WRS' official press release on the new Indian rhino exhibit at Night Safari: Indian rhino brothers debut at Night Safari's new exhibit
It is lupus, an auto immune system disease involving joint aches, skin disease and all body tissue inflammations. It is uncurable, but if treatment is effected early can be controlled better. Consequently, despite his high genetics value no breeding program candidate. Further, Gomati was born January 1979 and Mary September 1989. Both hardly prime candidates for breeding. Gomati probably post repro and Mary a former proven not having bred after import to Singapore. My hope is for female rhino from India.....
Are the spectral tarsiers still displayed? In the aardvark exhibit, there seems to be a rodent (once found on the ground, the other time saw it at the trees, scurrying leaves) - any idea what species is that? Or is it a wild rodent species?
Likely one of the wild Asian house mice that roam the park’s grounds. As for the identity of the arboreal rodent, it could have been a treeshrew (Tupaia glis), which bears a closer affiliation to primates, than to rodents. Interestingly, an acquaintance who works in the zoo, mentioned coming across a shrew-faced ground squirrel (Rhinoscurius laticaudatus) once, within the premises.
Thanks @Zooish and @Casuarius_casuarius for the prompt replies! I'm always wondering whether the rodents are part of the collection or wild ones roaming into the exhibits. I saw a group of shrews (?) in the marsh birds / flying fox exhibit once and another mice-like rodent in rock hyrax/ ground squirrel exhibit (at Singapore Zoo) and couldn't tell whether they are meant to be there or not.
Do you know what the number is in January 2022 or end December 2021 for babirusa? Also do they now exhibit a pair of lowland anoa or as yet just 1.0 at the Zoo?
From a recent Youtube video it appears there was an antelope in the Indian Rhino enclosure. Any idea which species?
Does anyone have the names of Singapore Zoo Night Safari’s Asiatic lions? There’s very little information about them online except that the birth of 1.1 cubs in September 2014 took the pride to 13 lions (12 of which were born at the facility) and that one had been recently exported to Denmark. They have one of the largest captive pride of this species in the world.
Their lions are held in two different groups (breeding and non breeding), but I have no idea on names, ages ect.
The pride I saw on my visit a few years ago was quite female heavy. Females naturally live seperate from the males outside of breeding, so Singapore would likely replicate this by only running males with the pride when they want to breed. As far as I can tell, their last surviving litter was in 2014. An article from late last year lists them as having nine Asiatic lions. The pride descend from 1.2 imported from India. I can find reference to two litters of three born in 2009 and 2011.
Singapore holds 2.7 Asiatic lions, with the pair of males (I believe they are quite elderly) kept apart from the females because of a breeding moratorium.
The younger males (around seven or eight) are part of the breeding group. The pair of elderly males are much older.
