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  1. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Wouldn't surprise me, the zoo has a great venomous collection.

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
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    I have never visited this place, but apparently Cape Fear Serpentarium in North Carolina specializes in bushmasters and the owner even wrote a book about them (though I am not sure if the book has been published as the website still says "available in 2010"). The serpentarium's website also has some videos of their bushmasters
     
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    the book be here: Bushmaster Book
     
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    Chlidonias, I would love to ''hear'' from you, what is the primary reason for ban on snake keeping in New Zeland zoos, if you know. I proposed one reason on your thread, but I don't know whether you read that post.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    because there are no snakes in New Zealand. That's pretty much it.

    There are other semi-legitimate reasons, e.g. some species could establish and cause bird extinctions as with brown tree snakes in Guam, but basically it has just always been the way that there are no snakes in the country and so no snakes will be imported. It's a pretty simple ban.
     
  6. jayjds2

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    Clown Tree frog (Dendropsophus leucophyllatus)
    Anywhere with these? They are pretty, and common.
     
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    Seen. Thank you.
     
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    Any information on these would be spectacular, chiropteran enthusiasts:

    Indian Flying Fox (Pteropus giganteus), Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis), Pallas' long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina), greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus), greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus)

    Also information on slender-snouted crocodiles (Crocodylus cataphractus) and Malay gharials (Tomistoma schlegelii).
     
  9. MikeG

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    Slender-snouted Croc [now Mecistops cataphractus by the way] is held at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, Clyde Peeling's Reptiland in Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Oregon Zoo (Portland) and Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.
    Malay/Sunda Gharials at Audubon Zoo (New Orleans), Bronx, Los Angeles, Miami, Riverbanks (Columbia, South Carolina), San Antonio, St. Augustine Alligator Farm, and St Louis.
    [These are the collections I'm aware of: I'm sure there will be others]
     
  10. MikeG

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    Held at Nashville Zoo

    The related D. ebraccatus (Hourglass Tree Frog) seems to be much more widely kept by American zoos.
     
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    These can be found at: Ellen Trout Zoo (Lufkin, Texas), Miami, Pittsburgh, Potawatomi Zoo (South Bend, Indiana), Tulsa, Cameron Park (Waco), Wildlife World Zoo (Litchfield Park, Arizona)...and doesn't Central Park still have a small group?
     
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    Some that I am positive of are Henry Doorly Zoo and Lubee Bat Conservancy, but I'm sure there are plenty others.
     
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    Some other P. giganteus holders include -
    BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo, Cincinnati, Seattle (Woodland Park), Sedgwick County Zoo, Topeka, and Zoo Boise (Idaho).
     
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    Held at Henry Doorly and the Peoria Zoo in Illinois.

    Zoo Miami holds the related Pale Spear-nosed Bat (P. discolor).
     
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    Bronx has the flying fox and tomistoma
     
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    Clyde Peeling's Reptiland does not have slender-snouted crocs on exhibit - the only crocodilians on exhibit there (as of February 2016) are 2 American alligators and a juvenile saltwater crocodile.

    Smithsonian National Zoo also has a Malay gharial
     
  18. ThylacineAlive

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    Central doesn't have Artibeus jamaicensis, they hold Carollia perspicillata. However, the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island does have Jamaican Fruit Bat.

    Bronx used to keep a nicely sized group of Glossophaga soricina until the unfortunate closing of the Monkey House in early 2012. I'm not sure what happened to their animals.

    @MikeG, are all the slender-snouted crocodiles proven to be Mecistops cataphractus? I know St. Augustine's and the new imports are, but I hadn't heard about the rest of the country's population (though mostly because I haven't looked it up tbh).

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
  19. MikeG

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    When it comes to herps, there can be a big difference between 'what is held' and 'what is on exhibit'. Some zoos, like St Louis, have large numbers of species held behind the scenes.
    As regards 'Reptiland', my information was that a couple of male cataphractus arrived there from St Augustine in Sept. 2015. I don't have a more recent update on their status.
     
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    This is not the case of a species split, but a genus split that merely assigned an existing species to a different genus.The genus Mecistops was split from Crocodylus recently; hence, all slender-snouted crocodiles (formerly considered Crocodylus cataphractus) are Mecistops cataphractus.