Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Zoo News 2020

The female born on November 10, 2017 is named Kota. "Opey" is the donor name for her mother whose original name is Baraka. Her prior calf, Bomani (now at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois), has a different father (Jamal). Baraka gained her new name sometime between the births of Bomani and Kota as the LA Zoo used different names for her in each press release.

 

Thanks for clarifying this, @Elena !!

 

Animal transactions: https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/05.2020-Animal-Transactions.pdf

April meeting minutes: https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Zoo-Commission-minutes-April-2020.pdf

 

It says that 1.0 Chimpanzee died, does anyone know which one it was?

 

Jerrard

 

Any additional info on cause of death? Age?

 

He just celebrated his 30th birthday on February 20. I don't have information on the cause of death.

 

Zooscape – Member Newsletter of the Los Angeles Zoo
The Zooscape newsletter for this month highlights the new arrivals like the rainbow fish and hatchetfish. Last month, birds of different species have laid eggs and some of the bird species have produced their first clutch for the first time for their species in the zoo’s collection like the Green Aracari, Yellow-billed Magpie, and the Southern Cassowaries.

 

Animal Transactions for this month: https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/06.2020-Animal-Transactions.pdf

 

Which fringe-limbed treefrogs does LA keep?

~Thylo

 

So on looking further into this the zoo has chosen a very poor common name for their Cruziohyla sp., which is not at all the same as a fringe-limbed treefrog.

~Thylo

 

The species is (Cruziohyla craspedopus)

 

LA Zoo Will Remain Closed Until at Least July

 

Does the death of the male Chinese Giant Salamander mean that the species is no longer present at the zoo?

 

Impressed by their success with eastern bongo recently.

Here are the meeting minutes for anyone interested:
https://www.lazoo.org/wp-new/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Zoo-Commission-minutes-May-2020.pdf

 

I was curious about your claim regarding breeding success with eastern bongo?!? If I am correct just a female bongo was born, so how ... can you elaborate on this?

 

Unless I'm mistaken, they've had a calf every year the last few years, after decades without one?

 

Two new female chimpanzees joined the troop, both came from Tulsa Zoo. Their names are Hope and Vindi, the zoos says they have the largest troop in any accredited zoo in the US!

https://twitter.com/lazoo/status/1283129411903029250?s=21

 

U know. As much as ppl on here do hate the LA zoo. They do have one of the best chimpanzee exhibits In any US zoo in my opinion. Second only to John Ball Zoos

 

I do love the chimpanzee exhibit as well as the group dynamics there and I understand some of the gripes some on here have with the zoo. It’s a major city zoo especially being LA would come with some expectation to be amongst the best and rightfully so. But it’s improving slowly, the major additions of Elephants of Asia and The LAIR being a Zoochatter’s galore for some of the best exhibitions for elephants and ectotherms. Hopefully with the new master plan that is to be rolled out over the next 2 decades it would put it amongst the very best