This zoo which opened April 28, 1985 ist about 50 minutes drive from Tokio Ueno Park and easily accessible via train and monorail. The zoo covered 33,5 ha and has a good animal collection (asian elephant, recticulated giraffe, grevy's zebra, red pandas, gorillas, chimps, borneo orangutan, mandrill, siamang, celebes crested macaques, purple-faced langur, deBrazza Monkey, Patas monkey, guereza, siamang, sealion, penguins as well as a shoebill stork - to mention a few species. In March 2014 the Zoo published a "Restart Initiative" in order to update the facilities and introduce new species. (http://www.city.chiba.jp/toshi/koenryokuchi/dobutsukoen/documents/restartzentai.pdf) In this context they opened an african lion exhibit in April 2016. In Juni 2018 they closed the enclosures for Bison, Camel, Yaks, Llama and Water Buffalo to make room for new exhibits for cheetahs and hyenas. 35°38'41.67"N 140° 7'43.22"E 千葉市動物公園
Nice tosee another renewal plan of a Japanese zoo. Where did you find out about the closure of the hoofstock enclosures?
At irregular intervals I follow the news list of the Japanese zoos and found this message in June 2018. in google earth the change of this area is clearly visible, too 家畜の原種ゾーンの動物展示終了
New Cheetah and spotted hyena exhibits have been made. There will be 3.4 cheetahs that arrived from Europe last month. The males are from Prague zoo. Two females are from France while the other two are from Norway. there is a 140 meter run course for the cheetahs.
5 cheetas born at Chiba : https://twitter.com/ChibaZoo/status...1P7U_mkypSoa8f5pcFl-sUWfH5loeSa8x0zzMProPuVjQ
Does anyone know what happened to Chiba's pygmy marmosets and emperor tamarins? The zoo only states that they're gone.
They still hold some domestic donkeys (a pair), some domestic horse (single sex), a single Przewalski's horse and a breeding group of Grevy's zebra (1.2).
