Following up Julio's post, I visited in late February. There is a construction fence around a big chunk of the area around the elephants,...
There was talk of bringing gorillas back to the zoo in the earlier master plan (they were sent away in the 1990s), but that seems to have gone...
Why is this likely the last potto? Are pottos phasing out in AZA zoos as the current population dies out?
Earlier in this thread the question of whether this zoo has puffins was discussed. Did you see any puffins when you visited?
One of the benefactors of the de-ratification of the Lord Howe Islands is an endemic cockroach species once thought extinct. Endangered...
Here is the text from the budget proposal: Are they referring to the orangutan exhibit as the "Entry Exhibit", or is the entry exhibit a...
Would that 14 million dollars likely be for a new orang exhibit?
is the Asian hoofstock exhibit the old elephant exhibit? What are candidate species for this space? Malayan tapir? Babirusa?
I have not visited the zoo in the winter, but from my previous visits there I can tell you that the elephants, giant pandas, gorillas, and...
Dolly the sheep was cloned almost 30 years ago, and the mammoth and thylacine have been scheduled to be cloned since that time.
Giraffes exhibited on their own used to be the norm. It seems that as new giraffe exhibits are built they are often as part of mixed species...
I have been really enjoying these reviews also. Thanks for taking us along with you, @MGolka. @Kudu21 Do you have any insight into what Dallas...
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The Oakland Zoo has an excellent black bear exhibit with full grown trees for them to climb dozens of feet. That is a model of black bear exhibit...
In the last decade since this thread started there has been some notable zoo aquarium action in North America. The Point Defiance zoo in Tacoma,...
Egomaniacal humans who want to be famous.
Don't skip the children's zoo as it has some of the most interesting features of the zoo like the insect Zoo and the native California animals.
@Gondwana This seems like a (once?) major zoo if it had megafauna like elephants, hippos, rhinos, etc. When was the last time that it had these...
What exactly is the conservation center going to be? Is it primarily an off-exhibit reptile breeding facility? Will it have any public exhibits...
The Dallas World Aquarium is an accredited zoo with what is widely considered to be an amazing collection of animals. The quality of some of the...
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