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Can't open the link overhere in the Netherlands. Is it mentioned in the article from where the eggs came and howmany eggs were recieved ?
 
$10 Million Upgraded Elephant Opens Friday May 22:

KC Zoo’s new and $10 million improved elephant exhibit opens Friday

The new habitat features a more elephant-friendly pool and waterfall.

Visitors should also expect to see improved viewing areas, including a deck at elephant overlook.

Kansas City Zoo has 1.6 African elephants:

1.0 Tamani (2005)
0.1 Lady (1968)
0.1 Tattoo (1978)
0.1 Megan (1978)
0.1 Lea (1978)
0.1 Lois (1978)
0.1 Zoe (1984)
 
Zoofan15 said:
$10 Million Upgraded Elephant Opens Friday May 22:

KC Zoo’s new and $10 million improved elephant exhibit opens Friday

The new habitat features a more elephant-friendly pool and waterfall.

Visitors should also expect to see improved viewing areas, including a deck at elephant overlook.

Kansas City Zoo has 1.6 African elephants:

1.0 Tamani (2005)
0.1 Lady (1968)
0.1 Tattoo (1978)
0.1 Megan (1978)
0.1 Lea (1978)
0.1 Lois (1978)
0.1 Zoe (1984)
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Any elephant cows that still might make it to the calving stages yet (allthough looking at ages and all that is a non-starter now)?
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Any elephant cows that still might make it to the calving stages yet (allthough looking at ages and all that is a non-starter now)?
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I would say that ship has sailed for the current elephant cows at KC Zoo. They were part of an effort to import additional cows to the SSP, but with the CITES action and activists, I think that multi-zoo effort has ceased. Unfortunate, as those elephants will probably end up culled in Africa. I do believe that KC Zoo is committed to long term elephant exhibit and breeding, they will just need to find the cows to join their herd that can breed.
 
I don’t usually post news outside the Australasian region but I don’t think this has been mentioned. Back in February, Kansas City Zoo welcomed a White-cheeked Gibbon birth. The female was later named Leilani. The baby’s mother is Kit (2005) who came from Perth Zoo, Australia. Her parents are wild-born Phillip (1973) and Melbourne-born Viann (1993).

Facebook post: Kansas City Zoo

Full article: KC Zoo welcomes newborn white-cheeked gibbon

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Zoo welcomed a white-cheeked gibbon on Saturday.

Designated as “critically endangered," a “species survival plan” paired 24-year-old Smithers and 15-year-old Kit, according to a news release, and the two are “doing a wonderful job caring for their tiny baby.”
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Death of Radi the Western lowland gorilla and a giraffe:

KC Zoo announces death of giraffe, gorilla

Radi the gorilla and the patriarch of the zoo's gorilla troop died on July 13.

According to the zoo, the 37-year-old gorilla had been in the zoo since the Africa section opened in 1995.

Radi had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease and had been losing weight. Declining health caused the zoo to humanely euthanize the gorilla Monday.

 
Zoofan15 said:
Death of Radi the Western lowland gorilla and a giraffe:

KC Zoo announces death of giraffe, gorilla

Radi the gorilla and the patriarch of the zoo's gorilla troop died on July 13.

According to the zoo, the 37-year-old gorilla had been in the zoo since the Africa section opened in 1995.

Radi had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease and had been losing weight. Declining health caused the zoo to humanely euthanize the gorilla Monday.
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Dixie, a 2 1/2-year-old Masai giraffe was born in February 2018 and has died of unknown reasons. Zoologists think she died of rumenitis, which is an inflammation in her stomach that she was getting treated for right until her death on July 11th.

Kansas City Zoo mourns deaths of 2 animals, including Dixie the giraffe
 
$75 million aquarium receives final approval:

Kansas City Zoo receives final approval to build $75 million aquarium | KSNT News

Friends of the Zoo, the zoo’s operator, plans 600,000 gallons of tanks in a 60,000-square-foot building with 30-35 exhibits featuring marine animals from around the world.

As long as they can secure the rest of those private donations, the plan would be to begin construction early next year and open by June 2023.
 
Architectural renderings of the new potential Aquarium are below. As mentioned above, more funding is required before the go ahead. The Aquarium is to be built in the old Main Valley - destroying all of the historical exhibits created during the Zoo's formation in 1909.

While most of these funds were already secured pre-COVID and considering the Zoo has had to let go a majority of it's frontline staff (keeper staff have had to help tear tickets at the gate and conduct grounds work such as landscaping, bussing, and trash collection), I'm surprised they are moving ahead with such a big undertaking. A brand new staff of Aquarists and LSS personnel will need to be hired to run the new Aquarium.

https://www.ehdd.com/project/kansas-city-zoo-aquarium
 
Two Koala are arriving in March 2021:

Kansas City Zoo to host koalas for first time in 5 years

The Kansas City Zoo will welcome koalas for the first time in five years in 2021.

Sean Putney, chief zoological officer, told 41 Action News two koalas will come to Kansas City from the San Diego Zoo in March.

After a month in quarantine, which is standard protocol for all incoming animals, the koalas will be in an exhibit through the end of October.

He said the KC Zoo had koalas once about five years ago, and another time around 15 years ago.
 
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