@PR, thanks for the family tree. This is / was most helpful. Unfortunate the second breeding female imported from Chile died in the meantime. I would sincerely hope with the good contacts SCZ has developed with earlier European imports they may acquire a replacement female rather easily from the EAZA/EEP program. If they can exchange, 1-2 individuals with the EAZA/EEP and bring in new blood into the EEP program that would be an added benefit and a win - win situation for both European and Japanese individual programs (as I believe the transfer of 2 individuals to Kobe Animal Kingdom may not be the last given the good breeding success at Saitama).
It doesn’t help that the founders from Chile are captive bred (their birthdays are listed, which can’t be known if the animals were to be wild caught.) There could be a hypothetical problem that the founders are related since the Japanese website doesn’t mention the parents of the founders. Not to mention that there are the importation regulations for hoof stock which are an extra set of hoops to jump though (which is why there are no gazelles and gemsbok in Japan). while it could be argued that if Saitama has done it once what’s stopping them now? But if importing hoof stock were that easy then why don’t many rare hoof stock get replaced?
It is clear these pudu were captivebred. Question being is it Santiago or Buin Zoo where they were raised?
You’re Temporarily Blocked The Giraffe Terrace will be open at March 8 finally giving people a chance to see the giraffes even in cold days. Sorry that information may be on ZIMS but idk if it is right to share information from there assuming there is an answer to your question.
Bad news: Male pudu Rio died he was one of the founder animals of Saitama and according to the zoo ha had four offspring (I only know three which one of them has passed on.) The sad news does come with the fact that Rio came from Santiago Metropolitan park. I decided to further investigate and found a news article announcing the arrival of the pudu, Both Sai and Rio were three years old by the time they arrived to Japan. One of the females were 1 and the other was 2 years old although it is not specified which is which on the news article. But this website that I failed to post previously does list the ages of the animals and shows that Pina was 1 years old and Sumire was 2 by the time they were in Japan. According to the said news article, SCZ gained permisssion from Chile to import the pudus "for the purpose of academic study". I do wonder how tht study is going with two of the animals given being dead.
Imported 2.2 (1.0) from Siantiago de Chile Zoologico Municipal The transcription (however bad and crappys) brings up: Sai (M, b. 17/10/2013 in Chili), Rio (M, b. 13/5/2013, Chili), Violet (F, b. 14/10/2014 in Chili), Sakura (F, CB 14/5/2017, Sai x Violet/Sumire), Kazu (M, CB 2/6/2019, Sai X Violet/Sumire). Late Pina (F, CB 30/10/2015 in Chili, deceased 19/01/2019) Late Lapis (M, CB 9/02/2017, Rio x Pina, deceased 8/12/2018) Eind juni (M, CB 06/2018, Sai x Violet/Sumire, deceased 5/9/2018) ? (F, CB 13/05/2020 Sai x Violet
The viscachas which were believed to be 1.1 turned out to be 0.2. The zoo has stated that they intend to bring in a male for breeding. 登录 Facebook | Facebook
A Female Silvery Cheeked Hornbill 0.1 Escaped the Zoo, and is currently unable to be captured. アフリカの“怪鳥”が脱走 大きなくちばしに角のような突起…専門家「通常は人を襲うことはない」 エサとれず衰弱の恐れも（FNNプライムオンライン） - Yahoo!ニュース
It is not a single aviary, but a series of medium sized cages which include the stork, red crowned crane, black faced spoonbill, and Eurasian collared dove.
Good news to rarity seekers: Starting from the fifth of this month, the Amami Spiny rats will finally be on display. Albeit this news being published on a dubious date does make me feel skeptical. 「よるのせかい」で会おうね 絶滅危惧種のアマミトゲネズミ、5日から一般公開 東松山・こども動物自然公園 ｜ 埼玉新聞
Where are they planned to be exhibited? I hope they don’t take any animals from display at the small mammals house.
Excellent, amazing to see new species being exhibited in Japan, although I don’t know of any other zoo in Japan that exhibits Amami spiny rats.
