Sao Paulo Aquarium recieved from the Darling Downs Zoo in Australia a pair of Koalas - Rei Billy and Princesa Julie .
Nasce em SP o primeiro coala 'brasileiro' The koalas have bred, with the first koala birth in all latin america. The first koala "brasiliero" is doing fine at the acuario sao paulo. This has recieved a lot of media coverage.
Some more news related to the São Paulo Aquarium: recently, an Asian water monitor has arrived from Pécs zoo (in Hungary) and has become the most recent resident of the aquarium.
Hadn't realized their monitor was from an asian species. Now I remember you publishing something about BH being the only one housing nile monitors, once the one at SP aquarium is asian. Here are some pictures I took in my visit on oct 24th of the structure that holds him at the place. They're not in the best quality possible; my camera's battery was over, so I photographed almost the entire aquarium with my phone...
Is his/her exhibit in the Australian zone? Because I remember that when I visited the aquarium in 2019, there was a sign saying that the exhibit next to the kangaroo one in the future would house Komodo dragons.
Yes, it's right in front of the koalas. I didn't know they had plans for komodo dragons in there. Apparently, they didn't obtain them, wich is not a bad news if they planed to add them in this not very big exhibit.
If they still plan on housing those, the Komodo dragons should be kept in the Indonesian section. I believe the water monitor should also be moved there.
Yes, I would like this to happen too. The only problem is that I don't see a lot of space for improvement at this area.
Yes, if they wanted to bring an animal to the Indonesian section, It'd probably have to be a small one.
I'll resist commenting much on the wonderful and miraculous birth of this koala "Brasileiro" All I'm going to say is that there are an awful lot of species within this country which need ex-situ populations pronto...
I'm also not sure if this individual is still alive, nor her father. I only saw a single individual there, and the aquarium now declares in their site that only "princesa july" lives there nowadays...
"Princess July"... hahaha... What a lovely and cringeworthy name for this regal and singular marsupial!
Yeah, it's quite funny this was probably her name at the zoo were she came from, so the aquarium solved to translate it to Princesa Since I saw her alone and read in the site that she was the only one at the aquarium, I've been curious about what happened to the others...
Incoming news: some weeks (or months) ago, a male nine-banded armadillo called Bolinha arrived at the São Paulo aquarium.
I don't know, sadly. I'd say there are three main possiblities of places where he could be living at the moment: the Linnaeus's three-toed sloth (and toucan, if they're still there) exhibit, the southern tamandua exhibit or a brand new exhibit for him.
I hope so. But with this, São Paulo aquarium is kinda oblied to phase the species out in some years... Hope they have this figured...
I'm sure that I've read about two wombats too, about two years ago. Too bad the aquarium doesn't seem to be very transperent in this aspect. And I don't think there would be any sense in sending koalas or wombats back into Australia, the sanctuaries over there seem to be full of them.
Yes, there were wombats in there when I visited, but they were hiding, so I didn't see them. Agree with you abou being senseless to send them back to Australia. It's just a hypotesis, once we know any other zoo in the country keeps these animals...
