This is the thread where we can discuss about the Rio de Janeiro zoo and its animals, as well as any other stuff related to the institution.
Currently: * Western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) - Batu Secret Zoo * Silvery marmoset (Mico argentatus) - Faunaland * Common marmoset...
Does anyone know zoos where lemurs are kept within the region ? What species are kept and how many individuals ? What are the enclosures like...
I found this interesting article the other day on the history of zoos in Latin America written by a scholar at Oxford University, UK. It...
This is the cerrado biome exhibit at Belo Horizonte zoo. It houses a couple of gray brocket deers, a couple of greater rheas, two giant anteaters,...
Baby caiman rescued from the traffic. He's living in the old caiman pond with amazon turtles (Podocnemis expansa) and some Geoffroy's side-necked...
This is the male individual of marsh deer at BH zoo. A female arrived a few weeks ago, but I couldn't spot her on the exhibit.
This is the marsh deer exhibit at BH zoo. A male has been living there for a few years, and a female arrived a few weeks ago, but I couldn't spot...
This is a simulation of the spring of the brazilian river of São Francisco, right at the entrance of the zoo's thematic aquarium that exclusively...
First public butterfly house in Brazil.
7.500m2 (1.8 acre/80.730ft2) exhibit for the african bush elephants.
1300m2 (0,3 acre/13400ft2) dry moat style exhibit for gray woolly monkeys (lagothrix cana).
Row with six exhibits that hold four different species of hoofstock animals: Gemsbok, red-deer, fallow-deer and marsh-deer
Western lowland gorilla "Imbi" with her two offspring.
Lush 1300m2 (13400ft²) chimpanzee exhibit at Belo horizonte zoo. The zoo houses 2 chimpanzees nowadays (the picture is from 2018. The exhibit has...
One of the two individuals of chimpanzees that the zoo houses. This is the female, 'Dorotéia'; she lives with her stepfather, 'Serafim'.
Caiman floating in his new exhibit. This species has good reproductive results at the zoo
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