Which zoo(s) keep(s)...

Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong

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To give all those questions regarding searches for rarely kept species a thread of its own.
So, let's start:

Do You know any zoo that keeps Seychelles Blue Pigeons (Alectroenas pulcherrima)?
 
Does any zoo keep flying lemurs. I know Singapore has them wild/semiwild but are there any zoos that have successfully kept them.
 
@PAT: According to my data, most husbandries of members of this order were unsuccessful; however, one article mentions a private Australian husbandry as being successful in keeping the animal alive for a longer period of time. But that's about all the info it can offer. One of the major problems seems to be adequate feeding.

For Pinnipeda fans:
-Baikal Seal: Leipzig, several Japanese aquariums (Tokyo Sunshine), Russia
YouTube - Baikal seal
YouTube - Seals at the Aquarium Ikebukuro
-Ringed & Harp Seal: Oceanopolis Brest
-Leopard Seal: Taronga
-Northern Elephant Seal: Sausalito Marine Mammal Center

Anyone knowing a zoo keeping the San Esteban Chuckwalla (Sauromalus varius)?
@Writhedhornbill: You're sure?
 
Sun Wukong said:
For Pinnipeda fans:
-Baikal Seal: Leipzig, several Japanese aquariums (Tokyo Sunshine), Russia
-Ringed & Harp Seal: Oceanopolis Brest
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Ringed seals are also on show at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands and if my information is correct, the Monaco Aquarium holds a young couple of Baikal seals...
 
PAT said:
Does any zoo keep flying lemurs. I know Singapore has them wild/semiwild but are there any zoos that have successfully kept them.
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A zoo in Malaysia tried keeping one but failed. Their diet is simply too difficult to replicate in captivity.
 
Sun Wukong said:
To give all those questions regarding searches for rarely kept species a thread of its own.
So, let's start:

Do You know any zoo that keeps Seychelles Blue Pigeons (Alectroenas pulcherrima)?
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Jurong has/had them, seen them on a couple of occasions in the massive Waterfall Aviary years back. Not sure of their status now.
 
@jwer: I talked to the curator responsible for the Baikal Seal at Leipzig this month and mentioned it, as I had previously heard about that alleged donation. He told me that the whole thing is a hoax; he had immediately approached Monaco when this story came out. The folks at the Oceanographic Museum told him in no uncertain terms that they did not get any Baikal seals. It's just a canard.
@Zooish: Thanks for the confirmation.
 
@okapikpr: Hmm, can't remember seeing them there-yet it can be that I didn't take notice of them back then.

Tres Marias Raccoon (Procyon insularis) or any of the insular Procyon-species?
 
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Might be able to answer the last question by myself: it seems that Ostrava Zoo keeps (kept?) at least one Tres Marias Raccoon-see
http://www.planet-mammiferes.org/

Can anyone confirm that?

Next question: Thick-billed Raven? New Caledonian Crows-besides Oxford & Auckland University?
 
Does anybody have knowledge that one of the European zoos exhibits Hellbenders? Or had been exhibited this species ever in the past somewhere in Europe? Thanks ...
 
Of "insular raccoons", only Cozumel raccoon is real species, others are introduced common raccoons. None in Europe AFAIK.

Thick-billed raven - maybe Veldhoven, Holland?
 
Sun Wukong said:
Next question: Thick-billed Raven? New Caledonian Crows-besides Oxford & Auckland University?
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Cotswold Wildlife Park used to have 2 male New Caledonian Crows on show but these have now been taken off-show or returned to Oxford not quite sure which.
 
@ Sun Wukong:
F.e. just one case: Speothos venaticus ... there are many more locations which have no indications on this site ...
Certainly I know that is impossible to provide current datas in the case of sites which works huge quantity of informations like this ...
 
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