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#196
05-07-2011
Really, I never noticed the duiker on the website before. Sometimes I wonder how well-kept the list is. They don't list sugar gliders, still have feathertail gliders listed, there is no mention fo the emu, etc. It's kind of hard to know the true inventory of animals when it appears to be so many discrepencies.
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#197
05-07-2011
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can someone please try to answer my question, where is the genet? |
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#198
05-07-2011
The zoo's lions were donated to the zoo by Siegfried and Roy and are 'white' lions. That is why the lion exhibit is/was (I'm not sure if it still is) called "Siegfried and Roy's White Lions of Timbavati". The zoo currently holds a pair of brothers and a mother and daughter pair. The two pairs of lions rotate to prevent breeding, since white lions, like white tigers, are horribly inbred. I'm glad that the zoo is now listing them as African Lions instead of 'White' Lions, as this better promotes wild lions and wild lion conservation, and not the poor inbred 'show' animals.
The Large-spotted Genet is not currently on exhibit. Seeing how it has remained on the website, I suspect that it will be going back on exhibit sometime. Perhaps it will go on exhibit in the previous galago exhibit in Jungle Trails? @dpatters28- I have to agree, though most zoos do not list all of the species they hold on their websites. Often times there are just too many species and the zoos just choose to list a few animals from each area of the zoo, a few animals of each group, or a few animals that are more endangered or are more of a drawcard species. Just look at the Columbus Zoo's website, they list very few of their total number of species. |
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#199
05-07-2011
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#200
05-07-2011
All of the galagos haven't moved over to Night Hunters? Perhaps they will in the future and the genets will move into their exhibit then. Jungle Trails is really the only place I can see the genet being exhibited in. Unless the genet will not be exhibited and will become a part of the education program.
I have to disagree with you when it comes to the bamboo lemurs. Animals are not kept in captivity solely for entertainment; animals are also kept for conservation and education. The bamboo lemurs are a big part of both conservation and education efforts at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Cincinnati Zoo is one of only four ISIS listed institutions in the world to hold this vulnerable species. Not only that, but the zoo is able to educate visitors about the lesser known ecosystems and species of Madagascar by exhibiting this species. It shows the visitors a different Madagascar and its inhabitants that they did not see in the movies or from the more common Ring-tail and Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs elsewhere in the zoo. Many people have no idea that there are lemurs that eat eat bamboo or that there are even bamboo forests in Madagascar. Not to mention that when they are active, it is almost magical to see them as they quickly leap from stalk to stalk in the dark. Now, that's just my two-cents on the subject. 
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#201
05-07-2011
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im not saying the animals should be used for only entertainment |
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#202
05-07-2011
It is interesting that they moved the pottos from Jungle Trails. At one point there were at least three Potto exhibits spread out across the zoo (two in Jungle Trails and one in the Nocturnal House), but now there is just a single exhibit in Night Hunters.
I figured you didn't mean it the way it sounded. I was just trying to provide a point as to why I disagreed with you, as well to provide insight on why the Grey Bamboo Lemurs are such valuable animals in the zoo's collection 
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05-07-2011
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#204
05-07-2011
Wow, I had no idea there were two potto exhibits at Jungle Trails. Based on what I've seen on YouTube videos and the zoo's Facebook page, it appears they are starting to use pottos as ambassadors, much like the aardvark, wallabies and baby alligators. Though, it's odd. Last year everytime I went to the zoo there were animals being walked around the zoo. This year... well... I saw some kids petting a hissing cockroach and that's about it.
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#205
05-07-2011
There used to be at least two potto exhibits in Jungle Trails. First, there was the exhibit that they lived in up until Night Hunters (Now holding African Striped Weasels), and then there was an exhibit further on in the African building that has since held reptiles (In order of appearance: Radiated Tortoise, Black-throated Monitor, Dumeril's Boa)
@dpatters28- I've also noticed that. So far this year I've only seen docents out with an Eastern Screech Owl and a Blue-tongued Skink. However, there was a docent booth out by the Indian Rhinoceros yards (The two used by Nikki) with an Ocelot pelt, Sumatran Rhinoceros hair, several other pelts and skulls, as well as some "Rhino Trading Cards". I thought it was kind of neat that the zoo had made up their own trading cards with information on each of their rhinos. |
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#206
06-07-2011
True, but I don't care for looking at hairs, pelts and skulls. I want to interact with the real, living, breathing animal. I know you can't go around petting tigers or polar bears, but I enjoyed my zoo experience so much more when I was able to interact with the animals rather than just looking at them.
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#207
06-07-2011
Cincinnati is becoming very well represented on this site. To me, this is a positive thing.
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#208
06-07-2011
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).The Cincinnati Zoo has such a nice docent program, so it's a shame that it isn't out in a strong force this year like it has been in the past. I only said that about the pelts and skulls to show how little docent activity I've seen this year.@groundskeeper24- I agree. It's nice that the zoo is becoming so well represented here
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