San Diego Zoo Safari Park San Diego Zoo Safari Park News 2019

The San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park had a record attendance of 5.5 million people in 2018!
San Diego Zoo, Safari Park Top 5.5 Million In 2018 Attendance

 

Two cheetah cubs are now on display in the parks nursery

 

Anyone been recently to see how construction is coming on the platypus area? And any news regarding them?

 

When I went about a week ago, the building seemed to be complete, and there was a notice outside about a new species for this exhibit. Not sure if it's platypus, but hopefully it is!

 

According to the excellent centennial history books, at one point in their history they considered closing the park due to low attendance. I am glad to see things have turned around!

 

Where abouts is the new building - didn't notice in November? I'm guessing it's in the Aussie area though?

 

Yes, it's in Walkabout Australia.

 

Baby giraffe was euthanized after it sustained an injury from another animal.

San Diego Zoo Safari Park

 

How many antelope species are at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park?

 

This is all the species I know of
1. Fringe eared Oryx
2. White bearded Wildebeest
3. East African Situanga
4. Elipsen Waterbuck
5. Thompson’s Gazelle
6. Springbox
7. Patterson’s Eland
8. Kenyan Waterbuck
9. Sable Antelope
10. Lesser Kudu
11. Roan Antelope
12. Addax
13. Nilgai
14. Blackbuck
15. Arabian Oryx
16. Bontebox
17. Eastern Giant Eland
18. Bongo
19. Southern Gerenuk
20. Ugandan kob
21. Greater Kudu

 

Good Lord! That is probably the largest collection of antelope in any zoo.

 

Last time I went (been a few years) they had Speke's Gazelle as well

 

They still do last time I checked ad well. I just couldn’t remember off of my head.

 

Those all don’t all share the space with the giraffes right? If so I would expect more incidents like this

 

No. I just listed all of the species of antelope that the park has. But no not all of these species live with the giraffes

 

I'm pretty sure the Safari Park also has lowland nyala in an exhibit close by the Africa Tram station.

 

They do. I couldn’t remember all the types they have

 

Some additional species that were there at the time of my species list from 2015:
Nile Lechwe
Red Lechwe
Kenya Impala
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Gemsbok
Lake Victoria Defassa Waterbuck
Lowland Nyala
Nubian Soemmerring's Gazelle
Grant's Gazelle
Sudan red-fronted Gazelle
Eastern Yellow-backed Duiker
Western Red-flanked Duiker
Black Duiker
Southern Steenbok
Cavendish's Dik-dik

There were no Lesser Kudu or Speke's Gazelle at that time, but they were both in a shared exhibit at the San Diego Zoo at the time.

 

Oh wow. I couldn’t believed I missed all of those species. There are lesser kudu now in the Central African field enclosure and spekes gazelles I believe are with the grevy zebras

 

I have NEVER seen Soemmering's gazelles before!

They had steenbok at the Metro Richmond Zoo, but, unfortunately, I have never seen them there.

I can't believe they have a lot of different types of antelope at San Diego Zoo Safari Park! That must be more than Richmond has!

So sad about the baby giraffe.