St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park St Augustine Alligator Farm

Seems another new species of crocodile has been described, this time from Southern New Guinea, and just as with C. suchus animals from St. Augustine have been used in the discovery/description. From the sounds of things, the zoo keeps both species and may exhibit them both between the main enclosure and the large mixed species pool, but we'll need to wait to get proper descriptions of the morphological features before we can tell for sure.

~Thylo
 
I went to St Augustine Alligator farm today. It seems like there aren’t any haplorhine primates on display. One of the exhibits recently had new sloths.
 
Other 2022 News:

On February 28th, the zoo announced that a (0.0.1) sunbittern hatched in February.

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on March 22nd, the zoo announced they are in the process of draining and renovating the swamp area, which includes a 10,000-square-foot expansion for crocodiles and wading bird nests. The expansion, called Holly Springs, is currently home to a few dozen crocodiles (of unspecified species) and is only accessible bts.

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Native Swamp & Rookery Renovation

On March 29th, the zoo announced they have built a new bts exhibit for juvenile Galapagos tortoises.

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On May 26th, the zoo announced they moved a (1.0) American alligator named Chicago Chance to the juvenile crocodile yard in front of the Anastasia Island Conservation Center.

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On July 28th, the zoo announced th gender of the Hoffman's two-toed sloth born in February (0.1) and name, Winnie.

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On September 3rd, the zoo announced that due to avian influenza, they have moved their vultures off exhibit. They were back on exhibit as of October 6th.

The zoo also announced they will acquire a (0.0.1) white-headed vulture from the Toledo Zoo in Ohio.

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They’re BACK! Our group of vultures are back in the Birds of Africa habitat, with the Marabou Stork and Crowned Cranes. If you didn’t hear why they... | By St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park | Facebook

*I might have missed the births of some species including prehensile-tailed skink, gopher tortoise, and river cooter, among others.
 
Would anyone know what the plans are for the Black Caiman and Mugger? There were only one of each species so unless some are bts there is no chance of breeding. When they die, will new specimens be imported. Is it even possible?

Also, I think Spectacled Caiman and False Gavial were bts a few months back, no enclosures with them from what I saw.
 
SusScrofa said:
Would anyone know what the plans are for the Black Caiman and Mugger? There were only one of each species so unless some are bts there is no chance of breeding. When they die, will new specimens be imported. Is it even possible?

Also, I think Spectacled Caiman and False Gavial were bts a few months back, no enclosures with them from what I saw.
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Only one of Mugger? I thought they had a breeding group? It's been almost 10 years since my visit but they had a number of growing adults as well as a few young.

~Thylo
 
Is now a good time of year to visit or should I wait until it is warmer? I really want to see the freshies, mugger, Black Caiman, Hall's New Guinea, and Philippine Crocodiles, basically the ones not in many other collections. I was wondering if it would be too cold for them to be out in the high 60's low 70's weather.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Only one of Mugger? I thought they had a breeding group? It's been almost 10 years since my visit but they had a number of growing adults as well as a few young.

~Thylo
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As of my visit today they had 1 large male, and some smaller ones in a mixed species habitat with American Alligators, Siamese Crocodiles, Morelet's Crocodiles, and Smooth-front Caiman, the only issue there is that I don't know of any reliable way to distinguish the juvenile siamese, morelet's, and muggers from each other
 
Very interested to see if the mugger juveniles move on to another facility in the U.S. It's the only species of crocodilian I have never seen else where besides St. Augustine
 
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