Your Personal Vision for Chester » Chester Zoo

19-01-2008

Chris, did you create that map in MS paint?

I'm trying to figure out the best method of creating my map...

19-01-2008

Yeah I did. I stupidly saved it as a jpeg though, to keep the size down. If I'd used a bmp. I could've just given you a blank one as a template.

Out of interest did I expand in the right place? I put the new rhino bit onto the paddock behind where the oryx are now.

20-01-2008

That land is owned by the zoo, so I would say yes you did.

My map
25-01-2008

I've finally done my map of my project!

A couple things that may need explaining;
- Galapagos House contains indoor and outdoor areas for tortoises and an aviary for finches.
- Australia House contains a koala exhibit, wombat exhibit and kookaburra aviary. All with indoor and outdoor access.
- Oceania area contains the zoo's kangaroos, wallabies, cassowaries, emus, numbats, keas and tuataras.

Feedback will be appreciated and i'll answer any questions regarding my plan and maps.

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25-01-2008

Perhaps you could inegrate Oceana and Australia regions , and call it Australasia , as that will encompass Aust. NZ and PNG/W Papua . There were no animals in your list that could be found in , say , Fiji or Samoa .

A walk through mixed exhibit of kangaroo , wallaby , emu ( at least )
More parrots in an Aust. aviary (but not keas )
A twilight house that has fruitbats , possums and other small marsupials from Aust .
A reptile house that includes tuatara , thorny lizard , monitors , scree skink , frogs , freshies
An invertabrae exhibit that has Giant wetas and whatever large insect or spider the Australian forum members mightlike to nominate
Tui and bellbird in seperate aviary from keas . Keas are somewhat incompatible for a mixed aviary given their insatiable curiosity and strength

26-01-2008

Oh sorry, Nigel. The Oceania area is meant to be an Australasian zone. My mistake...

I like the walk through mixed exhibit idea. It will encompass the current kangaroo and pudu enclosures and the cassowaries will be viewed from here as well, but will stay in their enclosure.

I guess I could fit a Giant Weta vivarium adjacent to the old kea aviary (which will be next to a new tuatara enclosure.

An Australian aviary could be built attached to the Australia House and Australian invertabrate tanks could be inside...

A new update:
- Eland are removed and replaced by the Cheetahs.
- Camels and Prezwalski Horses (Mongolian Plains) moved to old Cheetah enclosure
- The African Plains is extended into what was the mongolian plains and an elevated path is built above the existing path.

26-01-2008

Nice plans, but I don't think there'd be room for gorillas on that strip of land where the maned wolves and condors are.

26-01-2008

In the 1988 masterplan that area was proposed as a gorilla enclosure.

31-05-2008

I'd add clouded leopard,fishing cat,malayan tapir and muntjac deer to the Asian elephant complex

31-05-2008

No where near enought space for all 4 species. Though i guess you could get rid of the animals currently there.

31-05-2008

Without getting rid of the elephants, there is still not enough space for those species. The house was designed to give as much room as possible towards the elephants, hence the large off-show areas (well that's what a keeper told me once anyway). The hornbill avairy is the only enclosure which is large enough to be a suitable enclosure for the fishing cats or muntjac. The tapirs and leopards would need a lot more space...

31-05-2008

I agree, the hornbill aviary is probably the only place you could place a Fishing Cat. You could mix the muntjac with the elephants but im not sure they'd take that risk.

31-05-2008

There could be a phase 2 extension into the car park though, hopefully with a grass paddock for the elephants too.

01-06-2008

The hornbills are not moving!

01-06-2008

Having looked at my ideas on the first page of this thread. I think i should do it again this time properly since a few of my ideas look rather poor.