Rodentia in mixed exhibits

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Hi everyone,

I have just started a very lengthy research project on small mammal species in mixed species exhibits which will include xenartha, lagamorpha, hyracoidea, pholidota, dermoptera, tubulidentata, rodentia, chiroptera, insectivora, scandentia, masroscelidea, marsupials and monotremes. I will be contacting various zoos and other bodies but I would love you guys to help!

I got a good response for xenartha so I will now ask the mammoth task of rodentia in mixed exhibits! The more unusual the better (common mixes are also really useful)

Thanks again in anticipation! :)
 
Kansas City
Brazillian Agouti with Golden Lion Tamarin
Capybara and Prehensile-tailed Porcupine with White-faced saki and crested screamer

Saint Louis
Capybara with Giant Anteater

Philadelphia
Capybara with Patagonian mara

Omaha
Prehensile-tailed porcupine and agouti with three species of armadillos, night monkeys, two-toed sloths, and kinkajous
Springhares with aardvarks, brush-tailed porcupine, northern greater galago
Black-tailed prairie dogs with turkey vultures
American beavers with turtles (red-eared sliders?) and wood ducks
 
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Artis: Aguti with different species of american primates: white faced saki, golden lion tamarin and pigmy marmoset. Capybara and Mara together with anteater, swans, crested screamer, vicuna and nandu.

Burgers Zoo: Capibara with terekay turtles, manatee, pacu, different free ranging bird species like scarlet ibis, whistling duck and red shouldred teal. Hispid cotton rat + Cactus mouse.

Amersfoort: Mara+ bobak marmot (the last bobak left/died some years ago). Also Porcupine together with corsac fox and asiatic black bear (but last year the bear and foxes left the zoo), I believe they now share the exhibit with coati's.

Safaripark Beekse Bergen: Capybara together with squirrel monkeys

Zoo Berlin: Capybara, mara, guanaco, coscoroba swan, darwin nandu and in the past swamp deer and mazama also lived in the same exhibit. Springhare+senegal galago+aardvark.

Cologne Zoo: sun squirrel+rufous elephant shrew. Rock cavy+red howler monkey, white faced saki and some marmosets.

And there are loads of zoos that keep mara, nandu and lama/guanaco/vicuna/alpaca together, sometimes also capybara, south american tapir or anteaters are added.
 
Bristol has kept a single Dipodomys merriami with Chuckwallas in their reptile house - it was not often seen however
 
@ KCZooFan I known that but :

Al said:
Hi everyone,

I have just started a very lengthy research project on small mammal species in mixed species exhibits which will include xenartha, lagamorpha, hyracoidea, pholidota, dermoptera, tubulidentata, rodentia, chiroptera, insectivora, scandentia, masroscelidea, marsupials and monotremes. I will be contacting various zoos and other bodies but I would love you guys to help!

I got a good response for xenartha so I will now ask the mammoth task of rodentia in mixed exhibits! The more unusual the better (common mixes are also really useful)

Thanks again in anticipation! :)
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The Columbus Zoo:

Present:
-Prevost's Squirrel / Brush-tailed Bettong

Past:
-Prevost's Squirrel / Indian Crested Porcupine

Cleveland Zoo:

-Malayan Porcupine / Greater Malayan Chevrotain
-Capybara / Giant Anteater
-Prehensile Porcupine / ???

Memphis Zoo:

-Capybara / Crested Screamer
-Springhare / African Crested Porcupine
 
Hyraxes with Barbary sheep and gelada in Stuttgart. With Nubian ibex and gelada in Bronx Zoo. With klipspringer in Cleveland, Dallas and elsewhere.

It seems hyraxes, agoutis, capybaras and maras can be mixed with most other animals as long as those animals don't seriously harass or present a danger to them.
 
burried deeply in my brain and I could remember wrong but I think I've seen hutias (Desmarest's?) with other species somewhere?
 
Thanks again for all the info, it all helps! I had only split the groups up a little so I wasn't asking such a major task at once! :) some very interesting comments! Would love to hear about hutia mixes!
 
Hutia's were mixed in Vienna Zoo with wood stork, giant anteater, visacha and seriema. And in Munich with a squirrel species from Costa Rica.
 
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Hyraxes with Barbary sheep and gelada in Stuttgart. With Nubian ibex and gelada in Bronx Zoo. With klipspringer in Cleveland, Dallas and elsewhere.

It seems hyraxes, agoutis, capybaras and maras can be mixed with most other animals as long as those animals don't seriously harass or present a danger to them.
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Hyraxes with Red River hogs, DeBrazza monkeys and Black and White colobus at Minnesota zoo
 
Breeding Owston's Civets with single Tree Shrew & Prevost's Squirrel at Newquay -- shared the outdoor planted enclosure, with access to separate indoor pens.
 
FBBird said:
Breeding Owston's Civets with single Tree Shrew & Prevost's Squirrel at Newquay -- shared the outdoor planted enclosure, with access to separate indoor pens.
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Al;so at Newquay Paca with Kinkajou (formerly tamandua) in the night zone. Capybara + tapir + nene goose (and formerly african crowned cranes). Agouti's + macaws and other parrots (can't remember) :o

(free ranging they have mara + the peacocks, formerly guinea fowl and all the sea gulls)

At birmingham nature centre they have canadian beaver with nene goose
 
FBBird said:
Breeding Owston's Civets with single Tree Shrew & Prevost's Squirrel at Newquay -- shared the outdoor planted enclosure, with access to separate indoor pens.
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Hadn't heard about that interesting mix before. You know if there was aggression from civet to tree shrew? I know it feeds mostly on insects but the similar and smaller banded palm civet will rarely eat big rats. Also was it often visible/active or hiding/sleeping in a corner all the time like it appears most Owston's civets in zoos do?
 
The civets became active and would show themselves late in the afternoon. They could be seen from outside the shed in their nest box, where parents and two grown young curled up together could be inspected without disturbing them. I don't remeber seeing the tree shrew in the civets' indoor area when they were active. I understand Owston's eat a lot of earthworms.
 
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