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Also, Oakland zoo responded to an email I sent a few months ago about the breeding conditions of the animals. Essentially they said that walaroos breed regularly and that giraffes, squirrel monkeys, otters, warthogs, baboons, aviary birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects may produce offspring in the future because they have in the past.
 
TheEthiopianWolf03 said:
@Arizona Docent, do you know if there are any young jaguars still living with parents over at Arizona? I read in a article by mercury news that the zoo plans on getting jaguars from a zoo in New Mexico or Arizona.
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The only zoo in Arizona that is breeding jaguars is Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium. (There are also non breeding exhibit animals at Reid Park Zoo, Phoenix Zoo - may breed in future, Bearizona). It would not be surprising for them to source some from Wildlife World. If they get some from New Mexico, I believe the only holder is Albuquerque Biopark (aka Rio Grande Zoo).
 
Arizona Docent said:
The only zoo in Arizona that is breeding jaguars is Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium. (There are also non breeding exhibit animals at Reid Park Zoo, Phoenix Zoo - may breed in future, Bearizona). It would not be surprising for them to source some from Wildlife World. If they get some from New Mexico, I believe the only holder is Albuquerque Biopark (aka Rio Grande Zoo).
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Can any of the AZA jaguars be assigned to any of the known subspecies (in other words is there others than just generic) or a conservation breeding policy that way?
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Can any of the AZA jaguars be assigned to any of the known subspecies (in other words is there others than just generic) or a conservation breeding policy that way?
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Although the results are debatable, genetic testing so far confirms there are no subspecies of jaguar; it is a monotypic species. (I mean in the wild, not just in zoos).
 
Arizona Docent said:
Although the results are debatable, genetic testing so far confirms there are no subspecies of jaguar; it is a monotypic species. (I mean in the wild, not just in zoos).
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Monotypic across such a diverse and huge range.....! Any meaningful papers?

You do know that sample sizes for each individual population need at least to be 20-25+ in order for a genetics study to be anything but ..., to make any realistic assumptions on uniqueness et cetera.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Monotypic across such a diverse and huge range.....! Any meaningful papers?

You do know that sample sizes for each individual population need at least to be 20-25+ in order for a genetics study to be anything but ..., to make any realistic assumptions on uniqueness et cetera.
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I am just going by the latest taxonomic revision of the cat family by IUCN. However a large and diverse range does not necessitate subspeciation UNLESS there is geographic separation. It is my understanding that minus the recent human habitat fragmentation, jaguars have a continuous range.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
The California Trail acquisition process seems to indicate the (perceived) non-breeding policy of the zoo might come to an end at least where this pertains to North America fauna.
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It's definitely more than perceived. Part of me believes that it's partly a result of the political climate throughout the Bay Area, but the zoo seems to actively pursue and acquire surplus animals in response to that sentiment.
 
Buldeo said:
It's definitely more than perceived. Part of me believes that it's partly a result of the political climate throughout the Bay Area, but the zoo seems to actively pursue and acquire surplus animals in response to that sentiment.
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I just hope that they start breeding programs with some of their more rare species. With other zoos having their 200th baby giraffe and countless of baby flamingoes, it’s just frustrating for me why they don’t do this.
 
Buldeo said:
It's definitely more than perceived. Part of me believes that it's partly a result of the political climate throughout the Bay Area, but the zoo seems to actively pursue and acquire surplus animals in response to that sentiment.
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It is downright bowing to the unfounded and uninformed and those that are not willing to be swayed by reasonable arguements and mixing fact + fiction into a polically correct socio-speak.

For starters that entire cohort fails on even to the most basic concepts of species conservation and population management and habitat conservation and thus is unhelpful in stopping and or even reversing the global trends in species and habitat threat categories nor their reversal. If only they would start questioning their own ecological footprint a bit more and what space humankind actually takes up in general - including they themselves - for a change. If you are not part of that solution, you are really part of the problem of humankind destroying Planet Earth. Amen!

Where this concerns the Oakland Zoo, its management and future path. I reallty do and would advise them to go and engage the media properly and full frontal, to do their PR job more effectively and bring the whole arguement back to them thru (and with) the media pro-actively instead. This is very much more preferable than the current status quo where it is just them waiting for the inevitable and total exclusion of - first of all - the cute, the loveable and big that lazy and lay people only seem to take for granted - species from zoos to their eventual complete shut down and this all thanks to an identity and anthropomorfised politics based movement that fails at biology, ecology and life sciences even before grade 0 and will only precipitate and exacerbate the consequent total extinction of wild- and plantlife and wild areas and secure protected areas from our Planet.

And really ....it is thanks in large part to their total indifference to the real issues. It is just high bloody time we go act and get off our own backsides to confront to rather vocal moral minority.
 
It looks like we’re going to have to wait until the opening of the exhibit as the zoo has stated on the social media page that “You’ll have to wait until July 12th to meet the others”. This may hint that the zoo DOES have every animal in the zoo but maybe not on exhibit yet.
 
A walaroo was born earlier this year as noted by the tv show “brother vs brother”. The fact that I can’t even go to the zoo’s site or social media page and instead have to rely on the merits of a TV show to find news about animal births is very frustrating and I hope Oakland posts more info about animal offspring so I don’t have to search for a random tv show to find information...
 
For people wondering about where all the animals are coming from, the full lineup is on the zoo’s website on the news page. Here’s the list for those who don’t have time to go to the site...

1.1 Californian condors came from Oregon zoo.

0.4 bald eagles are coming from a raptor centre in Wisconsin. @birdsandbats if you know the exact name that would be helpful. They’re due to arrive today or later this week.

1.1 Jaguar. Male will come from LA while the female is coming from Guatemala from an ARCAS facility. They are apart of the jaguar breeding program.

4.0 Grizzly bears came from Anchorage, Alaska.

2.14.10 American bison. The 14 females came from the Blackfeet reservation and the 2 males will come from Yellowstone National Park. The 10 calves were born at the zoo.

The rest of the animals are local rescues or have already been at the zoo for a while and were already mentioned to full detail on the thread but just for reference...

2.1 Mountian lions. All rescues.

1.1 Grey wolves from the California wolf Center. Paired to breed.

0.1.3 Black bears. All rescues.
 
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