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Brookfield Zoo - Tropic World
04-08-2008
July 2008. Gorilla exhibit.
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#2
22-10-2008
At least the exhibit offers the Gorilla ample climbing opportunities. They just need an outdoor exhibit.
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#3
22-10-2008
The exhibit is ugly and completely fake, and the one major problem that I have besides the small size is the fact that zoo visitors can go all the way around the gorillas. There is not much room for privacy, and I have photos here on ZooChat with a gorilla chewing on a pop bottle that had fallen into the pit.
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#4
27-01-2009
That's hideous and about the size of Melbourne Zoos old ape grottoes (which are now home to two De Brazza's monkeys and three male gorillas) but the only difference is that Melbournes exhibits had grass floors.
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#5
28-01-2009
It is rare to find such climbing structures for gorillas...
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#6
28-01-2009
That's because adult gorillas don't often do a lot of climbing.
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#7
28-01-2009
Actually, in the wild lowland gorillas are highly arboreal. The notion that gorillas don't like to climb came primarily though studies of Mountain gorillas, who don't (because there's no good fruit in the trees of their habitat).
At Bronx (in a naturalistic way) and Lincoln Park (in a highly stylized artificial way), good provisions for gorilla climbing have resulted in gorillas being up high a lot of the time. Good fun for all |
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#8
28-01-2009
Last there in 07' The Silverback was in allot of pain with arthritis, how is he now?
They do use the climbing structures allot. I would suggest in a effort to NOT be looked down on among other reasons. I belive there are plans for an outdoor exhibit.
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#9
29-01-2009
The fact that this exhibit is 100% fake and seemingly coated in plastic, there is zero outdoor areas, the gorillas are surrounded on all sides by gawking zoo visitors...I won't continue to discuss this exhibit as I personally feel that it is a complete disaster and is now 30 years out of date. Woodland Park Zoo built a pair of gorilla enclosures that are now 30 years old this year and are still brilliant! Brookfield should have built a new, outdoor gorilla exhibit in another part of the zoo and turned this one into an enclosure for a smaller primate species decades ago.
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