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EsserWarrior said:
This is amazing! I haven't been to the Minnesota Zoo in a very long time, are there any new exhibits that have been built in the past few years?
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In 2016, the zoo constructed Kangaroo Crossing, and Australian complex featuring Emus, Dromedaries, Bennett's Wallabies, and Red Kangaroos. Like all of MNZ's outdoor exhibits, it seems impossibly huge.

In 2015, five Hawaiian Monk Seals (the only ones outside Hawaii) moved into the former dolphin pool.

In 2016 (I think), there were minor renovations to the Japanese Macaque exhibit.
 
I find the monk seals there to be fascinating. I assume they are all unreleasable males, but how did they come to be in Minnesota?
 
According to an internship posting on the AZA Jobs board, the zoo's seasonal exhibit for the 2019 summer season will be "Llama Trek". From the posting:

The Minnesota Zoo’s 2019 Summer Seasonal Exhibit, “Llama Trek” will offer guests an opportunity to interact with llamas, guinea pigs, and rhea in an immersive outdoor exhibit space. The llamas will be free roaming, and guests will have the opportunity to feed and walk them on a lead along a designated walking path with staff guidance.
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birdsandbats said:
Could this be turned into a new exhibit?
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It honestly depends on the square footage if the Zoo wants to bring a charismatic new species. If it's large enough, maybe they could do a mini Desert or Chapparal building for quails, jackrabbits, channel island foxes, etc. The Zoo hasn't really had a true "desert" exhibit after the whole meerkat debacle and the parents of that little girl who got bitten being complete and utter ******, (seriously, did m-o-r-o-n get censored?) so this'd be a nice way to increase their small mammal collection while touching upon a new ecosystem (certainly after tropical rainforests, temperate rainforests, temperate grasslands, boreal forests, tundras and oceans). Maybe the Zoo could touch upon montane ecosystems with snow leopards, red pandas, himalayan tahr, pallas' cat, markhor, mongolian gerbil, various pheasant species? (Most species as per the presumably scrapped master plan)
 
Wyman said:
It honestly depends on the square footage if the Zoo wants to bring a charismatic new species. If it's large enough, maybe they could do a mini Desert or Chapparal building for quails, jackrabbits, channel island foxes, etc. The Zoo hasn't really had a true "desert" exhibit after the whole meerkat debacle and the parents of that little girl who got bitten being complete and utter ******, (seriously, did m-o-r-o-n get censored?) so this'd be a nice way to increase their small mammal collection while touching upon a new ecosystem (certainly after tropical rainforests, temperate rainforests, temperate grasslands, boreal forests, tundras and oceans). Maybe the Zoo could touch upon montane ecosystems with snow leopards, red pandas, himalayan tahr, pallas' cat, markhor, mongolian gerbil, various pheasant species? (Most species as per the presumably scrapped master plan)
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I was actually thinking of a reptile house. Or maybe that would replace the infamous dreaded tunnel.
 
Wyman said:
It honestly depends on the square footage if the Zoo wants to bring a charismatic new species. If it's large enough, maybe they could do a mini Desert or Chapparal building for quails, jackrabbits, channel island foxes, etc. The Zoo hasn't really had a true "desert" exhibit after the whole meerkat debacle and the parents of that little girl who got bitten being complete and utter ******, (seriously, did m-o-r-o-n get censored?) so this'd be a nice way to increase their small mammal collection while touching upon a new ecosystem (certainly after tropical rainforests, temperate rainforests, temperate grasslands, boreal forests, tundras and oceans). Maybe the Zoo could touch upon montane ecosystems with snow leopards, red pandas, himalayan tahr, pallas' cat, markhor, mongolian gerbil, various pheasant species? (Most species as per the presumably scrapped master plan)
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Would both be excellent additions!
 
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