Old world monkeys in Latin American zoos

Yes, she was. I presume the rhino appearing in the video is Cacareco, as she was the only of three rhino calves born at the zoo to grow up to a reasonable size.

 

Yes, the one "in person"

 

Fun fact: Rio Zoo was the second registered zoo in the world to breed rhinos. The first one was the Brookfield Zoo, in Chicago.

 

Thanks for sharing this, Enzo. It's an awesome video; It's amazing to see a well developed material such as this one. It's indeed a whole documentary about the zoo. Nice to see the differences from scientifical aspects in those times too, like scientifical names and some other informations about the animals.

By the way, I honestly thought Rio zoo's exhibits were way worse at this time, but I can see they were surprisingly good (of course, not comparing to nowadays standards). By the way, I prefer this old jaguar exhibit than the present one. Hope this big renovation really fixes the many structural problems the zoo faces.

About the baboons, after seeing they all inhabited the same enclosure, I consider a strong possibility that they have bred between species, wich brought possible hybrid individuals such as male "Chack".

 

Wow, I didn't know that! Then was Cacareco the second registred captive born rhino in the world? That's pretty interesting.

 

No, two births occurred before hers, both in Chicago. She was the third to be born in a zoo. Rhinos have been bred in captivity before the three, though.

 

Hmmm didn't know there were rhinos born there before her. Once she is probably the most highlighted rhino from those times in Brasil, I thought she was also the first to be born.

 

About the enclosures, I'll have to agree with you. However, the zoo's collection was much larger than it is now.

 

Yes... I wonder wich zoo in Brazil might have had the largest collection in it's most biodiverse point; if it was Rio or São Paulo.

 

Cacareco was the first Brazilian-born rhinoceros and I can cite two examples of captive-born calf births happening before the ones in Chicago: one in 1826, in Kathmandu (Nepal) and other happening in 1925, in Kolkata (India). Both of the calves were of the greater one-horned species.

 

Ah, yes, I was confused if there were other rhinos born in Rio before her or if you meant in other places of the world. Now I get it.

 

I think both zoos have kept equally high numbers of species. But Rio had its golden age in the 1950's and early 1960's. São Paulo and many other zoos in Brazil had theirs in the late 1980's and 1990's.

 

Yeah, the zoos of São Paulo, BH, Brasília and Porto Alegre (Sapucaia) were "born" more or less in the same period (end of the 50's), and I agree with you about when their collection's highest point was.

 

I went to the Volta Redonda Zoo today. Turns out the place keeps four Old World monkeys of three different species: a Japanese macaque, an olive baboon and two vervet monkeys. The baboon is definitely a male. I don't know about the others though, but I presume the macaque is a male and the two others are male and female, as they are from the same species. Therefore, they might be a couple.

 

Didn't know there were vervet monkeys in any zoos in Brazil. Interesting to know about it. Do you have pictures of the exhibits where these and the other cercopithecidaes are kept?

 

There were vervet monkeys at Rio Zoo as well, I don't know if they're still there though. Look at this video from the AFP News Agency:

 

About the monkeys in Volta Redonda, I do have pictures of them, and I'll probably post those pictures here (on Zoochat, not on this thread, obviously).

 

I'm thinking about the possibility that these in Volta Redonda are actually the ones that used to live at Rio. Considering Rio zoo has been reformulating their population plan due to the new practices the Bioparque's crew has been developing, species like the vervet monkey might have left the zoo's collection. Makes even more sense when realizing VR zoo is quite a small facility, and the presence of animals such as these is quite unusual. I don't have any official information about it though.

 

It will be nice to know more about this institution. I have very little knowledge about this zoo itself. Had an opportunity to visit it once, but didn't have time to do so.

 

I also think that such a hypothesis may be right.