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@twilighter I suppose you mean Palawan leopard cat for Sunda leopard cat ?
Never mind. You miss north chinese leopard and Javan leopard (more difficult to obtain) in your list ;)
 
Antoine said:
I suppose you mean Palawan leopard cat for Sunda leopard cat ?
Never mind. You miss north chinese leopard and Javan leopard (more difficult to obtain) in your list
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He is talking about species present in Europe, rather than merely subspecies - in which case he is correct that the two species PDF are missing are Sunda Leopard Cat (which includes Palawan as a subspecies) and Iberian Lynx.
 
Antoine said:
@twilighter I suppose you mean Palawan leopard cat for Sunda leopard cat ?
Never mind. You miss north chinese leopard and Javan leopard (more difficult to obtain) in your list ;)
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TeaLovingDave said:
He is talking about species present in Europe, rather than merely subspecies - in which case he is correct that the two species PDF are missing are Sunda Leopard Cat (which includes Palawan as a subspecies) and Iberian Lynx.
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I meant spices, indeed :)
 
ShonenJake13 said:
Parc des Felins took in Montpellier’s tigrinus, so ZTL is indeed wrong and Marco is correct - they now hold both species.
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I went to Montpellier the day after this happened hoping to see the Oncilla one last time (a male I think), but it was gone. I can therefore confirm that they have both as well. Montpellier are not temporarily holding Grey-winged trumpeters in the Oncilla exhibit (a species which is free ranging in the tropical hall anyway) but I think they wanted to replace the Oncilla with Ocelot, but I may of course be wrong. At any rate it wasn't entirely clear exactly what they were planning to do.
 
Antoine said:
You must have a look to my previous message @Kifaru Bwana. Tambo is one year old ;)
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Excuse us, I overlooked that.

Going back to the rationale for my initial post: what is the point for a EAZA accredited zoo to invest sparse resources into maintaining hybrid zoo leopard. There is a good number of leopard ssp. available that are in dire need of captive spaces?!!!
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Excuse us, I overlooked that.

Going back to the rationale for my initial post: what is the point for a EAZA accredited zoo to invest sparse resources into maintaining hybrid zoo leopard. There is a good number of leopard ssp. available that are in dire need of captive spaces?!!!
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Especially when the said zoo in the best Cat park in Europe, who cares enough about subspecies that it has 2 Asian golden cat subspecies (although one is only represented by a single individual). I think it's more about having a black leopard for public attraction maybe?
 
Rayane said:
Especially when the said zoo in the best Cat park in Europe, who cares enough about subspecies that it has 2 Asian golden cat subspecies (although one is only represented by a single individual). I think it's more about having a black leopard for public attraction maybe?
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I would not jump to the latter conclusion too quickly either!

I am just not sure why they decided to take in a zoo mix leopard in the first place. To me though, I agree, it seems like a step backward in stead of forward.
 
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