Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Zoo News 2020

Do they still keep Japanese serow?

 

They do not.
According to this thread, only two zoos in Canada and one in USA have Serow.
Caprines in North American Zoos

 

three in US with Serow, Hemker in Minnesota, Roosevelt in North Dakota, and Trevor in New York.

 

Huh, they still had them a couple years ago...

 

A couple years is a long time. A lot can happen in a zoo in that amount of time!

 

LA Zoo Update as of 2/7/20
•The Fringe-Limbed Tree Frogs (Cruziohyla craspedopus) will be exhibited in the Marine or Cane Toad exhibit once fully grown in the Rainforest of the Americas.
•Also there is a renovation of the Black Howler Monkey in the rainforest of the Americas too.
•One of the exhibits in the LAIR is empty mostly the Guatemalan Palm Vipers to make room for the Palawan Tree Vipers(Trimeresurus schultzei)
•One of the Mary River Turtles fully grown and moved to the Gharial/Painted Terrapin/Fly River Turtle Exhibit is growing it’s signature algae hairdo on it’s shell and head.
•Both Southern Cassowaries are on exhibit in the two exhibit yards (left side has the female and the right side/original exhibit has the male who has been observing her)
•The new mesh fencing has been placed for the weaver bird exhibit and spur-winged Lapwing exhibit of the C-shaped Roundhouse bear gorilla grill.
•Speckled Mousebirds have been placed back on exhibit with the Spur-winged Lapwings
•the Weaverbird exhibit now has a signage for the White-Headed Buffalo Weaver.
•a new bird species, Golden-breasted Starling has joined the exhibit which consists of a flock of Black-headed Weaverbirds, A White-header Buffalo Weaver, breeding pair of Spotted Thickknees with their latest Chick, and a pair of Superb Starlings.
•Gorillas were out and Ndjia is very protective of her baby Angela that I got a small glimpse of her.
•Red-tailed Black Cockatoos are on exhibit in the roundhouse near the Black bear and hippo exhibits
•Log pile barriers have been added in the Bornean Crested Fireback exhibit.
•Crested Caracara has been moved off-exhibit
•I saw the Spectacled Owl Owlet who is now a fledgling.
•African Spoonbills in the northern African aviary have been building nests and more spoonbills will be joining them soon after quarantine.
•Chukar Partridges are in the southern Australasia aviary, the Masked Lapwings have made their nest in the top level on the hill, and hopefully this is where the Victoria Crowned Pigeons would be exhibited in.

 

Latest animal transactions: https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.2020-Animal-Transactions.pdf

February meeting minutes: https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Feb-2020-Commission-Minutes-FINAL.pdf

 

Looks like a crowned eagle is headed off display for good... disappointing. So is the death of a Black Duiker.

 

I’m very excited about the new perenite monitor news. It’ll be very interesting to see if they breed or not since not a lot of zoos have this kind of reptile

 

Indeed, a low percentile of zoos have them!

 

omg haha. My bad

 

No worries, it was a good pun opportunity!

 

Dallas Zoo managed to breed Perenties.

excellent choices of fishes added for the LAIR and Rainforest of the Americas.

and I’m very excited for the Vulturine Guineafowl, I wonder if more would join since it is a social bird that recently have shown that they live in a multilevel society.

 

Since the Vulturine Guineafowl is going to be in the African walk through aviary which an interesting bird due to it’s appearance with it’s head resembling a vulture and it’s color.
I would think they would acknowledge of their multi-level society based on this new article.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thecon...s-of-east-africas-vulturine-guineafowl-127068
Also their fame appearance in both the animated and live action Lion King Films (the scene of them flocking in front of a trio of African Bush Elephant as one flew out of the way from getting stomped on and the live action film movie showed these birds as Timon and Pumbaa’s neighbors.)
How many U.S. Zoos have this bird?

 

a decent amount at least 20.

 

To be more specific
Which zoos have Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum)?
And according to the AZA Galliformed Taxon Advisory Group, the Vulturine Guineafowl is listed in the AZA recommendation: Yellow SSP.

 

This time I was only able to get the latest animal transactions. https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/04.2020-Animal-Transactions.pdf

 

Not sure this will be relevant anymore but for future reference I rode the blue line from Long Beach to metro/central then transferred from there to Union Station and got an uber from there.

 

Do somebody know how much okapi the zoo have?

 

The breeding pair which includes Opey(F) and Jackson(M)
Their second offspring and first female calf born that was born.(don’t know the name for her(
The first ever offspring that was born was sent to another zoo.