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    Here is a recent article about plans to add a 'Redwood Canopy Skywalk' to the zoo. From the article:
    "Alongside the skywalk, there are also plans for a “Native Predator” exhibit. This will feature mountain lions, black bear and coyotes. The new skywalk will pass above this exhibit before moving outside the zoo boundary into the tall trees of Sequoia Park."

    New Redwood Canopy Skywalk for Sequoia Park Zoo
     
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    According to this page on the website, the Redwood Canopy Skywalk (see post 6 above) is scheduled to open in late 2020. There is only a passing mention of the accompanying native predators addition with no species mentioned. The rendering, however, shows a few black bears and one wolf.
    Redwood Canopy Walk | Sequoia Park Zoo
     
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    After I posted above, I read the article in the previous post that focuses on the native predator exhibit. It says it is slated for 2021 so I wonder if that means the skywalk will be delayed until then as well or if it will open first without the animal exhibits? Also what I took for a wolf in the rendering must be a coyote (based on the species list given).
     
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    I suppose since Sequoia Park is now my home zoo (geographically speaking) I ought to help out on this thread. Let's see what has happened here since February shall we?
     
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    It's a shame that they dismantled Secrets of the Forest. It was a great little reptile-invertebrate and natural history exhibit.
     
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    I agree. Granted like half of it was already closed/off exhibit when I visited last year.
     
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    I visited today (September 13) so here are some updates:
    • Brown-headed spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps fusciceps) Jack and Candy have access to both their normal exhibit and the former gibbon exhibit at the same time.
    • The zoo wants to get capuchin or howler monkeys to mix with them.
    • The snakes the moved to the Learning Lab are joined by a tarantula (species unknown).
    • The gift shop has indeed taken over the building that once housed Secrets of the Forest.
    • The Western pond turtles and California roach fish (Hesperoleucus symmetricus) are still in there though.
    • The northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile) is now in a tank in the animal kitchen.
    • The coastal giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) died.
    • No word on what happened to the dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis) or the banana slug.
    • The Pacific lampreys (Entosphenus tridentatus) share their exhibit with three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus), and two species of Cottus sculpin.
    • The northern bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtonensis) are still present, they just live alongside the common ravens (Corvus corax).
    • No sign of the band-tailed pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) or green heron (Butorides virescens) in the Nancy Hilfiker Aviary.
    • The western black widow (Latrodectus hesperus) has died.
    • Schreber the striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) is no longer exhibited at the barnyard, instead it can be found outside the aviary.
    • No sign of the house mouse (Mus musculus) exhibit in the barnyard.
     
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    • The zoo is now home to Boo the western spotted skunk. She is a rescue. "The goal is for her to be an ambassador animal and to eventually rotate into the Barnyard." (https://www.instagram.com/p/CIGHN7YLQt-/)
     
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