NEWS
AUGUST
- Crocodylus Park, in the Northern Territory, has received two females of the
endangered Persian leopard. There are only six individuals in Australia, this pair
came from Perth Zoo where they were born. Perth has kept a male, who is the father
of the siblings, Ishtar and Tiamat. At the moment Crocodylus Park has
no plans to breed
the leopards.
- Taronga Zoo, in conjuction with McDonalds, has created a webpage all about their
gorilla family. The Web Site can be found at the
Taronga Zoo Webpage. The website is designed as an educational tool for schools. It
also enables people to e-mail the staff any questions they may have about the gorilla,
Gorilla gorilla gorilla. There has been some controversy over the addition of the
McDonalds Logo on the website. As McDonalds has sponsered the page it is only fair that
the logo is included.
- There are hopes that soon there will be cheetah cubs born at the Monarto Zoo.
Cheetahs are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity so any births will be greatly
welcomed. Monarto has a population of eight (5.3) who arrived either in 2000 or 2001.
- Nine years ago, the second gorilla to be born in Australia,
Buzandi, made his first appearance at Melbourne Zoo. Now the feisty male gorilla is
set to find a new home and start a family of his own. Hannover Zoo in Germany has a
family group of three adult females, three young females and two young males but no adult
male and so Melbourne offered their youngster Young males
usually leave the family group at about this age as the mature silerback won't tolerate
any competition. Buzandi will be a valuable addition to the breeding group in Europe.
His sister, Bambuti also left Australia for Europe in
April.
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