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13-01-2008

The Flamingo enclosure's remodel for one or maybe two new species of gibbons or some type of languar aswell as gibbons.

Lawn outside Realm of the red ape, asian golden cat enclosure or clouded leopards

Giraffe moved over near to the rhino's. In its place a new gorilla enclosure and drills or mandrills mixed. Some of the space used to extend the buffalo exhibit for them to be mixed with bongo's.

Hippos, flamingo and water buffalo mixed exhibit over on the east side.

Where the bongo's were snow leopards or markhor.

Minds gone blank!

13-01-2008

My HUGE UPDATE!!

Updates for Chester: We can dream!

The elephant paddock has been changed, so a Bull can be housed here. The small, current, bull enclosure can be used for the females to meet the male, and keep a bond with him.

There is another, larger, paddock which houses the rest of the herd. This paddock is built over the Car park and has lots of plants for the animals to pull up. There is a lot of Grass here so the exhibit looks better.

The actual elephant house keeps the green peafowl, red billed blue pie and green wood hoopoe in their current aviary, Great hornbills (also in their exhibit), Zhou's box turtle and Large tree shrew(their exhibit has an enlarged viewing window, so there is more chance of seeing the Zhou's box turtles), there are also the current fish and turtle species. Outside, there are red bellied squirrels and the large gliding squirrels. The flying squirrels are kept in a larger exhibit, where there is an opportunity to walk through with the species.

The warthog enclosure has been redeveloped for a pair of Shoebills, and they have access to the inside of the old Rhino house. This house has been redeveloped to house Hyrax, Aardvark, African Pygmy falcon and Banded mongoose. The Aardvarks are kept in one of the redeveloped rhino pens. There are also Hyrax and Mongooses in another. The Falcons are kept in an aviary at the bottom of the house. The free-flying birds in here include Supreo starling, oxpeckers, turacos, Tinker-birds, Cordon Bleus and whydahs.

The Yellow mongooses are placed with the meerkats, freeing up their old enclosure.

The warthogs are placed with the red lechwe, and the banded mongoose are too. There is a small exhibit for the mongooses too, when the come inside, and this is visible to the public via a glass window.

The waterfowl exhibits, will be developed into an african themed area, and the waterfowl, and Cranes, will be moved around the zoo. The giraffes will be moved into an african house, and it will house some of the african waterfowl species. The main giraffe exhibit also takes over the emu and wallaby enclosures, so these species will leave the collection. The giraffe paddock will be quite large, and they will share their area with Speke's gazelles and Scimitar horned oryx.

The main Giraffe housed is situated near the Monkey islands monorail station. This house has large indoor areas for the giraffes, oryx and gazelles (there are also gates, so the species can be separated if anything goes wrong) and there are the waterfowl (as mentioned above), Short eared elephant shrew and african lungfish. The waterfowl are kept in a large indoor aviary with underwater viewing for the diving species. Some species kept here include Woolly necked storks, Abdim's storks, African openbill, Maccoa duck, Black necked stilt, Comb duck, Purple gallinule, hadada ibis, White faced whistling duck, Hartlaub's duck, Hartlaub's turaco, Von der Decken's hornbill, southern pochard Hammerkop, Cape teal and white backed duck. The bird's aviary has ponds, trees and a large waterfall coming through the middle.

The theme of the giraffe house is water, and how much animals need every day. There are, as well as the species mentioned above, some dung beetles and Slender snouted crocodiles. The beetles are in a small exhibit, where you can watch them roll balls of dung around. The crocodiles are kept in an enclosure adjacent to the aviary, which again, has underwater viewing.

Outside the main house, on the other side to the giraffe enclosure is a big aviary for Lesser flamingoes, sacred ibis, Pink backed and great white pelicans and yellow billed stork. These birds are kept next to a pair of Kirk's dik-dik, who have access to the main giraffe house, to use as a shelter, but they are not on view in side.

Next to the monkey island station is another aviary, but for a pair of secretary birds. This is the end of the African Grassland area.

The Monkey islands exhibit has stayed very much the same, but there are a few changes with the species. The columbian black spider monkeys have been swapped for Bald uakaris, the Mandrills have changed to drills and with the lion tailed macaques are Binturongs.

The indian Rhino exhibit, now houses barashinga, Indian rhino, Rhesus macaques, Blackbuck and Burmese brow antlered deer.

The old Philippine spotted deer enclosure has been adapted for a pair of Baird's tapir and Capybara. This exhibit is the start of the mountain zone, which goes across to the bear enclosure.

Also in the mountain area is a new exhibit for Mountain tapirs, on the site of Miniature monkeys. This exhibit will be one of the most densley planted in the zoo, with large shrubs and bushes rising high over the waterfall which runs through the centre of the exhibit.

The third South American Tapir, the Brazilian, is also found in this part of the zoo, in it's current exhibit with Vicuna, but instead of Capybara, there are Mara. Any young Capybaras born in the Baird's Tapir enclosure will be either moved to another zoo, or placed in here.

The condors and Black vultures have moved here too! They are in an aviary where the hippo maze used to be, adjoining to the bat house.

There are now Flamingoes in this part of the zoo too! In the old Guanaco and Rhea enclosure there are large flocks of Both James' and Andean Flamingoes. There is also a pair of Giant coot in here.

The Grevy's zebra have left the zoo, and in there place are Onagers, Bactrian Camels and a group of Persian goitered gazelles. The old Oryx exhibit now keeps a group of Saiga, fitting in with the mountain theme.

The ostriches and Prezwalski's horses swap exhibits so the ostriches are near the grassland theme and the Horses are near the mountain theme.

In the old Pere david deer exhibit, and a small portion of the prezwalski's horse exhibit are Geladas and Ibex. These aniamals are placed here to make the Gradual Change from Mountain to African Savanna.

That's the west zone Complete!!! Now for the east!

The old Condor cliff aviary has been Changed into a large Exhibit for Eastern Lowland Gorilla, Angolan Colobus and Crowned Guenon. This area fits in with this zone, as we are entering the African forest zone. The Andean Garden has been changed into a viewing area for the gorillas, with large glass windows. The old Coati area has been modified slightly for keeping Spot necked otters and Allen's swamp monkey.

The centre of this African forest zone is the Okapi house. There is an extension for another Okapi, where the warty pigs used to be housed, and this exhibit has been modified. The okapis are now kept with Zebra duiker. This extension has blocked the path to the current giraffe house (which now houses other animals), so there is a bridge going over this area to allow the public to be abl to get to the old giraffe house.

As mentioned above the giraffe house is now not used to hold giraffes, and instead houses Bongos, yellow backed duiker and Schmidt's spot nosed guenons.

The Cattle house has been developed into Tropical African themed house. There are still the buffalo and they are mixed in with Debrazza's Guenon. The old indoor pig accommodation has been changed into enclosure for Great Blue Turaco, Rwenzori Turaco, Congo peafowl, green mamba Yellow Casqued hornbill, Rhinoceros viper and Black and Rufous elephant shrew.

The chimp colony has been removed, and has been replaced with a group of Bonobos.

The tropical realm has had no actual structural change. The bird aviaries now have the following species:

Downstairs:

1.Writhed hornbill

2.Bulwer's pheasant

3.Rufous necked hornbill

4.Blue billed curassow

The big aviaries house rufous ad helmeted hornbills.

Upstairs:

The old Congo peafowl aviary now has Thick billed ground dove and Ornate Lorikeets.

1. Visayan Tarictic hornbill
2. Mindoro Bleeding heart and Montserrat oriole
3. Salvadori's and Edward's fig parrot
4. White Crested Turaco and Green naped Pheasant pigeon
5. Timor zebra finch and emerald dove

Also in the tropical realm there are Chinese alligators instead of the West African Dwarf Crocs.

The Picnic Lawn with the Aviaries for the Satyr Tragopans and Himalayan monals has been remodelled into a rainforest house, with the theme being 'same but different'. It is showing how all rainforests are similar but at the same time are different. There are the Green and emerald boas. The Rhinoceros hornbills from the Tropical realm are here, as are a pair of Keel billed toucans. There are many other examples of Convergent rainforest evolution shown in this exhibit. There are also Aloatran Gentle lemurs in here. One of the other example of Convergent evolution kept in here is the Striped possums and the Aye aye.

In the Mythical macaws aviaries, the Golden Conure, and the Golden capped conures are back on show, with the red billed curassows. The Sand lizards are moved off show, and there is another Macaw aviary built here for the Blue headed macaws and the grey breasted conures which are currently off show.

The cassowaries are Changed for Bennett's, and the mongoose enclosure houses numbats. The Pudu are Swapped for the Babirusa, and the Old Kea aviary houses Kakas.
There is also a chinese area near the red Pandas. There are Sclater's and Chinese monals, Grey peacock pheasant, the satyr tragopans from the picnic lawn near the Jags, Derbyan Parkeets, red pandas and Sichuan Takin. The Red crowned cranes have been swapped for Black crowned cranes, and they are living with a pair of golden pheasants. The old Bongo exhibit houses the takin. Most of the birds are housed in a large walk-in aviary, with aviaries around the side for the Monals (as they are so rare). In this walk-in aviary, there are also Oriental white and Painted
storks and Asiatic water fowl.

The parrot housed is Changed so that more species are on show. There will be pesquet's parrots, Red and Blue Lories, Blue Eared Lories, Ultramarine lories, Black winged lory, Blue eyed cockatoo, Eclectus parrots, Horned parakeets and St Lucia amazon. The aviaries are very similar to the Mythical macaws ones, as they are large and Heavily planted. Off show, there are Red vented cockatoos, Pueto Rican Amazons and imperial amazons.

The zoo's sealions have been moved from their exhibit to the zoo's canal system. It has been adapted, so that the animals cannot escape onto any other exhibit. The lemurs from thislands here, except the gentle lemurs, have moved onto Lemur island with the Ring taileds. All the islands have been merged together for a pair of Tamaraw.

The Philippine exhibit is built on the old asian steppe exhibit, and is basically my exhibit (the bird one that there is a plan of on the gallery) with a few minor Changes. The Writhed hornbills are Changed for Visayan wrinkled hornbills, the Rufous hornbills are swapped for the Sulu hornbills and here are some exhibits for Philippine mammals too. There is a mixed exhibit for the spotted deer herd and the warty pigs and as mentioned above, there is the Pair of Tamaraw on the Island in the Canal. The old Lemur enclosures have been Changed into Philippine parrot aviaries, to fit in with the theme. There are Mount Apo Lorikeets, with another pair of Palawan peacock pheasants and the are Mindoro hanging parrots and a small house for a pair of Tarsier. Just near the exit to the philippine zone is another house for Philippine crocodiles.

The old sealion exhibit has been merged with the penguin exhibit and the penguin species have Changed to Royal and King.

The old Flamingo enclosure have been made into two separate waterbird aviaries. One for South East Asian Birds, to fit in with the Realm, and one for south American seabirds, to fit in with the penguins.

The south east asian aviary has Storm's and Milky storks, red wattled lapwing, Pied imperial pigeon, White collared kingfisher and various south east asian ducks. There is also a separate, adjoining aviary for Lesser adjutant storks.

The South American aviary has Maggelenic steamer ducks, maggelenic penguins, Blue footed boobies, Guanay Cormorant, Snowy Sheathbill and Peruvian pelican (pelicanus Thagus)

In Realm of the red Ape, there are some minor Changes. In the Timor Sparrow aviary are Bornean peacock pheasants, chestnut capped thrush and still the little timors. Also there are Malayan Tapirs in with the Orangs, and the lawn outside the realm houses a pair of Clouded leopard.

In the islands in Danger area the pigeon aviary houses Kagu. The other birds in this aviary are Stella's Lorikeet, Golden heart dove and Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon. The white naped pheasant pigeon are put in the Red Bird of Paradise enclosure, and Wilson's Birds of Paradise are mixed in too.

The Aquarium is redeveloped, including Manatees!

The Owl Aviaries near the Mauritius Kestrels Keep Verminculated fishing owl and Silvery casqued hornbills.

Europe On the edge aviary swaps to keeping Bearded vultures (lammergeirs) instead of the Griffon and Black vultures kept currently.

PHEW!!!!!!

Final Update!
13-01-2008

Following from Hornbill's lead, I'll do one final comprehensive update, now that i've had more time to think about it:

-Elephants: Attempt to grow grass in the paddock again. Build second grassed paddock on opposite side of house. (i.e. extended into car park). House remains the same.
-Asian Plains: Rhesus Macaques added. They have access to the old Spider Monkey enclosure in Monkey islands via a 'bridge' similar to the colobus one at London over the public pathway. Current species remain Warty Pigs moved in with spotted deer. Aviary similar to majestic macaws built adjoing the rhino house to house Visayan Writhed Hornbills and therefore completing the philippine area.
-Monkey Islands and Miniature monkeys: Sulawesi Macaques move to Realm of Red Ape, replaced by Drills. Spider Monkeys moved to enclosure by Spirit of the Jaguar on the Arara lawn, replaced by Rhesus Macaques.
-Twilight Zone: Turn part of the lobby into an area for aye-aye and Madagascan Jumping Rat.
-Cloud Forest: Brazilian Tapirs and capybara remain in their exhibit. Vicuna move in with rhea and guanaco. The other Coatis are added to the spectacled bear enclosure. Condor aviary built behind the bear enclosure and public access is created.
-Paddocks: Keep Lechwe by meerkats. Get eland into the paddock behind tsavo café. Rhino numbers are therefore reduced. Move emus and wallabies out. Swap preswalski horses with zebra. Pere David's Deer moved out. Move oryx into old pere davids deer paddock. Keep gemsbok, sitatunga and ostrich the same. Camels moved into paddock next to prezwalski horses. Move Warthogs, mongoose and porcupines into the old emu and wallaby paddock and are kept seperate from the larger animals. Combine zebra, oryx, sitatunga, gemsbok and ostrich enclosures and move giraffes over to form an African plains. Build a giraffe house on the sitatunga house but build facilities in it to hold sitatunga and ostrich. Extend zebra house to hold oryx and gemsbok as well
-Pelicans and water birds: Pelicans moved out of the collection. Replaced by the flamingos. Waterbird hide is kept for viewing of flamingos. The rest of the bird enclosure are used to hold african bird species e.g. Secretary Bird, Marabou Stork etc.
-Tsavo: Keep the same
-Old Rhino house: re-open. Add aardvarks in the first indoor pen and the current warthog outdoor area. Add a mesh netting over the 2nd indoor pen and add a variety of African aviary birds e.g. ground hornbills. Add floor to roof glass panels on the 3rd indoor pen and add a floor substrate similar to Monkey Islands to keep a species of baboon (Olive, Hamadryas?). Turn the second outside area into a dense bush forest for the baboons but carve out a moat and raise the fence (glass panels?)
-Condor Cliffs: Move the condors into a new aviary behind spectacled bears. Add glass panels to the lower viewing area. Reinforce the boundaries and extend into the old maned wolf enclosure for the arrival of gorillas. Gorilla house can be built in north end of wolf paddock (possibly extending into car park). Colobus Monkeys share Gorilla exhibit but have a seperate den behind the condor cliffs. Andean garden replaced by African forest garden with viewing windows.
-Coatis: moved to the spectacled bear enclosure. Replaced by Diana Monkeys and spot-necked otters. A house similar to Miniature Monkeys is built adjoining the old coati island for the Diana Monkeys. A monkey 'bridge' over the footpath, is built from this house over to the gorilla exhibit.
-Giraffes: The paddock will be split between Bongo and Cape Buffalo and it will be replanted similar to the Okapi paddock. The house will be split between them (i.e. 2 stalls each). De brazza's monkeys will be added and will have access to bongo and buffalo areas. The house is given a forest feel.
-Okapi: Zebra Duiker added. Paddock extended into old Warty Pig enclosure, blocking off path to the old Giraffe house.
-Cattle and Antelope house: Visayan Warty Pigs moved in with Philippine spotted deer. Buffalo section turned into Pygmy Hippo area. Larger pool built outside. Small pool built in one of the old buffalo stalls. Warty Pig indoor area turned into aviary for African rainforest birds (Turaco, Congo Peacock, African Grey Parrots, Senegal Parrots). The house is planted and given a dense forest feel. The doors at the other end are opened up and a passage way to the old giraffe house is therefore opened up.
-Chimps: remain the same.
-Tropical Realm: stays largely the same, however vivariums for small rainforest mammals are included in the area that had been closed off, but is now re-opened. Red river hogs and capuchins remain outside. Galapagos tortoises moved out to Islands in Danger.
-Demolish sand-lizard enclosure, move the lizards off-show.
-Spirit of Jaguar: Jaguars remain in rainforest half, Ocelots move into savannah section which becomes planted as rainforest. The lawn directly outside is turned into a giant anteater enclosure. Anteater indoor quarters are inside the savannah drum of spirit of the jaguar. Parrots are moved to off-show parrot house, replaced by various Toucan species.
-Arara picnic lawn: Bush dogs have one enclosure, pudu and mara have another. Spider Monkey enclosure is built on the majority of the lawn.
-Realm of the Red Ape: remains largely the same, Clouded Leopard enclosure built on RoRA lawn. Sulawesi Crested Macaques mixed with Orangs and Gibbons. Babirusa are given the old Sumatran Orang Utan island which is deep-littered and tree stumps and bushes replace the climbing frame. The fence is raised and the moat becomes shallower.
-Flamingo Islands: Converted into Malayan Tapir and Proboscis Monkey mixed exhibit. If not proboscis monkeys, Javan Langurs instead.
-Lemur Islands: Both ruffed lemur species moved onto ring-tail island. Gentle Lemurs remain on their island. Anoa remain on their island. Sifaka move onto old ruffed lemur island.
-Cheetahs stay unchanged; Onagers mixed with Persian Goitered Gazelles. Camels moved to paddocks area.
-Penguins stay the same
-More sealions added to their pool.
-Aquarium: redeveloped, includes underwater viewing for sealions and a central tank for manatees. Amphibian House built offshow
-European aviary stays the same.
-Larger Lion and Tiger houses built.
-Red Pandas: remain in their area. Pudu moved to arara lawn. Old bongo paddock turned into Chinese mixed species exhibit containing Chinese water deer and Pere Davids Deer. Oriental short clawed otters remain. Crane exhibit turned into mixed species aviary including golden pheasants.
-Old bush dog and pudu enclosures turned into Parma wallaby enclosure and wombat enclosure respectively. Numbats move into the mongoose enclosure. Kea return to their old aviary and Kangaroos and Cassowary remain to form an Australasian themed area.
-Childrens farm: demolished and replaced by Coyote enclosure to create a small North American theme with prarie marmots nearby.
-Islands in Danger: has a Galapagos tortoise extension (in similar style to Dragons in Danger) on opposite side to the komodo extension. (i.e. extends onto the lawn).

Obviously some species of reptiles, small mammals, invertabrates and birds may come in and out of the collection.

My plan creates:
- An African Rainforest Zone: Ranging from the gorilla enclosure to the chimps. Species include gorillas, chimps, bongo, buffalo, pygmy hippo, okapi and red river hogs et al.
- A South American Rainforest Zone: Ranging from exit of Tropical Realm to Arara lawn. Species include Jaguars, Ocelot, Anteater, Spider Monkeys, Capuchins, toucans et al.
- A South East Asian Rainforest Zone: Ranging from Realm of the Red Ape to what was the flamingo exhibit. Species include Orang Utans, Gibbons, Babirusa, Tapir, Proboscis Monkey, Clouded Leopard, Sulawesi Macaques.
- An Oceania Area: Kangaroos, Wombats, Wallabies, Numbats, Cassowary.
- A China area: Red Panda, Pere David's Deer, Water Deer, Chinese birds.
- An African Savannah: Ranging from the old rhino house to what was the ostrich paddock. Species include rhinos, giraffe, zebra, ostrich, warthogs, flamingos, baboons, aardvarks et al.
- A cloud forest: Ranging from Tapir enclosure to the new condor aviary. Species include spectacled bears, coati, tapir, capybara, rhea, vicuna, guanaco, condors.
- Asian Steppes: Preszwalski Horses and Camels.
- Madagascar Islands: The re-arranged lemurs and Sifaka.

13-01-2008

Right, my idea for chester would be to remove most of the animals the EVERY collection more or less keeps. try and be a little more creative (or sporadic some may say) in the zoning, basically just make it a little more interesting. im gonna post this in chunks as i need to tweek a few things but feel free to rip it to shreads/ comment etc

Basically for some of the "Zones" id much rather focus on one specific area of what most zoos would call a theme....that probably doesnt make sense so for example:

Instead of a "polar" theme, ive gone for an "alaskan" theme....not much difference but signage etc, would focus on specifics in this area.

(going off the zoo map)

Starting from the main entrance, and working our way through the west of the zoo, id remove the elephants!!!.

ZONE 1

turn the whole elephant enclosure into an Alaskan themed encloure ie, the ele house and half their outside paddock redeveloped for polar bears ( including their off show bull paddock)

the rest of the exhibit space would be given up for sea otter, walrus, arctic fox, and in the house arctic hare, and other small arctic mammals.

ZONE 2

Now, im basically re-arranging the whole of the zoo masterplan here but anyway. Id change the whole of the onager/camel. condor cliffs. coatis and old maned wolf enclosure into a Indian/Himalayan area.

Onagers and Camels:

Change this to an Indian Rhino exhibit, expanding it all the way back to the Lechwe. Include BlackBuck in with the Rhino's. Gaur, where the Lechwe were.

Condor cliffs:

remove the condors, replace with Sloth Bear, Gee's golden Langur and Indian Giant Squirrel, allow expansion into maned wolf exhibit for housing.

On Coati Island

Indian Pangolin, Indian Porcupine and Eurasian otters.

In the old maned wolf exhibit i would put Ratel and Rhesus Macaque. Ratel in front, in a sandy exhibit, explanation of burrows and "burrow cam" and macaques in background on a facade of a ruined temple.

ZONE 3

Giraffe, Okapi, Hogs and old Babirusa House.

Giraffe house:

would now contain Eastern Lowland Gorillas with inside viewing and access to the outside (with moat) also with an inside enclosure only would be Drill.

Okapi would stay where they where.

The old babirusa House (inside and out) would be given over to Congo Black hippo, including use of a section of the canal for bathing.

Also in a section of the house the house would also be congo clawless otters, with access to an outside area.


Red river hogs would stay the same. This area wold become "Zaire" and theoretically be an immersion exhibit, where barriers didnt seem to exist.- throughout this area, Mantled Guereza would wander "freely" above the visitors heads on ropes and platforms etc- also able to enter the hippos and gorilla exhibits.

moving on to the chimps and the tropical realm, i would replace chimps with Bonobo.

ZONE 3 part 2


The Tropical realm would be split in two, one half would house Reptiles and Avian species of Tropical Africa, the other a new exhibit based on nocturnal animals, not quite a nocturnal house, but a voyage around the world focusing on nocturnal species such as:

Europe:

Hedgehog, fox, Pipastrelle bat.

Asia:

Slow Loris, Fruit bat, Malayan Tapir

Africa:

Porcupine, bushbaby, african civet.

Australia:

Bilby, Wombat, Cous-cous, Chudditch, Possum.

ZONE 4

Jaguars- this would become the south American house, only the rainforest side would be left for the jaguars move to 1.1 instead of current population.

the other side of the exhibit would make way for:

Inside (split in 2)

One half would be for giant anteaters and squirrel monkey, with access to a bit of outside area. Other half would house Margay.

Outside are would house Jaguarundi.

Inside where guests walk thru would be re-built, more plants, etc false trees and free ranging capuchins/ marmosets would be in there.

Arara would be redesigned to be animal housing for an exhibit on the Picnic lawn. this would become the spectecled Bears and Coatis, along with giant otters. ( this exhibit would be extended behind the Arara building aswell)

ZONE 5

Realm of the red ape would stay the same, except only focus on Sumatran Orans. Add silvery gibbons to RORA.

lemur Island would become home to White cheeked gibbon and Binturong.

Flamingoes would be removed, in their place Pygmy Hippo, extra islands (only small ones) to be build to hold Proboscis monkeys and Sulawesi macaque.

Coluded leopard house to be build Near RORA, highly planted and darkened, focus exhibit, almost a "research centre"

Aquarium to be expanded and to become an Asian Mangroves exhibit.

it has above exhibit walkway going through it. exhibiting Dugong, tamaraw and a macaque species.

Penguin and sea lions removed, re-developed into fishing cat in old penguin area, sunken into ground lower than the exhibit is now.and a false gharial/ red shanked douc exhibit in old sea lion area, gahrials to the front of the exhibit, Douc on an island to the back. Behind the Island is a house the can be accessed by public for in house viewing of douc, also small mammals (rodent) on display in this house.

Thats the end of part 1.

part 2 will focus on Bongo, Red panda areas, Islands in danger, lions, tigers, twilight zone and Monkey house.

VIRTUALLY ALL TO CHANGE!

part 3 will focus on east side of the zoo, where the rhinos will NOT be anymore- well atleast most of them.

Comments would be appreciated.

13-01-2008

Wow!! That's A Huge Change!

14-01-2008

i know....

im just basing it on zoos ive visited in the US and Australia..... itd be alot more "immersion" than the zoo currently is......

14-01-2008

oh wow, thats a lot of change.

14-01-2008

PART 2

Mauritius Kestrels removed, in their place, umbrella cocatoos.

bongos, otters, red pandas bush dogs and pudus removed to make an Oceania area

where the bongos where, replace with dingo.

Otters to be replaced by tasmanian devils.

the crane aviary to be knocked down, then joined with the red panda exhibit to create a koala house and outdoor exhibit. The "outdoor exhibit is to be covered by 3 sides and has extr heating and live euclyptus trees.Rock wallaby on the ground. Indoor exhibit holds the Koalas aswell as Bandicoot and a Sugar glider room.

Bush dogs now features an Australaian aviary, featuring cocatoos, Lories, and echidnas on the ground. this is a walk thru exhibit.

Where the Pudu was is now an Numbat enclosure, and there is an indoor enclosure for platypus, based on the taronga zoo "river bank" enclosue.

the kangaroos and cassowerie stay where they are, general tidy up to the area.

Spotted deer area now turned into a new zealand themed "house" inside wich there are maori carvings etc, and exhibiting Tuatara, kiwi, Kea and Kokako.

CURRENT LION, TIGER AND EUROPEAN AVIARY

the Current lion enclosure would be re-developed,still holding Asiatic lions.

The tiger enclosure would be redeveloped for snow leopard and the aviary will hold the Himalayan wolf.

Islands in Danger would be enlarged, and feature about the whole of indonesia, this would include turning the islands into an outside paddock for the house (therefore filling some of the canal in to join these:

the animals it would hold would be:

Anoa.
Babirusa
Komodo dragon
Bali Mynah
Tarsier
Moor macaque
Maleo
bush pig.
Tree kangaroo.

the other islands would be left for lemur theoretically swapping the anoa island and the first lemur island.

now back to the MONKEY HOUSE

this would be redeveloped, as a large breeding centre for the south china tiger, on the largest island, Snub nose monkeys on one island and red pandas on the other.

inside viewing would be for the tigers and red pandas. the smaller areas of grass facing the deer would be given over to muntjac.

the facing deer would then be moved and this exhibit would hold a group of snow macaque and Cranes, in a large rocky area.

the twilight zone would be completley re done, with "world of the weird" as its title, holding aye ayes. this will be its main exhibit in the lobby.

in the open area would not be bats,and it will not be as dark (still be quite dark)

inside will be heated and hold sun bears `( the layout would be different ie, the walkway will be iin a different position.

they would have access to the current tapyir and capybara areas.

the current spec bear enclosure would be given over to Amur leopard, and an aviary, of chinese water birds where the rheas and guancos are.

THE PADDOCKS

this would be cmpletley re-developed into an African safari area. most of the walls will be brought down so that it is one large paddock. it would be based as if you are walking thru a dry river bed. and during exhibited here will be many african animals, again this is an immersion exhibit and it takes over ALL the paddocks including the Tsavo area.

these are the main animals to be exhibited:

Cheetah
Fennec Fox
Serval
Caracal
Hyena
Spur thighed tortoise
Grevys Zebra
Rothschild Giraffe
Addax
Impala
Jackal
warthog
AArdvark
black rhino
meerkat
mongoose
wildebeast

that takes up most of the rest of the current zoo.

the only differene are the two paddocks closest to the TSavo cafe, one of the paddocks has been converted into a house, inside is a pair of Sumatran Rhinos. they have access to the outside paddock, but half of the paddock is given over to visayan warty pig.

Also here is a pair of iberian lynx in an new enclosure and a family of black lion tamirins.....this area focuses on some of the worlds most endangered animals. and is seen as an end exhibit to the zoo. it focuses on the roles of zoos in the past and looks towards the future.

THATS ALL FOLKS

14-01-2008

That's a very interesting plan, brokehalo!

It's a lot different than mine because I tried to make mine semi-realistic, but yours is a different take on it.

There are some great species mentioned and in intriguing exhibits (Ratel and macaques, for example).

I do have one query though, wouldn't the south china tigers be able to swin onto the other islands?

Oh, feedback on my plan would also be appreciated, guys

14-01-2008

ha ha

if i only had the money and the access to such creatures......

19-01-2008

Going Out...
Forest Buffalo
Red River Hog
Spectacled Bear
Europe on the Edge
Californian Sealions
Pere David's Deer
Cassowary
Onager
Gemsbok
Vicuna
Pudu
Chimpanzees

Coming In...
African Wild Dog
Binturong
Nile Hippopotamus
Sun Bear
Giant Panda
Waterbuck
Patagonian Sealions
King Penguins
Inca Terns
Anteaters
Sloths
Sifaka
Koala
Tasmanian Devils
Sri Lankan Leopard
Hanuman Langur
Aardvark
Aardwolf
Bat-Eared Fox
Bonobo
De Brazza's Guenon

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19-01-2008

Good map Chris! I was planning on doing the map for mine sometime this weekend, but you beat me too it!

19-01-2008

Hey Chris you can't get rid of the spec bears and vicuna they've not been here for long! I like your map. Quite a few on your wanted list have been seen at Chester before:

Binturong
Nile Hippopotamus
Sun Bear
Anteaters
Bat-Eared Fox
De Brazza's Guenon

but it would be nice to see them back. Can you also find room for armadilloes, solenodons, pygmy hogs, mouse deer, zebra and Jentink's duiker, platypus?

19-01-2008

I can envisage all those species fitting into my masterplan. Armadillos in the Amazon House, Solenodons in a caribbean section of the much bigger islands in danger (with rhinoceros iguana nearby), pygmy hogs would be a good one to go near Sri Lankan Leopard and Hanuman Langur in what is currently the Spider Monkey exhibit, mouse deer with the bats in the Asian Rainforest house, Duiker in the African rainforest house and platypus in a simulated forest stream in the Australian Woodland House. They're some good choices of species to get.

If I could expand this onto new land, I would build a bigger mountain zone, keeping the andean bears and vicuna, and bringing in Gelada and Ibex, and also build a desert area for goitred gazelle, onager, addax, somali wild ass, mhorr gazelle and sand cats.

19-01-2008

Despite some of my favourites leaving (buffalo, bears, vicuna, red river hogs, onagers) that's a really nice idea chris. I Woudnt mind Chester looking like that