Thanks. Any idea on how Artis got this subspecies of Sugar Glider?
The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Monotremes and Marsupials
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I guess the Sugar Gliders of Artis came from Rotterdam, where this subspecies was kept in the old Nocturnal House from the 1980's until it closed in 2003. Rotterdam had an extensive marsupial collection (including quolls, devils, kowaris, bandicoots, possums, wombats and all kind of macropodiforms) in this period. I don't know where all these marsupials came from, maybe directly from Australia?
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Why stop at mammals? I would love to see a photographic guide to passerines.
If this was made, it would also be the longest thread on ZooChat.
I have just uploaded a scan of a slide of Doria's tree kangaroo, which I took at Wilhelma, Stuttgart in August 1973, into our Gallery. I uploaded another image from the same visit some time ago; it shows a small kangaroo which was labelled as Dorcopsis muelleri when I took it, but Zootierliste suggests that this animal was actually D luctuosa (although it also suggests that Stuttgart held Dorcopsulus macleayi at that time too). I know very little about marsupial taxonomy and I cannot vouch for these identifications, although I also saw the Doria's at Blackpool which looked very similar, but I draw them to your attention.
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If spiders were more popular in zoos, they could lead to a long thread on the world-wide web.
No idea, but I think @AWP might be on the right track! Zootierliste tells me the subspecies was formerly held in a few other collections as well. The day I saw this animal we asked a volunteer if she knew how many sugar gliders were present, and apparently back then there were still 5 animals (2,1,2).
Thanks very much. I have added the Doria's Tree Kangaroo, and I'll look at the wallaby a bit later.
I know, the Notogaea Exhibition of 1977/1978. I read the book about Blijdorp's history some years ago. Rotterdam also got some Northern Island brown kiwi's from the New Zealand government for this exhibition, being the only European zoo at that moment with kiwi's. Some marsupials however arrived some years later (if I'm right the brown bandicoots and a quoll species).
I can't remember which rarities of Down Under were present at my first visit to the zoo, because I was still a little child at that time. I know I have been looking for Tasmanian devils and Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies during later visits in the nineties because they were still mentioned on the map, but by that time these species were already gone.
I had a look at this. Zootierliste says something like "were previously considered D. muelleri". Until the 1980s D. luctuosa was generally included within D. muelleri, which explains that. So I've added the photo into the thread as D. luctuosa.
Some new marsupial photos have been added to the galleries by @Najade - including Short-eared Rock Wallaby, Western Quoll, and Dibbler, all at Perth Zoo - which have replaced some of the photos I had in this thread previously (so apologies to @devilfish, @LaughingDove, and @Hix respectively whose photos of the above three species were replaced).
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I uploaded a couple pics of extinct species from the South Australian Museum if you wanna use 'em...
I uploaded a couple pics of extinct species from the South Australian Museum if you wanna use 'em...
Rotterdam Zoo published a nice little booklet, in English, in connection with this exhibition
"Notogaea: A Historical Zoogeographic Account of Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand"
According to this publication, the exhibition took place during the winter season 1977 / 1978.
Frustratingly, this booklet doesn't provide a comprehensive list of all the species featured in the exhibition.
I read something about the species featured in the exhibition some years ago, not sure it was in the book of the zoo or some kind of newspaper of magazine article. I'll see if I can find it back.
Found a list in the book Iets grootsch & buitengewoons ( the names are not alway very clear so not all species are given to species-level ) :
-Kultarr
-Goodfellows tree-kangaroo
-Matschie tree-kangaroo
-Doria tree-kangaroo
-Quoll ( several species ) ( spotted for sure )
-Bandicoots ( several species )
-Bruyns pademelon
-Sand wallaby
-Kowari
-Tasmanian devil
-Potoroo ( several species, Tasmanian for sure )
-Red rat kangaroo
-Hairy-nosed wombat
-Ground cuscus
-Tasmanian short-beaked echidna
other animals from this region recieved during this period :
- dwarf casuaries, Australian cranes, kiwi's, birds of paradise and many more. I was at that time a regular visitor of Blijdorp so must have seen most ( or all ) these species ) althrough I don't remember all of them anymore ( but a good number of them
).
I recieved the booklet with species list today. Not all species mentioned bij @vogelcommando are from the actual Notogaea Exhibition (are you sure about Kultarr?). When I have time, I will put a species list in the Dutch section.
Some time ago I have been looking in the "Vrienden"-newsletters online to find out the former collection of the Henri Martin-huis, so I know that Blijdorp got new species of quoll, bandicoot, bettong, wombat and cuscus in the 1980's, after the Notogaea Exhibition. According to ZTL, Kultarr was never kept in Europe, so I have my doubts on that one.
Is an "Australian Crane" a Brolga or a Sarus Crane?Found a list in the book Iets grootsch & buitengewoons ( the names are not alway very clear so not all species are given to species-level ) :
-Kultarr
-Goodfellows tree-kangaroo
-Matschie tree-kangaroo
-Doria tree-kangaroo
-Quoll ( several species ) ( spotted for sure )
-Bandicoots ( several species )
-Bruyns pademelon
-Sand wallaby
-Kowari
-Tasmanian devil
-Potoroo ( several species, Tasmanian for sure )
-Red rat kangaroo
-Hairy-nosed wombat
-Ground cuscus
-Tasmanian short-beaked echidna
other animals from this region recieved during this period :
- dwarf casuaries, Australian cranes, kiwi's, birds of paradise and many more. I was at that time a regular visitor of Blijdorp so must have seen most ( or all ) these species ) althrough I don't remember all of them anymore ( but a good number of them