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Ramat Gan Safari and Zoo

Discussion in 'Israel' started by Jarkari, 5 May 2008.

  1. kiang

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    pity none of you aussies couldn't get your hands on some
     
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    There is a long waiting list? You got to be kidding me... These things breed like rabbits but i guess some zoos are a little more careful where their hippos end up. Vietnam, Ukraine, Turkey and Kazakhstan don't sound like hippo dream-places to me :(
     
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    So True ;)
     
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    Does anyone know the origins of there 1:1 Sumatran Tigers? I believe the female may of come from France in 2002 but this is not confirmed and I need any info the male if possible

    Thanks in advance
     
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    I will personally find more joy in the Somali wild ass foal birth. It goes back to the Hai Bar line (of which now only 1.1 are left in Yotvata and by all means now purportedly having entered the EEP/EAZA).

    The white rhino is good in the sense that continuity for the one cow rhino able to breed continues, just they have had a preponderance of males and the past and seem to continue to do so.
     
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    baby sand cats: Rare sand kittens born in Ramat Gan | The Times of Israel
     
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    I would like to see some serious interest in Continental Europe for hippos.
    The Ramat Gan Safari still holds a considerable surplus.

    Secondly: be nice to see some similar type hippo habitats in European zoos / safari parks (.. allthough not ideal Longleat springs to mind).
     
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    Rhino too horny for its own good | The Times of Israel

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    Wow, they needed a chainsaw. That's pretty impressive :eek::cool:

    I wonder if they shouldn't have just chopped the whole thing off though, would it grow back the same?
     
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    It eventually would. But the anatomical has a function too, I personally would leave at least part.

    I would further hope for a break up between mother and calf which may have played a part in Maya not breeding very much (this is common place in captive related M/F rhinos), if at all. Allthough, her chances of doing so now at her age are slim.
     
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    The above photo shows a White rhino with very natural looking horns- smooth, rounded and pointed as in the wild. Most Zoos rhinos have 'blocky' or overgrown and misshapen horns due to the lack of opportunity to rub (manicure) them properly. This zoo must provide something very suitable to produce horns of this shape..

    They don't look like they needed cutting. I don't know if this is the same/actual rhino that had some horn cut off?
     
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