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  1. ZOO CREW

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    Hi! I'm currently studying gorillas and colobus monkeys, and was wondering what zoos you all have personally seen gorillas living with. I've seen gorillas w/ patas monkeys, colobus monkeys, and pygmy goats but are there currently others? Thanks
     
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  2. Shirokuma

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    London zoo are introducing colobus monkeys at the moment. I think Valencia Bioparc has gorillas with sitatunga and some guenon species, I can't remember which.
     
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  3. Buckeye092

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    Detroit Zoo's Great Apes of Harambee features gorillas, two male drills, one female mandrill, and a Diana Monkey.
     
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  4. dragon(ele)nerd

    dragon(ele)nerd Well-Known Member

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    I've read gorillas in the wild regularly interact with Duikers and golden monkeys.
     
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    Fuengirola Zoo has a pair of gorillas mixed with De Brazza's monkeys, southern ground hornbills and Egyptian geese.

    Bristol Zoo mixes its gorillas with De Brazza's monkeys as well.
     
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  6. ZOO CREW

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    Thanks so far
     
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  7. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    gorillas and pigmy goats!!??
     
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    I know that in Howletts wild animal park , Aspinall kept 2 pairs of 2 guenon species i think they were spot nosed monkeys and also Saramago monkeys within an enclosure with a breeding group of western lowland gorrillas, they are still there i geuss but i cannot be sure as i havent visited for many years
     
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  9. Shirokuma

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    I think this is at the Gorilla Haven sanctuary in Georgia, USA.
     
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  10. James27

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    They're no longer mixed.
     
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  11. Steve Robinson

    Steve Robinson Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Should we ask why not???

    I'm thinking in terms of protein so please correct me if I'm wrong!

    Ditto the pygmy goats.
     
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    No not because of that lol. I think one of the guenons is diabetic so the mix was stopped, not sure about the saramango monkeys though.
     
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  13. ZOO CREW

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    Yes, Gorilla Haven is where you can see 0.2 Pygmy goats w/ 1.0 gorillas. Some of these are interesting thanks!
     
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    Artis keeps them with guenons and meerkats(only inside).
     
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    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Hogle has 1.1 Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti with 1.0 Gorilla gorilla gorilla
     
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  16. Meaghan Edwards

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    This is a very interesting thread. Toronto may be getting another species to be exhibited with the gorillas, should be interesting to see what they'll get :)
     
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  17. Zoogoer2000

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    Detroit used to house klipspringers with there Gorillas
     
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  18. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    some of these are very unusual mixes, not only from the point of view of being risky for the non-gorilla species (one would think) but also simply from the perspective of the animals living in vastly different habitats to gorillas in the wild (eg meerkats or klipspringers)
     
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    I believe Munster(Germany) has Gorillas with Red capped Mangabeys. Gaia Park(or somewhere) has Gorillas and Black Mangabeys.

    These Gorilla/primate mixes are not always 100% successful; individual male Gorillas have killed monkeys they were mixed with(e.g. at Melbourne and Port Lympne)
     
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  20. KEEPER

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    At Bioparc I see (in different days) the gorillas living with: white-crowned mangabeys, owl-faced guenons, Abyssinian hornbills and sitatungas and probably in a near future with some duiker species.
     
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