Like its sister location, kobe will start a crowdfunding event starting from October 10. from what I could tell, they have plans about Amami spiny rats. https://twitter.com/alpacazaemon/status/1312330507493859328
the crowdfunding event has started, the goals include paying up for the pygmy hippopotamus enclosure expansion, making a new shoebill enclosure, and investing in the conservation of amami spiny rats and miyako grass lizards.
It’s been a while since it happened but the crowd funding has been over for a few days and the park was able to reach their 3 main goals. There still isn’t any information on when the new shoebill exhibit and the action for the spiny rats and grass lizards.
The park will exchange manul cats with Higashiyama zoo. El will be replaced with Lev for breeding purposes. Despite his status as a founder Lev sired at least five offspring do he is well represented.
The bird show is now being moved outdoors from the water lilies area to a new stage starting from March 12. The stage will be by the tiger. 【NEW】3/12（金）〜 バードパフォーマンスショー フルリニューアル!『フリーフライトバードパフォーマンス 〝Wings(ウィングス)〟』開幕！（2/20更新） | 神戸どうぶつ王国
I still find it silly that they are using a well represented animal. Idk if they even get any advice from a global network before they make any decisions.
The species does work and fit somewhat well with the climate in parts of Japan. Further some other Himalayan plateaux species like red panda and snow leopard are frequently held (as is goral and serow) in Japanese zoos too. On top, I do not think that Pallas' cat / manul are quite yet the husbandry wise easy species to work with, they are quite delicate that way, and certainly abundant for husbandry management they are not (respiratory illness, very shy and elusive exhibit species). I think JAZGA has been somewhat moving away from the decision making by municipalities' over animal collection / husbandry expertise within the zoo network lately. JAZGA only signalled last fall they were to introduce new guidelines for managing their species breeding programs, starting with gorillas, giraffe, zebra and few other species. It is no surprise, quite a few Japanese zoos have recently become Species 360/ZIMS members and I do think things are now moving faster than ever before. POST SCRIPTUM: Not denying your expertise in JAZGA / Japanese zoos being one of our principal sources for that, for which I am ever so grateful. I just think it is more complex. I will PM you shortly, my dear friend.
I don't seem to be able to find my answer on why Lev/Lebu is being bred (despite having five kittens) or if there's an international studbook on manul cats
３・１１の経験が土台、コロナ禍の逆境再び糧に 神戸どうぶつ王国 This article explains how Nasu animal kingdom decided to expand to kobe.
The park has already started to work on converting the old flight stage to the shoebill enclosure. They are only converting half of the water lilies area instead of the entire area so the enclosure is sort of smaller than I hoped it would be. https://www.flickr.com/photos/muzina_shanghai/51031561718/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/muzina_shanghai/51032473082/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/muzina_shanghai/51032371891/
Details of the new shoebill exhibit has came out. The exhibit will be open at April 23. In addition to shoebills, there will be blacksmith plovers, rosy beeeaters, and roseate spoonbills.
Idk. To my knowledge Yokohama Zoorasia is the only place in Japan with Rosy bee-eaters. But I wouldn’t be surprised if those bee eaters are from the private trade. This information is accessible in ZIMS to my knowledge.
