Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Yes, definitely could tell from the footage that it wasn't the best of enclosures but she must have received an excellent diet and veterinary care for her to live so long.
Old world monkeys in Latin American zoos
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Yes, definitely could tell from the footage that it wasn't the best of enclosures but she must have received an excellent diet and veterinary care for her to live so long.
Hmm I had forgotten Curitiba. I think I remember having heard about baboons in there indeed. Sapucaia do Sul (Porto Alegre) also keeps them (also hamadryas).
Had never heard about this zoo in Honduras though. Blue gnus are indeed quite unusual.
Had no idea any zoo in the country kept this species. Do you remember how many they kept and how their exhibit was?
As I said, I was looking at pictures from my trips, so I don't remember seeing them. I believe only two specimens were kept there and they most likely lived in the current mandrill exhibit. There were institutions around Brazil which kept individuals from this species in the past, such as the ones in Piracicaba, Rio de Janeiro and Niterói (now closed).
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Including a gelada in a Victorian era enclosure by the looks of it.
The siamangs were imported originally to live at a place called Bioparque Jaó. After it was closed, they were sent to the Goiânia zoo.
I believe the BH zoo also kept geladas at the time. There was a video on Youtube from 1991 which showed some of the animals and if I recall correctly, at least a single individual was shown. I wasn't able to find the video after the first time watching it, sadly.
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Seems like Piracicaba zoo had a really great collection back then, with tiny awful exhibits though. I tend to think the zoo had a big impulse at these times, maybe for being a good political propaganda, and then got all these different animals.
It's good they no longer keep animals in these conditions.
Never heard about this "bioparque". Do you know if it ever opened?
About the gelada in BH, I know they/he were/was kept until 2001. I remember having seen one in a home video my mother filmed back then.
In the video you watched, do you remember if the individual was kept in one of the big circle moat style exhibits? In the one I saw, it was in the present wooly monkey one.
I believe it was opened, but not for very long. Also, I don't remember about their (gelada) exhibt.
Do you know were this bioparque was? Was it actually in Goiás?
It most likely was.
The São Paulo zoo had at least a single yellow baboon. I remember seeing it in 2011, in the former gorilla exhibit. According to the Volta Redonda zoo's website, they had sacred baboons in the past, as well as rhesus macaques. Do you remember the files I shared with you which were mostly about the Rio de Janeiro zoo(s), their history and master plan? So, according to them, the Vila Isabel and the Rio de Janeiro zoo had green monkeys, grivets, vervets, mandrills, Guinea (probably confused with sacred), olive, sacred and yellow baboons, as well as crab-eating, Japanese, rhesus and southern pig-tailed macaques. I'll repost these files here:
http://www.unirio.br/ppg-pmus/jose_alberto_pais.pdf
http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/dlstatic/10112/5869572/4153815/TERMODEREFERENCIA.pdf
http://www.unirio.br/ppg-pmus/jose_alberto_pais.pdf
http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/dlstatic/10112/5869572/4153815/TERMODEREFERENCIA.pdf
I remember this yellow baboon at SP (Never saw it though. When I went to SP he had died long ago, and the muriquis were already at the former gorilla habitat.) But I heard he was too agressive to live in a group. If I'm not wrong, he got into a fight with a female that was presented to him once, and she had to return to the zoo where she came from (wich I don't know wich one was, but I imagine it's Rio).
It's amazing that Rio zoo had so many species of old world monkeys. I know they were probably kept in awful conditions compared to the present modern zoo standards, and were there only with entertainment purpose, but it might have been really nice to be able to see all these species.
Also, Enzo, I found a some nice videos of how the bioparque is doing, wich nicely shows some parts of the buildings, including the new primate area, and a tour through the unfinished "aventura selvagem". In case you haven't seen them yet, here they are:
It probably was amazing back then, when we had a very big collection of animals. Also, thanks for sharing these videos, but I've already watched the first one. I believe the man who recorded the boat ride works at the zoo.
This first video gives us a lot of spoilers about how it's all gonna be. Anxious to visit the bioparque when it opens. I also think the guy in the second video works in there, as he appears with the institutions uniform, and has access to the developing areas.
I haven't seen anyone talking about the Brasília zoo on this thread. According to their website, they have a group of Japanese macaques (I believe the group has six individuals) and sacred baboons. I think Bioparque Ukumari (Pereira, Colombia) has sacred baboons, probably obtained from the Matecaña City Zoo (Pereira, Colombia), after its closure.
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