What to do with the Sacramento Zoo: Chapter II - Revenge of the Rarities

[QUOTE="Hipporex, post: 1177268, member: 15501]
Current Crested coua exhibit would be demolished[/QUOTE]

Good! Personally I do have a soft spot for the couas themselves, but the current exhibit the zoo put up is atrocious!

 

Zone: New World
Theme: North and South America
Color on map: Light blue
Exhibits: 13
Species: 28

Probably the biggest "zone" in the zoo.

• Capybara/Baird’s tapir/Giant anteater exhibit

Exhibit would be modified, including flora would be added, moat would be filled in, and large pool would be added.

• Thick-billed parrot exhibit

Exhibit would stay the same.

• American alligator exhibit

Exhibit would look as its going to by March.

• Galapagos giant tortoise exhibit

Exhibit would take over a sizeable portion of the land part of the former South Lake.

• American comb duck/American flamingo/American white pelican/Black-necked swan/Nene/Orinoco goose/White-faced whistling duck exhibit

Exhibit would stay the same except for new species being added.

• Common squirrel monkey exhibit

Exhibit would go where the "island of plants" currently are next to South Lake.

• Red-rumped agouti/Southern tamandua/Toco toucan/White-faced saki exhibit

Exhibit would stay where it is but also expand to the left (taking over the current amazon exhibit) and right.

• Smooth-fronted caiman exhibit
• Rhinoceros iguana exhibit

These outdoor exhibits would be slightly larger than the current ones in the reptile house. There'd also be an indoor portion for cold days.

• Green anaconda/Plumed basilisk exhibit

Outdoor shed with 1 exhibit housing these 2 species.

• Harpy eagle exhibit

Inhabit current ground hornbill exhibit (I know map says it's apart of Okapi Forest but I changed my mind).

• North American river otter exhibit

Exhibit would take over Zoo's Backyard garden and be about the size of the current exhibit.

• Agazzis’s desert turtle/Burrowing owl/Gambel’s quail/Greater roadrunner exhibit

Located where the former burrowing owl and magpie exhibit were.

 

What am I missing here? The Squirrel monkeys are going in the Rare Feline Courtyard per the zoo's actual actions, and it seems like you are placing them there too? But how can that work if you already turned it into a Jaguar exhibit?

 

Zone: Nightlife
Theme: Nocturnality (it's a night house)
Location on map: Large building behind Echidna Outpost
Exhibits: 8
Species: 16

This exhibit would take over what is now Small Wonders (in addition to some of the current pathway).

• Aye-aye (female)/Mongoose lemur exhibit
• Aye-aye (male)/Malagasy jumping rat exhibit
• Damaraland mole-rat exhibit
• Southern white-faced owl exhibit *
• Aardvark/Greater bushbaby/Rodrigues fruit bat exhibit
• North Island kiwi/Sugar glider/Tawny frogmouth exhibit
• Common vampire bat/Pallas’s long-tongued bat exhibit**
• Kinkajou/Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth/Southern three-banded armadillo exhibit
  

*I changed my mind, the southern white-faced owls would go in here and the spur-winged lapwings would go in the walk-through aviary
**I'm not sure if this mix would be possible

 

The message about the exhibit is below it, i.e.:

They'd be in the exhibit at the bottom of the blue "J" in front of the jaguar exhibit

 

Ok, so in the current sloth/saki exhibit?

 

Zone: Okapi Forest
Theme: Tropical Africa
Color on map: Tan
Exhibits: 3
Species: 4

• West African slender-snouted crocodile exhibit

Exhibit would take over a seating area and some pathway.

• Okapi exhibit
• Black-crowned crane/Okapi exhibit

These would stay the same.

 

To the right of that. Sorry I didn't make this clear enough.

 

Ok, gotcha. You're doing quite well, you just rearranged that area just enough my brain was trying to mix actual zoo with your revision and it wasn't quite clicking! Keep up the good work though, this has been quite interesting!

 

Zone: Red Panda Trail
Theme: China
Color on map: Pink
Exhibits: 5
Species: 8

• Red panda exhibit #1
• Red panda exhibit #2

The zoo owns two red panda couples. Exhibit #1 is the original exhibit. Exhibit #2, the smaller of the two, is the new exhibit. The couples would rotate on a daily basis.

• South China giant salamander exhibit

The Chinese turtle exhibit would be completely redone to house the world's largest amphibian.

• Azure-winged magpie/Himalayan monal exhibit

Exhibit would stay the same.

• Chinese striped-neck turtle/Goldfish/Koi exhibit

The turtles and goldfish would join the koi in their current pond.

 

Animal Ambassadors:

• Cane toad
• Bateleur eagle
• Blue-and-gold macaw
• Burrowing owl
• Eclectus parrot
• Fulvous whistling duck
• Great horned owl
• Harris’s hawk
• Laughing kookaburra
• Red-tailed hawk
• Thick-billed parrot
• African pygmy hedgehog
• Grey fox
• Kinkajou
• Lesser hedgehog tenrec
• Prehensile-tailed porcupine
• Six-banded armadillo
• Straw-colored fruit bat
• Agassiz’s desert tortoise
• Ball python
• California kingsnake
• California mountain kingsnake
• Chinese three-striped box turtle
• Common blue-tongued skink
• Kenyan sand boa
• Madagascar tree boa
• Mali uromastyx
• Ornate box turtle
  
• Pacific gopher snake
  
• Pancake tortoise
  
• Rainbow boa
  
• Red-tailed boa
  
• Three-toed box turtle

Changes:

• A red-bellied piranha exhibit would be added to Big Blue World.
• Exhibit 7 in the Biodiversity Center would become home to an ornate uromastyx.
• The standing's day gecko would move to exhibit 12.
• Exhibit 46 would be home to cactus mouse instead.

Animals That'd Leave the Zoo

• 0.2 mongoose lemurs
• 0.0.1 prehensile tailed skink
• 4.2 red river hogs (the entire species)
• 3.2 common chimpanzees (the entire species)

I'll make a species list this weekend.

 

The dedication to your zoo is amazing. If I had half the imagination you have I’d be doing the same with Oakland

 

I could attempt an Oakland Zoo one someday if you'd be interested. However it wouldn't be as in depth as this one as a) I'm less familiar with the zoo and b) I think most of the exhibits are already adequate.

 

"Sacramento Zoo and Aquarium" Species List
From aardvark to zebra tilapia; 204 Species total (plus 1 hybrid)

1. Aardvark
2. Abyssinian ground hornbill
   
3. Ackies dwarf monitor
   
4. African pygmy duck
   
5. African pygmy falcon
   
6. African pygmy hedgehog
7. African spurred tortoise
   
8. Agassiz’s desert tortoise
9. Amazon milk frog
   
10. American comb duck
11. American flamingo
    
12. American white pelican
13. Asian small-clawed otter
    
14. Axolotl
    
15. Azure-winged magpie
    
16. Aye-aye
17. Baird’s tapir
    
18. Ball python
19. Banded archerfish
20. Bateleur eagle
21. Black-and-rufous elephant shrew
22. Black-and-white ruffed lemur
    
23. Black-crowned crane
    
24. Black-necked swan
25. Blubber jellyfish
    
26. Blue-and-gold macaw
27. Blue hippo tang
28. Burrowing owl
29. Cactus mouse
    
30. California banana slug
    
31. California kingsnake
32. California mountain kingsnake
33. California newt
34. California red-legged frog
35. California tiger salamander
36. Cane toad
37. Carpet python
38. Capybara
39. Coquerel’s sifaka
    
40. Common chuckwalla
41. Common ostrich
    
42. Common spider tortoise
    
43. Common squirrel monkey
    
44. Common vampire bat
    
45. Common vine snake
    
46. Chinese crocodile lizard
47. Chinese stripe-necked turtle
    
48. Chinese three-striped box turtle
49. Chocolate chip sea star
    
50. Coral catshark
    
51. Cortez ray
    
52. Curlyhair tarantula
53. Damaraland mole-rat
    
54. Dog-faced puffer
    
55. Eastern blue-tongued skink
56. Eastern bongo
    
57. Eclectus parrot
58. Emu
59. European legless lizard
    
60. Eyelash viper
61. Fiji banded iguana
    
62. Flat-tailed spider tortoise
63. Fleischmann’s glass frog
    
64. Foothill yellow-legged frog
65. Fulvous whistling duck
66. Gaboon viper
67. Galapagos giant tortoise
    
68. Gambel’s quail
    
69. Giant anteater
70. Giant African millipede
    
71. Giant desert centipede
    
72. Giant desert scorpion
    
73. Giant garter snake
74. Giant horned lizard
    
75. Gila monster
76. Golden mantella
77. Golden poison dart frog
78. Goldfish
79. Goliath bird-eating tarantula
80. Greater bushbaby
    
81. Greater roadrunner
82. Great horned owl
83. Green-and-black poison dart frog
84. Green mantella
85. Green tree python
    
86. Grévy's zebra
    
87. Grey fox
88. Harpy eagle
    
89. Harris’s hawk
90. Hawk-headed parrot
91. Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko
    
92. Hercules beetle
    
93. Himalayan monal
    
94. Honduran spiny-tailed iguana
95. Jaguar
96. Jambu fruit dove
    
97. Japanese raccoon dog
98. Kea
99. Keel-billed toucan
    
100. Kenyan sand boa
101. Kinkajou
102. King cobra
     
103. Koi
104. Komodo dragon
105. Kuda seahorse
106. Lady Ross’s turaco
     
107. Laughing kookaburra
108. Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
109. Luzon bleeding-heart
     
110. Madagascar big-headed turtle
     
111. Madagascar giant day gecko
     
112. Madagascar hissing cockroach
     
113. Madagascar lesser tenrec
114. Magnificent tree frog
     
115. Mali uromastyx
116. Masai giraffe
     
117. Matschie's tree kangaroo
118. Meerkat
     
119. Mexican alligator lizard
120. Minute leaf chameleon
     
121. Mongoose lemur
     
122. Monkey-tailed skink
123. Naked mole-rat
124. Nene
125. North American river otter
126. Northern Island brown kiwi
     
127. Northern helmeted curassow
128. Northern Pacific rattlesnake
129. Northern red-billed hornbill
     
130. Okapi
131. Orchid mantis
132. Orinoco goose
     
133. Ornate box turtle
134. Ornate uromastyx
135. Pacific gopher snake
136. Pacific lumpsucker
137. Pallas’s long-tongued bat
     
138. Pancake tortoise
139. Panther chameleon
     
140. Plumed basilisk
141. Phantasmal poison frog
142. Prehensile-tailed porcupine
143. Puerto Rican boa
144. Pygmy hippopotamus
     
145. Radiated tortoise
     
146. Rainbow boa
147. Red-bellied piranha
     
148. Red-eyed tree frog
149. Red lionfish
     
150. Red panda
     
151. Red-tailed hawk
152. Reticulated giraffe-Rothchild’s giraffe hybrid
     
153. Rhinoceros hornbill
     
154. Rhinoceros iguana
155. Rhinoceros ratsnake
156. Rio Fuerte beaded lizard
157. Rock hyrax
158. Rodrigues fruit bat
     
159. Rosy-faced lovebird
     
160. Sambava tomato frog
161. San Francisco garter snake
162. Santa Catalina rattlesnake
     
163. Sea lamprey
     
164. Short-beaked echidna
165. Six-banded armadillo
166. Smallwood anole
167. Smoky jungle frog
     
168. Smooth-fronted caiman
169. Snowflake eel
     
170. Solomon Island leaf frog
     
171. South China giant salamander
     
172. Southeast African Cheetah
     
173. Southern cassowary
     
174. Southern mealy amazon
175. Southern screamer
     
176. Southern tamandua
     
177. Southern three-banded armadillo
178. Standing's day gecko
     
179. Straw-coloured fruit bat
180. Sugar glider
     
181. Sumatran orangutan
182. Tammar wallaby
     
183. Tanzanian giant tailless whip scorpion
184. Tawny frogmouth
185. Thailand black tarantula
     
186. Thick-billed parrot
187. Three-toed box turtle
188. Tokay gecko
     
189. Victoria crowned pigeon
     
190. Vietnamese mossy frog
     
191. Visayan warty pig
192. West African lungfish
193. West African slender-snouted crocodile
     
194. Western pond turtle
195. Western toad
196. White-faced saki
197. White-faced whistling duck
198. White-handed gibbon
199. White's tree frog
     
200. Wolf’s guenon
     
201. Woma python
     
202. Yellow-banded poison dart frog
203. Yellow tang
     
204. Zebra tilapia

 

PM me if you want to do a project with Oakland dude because there is a lot of stuff that can arguably be fixed.

 

To those of you that found this thread of interest, there is another: What to do with the Sacramento Zoo: Chapter III - Corona Wildlife Park. I was trying to go for as realistic as possible in this case while still adding a few new species and improving the habitats of the current animals. I got a little lazy towards the end with formatting but I figure if anyone has a question they can just ask.