Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to that question.
Status of Exotic Bears in U.S. Zoos
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Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to that question.
Updated List:
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
San Diego Zoo
Zoo Atlanta
Memphis Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus)
Boise Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Capron Park Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo
Creation Kingdom Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Little Rock Zoo
Lowry Park Zoo
Sunset Zoo*
Miami Zoo
Montgomery Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Tautphaus Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo
*still needs confirmation, were held recently
Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus)
Alexandria Zoo
Baton Rouge Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Nashville Zoo
Phoenix Zoo
Queens Zoo
Racine Zoo
Reid Park Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Salisbury Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
Toledo Zoo
Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus)
Atlanta Zoo
Audubon Zoo
Catoctin Zoo
El Paso Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Honolulu Zoo
Little Rock Zoo
Miami Zoo
Oakland Zoo
Pueblo Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Topeka Zoo
Virginia Zoo
Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus)
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cohanzick Zoo, Bridgeton, NJ*
Jackson Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Manitowoc, WI)
Lupa Zoo (Ludlow, MA)
Metro Richmond Zoo
Natural Bridge Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Virginia Zoo
*still needs confirmation
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
San Diego Zoo
Zoo Atlanta
Memphis Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus)
Boise Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Capron Park Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo
Creation Kingdom Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Little Rock Zoo
Lowry Park Zoo
Sunset Zoo*
Miami Zoo
Montgomery Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Tautphaus Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo
*still needs confirmation, were held recently
Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus)
Alexandria Zoo
Baton Rouge Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Nashville Zoo
Phoenix Zoo
Queens Zoo
Racine Zoo
Reid Park Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Salisbury Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
Toledo Zoo
Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus)
Atlanta Zoo
Audubon Zoo
Catoctin Zoo
El Paso Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Honolulu Zoo
Little Rock Zoo
Miami Zoo
Oakland Zoo
Pueblo Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Topeka Zoo
Virginia Zoo
Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus)
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cohanzick Zoo, Bridgeton, NJ*
Jackson Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Manitowoc, WI)
Lupa Zoo (Ludlow, MA)
Metro Richmond Zoo
Natural Bridge Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Virginia Zoo
*still needs confirmation
Space Farms in New Jersey keeps Asiatic Black Bear.
~Thylo
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Omaha has sloth bear (at least 0.0.1) I think still off show, will be part of Asian Highlands Phase 2 opening in May.
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Calgary keeps giant pandas, specifically Er Shun and Da Mao and their offspring Jia Yueyue and Jia Panpan.
Granby Zoo keeps both Asiatic Black bear, as well as (potentially) Andean bear. My trepidation at the latter is because the bear in the south american area is labeled as another asiatic black bear for some reason.
Granby Zoo keeps both Asiatic Black bear, as well as (potentially) Andean bear. My trepidation at the latter is because the bear in the south american area is labeled as another asiatic black bear for some reason.
Does anybody know if Zoo Atlanta's Sun Bears are nominate or Bornean? Old ZIMS from around their arrival says nominate, but they came from Columbus which holds Bornean.
~Thylo
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Confirming that Omaha has 0.0.2 sloth bear, Kara and Bodo. I am not sure where they came from. I am guessing it is 1.1.0, but the letter I got from the foundation did not specify sex.
Sunset Zoo still lists Sloth Bears on their website: Sloth Bear | Sunset Zoo, KS - Official Website
And Cohanzick Zoo still lists Asian Black Bears on theirs, too: Asiatic Black Bear
I just looked at 2010 ISIS and it has Zoo Atlanta down as plain Helarctos malayanus without a subspecific identity. Columbus is down as euryspilus.
All the American zoos are down as either no subspecies, or Bornean. None are listed as nominate.
Female Kara from Toledo; male Bodo from Chemnitz. Both arrived 2018.
Henry Doorly Zoo 2017-2018 [Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo]
Old records being what's on Global Species? That's where I looked and it has them down as non-subspecies and nominate. Old ZIMS is what I call those records simply because saying the old name might just send a ping to good old Uncle Sam
The original Sun Bear population into the 90's were all nominate (there never have been any actual non-subspecies Sun Bears in the US), then in the 90's we switched to euryspilus. Neither population has done particularly well and most animals have never bred. All are getting pretty old now, but any nominate would be particularly old. The animals listed in 2010 for Atlanta are the same bears still there, so if old records list nominate then presumably they'd be very old nominate bears (though they definitely didn't look it). However, as you said, Columbus has euryspilus not nominate and the Atlanta came from there according to the article about their arrival. Possible Columbus had nominate and switched to Bornean? That's what I'm curious about. I've definitely seen both subspecies anyhow so it's not a huge issue for me, I'm just curious about the status of this species in US zoos. We do not have many left.
~Thylo
If you use the Wayback Machine (using the address isis. org) you can see all the actual ISIS records from before the public access was removed. There are no American zoos listing for nominate. But if they were all nominate in reality, then I would assume that Columbus shuffled off their nominate to Atlanta and replaced them with Bornean (as opposed to them having been bred at Columbus which I guess is the only real alternative).Old records being what's on Global Species? That's where I looked and it has them down as non-subspecies and nominate. Old ZIMS is what I call those records simply because saying the old name might just send a ping to good old Uncle Sam
The original Sun Bear population into the 90's were all nominate (there never have been any actual non-subspecies Sun Bears in the US), then in the 90's we switched to euryspilus. Neither population has done particularly well and most animals have never bred. All are getting pretty old now, but any nominate would be particularly old. The animals listed in 2010 for Atlanta are the same bears still there, so if old records list nominate then presumably they'd be very old nominate bears (though they definitely didn't look it). However, as you said, Columbus has euryspilus not nominate and the Atlanta came from there according to the article about their arrival. Possible Columbus had nominate and switched to Bornean? That's what I'm curious about. I've definitely seen both subspecies anyhow so it's not a huge issue for me, I'm just curious about the status of this species in US zoos. We do not have many left.
Oh very interesting. What are the records on Global Species from then? I don't think Columbus has ever successfully bred their Borneans. In fact I think only San Diego has. Atlanta's bears were on contraceptive at Columbus but given the ok to breed at Atlanta, which kind of plays into them being Malayan as, once the Bornean population started to age without breeding, the AZA just cleared any and all bears for breeding (to no success). Thanks for the help.
~Thylo
Global Species is from ISIS 2011 - but I don't know why they have two listings for them (i.e. general and nominate). They say that their data only comes from ISIS and not a combination from anything else.
This isn't relevant to the Sun Bears, but note also that the 2011 ISIS data (on Global Species) isn't really from 2011 but from 2010 because that was when the organisation was transferring to ZIMS so updates from zoos went onto the new system and not the old one.
I see. Thanks for the information.
I just used the Wayback Machine and I definitely think zoos just listed nominate animals as non-specific because that's what most of Europe's are listed as, too, and they haven't had Borneans since the '70s as far as I can tell.
~Thylo