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colugo (Cynocephalus variegatus)

at Bukit Fraser, a hill station a couple of hours outside Kuala Lumpur

colugo (Cynocephalus variegatus)
Chlidonias, 17 Jan 2014
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    • TeaLovingDave
      Seen Marsupial Mole then? Nice :D
    • Chlidonias
      you've seen a live marsupial mole?? Permit me to be excessively jealous!!
    • UngulateNerd92
      Regarding captive Colugos (Order: Dermoptera), if I remember correctly, there was a whole group of them kept in captivity at the University of the Philippines Los BaƱos. They kept the Philippine colugo (Cynocephalus volans).

      Here are photographs of Philippine colugo at Los Banos University taken by Roland Wirth from ZGAP in 1995;

      Cynocephalus volans (Philippine Colugo) - Image | BioLib.cz

      Cynocephalus volans (Philippine Colugo) - Image | BioLib.cz

      Roland Wirth also took this photograph of a Philippine colugo at Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines. Also taken in 1995;

      Cynocephalus volans (Philippine Colugo) - Image | BioLib.cz

      Lubomir Prause from www.Biolib.cz took this photograph of a Philippine colugo at the Tarsier Breeding Station on Bohol Island in the Philippines in 2011. Does anyone know if that facility still keeps them?

      Cynocephalus volans (Philippine Colugo) - Image | BioLib.cz

      This photograph from Wikipedia shows a captive Philippine colugo, however, a location is not given. Philippine flying lemur - Wikipedia

      For this photograph from Wikipedia, a location is given, but it seems too inaccurate and vague to decipher an exact facility. Philippine flying lemur - Wikipedia

      This photograph here also shows captive Philippine colugo, however, again a location is not given. I would infer that it is probably Los Banos University again. Carnivora-Philippine Flying Lemur - Cynocephalus volans

      According to The Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; From the Living Collections of the World by Richard Weigl, the captive longevity record for a Philippine colugo was for a female that lived 4 years and 5 months at Los Banos University.
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    • UngulateNerd92
      Outside of their home range, there have been some Malayan colugos (Cynocephalus variegatus) kept in captivity. The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois kept an unsexed individual for three days in April of 1971.

      According to The Management of Wild Mammals in Captivity by Lee S. Crandall, there were Philippine colugo (Cynocephalus volans) imported by the Bronx Zoo in July of 1947. They were collected by Charles Wharton. Charles Wharton also collected and imported Philippine tarsiers (Carlito syrichta) for Bronx Zoo.
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