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Proboscis monkey exhibit

The monkeys will be off exhibit during the winter season

Proboscis monkey exhibit
FrancoiseLangur, 11 Nov 2014
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    • FrancoiseLangur
      The monkeys will be off exhibit during the winter season
    • baboon
      Oh they has proboscis monkeys! What do they feed the monkeys?
    • FrancoiseLangur
      According to the 2013 Annual Report of Yokohama, Nogeyama and Kanazawa Zoological Gardens and Preservation and Research Center, the daily diet of a Proboscis monkey at Zoorasia (Yokohama Zoological Gardens) consists of carrots (50 grams), green beans (100 grams), apples (50 grams), bananas (100 grams), cucumbers (50 grams), fresh leaves (15 branches), leaf-eater pellets (5 grams), soy beans (75 grams), bread (10 grams) and steamed rice (20 grams). In addition to these items they get seasonal vegetables and fruit occasionally.
    • Jackwow
      How do the monkeys steam their rice in the wild? ;-)
    • baboon
      Thank you! Very interesting diet! It seems that not very special. Most of the food items are easy to acquire for a non-tropical zoo except the fresh leaves. I guess the leaves are the secret that Yokohama Zoo keeps the monkeys successfully :) In fact I am so surprised that there are so many fruits contained in the diet, as I used to think the proboscis monkey is a strictly leaf-specialist.
    • baboon
      I know other zoos also feed their langurs steam-rice, such as Cologne Zoo to their doucs.
    • stubeanz
      Rice is a good but of roughage and used in quite a lot of diets, it's steamed because that stops it from swelling in the gut :)
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