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Austin the Sengi said:
In very exciting news, the zoo announced on their Instagram account that a male giant eland born this past Saturday (November 18th) can now be seen on habitat with the rest of his herd as we speak.

In addition, the zoo also announced in the same post that both a male and female nyala born on the 10th, and 7th of November respectively, are also now on habitat with their own family herd.
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Yes! A Giant Eland gave birth! Now that is certainly amazing news.
 
Great Argus said:
I assume however the new calf is still owned by IAE rather than Miami, which makes the birth a good deal less exciting, personally. One birth is not going to change how difficult the IAE is to work with.
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I thought the IAE closed a number of years ago so I'm surprised to find out that it's really still open.
 
Great Argus said:
Nope, they're still around. They own all Giant Eland in NA and are the reason most zoos have gone out of them on account of being extremely difficult to work with.
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Aardwolf said:
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Nope, literally got an email from them this morning
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Thanks for the confirmation to both of you. It's really good to see that they're still around. Unfortunately, I noticed through looking at studbooks that about 90% of animals that get transfered there show up as "lost to follow-up".
 
Great Argus said:
Feels like your two sentences are a bit contradictory here.
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@Great Argus I am very sorry if you think my sentences are contrary here, but I have good and bad opinions on it. While I think it is a good place because it is a very good temporary home for animals to live, I don't like that they don't provide much information on where animals that were there who moved elsewhere or when they died on what dates.
 
Nile Hippo Expert said:
@Great Argus I am very sorry if you think my sentences are contrary here, but I have good and bad opinions on it. While I think it is a good place because it is a very good temporary home for animals to live, I don't like that they don't provide much information on where animals that were there who moved elsewhere or when they died on what dates.
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I don’t know. I don’t think the elands going to a temporary facility that seems to lack transparency is a good thing if they just end up disappearing to who knows where.
 
The giant eland are owned by the IAE, and the IAE controls everything surrounding them. They are not just normal animals passing through the IAE on sale and shipment to who knows where. For those animals, the shipments and sale commissions are what IAE is profiting off of — for the giant eland, it is the animals themselves that the IAE is profiting off of. The giant eland program has an incredibly expensive buy in price, and from that, facilities are allowed to display them. The IAE still has complete control over where animals go from there, if they can go from there, if they’re going to breed, if they’re not going to breed, etc. When the program was an SSP, it was constantly at a stalemate because they weren’t complying with breeding and transfer recommendations. All of that is largely why Miami is the last remaining public holder that is not IAE-owned (that and their high specialized diet and their susceptibility to various health conditions — in the photo of the calf’s mother you can see the skin condition the species is prone to on her hump — which are increasing as the population becomes increasingly inbred).

As such, as @Great Argus has said, this birth really does not change anything for the future of the species in North America as long as the IAE retains ownership over all of the animals. This calf will eventually grow too old to remain in the herd, and then he’ll get shipped off to Texas to live out on the ranch that the rest of the ~ 40 animals live on.
 
Nile Hippo Expert said:
@Great Argus I am very sorry if you think my sentences are contrary here, but I have good and bad opinions on it. While I think it is a good place because it is a very good temporary home for animals to live, I don't like that they don't provide much information on where animals that were there who moved elsewhere or when they died on what dates.
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What makes it a good temporary home for animals?
 
 
 
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