Your fantasy breeding pair for your zoo

[arloisbad]

Just what I was thinking on your first point

As for your second point, I believe that any animal can be kept alive in captivity, it's just we don't have the experience or knowledge to care for some (or at least didn't in some cases and do now).

It was considered difficult/impossible to keep Sumatran rhino alive I believe, but now that Cincinnati has the experience and the knowledge they seem to have done a decent job, even having 3 calves before losing their breeding female Emi.

It was also considered impossible to keep three-toed sloths due to a difficult diet, however now that this diet has been cracked I believe there is somewhere in the states exhibiting them?

I think it was Monteray Bay Aquarium (not sure) even manages to keep Great white sharks alive longer than was ever expected (though not indefinately, any sharks have been released after time - is it a rescue?)

I would imagine that some species that died out in captivity due to difficult husbandary could be successful if anybody took the first step to trying again (though I stress not all of them).

monteray has lots of animals that other zoos or aquariums have never even tried to keep before probably due to the fact they rescue pretty much anything. like sunfish or sea otters. its defenitly my favorite aquarium and i hope they expand in the future it would be cool to see crocidillians or hippos there

 

[Great Argus]

monteray has lots of animals that other zoos or aquariums have never even tried to keep before probably due to the fact they rescue pretty much anything. like sunfish or sea otters. its defenitly my favorite aquarium and i hope they expand in the future it would be cool to see crocidillians or hippos there

Three points here:

1, this thread has been dead nearly 11 years, generally if a thread is that old don't bump it.

2, MBA does not rescue "just about everything", their holding capability is rather limited and they do not have the ability to take things like pinnipeds, cetaceans, and whatnot. They focus more on smaller marine life rehab such as Snowy Plovers and orphaned Sea Otters. Apart from a couple specific programs, they do not do much rehabilitation. Their Sunfish are housed temporarily, they're not rescue permanent residents.

3, It is highly unlikely MBA will expand further at this point, they do not really have enough space to expand in their current location and they are quite content where they are at. It is possible we might see small crocodilians in a future traveling exhibition, but we will never see hippos there.

 

[Dassie rat]

As this is a fantasy, I'm going to choose huias, due to their cooperative feeding behaviour.

 

[Nix]

I would add a pair of Okapi to Joburg Zoo.
I think they would suit well in the current bongo enclosure, which currently only holds an elderly male.
A new night room will need to be added, considering the bongo's current night room is underneath the walkway.

Mountain Bongo Enclosure (Tragelaphus eurycerus)

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• 9 Apr 2022