Changes at Taronga » Taronga Zoo

12-05-2008

That's the thing, I don't know anyone who knows personally someone who knows that information (hope that wasn't a togue twister) thanks anyway.
Xie Xie 谢谢

12-05-2008

The exhbit will ,open in december 08 in line with the hearing tribunal outcomes of 05 in accordance with permission for the importantion of 1.4 asiastic elephants to taronga zoo.

The information is out there, you just are not looking in the correct places. Look for other threads on this forum (ie gungs new facility i think is a title of a thread) and you will find the actuall plans for his new exhibit. On the zoo website, you may b able to find the tribunal report produced buy the zoo last year.

13-05-2008

See what i mean about the info being here its great.

13-05-2008

I wonder if Taronga is the kind of zoo that holds naming competitions?

13-05-2008

yes tey do all the time. the lates gorilla, the first dhole pup, the lion cubs and the latest snow leopard cubs are all examples of animals that were named in this way.

why do you ask?

13-05-2008

I didn't know that, torrie. Melbourne zoo doesn't do that kinda thing. But they do that at Healesville

13-05-2008

14 exhibits seems like heaps. Obviously it would feature new homes for the Zoo's lions, meerkats, bongos, barbary sheep, hippos, gorillas, chimpanzees and debrazza's guenons (or are being fazed out) plus a mixed exhibit for giraffe, zebra & ostrich (or would they pointlessly have seperate enclosures?). Any ideas what the remaining exhibits will house? I'll guess possibly African crested porcupines (replacing Indians), mandrills or baboons, ring-tailed lemurs and colobus monkeys.

13-05-2008

Melbourne did it for the tiger cubs and the siamang baby but apart from that i can't think of any others. I also can't think of any other major births that would herald a anming contest.

13-05-2008

well melbourne doesnt have an elephantbaby yet to have a naming competetion for, although neither does taronga i guess...yet.
anyway, whilst all this information is available in other threads, albeit older ones, I will repost what species WERE SUPPOSED to be in the African Tropical Savannah exhibit. once again though the species composition will almost certainly be scaled back to reflect quarantine restrictions, just as Wild Asia missed out on the babirusa and Philippine Spotted Deer slated for this precinct.
chimpanzee and gorilla will stay in their current enclosures.
new enclosures for meerkat and porcupine will form a 'kopje' area above the food market, whilst the giraffe and zebra exhibit will extend over the area currently divided by a low wall into two seperate exhibits. greater flamingoes, bongo, duiker and pygmy hippo are supposed to find a home in this precinct too but this may well not happen.
on the other hand, lemurs, mandrill and the colobus monkeys proposed for the development will almost certainly feature.

14-05-2008

But wasn't the tiger naming competition a voting one where there was already assigned names?

14-05-2008

patrick please come back. if u r reading this

14-05-2008

I'm not sure but the interviewed the people who named that dead cub after he drowned. And i thought of a currnet naming contest at zoos victoria, Th baby hippo. The only problem is that you need to visit the zoo to drop your entry form in.

14-05-2008

Good news if Colobus, Lemurs and Mandrills come to Taronga.

ISIS shows 4 male and 8 female Mandrills at Adelaide and Melbourne zoos. Are they very inbred?

14-05-2008

I think melbourne got a new male 5 or 6 years ago from another country.

15-05-2008

im not 100% sure of the level of inbreeding within this species regionally. i do know that the dominant female Oprah was born in 1987 in Columbos Zoo, US and imported to Australia in 1996.
sadly, mandrill are in the 'needs fresh genes' basket, along with a whole range of other potentially viable species including maned wolves, brazillian tapirs and a range of primate species.
on another note, the zoo population of scimitar horned oryx and a number of others seem to be dropping quite low!