San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo News 2020
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Seeing that the last cape clawless otter died, It’s really getting me thinking about bear canyon in Asian passage closing permanently. I mean, there has to be some budget cuts and closing bear canyon wouldn’t make sense, I mean, the only unique animals there are Andean bears, grizzly bears, and aye-ayes, the aye-ayes could go somewhere else in the zoo, the grizzly bears could temporarily rotate with the polar bears, and unfortunately them andeans would have to be phased out. I think it makes financial sense and it would mean no more bear canyon & monkey cages.
I’m pretty sure the mega zoo that is the SD Zoo, even for the SDZ Safari Park, are fine for the time being especially since they’re still allowed operate with some exhibits or tours closed. As for closure of Bear canyon and the cages, I don’t get how they would save money since they’d still have to care for their bears and monkeys behind the scenes. While many of us agree for the demolition and redesign of this whole area, I think the zoo and safari park fare well especially being amongst one of the most popular visitor destinations as well as one of the biggest membership/donor groups.
Older enclosures require more frequent maintenance costs. The zoo can save money by moving these animals and postponing or eliminating any costs to maintaining these structures.
I’m not saying demolish them, I’m saying that they leave them abandoned for now and when they can secure the funding, demolish the grottos and cages and put something different there.
My point exactly
I think it is important for a zoo to consider public perception. If a whole area of a zoo is abandoned, visitors may tend to have a negative memory of their visit. "Remember when we paid all that money to go that "world famous" zoo and there were all those empty neglected exhibits that they didn't have enough animals to fill them with?" It can really kill the energy of a place.
I agree, but equally "Remember when we paid all that money to go to that 'world famous' zoo and they had all those animals in really tiny cages and small pits?" can kill the energy of a place, too. I know a few people who aren't zoo nerds and visited SDZ while going to school in California and that's the only impression they were all left with the place.
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Or they could say new exhibit coming soon but not have anything for a while. I bet the general public would believe that.
Considering how long it can take to build an exhibit with today’s construction costs they may not be lying when it takes multiple years to build or demolish an exhibit.
Also, if they close it, move the sloth & Andean bears to the old giant panda exhibits(odviously with added safety measures so the bears don’t escape).
It’s pretty likely that San Diego’s trying to get Pandas back at the zoo, so I’m not sure it would make sense to renovate the exhibit for a completely new species.
The former Panda exhibit is also not very big and definitely couldn’t hold two species of bear.
Of course this will be temporary, at least until they CAN get pandas back, and the panda enclosures aren’t much better than there Current homes. Possibly the sloth bears could go in the second tiger exhibit in tiger river?
On July 23rd, it was announced that a ring-tailed lemur named Rosalita gave birth to twins on July 8th. The twins consist of a male and a female and currently do not have names.
Endangered ring-tailed lemur gives birth to twins at San Diego Zoo | KXAN Austin
Endangered ring-tailed lemur gives birth to twins at San Diego Zoo | KXAN Austin
Satka, the Amur Leopard's cubs have officially been named Lev and Tuman! Lev means "as lion" and Tuman means "fog" 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_0NgvgJ5-/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_0NgvgJ5-/
here’s an article of the San Diego’s Zoo Invertebrate collection and breeding conservation programs, and where the invertebrates would be on displayed in the newly improved two-story, The McKinney Family Spineless Marvels building as part of the Denny Sanford Children’s Zoo opening next year, 2021.
https://zoonooz.sandiegozoo.org/zoonooz/many-legs-many-needs/
Any news of the hummingbird aviary and Komodo dragon exhibit renovations?
https://zoonooz.sandiegozoo.org/zoonooz/many-legs-many-needs/
Any news of the hummingbird aviary and Komodo dragon exhibit renovations?
From what I’ve heard, both of these exhibits were delayed to next year and will open alongside the new children’s zoo.
Surprised this hasn't been reported on yet, but a male calf was born on April 9th and announced on Friday. The calf was born to mother Mabel and to father Elgon. This is the zoo's first birth of the species for almost 30 years.
San Diego Zoo Global Announces Birth of Endangered Pygmy Hippo at...
San Diego Zoo Global Announces Birth of Endangered Pygmy Hippo at...
In fact it was reported on by a couple of people back in May - these are from the previous page:
Here’s a twitter posting from San Diego Zoo about their Pygmy hippo birth
Forgive me. I didn't realise the birth was as soon as it was. May just be from poor wording from the article or just me being dumb
