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Pikas in zoos
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they imported them last year. Some have already died from bacterial infections.
That is all I know.
Some new Pika-facts :
Discovered: A mammal and bug food co-op in the High Arctic
Discovered: A mammal and bug food co-op in the High Arctic
a photo of one of Minnesota Zoo's Daurian pikas in the Zoochat gallery (by Giant Eland): http://www.zoochat.com/584/2013-minnesota-zoo-334720/
Found today some old annual reports of Tierpark Görlitz ( Germany ). During 1997 1.2 Daurian pikas were obtained from Zoo Berlin and in the same year 8 young were born - from which they say that this represents a European first breeding - and 5 were raised succesfully. One of the adult females died however. A year later no breeding happened and the 5 captive bred animals died so at the end of 1998 only 1,1 remained. What happened thereafter is not know to me.
By looking something completly different I came along a mention of Afghan pikas bred at Tama Zoo Tokyo during 1981. 4 ( 2.2 ) animals were born. Listed in the International Zooyear Book vol. 23 pp. 318.
Found a video on YouTube about a holding ( private ) in the USA. I know that there were attemps to breed Pikas as laboratory-animals in Japan but have no further information how succesful these attemps were :
Found an abstract of the article dealing with the Japanese experiment :
Breeding and Rearing of the Pika (<I>Ochotona rufescens rufescens</I>) as a New Laboratory Animal Species
Breeding and Rearing of the Pika (<I>Ochotona rufescens rufescens</I>) as a New Laboratory Animal Species
99% sure this is from Minnesota Zoo. Not sure who the channel owner is but presumably she is/was a keeper at the zoo who took and uploaded these videos, likely without permission from the zoo itself.
~Thylo
Good to know! Thank you for the correction.
This is still the old Minnesota Zoo set-up, I think, with the Daurian Pika as opposed to American Pika.
~Thylo
Yes, the second link has a bit about her setting up some research stuff at Minnesota
So they were more like a host.