San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo News 2017

Hello, is there a map
detail african Rocks ?

 

Here you go.
Africa Rocks updated plan | ZooChat

 

thank you.

 

The parent possums arrived in November 2012 from Healesville Sanctuary in Australia.

 

Anybody know when Panda Canyon refurbishment is complete?

 

A group of 25 Pacific pocket mice bred at the zoo have been released into a 1.6 acre fenced area at Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. The zoo has been running a captive-breeding programme for this species for several years now, with at least 54 young born last year.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1358076234268225

 

Are these on display anywhere at the Zoo? A small exhibit in EO would be cool.

 

It would be cool if they had an exhibit, but they do not unfortunately.

 

Two northern helmeted curassows hatched May 24.

 

Regarding Africa Rocks: I received a letter from San Diego Zoo Global dated May 26 that states the opening of Africa Rocks has been delayed. Further:

"We currently expect to have some of the habitat available for guest visitation by July 1, 2017."

 

Also we just had an odd television commercial broadcast tonight on a major network in our area for Africa Rocks; the spot was all rather psychedelic animation set to rock music with no narration, and it did not state an opening date or any info other than "Africa Rocks" and "San Diego Zoo."

 

I went to the SD Zoo last weekend and did a behind the scenes tour of Africa Rocks. I got some notes for you all:
1) There will be about 15 African Penguins including the 5 currently in the children's zoo. Penguins will open July 1.
2) Vervet Monkeys are on property and backstage. I saw them all, they have been there about a year.
3) It will be African Leopards on display. The Amur leopards will stay where they are on the Asian Leopard exhibit. There is a rumor (and only a rumor among keepers) of a black jaguar joining the leopards for ... reasons.
4) Gelada Baboons are the only animals not yet received.
5) The bridge construction is really the link for everything. Opening it will allow the canyon path to be completely open again, allow the Pandas to move back to their normal exhibit, and put Takin and Red Panda back on display. With that path open, the entry for penguins and the north end of Africa Rocks is good to go. There is an elevator to take visitors from the bottom of the canyon to the top of the bridge and treetop cafe. I'm guessing the zoo failed an ADA test.
6) A redo of the children's zoo/Discovery Outpost will be the next project after AR. Too many of the current animals on display are the demo-animals who need behind the scenes enclosures.

 

How hilly is the SDZ site?, random and indistinct i know.

 

Parts of it are very hilly. The zoo is built on a series of hills. There are flat areas (mesas) interspersed with canyons.

 

Very hilly, very steep. Tiger Canyon, for example, is so bad I honestly can't believe it is legal in the United States.

 

ZooChatters everywhere rejoice and immediately open a second browser window to check airfares to San Diego.

We then demand that Trowaman inform us where the leopards were (or will be) sourced from.

 

I'm using Edinburgh zoo as my reference here @Arizona Docent
How do the sites compare as one of those rare zoochatters that has visited both collections?

 

Does anyone know if the Kopje part (Klipspringers, hyrax, mongoose, serval and bateleur) of Africa Rocks is open yet since the area was not renovated much if at all?

 

The original kopje exhibit area was open last time I visited in January 2017.