hyena birth - a first for australia » Monarto Zoo

hyena birth - a first for australia
05-07-2007

Is this a first? Hyena birth at Monarto
Zoo staff laughing about surprise hyena birth - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

05-07-2007

nice. a supprise but i'm assuming its not an unwelcome addition however....

05-07-2007

Tut Tut!

We can't have allow the birth of an unauthorised hyena!

The carnivore TAG will be most put out! (Excuse my sarcasm.)



It may be a first for Monarto, but Adelaide zoo has a good record of breeding hyenas in the past.
First birth was a spotted hyena in 1949. Between then and the early 1960's some 20 were born, almost all of them raised to maturity (in fairly basic, crappy cages). A lot were sold to various travelling circuses, because Adelaide just didn't have room for them. (this was mainly in the 1950's.) Apparently they had a very prolific female, and when she died the births stopped.

Adelaide also bred a small number of striped hyenas many years ago.

05-07-2007

What are you on about?? Although the species is not managed in the region, Monarto has been planning to import and beed hyaena for ages. How can this be an "unauthorised" birth when it's been planned and documented regionally?

05-07-2007

Yeh, sorry ZooPro, you're quite right.
Forgive my warped sense of humour.

Actually I think it's marvellous, and I hope it's the first of many.

06-07-2007

They are spotted hyenas are they? How long ago did we have striped hyenas, I presume there are none left in Aus.

06-07-2007

i will be going up on tues, wed, thurs and fri next week, so will try and get a look and photo

07-07-2007

given this hyeana birth, and the recent tragedy at taronga, does anyone else think our Australian zoos should just start preg testing imported females as a matter of course? happily, the hyeana birth worked out for the best, but this is the second case in less than a month where 'foetuses' have slipped through the net.....and clearly these accidents are happening in our overseas zoos. though a pregnant thai elephant would have been ok

07-07-2007

i'm actually supprised the zoos didn't bring in pregnant females on purpose...

10-07-2007

News on hyena baby,

The baby is being handraised due to problems with the parents being in a small enclosure (night yards) while there enclosure is being constructed

27-07-2007

our zoos here in australia are really crazy. i shouldn't just be monarto trying to breed hyenea. there should be a combined effort from zoos around the country. perth zoo has good breeding success but hasn't bred for many years. why not start again?

27-07-2007

*sigh*

here we go..............

27-07-2007

oh you and I are soo alike

07-10-2007

apparently there may be another birth soon!
Sourse ABC News report.

07-10-2007

Hi Birdboy, It appears that you are new to this forum so just to bring you up to speed on a thing or two, The zoos within Australia are breeding the same species of animals eg, Sumatran tigers, African lion, White rhino, Sun bears ect ect, so most of our zoos will hold a number of spaces for each of these species, hoped that has helped