I became interested in the North American goral population recently after noticing that many zoos have expressed interest in acquiring gorals, but never seem to get any. This has been blamed mostly on poor breeding, which may be the case. A recent rise in births (three births last year and four the year before, and only two deaths that I’m aware of) is exciting and promising. I decided to compile information on the captive population. I e-mailed several zoos, searched extensively through the internet sources available to me, and called a few, in order to make this. Messaging staff from the Nebraska facilities and the Lake Superior Zoo were successful while calling the Good Zoo was helpful. Records of gorals at the Good Zoo and the Lake Superior Zoo were provided to me as far back as when the species was first held there. Saint Louis Zoo public relations staff were also able to assist me to some extent by e-mail. I am guessing that ZIMS or some other data service was not updated immediately so I actually got information about the goral that moved to Los Angeles from Saint Louis Zoo staff after the transfer occurred. Staff from the Los Angeles Zoo and The Wilds were understandably not able to assist me very much. St. Louis: Juno F ( ? x ? ) DoB: June 5, 2016 | facility born at: The Wilds unidentified male Lee Richardson Zoo: Kung Furry M ( ? x ? ) DoB: 2017.6.0 | facility born at: Los Angeles Zoo Ping F ( ? x Mina) DoB: 2014.5.0 | facility born at: Lee Richardson Zoo Pink Tag F ( ? x ? ) DoB: 2010.6.0 | facility born at: Larry Johnson’s Safari Enterprises Red Tag F ( ? x Pink Tag) DoB: 2015.6.0 | facility born at: Lee Richardson Zoo Lake Superior Zoo: Tyrone M (Mac x Tina) DoB: 2022.9.0 | facility born at: Lake Superior Zoo Xiazhi M (Mac x Brie) DoB: 2022.6.21 | facility born at: Lake Superior Zoo Brie F ( ? x ? ) DoB: 2011.3.31 | facility born at: Larry Johnson’s Safari Enterprises Tina F ( ? x ? ) DoB: 2020.5.8 | facility born at: St. Louis Zoo Mac M ( ? x ? ) DoB: 2008.6.22 | facility born at: The Wilds Good Zoo at Oglebay: Mahjong M ( ? x ? ) DoB: August 3, 2019 | facility born at: Los Angeles Zoo The Wilds unidentified male unidentified female Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens: JJ* M (JR x Juno) DoB: 2021.4.7 | facility born at: St. Louis Zoo unidentified unidentified Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium: Mei Li F (Cliff or Kung Pao x Mina) DoB: 2016.5.17 | facility born at: Lee Richardson Zoo Miso F ([unknown] x [unknown]) DoB: 2018.3.0 | facility born at: [non-zoo] Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari: Lo Mein M (Cliff x Chow Mein) DoB: 2019.4.26 | facility born at: Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari Laverne F (Lo Mein x Esmeralda) DoB: 2021.8.30 | facility born at: Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari Esmeralda F (Junior x Juno) DoB: 2019.4.15 | facility born at: St. Louis Zoo to-be-named-later F (Lo Mein x Esmeralda) DoB: 2019.4.15 | facility born at: Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari animals that might still be alive but where I don't know Bear - at Columbus in 2021 Wooley - at The Wilds in 2021 Kung Pao - at the Lee Richardson Zoo in early 2019 or late 2018 Cliff - at the Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari in 2019 Mia F DoB: June 9 2014 - was transferred to The Wilds, where she was born, from the Good Zoo in 2021 ? F (Kung Pao x Ping) DoB: 2018.8.16 | facility born at: Lee Richardson Zoo
Looking back, I got the number of animals at Los Angeles confused, as one of @Kudu21's posts reminded me. It also gave some updates. The four animals at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens are JJ, female Bao Bei (born on August 25, 2011), female Kitana (born on June 2, 2021), and female Ming (born on September 18, 2016). I guess there are 24 animals in the population.
Does anyone have any more information or some new news? @Kudu21 is there anything I'm missing that you know?
A baby was born very recently at the Los Angeles Zoo, as I saw it in the exhibit yesterday. I don't have any details about the parents or when exactly it was born, though.
