Mixed species exhibit ideas

Do you think this exhibit would work?
A large, all indoor atrium-style exhibit, called “Mangrove” themed to a mangrove forest on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.
3.4- Black-handed Spider Monkey
2.2- Bahama Pintail
5.7- Caribbean Flamingo
2.4- Boat-billed Heron
A large assortment of small brackish-water fish such as Guppies, Sailfin Mollies and the like.
 
GiratinaIsGod said:
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Erfurt kept african bush elephants, with bateared fox, impala and Grivet Monkeys in the past.
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Magdeburg I think still keeps African bush elephants with bat eared foxes. It's a great sight when you have the luck to see a bat eared fox roaming the huge territory, but since they are nocturnal the chances are very slim. In fact I think most visitors have no clue that they are in the enclosure.
 
AndyJ08 said:
Do you think this exhibit would work?
A large, all indoor atrium-style exhibit, called “Mangrove” themed to a mangrove forest on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.
3.4- Black-handed Spider Monkey
2.2- Bahama Pintail
5.7- Caribbean Flamingo
2.4- Boat-billed Heron
A large assortment of small brackish-water fish such as Guppies, Sailfin Mollies and the like.
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The monkeys would harass the birds, unless these ones have a space free from the presence of the primates.
The Flamingo flock looks a bit small, especially if the breeding of this species is planned. I would recommend a minimum of 20-25 birds.
 
Would this mix of Atlantic Forest birds in a walkthrough aviary work? Any other suggestions would be appreciated, preferably birds which are present in captivity and from the Atlantic Forest

Blue-crowned motmot
Blue-winged macaw
Crested oropendola
Giant wood rail
Green honeycreeper
Plush-crested jay
Red-crested cardinal
Ringed teal
Saffron finch
Scarlet ibis
Silver-beaked tanager
Sunbittern
Toco toucan
Yellow-rumped cacique
 
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NATY said:
Would this mix of Atlantic Forest birds in a walkthrough aviary work? Any other suggestions would be appreciated, preferably birds which are present in captivity and from the Atlantic Forest

Blue-crowned motmot
Blue-winged macaw
Crested oropendola
Giant wood rail
Green honeycreeper
Plush-crested jay
Red-crested cardinal
Ringed teal
Saffron finch
Scarlet ibis
Silver-beaked tanager
Sunbittern
Toco toucan
Yellow-rumped cacique
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The tucan, jay and rail could feed on the smaler birds, eggs or nestlings
 
@Kudu21 or anyone else with hoofstock experience: Is there anything that could comfortably be mixed with a breeding-herd of roan in an approximately half-acre habitat? Ideally something that is at least moderately cold-tolerant.

Looking at the AZA mixed-species manual, most of the roan mixes are in large multi-acre exhibits at places like DAKL, SDZSP, Fossil Rim, etc.
 
Haliaeetus said:
The monkeys would harass the birds, unless these ones have a space free from the presence of the primates.
The Flamingo flock looks a bit small, especially if the breeding of this species is planned. I would recommend a minimum of 20-25 birds.
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The exhibit would be really large, with multiple beach areas available for the flamingo flock, now up to 10.12 birds. The monkeys would essentially be trapped on an “island” of real and fake mangrove trees.
 
Neil chace said:
@Kudu21 or anyone else with hoofstock experience: Is there anything that could comfortably be mixed with a breeding-herd of roan in an approximately half-acre habitat? Ideally something that is at least moderately cold-tolerant.

Looking at the AZA mixed-species manual, most of the roan mixes are in large multi-acre exhibits at places like DAKL, SDZSP, Fossil Rim, etc.
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Probably many hoofstock species.
I don't know especially Roan Antelopes but I know more the sables : they can live with most antelope species, ostriches, white rhinos, giraffes and (if taken carefully) zebras.
 
AndyJ08 said:
The exhibit would be really large, with multiple beach areas available for the flamingo flock, now up to 10.12 birds. The monkeys would essentially be trapped on an “island” of real and fake mangrove trees.
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It would probably be fine. In Beauval all these species live in a large aviary, although the Spider Monkeys are restricted to an enclosure (not an island).
 
Would the following mix be able to work out?
Guanaco, Patagonian Mara, Coscoroba Swan, Maguari Stork, Black-faced Ibis, and Greater Rhea?
 
Neil chace said:
@Kudu21 or anyone else with hoofstock experience: Is there anything that could comfortably be mixed with a breeding-herd of roan in an approximately half-acre habitat? Ideally something that is at least moderately cold-tolerant.

Looking at the AZA mixed-species manual, most of the roan mixes are in large multi-acre exhibits at places like DAKL, SDZSP, Fossil Rim, etc.
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Half an acre is a decent sized exhibit for a breeding herd of roan, but I do not think it is large enough to mix anything with them. I honestly don't think I would want much smaller of an exhibit for just the roan... They are very big and can be on the rowdy side, both amongst themselves and with other animals. They need enough space to get away from each other and to have enough opportunities for resources.
 
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