A male Malayan tapir named Pulau arrived from Ellen Trout Zoo. Endangered Riverbanks Zoo Animal Gets a Mate
Is anyone on Zoochat a regular visitor to Riverbanks Zoo? I'd love a list of all the birds in their bird house by exhibit.
Gorilla Kazi is expecting a baby between May and July. Riverbanks Zoo's Macy lost her baby last spring. Now, her half-sister is pregnant!
Three lion cubs were born and more are due any day as their aunt is also in the final stages of her pregnancy. Lion gives birth to first cubs born at Riverbanks zoo in a decade A giraffe calf also arrived earlier this month. UP CLOSE: New giraffe calf and mom bond at Riverbanks Zoo
The zoo is finishing up the relocation and securing of its animals ahead of Hurricane Florence. I always find these kinds of articles interesting. https://www.greenvilleonline.com/st...erbanks-zoo-begins-secure-animals/1279970002/ Florence forces flamboyance of flamingos inside at Riverbanks Zoo
In all the drama some interesting breeding successes and hatchings: What does it take to raise zoo babies? Columbia's Riverbanks has an answer
Gorilla, Macy, has given birth again. This infant is doing well. After losing baby earlier this year, Riverbanks Zoo gorilla welcomes new infant
https://www.riverbanks.org/about/downloads/october_2018_commission_meeting_minutes.pdf According to the zoos latest meeting notes, it will be phasing out it elephant program for at least the short term. The 2 elephants it currently has will be sent to another zoo and replaced by rhino (unknown species). The zoo hopes to identify space to bring elephants back eventually according to the notes.
North Carolina Zoo is the most likely candidate, unless there's something going on with their herd which would make that a bad choice.
I actually doubt this will happen for two reasons. First of all the North Carolina Zoo just recently finished a project that has allowed all 4 of its females to be with either bull. This allows all elephants to be on exhibit at all times. Bringing two new elephants into the mix would mess this up. Second of all the zoo seems to be pretty focused on breeding elephants, as I have heard that they are disappointed that they have yet to have success with the species. They still have one breeding age female and either of the two males are free ro breed with her, but so far no success. I believe if any new elephants were added to the mix they would be breeding age females. So I don’t see NC as a likely destination for the elephants. Instead I would suggest Atlanta as the most likely destination with their new exhibit opening next year.
@nczoofan I chose North Carolina due to logistics. North Carolina is closer to Riverbanks then Atlanta is distance-wise (2.5 hours vs. 3.6 hours), so I thought NC would be less stressful to the elephants.
I hope it's Milwaukee. Adventure Africa will have room for 5-6 elephants. Currently there are 2 at Milwaukee's County Zoo
