There are certainly hobbyists doing amazing work with many rare tropical freshwater species which are seldom seen, let alone bred, in zoos and aquaria. This guy is a case in point: Your tanks: Mark Allison - Practical Fishkeeping
Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) can grow to 2m eventually and the lungfish are not far behind, although they are much slimmer-bodied and probably grow more slowly - so eventually, if everything goes well, 'fairly large' will not be large enough. I doubt if many private aquarists could afford to import a group of young lungfish independently, and manage several large tanks over a period of years to establish an adult pair, breed them and raise a number of fry. It wouldn't be impossible of course, but I'd guess that it would be as expensive as maintaining a collection of high quality koi and much more difficult to achieve.
My question: who beyond the National fisheries institute qouted has bred Australian lungfish either zoo or private!???
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=686183275523012 Baby wombat joey has been born at Hamerton - supposedly the first in UK zoos since 1930. It's thought to be a female & has been provisionally christened 'Hope'.
Excellent news; I look forward to seeing the youngster in due course. The 1930 birth referred to was a wombat born at Whipsnade, the year before the park opened to the public. However that wasn't the last to be born in the UK; another wombat was born at Whipsnade in 1938.
Two great pieces of news in the last week to lighten the gloom a little at least! When was the last dingo birth in the UK?
I believe there are at least three different coat colours for Dingo with the tan being the most common. I don't know enough about the reproductive as to why the pups have exhibited different colouration coming off the two tan parents
According to this, Fraser Island Dingoes are often born with black markings, which disappear with age. About Fraser Island dingoes (Department of Environment and Science)
Hamerton announced on Facebook that they have fat sand rats off show and they've recently had 7 pups.
The observant might have spotted them at last year's IZES meeting at Hamerton, at least one person even managed to get a picture.
I have just noticed another pleasant bit of animal news from Hamerton, on the news page about donating to the park during the current closure. The pair of barking owls, possibly the only ones of their kind outside Australia, are currently defending a nest containing an as yet unknown number of eggs. This news is mentioned at the bottom of the page included below: Hamerton Zoo Park - Animal Park Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Have seen quite a few Frazer Island Dingos on Frazer Island all of them have been the normal sand colour!
The zoo have just announced that they are currently housing Echidna off show https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=635087690611216
This zoo (I can’t wait to go) is fast becoming an Australasian zoo - it’s awesome! Too late for Paignton Bruce, but great to have more Echidna! For Hamerton - maybe Platypus & tree Roos next?
Bruce @ Paignton is still going strong, is he not? .....wondering how many Australian animals are called Bruce. We have a Cereopsis of that name.
