Desert Dome - Black-Footed Cat Exhibit (Atrociously Tiny)

July 6th, 2012.

Interesting...used to be home to bat-eared foxes. I may be wrong (I often am), but I think the exhibit goes back a ways.

The exhibit is very tiny and not only that but is essentially a large grey slab of cement with almost zero natural substrate on the ground. The bat-eared foxes are now next to the meerkat/klipspringer enclosure.

In the formal serval exhibit, above guests' heads and behind wire? Slightly better for them, I think.

Was there a leopard crammed into one of those cat cages at one time? I vaguely remember them being on the original species list when the dome was conceived.

Update: this article mentions leopards being in the dome when it first opened:
http://netnebraska.org/extras/statewide/pers/desert_dome.html

Looks like they need to replace black-footed cats with fennec foxes.

Or a lizard. Just a question for anyone who has seen this in person: What do you think would be an appropriate species for this little cave?

No animal. Maybe a plant of some kind.

No animal, no plant. Maybe a stuffed animal or a statue.