Which animals would you like to see a breeding facility for these in North America?

TinoPup said:
Literally incorrect, more like 1,000.
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From the Mandai Reserve website, "A critically endangered species, it used to occur in the rivers of Pakistan and Myanmar. Today, it is estimated that fewer than 200 Indian gharials are left in the wild, mostly in India, and a small number in Nepal and Bangladesh."

Though Wikipedia mentions, "In 2017, the global population was estimated to comprise at maximum 900 individuals, including about 600 mature adults in six major subpopulations along 1,100 km (680 mi) of river courses and another 50 mature adults in eight minor subpopulations along 1,200 km (750 mi) of river courses."

I would believe there to be about 1,000 though.
 
BenFoxster said:
From the Mandai Reserve website, "A critically endangered species, it used to occur in the rivers of Pakistan and Myanmar. Today, it is estimated that fewer than 200 Indian gharials are left in the wild, mostly in India, and a small number in Nepal and Bangladesh."

Though Wikipedia mentions, "In 2017, the global population was estimated to comprise at maximum 900 individuals, including about 600 mature adults in six major subpopulations along 1,100 km (680 mi) of river courses and another 50 mature adults in eight minor subpopulations along 1,200 km (750 mi) of river courses."

I would believe there to be about 1,000 though.
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They really need to update their info, then, as that hasn't been the estimated population number since the 1970s. Even IUCN Red List says "Surveys and counts in 2010-2017 indicate an adult global metapopulation conservatively estimated at 650 (median) with a range of 300-900." (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) Thousands of juveniles have been released over the years, as well; a fraction of those reaching adulthood would still be in the hundreds. Gharial will hopefully continue to be a success story.
 
Evirapo said:
Also, I forgot to mention first what you said but we still have good numbers of Sulawesi faunas in the US, even mammals such as anoa, Sulawesi crested macaques, and this animal.
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Plenty of native species around, true - but most of these aren't present in large numbers.

Evirapo said:
and who never knows if we will get another Sulawesi bear cuscus at another chance?
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...There's one Sulawesi Bear Cuscus in NA. Maybe we'll get another somewhere down the line, but chances seem low.
 
Evirapo said:
They're breeding well in Europe and Memphis Zoo's Sulawesi bear cuscus came from the Czech Republic but they have no pair however

Also, See Sulawesi animals holders in North America? for sulawesi faunas holders in US
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According to ZTL there's 6 bear cuscus in Europe - with one recent birth. I don't call that "breeding well."

Also I'm aware of the thread and have read it, many of those species are not around in good numbers.
 
I'd love to see a dedicated facility for nocturnal primates, or even nocturnal wildlife in general. Though they will require specialized care, most of them do not require very extensive space, and they remain very endangered and little-known, so breeding them is useful and a dedicated facility could offer resources for education, I think. The pygmy slow loris is the only one with a future in accredited North America right now excluding night monkey in private facilities and the aye-aye and mouse lemur species being bred at Duke Lemur Center, which is doing a ton to support captive lemur populations and makes a good blueprint.

No, I don't think any of this is likely, but if you gave me infinite money and resources, it's the one I'd go with.
 
JVM said:
I'd love to see a dedicated facility for nocturnal primates, or even nocturnal wildlife in general. Though they will require specialized care, most of them do not require very extensive space, and they remain very endangered and little-known, so breeding them is useful and a dedicated facility could offer resources for education, I think. The pygmy slow loris is the only one with a future in accredited North America right now excluding night monkey in private facilities and the aye-aye and mouse lemur species being bred at Duke Lemur Center, which is doing a ton to support captive lemur populations and makes a good blueprint.

No, I don't think any of this is likely, but if you gave me infinite money and resources, it's the one I'd go with.
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I love to see breeding facilities like this as I mention about red slender loris. Outside of primates, American marsupials are very lesser-known and some are falsely listed as least concern when they are not, so these should earn love
 
Great Argus said:
Also Wildlife World supposedly has two.
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They had them a year ago, I see no reason they still don't. I'll confirm the first week in January.

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USDA inspection from this October shows 2 Equus hemionus ASIATIC WILD ASS / PERSIAN ONAGER
 
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Kudu21 said:
WWZ should have one male left; however, for what it's worth, their animals were sourced from the private sector, so this animal should actually be a kulan and not a Persian onager.
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The USDA report still shows two as of October, FWIW. Thanks for the other additional information. :)
 
Wisp O' Mist said:
Persian Onagers desperately need more love. There's only about 30 of them left in American zoos and you can only see them at a grand total of 2 locations: Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington D.C. and The Wilds in Ohio!

Really a shame, since wild asses in general aren't doing so hot out in the wild and North America has already lost both the Kulan and the Kiang. I would hate to see these guys follow in their close cousins unfortunate hoofsteps.
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I think that Park Safari(Canada) have Persian Onagers since we are talking about North America.
They had some birth and maybe they could give some to the US.
 
I've always wanted to start a facility specializing in breeding of rare parrots (not pinioned/wing-clipped pet birds on sticks, but wild birds in spacious aviaries), all the Madagascan tortoises (even though radiateds are quite commonly bred in N.A. zoos, regardless of accreditation) several endangered iguanas (particularly Brachylophus vitiensis *profile picture intensifies*), and plenty of other taxons that I haven't fully thought out yet.
 
JVM said:
I'd love to see a dedicated facility for nocturnal primates, or even nocturnal wildlife in general. Though they will require specialized care, most of them do not require very extensive space, and they remain very endangered and little-known, so breeding them is useful and a dedicated facility could offer resources for education, I think. The pygmy slow loris is the only one with a future in accredited North America right now excluding night monkey in private facilities and the aye-aye and mouse lemur species being bred at Duke Lemur Center, which is doing a ton to support captive lemur populations and makes a good blueprint.

No, I don't think any of this is likely, but if you gave me infinite money and resources, it's the one I'd go with.
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Honestly, I too would love to see more zoos working with mouse lemurs because AFAIK only Duke works with them. And since they manage the U.S. aye-aye population, including those in other zoos, they why can't they do the same for their mouse lemurs?
 
Evirapo said:
Memphis Zoo's Sulawesi bear cuscus came from the Czech Republic
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Out of curiosity do you have a source for this? I noticed that this information has been entered into ZTL but there is no source listed and I haven't been able to confirm it.
 
Coelacanth18 said:
Out of curiosity do you have a source for this? I noticed that this information has been entered into ZTL but there is no source listed and I haven't been able to confirm it.
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