They are building a new bridge going over the panda exhibit. They moved the pandas to not stress them out during construction. They are now in a pair of the bear grottos in, "Asian," passage. The red pandas and takin have not been moved.
Thanks for the info, come on San Diego stop holding out
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Well, most zoos have a lot behind the scenes. It SDZ it is mostly birds. Some cool stuff (the only of their kind in the US) like ornate fruit dove, white bearded manakin, red-billed malkoha. Others which are uncommon like gang gang cockatoo. For mammals it is mostly those whose exhibits were compromised by other projects: tree kangaroo, royal antelope, southern hairy nosed wombat, Siberian musk deer. I'm sure there are a great deal more species of mammals, birds, and of course reptiles and amphibians, but those are just what I know. The zoo has a primate breeding center that currently has all kinds of lemurs and vervet monkeys, for African Rocks. I know they've got a decent snake breeding area. Somewhere they've got a setup with Lord Howe Island stick insects. Again, those are just more examples that probably don't come close to what the full list is.
No sloth bears, 1.1 Bornean sun bears that are incompatible. I don't know if they are trying to breed, but it would require a different male or female to do so.
Also 1.1 spectacled (Andean) bears that will eventually be paired for breeding.
Yes, there is a common wombat which is being trained as an ambassador animal.
Nobody knows for sure, not even the staff the last I heard. It won't be with the gibbons, though, if it does happen.
Sun bears not on phase out in the US????
San Diego is the only zoo in the U.S that has success with breeding sun bears, I have heard no intention on getting red of them (They have a single exhibit centered around them).
Are there any other zoos in the United States that keeps this species?
