Toronto Zoo Toronto Zoo New Animals, Departures and Deaths 2009

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Recent comings and goings:
*A young osprey was received from the wild. Not sure if it is staying or is a release candidate.
*Colette, the last wisent at the Toronto Zoo, passed away last week. She was 22.
*The roulrouls in Malayan Woods have chicks
*A green magpie in the Indo Pavilion hasn;t been seen for over a week ... he may have flown out a door into the outside world.
*The three polar bears were introduced for the first time today - all went well.
 
I hope the Osprey can go on disply somewhere, I have always wanted to see one.

To bad for the Wisent, R.I.P. They were a phase out species if I recall? Any history about them, have they given birth at the zoo etc.? Does the zoo plan to introduced the wood bison in that exhibit to the ones in the Canadian Domain?

I really hope I can see the roulroul chicks they are very unique birds, and the chicks look adorable on google.

Hopefully they find the green magpie. Again interesting species. Ungultae do you know what the zoo is doing in the Indo Pavilion? It looks like they are building some more aviaries near the entrance?

Glad to hear about the bears, I really hope they can be a successful bond. Do all three bears have access to the whole exhibit know?
 
Wisent were bred at the zoo many times ... yes, they were a phase-out species (now complete). In order to help track births, the studbook issued two letters to each holding institution, and all wisent born there had to have names beginning with those letters. Toronto was CO - Colette, Connie, Cobey, Cologne, Contessa, Conrad ... those are the six that I can remember (Conrad is Winnipeg's breeding male).

I believe the wood bison moved to the domain a while ago, and I suspect the wisent exhibit will remain empty in preparation for the next phase of the North Site redevelopment (otherwise, they will simply move other hoofstock over).

In Indo, they are building two aviaries at the entrance ... separate holding spaces are in desperate need for the pavilion's birds ... some have had issues breeding in the free-flights, and others have taken to dive-bombing keepers and visitors (not such a good thing). I'm not sure which species will be moved in when they are complete.
 
Oh, and the polar bears were together for a few hours, and then separated. I'm not sure if the plans are for them to live together all of the time (I have heard this ... with everyone having access to all of the exhibits), or to give more options in terms of managing them.
 
Thanks for the info. I really hope all three bears can eventually be together 100% of the time in all exhibits.
 
Thanks for the update

To bad about Colette, I really wish they would'nt have phased thse guys out but Its to late now

Good to hear about the osprey, roul roul and pola rbears (were all three in new or old exhibit?)
 
Thye used to be in the aviary that houses Mikisi the Bald Eagle at the Entrance but they are now off-exhibit and there porfile was never removed

FYI, The macaw island in the Mayan Temple Ruins River Area was originally built to house hyacinth macaws but they never made it here due to breeding
 
OO ic, thanks Zoogoer out of the many times I have been on that site I just noticed them now.
 
I apologize if this has been mentioned already, but Jahe (hope the spelling is right) one of the female orangutans will be leaving the Toronto Zoo and going to Tennessee so long as she passes the Hepatitis A test.
 
I read that on her facebook page and as far as I know, she was actually due to leave last summer

Anyone know what zoo she is going to? Im guessing Memphis
 
I don't know why exactly, but I would assume for breeding purposes. But she wont go if she has Hep-A and the keepers seemed to think she likely does.

If she does go, I can only assume that the youngest orangutan there would miss her the most because they play together so much.
 
Hopefully she does get a chance to go!

Does anyone know if another male ostrich will be brought into the Toronto Zoo?
 
tiffanyanddave said:
I don't know why exactly, but I would assume for breeding purposes. But she wont go if she has Hep-A and the keepers seemed to think she likely does.

If she does go, I can only assume that the youngest orangutan there would miss her the most because they play together so much.
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There are actually three orangutan babies at Toronto Zoo

Budi (Puppe's son)
Kembali (Sekali's son)
Jingga (Ramai's daughter)

All were born in 2006 but they are kept in seperate groups (Ramai/Sekali/Jingga/Kembali and Molek/Puppe/Jahe/Budi)
as Ramai and Sekali are very close and Ramai and Puppe do not get along

The reason I bring this all up is because once Jahe leaves, they could probably give the three orangutan children time to be seperate from there parent and just play amongst the three of themselves
 
How many orangs are at the zoo anyways? I mean, are they not all exhibited together?
 
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