Dallas Zoo Dallas Zoo News 2016

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*Sigh* I highly doubt he meant in that way.

From other introductions I have seen, cows often seem to be very excited when first introduced to bulls after long periods without one. I would assume the same would go for the "golden girls" as well. Especially considering some of them have likely not seen a bull in 20+ years.

 

Bozie at the Smithsonian got very excited when she met Kandula. First she got especially excited when she smelled his poop and then again when she met him. It sort of makes sense that a Bull would cause excitement, Bulls mean breeding, among other things, breeding means new herd members (hopefully), so a Bull can be a harbinger of things to come.

 

Zoo's Facebook. There are no plans for exhibit, and they are in quarantine indefinitely.

 

The Zoo saw a 9.9% increase in annual revenue in 2015.

Dallas Zoo grows by nearly 10 percent in 2015 - Dallas Business Journal

 

Texas horned lizards are now on exhibit.

 

Zoo's Facebook. I think the one that hatched in may still lives at the zoo, I've seen a juvenile vulture in their exhibit but was unsure of species.

 

Zoo's Facebook.

 

Zola and Tendaji (rescued) spent a few hours with Congo and Kamba in the savanna recently.

 

The three Aldabra tortoises have joined the seven lemurs in the Lemur Lookout habitat.

 

Some of the Swazi elephants are starting to share exhibit space with the golden girls.

The Dallas Zoo’s newest elephants come out to play | | Dallas Morning News

 

Notes and stuff:

A king vulture was born on April 24th. It and its mother are off exhibit until it fledges.

The Rüppell's griffon vulture pair has moved from Wings of the World to the first exhibit in the monorail queue.

The wreathed hornbills moved from their former exhibit to the former griffon vulture exhibit.

A west African black crowned crane pair was added to the lappet faced vulture exhibit on the monorail.

A demoiselle crane was added to the white stork exhibit in the monorail queue.

A nesting pair of white storks was added to the Great Rift Valley habitat on the monorail.

The baby bongo is on exhibit, but she's as big as her parents.

At least four aoudad were added to the Northeastern African mountains exhibit.

The lemur exhibit went under slight modification for the Aldabra tortoises (a few poles so they are confined to a certain area, while lemurs can come and go).

A male ostrich was added to the Somali wild ass/gemsbok exhibit.

The wood storks from the waterfowl lake were moved to the former red crowned crane exhibit.

The Galapagos tortoises now have access to the former Aldabra tortoise exhibit.

An East African gray crowned crane was added to the Great Rift Valley exhibit.

A young male nyala joined the three adult males in their exhibit.

Not news, but the behind-the-scenes aviary for yellow billed stork that is visible from the monorail actually holds at least ten storks.

Also, Tendaji (the bull) is spending some time in his yard today. He is quite small, but that's to be expected.

 

The wallaby mob was allowed to choose the joey's name today. The choices were "Pedy" and "Burnum". The mob ate more food adorned with "Pedy" than with "Burnum", so the joey is now called "Pedy".

 

Elephant, Mlilo gave birth to a male calf on Saturday evening. Keepers had suspicions of a pregnancy whilst the group were in Swaziland but tests were not conclusive until now...
Q&A: Dallas Zoo welcomes precious elephant calf | Dallas ZooHoo!

 

Most excellent news!!

 

It's as if the one that died in Swaziland has been given back to us!

Two for the price one one! I can only imagine the excitement that must be going on in the Elephant house. I hope the father is someone genetically advantageous.

 

It's awesome that he was born, but I may not get to see him. I think he would be really genetically valuable, unless his father is also the sire of several other Swazi elephants.

 

Fantastic news that completely caught me by surprise. How long has it been since an elephant was born in Dallas Zoo? Where there any born before GOTS?

 

As far as I know, an elephant has never been born at the Dallas Zoo.

 

Another article about the elephant-birth :
Rescued elephant delivers calf at Dallas Zoo - CBS News