What examples have you seen of non avian species being kept in Aviaries with free-flight birds? I know the North Carolina Zoo has displayed several species of turtles and tortoises (Red-footed, Yellow-footed, Snake-necked, Forsten's) in the RJ Reynolds Forest Aviary over the years. What other examples have you seen/know of?
From what I can remember: Mammals: Long nosed potoroo- (Mixed with cockatoos if I remember correctly, Drusillas animal park, UK) Baird's tapir- (Mixed with several macaw and amazon parrot species at Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Agouti - (Mixed with blue and gold macaws, Sorocaba zoo, Brazil and mixed with currasows, guans and ocellated turkey at Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Tamandua- (Mixed with a toco toucan, Sorocaba zoo, Brazil) African crested porcupine -(Mixed with an African grey parrot at Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Rodrigues fruit bats- (Mixed with various pheasants, Drusillas animal park,UK & Mixed with sun bittern and other birds that I dont remember at ZSL, UK) Hoffmann's two toed sloth - (Mixed with keel billed toucans, Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Golden headed lion tamarin - (Mixed with sun bitterns and some other species that I don't remember at ZSL) Midas tamarin- (Mixed with burrowing owl and keel billed toucan, San Juan de Aragon zoo, Mexico) Emperor tamarin - (Mixed with sun bitterns and some other species that I don't remember at ZSL) Red titi monkey- (Mixed with sun bitterns and some other species that I don't remember at ZSL) Bolivian squirrel monkey -(Mixed with Patagonian conures and a trumpeter species, Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Capybara (Mixed with Patagonian conures and a trumpeter species, Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Silvery marmoset - (Mixed with sun bitterns and some other species that I don't remember at ZSL) Volcano rabbit - (Mixed with painted bunting at both Los Coyotes zoo and Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Common marmoset - (Mixed with a green fruit dove and a black headed cacique parrot) Brocket deer - (Mixed with blue and gold macaws, scarlet macaws and millitary macaws at San Juan de Aragon zoo and with currasows, guans and ocellated turkey at Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Reptiles: Florida softshell turtle - (Mixed with a plush crested and azure jay, Sorocaba zoo, Brazil) Geoffroy's side-necked turtle -(Mixed with a plush crested and azure jay, Sorocaba zoo, Brazil) Hilaire's side-necked turtle-(Mixed with a plush crested and azure jay, Sorocaba zoo, Brazil) Green iguana - (Mixed with keel billed toucan, Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Black iguana - (Mixed with keel billed toucan, Chapultepec zoo, Mexico) Red footed and yellow footed tortoises - (Mixed with macaws and various passerines at many zoos I have visited)
It was in Wilhelma they live together with Red shouldred macaws. I have uploaded a picture Yesterday.
The Rodrigues fruit bat was at Drusillas zoo in the UK and was mixed with a number of pheasant species. The volcano rabbits was at Chapultepec and los coyotes zoo in Mexico and was mixed with painting buntings and I believe a red cardinal and perhaps some other passerines too (I'll try to find what species). The long nosed potoroo was at Drusillas zoo in the UK and was mixed with cockatoos and perhaps eclectus parrots or maybe some species of lorikeet if I remember correctly. The brocket deer were at Chapultepec zoo in Mexico and were mixed with currasows, guans and ocellated turkey. The green iguana was at San Juan de aragon zoo in Mexico and was mixed with a keel billed toucan and burrowing owls. The other iguana example (green and black iguanas) was also in Mexico at Chapultepec zoo where both green and black iguanas were mixed with keel billed toucans.
There are some Hoofstock-Aviaries in Euope. All of them with many diffrent bird species. Okapi -Rotterdam and Doue La Fontaine Cape Buffalo-Antwerp Common tapir - Odense Alpine Ibex-Nordhorn Common Hippo and Sitatunga-Beauval. And soon Malayan tapir and binturong in Lyon I guess, some more of them will follow in the future.
Ah, with your tapir examples you reminded me of another one. For many years a lone Baird's tapir was kept in a large enclosed roof enclosure with scarlet macaws, millitary macaws, blue and gold macaws and several Mexican amazon parrot species at Chapultepec zoo, Mexico.
You have to ask this question the Zoo-it wasn't my idea.... Maybe they feed the Binturongs so well, so they won't hunt the birds-and of cousre, they become to fat for that. But I think, the Binturogs will not be kept in the aviaray itself, but in a seperate area.
I don't think you could ever feed a binturong so much that it would repress an opportunistic predatory instinct to grab one of those birds.
Here is a list of mammals I have seen exhibited inside exhibits that also have birds free-flying birds. I might do reptiles later: -Rock Hyrax -Giant Anteater -Hoofmann's Two-toed Sloth -Linnie's Two-toed Sloth -Geoffroy's Tamarin -Goldie's Marmoset -Golden Lion Tamarin -Cotton-top Tamarin -Common Squirrel Monkey -Yucatan Spider Monkey -Allen's Swamp Monkey -Angolan Colobus -Schmidt's Red-tailed Guenon -Northern White-cheeked Gibbon -Bornean Orangutan -Western Lowland Gorilla -Domestic Rabbit -Eastern Gray Squirrel -North American Porcupine -Prehensile-tailed Porcupine -Red-rumped Agouti -Large Flying Fox -Little Golden-mantled Flying Fox -Reeves' Muntjac -Greater Malayan Chevrotain -Royal Antelope -Klipspringer -Transcaspian Urial -Visayan Warty Pig -Asian Small-clawed Otter -Red Panda
I was careful with the wording at the beginning of that post for a reason. The Red Pandas had access to a very small portion of a larger free-flight aviary (at the Minnesota Zoo). The full list of birds in that exhibit is: -Baikal Teal -Laysan Teal -Silver Teal -Red-crested Pochard -Baer's Pochard -Spotted Whistling-Duck -West Indian Whistling-Duck -Indian Spot-billed Duck -Freckled Duck -Maccoa Duck -Garganey -Falcated Duck -New Zealand Shoveler -White-faced Whistling-Duck -Common Shelduck -White-cheeked Turaco -House Sparrow -White-cheeked Turaco -Pied Imperial-Pigeon -Racket-tailed Treepie The only one I've actually ever seen enter the Red Panda's space is the turaco (the Red Pandas are also mixed with Transcaspain Urial).
I didn't see your carefully placed wording there and assumed that this was an example of a mixed bird / mammal exhibit as the question of the thread stated. Strikes me as a very strange mix as I'm sure red pandas would have predatory instincts to many of the birds listed or their young.
That was a more traditional example of this, the squirrel has free reign in a free flight aviary at Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary. It is kept with: -Snow Goose -Mallard -Canvasback -Common Goldeneye -Ring-necked Pheasant -Wood Duck -Northern Pintail -American Wigeon -Canada Goose
