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Had a wonderful two days at Pairi Daiza over the weekend, but noticed one oddity: Next to the Koala house, they have signed Greater Forest Wallaby (which they have quite a few of) but ZTL claims there are no holders worldwide for this species?
 
The banded mongoose that arrived a few weeks ago from Zie-Zoo have moved to the African village area, where they are starting to explore their new exhibit, and where an introduction to the red river hogs is planned in the coming weeks/months.

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Cat-Man said:
Thanks! I wonder why the difference?
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2 smaller groups of monkeys makes it more critical to cooperate with China, if there would start to form a large population in EU zoos, otherwise they could just start to breed them without sending so much money to China every year. Or option 2, Pairi Daiza just wants to be extra special, or option 3, the Beauval subspecies (less threatened) was a tryout to see if the species does well in Europe and this subspecies is actually the real deal. Or a combination of these 3.
 
EliasNys said:
the Beauval subspecies (less threatened) was a tryout to see if the species does well in Europe and this subspecies is actually the real deal.
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The Beuval troop just came a month ago, which is not a long time for a trial to see wether or not if maintaining a species (especially that’s a long-lived taxon such as primates) is possible in Europe.
 
EliasNys said:
2 smaller groups of monkeys makes it more critical to cooperate with China, if there would start to form a large population in EU zoos, otherwise they could just start to breed them without sending so much money to China every year. Or option 2, Pairi Daiza just wants to be extra special, or option 3, the Beauval subspecies (less threatened) was a tryout to see if the species does well in Europe and this subspecies is actually the real deal. Or a combination of these 3.
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I can’t see the first one being true. There are plenty of pandas outside of China and there’s no attempt to break the terms of the loan agreements.
 
Let's see where the animals come from as the communication from Pairi Daiza might not reflect completely the background of the animals coming from China. This with a splash of indeed China just sending what was easiest for them. Also let's see when the 3rd European zoo will announce their snub-nosed monkeys.
 
DDcorvus said:
Let's see where the animals come from as the communication from Pairi Daiza might not reflect completely the background of the animals coming from China. This with a splash of indeed China just sending what was easiest for them. Also let's see when the 3rd European zoo will announce their snub-nosed monkeys.
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Is a third European zoo in the pipeline? Are there rumours for who it might be?
 
DDcorvus said:
Let's see where the animals come from as the communication from Pairi Daiza might not reflect completely the background of the animals coming from China. This with a splash of indeed China just sending what was easiest for them. Also let's see when the 3rd European zoo will announce their snub-nosed monkeys.
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I think its a case of whatever is/was easiest for China to send is what the European zoos get. Only surprised they haven't all come from one breeding group or stock but finding nine animals (three suitable trios) that way might not be so easy for them. That's if they really are different subspecies as Paira Daiza claim, though I can't see any significance in that except helping Paira's publicity drive. If they are its not important as there won't be any crossover between the three(?) groups in Europe as any young must be returned to China as with Giant Pandas. So even with breeding the groups will be limited by that.
 
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