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orangutans of jersey zoo
26-09-2007

what are the orangutans of jesrey zoo ? and what do you know about them ?

26-09-2007

The only one I know is Gina, she must be quite old now.

28-09-2007

All the Jersey group are Sumatrans
Gina is the eldest female, I think she must be about 45 by now
I think her son Jaya is still with her
The male is Dagu
The other female is Marwar, and I think she has two offspring with her still (Jiwar, and the younger one's name escapes me)
I think that Julitta and her youngster have been moved to another zoo

28-09-2007

Can you elaborate on this at all?

28-09-2007

thank you soo much - when u think of mwar bay post it here and yea juiltta and puti moved which seemed stupid as they have only got one breeding female there but hey

28-09-2007

Julitta and her daugther have been moved to Amneville Zoo in France earlier this year to live in the new enclosure with a young male from Munich Zoo, whose name is Lüderitz.

28-09-2007

This move escaped my notice But I saw a photo of a female Orangutan at Amneville Zoo recently and thought it looked exactly like Jersey's Julitta.(obviously it was!)

I'd heard Julitta was no longer compatible with the other females( Gina and Mawar-mother and daughter) and was largely living alone now. So its not an unsurprising outcome. Jersey's other current babies are both male and only Mawar is likely to breed in the future- Gina's last birth was a Caesarian.

For Chester fans, Julitta is the 'aunt' of Chester's females Emma and Subis, her brother Oscar was their father. Oscar and Julitta were both born at Bristol Zoo.

29-09-2007

how intresting how was oscar and julitta parents ?
and did they have anymore brothers or sisters ?
and did oscar have any more offspring ?

29-09-2007

Oscar was a very sucessful breeder. This may be the Bornean Osacr that was kept at Chester, or it may be the Sumatran Osacr, that mated with Ramona, to produce Subis and Emma.

Just checked. It is a differnt oscar.

29-09-2007

no the sumatren oscar - what do yyou know about him

29-09-2007

The only 'Oscar' at Chester was the Sumatran male who was paired with female Ramona (who came from, I think, E. Berlin). Their only offspring at Chester were Emma and Subis.

Henry and Anne, the original breeding pair at Bristol produced three offspring, Oscar, Henrietta and Julitta.

Henrietta and Julitta stayed at Bristol and after their father Henry died, were paired(along with their mother Anne) with a new male 'Adam' (ex Bellevue Zoo Manchester, via Flamingo Park and Colchester Zoos) All three females had several babies by Adam, nearly all of which died. Only one survived- 'Kertawa' (Adam x Henrietta) was handraised at Twycross- unfortunately he was later sent to Japan...

Henrietta died at Bristol, leaving the trio of Adam, Anne and Julitta. When Bristol gave up keeping Orangutans, Adam and Anne were sent to Santillana del Mar in Northern Spain, while Julitta went to Jersey.

Adam and Anne had one further baby(female) in Santillana. Anne later died followed by Adam but the daughter is still there and now paired with a male. This is the old male Adam's only surviving offspring.

Julitta had two babies at Jersey. The first was a male' Wirawan'- the father was their first male 'Gambar' After weaning he was sent to join the Sumatran group at La Boisierre in France, only to be killed by their adult male 'Major' (this was a bad decision to introduce him) Julitta's second baby was fathered by the current male 'Dagu.' It is a female 'Putri' and was sent with her mother earlier this year to Amneville Zoo in France, (as I've only just discovered)

So Emma and Subis and their offspring are now the only UK descendants from the Bristol line....

30-09-2007

Somewhere I have photos of Oscar as a baby in the (awful) old ape house at Bristol, probably from 1971 or 2. He was a very cute baby - but orangs usually are.

Alan

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30-09-2007

Budi and Utara at Chester, were so cute when they were young. In the best picture, with Subis and Budi, Budi has a little 'quiff' of orange fluff!! I have some video taken when they were a few months old.

30-09-2007

wow thnx everyone for the info very helpfully and intresting !! thnx granstmb keep the responses happenig

30-09-2007

Oscar was born 1971. I have photos of Oscar's parents as babies too.

The old Ape House at Bristol was originally the Lion House. It wasn't purpose built for Apes. Only the extension for the Gorillas was added on later.

The 'New' ApeHouse they moved into in 1975 wasn't much better really- it was very unsuitable for Apes in many respects. They had an awful lot of baby Gorillas and Orangutans born and quickly die during that era.

The 'Gorilla Island' is much better except they hardly use the large outside area...