Rare Species Conservation Centre RSCC Open Dates & 2011 News

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.

Thank you. I stand corrected (it was just a rough ill-thought guess to be honest). It still proves my point about clouded leoaprds being relatively 'conventional'
 
A brief piece of news from the Facebook page-

- The narrow-striped mongoose and lesser grison will not be on show during the April opening time, in case anyone is making plans. Both will be on show by the summer.
 
Rare Species Conservation Centre
Rscc has recently recieved Schlotti a young female Malayan Sun Bear from Cologne Zoo in Germany, she is a shy bear and currently can be seen acclimatising to her indoor den, she will start venturing outside in a few weeks! A young male will be arriving in the next month to keep her company.
From the Centres Facebook.
 
Rare Species Conservation Centre
Rscc has recently recieved Schlotti a young female Malayan Sun Bear from Cologne Zoo in Germany, she is a shy bear and currently can be seen acclimatising to her indoor den, she will start venturing outside in a few weeks! A young male will be arriving in the next month to keep her company.
From the Centres Facebook.

The young male will be from Singapore Zoo, a 1-year old to be exact.

In exchange, Singapore will get a pair of Jaguarundis and a Fishing Cat.

GOODBYE SUN BEAR, HELLO WILD CATS! Wildlife Times
 
I am pretty sure "Schlotti"`s real name is Charlotte. She ws born in Cologne about 2 years ago.
 
RSCC did get themselves a sun bear and had one of them during my visit in April. She? was a very young one.
 
According to their facebook page, 3 fishing cats and 1 rusty-spotted cat have been born :)

Great news, that - am I right in thinking rusty-spotted cats aren't very good breeders in captivity?
 
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but according to the Centre's Facebook page, they are trying to initiate captive breeding programmes with not only the narrow-striped and ring-tailed mongooses but also the fanaloka Fossa fossana. From what I can gather from the page, some may have already arrived but are in quarantine and awaiting future display. :)
 
I have not heard anything about the red and white flying squirrels they imported some time ago - are they still in quarantine ?

Fanaloka would be very exciting - are there any others in Europe ?
 
I have not heard anything about the red and white flying squirrels they imported some time ago - are they still in quarantine ?

Fanaloka would be very exciting - are there any others in Europe ?

I asked earlier on in the year, they were in Quarantine at the time, and should be on show later this year.
 
Fanaloka would be very exciting - are there any others in Europe ?
No. There is 1 specimen known to be held at a small private zoo in Texas, and rumours that others are held by private keepers in the USA, but none in European zoos.
 
Fanaloka is fantastic once again the RSCC proves the catalyst to a vibrant diversity in eruopean zoos, i really do hope they get this species breeding and spread out
 
Wow, wonderful to see a fanaloca in Europe!

RSCC is again one of just a handful of zoos worldwide who actually start new breeding programs for new species!
 
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but according to the Centre's Facebook page, they are trying to initiate captive breeding programmes with not only the narrow-striped and ring-tailed mongooses but also the fanaloka Fossa fossana. From what I can gather from the page, some may have already arrived but are in quarantine and awaiting future display. :)

If they do please for goodness sake take those confiscated fossas not allowed out in the wild and now functionally extinct ... into the European breeding programme tooooo....
 
The website, As you go on it says

Please note the collection has changed and only focusses on the captive breeding and conservation of Rare & Endangered Carnivores, we still have:
Sun Bears,
Snow Leopards,
Puma,
Clouded Leopards,
Bearcat,
Smooth Coated Otters,
rare and unique Madagascan Carnivores
and many other small cat and mustelid species.
All set in sub tropical gardens.

This was posted in 2011.

Are Srey-Ya and Jo-Jo at Colchester (YES) than do RSCC have new sun bears???
 
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