According to media, the zoo keeps 7 pangolins. 1 month ago, a baby was born. The second one after 2017 birth. Both parents of the recent baby were kept at the zoo for 4 years. This is another zoo that cnacked the code of pangolin long-tem husbandry. I don´t know if the zoo would be open to animal exchange with Europe, but this might be another source of founder animals for EEP. Is there genetic distinction between Taiwanese and Vietnamese populations of Chinese pangolin? Source
They are two separate subspecies - the nominate is restricted to Taiwan, whilst mainland populations are M. p. auritus of course, if it were a choice between managing the species as a single unit and having a genetically-viable captive population, and managing subspecies separately and potentially having too limited a genepool, some tricky choices might have to be made.
