Rare Species Kept Behind The Scenese

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Artis has them on public display, with a look in the "breeding facility'' that they have.

I'm glad to hear this as I believe partula snails should be more often shown to the public.

 

[ChIkEn NuGrEt]

The fort worth zoo has some off exhibit Patagonian Maras.

 

[GiratinaIsGod]

In the case of breeding endangeres species, it is often the perfect sollution. They have a higher sucessrate in breeding these species. And for many of these species, the public intrest was never high. A good example would the breeding pogram for freshwater turtles in the Allwetter Zoo Münster

 

[Dhole dude]

The fort worth zoo has some off exhibit Patagonian Maras.

Patagonian maras are very common in captivity. But i guess forth worth zoos striped hyenas are off exhibit right now, so that may be something they have that’s rare & also off exhibit.

 

[Julio C Castro]

I do agree that is can be frustrating for many of us that want to see some of the rarer species kept BTS(behind the scenes) at zoos and aquariums, I’ve been wanting to see the reptile breeding complex that SDZ Global has. But there are many factors to take into consideration: the stress level these species can have with visitors or exhibition, conservation of species that are bred as part of SSPs, and how “popular” they would be with zoo visitors. I do think that zoos and aquariums should keep them behind the scenes from the general public if it means that the propagation of the specie can happen BTS. Maybe they can offer very special tours once in a while, with proper precautions taken, to ensure their very valuable species aren’t exposed to any dangers/issues. Zoos and aquariums are far from perfect but I do believe that they have changed in the past 100 years from just showing animals to breeding endangered animals we wouldn’t have today. It’s a difficult balancing act at times and I feel the same sentiment thinking about those rare animals that would make any of us drool just seeing them. But it’s all for what is the best situation for the animals to be displayed for the general public or kept BTS for breeding purposes.

 

[CMP]

Nashville keeps a good chunk of their collection off-exhibit, most prominent being their large group of banded palm civets (i think they’re the only AZA zoo to keep civets? Someone correct me if I'm wrong) if you want to see one on-exhibit, i think there is a private zoo nearby that has one of Nashville extra individuals.

Off the top of my head I can add African Palm Civet at Poznan, Marsh Mongoose at Magdeburg and the Scottish Wild Cats at Chester. Plzen of course is in a league of his own with dozens of rodent and small mammal species.

They are currently the only AZA. Brights Zoo has several, but they are off exhibit as well.

Thanks for the info. Hopefully the species can recover and they can be spread to more zoos in the country. On a somewhat unrelated note, does Capital of Texas zoo still have asian palm civets and/or African civets? i know they still have the only fanaloka in the United States but what about the other viverrids?

As far as I know, they have fanaloka and common palm civet. All african civets are in florida, except for the ones at R Lazy J/Roer's (same owners).

Just so this thread stays a bit more on track, I recently made a thread about viverrids (Now it basically talks about all non feline feline forms) to anyone who is interested in discussing Civets, Mongoose, and Hyenas in captivity Viverridae in Captivity (Civets, Genets, and Madagascan predators)