The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park Pictures available on the blog, i've seen the new little one out on display and the whole family seems enamored with it! 2010 was a good year for births there and 2011 might be just as good.
Last weekend the zoo held a fundraiser for a new ocelot exhibit they are planning. Being a cat lover, I am interested to see how this will turn out (except that I have sworn off southern California). Welcome to SAZOO, The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park
This is the second offspring born to the parents. Silvery Langur Monkey Born At Santa Ana Zoo CBS Los Angeles
This is an interesting discussion of the design process for the new Santa Ana Zoo ocelot exhibit. If they can actually design and build what they describe here it might be quite cool: Santa Ana Zoo - Planning Workshop - ELM | ELM
Since that birth there have been three others. A second silvery langur (female), a golden headed lion tamarin, and a crested capuchin (genders undetermined for the latter two last I checked).
Santa Ana is considering privatizing the zoo. Santa Ana looks to privatize zoo | zoo, city, new - News - The Orange County Register
Rare Monkey baby born at the Santa Ana Zoo! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...41603530361.2008735.1533759673&type=1&theater
And here are the plans that have gone out to bid: http://www.dalkeandsons.com/plans+specs/Santa_Ana_Zoo_Ocelot_Enclosure/Plans.pdf btw, the lead designer is formerly of Jones + Jones Architects
I LOVE the fact that a small animal is being given the same exhibit consideration that a big star animal like tiger or elephant would get. I also like number two on their list of top ten goals/ideas: the job gets done.
Looks really nice. There seems to be a difference in size from habitat 1 (502 SF) and habitat 2 (4498 SF)? Both habitats look to be about the same size. Oh, well. I hope it is planted nicely, as the drawings have the viewing areas looking at each other.
The zoo is working on a future home for giant otters. Santa Ana Zoo looks to welcome giant river otters - The Orange County Register
A Southern Brazilian Ocelot was born in December 2015. Anyone have an update on the zoo's plans for a new Ocelot exhibit?
Thanks, Gulo. I suspect this small zoo often gets overlooked because of its bigger and more famous neighbours in southern California. Other news: 2 Black Howlers (Alouatta caraya) were born in December.
Here is a complete list of species from their website (accurate as of October 2016). Of particular note to us cat lovers is one of the last remaining margays in the United States. http://www.santaanazoo.org/collection.pdf
Of course margay is not the rarest (in captivity) small cat this zoo has exhibited. That would be the tigrina they exhibited from approximately 1997 to approximately 2000. Tigrina (Leopardus guttulus) by Arizona Docent posted 8 May 2017 at 12:10 PM
Forgot to mention: during my visit last week, I observed that the Santa Ana Zoo has constructed a "frog pod": a very small shed/trailer building with a couple of glass windows for viewing. Inside will be breeding space for mountain yellow-legged frog, an endangered California endemic. Both the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos have been doing breeding and conservation work with this species as well. Construction is also under way on a Ferris wheel. Does anyone know what the timeline is on the giant otters, or if that plan somehow fell through?
As a result of outdated exhibits for the monkeys, the Zoo was denied its AZA accreditation. Outdated monkey exhibits lead to loss of accreditation for Santa Ana Zoo, but officials have appealed – Orange County Register
While I am a proponent of pressing zoos to make significant improvements to the enclosures and welfare of their animals, that excuse is some load of bull. Bigger zoos with much worse cages, including for primates, have historically been and continue to be re-accredited. Case in point, this, said by the director himself: "Yamaguchi admitted that the monkey row cages, which since the 1990s have been expanded to more than double the original size, are not habitats that would be found at the Los Angeles or San Diego zoos." At the risk of correcting him/criticizing the two zoos cited (I greatly support and respect both), this is just factually wrong. There are monkey cages of both comparable size and furnishings at both SD and LA, both of which have significantly more funding than Santa Ana. In fact, there are some monkey cages at the "world-class" San Diego Zoo that are worse than anything at Santa Ana! Nevertheless, those zoos never have any issues with getting re-accredited. Additionally, while the enclosures are not ideal, all of them have ample climbing opportunities and the animals appeared to be healthy and were all housed with others of their kind. Just to clarify: while I disagree with the verdict, I am more frustrated with the failure to implement consistency and treat all institutions equally than I am with the actual decision (which is, nevertheless, also very frustrating).
