I have edited my message about those. The reasons for the imports are listed there.
Species formerly kept in Brazil
Hmm, so possibly none in any zoo here. But alligators in a circus?? I wonder what kind of trick they made...
What a shame... Imagine having all these mentioned crocodilians in our zoos... These are wonderful animals that would be such a great educational/conservational piece for our institutions...
Many circuses have/had many species of animals just to expose them.
Maybe one of the alligators was conducted with a collar during the show or something... but I imagine these were part of the animals that were on the cages on the parades made when circuses arrived at the towns. As you said, only for exposition. My relatives remember seeing really rare species in these kind of parades.
While I was taking a look at CITES, I noticed that in 1981, an ursine tree-kangaroo was sent from Brazil to Italy. I have found a picture of two kangaroos at the Rio de Janeiro zoo on the internet as well, but I'm not sure if those are ursine tree ones. Could anyone help me? I don't know who took the picture, but it's on the O Globo news website.
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Well, I had no idea that tree kangaroos ever made part of the collection of any brazilian zoo. If you mean these ones from Rio, than they are most likely to be wallabies: RioZoo batiza cangurus portugueses de Neymar e Ronaldinho Gaúcho
The ursine tree kangaroo is kinda red, and has light creamy colored marks around the body.
Oh no, not those red-necked wallabies. I was talking about these two:
Credits: the original picture is on the O Globo news website.
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There are thirteen tree-kangaroo species, with the two most famous ones being the Goodfellow's and Matschie's ones. I presume you're talking about one of these, which have the exact characteristics you have mentioned.
You mentioned specificaly the ursine tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus), wich has similar characteristics to the goodfellow one. That's why I described them this way. I know there are more species.
Well, these look pretty much like tree kangaroos to me. As I told you, I had never heard about this species being kept in our zoos, so these ones are very likely to be the group from wich one was sent to Italy.
Only one individual was sent to Italy.
Yes, that's why I said "the group from wich one individual was sent to Italy".
Oh, ok, my mistake.
Now, we have gray kangaroos. Western ones were kept at the Sorocaba zoo back in the 2000's and early 2010's. The Rio de Janeiro zoo probably kept those as well (at least that's what their former website, which was managed by the state's government, claimed). The only place as far as I know that kept Eastern ones was the São Paulo zoo. They kept those back in the 1990's.
Oh, didn't know these grey ones were ever kept around here. I thought only the red ones had been kept in the country. Do you know if they ever bred?
It is likely that they bred, but probably died out/were sent to other countries. Kangaroos have been kept at a fair amount of institutions around the country, even the Goiânia and Brasília zoos had those.
Yeah, Goiânia's map was old enough to still have kangaroos listed when I visited. Their exhibit now holds jabiru storks, if I'm not wrong.
The museum at Brasilia zoo has some taxidermized kangaroos too, so I imagined they kept them at some point.
With São Paulo aquarium breeding so many specimens, I think there is a future for the species around here (at least for the red ones). Bauru already got some from there if I remember well.
Yeah, Bauru has two individuals.