Housed with Arabian oryx, baboons, gelada, and rock hyrax in mixed species exhibits (Mott 2013)
History of Managed Care
History of managed care (from Mott 2013)
In North America
1925: 1st Nubian ibex
Brought into the Philadelphia Zoo
2 individuals; 1 male and 1 female
No modern descendents of these individuals
1946-1959: Nubian ibex absent from U.S. zoos
Current Population
Current North American population (from Mott and Putnam 2013)
73 animals, as of December 2013
Distributed across 7 Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) institutions; 1 non-AZA institution
34 males, 39 females
All descended from 13 founders; imported during the early-1960s and mid-1970s
From the Yotvata Hai-Bar Nature Reserve in Israel - a part of the Israel Nature Reserves and National Parks Authority, which established and coordinated a protected breeding and reintroduction program for endangered and locally extinct animals mentioned in the Bible
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Historical records
1939: first group of Nubian ibex brought to San Diego Zoo
From Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California (Mott 2013)