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Shellheart said:
What an odd choice. I wonder what the logic for choosing Mondays and Tuesdays is, as surely weekends are busier and could benefit more from extended hours.
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Maybe the reason is precisely because Monday and Tuesday are slow days and they are trying to get more people to visit the park on those days?
 
Jaxton said:
On a recent ZOONOOZ post: Pride Matters, it mentions that they still have two of the Lion cubs from the 2014 litter, Ernest and Miss Ellen. However, it does not mention where the other two females, Evelyn and Marion, are. Does anybody know where they may have gone?
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After further research, I have found that the two were transferred to the Taronga Western Plains Zoo. They may have been surplus animals and were not going to be recommended to be bred.

New Lions at Pride Lands
 
Arizona Docent said:
Maybe the reason is precisely because Monday and Tuesday are slow days and they are trying to get more people to visit the park on those days?
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They have special food and entertainment offerings planned for those evenings. Why Monday and Tuesdays? I can only speculate, but from my time with Disney, those were the slowest days of the week. I would agree with Arizona Docent. It’s probably an attempt to lurer members to stop in on the weekdays for the offerings without committing to a daily schedule which only a select group of people will actually hang around for, or make an evening arrival for.

I was just at the Zoo and the zoo empties out pretty good after 5:00pm in the summer with the extended hours and offerings. I was exiting and thought, how sad, they spend all that money and the crowds are thinning out. However, I noticed that small family groups were arriving at that time. They appeared to be members. I then wondered if thats why they keep offering the extended hour events in the Summer. It might bring in a smaller second wave of attendees. Maybe its an attempt to bring that phenomenon to the Safari Park.
 
Shellheart said:
What an odd choice. I wonder what the logic for choosing Mondays and Tuesdays is, as surely weekends are busier and could benefit more from extended hours.
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In NYC, some theater and opera performances have begun 60-90 minutes earlier than usual on Tuesdays--a typical slow day--to try to make it easier for someone who works in the city to see a show and get home at an earlier hour and get to work the next morning well-slept. It worked well, and studies found that parents with kids would also choose these performances, presumably over crowded weekend matinees.

It's this group that I think the park is targeting. Especially moms with strollers and the disabled are eager to avoid crowds, and an extra advantage is that it's cooler. Sounds like a great idea to me!
 
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