What is an african species that would house well with emu and sulcatas?

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Marvella

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Planning on adding some kind of hooved species from africa (possibly asia) that would also not be intimidated or threaten emus and sulcata tortoises (more specifically the emus) The free roam ranch area is roughly 7.4 acres, preferably a larger species but not bison large. If anyone can help, thank you! i know my questioning was kind of vague so if anyone’s inclined to help and needs more info, im happy to help you help me lol
 
Marvella said:
Planning on adding some kind of hooved species from africa (possibly asia) that would also not be intimidated or threaten emus and sulcata tortoises (more specifically the emus) The free roam ranch area is roughly 7.4 acres, preferably a larger species but not bison large. If anyone can help, thank you! i know my questioning was kind of vague so if anyone’s inclined to help and needs more info, im happy to help you help me lol
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Is this going to be a real-life mix?
 
Off hand I know Brevard Zoo houses emus with Reeve's muntjac and a large tortoise species (although I can't recall off hand if it's Aldabra or sulcata), as well as kangaroos. I've seen Reeve's muntjacs in several unique mixes like this, so they seem to be generally agreeable to this sort of thing. I know that doesn't help your "preferably a larger species" criteria, but it may be a starting point.
 
biggest_dreamer said:
Off hand I know Brevard Zoo houses emus with Reeve's muntjac and a large tortoise species (although I can't recall off hand if it's Aldabra or sulcata), as well as kangaroos. I've seen Reeve's muntjacs in several unique mixes like this, so they seem to be generally agreeable to this sort of thing. I know that doesn't help your "preferably a larger species" criteria, but it may be a starting point.
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oh cool! I haven't done much research on muntjacs, how many should you have? I feel like they'd be a solitary species.
 
I think it’s worth raising the question of why you would combine these species. None of them would have natural interactions in the wild and from an educational point of view alone it doesn’t strike me as being particularly good practice.
 
What exactly is the collection situation, are the emus and tortoises animals you already maintain? Also, since geographic accuracy isn’t exactly your goal for this mix, then what is?
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
Brevard did recently have a big Sulcata in their with the Emus and Kangaroos, he passed away shortly before the Galapagos juveniles arrived.
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Thanks yeah, this was a few years ago and I definitely would’ve remembered if it was a Galapagos. Neat that they’re effectively keeping the mix going, though!

Marvella said:
oh cool! I haven't done much research on muntjacs, how many should you have? I feel like they'd be a solitary species.
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With the disclaimer that I am not a zookeeper and have never handled exotic wildlife, every “oddballs” mix I’ve seen with muntjacs has included just a single muntjac.
 
Marvella said:
oh cool! I haven't done much research on muntjacs, how many should you have? I feel like they'd be a solitary species.
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Muntjac are generally solitary species, with the exception of family groups, and preaty shy for that matter. I've only seen them mixed with red pandas (they really don't interact with each other, so that's not a problem). As @biggest_dreamer and @Austin the Sengi have said, you should be very careful with odd mixes, it can cause a lot of problems.
 
Marvella said:
Planning on adding some kind of hooved species from africa (possibly asia) that would also not be intimidated or threaten emus and sulcata tortoises (more specifically the emus) The free roam ranch area is roughly 7.4 acres, preferably a larger species but not bison large. If anyone can help, thank you! i know my questioning was kind of vague so if anyone’s inclined to help and needs more info, im happy to help you help me lol
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You also have to consider that sulcata tortoise burrow, so that could be bad for any "large" hoofstock, and as you said, emus tend to be aggressive, so small ungulates realy won't enjoy that.
 
Xavier GM said:
Muntjac are generally solitary species, with the exception of family groups, and preaty shy for that matter. I've only seen them mixed with red pandas (they really don't interact with each other, so that's not a problem). As @biggest_dreamer and @Austin the Sengi have said, you should be very careful with odd mixes, it can cause a lot of problems.
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Although like all animal situations this is in general correct. I do know at least 2 zoos with walk-through enclosures with Muntjac that are everything but shy. That these zoos also offer the possibility for visitors to buy some food for the Muntjac might be a major influence though. In one of the cases the Muntjac are mixed with Owls.
 
DDcorvus said:
Although like all animal situations this is in general correct. I do know at least 2 zoos with walk-through enclosures with Muntjac that are everything but shy. That these zoos also offer the possibility for visitors to buy some food for the Muntjac might be a major influence though. In one of the cases the Muntjac are mixed with Owls.
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I think that food influence all animals to be more " friendly" to get the food. As for the mix both animals don't interact, so that's not a problem.
 
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