new animals for south australian zoos.... » Adelaide Zoo

new animals for south australian zoos....
21-03-2005

according to ISIS, there have been quite a few acquisitions of new species by zoos south australia lately.

two male black and white colobus and a female spotted hyaena for monarto and a male binturong for adelaide.

the zoos south australia website i currently being re-developed and there is no info there, but does anyone know anything of this?

23-03-2005

I've asked my Dad for more info on the new animals at Adelaide and Monarto zoos - he's going to see what he can find out.

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21-02-2006

I am your adelaide vorrespondent, well sorta i have connections, at the moment Monarto has in Quarintine (to the best of my knowledge)
B & W collubus,
Spotted Hyena,
and a female Bongo, for adelaide.

at adelaide in Quarintine and coming soon are,
Asian Golden Cats,
White Cheeked Gibbon

and coming soon are
komodo Dragons
Dhole
Lesser Malay Mouse Deer
and the gorillas, thats all for me now, will post more after i speak to Jan (co-ordinator of volunteers)

21-02-2006

Wow, thats a nice list of animals and a female Bongo too, at last, this will help boost their numbers in the country.

21-02-2006

G/day, zoo youth Ambbassaor, good to have your input on things from SA, have you heard anything about the Black rhinos for Monarto zoo?.

21-02-2006

thts great , were did the hyeana come from , and wht other zoos in oz and nz have them

21-02-2006

zoo boy, ( I think ) Perth zoo might have them?>

21-02-2006

kool , so is adelaide or monarto now gonna keep them on a permentant basis and breed them or get more

21-02-2006

interesting stuff.

i know melbourne and perth are working together to get the B & W colobus breeding program kickstarted again. unfortunately the two zoo's strated out with two different subspecies and thus now the australian population is made up of these two varieties and hybrids. i believe perth has sent it's males to monarto so it can import some new bloodlines to breed with it's females. melboure currently have a breeding group and the national zoo have a breeding pair and their female offspring.

i have wondered much over where this monarto hyena came from. as far as i were aware, perth is the only zoo to hold a pair and i had assumed they had never bred as no other zoo had them. then suddenly a female popped up at monarto on isis, yet no DEH records showed an import.

a female bongo for adelaide sounds great. but in reality all our bongo are related to just 3 animals. we need a zoo to import at least a fresh pair to get a healthy breeding program operating in the short term.

gorillas at adelaide? surely this is a long term plan?

22-02-2006

Where did the bongo come from? Is she one born at Taronga in last couple of years? In which case that would make her a sister of the one already at Adelaide. Melbourne zoo has just recently had a Colobus born, the male was from perth.
Good to see so many new people contributing to the forum. Almost makes me interested enough to start up my wensite again.
Jason

22-02-2006

gday jay , the female bongos born at taronga re out at dubbo now , dubbo has 5 bongo , i adult male , 2 females , 1 sub adult female and a new male calf .

22-02-2006

Well the hyena was from info at isis, the black rhinos will be coming soon, nt sure when,

and gorillas unfortuanatly are not on teh Adelaide Master Plan as of yet

Black rhino
22-02-2006

G/day all, Is their any news from where the Blacks are coming from and how many, this great news,

"vinnie" the hyena
12-03-2006

i still want more information regarding this female spotted hyena at monarto.
the image posted in onother thread was great, but where is this "other zoo" that closed down? perth seem to have never bred their animals and i assume monarto do not intend on pairing up this female either (but maybe she's old).
it's a pity, hyenas are very interesting animals because they are very large carnivores but are not actually a dog at all.

i would like to see them stay in australia as representatives of a group of very unique animals.

12-03-2006

i say it was a research facility of some kind, i have seen some footage on a abc childrens program called creature features , it had some hyeana, not sure if australian but there was a lot of hyeana in large fenced off enclopusures.