Of the zoos I've been to recently: - Safari Zoo Cumbria - they have a walkthrough called "Worldwide Safari" that has a lot of different species living together: lemurs, kangaroos, wallabies, emus, ducks and geese, capybaras and muntjac deer. From there, there's a large section of the zoo where lemurs, capybaras and a selection of pheasants are completely free-roaming, this section also has a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs that aren't contained, but remain in one wide grassy area. There are also free-roaming Indian peafowl in another part of the zoo, and two large walkthrough aviaries, one with vultures and the other with a selection of different birds, including parrots and spoonbills. - Lakeland Wildlife Oasis - there's a butterfly walkthough, which also includes a leafcutter ant colony with a rope set-up for them to climb on, though they had no butterflies during my last visit, they've mostly died off and the zoo is holding off on getting more until the weather is warmer. Their Tropical Hall where most of the reptiles and amphibians are kept has free-flyng Javan sparrows and Rodrigues fruit bats, with a wire mesh on the ceiling for the bats to hang from. Finally there's an African walkthrough aviary featuring hornbills, guineafowl, whistling ducks and a few other African birds, but on my last visit it was closed due to bird flu. - Edinburgh Zoo - at least one lemur walkthrough (possibly more but I can't remember), a wallaby walkthrough with swamp wallabies and grey kangaroos, and they used to have an aviary called "Brilliant Birds", which has now been re-worked into a walkthrough featuring sloths and armadillos.
Would Emus work? I'm making an Australian area, and I want to add a kangaroo walkabout that also has Red Kangaroo's and Bennett's Wallabies.
to be honest i don't know but you said your making an australia section, do you have a fantasy zoo thread?
I'm fairly certain this has been done a few times before, so it should be fine. If you don't know, there's no reason to respond .
Toledo Zoo has a large indoor rainforest walkthrough with poison dart frogs, ground doves, and day geckos.
Hello, everyone. There are various examples of wild or free-roaming (both in and out of walkthrough exhibits) animals at Latin American zoos. Some of them include butterflies, iguanas, tortoises, terrapins, two-toed sloths, porcupines, agoutis, marmosets, squirrel, capuchin, howler and spider monkeys, jaguars, ducks, shelducks, pochards, teals, geese, swan, guans, piping guans, curassows, peafowl, flamingos, pigeons, ibises, toucans, kingfishers, seriemas, cockatiels, parakeets, parrots, macaws, budgerigars, seedeaters, tanagers, cardinals, and cowbirds.
There was a brief period of time in the history of The Baltimore Zoo, shortly after the perimeter fence was first erected and the zoo enclosed, when a lot of ungulates were allowed to roam free on the grounds, essentially turning it into one giant walk through exhibit. Among the species loose in the Zoo were blackbuck, guanaco, and red deer. When Arthur Watson retired and Steve Graham took over as Director, one of Graham's first actions was to get rid of the free-roamers.
This works for sure, but remember that you can only put female kangaroos in a walkthrough. The males are too aggressive
I've seen/worked with male red kangaroos in walk throughs without issue - on occasion, I've seen visitors watching males kick-boxing just a few yards away. Hand-reared males in walk-throughs are definitely a bad idea, based on first hand experience.
I know walk-troughs here with breeding groups of red kangaroos, eastern grey kangaroos, swamp wallabies, all including adult males, without issues.
Some brazilian zoos such as Zooparque Itatiba and Parque das Aves are located in the Atlantic Forest, so it's not impossible for them to appear despite the scarcity of the species in this biome. Not so long ago a mother and her cub invaded Parque das Aves and killed 172 flamingos.
Hey, Mr. Gharial. Felipe has just explained about the presence of jaguars at some Brazilian zoos. As he said, Parque das Aves is located inside the Iguazú Falls National Park, where a small number of jaguars live. Sometimes, the jaguars end up roaming through the park, like in the day where a female and her cub attacked a flock of flamingos and killed most of them.
Just discovered a VERY interesting walkthrough enclosure with kiwi and tuatara! Two species that you really wouldn't think would be suitable for a walkthrough Walkthrough Aviary - Otorohanga Kiwi House Dec 2012 - ZooChat
NEVER bean here but herd of it a walktru with Bactrian camel, fallow deer, water buffalo, sika deer, miniature zebu and chital deer, aparently you can bike tru it to Skovriddersletten in Knuthenborg - ZooChat
