential injury or death to the males, but energy is contagious in prey animals, so it is very likely that the entire exhibit would get worked up and potentially injure themselves, just feeding off the heightened energy of the competing males. Impala generally do better with multiple intact males in a herd than most other antelope species do, but I do not know that it is worth it/@Neil chace is correct in that you would not know the true father of any offspring produced. That said, some facilities will castrate surplus male offspring and keep them in the herds purely for numbers/if they know they are not going to be able to place them (there are castrated males in many of the herds at the SDZSP, for one), so if the extra males were castrated you could get away with having multiple males. In these cases, it is most successful when the castrations are performed before sexual maturity, as sometimes castrated males will still retain some of behaviors and demeanors of an intact male, which can lead to aggression towards any intact males in the same space.