About Gemsbok

[Tazzie-Tiger99]

I am concerned about gemsbok. I want to build an exibit for them but I do not want to end up with 35 gemsbok after 3 years like in zt1 could any one tell me as much as they know about the gemsbok so I can prepair an exibit and not have to expand it after year 1

[WolfXQueen]

You could just sell Gemsbok as the herd grows bigger. They don't breed as fast in Zt2 as, say, Kangaroos or Thomson's Gazelles. :><

[Tazzie-Tiger99]

so they breed about as fast as roos and gazelles

[WolfXQueen]

Most animals in Zt2 breed really fast. What I do is, once the Gemsbok (Gemsboks?) start complaining about being in a small exibit, put up for adoption or realease into the wild the first animals that were put in the exibit. Just keep doing that now and then to control the population.

[Black Panther]

I just use 2

[mo15]

The gemsbok breed alot slower than most of the animals in ZT2, so I wouldn't worry too much.  They also take quite a while to grow up, so there isn't a lot of worry about getting overcrowded.  And, like WolfXQueen said, you can release them into the wild when you get too many - and it helps your zoo fame.  If they do breed too fast, you could always try just putting only males or only females.

[Tazzie-Tiger99]

thx mo

[gennif]

My strategy to keep the herd in check is to limit the females to 1-2 and have several males.  


gennif   :cool

[Zeta Missy: Purple Turtle]

my gemsbok breed pretty fast for me, but I use a bigish exhibt and only have 3 animals to start out with. It helps some to keep the population down... also, try putting a pair of camels with them... For some reason, the gemsbok don't breed as fast with camels in there with them, but this is just somthing that I've noticed about my gemsbok.

[Black Panther]

You can always sell the calves once they grow up, its what I do all the time untill one of the parents die, then I get rid of them all and start with a new blood line :happy . It helps, because I find that on ZT2 animals can be very unpredictable e.g. on one of my zoos my black rhinos wouldn't breed at all, but on another one they've had six calves in two years!

[Ramin_Raptor]

Originally posted by Zeta Missy: Purple Turtle@Jul 18 2005, 04:57 PM
my gemsbok breed pretty fast for me, but I use a bigish exhibt and only have 3 animals to start out with. It helps some to keep the population down... also, try putting a pair of camels with them... For some reason, the gemsbok don't breed as fast with camels in there with them, but this is just somthing that I've noticed about my gemsbok.

When u placed a pair of camels do u have scrub or desert. If desert then the gemsbok woudn't breed as much i think because not in natural habitat.

[red]

Acully my Gemsbox said they wher too crowden in 6 mounths so i would sugest that you do not have many females.

[Peacenote]

Originally posted by Zeta Missy: Purple Turtle@Jul 18 2005, 04:57 PM
my gemsbok breed pretty fast for me, but I use a bigish exhibt and only have 3 animals to start out with. It helps some to keep the population down... also, try putting a pair of camels with them... For some reason, the gemsbok don't breed as fast with camels in there with them, but this is just somthing that I've noticed about my gemsbok.

Maybe gemspok don't breed as fast with any other animal with them.  I made a big exhibit for kangaroos and gemspock, and I can't keep the the kangaroo population down, I keep releasing them into the wild but I have kangaroos named up into the 60s!  However the gemspok are in danger of dying out with only two of them left, and I started with four!    And normally gemsbok breed pretty fast for me, as I've always just had them in their own exhibit before this.  I tried to majorly control the kangaroo population to see if the gemspok would breed more but it's too hard to keep up.  I also later expanded the exhibit and put in asian elephants, and they've already had three babies!  The gemspok don't seem unhappy at all, they just aren't breeding.   :huh

[HAL9000]

I know this sounds stupid but are you sure you have a male and a female?

[Peacenote]

Originally posted by Rynows@Aug 17 2005, 09:55 AM
I know this sounds stupid but are you sure you have a male and a female?

Who me?  Yep I started with two males and two females!  They did breed, but slowly, waaay more slowly than they ever did when I had them in an exhibit by themselves, until they started dying from old age and now I have only one male and one female left.    :erm

[HAL9000]

ya you said your gemsbok werent breeding and that you only had two left so i thought you know maybe your problem was that you just had to of the same gender.

[Zoo]

If you want a gemsbok to breed, put it in a mix exhibit with camels, put some sand it it, and watch them breed!