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  1. WanderingDragon

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    Has young female amur tiger Taiga moved to another collection?
     
  2. Nisha

    Nisha Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Yes, Taiga is now at Riga Zoo in Latvia.
     
  3. Onychorhynchus coronatus

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    Does Bescancon keep any Callithrix / marmoset species ?
     
  4. Coelacanth18

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    Yes, quite a few:

    Bearded Emperor Tamarin, Goeldi's Marmoset, Cottontop Tamarin, Geoffroy's Marmoset, Golden Lion Tamarin, Golden-headed Lion Tamarin, Silvery Marmoset

    In the future, you can find information like this yourself using Zootierliste: ZootierlisteHomepage
     
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    Thank you for this @Coelacanth18 ! Yes, forgot about Zootierliste, so with the Geoffroy's marmoset they are at least keeping one Callithrix species.
     
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    Ah, I misread Callithrix as callitrichid; so it goes.

    For additional future inquiries, European zoos hold 3 species of Callithrix: C. jacchus, C. penicillata, and C. geoffroyi. That'll help narrow down future searches hopefully.
     
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    Yes , I know that none have our mountain marmosets (yet...)
     
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    Helios, the last remaining asiatic lion, left the zoo this morning for Le Pal. So now the only big cats in the zoo are two amur tigers.
     
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    Wonferful news from Besançon with the second birth of a François' leaf monkey in the zoo's history. The group is now composed of : Ping and Johan, the breeding pair, born in 2018 and 2012, Bao (male), the first offspring born in march 2020, and the newborn.
     
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    In september the Citadelle, together with the Muséum and the Biodiversity French Office, released 290 stone crayfishes born last June.
    This species is critically endangered, on the french red list, and just survive in two rivers in east France.
    A breeding program was created in the Citadelle three years ago to increase the wild population and now show good results.
     
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    The Zoo sent 6 northern bald ibis born in 2019/2020 for a released in Andalusia. This is the second time the Zoo do such release.
     
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    For the first time the zoo welcome a pair of two-toed sloths yesterday november 11th. The pair came from Montpellier which was obliged to send the animals with the closure of the tropical house.
    The sloths will be housed in a part of the primates pit near the entrance. They will have an outdoor + an indoor room with viewing windows for visitors.
     
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    The Zoo received last november 10th a ten years old male two-toed sloth from Beauval. He will stay there for few weeks before he reaches its final destination Mulhouse.
     
  15. Antoine

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    A great news with the birth of a male crowned sifaka in december :) This is the third baby for Eridan (25 years old) and Raozy (8 years old) in three years !

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    Another great birth of crowned sifaka in january (a female). This is the fifth one for mother Raozy. The father is 27 years old and the oldest crowned sifaka in Europe. The zoo has now 5 of the 18 crowned sifakas in captivity in the world.

    Naissance d’un propithèque couronné à la Citadelle de Besançon