Surplus animals and inventory's

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futurekeeper

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Hi zoochatters

Does anyone have any information on animals currently listed as surplus? And does anyone have any links to recent zoo inventory's?

Any and all information would really help with my return to education!

Cheers
 
I have read from EAZA yearbook, that some zoo animals that (desperately) need new adequate holders in order for breeding programmes to be adequately run, are:
-Black spider monkey (males)
-Hybrid chimpanzees, common chimpanzee
-Lar gibbon, siamang
-Mandrills
-Brown lemurs, white-fronted lemurs
-Various subspecies of leopards (even for the giant Sri Lankan), hybrids
-Common hippos but also pygmy hippos
-Hybrid giraffes
-Lions
-Hybrid tigers and Siberian tiger
-Liamas, brown bears, fallow deers, Grant's zebra, ring-tail lemurs, many other
-Brazilian tapir
-Komodo dragons (?)
 
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It` would be interesting to see as to where in the UK could accommodate hybrid giraffe and hybrid tigers as a lot of places have been breeding these purebred species. Knowsley`s plan is to accommodate a new Tower of giraffes but whether these will be a breeding herd or more hybrid anybody know ?
There are a surplus amount of African lions ie :Longleat, but as to where anywhere else could accommodate i`m guessing are limited due to a lot of places being home to Asiatic species. Blackpool could accommodate more lions but Wallace was born at Longleat so unless lioness` from here could be put on contraceptive, could this work if his son could be moved on ?

I`d love to see another big cat species at Knowsley, the Sri Lankan Leopard would be a nice addition, but wouldn`t know where they could put them

What do other people think of this ?
 
I imagine surplus lists are only distributed among zoo professionals and I doubt anyone would post that information for the general public. Even if a ZooChat member works at a zoo and has access to it, surely they would not post it on a public forum like this.
 
Arizona Docent said:
I imagine surplus lists are only distributed among zoo professionals and I doubt anyone would post that information for the general public. Even if a ZooChat member works at a zoo and has access to it, surely they would not post it on a public forum like this.
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They were not a surplus lists, but there were a lot of info from EAZA tags from 2007/2008 (publicly available) in regards what zoo species needs, and desperately needs, new holders, which seems that no longer are on the net - I couldn't find them, and damn I should downloaded and saved them.
 
It was stated that: To ensure proper genetic management, the Sri Lankan leopard EEP requires new participants. The number of Sri Lankan leopard (a jaguarine leopard :) - the giant leopard ) stood at 49 (24.25.0) in Europe in 2008. :) Love them and so happy that I will see them in Valencia bioparc and Barcelona zoo.
 
I have a great photo on my wall of Sri Lanka leopard at Le Parc Des Felins. However not sure they are much bigger than other leopards. The largest leopard subspecies is Persian (which they also have at Parc Felins, among others).
 
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