Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has transferred its Bornean Sun Bears in hopes to stimulate breeding in a more tropical climate. Honolulu Zoo Welcomes 2 Borneo Bears - Honolulu News Story - KITV Honolulu
That's cool, when I was at the honolulu zoo this april I saw the sun bear exhibit and it looked way better than any other sun bear exhibit in the states. The whole exhibit had no fake rocks and only substrate and live trees for the bear to climb on.
Good Idea, and the singapur zoo will send his polar bears to the Anchorage zoo to stimulate them... It has nothing to do with the climate, if animals do not breed. Maybe the zoo should change the partners of the bornean sun beaers,and another magic word in Us-Zoos is:A.I.
Artifical Insemination doesnt always work (and it is being tried)...the new bornean sun bear population has been very tricky with only one birth since the imporations. Animals have been moved around several times in hopes for reproductive stimulation...Honolulu just happens to be a Sun Bear SSP institution that happens to be in the tropics needing more sun bears, it couldnt hurt to think it might also stimulate breeding.
Actually,there have been 3 births since the import all at San Diego Zoo to the same parents. Danum in 2004,Bulan in 2006 and a new cub the was born at the end of October
An article about the zoo's elephants. It appears the long awaited and decade long delay for a new elephant has been rescheduled to open in 2010. The elephant in the room Honolulu Weekly
Those are great news! When I went last year, the area where the exhibit is going to be located looked great and it looked to be at least three times or bigger than their current exhibit.
Any news on the Galapagos giants? Breeding or deathwise? What species of Chelonoidis do they have? C. guntheri, C. vicina, C. porteri .... others?????
Zoo's elephant exhibit is going to finally be completed after 12 years! After 12 years, zoo ready to build elephant habitat - Hawaii News - Staradvertiser.com
So is this good news or not? Honolulu Zoo is a small zoo with some ok exhibits and one rather nice section. San Francisco is a zoo in decline. Honolulu Zoo still needs to finish their new elephant habitat, but I'm unfamiliar with the progress with that.
New $3 million entrance is now open, and the expanded elephant exhibit is due to open by the end of 2011: Grand opening for new zoo entrance - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL Home
