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21-04-2012

Thanks! Won't be in Sydney till much later this year so i can only hope!

21-04-2012

I don't know if he's still alive. I believe he may be/have been the last riflebird in an Australian zoo (?)

21-04-2012

A Victoria's Riflebird was still alive in 2008 - I took some shots of him in the Rainforest Aviary on Christmas Day of that year.



Hix

10-05-2012

The Australian Wetlands and Penguin Plunge are finally reopened.

10-05-2012

Great! Will check it out tomorrow. Whilst watching a wildlife documentary today i couldn't help thinking how nice it would be to have Comb-crested jacanas in the wetlands aviary.

16-05-2012

Perth Zoo will be releasing zoo bred Bush Stone Curlews from both Perth Zoo and Caversham Wildlife Park.

16-05-2012

Where are they releasing them?



Hix

16-05-2012

Sorry should have said that. They will be releasing them to Wadderin Sanctuary in the wheat belt.

07-06-2012

Perth Zoo is going to renovate the front entrance later this year. There isn't any mention of adding new animal exhibits with this renovation but let's see.

19-06-2012

African Wild Dogs have produced another litter, seven pups this time
Perth Zoo boosts African painted pup pack

20-06-2012

so many pups and four litters since 2005. Something in the water

21-06-2012

Apparently only approximately 2500 adult dogs remain in the wild.

23-06-2012

This is a species I always think Zoos could help very much by reintroducing zoo-breds to the wild- they breed freely in some zoos e.g. as at Perth and litters are usually big. They would have to be 'rewilded' obviously but that's not too difficult in this day and age. The wild population is very low indeed and has been for a long time..

26-06-2012

In a perfect world that seems like an obvious solution, zoos doing what so many zoos boast they're about [breeding for release], however I'm skeptical it would work with the wild dog - there are so many other issues that need to be ironed out.

Overpopulation in Africa means that human-inhabited areas are encroaching upon the land more and more, now with that in mind we have to remember why this canid is in trouble - persecution.

Are there enough places left where a newly released pack of wild dogs wouldn't end up at the nearest farm with a tethered goat, or even into a rural town? In my opinion, it could be a case of we very much need to educate before we can release - what's other's opinions on this?

26-06-2012

My personal opinion is that many people still think of Africa as mainly vast areas of untouched wilderness, like the great national parks such as the Serengeti. Yet as I understand it these places really have become islands in a sea of human habitation, farms etc so the great predators are really confined.