Rodentia in mixed exhibits

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I recently found a video of a place called 'Zoo Haciendo' (I think in Colombia) that has a mixed enclosure with at least one pacarana and at least two (what I assume are) mountain caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus.

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I recently found a video of a place called 'Zoo Haciendo' (I think in Colombia) that has a mixed enclosure with at least one pacarana and at least two (what I assume are) mountain caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus.

Video link below:
YouTube - VIDEO PACARANA ( Dinomys branickii)
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The uploader's poor punctuation may have made it difficult to work out where this was filmed, but an additional comment states that this video was taken in Lima, Peru. The video seems to show an aviary at the Huachipa Zoo. When I visited last summer, there was only a pair of Black-chested Buzzard-eagles in this enclosure, with no sign of a pacarana.
 
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Also in Lima, Parque de las Leyendas had an island shared by Brown Capuchins, Coatis, Capybaras and Central American Agoutis. Maras were also mixed with both White-tailed Deer and young goats (in separate enclosures).
London Zoo has African Crested Porcupines mixed with Yellow Mongooses; Squirrel Monkeys mixed with Maras; and I think there were Agoutis in the Clore mix when the rainforest first opened.
 
Capybara, mara or agouti with any other south american mammals are very common and you can find this mix almost in every zoo. Also very popular are agouti or acouchi with marmosets, tamarins, sakis or other american monkeys.
More unusual mixes are:
Aschersleben - common yellow-toothed cavy with squirrel monkey
Basel - cape ground squirrel with rock hyrax and social weaver
Cottbus - cape ground squirrel with yellow-spotted rock hyrax and tortoise
Dresden - viscacha with red-billed tamarin
Eberswalde - guinea pig with golden lion tamarin
Frankfurt - springhare with bush baby
Heidelberg - indian crested porcupine with raccoon
Muenchen - canadian beaver with musk ox
Muenchen - praire dog with wood bison
 
Several zoos have successfully mixed Malagasy Giant Jumping Rats with lemurs. The downside is that, if the lemur species is diurnal and therefore kept in a conventional lemur exhibit, the nocturnal rats will hardly ever be glimpsed by the visitors.

Marwell Zoo once kept Brazilian (Wild) Cavies (Cavia aperea) with tamarins. This was a mixing in which I was particularly interested because I had presented the zoo with the cavies.

Not all mixings work. In 2009 Durrell (Jersey Zoo) attempted to keep African Crested Porcupines with Meerkats and Yellow Mongoose. Although the porcupines did breed, the meerkats started mobbing them soon after the birth and the porcupines had to be sent to another collection after only about a year in the collection.
 
Unless I have misinterpreted what I was reading, I think I have found an interesting sounding mixed enclosure at the Moscow Zoo, that keeps great jerboa and/or Lesser Egyptian jerboa*, steppe lemming, long-eared hedgehog and piebald shrew together.

* It turns out Moscow keeps both species, and the link only mentions 'jerboas' and does not list the specific species.

http://www.moscowzoo.ru/get.asp?Id=N232

Edit: Relevant quote from the above link

This summer we obtained offspring from Piebald Shrews and this autumn we let them out into the enclosure to be seen by the visitors in the Nocturnal World Pavilion. There are four animals there – three females and a male. The "desert enclosure" suits them best, and they live there together with jerboas, long-eared hedgehogs, and steppe lemmings. The Piebald Shrews settled very well in the enclosure, but they have very short periods of activity and if you want to see them, you have to be both patient and lucky. However, meeting them in the wild is a much more difficult task.
 
Some more examples:
Porcupines and meerkats in Basel and Rotterdam
Beaver and raccoon in Mulhouse
 
Toronto:
Agouti with one of the smaller primates; Saki, I think.
Beavers with snapping turtle. Used to be mixed with Wood Ducks.
Capybara with American Flamingo
Prehensile Tailed Porcupines used to be mixed with different bird species but now have their own enclosure.
 
Calgary:

Prehensile tailed porcupine and goldie's monkey
Brazilian agouti, two toed slot, cotton topped tamarin and yellow headed amazon parrot.
North american porcupine and black tailed prairie dog
African Crested Porcupine and Meerkat
Capybara and Spider monkeys
Mara, fallow deer, wild turkeys and pot-bellied pigs
 
Successul mixes

Prague:
African brush-tailed porcupine + tree hyrax
Gundi + Tunisian Greek tortoise + common variable skink + Morrocan spiny-tailed lizard + ornate spiny-tailed lizard
Greater Egyptian jerboa + springhare + Senegal bushbaby
Green acuchy + rhinoceros iguana + Mexican finch + saffron finch
Black-tailed prairie dog + bactrian camel
Emins pouched rats + Gabon talapoin
Yellow-footed squirrel + long-eared hedgehog

Jihlava:
Wild guinea pig + Hermanns tortoise + white-faced saki + various tamarins
Northern Luzon cloud rat + tree-shrew
Black-tailed prairie dog + lowland tapir + capybara + lesser rhea
Orange-rumped agouti + hyacinth macaw
Small desert jerboa + lesser slow loris + common scops owl + Rodrigues flying fox

Ohrada:
Siberian chipmunk + European rabbit
Red squirrel + greater spotted woodpecker + grey-headed woodpecker
formerly red squirrel + European hare
 
okay might not be a zoo.... but once in choicago, there was this pet store that had tomato frogs with i'm not sure the proper name it was a very small green tree snake. they got along for over a year untill the frogs didn't get enought to eat one night...
but then again they had over 10 cat of different age's that roamed free, and no not fixed.

in cali, there are a few side zoo's that keep smaller animal's together, kangaroo with an anteater, a verity of turtle's all in same inclosure, both land and water.
another one had ostrich, ardvark, and a house cat that acted like their mom.... hehe. it was cutie. my mom has photo's. donot know if she still has um... but i'lll check. might be a while though.
 
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