I really didnt know that there were any Malagasy Giant Jumping Rats in the US. People's Weekly World - Giant Jumping Rat born at Prospect Park Zoo
- In april the prospect park zoo will open a new exhibit containing Dingos. It will contain a portion of the kangaroo exhibit. It is beautiful and very nicely landscaped. A keeper told me it would contain 4 dingos who are currently at the zoo.
A Tufted Deer fawn was born recently. Note that the baby pictured isn't really the male just born but a fawn from last year. Meet the Zoo: A New Addition to the Tufted Deer Family - Prospect Heights, NY Patch
I personally would not call any dingo exhibit beautiful. Why accredited zoos waste valuable space on a feral animal is beyond me.
But sadly no zoo I have been to that has dingos or singing dogs tells the story. It would be a great opportunity to show how alien introductions are one of the biggest problems today and here is an example of one from a while ago that resulted in the extermination of the native equivalent (thylacine). But I have never seen a zoo (at least here in the USA) do that and they all seem to imply that these are native animals. A huge lost educational opportunity.
I visited the prospect park zoo yesterday and realized several things: - There are currently 11 dingo pups at the zoo. One pair of dingos had 4 pups and the other pair had 7 pups. They are so adorable and rotate with one group one exhibit every other day. The exhibit has obviously taken a bit of a beating but still has many plants. - Wreathed hornbills are now in the aviary which previously held kookaburra across from the barnyard. -Across from the hornbills is another aviary that now holds a species of african hornbill and crested porcipine. -A last aviary is long and thin and features prevots squirrel and himalyan monal.
Any idea on the species of African hornbill (is it a Tockus species or one of the larger tropical rainforest ones)?
does anyone know where the wreathed hornbills have come from and are they wild-caught birds or captive-bred