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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,702 Views)
ZoologicalBotanist
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As long as everything is well fed, you might be able to have trilobites and ammonites as well, but they would have to be larger than what the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs could swallow.
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Furka
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I do know owls have been combined with other birds, including other owl species.
However, does anyone know if this was done with breeding animals, or just lone individuals ?
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Furka
Feb 11 2018, 05:08 AM
I do know owls have been combined with other birds, including other owl species.
However, does anyone know if this was done with breeding animals, or just lone individuals ?
Owls probably would choose not to breed when with other birds of prey, but it's not like if you have a mated pair they will just start attacking the other birds.
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Fireplume
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I've seen Burrowing Owls with just about every SW USA animal lol. They're pretty chill.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

It may be that they would become aggressive when breeding. Nesting birds of many species become territorial and intolerant of close neighbors. It would depend on what other animals the owls are housed with, and the species of owls in question. The burrowing owl is non-aggressive. Barn owls, snowy or eagle owls may be different.
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Can you combine several species of lemur from the same habitat, or would they attack each other?
What ray species would be good in a touch exhibit?
What other small vertebrate/invertibrate species would be good in a touch tank (aside from the usual starfish, horseshoe crabs, etc.)
Edited by ZoologicalBotanist, Feb 13 2018, 10:27 PM.
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Fireplume
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1. I have seen lemurs combined, but it was a HUGE exhibit and separate night areas.
2. Best rays for that are bat rays/the bat ray group (especially California Bat Rays and Cownose Rays)
3. Most obscure thing I've seen in a touch pool was a Slipper Lobster, a very good boi :3
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Burns
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To clarify Drew's point on lemurs,many species of lemurs can be combined like the Varecia species, Eulemur and Catta. Sifakas and Hapilemur are more fragile ,although I believe Lac Alaotras have been combined with other species (most of those sifakas or varecia I believe).
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Small sharks and young skates also work well for touch pools if you want something in colder water. Crustaceans and shellfish of practically any kind also work.
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Furka
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Pretty much every Mediterranean aquarium has a touch pool with skates (Raja genus), and sometimes eagle rays and stingrays (I do believe the latter get their barb removed). Flatfishes and small sharks can work too, just make sure you pick species that can do fine in a shallow water exhibit.
And I suppose you could keep some generic fish that won't really interact with guests as rays do, but still makes the exhibit feel more alive (bottom dwelling fish may be inactive and just stick to the floor at times).

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Barn owls, snowy or eagle owls may be different.


Bubo owls are definately too large and aggressive to be combined.
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stargatedalek
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Furka
Feb 14 2018, 04:22 AM
Sheather
 
Barn owls, snowy or eagle owls may be different.

Bubo owls are definately too large and aggressive to be combined.
Totally wrong, I see snowy and great horned combined with other owls all the time. Even with red-tailed hawks and bald eagles a few times.
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magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

To add to the touch tank discussion, my most recent visit to an aquarium included a touch tank with the usual, plus another separate tank with moon jellyfish. Sounds dangerous but no one got stung while I was there (probably because a staffer was standing over it telling us to be very careful) and I thought it was a really neat experience. Even my mom reached in which says something.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Moon jelly stings aren't anything to fear anyway.
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

Yeah, honestly she was more worried about us hurting the jellies.
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What sharks can be placed together in the same tank?
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