I flew to Berlin solely for the opportunity to see, at the time, Europe's only (?) bird-of-paradise - the trumpet manucode - plus their kiwi and...
Not to mention their Indian social spiders, giant raft spiders, red backs, black widows, cellar spiders, house spiders, velvet spiders, and the...
Volunteering with local conservation projects aside (simply Google 'conservation volunteering UK' or similar; there are loads of opportunities if...
Visited yesterday; even with the new booking system, I've never seen it so busy (granted, this is the first week of the school holidays). Staff...
Ooh, not quite! The IUCN database near-blanket adds a 'recommended for captive breeding' tag to most threatened species, which is just that, a...
Aye. Despite being considered Vulnerable by the IUCN, common hippopotamus aren't a current ex-situ conservation priority, especially compared to...
Apparently three of the four salamander species are (or at least have been) held in several university labs, and some wild-caught individuals...
Scanning the IUCN database, or just browsing the species-specific webpages / reports, is usually fruitful, particularly if what one is looking up...
Oh, I never was going to. Too many of 'em, and, well, I don't find birds as a taxon particularly interesting. Heck, the rest was just a bit of...
The Africa Hall at Dresden Zoo houses free-flying birds with indoor elephants. At the visitor end, chain-mesh barriers aim to prevent birds...
Yeah, to be fair, the authors' objective wasn't to accurately and comprehensively list threatened species - they just needed some working dataset...
Ooh, there are! Przewalski's Wild Horse, Arabian Oryx and the Black-Footed Ferret are three examples.
Ahh, I should probably not procrastinate any further, paha. Knock yourself out! Perhaps? I based the judgement on this extract in Ranaivoariosa...
Of the 42 listed Reptile species: Currently in Captivity (17): (* indicates re-introduced to wild) Burmese Roofed Turtle Campbell's Alligator...
As for the Amphibians (62 species): Currently in Captivity (1): Mountain Chicken IUCN Recommended / Planned Ex-Situ Breeding Programmes (3):...
Oops, a coupla' 'ex-situs' there should be 'in-situ'. Also TIL there's only a ~60min editing window. Huh.
As far as the 70 listed Mammal species are concerned: In Captivity / Successful Ex-Situ Breeding Programmes (21): (* indicates re-introduced to...
Ah, fair! I should have made the caveat 'for those species for which we have records available for comparison' explicit, or something, haha....
Hmmm, given we have no reliable data on lifespan from wild populations I don't think we can make any claims about whether or not their captive...
Ooh, seems interesting - have a source? The only reference I can find r.e. their captive sleeping behaviour was "a frightening habit of resting...
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