The current zoo was opened in 2004. The place in the video is Parque Tamatán.
Eliseu was indeed an olive baboon. Back in 1998, the zoo moved the male to another island, far from the one where the sacred baboons lived in order to avoid interbreeding. After moving him, the Rio de Janeiro zoo sent a female called Jaqueline to live with him, but it did not and he got depressed, stopped eating, got pneumonia and died in the same year the romance started.
I forgot to mention that Jaqueline was sent back to Rio de Janeiro after Eliseu's death.
The rhesus macaque living at the Brusque zoobotanical park is a female and her name is Maria Clara. The mandrills living there are father and daughter. Katully, the older mandrill, arrived at the institution along with Karmina (the younger female's mother) in 2001. They came from an ilegal breeding center, where they were bred in order to have their infants sold to circuses and the black market.
As I posted previously in this thread, "Katully" and his mate "Karmina" are parents of most of the mandrills in brazilian institutions. He lives nowadays with his daughter "Katarina", and she receives anticoncepcionals.
I'd say the best option for her is to be sent to the Butantan Institute, where she'll be kept with a huge group of animals from the same species.
Yes, well said. I almost forgot about that group in Butantan.
One more great video you've shared. Things have changed drastically since then, fortunately.
