St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park St Augustine Alligator Farm

The first gharial hatched outside of their native range, in fact! Great news!

Also recently hatched was the zoo's first Galapagos tortoise.
 
jayjds2 said:
The first gharial hatched outside of their native range, in fact! Great news!

Also recently hatched was the zoo's first Galapagos tortoise.
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Great news!

Any idea which Galapagos species is kept at St. Augustine?
How large is their group anyhow?
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Great news!

Any idea which Galapagos species is kept at St. Augustine?
How large is their group anyhow?
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They keep three animals (on-exhibit). One is a microphyes, another is a vicina, and the last is of unknown origin to my knowledge.

Very excellent news on the Indian Gharials, too!

~Thylo:cool:
 
jayjds2 said:
The first gharial hatched outside of their native range, in fact! Great news!
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It *is* great news, but you are incorrect - the species has been bred within Europe, at Protivin Krokozoo.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
It *is* great news, but you are incorrect - the species has been bred within Europe, at Protivin Krokozoo.
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They bred but eggs did not hatch. SAAF's gangeticus, hatched, unlike Protivin. Jay also said hatched, not bred. Hatching gangeticus > eggs that dns. Like saying chicken before the egg. :p
 
ThylacineAlive said:
They keep three animals (on-exhibit). One is a microphyes, another is a vicina, and the last is of unknown origin to my knowledge.~Thylo:cool:
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I thought some years ago all Galapagos tortoises had been assigned to species level and thus re-arranged (see comments under Gladys Porter Zoo and Omaha's HD Zoo).

That implies this is a hybrid / cross-breed breeding ..!? (Or the unknown has been determined bo be either microphyes or vicina!!)
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I thought some years ago all Galapagos tortoises had been assigned to species level and thus re-arranged (see comments under Gladys Porter Zoo and Omaha's HD Zoo).

That implies this is a hybrid / cross-breed breeding ..!? (Or the unknown has been determined bo be either microphyes or vicina!!)
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I think I heard something about that but I don't really know much about it and it doesn't seem to be very well accepted.

That would imply a cross-breeding unless, as you said, the unknown animal's origins were uncovered. Or they got a new animal.

~Thylo:cool:
 
90 years old, Michelle is almost like Sarah except having children at that age isn't odd for a Galapagos Tortoise! Very good news.
 
The baby gharial is going on display tomorrow... I visited a few weeks too early.
 
Cuvier's dwarf caiman, dwarf crocodile, and saltwater crocodile have all hatched recently.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Question is, which dwarf croc:p;)
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For what it's worth, the Facebook post said Osteolaemus tetraspis, though granted that's not much help. It's whatever they have on exhibit, I saw the female nesting when I visited a month or two ago.
 
jayjds2 said:
For what it's worth, the Facebook post said Osteolaemus tetraspis, though granted that's not much help. It's whatever they have on exhibit, I saw the female nesting when I visited a month or two ago.
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Not much help at all considering the type specimen was discovered to be from another population so all the animals previously known as O. tetraspis aren't:p

~Thylo:cool:
 
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ThylacineAlive said:
Not much help at all considering the type specimen was discovered to be from another population so all the animals known as O. tetraspis aren't:p
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that doesn't make any sense. If "all the animals known as O. tetraspis aren't", then tetraspis wouldn't exist.
 
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