Rare Species Conservation Centre RSCC animal transfers and general news

Those parks have over 20 animals between them. There are at least 4 enclosures at Howletts although I don't know how many of them hold pairs.

 

Yeah, so RSCC would be the second largest UK holder of Cloudies now then ??

 

Yes I believe 2 new pairs arrived at RSCC. One on show, one off-show. The North chinese leopard has moved and now is occupied by one of the new c leopard pairs. The 2 cheetah have moved away as well, in order to accommodate some of the maned wolf cubs. Also the new bearcat cub (Pop) I believe is going to be moved in with Colonel shortly.

 

Picture of spotted cuscus from the park's facebook, they are not yet on show.

https://www.facebook.com/1155812484...5581248471432/885295591499990/?type=1&theater

 

This has always made me extremely annoyed… RSCC is more in the private breeding sector than anything else and there lingo and obscurity shows it too. When I was looking for other breeders of lygodactylus williamsi, I could never get a straight up answer about how many people had and the % of males to females… it made me so angry! I think the biggest reason why some individuals keep the smallest details secret is because they don't know if the animal will survive or not. I guess they see it as better to not let anyone know your mistakes than to share that sensitive species have died on you. At least that's how I see it with most endangered reptiles.

 

Zoos also do it, I can think of two U.K. collections that have held animals for a long time, but do not admit to having.

 

I did wonder if that was why the animal holdings section of ISIS was removed from public view. Some collections not wanting this information shown so publicly. That and the bother of regularly updating and maintaining such a site for a non-professional audience. I know you can still contact them and ask for details for a few species at a time- but that is more in the nature of a private request.

Rule of thumb; By and large, Zoos and secrecy go hand in hand, always have, always will do. I hasten to add there have always been some refreshing exceptions to this.

 

Baby fanaloka, sex unknown at the moment


In other news, the older cloudy female could be pregnant and the sun bears have been mating all work. Fingers crossed for both!

Building work is coming along nicely. The nocturnal house should be ready when they reopen in spring, after their winter break.

 

Another tease ! Their Facebook page shows crates of unidentified new arrivals from Borneo being unloaded from a plane .

 

They do love a good tease probably won't find out for a long while either

 

They denied my guess of sun bear but then liked my guess of False Gharial, saying they would reveal all on Monday

 

From Borneo? Yes! They are bringing in a pair of bay cats just for me!

 

My thoughts exactly

~Thylo

 

Having looked at the post, I think that False Gharial might be the most likely answer because that is the only comment they didn't completely dismiss. Also the size of the box looks like a box that could hold a False Gharial

 

They are actually bringing moonrats. Just for me of course

 

It's not a carnivore and it's less furry than a sun bear