Hamilton welcomed five baby animals over the latter course of December. They welcomed, -A baby Zebra:Hamilton Zoo -Two KuneKune piglets:Hamilton Zoo -A baby Cotton top tamiran: Hamilton Zoo - A Female baby Bison:Hamilton Zoo All exciting news to start 2019!
New Siamang Gibbon Hamilton Zoo have received a female Siamang gibbon named Kasih from Orana Wildlife Park. Kasih was born 14/04/2009 at Orana Wildlife Park to Oscar and Peggy (born 1989 at Auckland Zoo) making her the granddaughter of Hamilton Zoo’s male, Itam (born 1984 at Berlin Zoo): Itam (1984) > Peggy (1989) > Kasih (2009) So presumably Hamilton Zoo is intending for Kasih to serve as a companion animal to Itam; and then will import an unrelated male to breed with her upon his death.
History of Hamilton Zoo Really interesting article here about the history of Hamilton Zoo, which celebrates 50 years this year: Hamilton Zoo's half century a happy birthday for founder Apologies for not copying and pasting it into this post, but it’s too long.
An African Wild Dog (Zumo) has died due to age-related illness. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...4159&id=252682851576705&anchor_composer=false
Sad news; but by no means unexpected, given his age. 12 years old is a great age for this species. I saw Zumo recently, lying in the sun with Msaka. He looked very content. Zumo was the last of his family to live at Hamilton. His parents (both deceased) are to date the most successful breeding pair of African wild dog in New Zealand. Zumo attained the alpha position at a very young age (around 18 months) I heard.
It seems to have escaped everyone’s notice (including mine), but Maluku the giraffe died in September 2018. He was the zoo’s only Rothschild’s giraffe. There are now only four Rothschild’s giraffe in New Zealand - 3.0 at Keystone; 0.1 at Orana Wildlife Park. Makulu was born November 1999 at Orana Wildlife Park, and arrived at Hamilton Zoo in December 2000. Hamilton Zoo now has five hybrid/generic giraffe born between 1998 and 2006.
Kito the Southern white rhinoceros is pregnant with her fourth calf (due March/April 2020): Southern white rhino pregnant at Hamilton Zoo Kito has previously given birth to: 1.0 Ubuntu - Born 12/03/2010 0.1 Unnamed - Stillborn 19/04/2013 1.0 Samburu - Born 28/06/2016
Hamilton Zoo Bison Herd If we ignore the mistakes in this article (the title implies they still hold tapir; and they incorrectly state there has never been an unexpected rhino death) there is some info about breeding Bison: Gore is planning on trying to develop an artificial insemination programme in the coming year - looking at bison. "Most of the bison in Australasia came in one big group many years ago and there hasn't been much new blood. So what we are doing is going back to America and seeing if we can get some totally unrelated bison from our bison and try and bring the semen into the country."
The foal (unsexed) is the ninth born to Marble (also born at Hamilton Zoo). The father is the zoo’s stallion, Malawi: Marble - 6 October 2003 Malawi - 12 March 2012 According to Hamilton Zoo’s website, Marble is a Grant’s zebra: Grant's Zebra She is descended from Auckland Zoo stock.
That’s awesome news! Hamilton Zoo have such a consistently successful breeding herd. I believe this is the third foal for Zalika, who was born at Hamilton Zoo 30/11/2011.
Yes very good news there appears to be a few zebra breedings of late for our regional zoos which will help out rise the regional numbers as some of the Major zoos appear to to run that many together even in the large open range zoos
