Exhibit Designing Competition #2

Yes, but it's probably better suited to the Zoo Cafe IMO as it's more 'Off Topic'.

 

i must agree with you

 

So far there have been no entries, is anyone working on anything of is no one interested. If you still want to try I will extend the due date to sunday at the same time

 

The exhibit complex is called "Primates of the Asian Landscape" and features primates and animals from across the asian continent

The building is entered through a pagoda themed entrance, which leads to a chinese forest themed indoor exhibit (800 sq ft in total) for golden monkeys. The exhibit features several large, realistic, fake trees... bamboo, a trickling stream, tons of ropes and logs for climbing and is viewed thru floor to cieling windows that slant into the habitat. The path then leads thru a bamboo forest to a door which leads outdoors to the golden monkey outdoor habitat. The exhibit is about the same as the indoor and is enclosed with thin but sturdy mesh. The viewing is again thru windows but this time there are two viewing areas, you can also climb to the top of a pagoda that is attatched to the habitat and is viewed thru harp wire. The outdoor area's floor is grassy and again fillled with bamboo but also features many fallen logs, boulders, fake large tree and ropes. There are also a couple of live chinese fur trees inside the exhibit. 1.2 golden monkeys live here

As you near the door to get back inside, there is a view of a large, moated island (2000 sq feet) which houses japanese macaques. There is a man-made hot spring, large trees for climbing and lots of boulders. The holding area is located beneath the island. 2.4 japanese macaques live here

Right across from the island is a tea house which serves several types of teas and has a place to sit and look thru windows to see the next species...

Inside, the bamboo forest is now accompanied by humidity and steam. A tank contains poison dart frogs of various colors and across the path is the home of siamang, white cheeked gibbon, sumatran orangutan and asian small clawed otters! ... The exhibit floor is all flooded by up to 3 feet of water (with a small island of to the side which the gibbons and orangutans can't reach) which serves as a home to the asian small clawed otter (the entire size of the exhibit is 1000 sq ft) but... also keeps all the primates arboreal as they can't swim. This is acheived by the huge fake trees with high up, dense branches and ropes for swinging and arboreal life! Food is served also by an arboreal platform and the door to ther outdoor areas/holding areas are also high-up. Viewing is once again thru huge/slanted out viewing windows. 1.2 orangutans, 1.1 siamangs, 1.1 gibbons and 1.1 otters live here

The path leads outside to the moated outdoor island area (asian small clawed otters utilize the moat) which has again, a very heavy amount of arboreal spaceby climbing structures and fake trees, real trees are also included (The outdoor island is 1300 sq feet)

Back inside, indian temple ruins in a dry, scrub forest setting sets the theme for the hanuman langur exhibit. Viewing is thru harp wire windows within the temple that looks into the exhibit. Live fig trees are within, as well as several fallen logs and boulders (Size of exhibit is 800 sq ft)

Outdoors in a netted enclosure with huge fake trees with tons of ropes and logs for climbing. There are live fig trees here as well, along with slanted out windows and bubble windows that pop into the exhibit, the temple ruins continue outside as well (Exhibit is 1000 sq ft). 1.4 langurs live here

The last exhibit is a moated outdoor island (1000 sq feet) set up like the others, housing francois langur, lion tailed macaque and binturong. The island is geo-thermally heated and the holding is under the island. 1.3 langurs live here and 1.5 macaques live here

 

An extension would be nice.

 

The new deadline is Sunday at 9pm GMT-6

 

If you want to enter you have 3 hours left!
Hopefully there will be more entries as currently there is just one.

 

Primates of Asia

This complex is comprised of a large house with outdoor extenssions. All primates have their indoor quarters inside the house, although certain species can only be viewed in their outdoor enclosures. It features primates from all across Asia in varied habitats.

The first few exhibits are the ones that can only be viewed from outside. At the entrance is a large island for a troop of Japanese Macaques. It contains a large hot spring, as well as many trees for climbing. It also has some open areas. Some of the trees in the exhibit are ones that produce fruit or nuts so the macaques can forage for food as they would in the wild.

Next, an Indian woodland is entered. Side-by-side large exhibits contain Common Langur, Lion-tailed Macaque, and Hoolock Gibbon. All 3 are full of climbing opportunities. The Common Langur exhibit has an Indian temple theme, the other 2 do not. However, the temple theme is not overdone and does not detract from the amount of climbing structures in the exhibit.

The next exhibit is the first one that can be viewed from both indoors and outdoors, and it is also connected to a restaurant. It is a large exhibit for Golden Monkeys. Both the indoor and outdoor exhibits contain lots of bamboo and fallen logs. Outside there are several real trees planted in the exhibit as well, indoors there are fake trees. The indoor viewing is entirely through glass, and also here is a Chinese restaurant.

After viewing the Golden Monkeys, visitors enter the next section. It has 2 exhibits. The first is for a group of Douc Langurs, and the second is a mixed species one for Dusky Langur and Yellow-cheeked Gibbon. Both can be viewed from inside and outside, and the second enclosure has a moat which is home to Oriental Small-clawed Otters. There is a glass viewing window for underwater viewing of the otters.

The last section contains the majority of the primates, and a few other animals. It is Southeast Asia. Back inside a thick jungle is entered. The first exhibit seen is a mixed one for Siamang and Malayan Tapir. The tapirs have a deep pool to swim in, and the Siamangs have many tall trees and ropes. Across from it is a similar enclosure for Agile Gibbon and Binturong. It is equally large, but lacks a pool. Two moated islands are for Silvered Leaf-monkeys and Banded Langurs. The final exhibit in the jungle is a huge one for Bornean Orangutans, Meuller's Gibbons and Prevost's Squirrels. All 3 species have plenty of space and the orangs have lots of climbing areas. Leaving this area you view the outdoor exhibits for all the previously mentioned species, then re-enter the building again into a Bornean mangrove swamp, home to Proboscis Monkeys. The exhibit is full of fake trees, along with a pool. The pool has a glass window for underwater viewing.

Lastly, a dark hallway is entered. It has 2 indoor-only exhibits, viewed through glass for Slow Loris and Spectral Tarsier. After viewing these exhibits the building is exited. The outdoor Proboscis Monkey exhibit is seen, followed by 2 more islands only viewed from outdoors, for Long-tailed Macaque and Pileated Gibbon.

 

Thank you to everyone who entered, but the winner must be Siamang 27. Your use of nocturnal prosimians really made it for me.

Congratulations

 

So the plan now is to create a new thread for the next challenge, right?

 

Yes. Over to the Zoo Cafe for part two

 

We've moved to the Cafe. siamang27 is setting the next challenge. Just a bit of advice, when setting challenges, could there be a situation please (for example a zoo is renovating their primate house etc.) - also keep the challenge quite small so as people don't have to spend hours researching and designing. Hopefully this will get the thread nice and busy again .
I thought I'd put a table of the 'Top Designers' and how many competitions they've won:
1st - siamang27, fkalltheway, Dibatag - 3
2nd - Javan Rhino, DesertRhino150 - 2
3rd - Fossa Dude, NAIB Volunteer, redpanda - 1

Let the battle(ish) commence!

 

New thread can be found here:
http://www.zoochat.com/25/exhibit-designing-competition-2-a-175293/#post362842

 

Huh, I haven't visited the Exhibit Design Competition Forum in a while. I thought I would only win one and then done, but now I'm excited for the next challange.

 

Small Mammal House

A zoo has closed off a large section of the zoo and is working on redeveloping it. The first project is a small mammal house. The house must contain at least 10 small mammals from anywhere in the world. There is no maximum limit on the number of species. It is preferred that at least some species have outdoor access, especially if diurnal primates or small carnivores are exhibited. The zoo also wants the mammals to be divided up into some sort of theme (for example, by habitat, continent, day/night, conservation status, whatever). There is no specification on the types of exhibits that can be built, so you can have walk-throughs, mixed species, or anything else.

Side note: I don't think using a situation will really change anything...at least it doesn't for me. We'll see!

 

When is the due date?
Also do the animals have to be held in captivity and can we augment the mammals with birds, reptiles ect?

 

OOohh I am joining this one! And Yes, I actually will this time! But I can only join if I have the weekend to work on it.

 

Sorry, the due date is Sunday at 8 PM central time.
Species don't have to be held in captivity.
Other animals can only be used if they are mixed with a mammal (for example, tamarin species mixed with birds and tortoises). Maximum of 10 non-mammalian species.

 

I had some time free, so I can join too:

SMALL MAMMAL DOMES

A zoo decided to rebuild the Small Mammal House into something better than a row of small mammal enclosures. It hired an internationally known architect.

The new Mammal House has the form of five connected glass domes. Viewed from one side, the building resembles African kopje rocky outcrop or a clump of tree crowns. Viewed from another side, five domes form the shape of a resting animal: head, two big ears, body and curved thick tail. Perhaps a sand cat or a chinchilla. Metal supports have shape strengthening this impression – an outline of eye patches, cheeks, arms and legs. The entrance is through the glass animal’s nose.

The first dome is Brazilian rainforest.

The visitors walk into the rainforest hall. Free-living animals on the trees and in the bushes are: pied marmosets, red-backed titis, brazilian agoutis, maned sloths, keel-billed toucans, montezuma oropendolas and green iguanas. The path follows the creek, which separates two moated exhibits. One is shared by a troop of yellow-breasted capuchins and a pair of crab-eating raccooons. The second is shared by a pair of pacas and family group of white uakaris.

The second dome is Australian outback.

This is walk-though exhibit with red earth, termite mounds, planted eucalyptus and grass trees. High eroded rock face has a trickling waterfall forming a waterhole. The visitors path is bordered by glass railings, separating exhibits. One exhibit is inhabited by yellow-footed rock wallabies, malas and short-beaked echidnas. The second exhibit has koalas on treetops and a pair of numbats on the ground. The third has the pair of tasmanian devils. The pool is inhabited by a pair of platypus. Free-flying under the dome are galahs and rainbow lorikeets. Visitors can take a cup of nectar and feed the lorikeets from the hand. The path curves and goes up the rock-face, so you can watch koalas on trees at eye-level, while rock wallabies look at you from even higher rocky outcrop.

You emerge in the night over Malaysian swamp.

The night exhibit has rich artificial palms and trees, and fake moon mirrored in the small pool. Animals live in enclosures separated by glass or piano wire, which is set some distance from visitors, so the impression is walking through the thick jungle with free-living animals. Malayan porcupines, Palawan mousedeer, Panay cloud rats, giant flying squirrels, white-faced scops owls and slender loris share the huge first exhibit, which is actually curving over visitor trails. So animals can run on the branches overhead or under the wooden bridge below visitors feet. Next exhibit has fishing cat in a mangrove swamp with the deep pool. Further for enclosures are full of branches and it is impossible to guess in the darkness where one ends and the next begins in this dense thicket. They have: philippine tarsiers, malayan pangolins, spotted linsang and a pair of marbled cats.

Then we walk into the next dome. This is another night exhibit, African savanna.

The landscape is open, with thorny acacias, termite mounds, and the roof is painted like red sky with red clouds of the endless sunset. Most night animals cannot see the red colour, so it is dark for them. Springhares, tree hyrax, pel’s anomalures, kirk’s dikdiks, greater galagos, yellow-winged bats, golden fruit bats and spotted stone-curlews are free to run around visitors and on trees overhead. The moated exhibit is shared by aardvarks and a pair of fennec foxes. Tree-climbing free-living animals have access to it. The last exhibit is separated by piano wire. It has lots of tree branches and rocky backdrop. It is inhabited by a pair of servalline genets on the trees and rocks and pair of ratels who spend time on the ground.

Visitors walk through the tunnel, seeing large exhibit of naked mole rats. They have a sort of diagonally cut slope, exposing lots of criss-crossing glass corridors and chambers, lighted by red light. The above ground part has white-bellied hedgehogs.

Then we are back in daytime, and in the last and biggest dome. This is actually glass animal’s “body”. South American part was “head”, Australia in the thick tail, and night exhibits in the two darkened ears.

The biggest and highest dome is rainforest of Madagascar. We walk on the path under bamboos, lianas and travellers palms, and animals are free to run around – red ruffed lemurs, red-bellied lemurs and greater bamboo lemurs, madagascar flying foxes, Madagascar crested ibises and free-running panther cameleons. In the centre is researcher’s hut, where visitors can examine how mammal research is done. They can see radio collaring equipment, how scats are analyzed, and look through the microscope to identify remains of insects and fish scales in animals scats.

Then visitors see three glass exhibits in the side of the dome. They are spacious and richly landscaped with branches and vegetation. The first has the group of silky sifakas, another falanouc, the third a pair of golden bamboo lemur.

Outside the building is surrounded by water moats. They divide outside, forested exhibits for marmosets (walk-though), for uakaris, capuchins (wire-covered tent with glass windows), for wallabies, tasmanian devils and koalas (dry moats), and for lemurs (walk-though) and sifakas and mongoose (wire-covered tents with viewing windows).

 

@haz cat - Can the top designers make an exhibit too?