Make an Exhibit for that Recently extinct species

I based this on some of the threads that others have started in this category.

This thread will work as follows:

• This thread will feature species and subspecies that gone extinct within the last 1000 years. No dinosaurs or prehistoric creatures will be featured (but that could be done in another thread at some point).
• You can ask for a species and I will assign you one. You have to design an exhibit for that species, considering how that species might be housed if it were still around today and zoos could feature it in there collections.
• You can add additional living or recently extinct species, either mixed with the assigned species or in separate exhibits. These species must have some connection to the extinct species however.

 

Can I ask for a species please?

 

Yes. The Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas.

 

Steller's Island going back on time.
The exhibit will be a medium sized pool with cool water and underwater viewing. It will have algae and some types of fish in the pool. The exhibit will have 1.1 sea cows and they will also have an offshow area.

 

I wonder how large of a pool in liters or area they would have actually needed. Since if I am right they were about the size of female orca, although their slow moving bodies create different challenges.

 

Yeah, they were around 25 feet long and weighed 4,000 kg. You'd need a massive tank to exhibit them.

Can I also have a species please?

 

I agree, a Steller's sea cow tank would probably have to be several million liters.

Your species will be the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus.

 

Well, so the exhibit would be based in an orca exhibit. I thought they were like manatees.
Can I have another species please?

 

Your next species is Haast's eagle, Hieraaetus moorei.

 

May I have one?

 

The elephant bird, Aepyornis maximus.

 

May I have one?

 

Haast free flight
It will be a big aviary with a lot of dense rainforest and fog, the guests will be in a glass tunnel seeing how the Haast eagles fly above their heads. It will also feature a little pond resembling a freshwater reservoir and some logs for them to relax.
May I have another specie, please?

 

The passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius.

The Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis.

 

I would like one.

 

How about the dodo, Raphus cucullatus.

 

Elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)
1.1 Aepyornis maximus roam in a 30-acre exhibit. 1.1 pygmy hippos (serving as a proxy for the extinct Malagasy pygmy hippo) roam with the elephant birds. They have access to a peninsula on the other side of a lake. Grass and other plants grow on the elephant bird side and both species can eat from them. There are also free-roaming white-faced whistling ducks, African pygmy geese, and fulvous whistling ducks.

Ringed-tailed lemurs and common brown lemurs have access to the hippo peninsula, a long meshed-in strip of greenway between the elephant bird area and a dedicated exhibit on the other side of the path across from the elephant bird area.

Next species, please.

 

1.1 Dodo share a large forested aviary with Mauritius Pink Pigeon and Echo Parakeet. All the plants in the exhibit are actually found in Mauritius. Nearby exhibits for invasive species on Mauritius include Domestic Pig and Crab-eating Macaque explain the affect these species had on the Dodo populations.

I'd like another one, please.

 

I really like your inclusion of modern day species from Madagascar and Africa in the exhibit and your details on the structure of the exhibit. Well done.

Your next species is the Quagga, Equus quagga quagga.

Your inclusion of two other species, native plants and invasive species is very nice.

Your next species is the Great auk, Pinguinus impennis.

 

The first exhibit is large, lightly-wooded and contains Thylacine. Viewing is done through an elevated path as well as a small cave that has glass viewing panels. On the other side of the cave is a slightly smaller exhibit for Tasmanian Devils. Continuing on the path there's a large, open, mixed-species exhibit for Grey Kangaroo and Bennett's Wallaby. Beside it is a muddy exhibit containing Wombat. Signage explains how all 3 of these species were once prey for Thylacines.