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ARAZPA AWARDS
24-03-2007
taronga and western plains received institutional recognition for their reproducive work with Black Rhino and display of Coroboree Frogs when ARAZPA handed out its awards this week.
small snippet appeared in daily telegraph about this, or check out the fantastic new web-site Last edited by glyn; 24-03-2007 at 09:26 PM. |
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#2
24-03-2007
weribbe cleaned up too for its hippo exhibit and education program-steve irwin got an award and so did perth for its fantastic web-site.
because im lazy and cant be bothered searching ISIS can anyone tell me where the de-brazza guenons from taronga went? the primate display at taronga is really dwindling and needs new species added to it. as Amazonia has become a write off for seeing monkeys, for arguments sake visitors to taronga can only see gorilla, orang, chimp, spider monkey, langurs and gibbons. thats not a very good selection really... |
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#3
26-03-2007
dunno exactly where the guenons went - i think they still house them off-display...
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#4
26-03-2007
i know some went to mogo
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#5
26-03-2007
the debrazza's are a great addition to the gorilla exhibit. they and similar species have also been successfully mixed with mandrills at other zoos and colobus mix well too.
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#6
27-03-2007
check out Taronga and Western Plains Zoos. the zoo has uploaded a video of the malayan tapir in the lower exhibit swimming, plus tang mo's strops still available on-line.
also, because again im lazy, can anyone tell me how many of the 10 black rhino calves at WPZ are surviving? |
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#7
27-03-2007
what sort of fish are they in the pool? and are they ruddy shelduck's on display in there?
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#8
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27-03-2007
yep, theyre ruddy shell ducks. the precinct also has manadrin ducks, whistling ducks and is supposedly getting green pygmy geese.
the fish are koi. theyre also in the upper tapir pool and wetlands aviary. in the fishing cat exhibit there are 3 species of minnow-like fish...very 'pretty' display that is. |
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#9
27-03-2007
I have some small video clips of the tapir moving around, from my last trip to taronga, that I would love to share with you but don't know if mpegs can be posted.
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#10
27-03-2007
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i wish more zoos would include fish in a species exhibit, instead of koi they could have had some large clown loaches, a large school of tiger barbs, foot long black sharks (i have one at work!) maybe some giant gouramis and large spiny eels! African underwater veiwing could have frontosa and other large cichlids but what to put them with, maybe in a african aviary, i dunno. a south american aviary would be awesome, Angels, other cichlids, silver dollars, plenty of different tetras, i would persomnnaly have cardinals, columbians and emperors. And a new-quinea area with Peacock Gudgeons and various Rainbow fish! i thihnk fish should be included more into the Zoo landscape, if ponds could have heating anything could go in, i have a friend with Boesemani Rainbows and Neon Tertas in a converted 1/2 wine barell pond |
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#11
28-03-2007
cloud mountain white eyes are in the fishing cat exhibit, i cant remember the other one. the white eyes ar apparently extinct in their native china.
the exhibit is quite attractive. visitors can sit on a wooden deck area and look through the glass into the fish-filled stream, and then up onto the bank where the fishing cats stalk. its very effective, and as ben said, more of this stuff should be included in the future... |
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#12
28-03-2007
do you ever see the cats? I spent 20/30 minutes there ( enjoying it) at several different times, both days that I was there - no sign of mammal life.
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#13
28-03-2007
its a very small area, when i was last there, me and dad went straight to wild asia, luckly cause crowds moved in
the fishing cat area is very small |
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#14
28-03-2007
Ohh white clouds are nice, but they dont get big enough to be Fishing Cat chow!
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#15
28-03-2007
I think the other two types of fish in the fishing cat exhibit are rosy barbs and cherry barbs. Ben you are spot on about having fish in exhibits. I would like to see some big oscars in with the river cooters in Tarongas reptile house. they have some archer fish in with the mertens water monitors. Big gouramis in with the malayan tapir would look good too. At Singapore zoo they have a small pond near the entrance with south american cichlids and some huge pleco's in it.
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