Mixing Douroucoulis and Calitricidae

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ERD3001

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone had ever mixed Douroucoulis with any Calithricids? Disease is what I am most concerned about?

Where I work has recently had an argument between the two Douroucoulis and we need to move one really :/

Thanks for any help in advance!
 
Mixing Douroucoulis.....

Could there be difficulties with one being diurnal & the other nocturnal, so nobody gets a good night's sleep?
 
I've seen it done before with Nancy Ma's Night Monkeys and Cotton-Top Tamarins. Seemed to work fine.
 
I've seen it on a couple of ocassions in South America. It seems to work ok, but the douroucoulis tend to be more active than I'd otherwise have expected.
 
I cant imagine their different activity would be too much of a problem?

What zoos was it done at where you saw it? and with which species?

Thank you
 
Not particularly; the douroucoulis were still hanging around one corner of the enclosure. It was done in a couple of enclosures with mixed species in Huachipa Zoo in Peru. In one enclosure were Peruvian night monkeys with a two-toed sloth, moustached tamarins and saddleback tamarins. I think there was another species in with the Peruvian douroucoulis, either nancymaae or nigriceps. I think the remaining species of the two was mixed with saddleback tamarins and more sloths in another enclosure.
I'll try to check my photos.
 
I believe Randers Regnskov in Denmark still does it, and if not they at least did it for several years until recently. They have (had) both douroucoulis and several species of callithricines (pygmy marmosets, common marmosets, Goeldi's tamarins, cotton-top tamarins and golden-headed tamarins - most of them at same time) in the South America dome.
I'm pretty sure they have never had any problems.
 
In Artis the douroucoulis are mixed with sakis, pygmy marmosets and some other callichtrid species and there are no problems after 2 years.
 
Up until recently, the Buffalo Zoo had a douroucouli mixed with golden lion tamarins (along with a sloth and agoutis). From what I could tell, everything went fine--the douroucouli was always hiding from the public, but just passed away recently.
 
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