Unusual/unique mixed exhibits?

Or if you want a guide on how to make carnage between animals in creative ways

 

The jackals were kept with chimpanzees at Taronga Zoo in the 1980's and had access to a small bolt door into a house AFAIK. They constantly antagonized eachother, the jackals chased the chimps and then hid in their house. Eventually a chimp broke into the house and dismembered one of the jackals. I can think of few more inhumane cohabitations tbh.

 

Like the hippos and the sea lions? I can't imagine how the hippo murked the poor pinniped

 

The Bronx Zoo's Wild Asia Jungle World exhibit has had gibbons and birds exhibited together for many years, probably since it was opened in 1985. The birds currently on display there range from small passerines to storks. They and the pair of gibbons share a very large area, much of which is fairly densely planted. There are parts of the exhibit to which the birds can go but the which the gibbons cannot reach and even in the main part there are areas in the tree tops where the birds can go but the branches would not support the gibbons.. Even having visited there many dozens of times, I had never thought about the possibility of the gibbons eating a bird. From my research today, it's clear they will eat bird eggs, but I found no mention of their actually eating birds. The only nests I've seen are stork nests, and I have no idea whether they've laid any eggs.

 

I've seen quite a few gibbon-bird mixes. As long as the birds have access to lots of areas that the gibbons cannot access it's usually fine.

 

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I’ve seen Capuchins do that with Jackdaws and Herring Gulls

 

Selwo Aventura also has a gibbon/bird mix: Lar Gibbon, Crested Myna and Golden Pheasant Enclosure at Selwo Aventura, 13/03/19 - ZooChat / Lar Gibbon, Crested Myna and Golden Pheasant Enclosure at Selwo Aventura, 13/03/19 - ZooChat

(merely for information - I make no claims on the advisability of this!)

 

If you simply copied from the list mixes verbatim, of course it would be a useless resource. However there are detailed summaries as well, especially for the bears, which give useful information such as the factors leading to success vs failure, which can be useful since most fantasy zoos I have read seem to disregard such factors entirely.

 

Zoológico Nacional de Cuba's open range exhibit is very diverse, havinh some animals not very commonly seen in mixed enclosures. If I recall correctly, the species housed in it are:
- (Loxodonta africana);
- (Giraffa reticulata);
- (Syncerus caffer);
- (Bos (taurus) indicus));
- (Taurotragus oryx);
- (Tragelaphus strepsiceros);
- (Aepyceros melampus);
- (Antidorcas marsupialis);
- (Alcelaphus buselaphus);
- (Oryx gazella);
- (Hippopotamus amphibius);
- (Equus (ferus) caballus);
- (Equus grevyi);
- (Equus quagga);
- (Ceratotherium simmum);
- (Struthio camelus).
Other African animals like roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) and black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) are also held at the zoo, but in separate exhibits.

 

Skansen akvariet keeps Meerkats with Hamadryas baboons

 

The meerkats haven't gotten eaten?

 

The meerkats actually have their own encloure.There is a distance of 20 feet between the baboon and meerkat enclosures,and the meerkats can acces the babboon enclosure through a tunnel.So he meerkats choose to be in the baboon enclosure, the babbons seem to be just fine with the meerkats being in their space but when the baboons are outside the meerkats keep close to the tunnel opening.So despite being an weekly visitor to the zoo since 2021,I still have yet to witness any aggression between two said species.

 

The Johannesburg Zoo keep a group of Cape Porcupines together with a pair of Cape Eagle Owls.

 

I've seen the Toronto Zoo have ring-tailed lemurs, crowned cranes and Aldabra tortoises in the same exhibit and they get along pretty well. Sometimes the birds get a bit sassy with the lemurs but otherwise, very interesting to see these species all together.