Pics from my private zoo in Myanmar

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Writhedhornbill said:
Sad news sebbe67. Especially as they could have bred.
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Yes, aim really sad about it all, they could have done some use and increasing the gene pool in captivity.

Today was another very eventful day for me, I woke up in the early morning and was doing my daily routine before I was going off to work, as I was walking to my mailbox (which basically is a plastic bucket) I saw that someone had placed a cage with a blanket thrown over it between the mailbow and my Landcruiser, at first I thought it just contained some garbish or a bounce of dead chickens (has happended before) that someone had dumped off during the night.

At first I thought it would be best to just let it be for the garbish truck guys to uncover but after much considering choose to take a look of the content, to my huge suprise I found a Marbled Cat kitten inside the iron cage, it didint seem to bother much and just sat crouched up in one of the corners.

Someone had dumped the poor cat outside my house sometime during the early morning I later got knowledge of thanks to my neigbhours so luckily it hadent spénd the whole night there. My guess is that animal that was captured from the wild as very young to become a pet, when it became unwanted they simply choose a way to get rid of it. Still aim glad they choose to bring it in to me rather than killing it or just release it in the jungle.
Sadly a to common occurence and I have seen many similar cases over the past year.

I have now had him for about a day and he is really adorable, tame so he must have been kept in captivity most of his short life. he is also helthy, only being little underweight and having a few scraping marks on one of his back legs. He has settled in and is already glimbing around on me as soon he gets a chance to and he apparently loves to sit on top of my head to get good views of his surroundings. I have yet to determinate about how old he is, getting the colour pattern of a adult one so I guess he will be mature soon. To be honest, this is the first time I see a young one of this species.

As he is very tame there is very little hope to ever return him to the wild. Maybe he will remain with me as long as it works, I have already made a incloaser ready for him when he get old enough to spend the days outside, for now I keep him inside.

I have named him George and will upload some photos of him this week, he is unbelivable cute and everyone that meets him agrees:D

About time to feed him now.:p
 
Here comes a few photos of George, a male Marbled Cat, my newest addition; he has grown quite much over the past month, he is now less tame than when he came to me and I have not handle him at all in the past week. His incloaser is done and I hope he will move into it by within a week or so.

From what I understand Marbled Cats is extremely rare in captivity, none keept outside Asia at the moment and even in south-east Asia being very rare, I have just seen it in two Thai zoos and one zoo in Vietnam so far, all keeping only a single individual each. I have not found any info about whatever they ever had been breed in captivity and therefore try to seek as much knowledge as possibly, my goal is to aquaire a female sometime to try and breed Marbled Cats, will be a new difficult challenge for me, I somewhat failed with Bird of Paradise and hope I will be more sucesful with my wild cats:D

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Writhedhornbill said:
Is that you on the pictures sebbe67?
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Nope, its one of my two full-time employes, an ex-hunter which I have managed to convert, or in fact both of them was hunters in the past.

He is really great with animals and have great knowledge from keeping a large variety of local species as pets himself.

EDIT: My hand in the last photo hehe
 
Sounds exciting :cool: Can you show us a pic of his aviary/enclosure?
 
Good luck with your kitten! It is wonderful! :D

BTW - I guess lots of West European zoos would be anxious to get red bird of paradise or many other animals, if they can be exported legally.
 
Pedro said:
I definitely need to come to your zoo, Sebbe!
Could you tell me which thai zoo holds marbled cats now?? (or at least where you saw them?)
Thanks!
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The two zoos in Thailand were I have seen it is Khao Kheow (I believe this is the only one listed on ISIS), I saw one there about 2 years ago, I believe they have had 3 individuals at one point. Chian Mai zoo in northern Thailand is the other, they recieved a confiscated animal (female) sometime in early December and I saw it on 20th December. The zoo in Vietnam which at least had it in the past in Saigon Zoo, only a single one there as well.

Quite a few was kept in small zoos in southern China in the past, I travelled extensively in Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong in the early 1990s. I saw 5 in a zoo in Kunming in 1993. All animals caught from the wild and as the died new ones was brought in. I doubt many are kept in soth China now. The Chinese population is all but extinct now.
 
Well, I've just found that a private breeder has been breeding pesquet's in the U.K for a number of years, and that he's had so much success that he's sent them off to Europe. It's certainly better to keep rare birds in a private collection!

Sebbe, Are you going to keep pesquet"s parrot?
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Well, I've just found that a private breeder has been breeding pesquet's in the U.K for a number of years, and that he's had so much success that he's sent them off to Europe. It's certainly better to keep rare birds in a private collection!

Sebbe, Are you going to keep pesquet"s parrot?
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Thats intresting, I know that there is several breeders working with this species in Europe but I have not been in contact with any of them, do you have a website were I can find more info?

I have had parrots up until recently, only confiscated ones brought over from Thailand and siezed by border customs. I have send them all to Profauna in Indonesia, dont think they will reintroduce them but use for breeding purpose or send them elsewhere.

Wont get any parrots for the time being, but if the customs confiscate more parrots I will happily take these on rather then putting them to sleep or give them away to some tourist resort.
 
Some updates about my animals

1. They Rufous Hornbills have breed and the females is laying on eggs, which she has done for 6 days now.

2. The Trumpeter Hornbills has also breed and eggs layed, the female is in the nest since 2 days, but I havent looked at her yet.

3. The customs has again seized exotic parrots smuggled in illegally at a diving resort in the Mergui Archipelago. Over 30 birds found but most of them was put to sleep. Most will go to Rangoon Zoo, the rest of the survivors has come to me, a pair of Palm cockatoos in poor condition (which wouldent survive the trip to Rangoon) and a pair of Blue-naped parrots (which looks to be healthy), the female is already interested in the nest box.

4. I have bought a female black Hornbill and the pair (1.1) is on the way from Thailand right now.

5. Both grey peacock (2.1) and Rotschild Peacock pheasants (1.1) are on their way into my collection, will departure from Malaysia next week sometime.

7. I have 7 green peafowls in quarantine, all immature ones. Will sell some of these on and keep the rest (3-4), breed in Thailand but is from a Vietnamese stock, Tonkin to be exact, very rare form.

6. A male bearcat was brought in to me yesterday, another unwanted pet. Cute and easily to handle as a baby, not so much when he reached sexual maturity and became more aggressive. I have to start building a encloaser for him.

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This is the encloaser for the Marbled Cat, no net and I was chasing out wild birds that was starting to build nests when I took this photo. I have also removed some plants as it was quite densely vegetated, some plants I will use for my planned bearcat incloaser.

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My Rufous male, guarding the female and is coming babies, as you can see he is still young, probably just matured. The female is nesting behind me. The male was jumping around on the branches around me, but didnt attack. luckily. That thing in the background is their shelter for rain, sun or just get away from the visitors. I will put in more plants as soon as the baby hornbills start to venture outside the nest. They adult ones acctually like to have it this open in the encloaser.

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Blue-napped pair, some philippine subspecies, still need to figure out which. They love the box;)

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poor birds:( These are the Palms, has recovered over the last days but still life in this small cage as the feel safe in it. Will try and put them in a bigger one in a few days
 
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