Woodland Park Zoo Woodland Park Zoo News 2021

Hatching of Red-crested turaco chick:

Woodland Park Zoo have announced the hatching of a Red-crested turaco chick - the first hatched at the zoo since 1984. The female chick is now six weeks old and her feathers are starting to come through: A hatching 36 years in the making: hello little red-crested turaco chick!

 

Staff on birth watch for Western lowland gorilla:

Woodland Park Zoo on birth watch for pregnant gorilla

The baby will be the second for 24-year-old Nadiri, who gave birth to Yola in 2015. Nadiri is due to give birth between late January and early February.

Zoo volunteers will monitor cameras for signs of behavioral changes and a zookeeper is on call in case Nadiri goes into labor overnight.

 

For the first time in the Zoo’s history, a female Malayan tiger will be making her public debut. Her name is Azul, and she hails from the Bronx Zoo.

Woodland Park Zoo’s first female Malayan tiger now ready to meet the public

 

Apparently the zoos new Malayan tiger, Azul, was one of the first animals in the world to test positive for coronavirus

Woodland Park Zoo’s new tiger was one of world’s first animals to test positive for coronavirus. She made a full recovery.

 

Beginning tomorrow, the zoo will begin its facelift of the Northern Trail complex, which will result in a name change to Living Northwest Trail. This is copied and pasted from a zoo email:

"We're excited to announce we'll be making improvements to our Northern Trail exhibit, including signage, art installation, seating areas and updates to existing buildings.

The exhibit will be partially closed beginning January 27 - February 27 and fully closed beginning March 1 - April 17 in order to make these changes. We will be transitioning the exhibit name to Living Northwest Trail after these Phase 1 improvements, and we can't wait for you to see them!"

 

A gorilla was born at the woodland park zoo

It's a girl: Woodland Park Zoo welcomes new baby gorilla not bonding with mother

 

Red panda Hazel will be moving to Memphis Zoo soon.

Red panda headed to new home, come wish her farewell | Westside Seattle

On an unrelated note, what’s the status on the hippo move? I’m sure the pandemic has dramatically slowed those plans down, but didn’t know if a new home has been determined yet or a new timetable has been set.

 

Vip the Western lowland gorilla has died:

Vip, beloved gorilla at Woodland Park Zoo, dies

Vip was apparently the first gorilla born in the Netherlands, when he was born in 1979. That same year, Apenheul welcomed the first of what has been many gorilla infants.

Vip sired nine infants, six surviving.

Vip was housed with a female named Jumoke (1985). She will presumably be integrated with the zoo’s family troop (or a troop at another zoo) in the coming months.

 

Red ruffed lemur triplets were born March 29:

Triplets! Baby lemurs born at Woodland Park Zoo for first time in 16 years

Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo recently celebrated the birth of three red ruffed lemurs — the first lemur births at the zoo in 16 years.

Born March 29, the triplets each weigh between 6.7 and 7.8 ounces.

They’re currently in the off-view den bonding with their mom, Sally, but the zoo hopes they’ll be outdoors in the public exhibit later this spring.

The Woodland Park Zoo has colonies of red ruffed lemurs and ring-tailed lemurs in its Tropical Rain Forest loop.

 

Last August a male Matschie’s tree kangaroo was born and he is now starting to venture outside of the pouch. He was given the name Havam which is the word for “tree kangaroo” in one of the many languages of the YUS Conservation Area in Papua New Guinea.

"Havam is the third joey for dad Rocket, who fathered Havam’s half-siblings Ecki and Keweng, born to the zoo’s other female tree kangaroo Elanna in 2018 and 2020, respectively. This is the fourth joey for Omari, who had three other joeys at another zoo before coming to live here. All of the zoo’s tree kangaroos are currently living in a habitat that is off view to the public."

Source:
Blog of Woodland Park Zoo (28/04/2021) Baby reveal! Adorable tree kangaroo joey emerges from mom’s pouch

 

Great to have 2 breeding female tree kangaroo.

 

The zoo has advertised for design teams to work on a replacement for the Former Day/Night Exhibit built in 1972 and closed since 2016. The documents do not specify what kind of exhibit is to be designed. Part of the design work will be to work with the zoo and the community to determine that.

 

Let’s just all hope for the best, and dream that the project itself will become an exhibit themed to Papua New Guinea, enough said.

 

Please be a new nocturnal house, please be a new nocturnal house, please be a new nocturnal house....

 

Can any regular visitors confirm the recent arrival of an Orangutan? And is there a reason why on the website Snow Leopards are listed under the 'Australasia' section? Thanks.

 

Because according to their map, that is the section of the zoo they are located in. https://www.zoo.org/document.doc?id=2707

 

I just checked and I have exactly 30 different Woodland Park Zoo maps, with the oldest going back to 1994. The 'Australasia' section has always been labeled on the zoo's map, and the Snow Leopards have been in that same spot since their exhibit opened (1982).

Woodland Park Zoo's orangutan situation changed with the addition of Godek, an 8 year-old Sumatran Orangutan, in 2017. He arrived that summer from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and he was the first addition to the zoo's group of orangutans in 28 years! There's more information on the link below, but I have certainly not heard news about any other orangutans joining the zoo since Godek 4 years ago.

Meet new orangutan of the forest, Godek

 

Does the zoo still have an ocelot? It didn't appear on their USDA inspection last month.

 

The zoo's ocelot left in April, possibly replaced by agoutis in a renovated exhibit inside the Tropical House. The last ocelot at the zoo was sent to the Feline Conservation Center in Rosamond, California.

Happy World Health Day from the Tropical Rain Forest!

 

Thank you! Need to update the felid thread