Recently, there has been some discussion about the former collection of monotremes, marsupials and Australian birds of Rotterdam Zoo in the "Photographic Guide to Monotremes and Marsupials". The heydays would have been around the Notogaea Exhibition. After a little search, I was able to acquire a species list of the exhibition.
The "Notogaea-tentoonstelling, het Vijfde Werelddeel" was held between 1 November 1977 and 1 March 1978 and showed the flora and fauna of Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. With cooperation of Australian zoos (the four major ones, among others), the zoos of Wellington and Otorohanga, Bayer River Zoo on New Guinea and a couple of European zoos (Antwerpen, Basel, Berlin, Stuttgart and London), several rare Oceanic species came to Rotterdam.
Most animals were kept in the complex of the Rivièra Hall (the actual hall, the bird wing, and the wing for apes and pachyderms). Wallabies and kangaroos were kept at new enclosures on the area of a former play ground. Next to these enclosure was a green house with a collection of Oceanic plants. Several species of birds were kept in a complex of aviaries next to this green house. An exhibition building next to the enclosures for polar bears and pinnipeds (the current tiger enclosure) showed taxidermed specimen of tuatara, platypus, numbat, koala and birds-of-paradise, a moa skeleton and a thylacine skull among others.
After the exhibition, many animals stayed in Rotterdam. For example, until the closing of the Henri Martin-huis, nocturnal marsupials remained a major component of this nocturnal house. The kangaroo enclosures, green house and aviaries disappeared quite recently, about eight or ten years ago, and were replaced by the current giraffe enclosure, Crocodile River and okapi enclosure respectively.
The "Notogaea-tentoonstelling, het Vijfde Werelddeel" was held between 1 November 1977 and 1 March 1978 and showed the flora and fauna of Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. With cooperation of Australian zoos (the four major ones, among others), the zoos of Wellington and Otorohanga, Bayer River Zoo on New Guinea and a couple of European zoos (Antwerpen, Basel, Berlin, Stuttgart and London), several rare Oceanic species came to Rotterdam.
Most animals were kept in the complex of the Rivièra Hall (the actual hall, the bird wing, and the wing for apes and pachyderms). Wallabies and kangaroos were kept at new enclosures on the area of a former play ground. Next to these enclosure was a green house with a collection of Oceanic plants. Several species of birds were kept in a complex of aviaries next to this green house. An exhibition building next to the enclosures for polar bears and pinnipeds (the current tiger enclosure) showed taxidermed specimen of tuatara, platypus, numbat, koala and birds-of-paradise, a moa skeleton and a thylacine skull among others.
After the exhibition, many animals stayed in Rotterdam. For example, until the closing of the Henri Martin-huis, nocturnal marsupials remained a major component of this nocturnal house. The kangaroo enclosures, green house and aviaries disappeared quite recently, about eight or ten years ago, and were replaced by the current giraffe enclosure, Crocodile River and okapi enclosure respectively.
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