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aw101

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Firstly, I am glad to see Monarto Zoo planning an exhibit for their hyenas, this species is so rare in Australian zoos I believe they would make an interesting display animal, especially considering that the only other zoo with hyenas is Perth Zoo. However, can males and females be kept together or do they need to be separated?

With their plans for a new chimp group, is it possible to integrate the trio from Adelaide Zoo with the newly acquired animals? I thought chimp social structure was highly complex and introductions can often be unsuccessful? Anyone know anything concerning this?

Also, they have plenty of blue sheep behind the scenes and as far as I know these are not exhibited in the Asia section, does any other zoo in Australia hold this species?

They really should build an island habitat for their ring tailed lemurs, they keep them behind the scenes and they are very friendly, would make an excellent exhibit to attract the kids.

When I did my internship there, there was talk about keeping the elephants with the other animals in a mixed African exhibit but this was thought to not be a good idea, also the keepers mentioned that elephants are highly expensive to maintain and they do not have the funds at present to keep elephants.

They only have white rhinos at Monarto Zoo but the plan is to build a stronger fence around the African Plains exhibit and to move the 1:2 white rhinos into this exhibit with the giraffes, zebras, eland and water buck and then to exhibit black rhinos in the present rhino exhibit.

Just out of interest, does anyone know if the surplus chamois at Monarto is still alive?
 
Monarto has a wealth of schemes that are in the planning stages, such as the enormous Serengeti exhibit that is scheduled to be completed by 2010. In my opinion having the hyenas and the ring-tailed lemurs as off-exhibit animals is a total waste, as they would entice many more visitors to the park. The lemurs in particular are similar to chimpanzees in that all primates engage zoo visitors perhaps more so than any other species of mammal. What Monarto should concentrate on is the construction of a few more exhibits for walking tours, rather than the hour long bus road through the park. Many of us here at ZooBeat have mentioned the fact that a person can't spend as much time at an open range zoo as they would at a more traditional urban establishment.
 
aw101, when you say there are plenty of blue sheep, behind the scenes, you don't mean bharal do you?
 
i ont think monarto have ble sheepthey have plenty of babary.

the elephants has sussessfully been done in other s zoo with zebs, ostrich and rhino, and would not be to much of a bother at monarto, given the very large are set aside fr the project.

hyena are not being planned- there already one xhibit, and breed twice.

chimps CAN be intergrated it just takes time

and what was our internship?
 
there's no blue sheep in australia.

monarto do have a 70+ sized herd of barbary sheep though. - these come from north africa.
 
I meant Nilgai, they keep these behind the scenes, some of them are quite friendly.

My internship was during my university degree, I was assigned to a keeper each time I was there, and got to experience everything behind the scenes, it was hard work believe me...but well worth it! i did everything the keepers did.
 
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