A fascinating long article in the latest edition of International Zoo News , number 367 ,gives details of a 64 mixed species exhibits , not all successful .
The front cover has a picture of a young rhesus monkey riding on a sloth bear in a successful mix at Leipzig Zoo .
Stuttgart mixes gelada with Barbary sheep and rock hyrax . The geladas ride on the sheep and milk them , low-ranking monkeys copulate with lambs .
Basel kept hippopotamus with Grant's zebra and ostrich , there is a picture of a zebra picking grass from the male hippo's open mouth ! This worked long-term with one exception - the zebra stallion was killed by the hippos .
Salzburg keeps pygmy hippos with sooty mangabeys , the monkeys ride on the pigs .
Heidelberg zoo keeps blackbuck and axis deer with its Asiatic elephants , the smaller animals have their own areas they can retire to .
Both Berlin and Leipzig keep red duiker with okapi .
Brown bear and wolves have been mixed in quite a few collections , not all without losses of wolves .
The front cover has a picture of a young rhesus monkey riding on a sloth bear in a successful mix at Leipzig Zoo .
Stuttgart mixes gelada with Barbary sheep and rock hyrax . The geladas ride on the sheep and milk them , low-ranking monkeys copulate with lambs .
Basel kept hippopotamus with Grant's zebra and ostrich , there is a picture of a zebra picking grass from the male hippo's open mouth ! This worked long-term with one exception - the zebra stallion was killed by the hippos .
Salzburg keeps pygmy hippos with sooty mangabeys , the monkeys ride on the pigs .
Heidelberg zoo keeps blackbuck and axis deer with its Asiatic elephants , the smaller animals have their own areas they can retire to .
Both Berlin and Leipzig keep red duiker with okapi .
Brown bear and wolves have been mixed in quite a few collections , not all without losses of wolves .
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