Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park Tierra de las Pampas

Well this is good news and desperately needed because the small Santa Ana Zoo is the worst AZA-accredited zoo I have seen in my life. In fact, I cannot for the life of me understand how they can be accredited.

Unfortunatley, they will have to scrap plans for jaguarundi since the Felid Tag has phased that species out.
 
TAG's just make recomendations, zoos DO NOT have to follow them. It's not like the SSP where they say who has what and that's that. There are a lot of animals that have been recommended for phase-out by TAG's that have been imported in recent years (ie striped hyena)
 
Some fairly rare species (Zoo-wise) there but, I would like to see them actually get a pacarana or a jaguarundi as there are noen left in the United States (although I'm sure Mexico has jaguarundi)
 
Zoogoer2000 said:
Some fairly rare species (Zoo-wise) there but, I would like to see them actually get a pacarana or a jaguarundi as there are noen left in the United States (although I'm sure Mexico has jaguarundi)
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There are two jaguarundis in the EFBC's Feline Conservation Center in Rosamond, California.

Also, don't forget about the white-lipped peccaries, since there are none in North America.
 
As a cat fanatic I would LOVE to see them get jaguarundi, but acquisition is a problem. There are only two pairs left in the U.S., both in California. The pair at Feline Conservation Center (mentioned above) are a brother and sister pair, the offspring of the other U.S. pair, so they would not be mated. Their parents are held in an off-exhibit area of Project Survival Cat Haven and the Rosamond pair is the second litter they had. The first litter of two were sent overseas to the Rotterdam Zoo (I think).

However, the Rosamond pair was born a few years ago and their parents have not had any since, so I don't know if they are still breeding age. But that pair was imported from Latin America, so I suppose it is still possilbe for Sant Ana to import some if they really wanted to. After all, several years ago they had the only oncilla on exhibit in the U.S.
 
Arizona Docent said:
As a cat fanatic I would LOVE to see them get jaguarundi, but acquisition is a problem. There are only two pairs left in the U.S., both in California. The pair at Feline Conservation Center (mentioned above) are a brother and sister pair, the offspring of the other U.S. pair, so they would not be mated. Their parents are held in an off-exhibit area of Project Survival Cat Haven and the Rosamond pair is the second litter they had. The first litter of two were sent overseas to the Rotterdam Zoo (I think).

However, the Rosamond pair was born a few years ago and their parents have not had any since, so I don't know if they are still breeding age. But that pair was imported from Latin America, so I suppose it is still possilbe for Sant Ana to import some if they really wanted to. After all, several years ago they had the only oncilla on exhibit in the U.S.
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Good news Felid Fans! The 2009 Felid RCP lists jaguarundi as a "PHASE IN" species!

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/AZA/FelidTAG/Resources/2009RCP.pdf
 
ITURI - thank you for posting that link. Very useful for cat fans. Jaguarundi is "being considered" as a possible phase-in, so it's not guaranteed, but definitely looks better than it did a year ago. I would LOVE to see jaguarundis return to the Desert Museum here in Tucson. And it would be a reason (probably the only reason) I would consider a return visit to the small and unimpressive Santa Ana Zoo.

Odd thing is, they are phasing out margays, another south american cat of the same size that we already have in this country. What's the deal?

Interesting to note in survey results that apparently one institution has future plans for space for 4 asian golden cats and 4 african golden cats. No mention who it is or if it's the same institution, but if I had to venture a guess I would say the new small cat breeding center being built by Cincinnati Zoo (off-site). Fairly easy to import the asians, but as far as I know there are no african golden cats in captivity anywhere in the world, so I don't know how they're planning that (although I would race to see them if someone did get them).
 
The Desert Museum DOES have plans to get jaguarundi and margay in the future.

There being no program for margays is not new, the previous RCP had them as a phase-out.

Based on space surveys I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if the 4 of each golden cat wasn't because a facility responded with having future plans for one or the other golden cat species and they just put four of each in that category.
 
@ITURI - Thank you for the Private Message - very exciting news!

(For the rest of you, Ituri forwarded a private email from Desert Museum staff confirming they do plan to aquire margay and jaguarundi once they are available - as well as to build a jaguar exhibit once they get the money released from an estate plan).

So for cat lovers in Tucson (namely me), it looks like brighter days are ahead! And, going back to the original topic of this thread, brighter days for Orange County residents as well.
 
Tierra de las Pampas opens April 17, with 2 exhibits: one for giant anteaters and one for guanacos and rheas. The total exhibit area is 2 acres.
 
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