Thank you for that information. I was interested to learn the baboons were in the old cages near the current tiger pit enclosure. I’d always assumed they were housed in old cages near where the serval were (before their move to the savannah/hippo river complex). I suppose because the old serval cages were so dated, like the baboon cage. Interesting to learn otherwise.
Auckland Zoo’s first Temminck’s Golden Cat was a male named Chi (born 1997 at Melbourne Zoo). He arrived in 1998 and died a few months later in 1999. He was replaced by Hari (born 1990 at Melbourne Zoo). He arrived in 2000 and I believe was on exhibit until a female arrived in 2003 and they were both taken off display for breeding. I recall seeing Hari in a dark, covered enclosure near the tiger pit around 2001-2002 and I assume the cage he occupied was the same exhibit that housed Chi, and later Hari’s son, Saigon (born 2005). Saigon is mentioned as being in an enclosure next to the tiger exhibit in 2006. Being hand raised (more comfortable with people), and not part of a breeding pair, I think Auckland were happy to keep him on public display.
I remember the open air red panda exhibit you describe and seeing Maya and her triplets (born December 2002) in it in 2003. I think there was two red panda exhibits around the 2000s with the male (Shimla) occupying another one.
I assume the Galapagos tortoise you mention are the four the zoo has currently?
Do you have any info on the Chacma baboons kept at Auckland? Especially Nicholas, Nero, Maple, Matthew, Marcus, Cleo and Claudette? Or on how many were euthanised? It appears there is some factual inconsistences with the information supplied by BennetL (who is apparently now no longer on ZooChat) in the baboons thread.
