Predation of Wild Animals by Captive Zoo Animals

[NNM.]

Live mice are not offered as food to zoo animals, I guarantee the ones in the Tropical Forest as you describe are wild mice.

The white mouse fed to the kookaburra probably would have been a feeder mouse given to the bird in that state.

I had suspected. I also remember mice once being common in the fruit bat exhibit and someone saying they ate them, but I doubt it because they are fruit bats.

 

[King of Komodo Dragons]

it happens, in two zoos in Texas, I have witnessed Black Vultures getting hunted by an African Lion at Cameron Park Zoo and by a Komodo Dragon at San Antonio Zoo. Also at San Antonio Zoo I saw a Tomistoma proudly showing off an egret it had caught.

 

[tigris115]

I had suspected. I also remember mice once being common in the fruit bat exhibit and someone saying they ate them, but I doubt it because they are fruit bats.

I mean, any herbivore deciding to have a little supplement of protein is never out of the question. I know one Zoochatter told a story of a duiker chasing a rat around with the intent of predation

 

[Osedax]

I mean, any herbivore deciding to have a little supplement of protein is never out of the question. I know one Zoochatter told a story of a duiker chasing a rat around with the intent of predation

And there is also the story of the wallaby that ate a bird!

 

[Zoofan15]

I’ve heard stories of Melbourne Zoo’s African lions and Sumatran tigers catching wild possums over the years. The now deceased tigress Binjai was reportedly a keen possum hunter in her youth.

I also heard a great story about a night tour watching a possum pass over the Jaguar exhibit, just making it to safety. Half the group sighed with relief; half sighed with disappointment.

 

[TheGerenuk]

I've seen the aftermath of a wild goose attacked by a cheetah at Parc Safari a few years ago.

 

[Golden Takin]

Heard of that the great hornbills in Hongshan Zoo sometimes prey on wild magpies and sparrows entering the aviary.

 

[DaLilFishie]

I recall hearing a keeper mentioning that the Saltwater Crocodiles at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures occasionally take waterbirds in the main lagoon enclosure. Must not be making too much of a difference to the local population, the lagoon still has a large number of moorhens, ducks, egrets and night-herons in it. I'm sure bird predation by crocodilians occurs at all zoos that keep them outdoors.

 

[Osedax]

I recall hearing a keeper mentioning that the Saltwater Crocodiles at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures occasionally take waterbirds in the main lagoon enclosure. Must not be making too much of a difference to the local population, the lagoon still has a large number of moorhens, ducks, egrets and night-herons in it. I'm sure bird predation by crocodilians occurs at all zoos that keep them outdoors.

That reminds me, the freshwater crocodile at Taronga occasionally eats brush turkeys and ibises.

 

[Zoofan15]

One of Taronga’s young male chimpanzees went viral a few years ago for killing a brood of ducklings that entered the chimpanzee exhibit.

The incident was highly sensationalised in the media, but the majority of comments from the general public acknowledged the chimpanzee was just behaving as chimps do.

 

[evilmonkey239]

At the Akron Zoo, I saw a white stork eating a house sparrow that it presumably killed or at least was not given to it by keepers.