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Carnivores in mixed exhibits

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  1. vogelcommando

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    Just found a note from around 2010 that the Opel Zoo in Germany keeps / kept Bat-eared foxes together with Ostriches. Don't know anything aout how this was / is working and how the enclosure looks / looked like. Maybe anyother ZooChatter has more information about this combination...
     
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    Lobeira isn't currently on their master plant list, but it might be worth contacting this wonderfully quirky exotic plant nursery. Plantbase

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    Coombe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park has Bat-eared Foxes sharing with Meerkats.
     
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    In the International Zoo Year book vol. 24/25 there's an intresting article about the enclosure at Osnabrück Zoo - Germany were Maned wolves and Giant anteaters were kept together :
    Drüwa P. ( 1986 ) : Maintaining Maned wolves and Giant anteaters together in one enclosure,
    Int. Zoo Yb vol. 24/25 pp. 271-274
     
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    really late but Sweden still do!
     
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    Flamingo Land should have their White Rhino and Cheetah mixed later in the year depending on covid-19 and how long it continues. A UK first with White's at least although Cheetah and Black Rhino have been mixed in the UK before
     
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    What I haven't seen here yet is the EXTREMELY common mix of aquatic animals like smaller fish and sharks of predatory fish like eels.Or with birds, reptiles, or semi aquatic mammals (hippos and bears). You can find all three at the San Diego zoo.
     
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    Hippos and bears mixed at SDZ? Where?
     
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    I think he mean fish mix with bird, reptile, and hippo/bear. Not hippo mixed with bear.
     
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    Are there bear mixed with fish though? Won't bear catch them?
     
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    Many Brown Bear and Polar Bear enclosures in Europe have some fish, mostly trout or salmon, in them, they must get caught sometimes, but that is intentional and just a way of enrichment.
     
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    Columbus has Polar Bear mixed with Rainbow Trout, as well.
     
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    Nagasaki bio park let’s their meerkats get out of their enclosure and roam amongst visitors
     
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    Same story with Longleat Safari Park.
     
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    Didn't Zlin have their Gambian mongooses in a walkthrough exhibit with vultures too?
     
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    Yes they did
     
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    It is widely believed that feeding live vertebrates to other animals is illegal in the UK, but we have never actually managed to get this confirmed...