Gibbons in Latin American Zoos

Interesting! I keep imagining how enormous were the collection of zoos such as Rio and São Paulo in the 70's and 80's. Of course, animal welfare wasn't a reality at the time, and almost all the exhibits were awful, but everyday we discover more about new species that were kept at these zoos in the past.

 

@Jungle Man Recently found some interesting information out about the gibbon in Argentina.

 

Really? How many of them live there? Is it in BA or Temaiken?

 

No, it is held at Bubalco and it is just a single male individual, @Jungle Man managed to find out quite a lot about this individual and his story.

 

Ah yeah, had never heard about this zoo. That's pretty nice! Has him posted these informations in this thread?

 

No, not yet, but I encourage him to do this because he found out some really interesting information.

 

Ah, yes, looking forward to know more about it.

 

Yeah, the Gibbon at Bubalco is named Tobias and he is one of the zoo's major attractions. I just found it, Tobias was the first White handed Gibbon born at Zoo de Lagos in Portugal and was sent there on April 2010 in exchange for Scarlet Macaws. He was born on 2 September 2002 and his parents are Tina and Donald which to 2013 had produced 5 offspring at Zoo de Lagos.

 

Hmmm, that's pretty nice.Hasn't Tobias ever had a mate? Do you know how his exhibit looks like?

 

No, he hasn't had a mate and I don't know how it look like but I searched for pictures on the web and there's only 1 picture which doesn't show all the exhibit just a part of it, so I don't really know.

 

Ah, yes, thank u so much for the info! For me, gibbons are one of the most interesting primates; hope this individual is being well kept at Bubalco.

 

It doesn't look like such a bad exhibit but its not great either.

The enclosure and Tobias appear in this video in 1:06 minutes.



Apparently the gibbon also was / is permitted to leave the enclosure and interact with the public too.

 

Oh, it looks like the exhibit is similar to Foz do Iguaçu zoo guarani's monkey exhibits. Not actually bad indeed, but I really dislike the fact that the animal is able to have direct contact with the public...

 

There is a siamang living at Bubalcó, his name is Boris and he came from Lagos, Portugal.

 

So the same zoo that Tobias came from.

Where did you find out this information @Enzo ?

 

Yes, I hope they discontinued that practice as someone is bound to get bitten or kicked in the face by the gibbon or it will end up ingesting some human food or plastic and end up with health complications.

 

I found some pictures of Boris on TripAdvisor

 

I see and is he housed with Tobias ?

 

I found an article about Boris the Siamang. As mentioned above, he came from Zoo de Lagos in Portugal and was born there in 2005. The article in Portuguese: ZOOdeLAGOS: Do Zoo de Lagos para a Argentina

 

Thanks for sharing @WhistlingKite24 ! Interesting to know more about this siamang.