Your Zoo's Significant Firsts

The Aspinall collection at Howletts has been going for over 50 years.Only opened to the public as Aspinall had run out of suffiecent funds to keep the parks going.
 
The Oregon Zoo is home to Packy, the first Asian elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in over 44 years, and Samudra is the first third generation Asian elephant to be born in the US. The Zoo is also home to the only Borneo Pygmy elephant (subspecies of Asian) There are two others in Germany.
 
Don't know if this is a real first but Toronto Zoo has successfully bred 30 snow leopard cubs

Also, They were they were the first zoo in Canada to successfully bred indian rhino, malayan tapir, sumatran tiger, african elephant, pygmy hippo, cheetah, komodo dragon, south african fur seal (once maintained the world's largest captive breeding colony and were also I thnk the only zoo in North America to house or breed them?!?), orangutan, red river hog, tasmanian devil (first in North America), wombat and so many more
 
bongorob said:
Chester

first captive breeding of Superb Bird of Paradise

first lion enclosure without iron bars

Jersey first captive breedings of
Mallorcan Midwife Toad
Gunether's Day Gecko
St Lucia Whiptail Lizard
Telfair's Skink
Lesser Antilles Iguana
Keel-scaled Boa
Antigua Island Racer
Madagascan Teal
Hispaniolan Amazon Parrot
St Lucia Amazon Parrot
Rodrigues Fody
Montserrat Oriole
Livingstone's Fruit Bat
Rodriguies Fruit Bat
Aye-Aye
Madagascan Giant Jumping Rat
Volcano Rabbit
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Add to that;
Pyxis planicauda - Madagascan flat tailed tortoise,
Leptodactylus fallax - Montserrat Mountain Chicken,
Nectophrynoides viviparus - Morogoro tree toad,
Alaotran gentle lemur,

And the first European institution to breed;

The mauritius kestrel,
Pink pigeons,
Ctenosaura bakeri - Utila island iguana,
Heosemys spinosa - Asian spiny hill turtle,
Cuora galbinifrons - Asian flowerback turtle,
Celestus warreni - Haitian Giant Galliwasp,

First European Amphibian Husbandry Course.

Durrell's captive breeding work with the Mallorcan midwife toad - Alytes muletensis since 1985 make them the only amphibian species ever downgraded from CR status.

A PDF file detailing a few of these things, yes, that's my hand on page 8 with 3 newborn Celestus warreni on it ;)
http://www.durrell.org/_bluebox/download.cfm?attachment=18F4F9C9
 
Cat-Man said:
Marwell Zoological park was the first zoo to open in the Uk to be devoted entirley to rare species.
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Sorry Catman, not quite true, whatever the book says. Marwell's stocklist has always contained at least some non-endangered species, even from the time it opened- so I would say 'almost entirely devoted to rare species'. As mentioned above, Jersey was actually the first.

Examples; Giraffe. Chapmans zebra. Fallow Deer. Domestic Camels. Llamas. Guanaco. Ostrich. Rhea. Bennets Wallaby. Brazilian Tapir. Impala. Coati. African Leopard. Flamingoes. Greylag Geese. Black swan. Wild Boar.
 
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Didn't Chester breed the first griffon vulture (species unknown) and mandrill.
My memory here is dodgy, as i am sure i read it in "zoo without bars", many, many years ago.
 
kiang said:
Didn't Chester breed the first griffon vulture (species unknown) and mandrill.
My memory here is dodgy, as i am sure i read it in "zoo without bars", many, many years ago.
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You are right about the Griffon Vulture,for many years Chester claimed the first UK breeding of Mandrills but I`m pretty certain Robmv has found an earlier one during his research into UK first mammal breedings.
 
Zoo Emmen had the first elephant calf born in the herd in 1994 ( not deliberately). A year later rotterdam zoo claimed to have the first elephant calf born within the herd, while they should have known they weren't the first. Emmen also was the first zoo with targeted breeding for elephants ( by taking urine samples to determine what was the best moment to put a female together with the male). As a result of this 5 calfs were born in 1,5 years time.

In 2005 zoo emmen claimed to be the first zoo in europe where north-american moose were born, not knowing rotterdam zoo already had that first sometime in the 19th century.
 
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