A look at the Melbourne Zoo masterplan » Melbourne Zoo

04-04-2008

Melbourne zoo only keeps keeps birds that have been injured and cannot be rehabilatated, Birds born at the zoo or birds that were exchange gifts.

Apparently the peafowls (peacocks) hanging around the Trail of the elephants were exchange gifts from a zoo that wanted Kangaroos.

Just changing the topic a bit does anyone know if Dokkoon is pregnant? Apparently when she was ovulating Bong Su covered her. The yuong Thai cows have been in Melbourne for nearly 2 and half years so Bong Su must be comfrotable with the other cows. On the contrary Bong Su doesn't have any descendents and he is 34 years old.

But a Bull in Rocton Safari Canada called rex had his first descendent when he was 36.

04-04-2008

Uh, Melbourne zoo has Syrian bears not Sun Bears.

04-04-2008

they don't purchase birds as a policy?

and what exactly, if it were true, would be the point of that?

04-04-2008

i think pat realises that. it was in the context of melbourne phasing-out its brown bears in favour of the nominated program species.

04-04-2008

Yeah that's true Syrains are endangered and Sun bears not so much to an extent that it is critical, my parents are Malay-chinese and were born in Malaysia, they say if you go into a forest it isn't unusual to see a sun bear

04-04-2008

You live in Melbourne right? are you a FOTZ member?

Can you give me an extent of the elephant breeding program in Melbourne if possible?

04-04-2008

PLease stick on topic guys. So back to the melbourne zoo plans

04-04-2008

So your the zoo beat moderator, I See well i heard that Melbourne zoo Tigers are going to move soon after the Death of Nakal the keepers want Isha and Satu to go to a zoo together, Melbourne's tiger exhibit is only meant to keep a breeding pair like in the wild, Though a keeper told me that since the male tiger Ramolon is getting old that they might extend their exhibit to keep more tigers thus giving a more succesful breeding program ( not like it's not successful now)

04-04-2008

good news on the tigers and you dont have to be smart about things it wont get you anywhere!

06-04-2008

sadly, not these days dragon elephant nerd.

06-04-2008

dragon nerd, the tigers will be placed according to the species coordinator's recommendations. It has very little to do with what the keepers want. The species is highly managed regionally (well, in theory ), and moves are well planned.

You are correct though, in that they will be moving soon.

06-04-2008

Que? Is this right..?

What is the latest from Melbourne..?

06-04-2008

No, of course it's not! Melbourne has downsized it's bird collection over the years, but that statement is simply not correct.

06-04-2008

I wouldn't call it downsized we have a massive aviary and over 100 free ranging birds ( individuals not species) But we can't compete with your Taronga zoo i went their in year six and it was twice the sized of our zoo and now after 2 years have past a lot of our species have moved over there.

06-04-2008

I guess what the keepers want personally is out of the question but stress in elephants, big cats and other large animals can stop ovulating or producing sperm due to stress the tigers are already stressed by their sibling's death and further stress will be assosiated with moving, statics show that only 10% or even lower of wild and captive tigers will successfully breed.