Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Zoo News 2019

We have been waiting for this for 20 years and it was back in 2007 when the 3-acre exhibit the Campo Gorilla Reserve was opened sponsored by Nestle Juicy Juice, making the LA Zoo, one of the few zoos to exhibit three of the main Great Apes, and the last exhibit for the Great Apes in the original Master Plan, starting with the Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains in 1998 for the largest group of Chimpanzee, the Red Ape Forest in 2000 for the Orangutans, and ending with the gorillas.

It was designed to replicate the West African Rainforest with two separate habitats one for a bachelor troop and another for a family troop, over the many years the landscape and plants over the exhibit have grew overtime like you are stepping into the African Rainforest.

In Future, the habitat for the Bachelor Male Gorillas will expand in the vision plan and the possibly of two new exhibits perhaps mixed species for Patas Monkeys and Red River Hogs and the main entrance to the gorilla exhibit will mark the entrance for the Africa Region starting with the rainforest area which will include guenons, lemurs, possibly Fossas (you can't have a Madagascar area with lemurs without the top predator), gerenuks, duikers, and okapis which transition to the Savanna area and in between the two areas the hippo exhibit with underwater viewing.

I was around 7-8 years old at the time when they recently opened the gorilla and hopefully when I volunteer again I might get to see the new baby gorilla.
 
Thomas said:
How difficult it is to breed Congo Peafowl in captivity compared to the common Indian Blue Peafowl?
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If the statistics in the article are correct, there's only 26 Congos at 10 AZA institutions versus the hordes of Blue Peafowl. I've heard Congos are more sensitive to environmental factors, and chicks especially so if I'm remembering the articles I've read. Also they tend to only have a couple chicks at most, compared to the larger broods of the Blue Peafowl.
 
drill said:
excited for reptile species to be announced. Moscow has a huge collection of chameleons.
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That bit seems odd; it says species TBD but the rest of that news line implies that the species being traded for is Armenian viper. They've traded with Moscow in the past and I believe that is usually how the exchange goes.
 
Great Argus said:
Interesting, the animal transactions lists 3 Congo Peafowl chicks! Only one was mentioned in the earlier news article, wonder if more hatched. Either way a nice bit of news for a relatively rare species!
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Possibly the two chicks hatched before the first one, or they didn’t make it.
 
Thomas said:
Possibly the two chicks hatched before the first one, or they didn’t make it.
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My guess is they have 3 chicks, based on the following: the article about the one chick was posted 5 days ago. The animal transactions sheet was posted after that, and lists 3 congo peafowl born, no congo Peafowl deaths. I feel it can be reasonably assumed there are 3 chicks. I guess next months animal transactions will verify any deaths.
 
Here's a promotional video when the Angry Birds 2 movie came out with a conservation message starring the bird show birds and new bird joining the show, a Peregrine Falcon.

 
Zoo updates & changes from what I learned while volunteering.
Birds
•Chukar Partridges have been moved to Upper Aviary (Australiasia)
•Speckled Mousebirds have been moved off-exhibit while their exhibit along with Black-headed weaver bird exhibit are being renovated to be 100% predator-proof
•I’m a bit unsure whether if the Red-billed Blue Magpies are still in the aviary or moved to a roundhouse in the North America section perhaps the abandoned one by the Gorilla Grill.
Mammal
•Sad news, one of the Tasmanian Devil brothers has passed away to old age, so are they plan to get a new one soon?
 
Do you know why that roundhouse has been closed for many months. And would you know the status of the remaining female Bald Uakari?
 
African Grey said:
Do you know why that roundhouse has been closed for many months. And would you know the status of the remaining female Bald Uakari?
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Perhaps with the security proof of the exhibit, lack of animals to put in that roundhouse though I heard it's a temporary holding for Lowland Paca and Cape Porcupine.

The last female Bald Uakari named Daisy has a female White-faced Saki to keep her company until her time has come to pass away and then there will be no more Bald Uakaris in U.S Zoos.
 
Thomas said:
The last female Bald Uakari named Daisy has a female White-faced Saki to keep her company until her time has come to pass away and then there will be no more Bald Uakaris in U.S Zoos.
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I will be visiting the LA Zoo for the first time (visiting all the way from Wisconsin) and am very excited about the opportunity to see a bald uakari. Are Daisy on the white saki-faced on exhibit in the Uakari exhibit in Rainforest of the Americas, or someplace else?
Also, about how long would people say it takes to go through the entire zoo?
 
Wild wolverine said:
I will be visiting the LA Zoo for the first time (visiting all the way from Wisconsin) and am very excited about the opportunity to see a bald uakari. Are Daisy on the white saki-faced on exhibit in the Uakari exhibit in Rainforest of the Americas, or someplace else?
Also, about how long would people say it takes to go through the entire zoo?
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The zoo is big. Give yourself 4 or 5 hours at least to see the whole thing.

The remaining red uakari is in the uakari exhibit in the Rainforest of the Americas.
 
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