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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,797 Views)
Ztlabraptor211
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Acinonyx Jubatus
Jan 7 2016, 03:23 PM
Ztlabraptor211
Jan 3 2016, 07:49 PM
In Kelowna BC, grant you it's not an actual zoo but just a park, has pigs, capybara and emus together
Not quite. I've been to that little place, which is more of a petting zoo. The young emus, wallabies, chickens, peafowl, pot-belly pigs, and a few domesticated parrots are kept together in the main petting zoo area. The capybara are kept separate, but this is probably more to do with petting issues than interspecific interactions. The same goes for the adult emus and goats, which each have their own little enclosure. The sugar gliders also have their own cage, for obvious reasons.

Can you keep Gerenuk with larger ungulates like Zebra and Eland?
I checked it out last summer and they have a singular pig, emu and. Capybara in one large petting area and the goats, wallabies and peafowl in another. The only animals seperated were certain aggressive pigs, goats and baby capybara
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TheToastinator
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Can I have two pairs of Giant otters in one exhibit? Or do they need separate exhibits?
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Anton
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Fairly certain that should work without too many difficulties, considering Duisburg, Leipzig, Hamburg and others have kept multiple males and females together in the past.

Looking at other otter species, they're usually fine in groups. I'd say go for it.
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Going along with Anton, I'd try it out, and make arrangements as the project goes on, I'd keep a close eye on pups as if the males got aggressive and would kill pups that aren't their own, but I doubt that'd happen, otter species seem to be decently friendly, and I don't think there out be an issue.
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As far as I know, you can keep them in family groups. But not with strangers, because that would lead to negative consequences.
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Blue-Bellied Roller/Ringed Teal/White-Headed Buffalo Weaver/Sunbittern/Superb Starling
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I'm going to be building a aquarium building for North Carolina Wolf Center and Park, it has four different tanks, each will house several fish species in each one, but I have a question about combinations because I pretty much only know things about mammals, as they are my specialty.
I'd like to have White Sturgeon, European Sea Sturgeon, and Thornback Ray in a tank, would they get along fine?
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Fireplume
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They'd be fine but I don't know why you'd combine them as they don't live together in the wild
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Thanks Fireplume, and we don't know so much about the White Sturgeon coming to the park, but we want the other two coming and we'd like to see them together. The sturgeon would stay in that one tank but we may have the rays in multiple tanks.
Also, we are going to have a tank for our snapping turtle we want coming in, what north american fish would like nice in with him? And what other north american fish or european fish would look nice with the sturgeon and stingray?
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Jan 20 2016, 03:13 PM
Thanks Fireplume, and we don't know so much about the White Sturgeon coming to the park, but we want the other two coming and we'd like to see them together. The sturgeon would stay in that one tank but we may have the rays in multiple tanks.
Also, we are going to have a tank for our snapping turtle we want coming in, what north american fish would like nice in with him? And what other north american fish or european fish would look nice with the sturgeon and stingray?
The tank has to be pretty large if fish are to be added. Pretty much all native American pond fish would do fine like the sunfish and bass in the American Adventures pack. Realistically, a few here and there would get eaten but it's not like that will happen much in game.
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European sturgeon and thornback stingray could work with other skates (blonde or undulate) or flounders. Just remember that all these fish require a lot of free space on the bottom of the tank.
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EsserWarrior
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Thanks guys! And we did put that into consideration beforehand, and we have left free sand/pebble area open for the animals.
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More combo questions for some walkthrough tropical houses:
-Red-lored Amazon, Yucatan Amazon, Summer Tanager, Roseate Spoonbill, Grey-headed Tanager, Blue-crowned Motmot, Keel-billed Toucan, Green-winged Teal, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Golden-hooded Tanager, Pale-vented Pigeon, Green Iguana, and Central American Red Brocket Deer. (I know this was an edited version of a previous combo I asked about.)
-Brown-throated Three-toed Sloths, Saint Vincent Amazon, Cuban Amazon, Caribbean Flamingo, Antillean Crested Hummingbird, and Spangled Coquette
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Anton
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First of all, be careful of keeping multiple amazon species together; inbreeding does occur.
Other than that, all animals would be able to live together, but I'm not sure on the choice of some species.
The first combo seems very focused on tree-dwelling birds that the general public doesn't really find attractive, with some waterfowl thrown in (Are the brocket deer in a seperate exhibit inside the aviary/greenhouse? Might be a good idea, for such shy, special animals).
The second combo... You'd need a whole lot of room if you want to keep flamingos, and I think waterfowl might be more "impressive" when combined with flamingos. Also, in a large exhibit the incredibly rare three-toed sloth would become merely a background detail, I'd either change it to the more common Linnaeus' two-toed or just not have them at all.

Perhaps a heavily trimmed list of both exhibits combined would be cool, though? You could have a pond for flamingos, ducks and spoonbills, a more forested area for all other birds, with then some smaller ground exhibits for things like Brockets, agoutis, armadillos, and maybe even caimans... If you do have mammals, throw some bats and maybe tamarins in there?
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Yah the brockets are in a separate exhibit in the greenhouse. xD I'll trim down the Amazon species, move the Spoonbill and waterfowl with the flamingos, and will have some smaller ground exhibits for some of the animals you mentioned.

However the three-toed sloth species I'm using is actually the most common one sp it's not exactly rare or threatened.
Edited by Guat, Jan 22 2016, 11:30 PM.
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