A female giraffe was born on the 16th January to Rukiya and Zabulu. This is the 30th giraffe calf born at the zoo. Auckland Zoo - 2012 MEDIA RELEASE - New year, new baby at Auckland Zoo
The new giraffe calf has now been named 'Nakuru' after a place in Kenya where Rothschild giraffes are found.
Does anyone know where the Bolivian Squirrel Monkey enclosure will be? I thought it might be the empty enclosure in The Tropics?
Does anyone know Lazarus, Ngala, and Sheekas full birth dates? Im trying to put the last few dates in my lion record. Thanks
According to a keeper at the Aussie Walkabout encounter, Auckland Zoo will eventually have no kangaroo species and only one species of wallaby.
pretty much like all the other zoos. It would be so EASY to keep kangaroos and wallabies going in NZ zoos, but no, phase them out (and then try to import more when they change their minds again!)
Aucklnad is down to one male Red Kangaroo though, so will need to import to keep them going, or is Orana still breeding them? I think it would be silly to lose the smaller wallabies, they do show the diversity well, and illustrate an interesting conservation story.
Jalur_Tiger_cub: Sheeka - 12/02/99 Ngala: June 2002 Lazarus: June 2002 (no more accurate I'm afraid) zooboy28 - small correction the red kangaroo is a female. Also what would be the point of breeding if the genetics are a bit 'dodgy'?
Thanks for that TarantulaMad. I have an almost complete list of all the lions that have lived at auckland zoo at some point and for the most part their offspring. This includes their name, sex, DOB,date of time at AKL, a few comments and their current location. Anyone have any idea how I could get this up on here for everyone seeing as it is in a chart sort of format. Also the female kangaroos name is Allira
Oh, I don't know why I thought it was a male. Why are you saying the genetics are dodgy? Are Orana's inbred or related to Auckland's (or both)? It wouldn't really matter if the genetics were dodgy - a little inbreeding wouldn't affect the animals, the population will have no conservation significance, and occasional suplementation of new animals should be relatively easy (compared with non-Australian exotic species).
You could export it from a table in Word to a PDF/XPS document, print screen it and upload it in the gallery.
Sounds like a good plan but I have no idea how to go about doing that. Also it is 3 full pages and I cant quite find a way to view it without the writing being too small to read
You could save it as a PDF and attach it to a post on a relevant thread. Examples on this thread: http://www.zoochat.com/2/lists-219677/
I could do it for you if you want. If so, I'll PM you my email address so you can email the document to me.
