Primates

[daveb]

Hi all. I work with the Primates at Auck. The reason for possible relocation of Siamang pair is nothing to do with their enclosure, which is actually a really nice area for them.

Thanks for the (correct) info. That will teach me to listen to a vollie I suppose

 

[Chlidonias]

another species for the list, pigmy marmosets at Wellington Zoo
http://www.zoochat.com/17/pygmy-marmosets-arrive-92401/

 

[Tygo]

Hamilton Zoo now has the pair of siamangs from Auckland Zoo.
And Auckland zoo has a group of Hamadryas baboons.

 

[Connor91]

Auckland Zoo has six Orangutans which live in two groups:


Group One

Charlie (1981): Charlie was born at Singapore Zoo and came to Auckland Zoo in 1984. He has two surviving offspring: Isim and Madju.

Wanita (1979): Wanita is a bornean/sumatran hybrid, she came to the zoo in 2001 from Taronga Zoo. She has no offspring.

Melur (1988): Melur came to Auckland Zoo in 2001 from Taronga Zoo. She gave birth to her first baby, a son Madju, in November 2005.

Madju (2005): Madju is four years old and was born at Auckland Zoo to Charlie and Melur.


Group Two

Gangsa (1989): Gangsa came to Auckland in 2001 with Wanita and Melur. She has been recently separated from Melur due to a ongoing snit between them. Gangsa enjoys the company of the younger male Isim.

Isim (1994): Isim was born at the zoo in 1994 and has been a regular feature of the zoo programme since he was five years old. Isim is now a teenager and living with female Gangsa. Isim's father Charlie lives at the zoo, his mother Indra and sister Intan live in Busch Gardens Florida.



New Zealand's climate is suitable for Orangutans due the closeness to the equator like Indonesia and Singapore. The Zoo chose to hold pure bred borneans because other zoos all had sumatrans, they have since regretted this decision. The current plan is to relocate the existing orangutans to other zoos outside of Australasia which may take years, this will free up space for Sumatran Orangutans.

 

[ZYBen]

I think Indonesia and Singapore are just a bit closer to the equator than NZ!

 

[Jarkari]

Auckland Zoo has six Orangutans which live in two groups:


Group One

Charlie (1981): Charlie was born at Singapore Zoo and came to Auckland Zoo in 1984. He has two surviving offspring: Isim and Madju.

Wanita (1979): Wanita is a bornean/sumatran hybrid, she came to the zoo in 2001 from Taronga Zoo. She has no offspring.

Melur (1988): Melur came to Auckland Zoo in 2001 from Taronga Zoo. She gave birth to her first baby, a son Madju, in November 2005.

Madju (2005): Madju is four years old and was born at Auckland Zoo to Charlie and Melur.


Group Two

Gangsa (1989): Gangsa came to Auckland in 2001 with Wanita and Melur. She has been recently separated from Melur due to a ongoing snit between them. Gangsa enjoys the company of the younger male Isim.

Isim (1994): Isim was born at the zoo in 1994 and has been a regular feature of the zoo programme since he was five years old. Isim is now a teenager and living with female Gangsa. Isim's father Charlie lives at the zoo, his mother Indra and sister Intan live in Busch Gardens Florida.



New Zealand's climate is suitable for Orangutans due the closeness to the equator like Indonesia and Singapore. The Zoo chose to hold pure bred borneans because other zoos all had sumatrans, they have since regretted this decision. The current plan is to relocate the existing orangutans to other zoos outside of Australasia which may take years, this will free up space for Sumatran Orangutans.

eh???? seriously? New Zealand is not a country I have ever thought of as being close to the equator.

 

[Steve Robinson]

In Australia when I was young (many moons ago) any zoo worthy of the name had chimps, orang-utans, probably gibbons and at least 8 or 10 species of monkeys. Of course husbandry standards were lower, and all those primates were likely to be housed in a couple of rows of cages.

Ara, did you ever get to see Kangy Angy Zoo on the NSW Central Coast?

It was a little place run in conjunction with a service station and I used to volunteer there every weekend in return for a full tank of petrol and a roast dinner each day! Once my consistent attendance had been established, the owner was quite content to leave all the cleaning for the week to me at the weekend!

However, my point in mentioning it is that this zoo actually imported six Gibbons from Singapore in the early 1960s. They were beautiful animals that wasted a great deal of my time each weekend! Their housing was appalling - a tiny mesh cage with vertical fruit boxes for beds. Fortunately I was able to take each of them out of the cage for walks when I was there. Their diet was equally atrocious - the owner was a great fan of Weet-Bix and these were served to just about every species from the Gibbons to Foxes and Wombats!

The survivors - two I think - eventually went [with the rest of the primates] to a place called Egyptian Park Zoo which was built at Kincumber.

[Moderators - this is bumping a 2008 thread started by Ara and may warrant it's own thread if anyone runs with it.]