Jersey Zoo » Durrell (Jersey) Zoo

Jersey Zoo
18-04-2007

Jersey zoo is Located on the channel Islands and looks aftre many unusual animals from Echo Parakeets ( the only ones in Captivity outside of Maurtitus) to Livingstone fruit bats. The latter is only held in 3 zoos and Jersy has the Largest. The other 2 zoos that hold the species ar Bristol and Chester.

Jersy Zoo
18-04-2007

Is that the one that was established by Gerald Durrell ?
Does it still have a good reputation ?

18-04-2007

Yes it is. It has one of the best reputations in the world for breeding rare and endangered species.

18-04-2007

As well as captive breeding programs, they also have education programs and sponser people from various countries to come over and learn how to care for their own endangered species. Getting local people interested in saving their unique fauna is very important.

18-04-2007

Still a big reputation and a very exclusive collection with if i'm correct a lot of Aye-Aye's, black lion tamarin's, pied bare-faced tamarin's, silvery marmoset and a lot more rare stuff...

18-04-2007

yes, they have saved the mallorcan midwife toad from extinction.

18-04-2007

Jersey is quite unlike any other zoo I've ever been too... Completely different atmosphere. Its situated in a sheltered valley and is quite small really, but everything is extremely well done- immaculately landscaped grounds and enclosures with a real flair for what the animals need to make them comfortable and content. There a very few large animals, incidentally, except for Spectacled Bears, Gorillas and Orangutans. Mostly its small mammals, birds and reptiles, but mostly these are incredibly rarer species that Jersey is helping to conserve with its successful captive breeding and reintroduction schemes. It really is a totally 'different' kind of zoo...

18-04-2007

Yes. It has started a captive breeding programme for the montserrat oriole

05-07-2007

okay and do they have orangutans there ?

06-07-2007

Yes, they had 4.4 last time I went.

06-07-2007

do you know what they are called ?

06-07-2007

The currently have 4.2 Sumatran at Jersey.

06-07-2007

what is the orangs taxomic name !

06-07-2007

do you know names like john lol etc

06-07-2007

Re: Orang Utan taxonomy

The Orang Utan was first described by Linnaeus in 1760 and given the name Simia pygmaeus, meaning pygmy-like monkey. In 1766 he again named the Orang Utan, thinking it was a new species, this time calling it Simia satyrus (satyr-like monkey).

Lesson decided that apes and monkeys were not closely related and in 1799 proposed Pongo as the genus for the Orang Utan which he called Pongo satyrus. As Simia pygmaeus pre-dated Simia satyrus, the name became the modern one of Pongo pygmaeus. Pongo satyrus was invalidated and can never be used for any other animal whatsoever.

Until 1827 there was only one know form of Orang Utan, Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus 1760). Linnaeus' name is added in the formal description because he was the author of the Latin name. The brackets are because the genus Pongo, is not the same genus as he originally used for his description.

The Sumatran form of Orang Utan was named Pongo pygmaeus abelii in 1827 by Lesson.

Just to complicate matters, it is now thought that Bornean and Sumatran Orang Utans are two seperate species, thus we have

Bornean Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus 1760)
Sumatran Pongo abelii Lesson 1827.

The Bornean has been split into three seperate populations,

West Bornean Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus (Linnaeus 1760)
East Bornean Pongo pygmaeus morio (Owen 1837)
South Bornean Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii (Tiedeman 1808).

Not everyone agrees with this, and doubt has been expressed over the validity of the South Bornean Orang Utan. I hate to think what this splitting has done to the captive breeding programme.

I don't know the names of the Orangs at Jersey.