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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,781 Views)
Burns
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Malayan Tapir and langur are done at Omaha Zoo.
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Dylan
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Could emperor tamarins be put in an outdoor walkthrough? Combined with people. The tamarins would have an indoor area to get away from the sticky fingers of the children and lots of foliage to hide in as well as trees and the public would have to stay on the path at all times.
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Jannick
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Tbh that video of the otters attacking the video is more exception than rule I think. I've seen many species of otter combined with other species on multiple occasions without a hiccup. I think the problem in that instance was not the fact that otters are nasty but the fact that small-clawed otters live in groups and become bolder/more aggressive in that setting.
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Gerben
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Dylan
Apr 6 2016, 04:47 AM
Could emperor tamarins be put in an outdoor walkthrough? Combined with people. The tamarins would have an indoor area to get away from the sticky fingers of the children and lots of foliage to hide in as well as trees and the public would have to stay on the path at all times.
I've seen many tamarin-walkthroughs, so I guess emperor tamarins would be okay as well.
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Furka
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^ Just make sure the climate of your zoo location can allow you to keep the tamarins outdoor, at least for some time of the year.
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Dylan
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All the tamarins will be in a large heated aviary for the walkthrough
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Stephen
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A heated aviary sounds like an awful waste of energy. Here in Belgium, Planckendael keeps their tamarins in two small (because tamarins don't need an awful lot of space) indoor exhibit during a couple months a year. Sounds like a more energy-efficient solution to me.
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Dylan
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Would roadrunners and vultures go together?
Edited by Dylan, Apr 7 2016, 02:12 PM.
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Anton
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Definitely. Vultures very rarely attack any healthy animal, only if an animal is severely damaged or dying will a vulture consider killing it. Black vultures, turkey vultures and probably even California condors would certainly be viable choices.

Breeding either bird would be less evident, however. Both vultures and roadrunners occasionally eat nestlings.
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Burns
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I wouldn't do condors though. They can be mean sometimes.
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TheToastinator
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A piece of toast and a terminator.

Can I combine anything with Peacock bass?
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Furka
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I think you can put them with other large aggressive species if you have enough pace. You could probably throw them in the classic arapaima/catfish/stingray amazonian combination.
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pyr0raptor
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I'm trying this:
Bluegill/Northern Pike/Largemouth Bass/Smallmouth Bass/Channel Catfish/Blue Catfish/Flathead Catfish/Burbot/White Sturgeon/Shortnose Gar/Yellow Perch/Razorback Sucker/Arctic Grayling/Rainbow Trout/Brown Trout/Longear Sunfish/Oragespotted Sunfish/Common Carp/Walleye/American Eel

Don't worry, there is a seasonal rotation of all these fishes, to control the dangers of the carnivorous fish they might commit.
Winter: Arctic Grayling/Rainbow Trout/Brown Trout/Common Carp/Burbot/Yellow Perch/Flathead Catfish/Bluegill/White Sturgeon/Northern Pike
Spring: Channel Catfish/Blue Catfish/Longear Sunfish/Orangespotted Sunfish/Common Carp/Walleye/Largemouth Bass
Summer: Smallmouth Bass/Shortnose Gar/Blue Catfish/Common Carp/Lonear Sunfish/Razorback Sucker
Fall: Largemouth Bass/Smallmouth Bass/Orangespotted Sunfish/Arctic Grayling/Razorback Sucker/American Eel

If anyone wants to change the seasonal rotation, message me.
Edited by pyr0raptor, Apr 7 2016, 07:42 PM.
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Anton
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Rotating fish seems like a very stressful, and borderline impossible thing to do. This would mean you'd have to catch half of all the (often large) fish 4 times a year.

Why not just have 2 or 3 tanks for these species instead? You'd need like 1 or 2 tanks behind the scenes for it to work anyways.
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pyr0raptor
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Sure. I can exhibit the big, carnivorous fish somewhere

The Lake Wisconsin (that's the exhibit name), Has 4 Behind-the-Scenes fish tanks.
Edited by pyr0raptor, Apr 7 2016, 09:57 PM.
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