Ramat Gan Safari and Zoo

dragon(ele)nerd said:
40!! wow, hope they can find some of them good homes. Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine! that's a great export list.

how many hippos is the exhibit supposed to be built for?
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pity none of you aussies couldn't get your hands on some
 
There is a long waiting list? You got to be kidding me... These things breed like rabbits but i guess some zoos are a little more careful where their hippos end up. Vietnam, Ukraine, Turkey and Kazakhstan don't sound like hippo dream-places to me :(
 
Does anyone know the origins of there 1:1 Sumatran Tigers? I believe the female may of come from France in 2002 but this is not confirmed and I need any info the male if possible

Thanks in advance
 
I will personally find more joy in the Somali wild ass foal birth. It goes back to the Hai Bar line (of which now only 1.1 are left in Yotvata and by all means now purportedly having entered the EEP/EAZA).

The white rhino is good in the sense that continuity for the one cow rhino able to breed continues, just they have had a preponderance of males and the past and seem to continue to do so.
 
baby sand cats: Rare sand kittens born in Ramat Gan | The Times of Israel
14 August 2012

Four red sand kittens were recently born at the zoological center in Ramat Gan, raising hopes for a comeback of the adorable species.

The kittens were born in the safari park three weeks ago, but were only displayed by staff to the public on Tuesday. Mother and babies were said to be doing fine.

Although native to Asia and Africa, including Israeli deserts, the sand cat was extinct in Israel for some time. Sand cats are the only felines found primarily in deserts.

Rotem, the kittens’ mother, was brought to Israel from Germany, the International Business Times reported. The safari park is taking part in a program to breed the cats.
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I would like to see some serious interest in Continental Europe for hippos.
The Ramat Gan Safari still holds a considerable surplus.

Secondly: be nice to see some similar type hippo habitats in European zoos / safari parks (.. allthough not ideal Longleat springs to mind).
 
Rhino too horny for its own good | The Times of Israel

Cosmetic surgery is not to be sniffed at, but when the patient is a two-ton rhinoceros a scalpel just won’t get the job done.

Keepers at the Ramat Gan Safari were concerned that Maya the rhino’s long and awkwardly downward pointing horn was stopping her from chomping down her daily diet.

The horn, which extended beyond end of her nose, prevented Maya from getting close enough to the ground to eat properly. As a result, Channel 10 reported on Sunday, the decision was taken to perform some rhino rhinoplasty and saw off half of Maya’s horn.

A couple of shots from a tranquilizer gun left Maya suitably sedated but there still remained a large problem — Mazal, her mother, who kept a concerned eye on her offspring. Eventually, keepers were able to separate the two and get to work on Maya with a circular saw — that proved to be inadequate at chopping through the tough horn. With no other choice, keepers brought in a chain saw that quickly finished the operation before the tranquilizers wore off.

Maya seemed unperturbed by her surgery, which took place last week, and soon got back to her now easier grazing.

The removed piece of horn, which keepers estimate is worth three times its weight in gold on the illegal traditional medicines market, is to be kept at the safari as an educational tool.
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Wow, they needed a chainsaw. That's pretty impressive :eek::cool:

I wonder if they shouldn't have just chopped the whole thing off though, would it grow back the same?
 
It eventually would. But the anatomical has a function too, I personally would leave at least part.

I would further hope for a break up between mother and calf which may have played a part in Maya not breeding very much (this is common place in captive related M/F rhinos), if at all. Allthough, her chances of doing so now at her age are slim.
 
The above photo shows a White rhino with very natural looking horns- smooth, rounded and pointed as in the wild. Most Zoos rhinos have 'blocky' or overgrown and misshapen horns due to the lack of opportunity to rub (manicure) them properly. This zoo must provide something very suitable to produce horns of this shape..

They don't look like they needed cutting. I don't know if this is the same/actual rhino that had some horn cut off?
 
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