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San Diego Zoo Safari Park Field Exhibits ca. 1985

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  1. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    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
     
  2. reduakari

    reduakari Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    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"...
     
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    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    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?
     
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    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.
     
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    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    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.
     
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    Also Somali wild ass and wisent. Interesting that they had two subspecies of rusa.
     
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    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    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.
     
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    Oh and that odd herd I mentioned included the water buffalo! I always wondered if they made mozzarella as a side business!
     
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    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Well, you never saw the keepers out there milking the buffalo did you? ;)
     
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    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    No, I never saw any milking action! Oh and the Malayan tapir Sherman was named after the tank!
     
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    Sheramn actually ended up coming to Toronto Zoo adn passed away in his late 20s/early 30s about 3 or 4 years ago
     
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    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    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.
     
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    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    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.

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    Also, if you could scan and post said photos, that'd be grand!
     
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    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!
     
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    Ituri, I just posted my Nile lechwe picture in the San Diego Zoo gallery, more to come later!
     
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    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.
     
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    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    Ituri, I have just posted mt scanned pictures of the Wild Animal Park's field exhibits, circa 1983! I posted them in the gallery.