Changes You Would Make to Your Zoo

I really hope so. If he is serious, He would basicly want a downgrade of the entire zoo and send away the pandas and polar bears. 2 of the most popular animals in the zoo. Elephant odyessy, Northern frontier, Discovery outpost, and The beloved panda Trek. Not to metion bring back the old outdated ugly elephant mesa, and monkey cages,

 

Woodland Park Zoo


1. Turn former Elephant Forest into Unicorns of Nepal, a state-of-the-art habitat for Indian rhinoceroses. Add babirusas, gaurs, Komodo dragons, gibbons and nilgais.

2. Reopen Day and Night exhibit.

3. Turn Temperate Forest into Peaks of Tibet, an immersive exhibit with snow leopards, red pandas, cranes, takin and Bactrian camels.

4. Move hippos to new exhibit and turn their old one into a kopje featuring meerkats, bat-eared foxes, crested porcupines, hyraxes and dik-diks. Add an exhibit for African birds to the area as well.

5. Turn Adaptations into an aviary.

6. Build Chimpanzee Conservation Camp as an extension of Tropical Rainforest. Hippos, mandrills, bongos, red river hogs, leopards, okapis, mangabeys and crocodiles will also be included in the project.

7. Turn Australasia into a Grasslands of the Americas region one half a South American Pampas with guanacos and rheas and the other half a North American prairie with bison, elk and pronghorn.


Point Defiance Zoo


1. Replace elephants with a good habitat for Indian rhinos.

2. Build a new Antarctic penguin exhibit.

3. Add orangutans, red pandas and Visayan warty pigs to Asian Forest Sanctuary.

4. Build a permanent exhibit for camels.

5. Build state-of-the-art habitats for polar bears and sea lions in a region called the Frigid Western Rim.

6. Add an Australia section with kangaroos, koalas, wallabies and wombats.

7. Turn North Pacific Aquarium into Expedition Amazon, filled with New World primates as well as jaguars, ocelots, porcupines, agoutis, capybaras and anteaters (jaguars and ocelots will have outdoor enclosures.)


Oregon Zoo


1. Build modern chimpanzee exhibit.

2. Turn Africa into Tsavo Trek, an immersive exhibit complex for black rhinos, giraffes, gerenuks, warthogs, zebras, lesser kudu, vervet monkeys, aardvarks and ostriches.

3. Build polar bear complex incorporating and re-theming Stellar Cove.

4. Renovate penguin exhibit, making it more immersive.

5. Build Siberia next to the Education Center to provide state-of-the-art habitats to Amur leopards and tigers.





Sacramento Zoo


1. Phase out orangutans to build a larger, more naturalistic state-of-the-art habitat for a troop of chimpanzees.

2. Build a nice aviary on Reptile House lawn.

3. Knock down the grottos and build two habitats: a savanna one for lions and a bamboo forest one for tigers.

4. Combine giraffe and zebra yards and spruce up the exhibit.

5. Build a better, lusher habitat for the saki monkeys and mix them with giant anteaters and other New World primates. Construct a jaguar exhibit nearby.

6. Give gibbons/siamangs a new exhibit.

7. Add meerkats, squirrel monkeys, tapirs and beavers to the collection.


Sequoia Park Zoo


1. Add exhibits for black bears, cougars, bobcats and coyotes.

2. Add Madagascar exhibit with lemurs and fossa.

3. Add anteaters, capybaras, guanacos and maned wolves to Andes section.

4. Add camels, guenons and prairie dogs to the collection.


San Francisco Zoo


1. Phase out polar bears, Indian rhinoceros and hippos.

2. Redesign Gorilla Preserve complete with a tunnel for viewing the gorillas. Include this as well as a new black rhinoceros exhibit as part of an expansion of the African Region.

3. Demolish all of Cat Kingdom for a major overhaul. Pachyderm building site will become an expansion of Primate Discovery Center with naturalistic habitats for chimpanzees and orangutans. Lion House and surrounding yards will become Feline Edge, a state-of-the-art habitat complex for lions, tigers, snow leopards, jaguars, fishing cats and clouded leopards.

4. Build a state-of-the-art Pacific Coast exhibit for California sea lions.

5. Construct a modern Penguin Island for African penguins.

6. Expand Grizzly Gulch and Wolf Canyon with exhibits for bison, condors, bobcats, otters and wolverines creating a more cohesive region.


Oakland Zoo


1. California Trail expansion adds exhibits for grizzly bears, black bears, bison, elk, jaguars, wolves, cougars, condors, eagles, bobcats, coyotes and sea lions.

2. Lion and tiger exhibits get renovated so visitors can get much closer to the cats with hoofstock in the background. For lions do it with a new exhibit for giraffes, African antelope, zebras and birds and for tigers do it with tapirs. Bring tigers near the sun bears.

3. Add pygmy hippos to the collection and give them a brand new exhibit.

4. Move chimpanzees into a naturalistic habitat.

5. Build modern, larger exhibits for squirrel monkeys, tamarins and vultures.

6. Bring back black rhinoceros and put them by the elephants.

7. Improve viewing areas for the hyenas.

8. Add cheetahs, Cape buffalo, greater kudu and impalas.

9. Build a red panda exhibit.


Charles Paddock Zoo


1. Phase out fishers and tigers, replacing them with ocelots.

2. Build nice spider monkey /titi monkey/sloth exhibit.

3. Add a decent otter exhibit where puppet show area is.

4. Construct a gibbon exhibit.

5. Mix red river hogs with bat eared fox in expanded exhibit.


Happy Hollow Zoo


1. Build new exhibit for jaguars.

2. Add penguins, giant anteaters and Asian small-clawed otters to the collection in good exhibits.


Santa Barbara Zoo


1. Phase out elephants and replace their exhibit area with a naturalistic habitat for tigers.

2. Renovate giraffe exhibit and have it take up all the space down to the lions (move meerkats).

3. Redesign gorilla exhibit making it larger, more naturalistic and educational. Make it the centerpiece of the master plan and name it Gorillas of the Jungle (build it in Hilltop region)

4. Renovate penguin exhibit.

5. Add black bears to the collection as well as a new otter exhibit.

6. Open Australian section for kangaroos and emus.


Fresno Chaffee Zoo


1. Add River section to Adventure Africa featuring hippos, Nile crocodiles, colobus monkeys and bongos.

2. Bring back gorillas to the zoo.

3. Open Asian Outpost exhibit with tigers, sloth bears, orangutans, Komodo dragons, tapirs and macaques.

4. Move warthogs to African Adventure.

5. Phase out Asian elephants to make room for Asian Outpost.

6. Open state-of-the-art camel exhibit.

7. Add children’s zoo with an Americas theme featuring animals such as anteaters, squirrel monkeys, otters, bobcats, porcupines, prairie dogs and capybaras.


Living Desert


1. Add lion exhibit.

2. Build a new kopje exhibit for meerkats, hyraxes, servals, fennec foxes, Hamadryas baboons, klipspringers, ibexes, pancake tortoises and aardvarks.

3. Add springbok, gemsbok and eland in a Kalahari exhibit.

4. Add an Asian desert exhibit featuring animals such as Somali wild asses, Preswalzki’s wild horses, Bactrian camels and gazelles.

5. Open an Australian desert exhibit with wallabies and kangaroos.


Santa Ana Zoo


1. Replace monkey cages with modern, naturalistic habitats (Primates of the World) for lemurs, gibbons, siamangs, colobus monkeys, spider monkeys, langurs and mangabeys.

2. Add giant otter exhibit.

3. Add jaguars, Baird’s tapirs, pygmy hippos, okapis and Andean bears to the zoo.

4. Open a stellar alligator exhibit.


Los Angeles Zoo


1. Eventually tear down all the round houses at the zoo since they are far out of date.

2. Demolish most of the left side of the zoo to create Kruger region for lions, white rhinos, hippos, giraffes, zebras, impalas, warthogs, kudus, sables and possibly Cape buffalo. Create a bushveld environment and have the trail bring visitors close to the animals. Build it in three phases.

3. Build new exhibits for tigers and snow leopards, connecting them to Elephants of Asia.

4. On upper right part of the zoo create an Andean bear habitat showing the animals in an immersive environment. Add an extension to Rainforests of the Americas featuring other South American animals including maned wolves, capybaras, guanacos, rheas, cougars and penguins.

5. Add some trees to Campo Gorilla Reserve.

6. Build a nice exhibit for lemurs.

7. Add a Southwestern Desert section featuring pronghorn, bighorn sheep, roadrunners, peccaries, bobcats and wolves.




San Diego Safari Park


1. Modernize African elephant exhibit creating easier viewing and design more stimulant for their natural behaviors.

2. Expand Tiger Trail to have access to the Asian Savanna. Possible species could include anoas, tapirs and striped hyenas.

3. Redesign Gorilla Forest, building a state-of-the-art habitat.

4. Add a North America section featuring black bears, bison, elk, Mule deer, pronghorn and bighorn sheep.

5. Add Walkabout area with kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas, wombats and cassowaries.


San Diego Zoo


1. Move clouded leopards back to Monkey Trails and Forest Trails.

2. Phase out Malayan tapirs from Tiger River and replace them with pudu.

3. Turn former Elephant Mesa into a habitat for giraffes, zebras and gazelles. Phase out rhinos. Habitat can be viewed from a boardwalk.

4. Close bear grottoes/ Sun Bear Forest and build naturalistic habitats for lions, warthogs and waterbuck, creating an extension of Africa Rocks. Phase out lions from EO and have jaguars use both yards. Also add exhibit

5. Add kangaroo walkabout to Austalian Outback.

6. Turn Children’s Zoo into an aquatic themed area with a new sea lion exhibit as the centerpiece. Additionally, there will be sea otters, puffins, fish and sharks.

7. Add vegetation to the elephant exhibit.

8. Tear down Northern Frontier exhibits to expand Polar Plunge with grizzly bears (including underwater viewing) and gray wolves.

9. Add another tiger yard to Tiger River.

 

Lincoln Park zoo
1. Rebuild the lion house, It will have bigger enclosures for Lions, Jaguars, snow leopards, Amur leopards, pumas, and red pandas.
2. Phase out wild dogs and replace them with spotted hyenas
3. Move the Grants Gazzelle, and ostrich back to the savannah
4. Sables would take up their current area by Camels
5. Move all of the colobus monkeys to African journey.
6. Add a drill to live with the debrazza monkeys
7. Create a primate boardwalk witch would have outdoor exhibits for francois langur, Debrazza/Drill, Howler/ Grey tit-tit, and Allens swamp monkeys
8. Have reindeer move into the white lipped deer exhibit

 

My "local" zoo (well, facility actually called a zoo, in a separate post I'll talk about the other place) is Sacramento Zoo, and while not pitiful, it needs some major updating and changing. For being in the capitol of California it's really not that great. It IS small, but just cause it's small doesn't mean it has to suck.

- First off, there is a row of old-style carnivore habitats home to Snow Leopard, Giant Anteater, Lion, and Sumatran Tiger. While these exhibits aren't necessarily bad, they are on the small side and are very ugly. I'd love to tear it all out and replace it with a solely lion habitat and moving the snowleo and remaining tiger out of the collection. The relatively new Northern River Otter enclosure across from it can stay.

- As for Mr. Anteater, I'd love to keep up with the pretty great Neotropical thing they got going on (Jaguar, Unstriped Tamandua/Green Acouchi, Plain Amazon, White-faced Saki/Linne's Two-toed Sloth, King Vulture, mixed waterfowl, and Thick-billed Parrot/Roadrunner) and somehow incorporate him into there, but dunno how to, exactly. Perhaps fence off part of the waterfowl lake that isn't actually utilized by the birds over by the cafe (It's thickly planted land here). IF space could be found, then a Tamarin/Southern Three-banded Armadillo exhibit would be pleasant.

- The zoo's African section takes up about a third of the entirety of the park. Over the years it's held some really neat things, but it could use a renovation. First off, I'd leave the current Coquerel's Sifaka and Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur exhibits, they've been very successful AND they look nice. Next up is a "band" of hoofstock enclosures starting with Yellow-backed Duiker, then Red River Hog + Eastern Bongo, next Grevy's Zebra and Ostrich, and finally Maasai and Reticulated Giraffe (there's also a side exhibit for Spurred Tortoise). The Yellow-backed Duiker exhibit is a *little* too big, but eh... idk what's even combinable with them. MAYBE bring in another Tragelaphus like East African Sitatunga or perhaps something bigger like Greater Kudu, I sincerely don't know. Sac Zoo isn't EVER going to get Okapi, so that's out of the question, unfortunately (obviously it's the best choice, but yeah...). Anyway, next up is a series of old-style primate enclosures - Chimpanzee, Sumatran Orang, Mongoose Lemur, and White-handed Gibbon. I'd move the gibbons over towards the Hornbills, which is really the only place they'd fit. Perhaps move them over into the Abyssinian Ground Hornbill enclosure (re-designing it, of course) The other two species would be fine to remain of course. I'd love for them to incorporate the same "Small Wonders of Africa" (Aardvark, Wolf's Guenon, Crested Guineafowl, Crested Coua, Straw-coloured Fruit Bat, Fennec Fox) sort of modern-style thinking. Species I'd choose, in addition to the lemurs and chimps, would be Klipspringer and Rock Hyrax, and then move the Ground Hornbills over there. Knowing how Sac works, an aviary would be added in (Maybe Golden-breasted or Superb Starlings as a part of it? Turacos in another?). Once the zoo FINALLY gets its Banded Mongooses, they can finally be in with the Aardvark and the Fennecs moved to a new exhibit, hopefully one that they'd actually be visible in. The Orangs should just leave entirely, they don't fit in and would be 1000x more useful in any other zoo practically. Their space I'd love to be rebuilt into something for Mandrills, Colobus, or other rainforest monkey species.

- Next up is the zoo's Australia section. While not a complete pile of feces, it's really not that great, and was actually very lazy. The Emu/Red Kanga/Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby enclosure is way too big and is a former Cheetah enclosure. While perfect for the cats, it's terrible for the marsupials. So what I'd do is tear everything down, and instead have the combo be in a much smaller (though ofc not too small) enclosure and bring over the zoo's Laughing Kookaburras, which currently reside next to the Red Pandas. The Tawny Frogmouths can stay where they currently are at, and I'd bring in Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and Black Swans.

- Red Panda Forest is honestly not bad at all - home to pandas, Koi, Goldfish, Azure-winged Magpies, and Impeyan Monals. I'd love to add a terrarium with Mangshan Vipers, but that's just because I like them. They'd probably be better in the reptile house anyway.

- Last but not least is a small area with two enclosures - both for Yellow-billed Magpie and Burrowing Owl (previously a Riparian Brush Rabbit was held here, as well). I'd probably only add Desert Tortoise to this area.
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All of this being said, definitely holding my breath for their planned "Biodiversity House" (basically a re-imagining of their reptile house) to see what's up. I bet the Fennecs are moved to one of the larger exhibits, probably the one that formally held a large python species.

 

Why won't the Sacramento Zoo ever get okapis?

 

Reid Park Zoo


1. Do minor renovations to South America, making it a nicer area.

2. Phase out grizzly bears and replace them with hyenas in a naturalistic habitat.

3. Turn event garden into a naturalistic habitat for tigers. Add Komodo dragons, gibbons, muntjacs and blackbucks and move macaques over to create a cohesive Asian section.

4. Add pygmy hippos, dwarf crocodiles, spotted otters and meerkats to Africa.

5. Renovate the lion exhibit.

6. Add a small reptile house/aviary.


Phoenix Zoo


1. Build Asian Giants exhibit, a brand-new section devoted to Asian elephants in a state-of-the-art facility. Other animals in the complex will include gaurs, Nilgais, Indian rhinoceros, Preswalski’s wild horses, deer, langurs and gibbons.

2. Turn former Asian elephant exhibit into a walkthrough Asian jungle showcasing different bird and primate species from the continent.

3. Dramatically overhaul Africa trail from the lion to baboon exhibits and open new habitats for lions, hyenas, baboons, white rhinoceros and antelope.

4. Add more desert hoofstock to Desert Lives.

5. Add black bears and a renovated cougar exhibit to Arizona Trail.

6. Build a brand new jaguar exhibit in Forests of Uco. Move howler monkeys, giant anteaters, maned wolves and ocelots to this section.

7. Expand Desert Lives with Deserts of the World featuring camels, kangaroos, wallabies, aardvarks, caracals, addra gazelles, dingos and more.

8. Open new lemur exhibit.


Arizona Sonora Desert Museum


1. Open new exhibits for otters and beavers.

2. Add the long-anticipated jaguar exhibit.


Rio Grande Zoo


1. Open penguin exhibit.

2. Tear down Ape Walk and turn it into a naturalistic environment for chimpanzees. Phase out gorillas.

3. Phase out takins and use their yard as an expansion for a much better giraffe exhibit. Take out white rhinos and put a new, impressive lion exhibit in its place. Replace chimps with mandrills.

4. Completely overhaul Carnivores section. Turn it into an immersive Asian section with tigers, sun bears, Indian rhinos, orangutans, siamangs, tapirs, camels, markhors and Patas monkeys. Renovate Asian elephant exhibit to make it fit the theme.

5. Open Cold-Blooded Kingdom, a state of the art reptile house.

6. Open Pinniped Harbor, a state-of-the-art facility for seals and sea lions.

7. Add kangaroos to outback section.


Hogle Zoo


1. Phase out rhinos and turn their yard into another for African elephants. Add an additional yard as well so the pachyderms have more space.

2. Phase out orangutans and turn Great Apes and surrounding area into Gorilla Journey, an immersive, state-of-the-art habitat for the apes in a forested mountain setting. Possibly other animals such as chimpanzees, crocodiles, okapis, red river hogs and Old World monkeys will also be present in the exhibit complex.

3. Convert Small Animal Building into a South American rainforest.

4. Build a new children’s zoo with animals such as prairie dogs, lemurs, ratels, ocelots, wallabies and deer.



Pueblo Zoo


1. Slightly renovate lion exhibit.

2. Turn Ecocenter into a nicer penguin exhibit.

3. Close down Islands of Life and turn it into a walkthrough lemur exhibit.

4. Tear down abandoned bear grottoes and monkey island to build a nice children’s zoo complete with meerkats, squirrel monkeys, porcupines, beavers and yaks.

5. Build a new exhibit for black bears.

6. Add giraffes to collection


Cheyenne Mountain Zoo


1. Open new penguin and hippo exhibits.

2. Open Pacific Point exhibit for sea lions, seals, walruses and sea otters.

3. Add bison, pronghorn, elk and bighorn sheep to Rocky Mountain Wild.

4. Expand Encounter Africa with exhibits for cheetahs and a huge savanna for zebras, ostriches, warthogs and a variety of antelope.

5. Tear down Bear Grottos and Monkey Pavilion building Pacific Point in this area.

6. Open Vine Swingers complex with modern exhibits for orangutans, siamangs and gibbons.

7. Close down Primate World and transform it into Gorilla Conservation Discovery Center, educating visitors about the great apes. Gorillas will be viewed through a tunnel and species such as mandrills, okapis, bongos and guenons and mangabeys.


Denver Zoo


1. Open the Edge (tigers) and Asian Highlands exhibit for snow leopards, camels, takins, red pandas and tahrs.

2. Close down Bear Mountain and build a bald eagle exhibit over it.

3. Turn hoofstock yards into a massive African savanna complementing Predator Ridge and featuring giraffes, zebras, Cape buffaloes and a wide variety of African antelopes and birds. Have watering hole viewing areas to bring the visitors closer to the animals.

4. Turn Pachyderms into a state-of-the-art hippo exhibit further extending the African area complete with an underwater viewing.

5. Modernize Bird World.

6. Turn Northern Shores into the state-of-the-art Bears of the Artic exhibit featuring polar bears and harbor seals.

7. Tear down Feline house and build Creekside, an Children’s Zoo featuring otters, prairie dogs, nutrias, skunks and porcupines.

8. Turn area between hippos and Primate Panorama and turn it into Peru, an exhibit for jaguars, Andean bears, guanacos, giant anteaters, maned wolves, ocelots and rheas.

9. Add Bonobos to Primate Panorama.


Zoo Boise


1. Tear down the primate house and build a netted spider monkey exhibit over it.

2. Build new gibbon exhibit near entrance.

3. Add exhibits for crocodiles, hyenas and baboons.

4. Bulldoze bear grottoes, phase out sloth bears and binturongs and use it for an expansion of the snow leopard exhibit.

5. Add otters to the collection.

6. Build new penguin exhibit.

7. Drastically renovate Small Animal Building


Idaho Falls Zoo


1. Major renovation to Primate Discovery Center giving much more naturalistic habitats to its residents.

2. Renovate zebra exhibit.

3. Open a new red panda exhibit.

4. Overhaul northeastern corner of the zoo besides Penguin Cove adding wolves and moose.


Zoo Montana


1. Drastically renovate area by entrance adding exhibits for Japanese macaques, puffins and penguins.

2. Expand Asian area including exhibits for Bactrian camels, snow leopards, gazelles,

3. Renovate otter and beaver exhibits.

4. Add exhibits for bison, elk and mountain goats.


Calgary Zoo


1. Open Land of the Lemurs.

2. Dramatically renovate gorilla exhibit, making it more naturalistic and enriching to the apes.

3. Add spotted hyenas, red river hogs, bongos, waterbuck, Thomson’s gazelle and sitatunga to Destination Africa.

4. Add a state-of-the-art orangutan exhibit to Eurasia.

5. Renovate Eurasia allowing people to get closer to the tigers, snow leopards and macaques.

6. Open Arctic Shores exhibit featuring polar bears, seals, walruses and sea otters.

 

El Paso Zoo


1. Add African wild dogs, klipspringers, dik diks, hyraxes, Patas monkeys and gereunks to Africa.

2. Add great cougar and jaguar exhibits to the new Chihuahuan Desert section.

3. Tear down leopard exhibit replacing it with a new clouded leopard exhibit.

4. Give minor renovations to orangutan exhibit.

5. Improve Andean bear exhibit, especially by giving visitors better viewing.

6. Open new ocelot exhibit.

7. Add a new Humboldt penguin exhibit with underwater viewing.

8. Open flamingo, anteater, squirrel monkey, peccary and giant otter exhibits.

9. Renovate sea lion exhibit.

10. Phase out elephants and open a nice Indian rhinoceros exhibit.

11. Phase out sun bears to open another yard to expand tiger area.

12. Add gaurs and blackbucks to the area.


Abilene Zoo


1. Open a new lemur exhibit.

2. Phase out camels and use their yard to expand and improve the black rhinoceros exhibit.

3. Build a new tiger exhibit where the zebra one is now. Also include gibbons, babirusas and hornbills in the expansion.

4. Drastically renovate lion exhibit.

5. Completely overhaul the bear/squirrel monkey/jaguar/bobcat row creating one cohesive naturalistic habitat for jaguars.

6. Add giant anteaters to South America.


Cameron Park Zoo


1. Create African Legends exhibit drastically expanding the Africa region. Build new modern African elephant exhibit on current meadows and a new exhibits for lions, cheetahs, zebras, meerkats, warthogs and baboons leading up to current region. Combine giraffe, rhino, elephant and lion yards to create a giant African savanna for giraffes, white rhinos, Thomson’s gazelles, impalas, wildebeests, ostriches and kudus. Also build an African lodge.

2. Turn undeveloped land on property into a wooded habitat for a family of gorillas as a phase II of African Legends.

3. Expand jaguar and black bear exhibits.

4. Build a new tiger exhibit to complete Asian Forest. Also add tapirs, anoas and langurs to the region.

5. Add Australian exhibit with kangaroos and emus.

6. Open Aquarium


Caldwell Zoo


1. Open expanded and renovated African elephant, giraffe and black rhino exhibits in East Africa.

2. Add a naturalistic chimpanzee exhibit to the zoo.

3. Completely overhaul South America section turning it into Jewels of Brazil, an area featuring jaguars, giant anteaters, tapirs, capybaras, New World monkeys, caimans, prehensile tailed porcupines and South American birds in an immersive complex.

4. Move tigers out of North America and build an Asian section featuring them as well as siamangs, gibbons, gaurs, Visayan warty pigs, Bactrian camels, gazelles and crocodiles.


Ellen Trout Zoo


1. Add gorilla exhibit.

2. Build new otter exhibit.

3. Update cat exhibits.


Gladys Porter Zoo


1. Open new gorilla exhibit.

2. Renovate African section and create naturalistic habitats for giraffes, lions, rhinos, zebras and a wide variety of African hoofstock and birds.

3. Phase out chimpanzees and orangutans.

4. Tear down bear grottoes and cages.

5. Create a Rainforest.


San Antonio Zoo


1. On undeveloped land open Tembo Valley, an immersive exhibit for African elephants. Also include white rhinos, lions, hyenas, warthogs, baboons, zebras and antelope.

2. Expand giraffe exhibit into former Asian elephant and white rhinoceros habitats.

3. Tear down Bear Corner and Cat Grottoes and build habitats for African penguins and sea lions.

4. Build a new state-of-the-art aviary.

5. Add Amazon Edge, an immersive exhibit following the Amazon River. Featured animals will include jaguars, giant anteaters, capybaras, giant otters, caimans, squirrel monkeys, howler monkeys, tamarins and birds.

6. Open new exhibits for tigers, orangutans, babirusas, siamangs, clouded leopards, tapirs and gibbons in a complex called East Expedition.


Fort Worth Zoo


1. Open Elephant Springs, a state-of-the-art Asian elephant habitat. Include Indian rhinos in the same area.

2. Open Edge of Africa with giraffes, black rhinos, hoofstock and birds as well as a Hippo River.

3. Open Predators exhibit with lions, tigers, hyenas and clouded leopards.

4. Open Rainforest Region with okapis, bongos, pygmy hippos, jaguars, orangutans and a wide variety of primates.

5. Retheme and renovate World of Primates into Expedition Congo featuring gorillas, bonobos, colobus monkeys and mandrills. Possibly use Cheetah area for space.

6. Open new Australian section featuring kangaroos, wallabies, penguins and koalas.


Houston Zoo


1. Expand elephant exhibit.

2. Demolish sea lion exhibit and replace it with a new one.

3. Turn majority of the left of the zoo into an Asian section featuring habitats for tigers, orangutans, babirusas, Malayan tapirs, Indian rhinos, bantengs, clouded leopards, red pandas, Visayan warty pigs and tahrs.

4. Turn half of Carnivore section and surrounding area (excluding jaguar and cougar exhibits) into half an expansion of African Forest featuring hippopotamuses, Nile crocodiles, okapis, colobus monkeys, leopards and duikers.

5. Drastically expand lion exhibit.

6. Turn Hoof Run into exhibits for black bears and red wolves.


Dallas Zoo


1. Open Hippo Outpost for hippos, okapis, red river hogs, saddle-billed storks and duikers.

2. Close down the monorail and create a walking trail where visitors can see white rhinoceros, bongos, elands, Patas monkeys, colobus monkeys, African wild dogs, kudus, ibexes and caracals.

3. Complex overhaul of former Hill, Texas cats and picnic area, creating Trek through the Americas featuring habitats for grizzly bears, jaguars, cougars, coyotes, anteaters, tapirs, sea lions, tamarins, ocelots and New World monkeys.

4. Turn Primate Place into a walkthrough lemur exhibit.


Tulsa Zoo


1. Open Lost Kingdom with new exhibits for tigers, snow leopards, siamangs and red pandas. Also drastically renovate and expand Asian elephant exhibit.

2. Open Kings of the Kruger, a naturalistic habitat for lions.

3. Expand giraffe exhibit.

4. Tear down grottoes in top right corner and build an aquarium.

5. Open African Forest with gorillas, chimpanzees, red river hogs, duikers and colobus monkeys.


Oklahoma City Zoo


1. Open Asian expansion including Indian rhinos, sun bears, red pandas, Komodo dragons, Pere David’s deer, macaques and Asian small-clawed otters.

2. Close down Pachyderm building and make it a nocturnal house.

3. Turn pachyderm yards and hoofstock yards into Seas of Grass, an African area featuring giraffes, zebras, hippos, cheetahs, bat-eared foxes, warthogs, hyenas, wild dogs, wildebeests, sables, waterbucks, springbok, gerenuks, bongos, Thomson’s gazelles and bonteboks.

4. Close down Noble Aquatics Center and make it a state-of-the-art aquarium including sea lions, penguins, sharks, sea otters and a wide variety of fish.

5. Turn Island Life into a walkthrough monkey exhibit.


Little Rock Zoo


1. Open Wild Arkansas exhibit with otters, black bears, beavers, coyotes, elk, deer, bobcats and bats among others. Build this on area currently for Bears and Small Cats.

2. Turn Primates Reptiles Birds and More into an immersive indoor rainforest called Canopy Heights featuring New World monkeys, jaguars (with outside yard), anteaters, ocelots, capybaras, caimans, macaws and a wide variety of birds and reptiles from South America.

3. Overhaul most of the northern part of the zoo to create African Plains including existing Cheetah Outpost as well as new habitats for lions, giraffes, zebras, wild dogs, warthogs and a wide variety of hoofstock.

4. Turn Great Apes into two naturalistic habitats for gorillas and orangutans.

5. Open tiger exhibit on left side of the zoo.

6. Phase out Asian elephants and put rhinos in the old elephant exhibit.

7. Add new alligator/crocodile exhibits.

8. Open flamingo exhibit near entrance.


Alexandria Zoo


1. Expand African Experience with exhibits for giraffes, zebras, pygmy hippos, servals, colobus monkeys, warthogs and Nile Crocodiles.

2. Build new Australasian area on left side of the zoo featuring tigers, siamangs, babirusas, Visayan warty pigs, anoas, muntjacs, langurs, clouded leopards, kangaroos, wallaroos, emus and kookaburras.

3. Build a new condor exhibit.


Baton Rouge Zoo


1. Add African Elephant Oasis, a habitat for the pachyderms in a wooded environment with a huge pool.

2. Open Kangaroo Junction, an Australian area featuring kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, emus, cassowaries, echidnas and others.

3. Add Mississippi River exhibit showcasing different animals that live on the river and surrounding areas including otters, black bears, wolves, deer, beavers, skunks, raccoons and eagles.

4. Renovate Africa with new exhibits for giraffes, zebras, lions, Thomson’s gazelles, cheetahs, antelope and birds.

5. Renovate South America featuring a new Andean bear exhibit.


Audubon Zoo


1. Open new lion exhibit.

2. Redevelop African Savanna with a new, more immersive exhibits for giraffes, zebras, white rhinoceros, wildebeests, elands, Thomson’s gazelles, red river hogs, mandrills, colobus monkeys, spotted hyenas and pygmy hippopotamus.

3. Renovate Louisiana Swamp by removing cougar and bobcat cages, moving them to naturalistic habitats and renovating the otter exhibit. Use Primates for some of this expansion.

4. Build a new state-of-the-art exhibit for gorillas by the sea lion pool and Herpetarium.

5. Reopen Tropical Bird House as a much nicer aviary.

6. Open Phase II of Jaguar Jungle featuring a bat cave, caimans, monkeys, ocelots and piranhas.

7. Open new modern exhibits for tigers and leopards. Phase out sun bears.

 

Chahinkapa Zoo


1. Open white rhinoceros exhibit.

2. Build a new spider monkey exhibit.

3. Create open topped exhibits for cougars and snow leopards that are not cages.

4. Tear down grizzly bear exhibit and build a beaver one over it.


Roosevelt Park Zoo


1. Turn heart of the zoo into Asian Domain, a section featuring tigers, snow leopards, Amur leopards, serows, takins, gibbons and siamangs. Phase out lions. Incorporate existing red panda exhibit.

2. Redevelop Africa area giving giraffes and zebras better yards and an indoor area conducive to year round vidwing.

3. Open a new grizzly bear exhibit.


Dakota Zoo


1. Open a small African section with lions, zebras, hyenas, servals and ostriches.

2. Add indoor Madagascar exhibit featuring lemurs.

3. Open an Arctic penguin exhibit with indoor and outdoor viewing depending on the season.

4. Open new bobcat exhibit.

5. Add takins and red pandas to the collection.


Red River Zoo


1. Open state-of-the-art grizzly bear and black bear exhibits.

2. Open Cats of the Highlands Exhibit for tigers, Amur leopards, snow leopards and Patas cats.

3. Open Cliffs of the Rockies, an exhibit for bighorn sheep and mountain goats.


Bramble Park Zoo


1. Tear down all the old school primate exhibits and replace them with modern ones connected to indoor quarters.

2. Tear down tiger cage and make a naturalistic open topped exhibit. Same with leopards.

3. Take predator cages, bulldoze them and build an immersive black bear exhibit in its case.


Great Plains Zoo


1. Open renovated Bear Canyon featuring an excellent grizzly bear exhibit. Open a black bear exhibit adjacent to it.

2. Close the disgusting penguin exhibit and create an outdoor one near the entrance. Tear down Red Rock Mountain.

3. Move wild dogs to Africa. Also, add exhibits for lions, red river hogs, colobus monkeys and klipspringers in area next to Rare Rhinos of Africa.

4. Completely renovate Primate Area and build the modern Monkeys of the Trees exhibit, half devoted to Old World monkeys and half devoted to New World monkeys. Tie this area in with the new macaque exhibit.

5. Renovate Asian Cats exhibits.

6. Open a musk ox exhibit.


Blank Park Zoo


1. Add zebras and colobus monkeys to Jamaa Kwa Africa. Move lions over as well.

2. Convert lion exhibit into an expanded habitat for snow leopards.

3. Renovate penguin exhibit.

4. Open red panda exhibit.

5. Add Puente al Sur, a South American area for jaguars, giant anteaters, capybaras, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, iguanas and Goeldi’s monkeys.

6. Open American Prairie exhibit featuring bison, elk, black bears and wolves.


Como Park Zoo


1. Open new sea lion exhibit.

2. Phase out orangutans and have mandrills live in their yard.

3. Drastically renovate primate house.

4. Add Japanese macaque exhibit.

5. Renovate hoofstock area, creating a nice exhibit for giraffes.

6. Add penguins, meerkats, otters and wombats to the collection.


Lake Superior Zoo


1. Open grizzly bear exhibit.

2. Expand and renovate lion exhibit.

3. Open naturalistic otter exhibit.

4. Dramatically renovate Primate Discovery Center.


Minnesota Zoo


1. Open state-of-the-art sea lion exhibit in Discovery Bay area as well as a new macaque exhibit near the entrance.

2. Add walruses to Discovery Bay.

3. Add onagers, snow leopards, sea eagles and musk deer to Northern Trail as well as a new red panda exhibit.

4. Add Arctic Tundra, an immersive exhibit for polar bears.

5. Build African Trail featuring giraffes, zebras, antelope, lions, wild dogs, flamingos, colobus monkeys, meerkats, bongos, red river hogs and birds.

6. Open orangutan exhibit with impressive indoor and outdoor sections.

7. Phase out tapirs from Tropics Building.


Lincoln Children’s Zoo


1. Renovate snow leopard exhibit. Add Amur leopards and cougars to collection.

2. Open a prairie with bison and pronghorn as well as an adjacent prairie dog exhibit.

3. Add beaver exhibit.

4. Add a reptile house including Komodo dragons.


Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo


1. Open Trails of Asia exhibit with tigers, snow leopards, gaurs, Indian rhinoceros, nilgais, blackbucks, Bactrian camels, sun bears, red pandas, Malayan tapirs, Pallas cats, fishing cats, Amur leopards, Japanese macaques, serows and Komodo dragons.

2. Around Hubbard Gorilla Valley make a Congo forest featuring bonobos, okapis, pygmy hippos, red river hogs, mandrills, baboons and leopards.

3. Tear down Cat Complex and Bear Canyon.

4. Tear down sea lion pool and build a Vervet monkey exhibit over it.

5. Renovate Desert Dome adding more natural substrate.

6. Open Alaska exhibit featuring polar bears, grizzly bears, sea lions, seals, Arctic wolves and moose.

7. Open Australia area featuring kangaroos, emus and koalas.

8. Open new Children’s Zoo.

9. Open jaguar exhibit next to Lied Jungle.

10. Add giant anteaters and capybaras to Lied Jungle.


Topeka Zoo


1. Open state-of-the-art otter exhibit at the entrance.

2. Tear down Animals and Man building and turn surrounding area into naturalistic habitats for African elephants and giraffes. Phase out hippos. Include new exhibits for lions, warthogs, Grevy’s zebras, gazelles and baboons as well. Name the area Kenya Safari.

3. Build a new Gorilla Forest in the Discovering Apes region. Phase out orangutans.

4. Add tiger, clouded leopard, tapir, gibbon, red panda and crested porcupine habitats in Northern Range creating Asia Passage.

5. Renovate Tropical Discovery and reopen it with a South American theme.

6. Open a modern penguin exhibit.


Lee Richardson Zoo


1. Open new spider monkey and lemur exhibits.

2. Build Twigia Point featuring a naturalistic habitat for giraffes. Include warthogs, waterbucks, cranes and meerkats in the region.

3. Add a nice black bear exhibit near Cat Canyon and the prairie.

4. Add a tiger exhibit to the Asian section.

5. Open red panda exhibit.


Rolling Hills Zoo


1. Open new otter exhibit.

2. Open new habitats for chimpanzees. Phase out orangutans.

3. Renovate lion exhibit.

4. Add zebras to the collection.


Sunset Zoo


1. Build Expedition Asia with new exhibits for tigers, sloth bears and Amur leopards.

2. Renovate chimpanzee exhibit.

3. Add lions to the collection.

4. Open new red panda exhibit.

5. Add ocelot exhibit to South America.


Sedgwick County Zoo


1. Complete overhaul of African Veldt and replace it with Savanna Trail. Drastically expand giraffe exhibit creating a savanna for them, zebras, gazelles, antelope, ostriches, warthogs and birds. Build a state-of-the-art hippo exhibit with an underwater viewing. Phase out black rhinos and baboons.

2. Add South American farm and expand African one.

3. Add Lions of the Sea, a sea lion exhibit, near Penguin Cove. Open an aquarium next door.

4. Add state-of-the-art exhibits for Nile crocodiles, caimans, Phillippine crocodiles, gharials and Americans alligators outside of Reptile House.

5. Phase out chimpanzees to build a larger orangutan exhibit.

6. Phase black bears to expand grizzly bear exhibit.

7. Build a brand new cougar exhibit.

8. Expand Asia with Indian rhinos, snow leopards, macaques, langurs and anoas.

9. Renovate South America and Australia adding kangaroos, tapirs and Andean bears as well as new exhibits for giant anteaters and jaguars.


Kansas City Zoo


1. Using Orangutan Canopy as a corner stone, completely redesign and expand Tiger Trail to turn it into Asia, featuring naturalistic habitats for tigers, sloth bears, babirusas, langurs, macaques, Malayan tapirs, clouded leopards. camels, Komodo dragons, gibbons, Asian small-clawed otters and red pandas.

2. Expand African elephant habitat to have much more width and more immersive features such as watering holes. Get rid of the cables and create realistic backdrops.

3. Move hippos to a new exhibit closer to the cheetahs complete with an underwater viewing and more space.

4. Move meerkats and lemurs over to Africa and add spotted hyenas, mandrills, Cape buffaloes, wildebeests and Thomson’s gazelles to the area.

5. Add North America with grizzly bears, bison, elk, wolves, sea lions and beavers.


Dickerson Park Zoo


1. Renovate Tropical Asia by building a new Asian elephant exhibit and adding orangutans, Malayan tapirs and Komodo dragons.

2. Open African Journey, overhauling current Africa and Australia. The main features will be a new savanna for giraffes, zebras, gazelles, cranes and ostriches as well as exhibits for lions, cheetahs, colobus monkeys, red river hogs, bongos and meerkats.

3. Turn South America into Jaguar Trek featuring jaguars, squirrel monkeys, giant anteaters, capybaras and maned wolves.


Saint Louis Zoo


1. Renovate Children’s Zoo giving it an Australian theme featuring animals such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and Tasmanian devils.

2. Completely remodel Primate House and surrounding area, turning it into Trail through the Trees showcasing the different habitats monkeys live in. Have a South American building showing monkeys from the Amazon, an African one featuring ones from the Congo, Savanna and Madagascar and an Asian one. Have outdoor habitats for species such as baboons, mandrills and lemurs.

3. Add bonobos to Fragile Forest.

4. Redevelop Red Rocks as Silk Road Expedition featuring tigers, snow leopards, takins, gazeells, Bactrian camels, onagers, golden monkeys, macaques, red pandas, gorals, Pallas cats, sea otters, boars, Pere David’s deer and giant pandas.

5. Add Masai Mara exhibit with giraffes, zebras, lions, meerkats and antelope in state-of-the-art habitats.

6. Add jaguars, otters, swamp monkeys, crocodiles and tapirs to River’s Edge.

7. Open Wolf Woods.

8. Add new flamingo exhibit.

 

Racine Zoo


1. Phase out orangutans.

2. Completely overhault Vanishing Kingdom making it a reptile house. Move Great Cat Canyon animals to new exhibits.

3. Build new gibbon exhibit.

4. Add monkey exhibits near pneguins.

5. Renovate Land of the Giants.


NEW Zoo


1. Redesign giraffe and lion exhibits.

2. Add lemurs, meerkats and red pandas to the collection.


Henry Vilas Zoo


1. Redevelop hoofstock area to have a nice exhibit for giraffes.

2. Tear down Primate House and former rhino/tapir areas to build Mission Rainforest, an educational exhibit with a conservation message. Animals from the rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America will be featured including orangutans, mandrills, lemurs, clouded leopards, ocelots, mangabeys, siamangs, spider monkeys, tamarins, capybaras, pygmy hippos, tapirs, anteaters, toucans and birds. It will be both inside and outside.

3. Expand penguin exhibit.

4. Give minor renovations to big cat exhibits.


Milwaukee County Zoo


1. Open new entrance complete with state-of-the-art otter exhibit.

2. Build a modern African elephant exhibit on site of current moose exhibit, wolf woods, Australia and surrounding area. Use exhibit as the cornerstone of a new African area.

3. Build a new giraffe exhibit next to the elephants featuring a variety of African birds and hoofstock.

4. Completely redesign hippo exhibit and add an underwater viewing. This will include using the yards currently occupied by red river hogs and elephants.

5. Renovate North America and surrounding area to create Alaska’s Cold Coast including polar bears, grizzly bears, black bears, elk, caribou, Dall’s sheep, moose, wolves, seals and sea lions. Close sea lion show.

6. Tear down polar bear and seal exhibit to expand the black rhinoceros exhibit and completely redesign their indoor quarters.

7. Use upper part of the property to build Expedition Asia featuring tigers, camels, tapirs, orangutans, siamangs, red pandas, snow leopards, gaurs and more. Make it so herbivore/carnivore region only features African animals. Tear down Small Mammal house in order to do this.

8. Add new meerkat exhibit to African area.

9. In woods neaver the train build massive expansion to Rare Apes of Africa including naturalistic habitats for gorillas, bonobos, mandrills, mangabeys, okapis, red river hogs, bongos and colobus monkeys.

10. Make South America exhibit a cheetah one and African Watering Hole a lion one.

11. Turn Primate building into a South American rainforest including jaguars, anteaters, spider monkeys and others.

12. Relocate Australia to near Macaque Island.


Lincoln Park Zoo


1. Open Arctic Tundra, the new polar bear exhibit.

2. Turn Kovler Lion House into Realm of the Kings, an immersive lion exhibit. Phase out other cat species.

3. Turn Helen Branch Primate House into a Amazon building featuring New World monkeys, capybaras, caimans and ocelots.

4. Build a state-of-the-art reptile house.

5. Redevelop Antelope and Zebra area into an Asian highlands section featuring snow leopards, takins, Bactrian camels, red pandas, gorals and serows.

6. Rebuild sea lion exhibit.

Brookfield Zoo


1. End dophin program and close down Fragile Kingdom. Use this area to create Voyage of the Seas, featuring sea lions, seals, walruses, sea otters, penguins, sharks and fish in state-of-the-art habitats.

2. Completely overhaul Tropic World making it a much more naturalistic, immersive space and providing outdoor habitats for gorillas. All indoor areas will have natural substrate and the outdoor yards will be state-of-the-art. Use West Mall and area adjacent to the swamp for the area.

3. Turn former Baboon Island into Japanese Macaque exhibit.

4. Tear down hoofstock yards and Pachyderm Building to make room for an expansion of Habitat Africa that includes lions, zebras, cheetahs and baboons.

5. On new area of the property build Expedtion Asia featuring tigers, orangutans, gibbons, siamangs, snow leopards, sloth bears, clouded leopards, tapirs, babirusas, Indian rhinoceros, camels, Preswalszki’s wild horses, Asian small-clawed otters, gaurs, blackbucks and of course Asian elephants.

6. Add Komodo dragons to reptile section.

7. Add exhibits for meerkats and pangolins.


Scovill Zoo


1. Expand wallaby exhibit.

2. Add exhibits for otters, alligators, gibbons and prairie dogs.

3. Redesign spider monkey exhibit.

4. Build new red panda exhibit.

5. Add crested porcupine exhibit.

6. Open nice cougar exhibit.


Henson Robinson Zoo


1. Build new lemur exhibit.

2. Add a completely new gibbon exhibit much larger and filled with enrichments.

3. Phase out Asiatic black bears and replace them with bobocats.

4. Phase out vultures.

5. New otter and penguin exhibits.


Miller Park Zoo


1. Add exhibits for colobus monkeys, sifakas, Debrazza’s monkeys and lemurs.

2. Renovate seal exhibit and add sea lions. Include underwater viewing.

3. Open otter exhibit.

4. Improve red wolf viewing.

5. Add anteaters, capybaras, ocelots, peccaries and squirrel monkeys to South America.

6. Renovate Animal Building to make it an Asian Forest featuring langurs, clouded leopards, macaques, gibobons, red pandas and snow leopards.

7. Phase out tigers and bears.


Peoria Zoo


1. Phase out seals, and replace their exhibit with otters.

2. Turn Tropics Building into exhibits focused on Madagascar and the Amazon.

3. Renovate tiger exhibit.

4. Add red pandas and siamang.


Potawatomi Zoo


1. Phase out chimpanzees and overhaul upper right part of zoo to build Giraffe Journey, featuring giraffes, zebras, warthogs, lions, colobus monkeys, wild dogs and meerkats.

2. Build a brand new tiger habitat with siamangs and red pandas adjacent. Phase out Asian hoofstock.

3. Add black bear, wolf, cougar and beaver exhibits to Americas section.

4. Add flamingo exhibit to the entrance.

5. Open lemur exhibit.


Mesker Park Zoo


1. Open penguin exhibit.

2. Completely overhaul African section opening Rift Valley exhibit featuring giraffes, zebras, lions, baboons and African antelope and birds.

3. Close Kley Building and make it an aviary. Phase out rhinos.

4. Build a new tiger exhibit.

5. Add black bear exhibit to the zoo.

6. Open porcupine exhibit.


Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo


1. Add warthogs, cheetahs, greater kudu and springbok to African Journey.

2. Complete remodel of Indonesian Rain Forest with nice outdoor exhibits for orangutans, tigers, langurs, Komodo dragons, clouded leoaprds, siamangs, gibbons, hornbills, anoas, tapirs and babirusas.

3. Add giant anteater and capybara exhibit to zoo.

4. Move wallabies to Australia.

5. Renovate penguin exhibit.

6. Open new lemur exhibit.

7. Add wolf and black bear exhibits.


Indianapolis Zoo


1. Overhaul majority of Forests region (excluding tiger exhibit) to build state-of-the-art Gorilla Trek, a modern exhibit for gorillas. Feature animals such as mandrills, red river hogs, colobus monkeys, pygmy hippos and duikers in the area.

2. Turn former polar bear exhibit into a home for Arctic foxes.

3. Drastically renovate Deserts adding animals such as aardvarks, hyraxes, wombats, ocelots and peccaries to the exhibit.

4. Remodel lion exhibit. Phase out baboons in order to do this.

5. Add exhibits for kangaroos and wallabies.

6. Open otter exhibit near entrance.

7. Add manatees to Oceans region.


Potter Park Zoo


1. Redevelop area currently containing bongo, camel, cavy, owl, garden and tufted deer exhibits into Lake Tanganyika, an area featuring lions, giraffes, ostriches, Grant’s gazelle, bat-eared foxes and meerkats. Incorporate existing black rhino exhibit with minor renovation.

2. Tear down Feline Building. Phase out tigers.

3. Expand Michigan region with porcupines, foxes, beavers, fishers and bobcats.

4. Open Asian Highlands exhibit with tigers, camels, muntjacs, takins and red pandas.

5. Build Australian walkabout.

6. Open Primates of Africa featuring lemurs, mandrills, Diana monkeys and colobus monkeys.

7. Open Lake Tititacia with Andean bears, condos, guanacos, rheas, capybaras and anteaters.


John Ball Zoo


1. Open state-of-the-art black bear exhibit near the entrance.

2. Expand Africa with exhibits for giraffes, zebras, painted dogs, baboons (in new habitat), ostriches, red river hogs, kudus and impalas.

3. Add a cougar exhibit.

4. Open new otter exhibit in North America.

5. Renovate penguin exhibit.

6. Open Primate trails with lemurs, spider monkeys, siamang and others.

7. Add orangutans to Realm of the Tiger.


Binder Park Zoo


1. Open lion exhibit in Wild Africa and move wild dogs to the region.

2. Add okapis, bongos, lemurs, servals, meerkats, wildebeests, mongooses and warthogs to Wild Africa.

3. Add an immersive otter exhibit to the main part of the zoo.

4. Open new red panda exhibit.

5. Add camels, takins, bison, elk and pronghorn to the collection.


Detroit Zoo


1. Open Bear Wood near otters and beavers, featuring immersive habitats for black and grizzly bears. Include bobcats, foxes, porcupines, bald eagles and deer in the expansion.

2. Redevelop Asia exhibit (keep red panda exhibit the same) making it Asian Passage featuring tigers, snow leopards, macaques, Preswalzki’s wild horses and Visayan warty pigs.

3. Renovate indoor exhibits for gorillas and chimpanzees.

4. Tear down bear grottoes and use this space to expand Africa section.

5. Redevelop Africa Area as Swahili Trails featuring a multispecies savanna featuring giraffes, zebras, warthogs, elands, kudus, Thomson’s gazelles and a wide variety of African birds. This can be done by combining habitats. Lions, white rhinos, aardvarks, pygmy hippos, baboons, vultures and colobus monkeys will live in habitats connected by invisible moats.

6. Renovate South America as Amazon Adventure featuring jaguars, giant anteaters, bush dogs, capybaras, tapirs, ocelots, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, sakis and other animals. Keep Pampas exhibit.


Toledo Zoo


1. Improve viewing of Africa, providing closer viewing through watering holes.

2. Turn Tiger Terrace into a naturalistic exhibit for lions.

3. Phase out yaks and camels to expand rhino exhibit.

4. Replace grizzly bears with spotted hyenas. Incorporate it into Tembo Trail.

5. Create Australian section with kangaroos, wallabies, Tasmanian devils, cassowaries.

6. Open River exhibit with hippos, grizzly bears, jaguars, Nile crocodiles, tapirs, giant anteaters, swamp monkeys, otters, beavers and macaques.

7. Turn former Cheetah Valley into Tiger Forest including tigers, siamangs and Komodo dragons.

8. Redevelop Kingdom of the Apes as two separate habitats: Borneo for orangutans, Congo for gorillas.


Cincinnati Zoo


1. Open Gorilla World renovation and expansion. Get rid of the moat and have viewing through glass panels. Expand colobus monkey exhibit.

2. Turn Wings of the World into a state-of-the-art penguin ehxiibt.

3. Phase out sea lions and tear down bear grottoes to build Polar Trek, a modern polar bear exhibit.

4. Overhaul Rhino Reserve and white rhino exhibit turning it into a South American exhibit featuring jaguars, Andean bears, giant anteaters, Baird’s tapirs and primates.

5. Tear down Safari Camp and turn it and surrounding area into Rhino Crossing, featuring immersive habitats for black and Indian rhinoceros.

6. Turn Wild Canyon and surrounding area into a second, larger and more naturalistic habitat for Asian elephants and create a bridge that allows them to move from one habitat to the next.

7. Close Reptile House and make it a restaurant. Create a new one new Wings of the World.


Columbus Zoo


1. Create modern exhibits for sea lions and penguins near the entrance to the zoo.

2. Create massive renovation to Asian elephant exhibit. Move black rhinos out of Pachyderm building and use that area to expand exhibit. Close down parts of North America- bison, pronghorn, wolves- to build a massive, immersive yard. Put soft surfaces in the pachyderm building. Name the region Asian Elephant Forest.

3. Add meerkats, vultures, colobus monkeys and flamingos to Heart of Africa.

4. Build Indian rhinoceros exhibit extending from Tiger Picnic Shelter to former lion exhibit. Possibly mix them with Asian hoofstock.

5. Next to North America add South America section with jaguars, tapirs, giant anteaters, capybaras, caimans, guanacos, maned wolves, spider monkeys, capuchins and others.

6. Completely renovate reptile house.

7. Drastically Renovate Congo Expedition by building state-of-the-art African Apes Center featuring naturalistic indoor exhibits for gorillas and bonobos. Keep bonobo outdoor habitat the same but have massive, immersive open-topped habitats for the gorillas. Tear down reptile house and former penguin/alligator/flamingo exhibit. Build exhibits for okapis and mandrills there. Phase out leopards.

8. Build a new orangutan exhibit that actually feels like a rainforest.





Akron Zoo


1. Completely overhaul Tiger Valley, turning it into Ranthambore featuring tigers, leopards, snow leopards, langurs, striped hyenas and red pandas in naturalistic habitats. Phase out lions.

2. Replace snow leopards in Legends of the Wild with caracals. Combine jaguar and capybara exhibit to give more space for the cats.

3. Open seal exhibit in the middle of the zoo.

4. Turn upper part of zoo into Primate Kingdom featuring orangutans, gibbons, spider monkeys, sakis, capuchins, colobus monkeys and mandrills.

5. Open giraffe and zebra habitat.


Cleveland Metroparks Zoo


1. Tear down Primate, Cat and Aquatics building immediately. Turn area into an a state-of-the-art aquarium with sea lions, penguins, puffins, otters and tons of fish.

2. Redesign African Savanna by putting up muddy backdrops, kopjes, trees and watering holes to enrich the animals. Put more antelope in the main savanna. Open a brand new kopje-themed lion exhibit, a cheetah yard, an expanded black rhino exhibit and habitats for baboons and colobus monkeys. Name the area Lake Manyara.

3. Overhaul Wilderness Trek excluding Tiger Passage and Wolf Wilderness, building a state-of-the-art grizzly bear exhibit, an Asian hoofstock exhibit, a snow leopard exhibit, a red panda habitat, macaque springs and ibex rock. Name the area Northern Wilds.

4. Build outdoor exhibit for the orangutans connected to the Rainforest.

5. Next to Lake Manyara open Bwindi Forest, a state-of-the-art exhibit for gorillas. Also feature okapis, Diana monkeys, mandrills, red river hogs and pygmy hippos.

6. Open otter exhibit near entrance.

7. Add vultures, servals, klipspringers and warthogs to African Elephant Crossing.

 

Unfortunately because it's just the nature of Sacramento Zoo.

 

I want to redo Brookfield zoo for I was not descriptive enough.

Fragile Desert- Aardwolfs. They could live or rotate with the porcupines. There would also be a new outdoor meerkat yard right outside the entrance.

Big cats- This would become a new complex called...

Siberian Ruins- This exhibit would represent the animals North Asia and Siberia. This would mean phasing out sloth bears and temporarily phasing out Lions. This exhibit would scrap moated grottos and have glass and netting instead. Snow leopards, Amur tigers, and Amur leopards will rotate 3 grassy semi steep yards. Each will have a pool, climbing rocks, and a cat crossing overhead bridge similar to Philly zoos zoo360. 3 hoofstock yards will also be included that hold Mongolian wild horses, Camels, and takins. There will also be a nice exhibit for Siberian lynx. The exhibit will have a rustic feel making feel like you are truly in an abandoned ruins.

Clouded leopard rainforest- tarsiers would share the exhibit with the Prevosts Squirrels.

Pinniped point- The medium sea lion pool will be redone for a pacific walrus including removing that strange rock in the middle of the pool that takes up space.

Wild encounters- Some of the goats would be sent away and replaced with sheep to create and diverse petting pen. A nice cluster of climbing logs would be made in the Australian yard for a Cockatoo as well.

Hamill family play zoo- A small tamandua exhibit will be built somewhere in the building.

Bear grotto- This would become a new exhibit called.

Pandas of the bamboo forest- This would be a new foresty state of the art complex for giant pandas. It would include 2 grassy yards with climbing areas. The yard closest to WE Will have a glass viewing window. Lastly a panda house would replace the beer garden and would have 4 indoor exhibits (2 for each panda).

Part 2 of changes for the zoo coming soon.

 

Louisville Zoo


1. Completely overhaul African area phasing out camels, building immersive savanna featuring giraffes, zebras, antelope and birds, make cemetery out of view, move rhinos into Elephant Encounter, adding a modern lion exhibit, a mixed species exhibit featuring warthogs and bat-eared foxes and a vulture aviary. Retheme the region Hwange.

2. Open Shark Aquarium and crocodile exhibits.

3. Phase out snow leopards and overhaul South America turning it into Trail to the Andes featuring jaguars, cougars, Andean bears, guanacos, rheas and monkeys.

4. Open Kentucky Trails with black bears, bison, wolves, elk, beavers, otters, deer, cougars, coyotes, raccoons and more.

5. Open Asian elephant exhibit.


Memphis Zoo


1. Completely overhaul African Veldt making it Chobe Expedition, a massive African elephant exhibit with tons of water and enrichments. Elephants will be viewed through a tunnel that surrounds the visitors with elephants.

2. Tear down Round Barn and build aquarium over it.

3. Open Serengeti exhibit on undeveloped acres with giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, lechwes, cheetahs, hyenas, Thomson’s gazelles and vervet monkeys. Actually teach the visitors something about the Serengeti in particular rather than just a generic Africa area.

4. Open Australian exhibit.

5. Renovate Primate Canyon.

6. Tear down former penguin, hippo and pelican exhibits. Build new lemur exhibit there.


Nashville Zoo


1. Open Expedition Peru.

2. Add spider monkey, giant otter, giant anteater, ocelot, Patas monkey, colobus monkey, babirusa and penguin exhibits to Bamboo Trail.

3. Open Amboseli exhibit featuring African elephants, lions, cheetahs, zebras, ostriches, warthogs and a wide variety of antelope.

4. Open immersive Gorilla Kingdom with multiple habitats for the apes.

5. Add Smokey Mountains exhibit with black bears, otters, deer, red wolves, turkeys and beavers.

6. Open Orangutan Forest.

7. Open Jaguar Lands.


Knoxville Zoo


1. Open Tiger Forest.

2. Close Penguin Rock.

3. Renovate Gorilla Valley, offering better viewing opportunities.

4. Build a new African elephant exhibit near Chimp Ridge. Allow current savanna to extend into the current elephant exhibit. Redesign the exhibit making it much more immersive and expand it.

5. Wolves will be relocated to make way for elephants.

6. Open new penguin exhibit.

7. Open Monkey Trail featuring a wide variety of primates in naturalistic habitats.



Chattanooga Zoo


1. Open giraffe and lion exhibits.

2. Open a reptile house.

3. Renovate Corcovado Jungle.

4. Build a naturalistic serval exhibit.


Jackson Zoo


1. Open Giraffe Savanna, a much nicer and larger facility.

2. Open Leopard Forest, a modern habitat for Amur leopards. Also include exhibits for warty pigs and gibbons.

3. Move birds from outdated exhibits into a large netted aviary for South American birds.

4. Next to aviary build South America region featuring spider monkeys, tapirs, capybaras, ocelots, anteaters, maned wolves and sakis.

5. Renovate African Forest, allowing visitors to get closer to the chimpanzees and pygmy hippos including an underwater viewing.

6. Put mandrills in former orangutan exhibit.

7. Phase out macaques.

8. Remodel giraffe exhibit for Malayan tapirs.

9. Expand African Savanna with exhibits for lions, Nile crocodiles, crested porcupines and meerkats.


Montgomery Zoo


1. Renovate Asian section building new habitats for tigers, babirusas, orangutans, clouded leopards, red pandas and langurs. Doing this will involve overhauling Australia and phasing out those animals. Name area Asian Expedition.

2. Completely overhaul South America and turn it into Emerald Forest, a state-of-the-art immersive exhibit featuring jaguars, giant otters, anteaters, capybaras, spider monkys, toucans, tamarins, condors and titi monkeys. Phase out other animals.

3. Expand lion exhibit.

4. Move Indian rhinos into hoofstock yard to expand African elephant exhibit.

5. Redesign and expand chimpanzee exhibit.

6. Open new giraffe exhibit. Put red river hogs in current exhibit.

7. Build Penguins of the Rocky Coast exhibit near the entrance.

8. Open new reptile house.



Birmingham Zoo


1. Overhaul carnivore exhibits and old hoofstock/pachyderm yards to expand Trails of Africa. Mix in antelope and sometimes giraffes and rhinos in with elephants. Expand African hoofstock collection. Build new white rhinoceros exhibit with lots of wallows and enrichments. Build a hippo exhibit with an underwater viewing. Open brand new lion, wild dog, okapi, bongo, vulture and mongoose exhibits.

2. Open Asian Passage with naturalistic habitats for tigers, orangutans, Komodo dragons, red pandas, babirusas, tapirs, Asian small-clawed otters, anoas, markhors and siamangs/gibbons.

3. Turn current primate building into a state-of-the-art reptile house.

4. Build a new sea lion exhibit near the entrance.

5. Open Red Wolf Woods, featuring the carnivores in a naturalistic habitat.

6. Open new exhibits for jaguars, spider monkeys and giant otters.

7. Open Australian area with kangaroos, wallabies, cassowaries and possibly koalas.

8. Open new exhibits for alligators and beavers.


Zoo Miami


1. Open Florida: Mission Everglades bringing black bears, cougars, river otters, alligators and crocodiles among others to the zoo.

2. Overhaul most of Asian Loop (keep Children’s Zoo, Wings of Asia and Asian River Life as they are now) and open Monsoon Asia featuring Asian elephants, Indian rhinos, gaurs, Malayan tapirs, bantengs/nilgais/blackbucks and Bactrian camels in rotating habitats as well as a massive watering hole one just for elephants. Also include state-of-the-art habitats for orangutans, sun bears, tigers and gharials. Smaller animals such as anoas, red pandas, siamangs, crested porcupines and striped hyenas will also be featured. Have a strong conservation message to the exhibit. Prominently feature the lake in the complex.

3. Overhaul Australia and turn it into Outback Adventure featuring kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, echidnas, emus, cassowaries and reptiles in immersive, interactive habitats.

4. Open Madagascar exhibit near the entrance featuring a walkthrough lemur exhibit.

5. Use undeveloped area on property for Gorilla Expedition featuring gorillas, chimpanzees, okapis, nyalas, bongos, Nile hippos, pygmy hippos, dwarf crocodiles, red river hogs, colobus monkeys, mandrills, guenons, leopards and duikers in naturalistic habitats viewed through tunnels.

6. Build a sea lion exhibit near current tiger exhibit.

7. Redevelop Africa so entire left side of the path besides black rhino exhibit is devoted to African elephants. Add lots of watering holes and enrichments to the enlarged elephant exhibit. Transform pygmy hippo exhibit into an African penguin exhibit. Turn current greater kudu/addra gazelle exhibit into a kopje habitat for lions making it seem as if they are in the same habitat as the giraffes, zebras and ostriches. Turn Grevy’s zebra exhibit into an exhibit that rotates between cheetahs and zebras also having the invisible moat effect. Add baboons to former chimpanzee exhibit.


Palm Beach Zoo


1. Open siamang, babirusa and Komodo dragon exhibit next to Tiger Falls.

2. Open new reptile house.

3. Build Chimpanzee Falls between current Goeldi’s monkeys and serval exhibits. Build exhibits for red river hogs, colobus monkeys and duikers next to it.

4. Add red pandas, meerkats and prairie dogs to the collection.


Naples Zoo


1. Build new giraffe, zebra and lion exhibits surrounding Lake Victoria. Add animals such as okapis, warthogs, waterbuck, pygmy hippos, guenons and patas monkeys. Call the area Slice of Africa.

2. Add new red wolf exhibit.

3. Open Maya Trail featuring jaguars, spider monkeys, tamarins, toucans, giant anteaters and ocelots. Make the spider monkey exhibit walkthrough.

4. Open new ratel exhibit.

5. Open new tiger exhibit.

6. Open kangaroo exhibit.


Central Florida Zoo


1. Open black bear exhibit with deer, coyotes and bobcats nearby.

2. Open a brand-new exhibit for clouded leopards on site of former siamang exhibit. Expand cougar exhibit.

3. Build flamingo exhibit by the entrance.

4. Overhaul hill exhibit for Indian rhinoceros, African crested porcupine and otter exhibits. Tear down Outpost Snack Bar. Build Monkey Village, featuring howler monkeys, lemurs, guenons, tamarins, siamangs and mangabeys in netted naturalistic habitats.

5. Add new prairie dog exhibit.

6. Open Asian Cats exhibit near the snack bear featuring tigers and Amur leopards.


Brevard Zoo


1. Open Australasia renovation with walkthrough kangaroo exhibit, Komodo dragons and redesigned aviaries.

2. Renovate Florida section adding black bears, a new bobcat exhibit, renovated otter habitat, new eagle exhibit and a cougar habitat.

3. Add porcupines, mongooses, greater kudus, colobus monkeys and red river hogs to Expedition Africa.

4. Add Asia loop with tigers, siamang, tapirs, babirusas, Asian small-clawed otters and hornbills.


Lowry Park Zoo


1. Renovate African penguin exhibit.

2. Build brand new cougar exhibit.

3. Open new orangutan/siamang exhibit next to Asian Gardens, featuring the apes in a tall, state-of-the-art habitat.

4. To be ambitious, try mixing in giraffes, zebras and white rhinos in with the African elephants. Give minor renovations to giraffe habitat to make it more naturalistic and add more trees.

5. Open habitats for lions and spotted hyenas in Safari Africa.

6. Overhaul World of Primates and turn it into Congo Forest, featuring gorillas, chimpanzees, mandrills, guenons and colobus monkeys in naturalistic habitats.

7. Add Tropical America with jaguars, giant otters, capybaras, howler monkeys, squirrel monkeys and birds.


Busch Gardens


1. Create Serengeti Trail- a path surrounding the entire Serengeti Plain. Most notably, the path will bring into view new habitats for African elephants and black rhinoceros, located in the back of the park. Current Asian elephant exhibit will be closed down and the animals sent to other zoos. The hoofstock now will be able to be viewed up close through watering holes. Eventually perhaps try to mix elephants in with the hoofstock. Have exhibits for warthogs, wild dogs, bongos, mandrills, a kopje habitat and leopards along the way.

2. Add tapirs, langurs and babirusas to Jungala.

3. Open new koala exhibit.


Disney’s Animal Kingdom


1. Open Kiliminjaro Trek, featuring up close viewing of African elephants, lions, cheetahs, giraffes and a wide variety of hoofstock, created using new back yards to Kiliminjaro. Include viewing through glass windows for cats and watering holes for the hoofstock. Add giraffe feeding.

2. Expand Maharajah Jungle Trek with exhibits for Asian elephants, orangutans, macaques, sun bears and leopards.

3. Open South America exhibit with jaguars, Andean bears, capybaras, tapirs, howler monkeys, spider monkeys and giant otters.

4. Open new children’s zoo.


Jacksonville Zoo


1. Renovate Plains of East Africa. Dramatically expand African elephant exhibit. To do so knock down the plaza and reptile building as well as the current okapi and zebra exhibits. Have it so exhibit goes all the way up to the boardwalk and the white rhino/hoofstock exhibit. Make the exhibit more immersive and have more realistic backdrops. Try mixing in zebras and impalas with elephants. Also add a Nile hippopotamus exhibit to the area, ideally with an underwater viewing. Add wildebeests, Thomson’s gazelles, waterbucks and lechwes to the hoofstock yards.

2. Open meerkat exhibit near Giraffe Savanna.

3. Build a new reptile house.

4. Open Sea Lion Shores in area that is now Australia.

5. Expand Land of the Tiger with Indonesian Rainforest exhibit for orangutans, sun bears, Malayan tapirs and langurs.

6. Turn Great Apes into Dzanga-Ndoki, featuring gorillas, bonobos, okapis, red river hogs, sitatungas, duikers, guenons, colobus monkeys, leopards, mandrills, dwarf crocodiles and birds in naturalistic habitats.

7. Open renovated cougar and black bear exhibits.


Zoo Atlanta


1. Open new, much larger African elephant exhibit. Put black rhinos in the current elephant exhibit, renovated to be more appropriate for their habitat.

2. Open Carnivores of the Savanna exhibit with lions, hyenas and wild dogs in rotating habitats.

3. Expand African savanna.

4. Renovate orangutan exhibit to allow the apes to be viewed much more closely.

5. Open new lemur, prairie dog and wombat exhibits in the Children’s Zoo.

6. Open George Trails exhibit featuring black bears, cougars, otters, raccoons, deer, red wolves and manatees.

7. Open hippo exhibit with underwater viewing.


Riverbanks Zoo


1. Replace African elephants with black rhinos. Add red river hogs, baboons, patas monkeys and birds to Ndoki Forest.

2. Open Tanzania, an exhibit featuring African elephants, giraffes, zebras, ostriches, lions, Nile crocodiles, wildebeests, kudus and impalas.

3. Open brand new lemur exhibit.

4. Tear down grottoes and build beaver exhibit in its place. Phase out tigers.

5. Open Maya Trek featuring jaguars, howler monkeys, giant anteaters, capybaras, squirrel monkeys and macaws.



Greenville Zoo


1. Build a new lion exhibit.

2. Open Asian Forest, featuring new habitats for tigers, orangutans and red pandas. Phase out leopards.

3. Open rainforest complex including howler monkeys, tamarins, ocelots, capybaras, toucans and caimans.

4. Expand giraffe exhibit.

5. Open otter exhibit.

6. Add exhibits for warthogs, porcupines and raccoons.

7. Open new children’s zoo.

8. Open small reptile house.


North Carolina Zoo


1. Renovate and expand grizzly bear exhibit.

2. Add moose, lynx and condors to North America.

3. Build brand new lion exhibit closer to Watani Grasslands as well as one for cheetahs. On site of former lion exhibit, build a kopje habitat featuring klipspringers, dik diks, meerkats, hyraxes, mongoose, tortoises and vultures.

4. Turn former African Pavilion into Swamplands, featuring state-of-the-art exhibits for Nile hippopotamus and Nile crocodiles complete with underwater viewings.

5. Open giant Asian section featuring Cats of the Himalayas (snow leopards, Amur leopards, red pandas, markhors, Patas cats), a massive Indian Grasslands featuring Indian rhinos, gaurs, nilgais, bantengs, blackbucks, muntjacs and other hoofstock, Canopys of the Islands (orangutans, Malayan tapirs, gibbons, siamang, Komodo dragons), an Asian aviary, Macaque Peaks, Riverbed of Giants (a gigantic habitat for Asian elephants) and Forest Trek (tigers.)

6. Open Australian complex for kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, dingos and birds.


Virginia Zoo


1. Open World of Reptiles, a remodeled reptile house.

2. Move white rhino herd into former elephant exhibit.

3. Open Jewels of South America in between Trail of the Tiger and Okavango Delta featuring jaguars, squirrel monkeys, giant anteaters, howler monkeys, guanacos, rheas, vultures, bush dogs and tamarins.

4. Open flamingo exhibit.

5. Add aardvarks to Okavango Delta.

6. Add langurs to Trail of the Tiger.

 

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National Zoo


1. Open Migration exhibit.

2. Drastically renovate Amazonia, adding a whole extra room recreating a tropical rainforest. Add a lot more monkeys. Expand area outside by creating new exhibits for jaguars, Andean bears, guanacos, rheas, giant anteaters, capybaras, Baird’s tapirs, maned wolves, giant otters and spider monkeys.

3. Add tigers, Indian rhinos, Bactrian camels and Preswalzki’s wild horses to Asia Trail.

4. Redevelop Cheetah Conservation Center, parking lot and wild horse yard/Small Mammal House/Great Apes into Africa Trail, featuring lions, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, lesser kudu, oryx, meerkats, red river hogs, colobus monkeys and Vervet monkeys.

5. Turn current Great Cats area into Rare Apes featuring state-of-the-art immersive habitats for orangutans and gorillas. Have a strong conservation message to the exhibit.

6. Remodel Think Tank.


Maryland Zoo


1. Open brand new African elephant exhibit, Elephant Valley, in a wooded savanna environment. Have watering holes, trees, enrichment opportunities and two habitats for the pachyderms to rotate between. Build this on undeveloped part of the zoo property.

2. Open flamingo exhibit near entrance.

3. Turn current elephant into a new exhibit for giraffes. Use space remaining from giraffe’s departure to build improved exhibits for lions and cheetahs. Put hyenas in current cheetah exhibit.

4. Turn old penguin exhibit into Lemur Oasis.

5. Add pygmy hippo exhibit to African Journey.

6. Open new immersive Chimpanzees of the African Rainforest exhibit, a state-of-the-art habitat. Put Patas monkeys in current chimp exhibit.

7. Add black bears, beavers, red wolves, deer, cougars, bobcats and alligators.

8. Tear down Main Valley and reopen the area as Expedition Asia featuring tigers, gibbons, red pandas, Malayan tapirs, snow leopards, macaques and gharials.

9. Open new reptile house.

10. Open Australian walkabout with kangaroos and emus.


Salisbury Zoo


1. Open expanded and renovated jaguar exhibit.

2. Add giant anteaters to the collection.

3. Remodel spider monkey exhibit.

4. Open new bobcat exhibit.

5. Open walkthrough Australian exhibit featuring kangaroos, wallabies and emus with cassowaries and kookaburras to the side.

6. Remodel Andean bear (adding natural substrate) and otter exhibits (give otters underwater viewing.)

7. Open modern squirrel monkey exhibit.


Brandywine Zoo


1. Phase out leopards and replace them with a remodeled exhibit for leopards.

2. Open new serval exhibit.

3. Combine current red panda and serval exhibits to build a larger, nicer red panda exhibit.

4. Open spider monkey exhibit.

5. Remodel otter exhibit.

6. Open tamarin exhibit.


Philadelphia Zoo


1. Turn Rare Animal Conservation Center into Rainforests of the World, featuring naturalistic habitats for mangabeys, porcupines, sakis, tamarins, tamarins, titis, sloths, colobus monkeys, ocelots and birds. Have outdoor habitats for monkeys to rotate between.

2. Renovate gorilla and orangutan exhibits, making them more naturalistic and abundant with enrichment and climbing opportunities. Also improve indoor exhibits. Open brand new yard for each species.

3. Overhaul African Plains and turn its site as well as most of the South side of the zoo (excluding Carnivore Kingdom) into Impressions of Africa featuring giraffes, white rhinos, zebras, Nile hippos, okapis, red river hogs, cheetahs, African wild dogs, aardvarks, flamingos, meerkats, Nile crocodiles, klipspringers, wildebeests, impalas, gazelles and gerenuks. Have a watering hole exhibit be the cornerstone of the complex.

4. Open Penguin Point, featuring a colony of Humboldt penguins.

5. Open walkthrough kangaroo and lemur exhibits.

6. Turn Reptile and Amphibian House into Cold Blooded Kingdom, a state-of-the-art facility.

7. Open Asian Herbivores, featuring Bactrian camels, takins and Malayan tapirs near North entrance.

8. Renovate Small Mammal House, changing it into Small Wonders.

9. Add grizzly bears to Bear Country. Improve polar bear exhibit.


Elmwood Park Zoo


1. Open Trail of the Jaguar, featuring jaguars, ocelots, howler monkeys, squirrel monkeys, sakis and macaws.

2. Open Tooth and Claw of the Northeast exhibit featuring black bears, cougars, gray wolves, bobcats, porcupines, otters and bald eagles.

3. Open hyena, wallaby and gibbon exhibits.

4. Open new alligator exhibit.


Lehigh Valley Zoo


1. Open giraffe exhibit.

2. Open Trek Down Under, featuring kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, kookaburras and emus. This will involve overhauling a lot of the central part of the zoo.

3. Open alligator exhibit.

4. Remodel otter exhibit.

5. Open red panda exhibit.

6. Open grizzly bear exhibit next to wolves.


Erie Zoo


1. Tear down Main Zoo Building and open Orangutan Trail, featuring orangutans, gibbons, siamangs, clouded leopards, langurs and Komodo dragons. Have lots of enrichments and climbing opportunities for the primates. Phase out jagauars, capybaras, servals and caracals. Move lemurs, meerkats and naked mole rats to Children’s zoo.

2. Open new spider monkey exhibit.

3. Open sloth bear exhibit.

4. Open brand new naturalistic lion exhibit.

5. Open larger, more naturalistic giraffe habitat in Kiboka Outpost.


Pittsburgh Zoo


1. Open Jungle Trails with pygmy hippos, ocelots, giant anteaters, capybaras and fossas.

2. Open Red Man of the Forest exhibit for orangutans.

3. Open naturalistic snow leopard exhibit.

4. Open reptile house.

5. Expand African elephant exhibit. Phase out cheetahs in order to do this.

6. Remodel black rhinoceros exhibit.

7. Move sea lions to Water’s Edge.

8. Tear down Tropical Forest to build Gorilla Kingdom, a naturalistic habitat for a bang of gorillas.

9. Open nice lemur exhibit near entrance.

10. Open Tiger Lands, featuring tigers, Komodo dragons, sun bears, red pandas and Malayan tapirs and naturalistic habitats.


Turtle Back Zoo


1. Add lions, hyenas, zebras, meerkats, warthogs and colobus monkeys to African Adventure.

2. Overhaul middle of the zoo to open tiger exhibit.

3. Add ocelots to Big Cat Country.

4. Open new Prairie exhibit for bison and elk.

5. Open aviary.


Cape May County Zoo


1. Renovate African Savanna adding new exhibits for lions, cheetahs, Debrazza’s monkeys, lemurs, meerkats and porcupines. Include watering hole for hoofstock.

2. Open renovated habitat for tigers.

3. Open remodeled black bear exhibit.

4. Open remodeled exhibits for howler monkeys and tamarins.

5. Open new otter exhibit.

6. Add jaguars to the collection.


Staten Island Zoo


1. Open expanded alligator exhibit.

2. Completely overhaul and remodel beaver exhibit.

3. Renovate fox exhibit.

4. Open outdoor exhibit for meerkats.

5. Phase out servals and put reptiles in their exhibit.

6. Open new, naturalistic exhibit for spider monkeys.

7. Add capybaras to the collection.


Queens Zoo


1. Open jaguar exhibit.

2. Turn Aviary into Amazonia, adding several New World primates to the exhibit.

3. Add exhibits for giant otters.

4. Turn current prairie exhibit into South American pampas for guanacos, rheas, giant anteaters, tapirs and capybaras.


Prospect Park Zoo


1. Turn Discovery Trail into Australasia Trek featuring Amur leopards, kangaroos, wallabies, red pandas, dingos, tufted deer, pallas cats, Asian small-clawed otters, gibbons and siamangs.

2. Open social animals exhibit featuring meerkats and prairie dogs.


Central Park Zoo


1. Renovate Tropics Zone. Add ocelots, porcupines, spider monkeys, mangabeys, caimans and other species to the building.

2. Open river otter exhibit.

3. Open markhor exhibit.


Bronx Zoo


1. Renovate Carter Giraffe Building so that giraffes have bulk of the space and facilities are much more modern. Add kopje complex featuring klipspringers, warthogs, meerkats, dik diks, servals, tortoises and birds next to African Plains and Baboon Reserve. Try to integrate white rhinos into hoofstock exhibits. Add wildebeest to African Plains.

2. Turn center of the Zoo from bison to World of Reptiles into Yellowstone featuring grizzly bears, black bears, moose, gray wolves, bald eagles, river otters, cougars, wolverines, pronghorn and mountain goats. Exisiting bison exhibit will be incorporated into the complex with moderate renovations and new viewing opportunities. Bear grottoes will be demolished and polar bears will be phased out.

3. Replace leopards in Jungle World with monkeys.

4. Turn former Monkey House into state-of-the-art habitats for koalas, wombats and echidnas.

5. Turn World of Darkness into state-of-the-art reptile house. Turn current World of Reptiles into a restaurant.

6. Add bongos and mangabeys to Congo Gorilla Forest.

7. If zoo decides to keep Asian elephants: Close down monorail and create a walking trail through Wild Asia habitats, naming the area Giants of India. The biggest change will be a much larger, more immersive Asian elephant exhibit with a breeding herd. Move tigers to Tiger Mountain and besides elephant exhibit have massive Asian hoostock yard with Indian rhinos integrated. Also create a large Asian style elephant barn providing year round viewing. Turn former Rare Animal Range into an African Wetlands exhibit featuring hippos, Nile crocodiles, sitatungas, lechwes, cheetahs, Cape buffalo, spotted hyenas, swamp monkeys and spotted necked otters.

8. If the zoo follows through with phasing out elephants entirely: Close down monorail and create a walking path through Wild Asia and opening a new complex there called Marvels of Asia. Keep half of the yards the same but on the other half create naturalistic habitats for orangutans, Malayan tapirs, clouded leopards, Indian rhinoceros, Japanese macaques and gharials. Add Bactrian camels and takins to the hoofstock part of the complex. Open African Wetlands.

9. If zoo were to get African elephants: Follow through with Marvels of Asia. Turn former Rare Animal Range into Elephants of the Okavango, featuring a state-of-the-art habitat for the pachyderms. Also include a large indoor exhibit to provide year-round viewing.





Seneca Park Zoo


1. Tear down main building and replace it with Primatess of the Rainforest, featuring gorillas, lemurs and orangutans/siamangs in naturalistic netted habitats. Phase out white rhinos.

2. Expand Step Into Africa by opening habitat for giraffes, white rhinoceros, ostriches, hornbills, elands and Thomson’s gazelles. Add red river hogs in a separate exhibit. Also enlarge African elephant exhibit.

3. Replace polar bears with grizzly bears.

4. Phase out wolves, hyenas and lynxes to build Asian Highlands exhibit for snow leopards, red pandas and tigers.


Rosamond Gifford Zoo


1. Open state-of-the-art gibbon/Asian small-clawed otter exhibit.

2. Open giraffe/impala/African bird exhibit where white-lipped deer exhibit is.

3. Build new lion exhibit where red wolf exhibit currently is.

4. Turn social animals building into a rainforest building where primates and birds can roam throughout the room. Have former lion exhibit become an ocelot outdoor exhibit. Include rooms for African, Asian and South American rainforest animals.


Buffalo Zoo


1. Phase out elephants. Turn elephant yard and surrounding area into a naturalistic habitat for gorillas. Renovate elephant house to make it appropriate for gorillas.

2. Open renovated reptile house now featuring Komodo dragons.

3. Open Himalayan Highlands in the middle of the zoo next to Rainforest Falls and overhauling bighorn sheep exhibit and wetlands. Feature tigers, snow leopards, red pandas, Pallas cats and Asian hoofstock.

4. Close current gorilla exhibit and turn it into a meerkat exhibit.

5. Turn bison exhibit into a habitat for crocodiles.

6. Open penguin exhibit near entrance.

7. Combine lion and tiger grottoes to create a naturalistic habitat for lions.

8. Overhaul hoofstock yards, creating African Watering Hole complex featuring giraffes, zebras, roans, addaxes, gemsbok, gazelles, ostriches, warthogs and birds. Incorporate exisiting spotted hyena exhibit.


Toronto Zoo


1. Remodel Indo-Malayasia complex. The cornerstone will be Orangutan Treetops, a state-of-the-art outdoor facility for orangutans. Tigers of Sumatra will be a state-of-the-art habitat for the cats. Also open new habitats for clouded leopards, babirusas, Malayan tapirs and langurs.

2. Open a Macaque hot springs.

3. Open brand new Nile hippopotamus exhibit with underwater viewing.

4. Redesign and expand outdoor habitat for the gorillas.

5. Open outdoor pygmy hippopotamus exhibit as well as a new habitat for mandrills and mangabeys.

6. Remodel Canadian Domain as Canadian Expedition and have it feature bison, moose, elk, grizzly bears, wolves, cougars, lynx, otters, musk ox and bighorn sheep. Make exhibits much more intimate and enriching than before.

7. Open sea lion and seal exhibit.

8. Renovate Australia area adding koalas.

9. Completely overhaul Americas section and open Jungle of the Jaguar, featuring jaguars, New world monkeys, giant anteaters, capybaras and giant otters.


Beardsley Zoo


1. Tear down predator row and phase out tigers and leopards. Build a naturalistic jaguar exhibit with an underwater viewing.

2. Build a new lynx exhibit.

3. Build Trek Through the Andes with new exhibits for Andean bears and condors.

4. Build Streamside exhibit with otters in a naturalistic habitat. Tear down Wetlands Aviary to make room.

5. Open outdoor ocelot exhibit.

6. Add elk and guanacos to the collection.


Roger Williams Park Zoo


1. Completely overhaul Tropical America and build the naturlastic, larger and much more impressive Rainforest Tropics in its place. It will feature species such as giant anteaters, capybaras, maned wolves, squirrel monkeys, howler monkeys, toucans and a wide variety of rainforest pscies.

2. Open state-of-the-art penguin and sea lion exhibits near the entrance.

3. Add tigers to Marco Polo Trek as well as a new siamang/gibbon exhibit. Phase out moon bears.

4. Renovate North American section adding grizzly bears and otters as well as expanding red wolf exhibit. Keep bison and pronghorn exhibit.

5. Open new reptile house featuring Nile crocodiles and Komodo dragons.

6. Open new habitat for chimpanzees near Fabrics of Africa.


Capron Park Zoo


1. Completely remodel lion exhibit. Phase out llamas and sloth bears to expand the exhibit.

2. Renovate lemur islands.

3. Replace leopards with servals.


Buttonwood Park Zoo


1. Phase out Asian elephants. Replace them with a naturalistic habitat for Indian rhinos.

2. Open Asian section featuring tigers, leopards, snow leopards and red pandas.

3. Open new exhibits for sea lions, otters and beavers.

4. Remodel black bear exhibit.

5. Open South America section featuring jaguars, spider monkeys and bush dogs.


Stone Zoo


1. Open brand new snow leopard exhibit.

2. Open Rocky Mountains exhibit featuring grizzly bears, moose, otters, bighorn sheep and mountain goats.

3. Open red panda exhibit.

4. Remodel jaguar exhibit making it lusher and adding an underwater viewing.

5. Add Bactrian camels, takins and gaurs to the collection.

6. Open cheetah exhibit.

7. Open new exhibit for colobus monkeys.

8. Open penguin exhibit.


Franklin Park Zoo


1. Open outdoor gorilla habitat.

2. Open Asia complex featuring tigers, orangutans, leopards and more.

3. Open remodeled lion exhibit.

4. Open new aviary.

 

I've written possible master plans for almost every AZA zoo and posted them here.

 

A labour of love indeed, well done.

 

I'm really curious to hear what comments people might have to my ideas.

 

San Diego Zoo
-Any reason that you're putting a South American deer in the midst of an Asia area?
-What do you plan for the current residents of the Northern Frontier hoofstock yards, if destroyed? They are a variety of endangered species, most of which are underrepresented in America and breeding quite well.

San Antonio Zoo
-have you been here? Where is all this undeveloped land coming from? They have only 12 acres.
-what's wrong with the cat grottos?
Granted some could use a little retouch or species swap, but nothing needs to be demolished completely.

Dallas Zoo
-what would you do with the large selection of larger bird species kept on the monorail? What about the other species on the ride that you don't mention?
-you do realize, that while two of those areas are in close proximity, there are two exhibit complexes between that region and the Hill?
Also, the hill is used as holding/quarantine for large mammal species.
-why turn an exhibit with six primate species, half of which are endangered, into a walk-through lemur exhibit when the zoo already has an amazing lemur exhibit?

Saint Louis Zoo
-which otters and which crocodiles for River's Edge? It covers 4 continents so please specify a bit. Also, where will the jaguar go? There isn't really space in that region of RE for a large cat exhibit.

National Zoo
-There isn't enough space for all that around Amazonia.
-there isn't enough space for that on Asia Trail unless you create some mixed-species habitats.

 

@GraysonDP : Some input for Saint Louis:
- What's wrong with where the flamingos are currently? They have an entire naturalistic lake and are clearly visible.
- I agree with you on adding tapirs to RE: I'd like to see them add Malayan tapirs and gibbons across from the elephants, as there seems to be room left in that portion of RE and both of those iconic species are missing from SLZ. The rest of RE is pretty crowded though, as Jay has mentioned.
- I also agree that a renovation and expansion of the Primate House would be welcomed.
- Where in the zoo would a wolf exhibit go? Also, where would bonobos fit in Fragile Forest? Also, is it necessary for SLZ to have both bonobos and chimpanzees?

Input regarding Scovill, Henson Robinson, and Peoria:
- Scovill already has exhibits for alligators and prairie dogs; where would the cougar exhibit go? The wallaby enclosures have nowhere to expand; they are entirely surrounded by pathways and other exhibits.
- Henson Robinson has already phased out Asiatic black bears; I don't know what occupies the exhibit now but I highly doubt it would be a bobcat, due to the size of the enclosure, the fact that it's open-topped, and the fact that there is already a bobcat enclosure there. Some other suggestions would be muntjacs (already over there); some other deer or duiker; cranes; Japanese macaques; and American black bears (I guess this one would make the most sense).
- Peoria has already phased out sea lions; an alternate idea to otters would be penguins, an idea that I believe the zoo has suggested as a possibility.

Input regarding Indianapolis:
- What's wrong with the lion enclosure? If anything, I'd rather see the baboon enclosure expanded and improved.
- Where would manatees go in Oceans? Perhaps they could replace the dolphins somehow? (I doubt it)
- Where would any of those species go in Deserts?
- Arctic foxes are a rather small species to take over the entire polar bear enclosure, although honestly I'm at a bit of a loss on what they should do with it. It may not be the best polar bear enclosure, but I can't think of any replacement species that makes sense. Probably best to just tear it down and replace it with something else entirely (maybe your manatees? In reality though, I doubt it)
- I would overhaul the bear exhibit in Forests, but beyond that I think the other enclosures are fine and I'd rather see them add more Asian species than overhaul the whole thing for African animals (who would be less cold tolerant than some of the species they have now). Some ideas include: cranes, Japanese macaque, Pallas's cat, snow leopard (perhaps could replace the bears), Komodo dragons, and an Asian rainforest building with birds, turtles, and bats.

Input regarding Cincinnati:
- I don't think the Reptile House is big enough to serve as a restaurant

 

@jayjds2 : where did you get 12 acres for San Antonio? The two numbers I see online are 35 and 56/57, neither of which is even close to that.