Ok. So we have had has {large african ungulate here} Ever been mixed with anyhting thread alot. I actually really enjoy them and now decided to start my own. Hippo and Elephant: http://www.zoochat.com/22/mix-species-exhibits-elephants-hippos-97686/ White Rhinos have almost becomea staple of afican plains exhibits, yet blakc rhinos remains by themselves due to their aggression. Has any species been successfully mixed with Black Rhinos? Didn't they have them with Sacred Ibis at St. Louis?
Yes they are mixed with sacred ibis at St. Louis, but I don't think birds are a problem, just large mammals such as hoofstock.
You may be interested in the following threads: http://www.zoochat.com/2/african-mixed-species-77714/ http://www.zoochat.com/2/mixed-species-exhibits-12223/ http://www.zoochat.com/2/unusual-unique-mixed-exhibits-112546/ Several examples of mixing black rhinos with other species are given, including a couple of 'savannah mixes'.
In some read the linked thread anybody who stumbles on to this one it describes various mixings includong Port Lympnes Black Rhinos on the African Experience and SDZWAP Attempts to intergrate thieir Black Rhinos in to their large paddocks
I wanted to keep them with Rothschild giraffe and Grevy's zebra in an 'Africa in Danger' exhibit, focusing on species that are listed by the IUCN redlist as 'Endangered' or 'Critically endangered.' If they were available in captivity as well, I would like to add Giant sable antelope
Ree Park in Denmark actually kept 1.0 black rhino in their savanna exhibit with gnus, zebras, ostriches, giraffes, lechwes, elands, blackbucks (yes, I know it's geographically wrong ) and probably a few others. It didn't work, but here it actually wasn't due to the rhino's aggression, but because of some of the other animals, especially gnus and zebras, scaring it. At least it's what they said in the news, Ree Park doesn't mention anything on their website. Currently, it's off-show, but I think there are plans to make a public path to its new exhibit. And even more interesting - the savanna is a drive-through exhibit (not with own car, but with the zoo's special Land Rover), which means that many people has had the unique chance to get up really close with the rhino.
To exhibit black rhino in close proximity to other species is a bit over-ambitious I think. Do they now wish to make the black rhino into a separate exhibit?
Just to bring this thread back up again Recently The San Diego Zoo Safari Park in an episode of the Zoo: San Diego now has a black rhino named Aria in the Central Africa Multi-Species Exhibit. and Kendi from Cincinnati Zoo, will join in either in the Central Africa Field Exhibit or the South Africa Field Exhibit next door. Can someone please give me a brief history of black rhinos in the Safari Park and how the black rhinos are placed in multi species in other zoos over the years? P.S. Aria is a South-Central Black Rhinoceros and Kendi is an Eastern Black Rhinoceros
I don't know much on the history of Black Rhinos at SDZ Safari Park, but I do know that there has been the odd Black Rhino in their field exhibits for at least a few years now. I believe the park has always had the species, although I don't know if by themselves or mixed with other species in the past.
