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[Jordan-Jaguar97]

Hi All,
Sorry to create a new thread,I am just trying to get some information about some of the Zoo's animals could any of you answer any of these questions?
1.The Zoo recently recieved a new female Sumatran Tiger 'Damai' and they plan to acquire a male for her,why wouldn't they want Guntur to breed with her?
2.Any plans on a new bull house or new females?
3.Any plans to move any of the Lion cubs?
4.Are they breeding the Cheetahs or Clouded leopards?
Any news would be great

 

[Zoogoer2000]

Hi All,
Sorry to create a new thread,I am just trying to get some information about some of the Zoo's animals could any of you answer any of these questions?
1.The Zoo recently recieved a new female Sumatran Tiger 'Damai' and they plan to acquire a male for her,why wouldn't they want Guntur to breed with her?
2.Any plans on a new bull house or new females?
3.Any plans to move any of the Lion cubs?
4.Are they breeding the Cheetahs or Clouded leopards?
Any news would be great

1. They are acquiring a new male for Damai from Honolulu as they want to create a new bloodline and add more diversity to the Sumatran Tiger SSP. Guntur will be going overseas to a different zoo hopefully by the end of this year to be a part of another breeding program where he too can add genetic diversity. National Zoo has not had a new breeding pair of tigers in quite awhile, so this will be a nice change

2. For the bull house and new females, I'm guessing you mean elephants? If so, then it is hoped that they will acquire more females over time, I think the bull will be housed in the current barn as it was built very strong, but I could be wrong

3.Most likely the end of this year, we will see atleast one of the lion cubs be transferred to a different zoo, but next year for sure there will be lion cubs moved out. I highly doubt that any of the cubs will stay at National Zoo, as they are a fairly unrepresented bloodline here in America, so they have quite a bit of breeding potential

4. Cheetah breeding is mostly happening out at the Zoo's off-exhibit Front Royal, VA site (SBCI) as they have a very large cheetah program/area there. 2 cubs were born last December, and 5 more were just born in the past couple of weeks. As for the zoo, the female there is fairly old (11) so I doubt that they will breed her again. RE. Clouded leopards, most of the breeding for them is happening at SBCI as well, as they have much more facility/animal population too work with there. They have had 7 cubs since 2009, and more are expected. The zoo pair can breed, but have not done so successfully yet

 

[Jordan-Jaguar97]

Thanks Zg2000 there's not a lot of news about the animals at the Zoo only a few little bit of news so the news is brilliant