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Discussion in 'Brazil' started by Enzo, 21 Mar 2021.

  1. David Matos Mendes

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    BH's structure is very similar to SP. Both located in a considerable fragment of jungle.
     
  2. David Matos Mendes

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    That's great. Sure you'll like the personnel and the structure. Don't forget to tell me if you come, it will be a pleasure to meet you and show you off the zoo.

    Also, looking forward for the new stuff about to come from the mountain marmoset project in BH!
     
  3. Onychorhynchus coronatus

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    Yes, that will be brilliant, I think it will probably (hopefully) be at some point later this year and I look forward to getting to know the zoo so lets definitely meet up when I go to Minas.

    We are definitely making progress in Minas Gerais as a whole and will be soon in BH zoo too hopefully.
     
  4. David Matos Mendes

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    Great to hear that! Surely m. marmoset project will bring great improvenment to BH. Can barely wait! Let's hope and keep in touch about the informations!
     
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    Sure thing !

    Yes, lets hope things move forward in the right direction with collaboration between Brazilian zoos.
     
  6. Enzo

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    Could any staff member edit the message showing the list? Other than adding the animals we've discussed on this thread, I'd like to have the translation for the Jardim Burle Marx area added, as well as its letter-size changed to 5 (just like the Carnivore Conservation Area, whose letter-size is 4, but I'd like to have it changed to 5 too).
     
  7. Enzo

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    It looks like they have added some ducks from different species to the big aviary. Look at this picture posted on the zoo's Twitter account:
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    In the picture, I can see some ruddy shelducks (tadorna-ferrugem - (Tadorna ferruginea)), Mandarin ducks (marreco-mandarim - (Aix galericulata)), as well as a whistling duck (marreca - (Dendrocygnus spp.)). I'm not being able to identify the whistling duck's species, so can anyone help me?
     
  9. David Matos Mendes

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    That's good that they have added more aquatic species to the vivarium. There's a quite nice pond in there, for what I know.
    The whistling duck in the first plan of the picture looks pretty much like a west indian whistling duck (Dendrocygna arborea).
     
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    Some animals are in their new exhibits, like the brown woolly monkey (macaco-barrigudo-marrom - (Lagothrix lagotricha), helmeted guineafowl (galinha-d'angola-de-capacete - (Numida meleagris) and the demoiselle crane (grou-demoiselle - (Grus virgo)).
     
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    The woolly monkeys are now living with the spiders. The birds live together on an island exhibit located in the African Savanna section.
     
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    The sambar deer, the blackbucks, the Barbary sheep, the ostriches, and Nile geese are now all live in the same exhibit (I was unsure about those).
     
  13. David Matos Mendes

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    Are their wooly monkeys really Lagothrix lagotricha? Just a curiosity, because most zoos in the country that keeps thse monkeys actually have Lagothrix cana.
     
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    I believe the ones in Rio de Janeiro and Volta Redonda are from the Lagothrix lagotricha species. According to one of the files I've sent on the zoo's thread, the monkey kept at the institution is from the said taxa.
     
  15. David Matos Mendes

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    Oh yes. I only question it due to the majority of wooly monkeys being kept around the country being L. cana. It's great that Rio keeps another species though. How many individuals do they hold?
     
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    It seems like they only hold a single individual
     
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    I forgot to tell you guys that the female Gray's bald-faced saki is pregnant.
     
  18. David Matos Mendes

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    That's great! Do you think it's already a result of the improvements of the exhibit?
     
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    It’s a juvenile White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
     
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    Yes, now that you said, I searched and you're probably right indeed.