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

San Diego Zoo sends elephant brothers to Texas

 

The safari park now has a burrowing owl cam and animal planet is going behind the scenes at the San Diego zoo and the San Diego zoo safari park

Burrowing Owl Cams

Animal Planet Goes Behind the Scenes in All-New Series

 

The park had its first Black Footed Cat born. A male named Oscar

 

This is excellent news! If it goes on exhibit I may have to run out to San Pascual.

 

I did not see it on their website or Facebook or Twitter, but finally found it on their Instagram. Based on the photo the kitten appears to already be about two months old. Does anyone know if it is currently on exhibit. I will tag the locals from San Diego in case they know @betsy @Otter Lord @ZooGirlSD @timmychompchomp

 

Yeah it’s on exhibit

 

I contacted the zoo directly and found out the kitten is NOT on exhibit. @John Marchwick why would you assume it is? If you don't know for sure then you should not make potentially false posts based on an assumption.

 

Because I contacted the park on Instagram and said they had been putting it on exhibit recently.

 

Hmmm, my apologies then. Obviously the staff are not in sync because I was told by them (via their online contact form) it is not on exhibit.

 

Ingadze and Luti two of the Safari parks African elephants hav transferred to the Birmingham Zoo. The park now has 10 African elephants

 

Is elephant cow Swazi Pregnant? It seems to me that he is quite wide.

 

Through July 30 the park will stay open until 8pm on Mondays and Tuesdays.

 

What an odd choice. I wonder what the logic for choosing Mondays and Tuesdays is, as surely weekends are busier and could benefit more from extended hours.

 

Maybe the reason is precisely because Monday and Tuesday are slow days and they are trying to get more people to visit the park on those days?

 

After further research, I have found that the two were transferred to the Taronga Western Plains Zoo. They may have been surplus animals and were not going to be recommended to be bred.

New Lions at Pride Lands

 

They have special food and entertainment offerings planned for those evenings. Why Monday and Tuesdays? I can only speculate, but from my time with Disney, those were the slowest days of the week. I would agree with Arizona Docent. It’s probably an attempt to lurer members to stop in on the weekdays for the offerings without committing to a daily schedule which only a select group of people will actually hang around for, or make an evening arrival for.

I was just at the Zoo and the zoo empties out pretty good after 5:00pm in the summer with the extended hours and offerings. I was exiting and thought, how sad, they spend all that money and the crowds are thinning out. However, I noticed that small family groups were arriving at that time. They appeared to be members. I then wondered if thats why they keep offering the extended hour events in the Summer. It might bring in a smaller second wave of attendees. Maybe its an attempt to bring that phenomenon to the Safari Park.

 

Atlanta Zoo welcomes Msholo from the San Diego Safari Park. Does this mean that the San Diego safari park is planning to bring in a new breeding bull???!
https://www.underthegeorgiasun.com/2019 ... 0Z60r-8lgU

 

San Diego zoo safari park has two new Sumatran tigers!!

Get Ready for Global Tiger Day 2019

Also it appears that Lanka Is no longer at the safari park. Does anyone know what happened to him?

 

Langka passed away on March 12, 2019.

 

In NYC, some theater and opera performances have begun 60-90 minutes earlier than usual on Tuesdays--a typical slow day--to try to make it easier for someone who works in the city to see a show and get home at an earlier hour and get to work the next morning well-slept. It worked well, and studies found that parents with kids would also choose these performances, presumably over crowded weekend matinees.

It's this group that I think the park is targeting. Especially moms with strollers and the disabled are eager to avoid crowds, and an extra advantage is that it's cooler. Sounds like a great idea to me!