It is really a sad state of affairs, actually. I’ve seen a guy whip out a pistol and point it jokingly at an elephant and say, “Imma get me a...
Saint Louis Zoo has an indoor (wintertime) exhibit called Jungle of the Apes opened in 1986, and an outdoor (spring/summertime) one called Fragile...
Noted. I’m just going by what friends have said, I haven’t lived there in years. And I consider all the NYC zoos separate facilities, because they...
This is a wonderful thread! :) Are there any land-based fauna endemic to the Hawaiian islands that you’ve photographed? I don’t know much about...
They live for 100 years, right? And only breed when a very specific fruit only found where they live has a bountiful season?
I would love to see a kakapo someday. It seems the conservation program they’re doing with them in NZ has actually been pretty successful these...
Apologies in advance for bumping a 4.5-year-old thread, but recent discussion of ungulates elsewhere on the forum had me curious: are there any...
It does suck. I understand that zoos only have so many resources, and they want to improve QoL for the species they keep, so it is inevitable in...
I have been to the San Diego Zoo many times, but have never been able to make it out to the Safari Park. It's definitely on my bucket list after I...
Is San Diego the only zoo in the US that is able to keep koalas as part of their permanent collection? I've read that all other American zoos have...
Interesting. I wonder if STL will do the same when their safari park opens: establish an overarching non-profit like San Diego and New York have,...
That's the only one I wasn't entirely sure about. The alpacas were behind-the-scenes with the other Children's Zoo animals, they had what looked...
I understand your skepticism. Their website is always notoriously out-of-date, and the Children's Zoo animals have been removed from the site...
I'm not a taxonomist, so I can't tell you which subspecies some of these are (I just wrote down what the signage said for them). The Addra gazelle...
I appreciate the post, I thought you were belittling STL as a facility and now I see in hindsight that I was incorrect. However, your ungulate...
Dragons? Like the Game of Thrones kind? But... why? That’s... oh nevermind. :rolleyes:
The zoo can charge free admission because every St. Louis and St. Louis County resident (about 1.4 million people, out of a metro of 3 million)...
On an unrelated note, Wyman’s post reminded me that San Diego no longer has its pandas. Has there been any information about when/if they will get...
If this is entirely an exercise in fantasy, then I would keep ‘unkeepable’ animals, oceanic fauna that currently cannot be kept and the public...
Could you give a source for those numbers? Because I know for a fact that the STL figures are incorrect, although I cannot vouch for the other two...
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