Hi Everyone. In my institution we'll have ring-tailed lemurs in walk-through exhibit soon. The lemurs will also have access to sulcata tortoise's place. We also have 4 banded mongooses (2:2) in separate exhibit already. Do we need to make a barrier to prevent lemurs entering into mungo's place? The whole place is indoor place. I've never seen this combination before but I still want to try and give lemurs more space and enrichment. What do you think?
I'm not sure. I suspect mongooses and lemurs could cause a great deal of conflicts. Apparently Schönbrun keeps or kept meerkats with their lemurs, but I can't directly find wether they still do. I also don't know wether there are risks of disease transfer. If you'd do it I would bear in mind that chances are you would need to separate them in the end.
Thank you. The separation is an option, yes. But I don't know if I can try or not. Generaly we'll have 2 lemurs for the start - a female and a male (vasectomy). Yes, I also saw lemurs and meerkats in Schönbrunn ZOO.
I suspect the mongooses’ food would be attractive to the lemurs, but bad for their health, even if the animals themselves got on, which I doubt they would, long term.
ok, that is importent. But why do they not keep a bachlor gtoup of ring tails ? There is a huge overpopulation of males in captivity, and they wouldn't have too reduce the potential genepool of the population ?
It was a recomendation of the coordinator. In the future we would also like to establish two groups, one bachelor group and one breeding group.
