I don't know how it ended, but I don't doubt that the bear ate both the owl and Chukars.
Worst Mixed-Species Combinations?
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Why was this a bad mix? I can't imagine Black Pacu eating a pygmy goose!
Also, why were there pacu in with African Pygmy Geese anyway? Pacu are from South America!
Mixing species that aren't geographically found together in nature is pretty widespread though?
Not the both of you completely dismissing that the Bush is a ecosystem display of rainforest as ecosystem rather then trying to be geographically accurate
So why are there aardvarks...Not the both of you completely dismissing that the Bush is a ecosystem display of rainforest as ecosystem rather then trying to be geographically accurate
Well you learn something new everyday I guess...b-b-because... m-m-maybe... they also occur... in rainforest biomes
Well you learn something new everyday I guess...
I haven't seen an elephant seal on exhibit for a while, so I'm not sure what the current setup is, but I can say with certainty that they were mixed in the past. The elephant seals barely ate, let alone shift on and off the exhibit.
And you know this how?
I don't know anything about the third elephant seal they rescued, but per personal communications with keepers at the zoo, neither Ellie Mae nor Coolio ever learned to reliably shift on and off-exhibit.
Here's a video of elephant seals Coolio and Ellie Mae and sea lion Nav on exhibit simultaneously.
Oh sorry, I didn't know that's what Burger's was going for.Not the both of you completely dismissing that the Bush is a ecosystem display of rainforest as ecosystem rather then trying to be geographically accurate
Only the newborn chicks were eaten. So a Black Pacu is not a 100% herbivore.
TortoisesAreTerrific
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No clue if this thread is dead or not, but while I cannot identify the zoo in question (due to the film’s age and it being focused on comedy), the final sequence in this comedy short from the 40s shows footage of three different types of bear in the same enclosure (Asiatic Black, Sloth and Sun, all given cartoon mouths), which raises an eyebrow (it appears several zoos have done such combos). Skip to 6:23 if you wish to see the bears. A warning though, the narrator uses some cringeworthy language to describe the bears.
It would be helpful if someone could identify the zoo that was used for this sequence.
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Corangurilla
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This feels very Detroit-y. They’ve kept Brown, American Black, Sun, and Sloth bears together before, and that hippo exhibit looks mighty familiar.
(Also, good to know that animating mouths over animals was funny all the way back then
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In Hannover they kept black, brown and polarbears in the same enclosure. For a picture go to: https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/1960er-hannover--433612270371601768/
cloudedleopard611
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Joke answer: Damian Aspinall and anything he's ever released into the wild.
Serious answer: I can name one example from North Carolina - white rhinos and marabou storks. The current Watani Grasslands setup is two elephant yards and the main rhino/antelope savanna. Before that, it was rhinos, elephants, and the antelope savanna. The marabou storks didn't really interact with the rhinos all that much, but here's the kicker - the marabous, which were pinioned, sometimes were blown into the neighboring elephant yard (the wind gave their wings enough of a push), and the understandably spooked elephants chased them around the yard. AFAIK, the storks never bred during their time in with the rhinos, and I'm pretty sure they've been totally phased out of the collection.
Serious answer: I can name one example from North Carolina - white rhinos and marabou storks. The current Watani Grasslands setup is two elephant yards and the main rhino/antelope savanna. Before that, it was rhinos, elephants, and the antelope savanna. The marabou storks didn't really interact with the rhinos all that much, but here's the kicker - the marabous, which were pinioned, sometimes were blown into the neighboring elephant yard (the wind gave their wings enough of a push), and the understandably spooked elephants chased them around the yard. AFAIK, the storks never bred during their time in with the rhinos, and I'm pretty sure they've been totally phased out of the collection.
One zoo kept giraffes and meerkats together until the giraffes stood on the meerkats
I would be more worried about the giraffes breaking their legs on the Meerkat burrows.