white rhino » Werribee Open Range Zoo

04-03-2006

Onagers are middle-eastern in origin. for a really authentic exhibit they would look great with fallow deer and red deer. Mongolian wild horses are of course, from mongol-northwestern china region and unfortunately we don't really have any other ungulate species from the gobi desert. however for a long while i have thought it would be great if the zoos imported some bactrian (two-humped) camels to go with them. the wild bactrian is critically endangered and if they imported pure-bred wild bactrians it would be of great conservation value. they have recently established that the wild bactrian is very genetically distinct from the bulky domestic form.

04-03-2006

Thats a good point Pat, wild bactrians here would be a good thing for breeding at a place like Monarto zoo. but are they very hard to get????.

04-03-2006

yea tht would be great , maybe we dnt have them due to the gov thinkin they could get loose and the potntial for pest pecies , thts y wildbeast carnt enter

04-03-2006

Maybe the red tape we have here might bar us having any animals in zoos one day, regardless how rare or endangered they may be. as we know there are many species today that are with us today only because they have been saved in zoos.

04-03-2006

not really the amount of renovbations currently planned are phenomonal, but there is still lotsa room, and for putting them with deer, Monatro has that Rare Subspecies of Fallow

04-03-2006

whts is planned for monarto can we start a new thread for this zooambassaodr

04-03-2006

I will do that now

04-03-2006

great stuff, good idea.

04-03-2006

now all we need is a werribee and orana thread to have all open range zoos covered

New development at Orana Park
09-03-2006

When I visited Orana Park in September 2005 , they had just started to build a Sumatran tiger enclosure . This is still under construction , and not due to be finished before next summer . As Orana is a "private zoo" , it does not get any
financial support from local councils , shires or Govt agencies , this project will swallow up all funds not used in animal husbandry or staff wages etc
There are no other projects planned at this stage .

11-03-2006

THats woman has seen alotta behind the scenes
, i swear i know her

11-03-2006

kool, back to rhino um whts the curent births round place

19-03-2006

It would appear that there are three females pregnant but no births yet, I am really hoping that Melbournes female is a different one from the one that has given birth twice. Perth also has a female that hasn't yet given birth.
Jai

19-03-2006

Thats good news Jay, lets hope we get a few females from these births, I see over in Europe they bred a white rhino using AI, its the very first,WOW.

19-03-2006

when u say melbourne jay, i take it u mean out a werribee