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

The zoo's elephants are participating in an elephant milk study to help hand reared calves both in zoos and in the wild.

San Diego Zoo will study lactating elephants' milk composition

 

Cool!

 

A giraffe was born today to second time mom Acadia

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It is good because giraffes are becoming rarer.

 

The giraffe calf at the Safari Park will now be hand raised instead by San Diego Zoo instead of by his mother. Also the gender of the calf is a boy. Also butterfly Jungle will open on March 23rd through May 19

A tall order: Baby giraffe will be raised by San Diego Zoo, not his mother

Butterfly Jungle to Soon Alight at Safari Park

 

The safari park has recently opened a new exhibit called the Delta

Beautiful Birds, Delta Style

 

Looks pretty nice from what I can tell!

 

I really like seeing making more expansive exhibits for birds, which are often very active animals indeed. The San Diego Safari Park was probably my favorite zoo I've ever been to, even though I haven't attended since the 1990s. I'd love to check it out again.

 

What kind of birds are in the Delta?

 

West African Crowned Cranes, European White Storks, Abyssinian Hornbills, Wattled Cranes and native birds like American White Pelicans and Double Crested Cormorants

 

Thank you letting me know about the birds.

 

A little late to the discussion but when I visited the park in January 2018 I saw the following antelope species:

1) Springbok
2) Blackbuck
3) Nilgai
4) Black Duiker
5) Yellow-Backed Duiker
6) White-Bearded Wildebeest
7) Bontebok
8) Nubian Red-Fronted Gazelle
9) Thomson's Gazelle
10) Slender-Horned Gazelle
11) Roan Antelope
12) Sable Antelope
13) Ellipsen Waterbuck
14) Lake Victoria Waterbuck
15) Ugandan Kob
16) Red Lechwe
17) Nile Lechwe
18) Southern Gerenuk
19) Cavendish's Dik-Dik
20) Addra Gazelle
21) Grant's Gazelle
22) Fringe-Eared Oryx
23) Scimitar-Horned Oryx
24) Gemsbok
25) Arabian Oryx
26) Cape Steenbok
27) Lowland Nyala
28) Giant Eland
29) Eastern Bongo
30) Common Eland
31) Eastern Sitatunga
32) Southern Greater Kudu

~Thylo

 

SDZSP keeps a hybrid population of ReticulatedXRothschild's Giraffes so the birth is of no conservation value.

~Thylo

 

They also keep Masai giraffes and according to my information the park still has some purebred Rothschild giraffes. But couldn’t the hybrid giraffes still participate in the SSP? Also what enclosure did u see the Nubian Red Fronted Gazelles in?

 

Oh yes I forgot about the Masai. If they have any purebred there's only a couple max, and they will be pretty old at this point. There is an SSP for the hybrid population but they still have no conservation value as they're a hybrid population between two different species.

The gazelles were mixed with the Giant Elands and there was a calf in that nursery pen.

~Thylo

 

What kind of calf is in the nursery pen?

 

Giant Eland calves

 

Red-Fronted Gazelle calf actually, but there was a Giant Eland as well. They seem to just mix newborns together in that pen

~Thylo

 

The way they mix young hoofstock in those pens is interesting considering the variety they have in my opinion. Though from what I have seen/heard, they are careful about what species they mix.

 

I agree and they are. I saw them swapping the calves exhibited during my visit. They don't mix very small animals with larger ones.

~Thylo