Perth zoo before the 2000's

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oh I had a question about something...
so last time I went to Perth zoo (let's just be serious as I mean this statement and question)
I saw a Galapagos tortoise urinating, however it's urine wasn't a liquid but instead a gooey solid, which resembled that of snot and/or slime.
can anyone tell me why this is?
 
ok so i've emailed perth zoo about the melanistic leopard and got a reply asking about the leopard and now ive resent it to that email explaining the leopard. now i am waiting for a reply to see if they have footage or images of it.
 
Jayden8763 said:
oh I had a question about something...
so last time I went to Perth zoo (let's just be serious as I mean this statement and question)
I saw a Galapagos tortoise urinating, however it's urine wasn't a liquid but instead a gooey solid, which resembled that of snot and/or slime.
can anyone tell me why this is?
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Cant personally answer this will have to be someone else with knowledge but you know Sierra the older of the two Galapagos Tortoise brothers has just been euthanised aged 53 leaving younger brother Cerro as the zoo's sole Galapagos Tortoise; am wondering if the Tortoise you saw doing this was Sierra with an affect of the health problems the poor guy had.
 
Jayden8763 said:
ok so i've emailed perth zoo about the melanistic leopard and got a reply asking about the leopard and now ive resent it to that email explaining the leopard. now i am waiting for a reply to see if they have footage or images of it.
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Any info about her name or when she came to the zoo and stuff would be amazing too.
 
Jayden8763 said:
oh I had a question about something...
so last time I went to Perth zoo (let's just be serious as I mean this statement and question)
I saw a Galapagos tortoise urinating, however it's urine wasn't a liquid but instead a gooey solid, which resembled that of snot and/or slime.
can anyone tell me why this is?
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steveroberts said:
Cant personally answer this will have to be someone else with knowledge but you know Sierra the older of the two Galapagos Tortoise brothers has just been euthanised aged 53 leaving younger brother Cerro as the zoo's sole Galapagos Tortoise; am wondering if the Tortoise you saw doing this was Sierra with an affect of the health problems the poor guy had.
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This is what tortoise urine looks like. The white stuff is urates - with the concentrated urine consisting of uric acid, metabolic wastes an minerals.
 
@Jayden8763 Oh wow thankyou so much, wow Simone ended up going to Whyalla instead of Gorge, and much later than thought she did (thought she went in January 1994), dont remember her being on public display after Calang arrived in January 1994.

@tetrapod you remember Simone yeah.
 
A worker at Perth Zoo said that they will forward it to the archive dept when it reopens next year to see if there are any pictures or videos of simone.
 
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steveroberts said:
@Jayden8763 Oh wow thankyou so much, wow Simone ended up going to Whyalla instead of Gorge, and much later than thought she did (thought she went in January 1994), dont remember her being on public display after Calang arrived in January 1994.

@tetrapod you remember Simone yeah.
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I do remember her (although I'd forgotten the name). Not sure I ever saw much of her as she probably rotated with the Persian leopards.
 
@tetrapod

Oh cool thanks mate, yeah never got to see her personally, but was always cool to see the Persian Leopards (oh right yeah so she {Simone} did have a revolve setup with the Persian Leopards in all likelihood; that makes sense because remember seeing the latter in both the innermost exhibits between c.1991 and 1993 at least once).
 
@tetrapod

Hey is it possible that Simone the Leopard remained in rotation with Ishtar + Tiamat & Fury the Persian Leopards (and accordingly was on public display) still until sometime in 1997 before she left for Whyalla? or do you think it was at beginning of 1994 that she was no longer on public display at all (if the former, dont remember seeing her ever in those later years).
 
steveroberts said:
@tetrapod

Hey is it possible that Simone the Leopard remained in rotation with Ishtar + Tiamat & Fury the Persian Leopards (and accordingly was on public display) still until sometime in 1997 before she left for Whyalla? or do you think it was at beginning of 1994 that she was no longer on public display at all (if the former, dont remember seeing her ever in those later years).
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To be honest I thought she was gone by 97. I'm not too sure how they managed all of the cats as the two female Persians rotated with Fury (would have been difficult having a third rotation), so I suspect Simone rotated with one of the tigers.
 
tetrapod said:
To be honest I thought she was gone by 97. I'm not too sure how they managed all of the cats as the two female Persians rotated with Fury (would have been difficult having a third rotation), so I suspect Simone rotated with one of the tigers.
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I could be mistaken but the 1993 map implies there were two panorama viewing huts - one for the lions and melanistic leopard (each with an exhibit); and a second for the tigers and Persian leopard (each with an exhibit) - presumably with Fury the Persian leopard rotating with his daughters as you describe.
 
steveroberts said:
....The exception to everything looking really modern, well planted etc for the inhabitansts, was a row of cages next to eachother each about 30m wide one called 'Macaque Row' which had about three 50 sq m enclosures that housed Hamadryas Baboons, Tonkean Macaques and Sulawesi Crested Macaques (and Mandrills too before) that used to be the Big Cat enclosures and even had Striped Hyena in one of them at one point), next was 'Gibbon Row' .....
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In this 2005 published book by Richard Weigl on longevity records on mammals (only tiny snippet previews inside book are available on google unfortunately, the source clickable in blue below) -

Found an entry for one of the 1.1 Tonkean macaque (the male) that were imported to Perth Zoo.

A 1.0 (male) Tonkean macaque born at Rotterdam Zoo 5 Jan 1976, arrived at Perth Zoo 1 August 1980, and was still living on 29 June 2004 when the zoo sent their info report to Richard Weigl for his book (in fact believed died off-display possibly as late as 2010). He was housed for a long time with a female conspecific, and they had one 1.0 offspring with who became dominant male later on. They went off public display in the late 1990s. From what understand the female Tonkean mac' died first and was the 1976 born male and their son who were the last two at Perth Zoo (as said before, off public display for their last decade at the zoo, probably longer than ten years off-display. Personally really wish they had remained in a publicly viewable enclosure exhibit at the zoo until they passed away or were sent away, think the former was the case).

Longevity of Mammals in Captivity by Richard Weigl (published 2005)


Photo below: Tonkean macaque at Perth Zoo in 1987 (photo and source: Leigh Mullan this Facebook post)

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*should probably also mention that the Tonkeans macaques at the zoo were long misidentified as being Moor macaques.
 
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