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#121
05-06-2012
Good bonobo news, thanks Betsy....
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#122
05-06-2012
Enjoyed my visit today at the zoo. Pleasent day it was. I have a bunch of questions so here it goes. Does the zoo only have one pygmy hippos on display now? What used to be in the exhibit next to the snow leopard on the hill it was empty? Me and my gf saw a cat in the back cages of the black Jaguar, what species was it? My guess bobcat it looked like it was in quartine thou. Alot of animals were off display in the discovery outpost, what animals other than the ocelot,spot necked otter,serval,meerkat.rock hyrax, marmosets,fennec fox, fossa,kea and Macaw were there? Oh BTW echidna died too
 . was the painted dog exhibit the empty exhibit going up the two esculators to elephant odyssey? If so why did the move them from there to next to the striped hyena? Saw the baby jaguars but couldn't get a good pic Sry. Has anyone ever seen the kinkajou they have on exhibit? What used to be in the little glass exhibit by the tigers? The glass is shattered in that exhibit? How many kiwis does the zoo have? The kiwi trail was closed today. I'm wondering if they only had one because recently my hometown national avairy aquired a kiwi from the sdz and his name is peewee. That's all thks had a lot of fun and can't wait to do seaworld.
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#123
05-06-2012
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#124
05-06-2012
@betsy hey we missed the kagu bird . Is it in Owens avairy or below the eagles ? cause we didn't go into those areas. Or is it in parker aviary cause that was closed today as well as the tortoise exhibit?
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#125
05-06-2012
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#126
05-06-2012
No we just saw one big hippo it must of been otis.
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#127
05-06-2012
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#128
05-06-2012
There still could be reasons better to be off with two groups of bonobo instead of one. For the SSP there seems to be one group less. So one group less to have variation of males breeding. One group less in case of accident.
Or is an other zoo planning starting giving the bonobo a chance in the near future? |
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#129
06-06-2012
Are you sure the Echidna died? Or was it just off-exhibit doing animal ambassador stuff?
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#130
06-06-2012
Ya there was a rock in the little circle grassy exhibit saying born 1955- may 2012
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#131
08-06-2012
The Jaguar cubs have been named. The male is named Tikal, and the girl is Maderas.
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#132
09-06-2012
A female giraffe was born to first time mom Harriet on Wednesday. A second giraffe is due next month. The bonobos from the Safari Park have been on exhibit in the morning since Tuesday.
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#133
New giraffe photo
09-06-2012
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#134
09-06-2012
@jusko88 - the large open top hillside exhibit next to the snow leopards used to have a herd of blue sheep, which I think are now entirely gone from US collections? For the last several years it housed a ground hornbill (quite a large exhbit for this animal).
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#135
11-06-2012
The enclosure behind the black jaguar, Orson, houses a caracal. When I did a behind the scenes tour two years ago or more, there were two, an older female and her fairly old daughter. I was told they were too skittish on exhibit, so were housed here. This past winter at another behind the scenes this was down to one caracal.
In one of the small cages across from the Big Cat Trail, the ones with the kinkajou, bat-eared foxes, & fossa, they now have a Turkmenistan caracal on exhibit. (I have never seen the kinkajou. Educators have told me they have seen it on overnight camper tours.) There has recently been an ocelot here, too, but yesterday the white nosed coati was back. The coati's enclosure in the Children's Zoo was empty. An interesting aside on the SDZ caracals: When Kasten the South African caracal was bitten by a baby rattlesnake in 2005, two Turmenistan caracals at the Zoo were blood donors for transfusions for him. Kasten survived the bite and is still performing amazing leaps and jumps as an animal ambassador for caracals. Video & pictures of Kasten are online, including: Last edited by Cha Cha; 11-06-2012 at 08:09 AM.. |
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