Okapi's

MARK said:
Whats the news on this new zoo for bristol? any ideas on whats happening
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If you look on Bristol's website, there's a whole section somewhere about it, with details of all the different 'zoographical zones' they are planning plus an indication of which species will be kept.

Basically, there will be six zones including an African, Asian, North American- I can't remember the other 3 but one is a 'british wetland' I think. It means they will be keeping a number of large species to represent each habitat. For Africa species like Black Rhino, Hunting Dog, Bongo(?) maybe more Okapi etc. For Asia I think Sumatran orang is a certainty as they've applied to the s/b holders to keep them again (and it probably wouldn't be for Clifton zoo)

I think work starts in 2008 or it may already have done so. look on their website...
 
yes had a look at their website but cant really find much about it, must be looking in the wrong place
 
MARK said:
yes had a look at their website but cant really find much about it, must be looking in the wrong place
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There's masses of info, but its all in very small print. Keep looking....its not on the main homepage I don't think.
 
At 5 AM this morning a baby Okapi was born at Rotterdam Zoo. Mother is Kamina, father is Tom. The baby is most likely female, which would be great news...
 
Can you tell me more about the okapis at Rotterdam? I know that Copenhagen Zoo's old female, Camilla, moved down there some time ago, in the hope that she would breed. How is she doing?
 
Camilla is doing fine.
Tom (the male) find here very interesting and she is not rejecting.

On Friday the Little one have a visit from the Vet, than we now for sure if it's a girl.
Here is the little one, just 7 hour's old.

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picture from Trebaruna.
 
Aw cute. Her ears look unusually fluffy lol
 
Another okapi birth in Europe!

Stuttgart Zoo has announced a male okapi calf from mother Epena (with sire Xano). The calf was born on March 16, 2008. :D

Stuttgart keep their other breeding females Ibina and Kabinda with male Vitu. So, they have some flexibility in keeping different females with their bulls.
 
okapikpr said:
Does anyone know what happen with Wuppertal okapi deaths?
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The only thing I know is that Sudi is dead.

And Jelle;
On zoofreunde forum (a German forum), the say the date is March 13.
And the small male listen to the name Kitabu.

Also I read that Stacy, born 29 June '08 Stuttgart, 3 to 4 months back deceased.
 
Looking at ISIS, Copenhagen are down to one male okapi, what happened to the female, is she not genetically very important having been born to a San Diego female, where is she?
 
Yes, she was moved last year because she is so important. Her name is Camilla and she was born in Copenhagen 12 or 13 years ago. The male that we currently keep is not experienced enough to mate with her, so she was moved to Rotterdam to mate with Tom. Trebaruna has kindly posted a picture in the gallery.

Copenhagen should soon recieve a young male from Marwell to keep the other male company, until a new female is aquired.
 
First introductions of Camilla to the resident male at Rotterdam are promising. So, fingers crossed she might fall pregnant this spring with a calf due in 2009!
 
There was a rumour somewhere on here that two of the Marwell females are pregnant, can anyone confirm?
P.S Thanks for the info Toddy.
 
Camilla is not yet pregnant.
But she can deal with Tom, whether it ever comes to a pregnancy is only remains to be seen, carers are not optimistic about this.
 
Marwell

That was me asking about the Marwell Okapi's.

I was told last year that they think 2 of the females are expecting are due early 2008. I have not heard anything since - but will ask on my next visit.

At the moment I believe they have 5 Okapi (2.3). The youngest male (Shomari) is now 2, so I guess he will be the one going to Copenhagen.
 
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