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Réserve Zoologique de la Haute-Touche, AFAIK.

 

Not really. It's just in the pedestrian area, not in the safari.

 

As if the news couldn't get any worse with so many zoos closed long-term due to the corona crisis, today there is extremely sad and infuriating news from Safaripark Beekse Bergen.

Ten animals - two kudus and eight impalas - have died in a fire that raged in two wooden outdoor enclosures and one stable. One of the fires was in one of the cheetah exhibits.

The police has stated that the fires were arson.

What kind of messed-up piece of excrement would do something like this and with what motivation? As if things couldn't get any worse in 2020...

Tien dieren dood na brandstichting in dierenverblijven Beekse Bergen

 

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Don't jinx it...

 

At least some positive news from Beekse Bergen : last weekend a chimp was born :

 

A Rüppell's vulture has hatched at Safaripark Beekse Bergen, according to footage in a clip posted yesterday that also features other animals.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=249244169810783

 

Red ruffed lemurs have succesfully been introduced into Edge of Africa;
White cheeked gibbon is succesfully introduced with white handed gibbon, the white-cheeked gibbon exhibit will be prepared for a new specie;
Some nesting behaviour has been noticed with the Northern hornbills, as well as with secretary birds;
3 impala males were succesfully introduced togheter at the giraffes plain;

And, last but not least, at may 25 the park will reopen for public.

 

Are you not concerned vis a vis the combination of a Nomascus gibbon with a Hylobates car?

 

Thanks for the update, so do the gibbon’s now live on the island near the entrance?

 

Yes, this should still be the case.

 

The mix is 1.1 lar gibbon and 1.0 white cheeked. The female is in her late teens and both males are in their early/mid 30s, so there shouldn’t be any cause for concern of hybridisation. If the three get on, then it should be fine.

 

Yes there should! Unless they are sterilised, this could be very likely...

 

If I remember rightly both lars are on a form of birth control - think the male is vasectomised and the female is on a birth implant. And the white-cheeked has never shown any real interest in breeding throughout his life, so I think they *should* be ok...

 

Birth implant remains a risk.

I have heard rumours that EAZA CO wishes to phase out some Nomascus and Hylobates species, but this is surely not the best choice. I would rather have it that the male white-cheeked would go to a facility with his own conspecifics.

 

Do you have a source for that? I'd love to read up on that decicion

 

The Laafsekikkers page reports that a secretary bird was born at Safaripark Beekse Bergen.

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Not just rumours, you can find their decision in on of the EAZA TAG-reports. They will fase out two species and one species group with a way to small founder base: Hylobates muelleri (sensu lato). Hylobates agilis and Nomascus siki. Besides that they want to decrease the amount of Hylobates lar and Symphalangus syndactylus in favor of Hylobates moloch and Hylobates pileatus. Whether they want to increase or decrease the population of the other two species is unknown to me, but they definitively want to keep them. However seen as birth control has been used for these two species, I suspect they are at the desired population level.

In my opinion, one or two of these species could better be conserved in the US where you only have 3 big breeding programs for gibbons. Seen as Europe is already hosting 6 breeding programs with succes for these lesser apes, introducing another one could endanger the other 6.

 

Found the tag-reports:
https://www.eaza.net/assets/Uploads/Annual-report/1035-TAG-reports-2017-web.pdf
https://www.eaza.net/assets/Uploads/Annual-report/TAG-reports-2018-web.pdf

 

Video of the new chick :

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=250906985980266