Unusual/unique mixed exhibits?

Why is that unusual? They live together in the wild.

 

It is unusual in zoos though.

 

Audubon Zoo has peccary and tapir mixed with other species of mammal and birds.

scroll down to page 8

http://www.glenoakzoo.org/WPPHTAG/PPHTAGpdfs/PPH TAG Mixed Sp..pdf

 

4th grade? How young are you? I was in college when that happened.

 

Its sister exhibit as well will eventually and with Bulls.

 

I'm assuming you mean Birmingham Zoo's Trails of Africa.

 

Yes, tschandler71 seems to be the unofficial spokesperson for his zoo's one claim to fame. He seems to mention it every time something even remotely relevant comes up.

 

And whenever it seems Dallas is getting "too much" praise.

 

Here are 5 odd animal combinations that I recently witnessed on my 24 day/81 zoo summer road trip:

Bearizona = Red Fox/Swift Fox

Austin Zoo = Bobcat/Serval

Keepers of the Wild = Bobcat/Eurasian Lynx

Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari = American Black Bear/Olive Baboon/Rhesus Macaque

Out of Africa Wildlife Park = African Lion/Bengal Tiger/Black African Leopard

Plus there were several drive-thru safari parks that had Ostrich/Emu/Rhea combinations.

 

In Kaunas zoo, there were wallabies with a lowland tapir.

 

So I haven't quite gone through the entire thread, but Lowry Park Zoo (or ZooTampa if we wanna use the stupid new name) has gharials mixed with Tufted deer. I recall Visayan warty pigs living with the deer at one point as well, but I think they have their own exhibit, now. The current African wild dog exhibit used to hold Striped hyenas and cheetahs, I don't remember why the hyenas left but the cheetah pair died pretty recently. Apparently African elephants and Impala is weird, I didn't know elephants were usually kept with only their own species. Warthogs are mixed in with the elands, kudu, and birds for some reason.

Also, Alaska SeaLife Center and Denmark National Aquarium both have seabird exhibits with North Pacific wildlife underwater as well (rockfish, sculpins, etc.). Alaska SeaLife Center even has a Bering wolffish in the seabird exhibit. At Sea Life Helsinki, I noticed a few more odd species being put together, such as Banded archerfish with a Bluespotted ribbontail ray.

 

Up in my string of zoos Point Defiance mixes its Harbor Seals with California Sea Lions. Might not be the most bizarre mix but I thought it was pretty neat when I first saw it. The pinnipeds get along fine too.

 

Hogle Zoo does this too.

 

Any Zoos with Malayan tapirs currently in mixed exhibts except Dortmund ( Orang-Utan), Singapur ( Siaman -still existing ?) and Beauval ( Hog deer, white necked crane ) ?

 

A lot of zoos/aquariums mix seals and sea lions. Beluga Whale and seal mixes are around as well.

Bronx has them mixed with Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon, Prevost's Squirrel, and various birds including storks, waterfowl, a lorikeet. Omaha has them mixed with Francois' Langurs, Egyptian Fruit Bats, and various birds.

~Thylo

 

Reeve's muntjac at Jardin des Plantes.

 

In Singapore the Siamang are now mixed with Tomistoma (False gharial).

Zlin-Lesna has Malayan tapir with Javan gibbon and Pelicans.

 

Malayan tapir with bar-headed geese at Zoo Antwerpen.

 

Adelaide mixed short-clawed otter + dusky langurs with tapirs.

 

Point Defiance mixes its tapirs with the siamangs too.