Monarto's new chimpanzee exhibit... » Monarto Zoo

19-08-2008

I'm not sure, maybe they are going to Hamilton Zoo instead of Tsotsi

20-08-2008

Do you have zoo mixed/generic chimpanzees in Oz or can they be assigned to wildborn founders and thus either 1 of the 3 recognised subspecies?

20-08-2008

I had a discussion with the Taronga chimp keepers (many moons ago) and it was their thoughts that some of the original individuals were from wild stock and could be differentiated to subspecies. Certainly some individuals showed the dark mask typical of Westerns (I think). I would suspect however that the vast majority of individuals are now of mixed/unknown ancestry.

Not sure about the NZ situation.

21-08-2008

what style of enclosure is being built at Monarto, is it a cage or an open hot wired enclosure?

21-08-2008

I believe most chimps in NZ are of mixed ancestry too. I don't know of any zoos that hold long established groups of Chimps where this isn't the case?

Are there in fact any Zoos (worldwide) that keep just purebred groups of the West African chimp, and if so, where?

21-08-2008

I believe from what I've seen that its an open enclosure though I'm not sure what the fencing will be like

21-08-2008

some zoos in contintental europe have, or are moving towards managing pure sub-species groups of chimpanzee, but in Australsia all our chimps are of very much a mixed bag.
Taronga has a few founder animals left but as Sydneys well established program (from which many other zoo colonies are related) is moving well into the third/fourth generation stage with no sub-species specific management ever the likelihood of Australasian zoos ever having pure chimp groups is low.

22-08-2008

Will be open hot wired, too big to enclose.

4 Weeks Ago

Does anyone have any news on how the enclosure and introductions between Tsotsi and Sandali are going? When I was at Monarto a couple of weeks ago it didn't look like the fence was finished (although I was looking from a distance) and I heard the two boys making quite a racket

4 Weeks Ago

The two male chimps (I forgot the names) are now reported under monarto on isis, so they have moved there.

3 Weeks Ago

The chimpanzee exhibit will open to the public on 4th July 2009
I am veeeery excited!

3 Weeks Ago

Which institution in the Netherlands is Monarto getting their four females from?

3 Weeks Ago

@SilverbackApes: when you visit the new chimpanzee enclosure can you take a lot of photos please? Also, I'd love to know exactly how many apes are there, as well as the exact size of the exhibit. Judging from early word of mouth the habitat is enormous!

3 Weeks Ago

The female chimps are coming from Burger's Zoo
I'll definitley take a load of photos, presently there are two chimps there, and I think fairly soon two more males from Wellington Zoo are coming then the four females from Burger's.
I've heard that the exhibit is 3000sqm and also 3500sqm so not entirely sure on the size front, shall have to find out

2 Days Ago

Obviously old news but here is an article about the chimps moving in.
Rellies move into new zoo enclosure - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)