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Pertinax said:
EEP nowadays recommend only breeding from pure West African chimps, though many zoos still breed from their hybrid/mixed race chimps, either deliberately or accidentally from time to time. Its always a difficult decision to stop breeding entirely as babies/young are socially important to a group and a visitor attraction too. The downside is where to place the surplus of course.

I don't know of places that deliberately keep 'bachelor' chimp groups. Males will obviously live together, at least in most instances but I'm not sure many places have tried/set this up deliberately with Chimpanzees.
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Surely if zoos are persisting with the idea of bachelor gorilla groups then the same for chimps should be 'in theory' easier? Can see in the future that Werribee and Dubbo will need to follow Monarto's lead and create some space for chimp exhibits if there is a surplus of males. Maybe some of the smaller private collections might also be interested.
 
there are bachelor group of chimps in Europe. They work fine, but considering the social behaviour of the species this is not a surprise.
 
The European studbook (2009 I think?) suggested that bachelor groups are likely to be formed more often in Europe in the future, I wouldn't be surprised if one or two popped up in Australia in years to come- though we seem to be more closely following the chimpanzee SSP than the EEP.
 
Going by the number of males at Taronga, and the fact that most of them are pretty closely related to the breedable females, they may have to start thinking of a male only group soon...

T.
 
wasn't the changes to the chimp exhibit done with that in mind? I thought the glass viewing area that was added was so they could seperate the group.
 
boof said:
wasn't the changes to the chimp exhibit done with that in mind? I thought the glass viewing area that was added was so they could seperate the group.
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I don't think they have enough room in that side of the exhibit for essentially half of the current troop...

... and I think that close proximity to females potentially in season could cause an issue as well...

T.
 
I thought the smaller area was intended for more short-term separations and to enable introductions of new chimps to the group, but I could be wrong.
 
soona said:
I thought the smaller area was intended for more short-term separations and to enable introductions of new chimps to the group, but I could be wrong.
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That was my understanding too.

:p

Hix
 
I'm not sure that Berani would cope with any move... he's had some ups and downs health-wise of late. He's getting on in years, and his eyesight in his good eye has also deteriorated more...

I love how he whinnies back to me sometimes when I tell him he's a handsome boy... *grin*... the upsides of visiting very regularly is that some of the animals seem to recognise you and will interact...

T.
 
tdierikx said:
I'm not sure that Berani would cope with any move... he's had some ups and downs health-wise of late. He's getting on in years, and his eyesight in his good eye has also deteriorated more...

I love how he whinnies back to me sometimes when I tell him he's a handsome boy... *grin*... the upsides of visiting very regularly is that some of the animals seem to recognise you and will interact...

T.
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Yeah both Brazilian and Malayan tapir are effectively screwed in this region. Sounds like Darling Downs is going to try to breed them (hope it works out for them). I wonder what will replace her tho?
 
Tiquie's enclosure is effectively opposite Satu the male Sumatran tiger, and next to the Zebras... I'd say that it would be either housing something else that has to move to make way for the new developments - or may be redeveloped as part of the new stuff...

T.
 
Gonna miss Wewak... he was a character...

Oh - and the newest baby chimp has been named apparently - but I haven't seen any official announcement as yet...

T.
 
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