Bali Safari and Marine Park Bali Safari and Marine Park

I visited the Bali Safari and Marine Park in January. It is another of those beautiful collections whose sole purpose it is is to persuade as many visitors as possible to part with as much money as possible. The potential is there to do wonderous things for conservation but it is just not going to happen.

 

Bali's first hippo has been born at the park.

Bali News: New Arrival at Bali Safari & Marine Park

 

Article about the park :

Safari Park Educates Indonesians on Animal Welfare | Jakarta Globe

 

I refuse to call this place anything more than 'Bali Safari Park' if the full name isn't required. When I visited last summer I found that the 'Marine' area was still said to be 'under construction' and 'opening soon', which is the same thing @Peter Dickinson was told when he visited in early 2009. The 'Marine' zone is a draw which is advertised across the island, and only revealed as being unavailable after visitors pay the exorbitant entry fee (the equivalent of 60 US Dollars). I'd be interested to hear when it does actually open.

 

22 False gharials hatched at Bali Safari Park :

22 False Gharial Hatchlings’ First Crawl in Bali Safari Park

 

A major breeding success!

I wonder though that even Singapore Zoo has till date not been able to breed their Sunda gharial Tomistoma schlegelii (???).

 

Rather belatedly, a male pygmy hippo birth from 2019. Parents are male Bono and female Fitriani, both erstwhile Taman Safari I - Bogor bred residents.

Source: The First Newborn Baby Pygmy Hippo - Bali Safari Marine Park

 

Bali Safari's first proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) is born, it's also the first proboscis monkey born in Bali.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJWMiujxia/?igshid=1wuulwj80pf55

 

Great news! Any idea How many proboscis monkey they keep?

 

Five, three male and two female.

 

Bali Safari's second and third striped hyena is born, becoming the third and fourth hyena born in Bali.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COdHi-HD-DQ/?igshid=2tokjj40jytu

 

A barbary sheep, named Amora, is born.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COsZl_wj5Pf/?igshid=19goxe121pgpt

 

Bali Safari released two sea turtles, green and hawksbill, into the wild. The turtles were previously rescued from poachers in 2015.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPNuDRVjfcR/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

Bali Safari acquired the Chacoan maras (Dolichotis salinicola), which mean that TSI now keep all two living species of mara.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlJ7GRDVGT/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

Any idea how and where they sourced their Chacoan maras from, either the zoo community or from in situ wild populations or S. American range states?

I would also be interested to learn about their Sumatran elephant group and composition at Bali Safari. They should have ... 31 individuals in all.

 

I have no idea, but they could possibly came from Batu Secret Zoo, since they used to display the maras and were probably keep off display before being sent to Bali, but that's just my speculation.

 

Aha, did not know that Batu Secret exhibited them previously ..., and makes sense.

 

Three meerkats has been born.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUooRIxLkdO/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

Bali Safari's fourth and fifth striped hyenas is born.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXFnOQxhIVr/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

An pygmy hippo has born, this is the second born at Bali Safari after Pablo in 2019.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXLZoSXvM3i/?utm_medium=copy_link