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29-08-2007

Has anyone ever visited here before?

I plan on going sometime soon, maybe this Saturday. It's also my hometown zoo.

29-08-2007

Maybe you could post a few nice pics on the gallery of some interesting animals from your visit to your zoo?

30-08-2007

Jaguar,

Can you look at their black rhinos and report back on the forum about them? How many? Who? Any breeding? Much obliged ....!!!

01-09-2007

Milwaukee zoo got the first zoo bred (pair) Indian rhinos ever bred in captivity, the young male was bred at Basel zoo and the young female was bred at Whipnade zoo UK, (I think these were the first two captive bred Indian rhino of the species)

01-09-2007

YEs, They did. And I believe they never bred at Milwaukee either.....

I believe their names were Mohiniji ( female calf from Whipsnade) and Rudra(male calf from Basel) They were indeed the first two calves bred in zoos.

Whipsnade might have been wiser to keep their calf as it was a female... The story goes that when a couple of years later the two zoos(Basel and Whipsnade) each produced a 2nd calf but with the sexes reversed, Whipsnade invited Basel to make up another young pair to send away. This time, as Basel had the female calf, they were told- 'no thanks, we're keeping her for breeding...' and they did.

09-07-2008

I hope it's okay to bump an old topic, but I have some facts to post about the Milwaukee County Zoo:

- Has the largest population of bonobos in the world outside of their natural range in the African Rainforest.

- One of twelve zoos in the world to have American moose on exhibit.

- Exhibits the rare Guam Kingfisher, and the endangered whooping crane.

- The first zoo ever to successfully breed polar bears and raise a baby polar bear cub to adulthood.

Also, here's the link to the site: Welcome to Milwaukee County Zoo!

New Construction
09-10-2008

Milwaukee to build a newly renovated hippopotamus exhibit that will allow underwater viewing and additional holding for another adult hippo.

JS Online: Zoo gets multimillion-dollar hippo exhibit

10-04-2009

An article in this IRKA newsletter is about the zoo's rhino program.

http://www.rhinokeeperassociation.or...rash_v2_i1.pdf

10-04-2009

Any news on breeding from the old xBarley and the new xMimi combos?

I do still have the lingering hope that more white rhinos will leave the small rhino holding facilities and open up space for southern blacks to actually breed! It is a similar situation with repatriation to S.Africa, Botswana or Zambia (Zimbabwe out of bounds at the moment) ... One would assume much is to be gained from the over-represented males born into the SSP breeding programme proving useful for mega population management in southern Africa (SADC .. okapikpr)!