Can I ask whoever is first with the news tpo make it a seperate thread instead of tagging it onto the end of thsi one please.
Or stop posting till the calf is actually there and alive n sound (if the birth set in as long ago as we have been led to believe here the calf would be dead on arrival ...).
Visited MZ today, the only news being that the female red panda has given birth, the pygmy marmoset and de brazza monkey's weren't in their exhibits and construction work was going on near the binturong enclosure, opposite Wld Sea. It appeared to be roofing of some kind.
I saw a black-handed spider monkey being introduced to Rigo's old grotto, where the De Brazza's were previously, and they are no listed on ISIS at Melbourne. Where have they gone?
With large animals there can be a period of between a month and three months from the expected due date.
there probably just wasn't any point responding seeing as there's already this three page thread about the baby... http://www.zoochat.com/24/its-girl-124735/
The DeBrazza's have gone to Tasmania Zoo along with the Lion Tailed Macaques. The pygmy marmoset unfotunately died at vets (from infection). The two young Siamangs males have been taken off display and I believe they will be heading off to Adelaide. (Isidor and Sanpit seem to be having a ball without them.)
give up! i don't know why they imported more in the first place. we already had a viable population of regular marmosets and hardly any of the major zoos were holding them. who cares if they are a bit smaller...
on the one hand i think australian zoos (lead by the major ones) can, and should expand radically on the amount of small mammals they keep. city zoos lend themselves to small animals and citing lack of space is a ridiculous excuse when they spend tens of millions on mega exhibits and a marmoset enclosure comes closer to $2,000 - $3,000. so in that respect i think yes. acquire pygmy marmosets. and prevost's squirrels and more loris and ocelots. however, melbourne doesn't even keep common marmosets. in fact, when a consortium of zoos agreed to acquire pygmy marmosets there was about one left in the country, yet a sustainable population of common marmosets and no managed program for them.
I couldn't agree more. Australian zoos seem to be sliding more and more towards keeping ONLY large "box-office" animals. Mind you, they are not helped by government policy towards importation of small mammals.
