Similar situation in Perth who thought they had regular run-of-the-mill zebra, to find out later it was Mountain zebra. Species that come to mind: hanuman langur, purple-face langur, olive & chacma baboons, talapoin, gelada, kloss gibbon, spot-nose guenon, Japanese brown bear, raccoon dog, Indian porcupine, coyote, Arctic timber wolf, lowland (?) anoa, ocelot, Canadian lynx, jungle cat, jaguarundi, Pallas cat, thick-tailed bushbaby, Senegal bushbaby, springhaas, European hedgehog, hairy armadillo, southern elephant seal, douroucouli (not sure whether they are still present in the country)
Should be some Chacmas left at Bullen's. I swapped them some young females from Wellington Zoo in 1982.
if they have any left they'd be on their last legs I should suspect. All the chacmas in NZ are now dead.
Should be some Chacmas left at Bullen's. I swapped them some young females from Wellington Zoo in 1982. - There's only Hamadryas Baboons left at Bullens, in regards to baboon species.
That's a shame. They had a nice little colony of them in the 80s. I swapped them my last two young females, that I had brought back from NZ, in an endeavour to keep their colony going. The Hamadryas that I got in exchange have kept my Hamadryas holdings going until recent years when some additions and imports have been necessary. They also had one or two Olives back in those days - last ones I saw in this part of the world.
Geez, you had to import Hamadryas? Couldn't score any from that colony of 100 or so from the research faciltiy in Sydney? I guess their genetics wouldn't be crash hot anyways. Nice to see someone other than Melbourne giving baboons a chance on display
Yes - the Wallacia lot are a bit Tasmanian these days. We imported a couple of females from Poland and will probably import a few more in a year or so.
From my book here are the Mammals that were exhibited at Adelaide Zoo between 1878 and 1978: Monotremes and Marsupials- Tachyglossidae: Short beaked echidna Didelphiade: Virginia opossum Macropodidae: Eastern gray kangaroo Western gray kangaroo Wallaroo Agile wallaby Red kangaroo Bennetts wallaby Black striped wallaby Pretty faced wallaby Toolache wallaby Dama wallaby Parma wallaby Swamp wallaby Red bellied pademelon Northern nail tailed wallaby Brush tailed rock wallaby Black flanked rock wallaby Yellow footed rock wallaby Quokka Brown dorcopsis Grizzled tree kangaroo Bennetts tree kangaroo Matschies tree kangaroo Goodfellows tree kangaroo Dorias tree kangaroo Rufous rat kangaroo Eastern bettong Brush tailed bettong Potoroo Phalangeridae: Common brushtail possum Northern brushtail possum Common ringtail possum Sugar glider Squirrel glider Greater glider Koala Common wombat Hairy nosed wombat Peramelidae: Eastern barred bandicoot Short nosed bandicoot Bilby Dasyuridae: Tiger quoll Eastern quoll Northern quoll Tasmanian devil Fat tailed dunnart Kowari Common planigale Thylacinidae: Thylacine Primates- Lemuridae: Ring tailed lemur Black and white ruffed lemur Black lemur Mongoose lemur Common brown lemur White fronted lemur Red fronted lemur Weasel sportive lemur Fat tailed dwarf lemur Lorisidae: Slow loris Senegal bushbaby Cebidae: Douroucouli Titi (2 species) Brown capuchin Common squirrel monkey Black faced spider monkey Geoffreys spider monkey Humboldts wooly monkey Callithricidae: Common marmoset Cotton top tamarin Santerem marmoset Cercopthecidae: Bonnet macaque Lion tailed macaque Pig tailed macaque Crab eating macaque Rhesus macaque Stump tailed macaque Japanese macaque Barbary macaque Moor macaque Celebes crested macaque Sooty mangabey Red capped mangabey Hamadryas baboon Yellow baboon Chacma baboon Olive baboon Guinea baboon Mandrill Drill Gelada baboon Vervet monkey Blue monkey Sykes guenon Mona monkey DeBrazzas monkey Patas monkey Hanuman langur Pongidae: White handed gibbon Hoolock gibbon Siamang Orangutan Common chimpanzee Edentata- Myrmecophagidae: Giant anteater Bradypodidae: Two toed sloth Hoffmans sloth Dasypopidae: Hairy armadillo Nine banded armadillo Lagomorphs and Rodents- Lagomorpha: European hare European rabbit Scuiridae: Black giant squirrel Fox squirrel Eastern gray squirrel Variable squirrel Prevosts squirrel Woodchuck Black tailed prairie Alpine marmot Castoridae: North american beaver Muridae: Mitchells hopping mouse Australian water rat Bush rat Black footed tree rat Greater stick nest rat Plains rat Fawn hopping mouse Giant white tailed rat Hystricidae: African crested porcupine Indian crested porcupine Erethizontidae: Brazilian porcupine Cavidae: Montane guinea pig Patagonian cavy Hydrochoeridae: Capybara Dasyproctidae: Lowland paca Red rumped agouti Chinchillidae: Plains viscacha Capromyidae: Coypu Carnivora and Pinnipedia- Canidae: Indian wolf Timber wolf Coyote Asiatic golden jackal Black backed jackal Dingo New guinea singing dog Red fox Fennec fox Azaras fox African wild dog Ursidae: Asian black bear European brown bear Kodiak bear Syrian brown bear American black bear Polar bear Sun bear Sloth bear Procyonidae: North american cacomistle South american coati White nosed coati Kinkajou Red panda Mustelidae: European polecat Greater grison Tayra European badger American badger Striped skunk Oriental small clawed otter European otter North american river otter Viverridae: Pardine genet African civet Malayan civet Small toothed palm civet Asian palm civet Binturong Slender tailed meerkat Indian gray mongoose Hyaenidae: Spotted hyena Striped hyena Brown hyena Felidae: Leopard cat Flat headed cat Bobcat Serval Fishing cat Marbled cat Temminks golden cat Mountain lion Clouded leopard African leopard Indian leopard Asian lion African lion Bengal tiger Jaguar Cheetah Pinnipedia: Gray seal Australian sea lion Australian fur seal Proboscidea and Hyracoidea- Proboscidea: Indian elephant Sri lankan elephant Hyracoidea: Cape hyrax Perrisodactyla- Equidae: Przewalskis horse African wild ass Persian onager Mountain zebra Damara zebra Chapmans zebra Tapiridae: Malayan tapir Brazilian tapir Rhinocerotodae: Javan rhinoceros Black rhinoceros Artiodactyla- Suidae: Indian wild boar European wild boar Babirusa Tayassuidae: Collared peccary Hippopotamidae: River hippopotamus Camelidae: Llama Alpaca Guanaco Dromedary camel Bactrian camel Tragulidae: Java mouse deer Cervidae: Indian muntjac Fallow deer Axis deer Hog deer Bornean sambar Malayan sambar Javan rusa Sri lankan sambar Formosan sika deer European red deer Kashmir stag Maral North american wapiti Pere davids deer Giraffidae: Giraffe Bovidae: Sitatunga Common eland Nilgai Asian water buffalo Lowland anoa Javan banteng Yak American bison Cape buffalo Black wildebeest Blue wildebeest Blackbuck Dorcas gazelle Chinkara gazelle Springbok Himalayan tahr Spanish ibex Aoudad European mouflon I hope that you guys found this interesting, if anyone is interested I can share a list of the birds and herps from this book that were at the Adelaide Zoo between 1878 and 1978
Hippopotamidae: River hippopotamus I notice the pygmy hippos are not on the list - does this mean they only got them after 1978? their last one died recently
From my research, I didn't see reference to Pygmy hippos, so it probably is the case that they got them after 1978 An interesting thing I forgot to mention about River hippos was that they were from East Africa, so they were probably (Hippopotamus amphibius kiboko)
It's sad how many amazing species have been lost from Australian zoos. I'm guessing most would now be impossible to get back here again.
Some will never return others maybe at some stage in the future, part of the problem is some in the zoo world in this country believe fewer species is better
Perth Zoo had at least one Hairy Armadillo I remember seeing in 1992, 1993 and 1994 in the Nocturnal House exhibit which it shared with either Ringtail or Brushtail Possum/s. I believe it may have still lived there in 1995 and 1996 but I'm fairly certain it was gone when I visited again in 1997. I remember the Slow Loris and the Dorocouli that were housed there too during the mid '90s and the Fennec Fox in the last exhibit near the exit before they were moved to the Savanna nocturnal cave exhibit for a time and the Nocturnal House became an Australian animal only themed exhibit. Does anyone have any information about the Hairy Armadillo/s (gender, name, where it came from, where it went?) or any info on the Lorises or Dorocouli?
Not sure where the armadillos came from but they were a pair (never bred, to my knowledge). I believe that all of the slow lorises that have ended up at the zoo were confiscations. Most of the time the zoo has only had one at any time. The douroucouli (not sure if there was only the one or a pair) may have been from the group used in malaria testing in QLD?
