Mixed species exhibit ideas

[MClaeys]

I think they meant that the problem with the mix is getting captive pale-throated sloths, not getting them to coexist with the monkeys and armadillos.

My mistake, I meant two-toed sloths instead of pale-throateds actually.

 

[robbare]

Could curassow or grey-winged trumpeter be housed with marmosets, providing the exhibit provides plenty of space for both?

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Could curassow or grey-winged trumpeter be housed with marmosets, providing the exhibit provides plenty of space for both?

Yes they could

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Do you think the following list of animals would work?
Wandering Whistling Duck, Freckled Duck, Maned Duck, Pink-eared Duck, Hardhead, Magpie Goose, Australian Sarus Crane, Masked Lapwing, Bush Thick-knee, Little Pied Cormorant, Straw-necked Ibis, White-faced Heron, Rufous Night Heron, Blue-winged Kookaburra, Red-tailed Black-cockatoo, Galah, Little Corella, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and Agile Wallaby

 

[MOG2012]

Do you think the following list of animals would work?
Wandering Whistling Duck, Freckled Duck, Maned Duck, Pink-eared Duck, Hardhead, Magpie Goose, Australian Sarus Crane, Masked Lapwing, Bush Thick-knee, Little Pied Cormorant, Straw-necked Ibis, White-faced Heron, Rufous Night Heron, Blue-winged Kookaburra, Red-tailed Black-cockatoo, Galah, Little Corella, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and Agile Wallaby

It could work but there are a couple problems:

• Cockatoos can be destructive and dominant so there shouldn't be delicate birds
• Bush thick-knees can get stressed
• Kookaburras might eat chicks and other small birds

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Kookaburras might eat chicks and other small birds

Only the Australian Sarus Cranes would breed, so I think that wouldn't be a problem

 

[Austin the Sengi]

• Kookaburras might eat chicks and other small birds

While you are correct about the potential risks of chick-predation; this is a problem that can be easily resolved (at least; for the short-term) by being well-fed from zoo staff and provided enrichment.

 

[FBBird]

While you are correct about the potential risks of chick-predation; this is a problem that can be easily resolved (at least; for the short-term) by being well-fed from zoo staff and provided enrichment.

Very few animals lose interest in potential prey even if they’re well fed. I would expect the Kookaburras would show interest in the crane chicks and probably get killed by the parents. And we’re saying nothing else in there is allowed to breed?

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Very few animals lose interest in potential prey even if they’re well fed. I would expect the Kookaburras would show interest in the crane chicks and probably get killed by the parents. And we’re saying nothing else in there is allowed to breed?

So you mean the Kookaburras should be removed?

 

[Mr Gharial]

So you mean the Kookaburras should be removed?

Or you could simply separate them during breeding (either the cranes or the kookaburras)

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Or you could simply separate them during breeding (either the cranes or the kookaburras)

I would replace the kookaburras with 0,2 Blue-faced Honeyeaters, what would prevent the during-breeding-problem

 

[MOG2012]

Would this mix work? Could Australian pelicans be added?l

• Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus
• Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
• Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
• Galah Eolophus roseicapilla
• Red Kangaroo Osphranter rufus
• Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale xanthopus

 

[MOG2012]

Also, is mixing Varecia and Eulemur recommended/possible? If so, can Blue-eyed Black Lemur and Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur work?

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Would this mix work? Could Australian pelicans be added?l

• Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus
• Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
• Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
• Galah Eolophus roseicapilla
• Red Kangaroo Osphranter rufus
• Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale xanthopus

It should work, but Australian Pelicans could eat the Crested Pigeon or the Galah

 

[MClaeys]

At Pairi Daiza there is/was the mix with the Australian pelicans, also with galahs, cockatiels, budgerigars, rosellas, barraband parrots, rainbow lorikeets, kookaburras, … and it goes without problems.

 

[Paul.Haerle]

At Pairi Daiza there is/was the mix with the Australian pelicans, also with galahs, cockatiels, budgerigars, rosellas, barraband parrots, rainbow lorikeets, kookaburras, … and it goes without problems.

According to Wikipedia they can eat Australian White Ibises...
So there would be a risico, if they are mixed with smaller birds

 

[MClaeys]

Damn, that’s actually brutal. Now, I don’t know if they still have them mixed, because before it had it’s own exhibit in the big aviary, it was actually mixed with red kangaroos and also with agile wallabies.

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Would 1,1 Oriental White Storks (an older couple that don't breed), 0,2 Eurasian Great Grey Owl (ssp. lapponica) and 0,1 North European Ural Owl (ssp. liturata) work in a 100 squaremetre aviary?

 

[Mr Gharial]

Would 1,1 Oriental White Storks (an older couple that don't breed), 0,2 Eurasian Great Grey Owl (ssp. lapponica) and 0,1 North European Ural Owl (ssp. liturata) work in a 100 squaremetre aviary?

GaiaZOO holds European eagle owls with Black storks, so it should be fine

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Would Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill (1,0) , Java Hill Myna (1,1), Javan Green Magpie
(1,1) and Javanese Green Peafowl (1,3) work?
The Java Hill Mynas, Javan Green Magpies and Javanese Green Peafowls shouldn’t breed (at least not in the aviary).