3.0 capybara have arrived from Adelaide. https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...501345551433/1109827932385431/?type=3&theater
this is great news, especially for a Queensland zoo (!). Now they just need to get some coatis, maras, agoutis, and giant anteaters
According to this article, DDZ will hopefully be acquiring mara this year: Zoo transformation has been a decade-long journey | Warwick Daily News
a very large new aviary is being constructed for waterbirds: photos: https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...922814442609/1155922754442615/?type=3&theater
...and in the best Australian news so far this year, Darling Downs announce on their Facebook page that their four new agoutis are almost ready to leave quarantine. They are four animals imported from the USA, all unrelated to one another and also (obviously) to all the inbred current stock in Australasia. There are some photos on their page: https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...432432891647/1171432399558317/?type=3&theater
following on from the arrivals to the zoo of capybara and agouti, Darling Downs now has four male mara. https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...501345551433/1176309665737257/?type=3&theater There are also a couple of photos on Facebook of the progress of the new aviary construction mentioned a few posts above. https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Downs.Zoo/posts/1179711262063764
A Hamadryas baboon has been born to a female imported from Poland https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...501345551433/1194893357212221/?type=3&theater
2 Emperor tamarins have been born. https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...501345551433/1202681936433363/?type=3&theater
First Brazilian agouti born https://www.facebook.com/Darling.Do...501345551433/1202685129766377/?type=3&theater
that is brilliant news! Also same for the emperor tamarin babies, wombat baby, bilby babies, etc etc, of course...
Article on the recent births, which also include blackbuck and rhesus macaque:http://toowoomba.brisbanetimes.com.au/2016/05/09/babies-galore-darling-downs-zoo/
That's very exciting news! Any confirmation on where these two (or the yet-to-arrive male) have come from?
Just because a couple of females were born there back around 2014, and it is the closest facility with giraffe to Darling Downs Zoo, my hunch is they came from Australia Zoo (although I could be wrong).
The young male COULD be Mdomo (born 2015 at Auckland Zoo). He's related to the females born at Australia Zoo: Zabulu x Kiraka - Mdomo Zabulu x Rukiya - Forrest - 5 x female calves at Australia Zoo But inbreeding is hardly unheard of in Australasia!
