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#1
cassowary at taronga
07-06-2007
just to share my excitement about the fact that cassowary have returned to taronga. they are among my favourite zoo animals....and their exhibit, mainly for zooboys interest particularly is going to be built on the site outlined in the zoo2000 document. yey
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#2
07-06-2007
from my memory, its sorta aboue the seal pools, near the new aprk lands- will be good.
on taronga (soz to take from cassowaries) do rhino ahve place at taronga- aprticualry a black rhino? |
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#3
07-06-2007
no, they dont, but like you i think the masterplan may have changed since 2000, it might now incorporate a rhino exhibit, or it might not...lol
the site of the new cassowary exhibit used to be a beaver pond i think, back in the days |
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#4
07-06-2007
or maybe penguin, i cant remember, will dig out some old maps....perfect location though, beneath the rainforest aviary. will be a sheltered but shady location with lots of trees. its also nice to see a new exhibit at taronga, but not a mega-exhibit. they do good little exhibits like this
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#5
07-06-2007
Are they the southern cassowries? If the zoo was really adventerous, it could go for the Bennet's or single wattled. They're really rare in zoos outside that region. I only know of Jurong, san diego zoo and a few parks in europe that hold the bennet's/single wattled varities.
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#6
07-06-2007
again, though, its a quarantine problem, so at the moment were limited to the southern cassowary. however i belive this is not only the most magnificentlooking, but as an endangered species which is natie, is also an australian zoo priority
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#7
08-06-2007
..and supprisingly since they are native animals and we have such a long history of cassowaries in zoo here, we are not exactly pro's at breeding them.
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#8
08-06-2007
were not that bad either, and there is a strong case for establishing a good captive assurance program. im pretty sure that most of our australian zoos have bred this species at least once.
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#9
08-06-2007
oh by all means i hope we get good at it!
there awesome birds. the other two species are great but not really worth the effort of us australians at this stage though. id'e rather see some more long-beaked echidnas and goddfellow's tree-kangaroos imported first |
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#10
08-06-2007
There are a pair of cass at Symbio near wooloongong
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#11
08-06-2007
According to the zoo friends newsletter the two males are brothers. They are going between the rainforest avairy and the old seal pools.
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#12
09-06-2007
cassowary are a little more widespread than previously thought as. symbio, and oakvale farm and fauna world in port stephens north of newcastle, in a nice new (2004) enclosure
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#13
10-03-2008
I was at Taronga last week. It appears that nothing has been done on the cassowarry enclosure down near the rainforest avairy since my last visit a couple of months ago. from looking at old posts in this thread, the cassowarries arrived at the zoo june last year. does anyone know whats going on with them?
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#14
09-04-2008
Went to Taronga today.Absolutely no progress with construction of the cassowary enclosure. In fact, the bird section of Taronga seems to be taking a back seat to all the "Mega" developments which are under way. A keeper told me that they (the bird section) are losing the front three aviaries of that group just below the main koala enclosure. "What's going to replace them?" I asked. "Lawn", he replied.
Oh, glyn, there are at least 3 cassowaries at Featherdale out near Blacktown too. In fact I would suggest that Featherdale's over-all bird display is now better than Taronga's. |
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#15
09-04-2008
if i am thiking of the same aivarie you are ara, then i always thought they were histrcally listed? im prob wrong?
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