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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,780 Views)
KoenZoo
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I'm planning on building a 2.3 hectare savanne exhibit. It will be housing Giraffes, Zebras, Giant Elands and Thomson's Gazelles for sur, but I want to add more animals to it. With the size of the exhibit, would it be realistic to add a river with a length of 200 meters and add a few Hippopotamus to the exhibit?

I'm also thinking of adding White Rhinoceros and/or Cape Buffalos, is that possible?
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Bhutan
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I would separate the exhibit using poles or some other device, you could allow the zebras and other animals to enter both areas but I would keep the hippos and giraffes separted, that combo is a recipie for disaster imo. Take Copenhagen zoo for example, IIRC they have a large Savannah expanse split into 3 parts: giraffe, rhino and hippo. Smaller creatures such as zebra and antelope can roam around all three areas

This image shows the division between the hippo area and the other savannahs

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Google it for more images of this exhibit. You could do something similar to this?
Edited by Bhutan, Apr 8 2016, 11:34 AM.
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TheToastinator
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A piece of toast and a terminator.

What Amazon fish could go together in a large tank?
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Bhutan
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In my own zoo I have included arapaima, silver arrowana, black pacu, ocellated river stingray and red tail catfish. I believe they can all co-exist although I too would like to know firstly if that combo is suitable and secondly if there are any others that I can add to the collection
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Ztlabraptor211
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If I'm not mistaken mata mata, black piranha, oscars and dorados should work
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pyr0raptor
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Yeah, but Mata Matas eat fish, so it would be a problem when they eat the baby fish
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Anton
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@Koenzoo and Bhutan, Monde Sauvage in Aywailles has a pond with a pair of hippos in their large savanna. I'd say the combination Rhino/Hippo would be more of a recipe for disaster, either with giraffes should be fine.

Monde sauvage has these animals in the large savanna:
-Black sable antelope
-Blue wildebeest
-Chapman's zebra
-Common eland
-Common hippopotamus
-Common impala
-Giraffe
-Greater kudu
-Grey crowned crane
-Red lechwe
-Scimitar-horned oryx
-Southern ostrich
-Watussi cattle

And then there's two separate exhibits 'inside' of the savanna, one with Southern white rhinoceros, and one for African elephants.
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pyr0raptor
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Having a Pronghorn exhibit, but the males are seperated by the females during mating season, since they get riled up.
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KoenZoo
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Anton
Apr 8 2016, 06:55 PM
@Koenzoo and Bhutan, Monde Sauvage in Aywailles has a pond with a pair of hippos in their large savanna. I'd say the combination Rhino/Hippo would be more of a recipe for disaster, either with giraffes should be fine.

Monde sauvage has these animals in the large savanna:
-Black sable antelope
-Blue wildebeest
-Chapman's zebra
-Common eland
-Common hippopotamus
-Common impala
-Giraffe
-Greater kudu
-Grey crowned crane
-Red lechwe
-Scimitar-horned oryx
-Southern ostrich

And then there's two separate exhibits 'inside' of the savanna, one with Southern white rhinoceros, and one for African elephants.
Thank you :)

Do you know if Cape Buffalo could fit in or should I choose between the buffalos, rhinos and hippos?
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Furka
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Anton
Apr 8 2016, 06:55 PM
I'd say the combination Rhino/Hippo would be more of a recipe for disaster
Theres a zo here in Italy that does that combo, but yeah, I wouldn't try to repeat it, seems too risky.
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Fireplume
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KoenZoo
Apr 9 2016, 04:28 AM
Anton
Apr 8 2016, 06:55 PM
@Koenzoo and Bhutan, Monde Sauvage in Aywailles has a pond with a pair of hippos in their large savanna. I'd say the combination Rhino/Hippo would be more of a recipe for disaster, either with giraffes should be fine.

Monde sauvage has these animals in the large savanna:
-Black sable antelope
-Blue wildebeest
-Chapman's zebra
-Common eland
-Common hippopotamus
-Common impala
-Giraffe
-Greater kudu
-Grey crowned crane
-Red lechwe
-Scimitar-horned oryx
-Southern ostrich

And then there's two separate exhibits 'inside' of the savanna, one with Southern white rhinoceros, and one for African elephants.
Thank you :)

Do you know if Cape Buffalo could fit in or should I choose between the buffalos, rhinos and hippos?
I'd say more likely you'd have to choose between the buffs and hippos, SDZSP keeps Southern White Rhinoceros and Cape Buffalo together, granted it's a HUGE paddock, but together they are nonetheless :)
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KoenZoo
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Thank you for your advice. The exhibit will be around 200*100 meters, so I guess that will be big enough :)
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EsserWarrior
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I was watching a video of people in a zoo going through a South American building for inspiration for my zoo building, and I could have sworn I saw Mata Mata and some kind of Caiman combined together. Would this combination work? If so I'd like to combine Yacare Caimans and Mata Mata in an enclosure.
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pyr0raptor
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Of course. That combination can work, unless they have enough food of fish.
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Anton
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@KoenZoo, I actually forgot a species in that combination. They also have Watussi cattle, which are calmer than buffalo, but otherwise very similar in build/niche/size. I think buffalo would do fine, as long as the exhibit is large enough as stated by Fireplume.
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