Rare Species Conservation Centre RSCC Open Dates & 2011 News

Maguari said:
RSCC's otters were never the only ones outside of Cambodia -for a start the species is found wild across much of southern Asia: Smooth-coated Otter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :D

Plus, Belfast's are not the RSCC's - they arrived while RSCC still had the full group. http://www.zoochat.com/38/belfasts-mystery-new-mammal-arrives-nexy-110018/index10.html
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Ahh cool, thanks for the info. The first part is entirely my mistake, and the second part is me being foolish enough with using the outdated website AND wikipedia :eek: (in fairness, the first time that Wikipedia has failed me I think)

Rare Species Conservation Centre - Indochina

Either way, I did what no zoo-nerd should do and assumed Belfast got theirs from RSCC. So were Belfast's sourced from Asia then as well?

Edit - this link states that Belfast's otters did come from RSCC:

http://www.belfastzoo.co.uk/newsandevents/newsitem.aspx?id=121
 
Javan Rhino said:
So were Belfast's sourced from Asia then as well?
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I believe they were - I think it may confirm this in the 'Mystery Mammal' thread but I'm not sure.


EDIT: regarding the RSCC website, when they first came in they may well have been the only ones outside Asia (as the website says), but certainly not Cambodia! :)
 
Javan Rhino said:
Thanks Bele, just had a quick look on Zootierliste to see that along with Colchester, the only other European collection with Smooth-coated otters are Belfast - since RSCC's were the only ones outside of Cambodia then I assume these are the RSCC ones that Colchester didn't get
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with regards to Zootierliste, because it is user-edited the information is not necessarily correct (i.e. it could be possible that smooth-coated otters may have been removed from the RSCC listing because a user incorrectly assumed they were no longer there)
 
Chlidonias said:
with regards to Zootierliste, because it is user-edited the information is not necessarily correct (i.e. it could be possible that smooth-coated otters may have been removed from the RSCC listing because a user incorrectly assumed they were no longer there)
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That is a good point Chlidonias, maybe there is somebody that can confirm either way?
 
If i remember correctly, RSCC got their animals first and put the press release up (at the time, they where the only ones outside of Asia). Belfast got theirs later, also from Asia (probably through RSCC).

At the end of last year, I thought all the animals from the RSCC went to Colchester, but perhaps i'm wrong?

The information must be lurking on this forum somewhere though...
 
Colchester has the RSCC's original pair + one young
Rscc has a single hand reared female from the litter and will be getting its full sibling back from colchester for company.
Belfast have an unrelated pair that we got from the RSCC

We very much hope that our pair will breed soon to create new pairs for a number of collections waiting for the species. I hope this helps!:)
 
Al said:
Colchester has the RSCC's original pair + one young
Rscc has a single hand reared female from the litter and will be getting its full sibling back from colchester for company.
Belfast have an unrelated pair that we got from the RSCC

We very much hope that our pair will breed soon to create new pairs for a number of collections waiting for the species. I hope this helps!:)
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Thanks everybody :)
 
I still keep hoping I will see a post here that they are getting marbled cats, as rumored on a previous post. (Well, I sort of hope and sort of do not hope, because if they do I have to figure out a way to afford a plane ticket to the UK).
 
jwer said:
Are there none in captivity in Asia? Else I'd rather fly to Asia to go and see them then sunny England...
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There was one at Khao Kheow Zoo in Thailand, but I think it has died. The only ones currently listed in ISIS are at a breeding center in the UAE.
 
Some news off their Facebook page:

RSCC has welcomed the first of 2011's new carnivores: the ring-tailed mongooses, narrow-striped mongooses, Pallas' cats, clouded leopards and a new Arabian sand cat.

Last week, the 2010 born female jaguarrundi moved to Poznan in Poland as a request by the European studbook for the species.
2 Aardwolf moved to Berlin Tierpark as part of the RSCC managed breeding programme.
1 female 2010 born black-footed cat has moved to Wuppertal Zoo to be paired with a male.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Some news off their Facebook page:

RSCC has welcomed the first of 2011's new carnivores: the ring-tailed mongooses, narrow-striped mongooses, Pallas' cats, clouded leopards and a new Arabian sand cat.

Last week, the 2010 born female jaguarrundi moved to Poznan in Poland as a request by the European studbook for the species.
2 Aardwolf moved to Berlin Tierpark as part of the RSCC managed breeding programme.
1 female 2010 born black-footed cat has moved to Wuppertal Zoo to be paired with a male.
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It would seem the RSCC is doing a fantastic job for the Uk and Europe in breeding and introducing new species to the pool. And wooooo ring tail mongooses in the UK :eek: :D
 
jordan-12 said:
Why did RSCC move their Clouded Leopards to a different collection then bring in more?
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They are providing a different function to normal zoos, i'd imagine those clouded leopards will also move out. They are kind of the fabulous store cupboard for the zoos of Europe, holding and giving out some really fantastic species. I think they are only trying to breed a few species (seem to be the rarer ones) and are holding the more conventional species like the clouded leopards temporarily.
 
Little Lion Man said:
When did Cloud leopards become a conventional species?? They are far from it!
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They are far more conventional than the Bengal lorises for example or even the new mongoose. I would say clouded leoaprds are on par with aardwolves in terms of convention.
 
foz said:
They are far more conventional than the Bengal lorises for example or even the new mongoose. I would say clouded leoaprds are on par with aardwolves in terms of convention.
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definetely not. With aardwolves showing up in 5 European collections and clouded leopards in 22 european zoos, which makes them as convential als anoa's or lesser kantjils to name a few.
 
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