Cincinnati Zoo to get 1.5 mil for Cat Canyon » Cincinnati Zoo

Cincinnati Zoo to get 1.5 mil for Cat Canyon
28-07-2008

The zoo's website has a press release saying they will recieve 1.5 million dollars in funding from surrounding counties to build a new cat exhibit/research facility. The cat collection is already quite impressive, so some new exhibits can only improve this strength. The research facility seems to be geared toward the small species such as sand cats, black footed cats and Brazilian ocelots. Large cats will also recieve new exhibits/improvements. Large species listed are Malayan tigers, Amur leopards and snow leopards. Anyone who's visited the old Big Cat Canyon (tiger canyon) knows this is long overdue. The snow leopards have been kept in the small cat building in a rather small enclosure for quite a while as well.

28-07-2008

And yet, those cat grottoes are Hagenbeck designs and I'll be sad to see them go.

28-07-2008

I visited the Cincinnati Zoo today, and intend to be rather scathing in my review of the cat exhibits there. Beautiful felines, with 15 small cat species, but showcased in shockingly tiny cages. The snow leopard had zero access to fresh air or grass, and was in a cage that was about 12 feet wide by 12 feet deep. Brutal.

28-07-2008

I knew you wouldn't be too impressed with the state of things there. It's a zoo with some very rare animals, but unfortunately is very short on space. It's about as urban as a zoo gets these days. It's my "home zoo" so it bums me out to see it, but that's just the way it is at the moment. The reptile building there is an absolute disgrace. It's THE oldest zoo building in the US, so it's on the national historic register, but I still wish they's find someplace else to but the reptiles. Make the buidling a monument like the Passenger Pigeon Memorial or something.....

28-07-2008

Hoping that the gorillas are in better care.

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02-08-2008

From the renderings that I have seen, I believe that they still use them in the design...it will be a canyon, something needs to makeup the canyon walls.

02-08-2008

Can you provide any more detail from the renderings you've seen than was published in the press release?

08-08-2008

send me a pm with your email address