I'm not sure how long the zoo has had them, but there are some in the White-Throated Bee-Eater exhibit, I believe, and there is some others in another exhibit that I can't remember.
Phase-In Species for the US?
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I'm not sure how long the zoo has had them, but there are some in the White-Throated Bee-Eater exhibit, I believe, and there is some others in another exhibit that I can't remember.
Apparently the San Diego Zoo has brought in Tasmanian Devils for their new Australian exhibit. Is there a chance some more may come into the United States?
~Thylo
~Thylo
Apparently the San Diego Zoo has brought in Tasmanian Devils for their new Australian exhibit. Is there a chance some more may come into the United States?
~Thylo
Are you sure they have them? I know original plans said they were going to have them, but then there was no mention later on. Are you just assuming based on the original notice or did you see somewhere else that they were actually imported?
I got the information off of sandiegomaster on the San Diego Zoo News thread. He said they had them but, and unless he knows something we don't, for all we know they scrapped the idea.
~Thylo
I got the information off of sandiegomaster on the San Diego Zoo News thread. He said they had them but, and unless he knows something we don't, for all we know they scrapped the idea.
~Thylo
How do you know that he isn't just assuming? I know he has good intentions, but unless he has proof to back it up, I myself can't trust him as the most reliable source.
Yes I think I just got a little excited at the thought. As I said above, unless he knows something we don't, the zoo couldn't just scrapped the idea and he's just assuming.
~Thylo
Mountain Nyala
Are you saying this is a verified phase-in species, or just that you wish it was a phase-in species?
This is in the fantasy zoos section isn't it?
Unfortunately, yes.
Originally wasn't. Only got put here because there's nothing we can really do in most cases except speculate. Supposedly the Jaguarundis really are a phase-in species.
~Thylo
Back to the Tasmanian Devils. According to zooman, on the news it said some Australian zoos where selecting US zoos to help build up the issurance colony! I predict San Diego will be one of the zoos if it happens. I hope Bronx will be one too but I'm not sure if the Aussie zoos will only pick warm climate zoos.
NOTE: I know this may not really happen but I'm going to be optomistic.
~Thylo
NOTE: I know this may not really happen but I'm going to be optomistic.
~Thylo
Back to the Tasmanian Devils. According to zooman, on the news it said some Australian zoos where selecting US zoos to help build up the issurance colony! I predict San Diego will be one of the zoos if it happens. I hope Bronx will be one too but I'm not sure if the Aussie zoos will only pick warm climate zoos.
NOTE: I know this may not really happen but I'm going to be optomistic.
~Thylo
Article here: Tasmanian Devil goes schlock horror - ABC Northern Tasmania - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
EDIT: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/koalafornia/exhibit/index.html
Click on the '+' farthest to the right.
~Thylo
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Platypus are possibly coming to San Diego.
Brayden Delashmutt
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Would it be possible for an American zoo to get tarsiers?
Possible yes, but not likely. Primate interest in zoos appears to be declining, and as a group, tarsiers don’t have the best track record in captivity. It certainly could be done, but it would be a risk for whichever zoo attempts it, and I don’t think it’s likely many would be willing to directing funding towards this import.
This would also be a rather bad idea, in my opinion, as it'd just take away already limited space away from other nocturnal primates. Unfortunately, nocturnal exhibits are on their way out in US zoos, and there isn't much demand or exhibit space for Nocturnal primates. A lot of the species we have in the AZA are really fascinating species, and I really hope we're able to maintain the species we have (which I'm not confident we'll be able to), let alone the addition of new species. Nancy Ma's Night Monkey is the only douroucouli species still managed, and is in very small numbers in the AZA. Only a handful of US zoos keep potto also. Grey mouse lemurs are only still here because of the work at Duke Lemur Center, as few other places manage mouse lemurs as part of their collection. Aye-ayes, pygmy slow loris, and moholi bushbaby are in a few more collections, but none of them are exactly common in zoos.