Taronga Zoo Taronga Update

boof said:
Yep. but it seems to be the same people all the time. Maybe we need a sin bin for posting rubbish.
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When I started that thread and it was not my intention for it to become what it was... I apologise for any fueling I may have contributed...
 
I was originally interested in that thread too Jeremy, but tuned out soon afterwards. Don't apologize for starting a thread that had a legit. origon.
I was looking at ISIS and the numbers of languers in member zoos. There really aren't that many are there. But there are a few more Francoisi francoisi around. Are the two justifiably different subspecies?
 
i just hope any difficulty in sourcing pure animals doesnt result in mixing sub-species as with colobus monkey
 
i've been wondering whats the big hold up on importing more brazilian tapir. there are no more viable pairs left in the region other than the one at dubbo. last i checked after melbourne followed suit with a blind malayan tapir (i know i lash on them for this but seriously - they did keep the animal in full sun for ages) they decided to go back to brazilians again. but unfortunately, they have never acquired any more. i imgine brazilian tapir are pretty common in overseas zoos.

was the brazilian tapir at taronga an import or did it come from dubbo?
 
Sorry a bit off topic but how many Brazilians does Mogo have? There were three last time I was there, was some time ago now though. If they still have any would they be suitabel for breeding again. From memory they had bred theirs.
 
I agree with you guys; South American tapir numbers should be bolstered by importation. They are among the few ungulates which ARE allowed import, as far as I'm aware, and stock within the region are supposed to be quite inbred.

ISIS says that there are 1 male and 2 females at Mogo, 2 females at Adelaide, 2 males and 1 female at Dubbo, 1 female at Taronga (she's a sweetie; the keepers' pet) and a pair at Hamilton.
 
patrick said:
i believe there is an even older male mueller's gibbon at wellington zoo and another at mogo. did i mention i saw one in the wild? ;)
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sorry about digging this out again, but when patrick posted this I queried whether Wellington's gibbon was still alive, but I was just at the zoo today and have been told that yes he is still hanging in there (so to speak)
 
apparently he lives permanently in a off-display area at the zoo's animal hospital. gibbons are tough cookie's and live as long, if not longer as any other ape.

mogos' tapirs are ex-melbourne. i think (but am not positive) they are mother and son. the older male died a couple of years ago.
 
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