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  1. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Which big cat species rotate?

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    At this point I think all of them, and because they recently opened the new trail for them you never know which species will be seen in which exhibit (but I have not visited the zoo since they trail was opened, so this info is based on the stuff I read). Before the trail was opened, lions and tigers were always in their exhibits, but leopards, pumas, jaguars, and snow-leopards were rotated between 3 exhibits.
     
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    Interesting. So is it a daily rotation or do they swap hourly or something?

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    I am not really sure, but it seemed to be daily
     
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    And one other question. I was looking at the zoo map and I saw that, next to the Small Mammal House, there's a small building called "The Solitude House". What is that?

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    This does not contain any animals. I seem to remember that it is a historical building that was there before the zoo was even founded.
     
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    I recently emailed the zoo in order to find out some information, and in it they mentioned that the zoo's last Common 'Amakihi has died over the summer.

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