Africa Alive! Wild Asses in UK.

Oh there are a few. Chester has a pair(or will have soon a male is due from south lakes ASAP), and so does twycross. South Lakes has a group of three(four) animals and then Marwell, and another collection house them. I think it's dudley.
 
jelle said:
That is why I said that Marwell will likely sent its last 2 stallion foals to Woburn to set up a bachelor herd.
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I've just been to Woburn. They DO have a pair of Somali Ass now, but that's what they are- a pair- not males. They are in an enclosure on their own, but close to the drive-thru area containing Rothschild's giraffe and Grevy Zebra.

Behind them are a small group of Addax which from the signing, it seems are mixed with Bactrian Camels. They also have about nine Bongo, and about 8 Congo Buffalo...
 
Onager Foal.

The last pair of Onagers at Whipsnade Zoo have recently produced a foal, probably about 5 months old now. Unfortunately a male....
 
Hadley said:
Sorry to go off topic, but I've just read that inventory. And then I read it again. So, in one year, a particularly warm year at that, Marwell lost 10 of its 12 Scimitar-horned Oryx infants, all 10 Greater Kudu infants, 5 of its 8 Sitatunga infants, half it's Dama Gazelle infants (plus three adults), 3 giraffes, 11 Peccaries, 2 Babirusa, half it's 25 infant Mara, 7 adult primates, 10 wallabies, 7 Conures, 9 Cranes, half its eider and all its pochard ducklings, 7 penguins and three out of four penguin chicks...........the list goes on.

Maybe I'm being naive, but isn't that rather a lot of animal deaths for a single year, even for a zoo the size of Marwell? Is culling what's behind the neonatal ungulate deaths? If so then why keep mixed groups?
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I've created a new thread on mortality rates to discuss these issues:

Zoo Mortality Rates
 
It is nice to learn that Whipsnade can finally list a foal for the Persian onager again. Being a male foal is not necessarily a bad thing. I would think his particular genetic line is well wanted in Europe (where currently unrelated males are a prized possession).
 
grant where did the somali wild ass come from, and they are a male/female pair, any other new species at woburn and how does the african ungulate centre look.
 
kiang said:
grant where did the somali wild ass come from, and they are a male/female pair, any other new species at woburn and how does the african ungulate centre look.
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Somali Ass- definately a male/female pair. I don't know where they came from(Jelle?) and could find no-one to ask.

Main ungulate areas has; 3/4 White Rhino/ 6 Chapman Zebra/c6/7 Eland/ similar number Congo Buffalo/Ankole Cattle(3).

Bongo(8/9) live in the Monkey drive-thru area(I saw very few monkeys)
One pair of Scimitar horned Oryx alone in seperate enclosure.

Those were the main species apart from the Lions/tigers/bears and wolves.
 
i'm sure the website has a newspiece saying it had opened and it is featured on the woburn map, it must be off-show
 
kiang said:
i'm sure the website has a newspiece saying it had opened and it is featured on the woburn map, it must be off-show
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Yes, it says its completed. I didn't really notice it though i can see from the plan that I passed close by it. I think its just a large holding area for the various African ungulate species, but its been given a fancy name... It says its not on show to ordinary visitors.
 
Africa Alive got their first Somali Wild Ass in 2005 ... 2.0 from Marwell. The female should be unrelated ..., so from the Continent (but was this before FMD and bluetongue in the UK?)?
 
jelle said:
Africa Alive got their first Somali Wild Ass in 2005 ... 2.0 from Marwell. The female should be unrelated ..., so from the Continent (but was this before FMD and bluetongue in the UK?)?
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FMD outbreak started in Uk about July.

BlueTongue first identified only a couple of weeks ago but more cases are appearing. Interestingly so far they are all in Suffolk,- where Africa Alive is situated.
 
The 1.1 Somali situation at Africa Alive has been reported upon on ISIS only in September 2007. However, whether that is close on the import of the female I do not know. My experience is that data on ISIS can be 1 month or even 2 months post dated.
 
meh in oz, we have animals die or born, and its never updated, we had an ele die, and i beleive they are still listed!
 
Marwell have had 0.2 Somali Wild Ass births this year, Nadifa on 6th September and Jazara on 25th September.
 
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