I just got a new (to me) Mammal Identification Guide to the San Diego Wild Animal Park today. I was geeking out about the species mixes from 1985 and thought there is probably at least a couple other zoochatters who might be interested in this list so here goes... EAST AFRICA Diana monkey (on an island in the lake presumably) northern white rhinoceros pygmy hippopotamus Thomson's gazelle Roosevelt's gazelle East African sitatunga Patterson's eland Cape buffalo Lake Victoria defassa waterbuck Nile lechwe Uganda kob Kenya impala eastern white-bearded wildebeest jimela topi Angolan roan antelope fringe-eared oryx Rothschild's giraffe CAT CANYON Asian lion Sumatran tiger HILLSIDE EXHIBITS Grevy's zebra Persian onager ARABIAN DESERT Arabian oryx sand gazelle ASIAN PLAINS Indian rhinoceros blackbuck Persian goitered gazelle Russian saiga nilgai Indian gaur Armenian mouflon Indian axis deer Indian barasingha deer Altai wapiti Indochinese sika deer Javan rusa deer Malayan sambar deer NORTHERN AFRICA Arabian camel slender-horned gazelle addra gazelle addax scimitar-horned oryx SOUTHERN AFRICA Hartmann's mountain zebra southern white rhinoceros South African black rhinoceros Angolan springbok Cape eland ellipsen waterbuck white-tailed wildebeest blesbok South African sable antelope gemsbok GREATER KUDU EXHIBIT greater kudu ASIAN WATERHOLE Malayan tapir!?!?!? Sunda wild boar domestic water buffalo Turkomen markhor Afghan urial Central Chinese goral Japanese serow Indian hog deer Central European red deer Formosan sika deer Timor rusa deer Ceylonese sambar European fallow deer Reeve's muntjac MOUNTAIN HABITAT Siberian ibex Himalayan tahr MONGOLIAN STEPPE Przewalski's horse domestic Bactrian camel BABOON HILL (current bonobo) mandrill BONGO EXHIBIT East African bongo yellow-backed duiker GERENUK EXHIBIT northern gerenuk southern lesser kudu OKAPI EXHIBIT Cotton's oribi okapi KILIMANJARO TRAIL PENS South African cheetah Masai klipspringer mhorr gazelle West African bushbuck Maxwell's duiker Kafue lechwe NYALA EXHIBIT Lowland nyala bay duiker
Back in the day....amazing. I do remember fondly both the Wild Boar and Tapir in the Asian exhibits--and the pygmy hippo with jaws open "defending turf" against various hoofed creatures in "East Africa"...
So where the tapir actually out in the field exhibit or were they in the shady section on the western tip where the serow and goral used to be separated into?
Very cool - thanks for posting!!! Some things have changed little, others are very different. I had forgotten about the 'side pens' towards the end of the ride.
It's interesting to me to note what is missing from this list. Pere David's deer, white-lipped deer, kiang, and banteng are some of the more notable ones.
The Malayan tapir were in the main Asian Waterhole exhibit, I remember it well because I took a Photo Safari and the male was named Sherman and he was only let out at the end of the day after the keepers were done in the exhibit, I think he was especially nosy and rambunctious with them. I wish I still had my field guide, it was probably from 1985, the same year. It was a souvenir which came with the Photo Safari participation. I also remember the Kilimanjaro Walking Trail enclosure for Kafue lechwe, since I was given my choice of all the animals to adopt at the park and being an antelope fan, I chose the Kafue lechwe! I don't remember why they were my favorites with so many others to consider there, I also loved the nyalas and kudus and sitatunga. They also had Kafue lechwe in the large canyon exhibit at the San Diego Zoo, which coincidentally had a nice seperate exhibit for Malayan tapirs. There was a large boardwalk over the canyon exhibit. The canyon and tapir area was replaced in 1988 by Tiger River, and a very small part of some of the rockwork toward the upper entrance is actually the back wall rockwork for the old tapir exhibit. Anyway, I also remember the Asian Waterhole exhibit at WAP having a very odd herd...the boars liked to hang out with the wisent group, I think they were inseperable! I remember seeing the hog deer and Reeve's muntjac, which were rarely seen from the monorail.
Oh and that odd herd I mentioned included the water buffalo! I always wondered if they made mozzarella as a side business!
Sheramn actually ended up coming to Toronto Zoo adn passed away in his late 20s/early 30s about 3 or 4 years ago
Correction: the San Diego Zoo's canyon enclosure contained Nile lechwe, not Kafue lechwe! I just unearthed some old photos I took way back when.
Cascade Canyon (the current site of Tiger River) also at one point housed Speke's sitatunga, but I'm not sure if that was before or after the Nile lechwe. edit Also, if you could scan and post said photos, that'd be grand!
Yes I believe the Speke's sitatunga were in that enclosure at the same time as the Nile lechwe, my photo of that area is only a closeup of a Nile lechwe, but I will scan some old San Diego Zoo photos I have and post them eventually, I have some good ones of the Whittier Southeast Asian Exhibits when it was fairly new, as well as a pretty complete set of the Kopje Exhibit. I also have some of the photos from the WAP Photo Caravan so I'll do those too!
Ituri, I forgot to post that I scanned and posted my old pics of the Whittier Southeast Asian Exhibits and Kopje Exhibit at the San Diego Zoo...I even posted them in the appropriate gallery! Still haven't scanned those WAP pics yet though.
Ituri, I have just posted mt scanned pictures of the Wild Animal Park's field exhibits, circa 1983! I posted them in the gallery.