Zoo Boise Zoo Boise News and Notes

On June 30th, the zoo announced they have acquired a (1.0) prehensile-tailed skink named Clarence which is now on exhibit in the rainforest building of the Small Animal Kingdom area.

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Also according to @ThylacineAlive

The zoo has transferred (3.0) fennec foxes to the Prospect Park Zoo in New York.

That would be 3.0 Sand Cats, not fennec foxes.
 
They also erroneously believe he is a Black-handed Spider Monkey when he is clearly a Variegated Spider Monkey (Ateles hybridus), one of the few remaining in the country.
 
There`s a White -whiskered (or cheeked) Spider Monkey at the former Wassenaar Zoo(closed) in The Netherlands who will now be at least 62...and the only known specimen of the taxon outside South America.
 
Zoo believe they have the oldest spider monkey in the world:

Zoo Boise says it may have the oldest spider monkey in the world. He just turned 60

Elvis came to Zoo Boise from the Denver Zoo in 1973, and his estimated birth year is 1962, Wade said.

It looks like Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo in New York might have the oldest spider monkey in the world. Gummy (the name of the spider monkey) turned 60 a few months before Elvis.

Beloved spider monkey reaches worldwide milestone at Fort Rickey
 
On November 14th, the zoo announced they acquired (1.0.5) African giant millipedes named Basil Leaf, Chopped Basil, Cement, Mr. Miguu, and Sugar Rush, which are on exhibit in the E.O. Wilson Science Center.
where do you see the 1.0 African giant millipede? All I see from the linked post is 0.0.5.
 
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