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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,747 Views)
KoenZoo
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Furka
Dec 31 2016, 06:18 AM
Blacktip Reef Shark can be combined with pretty much every fish or shark that doesn't eat them (aka larger sharks like great hammerhead, bull shark and so on, or giant groupers in the case of baby sharks), the only issue you should worry about is that the tank you have will be fine for the species you want to put with them (usually that rules out very small fishes because shark tanks are rather big and small fishes might be less noticeable in there, especially if they get stressed and stay hidden most of the time).
Here in The Netherlands we have a big tank with a visitor tunnel and there are sharks combined with two turtle species (I believe Green Sea Turtle and some comparable sized turtle species), Barracudas, Tarpon, Stingrays and some smaller fishes (maybe not a good idea with reef sharks though) and I believe I saw Guitar Sharks as well last monday. I've read something like as long as we make sure the sharks are always well-fed it wouldn't be any problem.

Oh well I've just found the species Blijdorp keeps (or at least kept) together:
Sandbar Shark, Blacktip Shark, Blacknose Shark, Bonnetshark, Nurse Sharks, Barracuda, Atlantic Tarpon, Stingray, Green Sea Turtle and Hawksbill Sea Turtle

So for other people who would like to make a tank with different species, the above one should work fine.

I'm sorry for dubble posting but I don't know how to place a quote from someone else in an older post.
Edited by KoenZoo, Dec 31 2016, 06:44 AM.
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Jony
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Smaller fishes and reef sharks works fine, too, if the small fishes have enough hiding spots. Maybe sometimes a few individual fish are being eaten but that's not a big deal if ypu have large shoals of fish. Leipzig Zoo has such a combination.
Edited by Jony, Dec 31 2016, 01:35 PM.
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Furka
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Does anyone know anything that can be combined with spotted ratfish ? So far I know Japanese spider crabs.
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Scorpionfish? Scorpionfish usually inhabit shallow waters, but a few species are even known to reside at a depth of 7200 ft.
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This may sound like a stupid question but I simply do not know the answer. Could a mob of red kangaroos and emus be kept together in the same exhibit. Also I was planning to include other species, either mammals or birds but am unsure as to what else I could include? Any ideas..
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Burns
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I've personally seen this combo before. Denver has like 7 red kangaroos in with 2 emus.
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Furka
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Pistoia zoo apparently does that combo too, plus red-necked wallabies.
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Stephen
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Planckendael kept (keeps?) emus with gray kangaroos and red-necked wallabies. I've also seen that same combo with Tasmanian wombats at Copenhagen zoo (though the kangaroos/wallabies could access a separate part of the exhibit by jumping up a ridge of approximately one metre). However, I'm not sure if you can add emus to that.
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A piece of toast and a terminator.

Can fiery-billed aracaris live with other tropical birds? Also, could spoonbills live in an aviary or are they too small?
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Burns
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I'd say for the aracaris it would depend what bird species you'd have them with. I've seen aracaris in an aviary with spoonbills, macaws and jacanas. I wouldn't put anything smaller than a jacana with them and even jacanas are a bit of a risk.
Edited by Burns, Jan 5 2017, 06:12 PM.
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Stephen
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IIRC Antwerp keeps them with ultramarine grosbeaks and some other birds, among which are black crakes, California quails and red-cowled cardinals (I think...)
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Can elephants be put with any primate and hoofstock? (In the case of African Savanna elephants, Patas or Vervet Monkeys, and Cape Buffalo, Forest Elephants with Forest Buffalo, Allen's Swamp Monkeys, Bongo and Red River Hogs, and Indian Elephants with Lion-Tailed Macaques or Gibbons, Blackbuck and Eld's Deer)
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Anton
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Stephen
Jan 5 2017, 06:46 PM
IIRC Antwerp keeps them with ultramarine grosbeaks and some other birds, among which are black crakes, California quails and red-cowled cardinals (I think...)
Almost, but not quite ;)

To my knowledge, these are the species kept in the exhibit Stephen mentions:

Green aracari
Sunbittern
California quail
Ultramarine grosbeak
Painted bunting
Green honeycreeper
Brazilian tanager

The theme, of course, is America, with a very South-American interior, but the exhibit itself isn't really that big. I say you could combine aracaris with nearly anything that is smaller than it ;)

Wyman
 
Can elephants be put with any primate and hoofstock? (In the case of African Savanna elephants, Patas or Vervet Monkeys, and Cape Buffalo, Forest Elephants with Forest Buffalo, Allen's Swamp Monkeys, Bongo and Red River Hogs, and Indian Elephants with Lion-Tailed Macaques or Gibbons, Blackbuck and Eld's Deer)


I have personally seen/heard about the following combinations with elephants and hoofstock or primates:

Asian elephant/Axis deer/Fallow deer/Crab-eating macaque
Asian elephant/Axis deer/Blackbuck
African elephant/Sitatunga/Red lechwe/Waterbuck/Blue wildebeest/Impala/Springbok/Common eland/Scimitar-horned oryx. In this one, the elephants had a fenced off area in the main savanna, but the various hoofstock could in theory walk underneath this barrier and join the elephants (though I did not see them do this).

I believe I've also heard about a zoo combining elephants with baboons, but don't quote me on that.
Edited by Anton, Jan 5 2017, 08:15 PM.
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Jony
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Beekse Bergen in the Netherlands is the zoo that keeps African elephants together with baboons.

Boras Djurpark in Sweden has a very interesting combination of African bush elephant, African buffalo, Rothschild's giraffe, grant's zebra, eland antelope, blesbok, ostrich and helmeted guineafowl. The bull is in a seperate enclosure though and the buffaloes have rubber on their horns. The exhibit also is very large (about 23.000 qm / 2.3 hectares) and I guess their are off-show separation exhibits for each single species
Edited by Jony, Jan 6 2017, 06:16 AM.
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A piece of toast and a terminator.

Can I combine Goliath herons, Shoebills, and hippos?
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