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Discussion in 'Speculative Zoo Design and Planning' started by elefante, 23 Mar 2020.

  1. elefante

    elefante Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Piggybacking off of the species and country threads, I thought of creating an exhibit based on national parks from around the world. I'm not going to put too many rules other than a minimum of ten species and the animals included need to be ones found in captivity. For example, no Javan rhinos. You may include species that have been extirpated from the park and can include a different subspecies if the one living in the park isn't available, for example a reticulated or Maasai giraffe for a subspecies unavailable in captivity. I had an idea for creating a fantasy zoo like this but instead I'll turn it over to the brilliant minds here. Let me know and I'll give you a national park!
     
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    Count me in!
     
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    elefante Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I'll give you Ranthambore National Park in southern India.
     
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    DavidBrown Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    As a real-life model of how this has been done you could look at Zoo Miami's Everglades exhibit.
     
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    elefante Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Or Teton Trek at Memphis.
     
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    iluvwhales Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    The whole exhibit complex is 13 acres, including visitor and staff areas. The main exhibit is an nine-acre community exhibit with 1.5 chital deer, 1.1 wild boar, 1.5 nilgai, 1.5 sambar deer, and 2.4 Indian peafowl. The next exhibit is a quarter-acre spot for a troop of rhesus macaques. In this exhibit is a faux banyan tree. The next exhibit is two enclosures for 1.1 Bengal tigers. Each tiger exhibit is one acre in size.

    Next park, please.
     
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    I want one please.
     
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    Manuel Antonio National Park on the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica.
     
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    elefante Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Good group of species to include. Are the tigers able to see into the hoofstock exhibit? Next up is Cat Tien National Park in southern Vietnam.
     
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    I'll give it a go
     
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    elefante Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Etosha National Park in Namibia.
     
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    At the entrance of the park,there are some well planted Mangroves with some water under them. In that Mangroves, Red Backed Squirrel Monkeys live in a 5.7 troop. You continue and there is a big tree with divisions in every level so the Spider Monkeys,White Faced Capuchin and Black Howler Monkey can coexist without fighting. At the other side there is a little area with plants,vines and a glass fence with Three and Two Toed Sloths. In another exhibit we find Great Tinamou with Agouti and at the end of it an aviary with Chestnut Mandibled Aracari,Emerald Amazon and Fiery Billed Aracari. Some Crab-eating Raccons live at the mangroves in the entrance too. My zoo has 5 acres.
     
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    Can I have another please?
     
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    The tigers cannot see into the hoofstock exhibit. Cat Tien exhibit coming soon...
     
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    You're on a dirt path next to a large building. To the left are three exhibits home to crab eating macaques, a binturong, and a breeding pair of sun bears. To the right is a a watering hole exhibit for gaur, a herd of sambar deer, a pair of wild boar, and a breeding pair of Indian rhinos (serving as a proxy for Javan rhinos). The building is home to indoor exhibits for the macaques, bears, and binturong; a mix of Asian small-clawed otters and wreathed hornbills; and separate exhibits for a breeding pair of Siamese crocodiles, a breeding pair of pygmy slow loris, red junglefowl, king cobra, reticulated python, and water monitor.

    Next park, please.
     
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    Is this monkey habitat designed so it's one large tree and each troop can see the other? Neat idea regardless. Next for you is Manu National Park in Peru.
     
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    Are all of the animals together in the watering hole? Curious how Indian rhinos are with that. I also like the inclusion of them to represent the extinct Javan rhino. Quite a learning experience. Do the macaques, bears, and binturong have access to the outdoors?

    Your next park is Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra.
     
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    I’d take one!
     
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    My insomnia is acting up so here you go. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
     
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    The gaur, rhinos, deer, and boar are at the watering hole exhibit. The binturong, macaques, and bears are in separate outdoor exhibits. The birds, reptiles, and the lorises can be seen indoors as can the binturong, macaques, bears.
     
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