Finally: Visitor Experience Part I
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Revised Arctic Holarctic Visitor Experience Attached. Finally got a version of less than the posting limit, and added Pintails, Pectoral Sandpipers and Bluethroats.
Here comes the revised Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands. Two main buildings (Pengins & somem seals, and Aquarium) unchanged. Redid the overall with the new color scheme, including the Entrance Complex and APM. Also rearranged the three Subantarctic pinniped & aviary exhibits and the three cetacean exhibits so their locations make zoogeographic sense. Here attached: Concept Document; Exhibit Detail Key; and Zoo Master Plan showing Antarctica Location; and new Color Key. Also added some typography and there' s a better selection of pictures in the Visitor Experience.
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Attached: Overall; Aquarium Detail; Penguin & Seals Detail (3 levels); Overall Tunnel Level; Cross-section Location Key; Three Cross-section Illustrations
Attached: Antarctica/Subantarctic Visitor Experience.
Next Week: Revised Galapagos.
Following Week: Beginning of Temperate South America with several parts over the next few weeks: Wetlands; Dolphins and Porpoises; Large Animals (Guanaco, Puma, Condor, etc.) and Wide-ranging Species; Aquarium; Austral Forests; Steppe and Desert Lowlands; Steppe and Desert Highlands; and the Chilean Matorral.
Next Week: Revised Galapagos.
Following Week: Beginning of Temperate South America with several parts over the next few weeks: Wetlands; Dolphins and Porpoises; Large Animals (Guanaco, Puma, Condor, etc.) and Wide-ranging Species; Aquarium; Austral Forests; Steppe and Desert Lowlands; Steppe and Desert Highlands; and the Chilean Matorral.
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I can’t wait! I will read over Antarctica before work tomorrow!
PastorOfMuppets
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Dude, so happy to see you're back at it! Literally haven't logged in for years, and I got to thinking about your designs, so I figured I'd check in to see if I could find this thread, and it's on the first page with new posts!
Keep up the impressive work.
Keep up the impressive work.
Thanks. Amazing what a new set of colored pencils will do for you. ;-)
Here is the revised Galápagos Complex. As compared with the earlier version: the Overall Picture is redone with the new color scheme and to include the current Entrance Complex and Automatic People Mover designs; I've added the IUCN designations (it's horrifying and depressing how many of the species from this area are in trouble, and this is the one time so far I've had to use EW=extinct in the wild) to the Concept and the Detail Key and the Spanish names to the latter; I've added the key numbers from the Detail Key to the Visitor Experience so it's easier to follow the schematics as you read; there was a major revision of Galápagos snake taxonomy in 2018 and five species became nine, so they're all included now; the Visitor Experience now has more and better pictures; I have also added statues of the Waved Albatross and two Frigatebird species. As with the Arctic and the Antarctic, I have included the animal census numbers for amphibians and higher. The cumulative numbers for these three areas are: Mammals: 33 species/subspecies and 246 specimens; Birds: 165 species/subspecies and 1137 specimens; Reptiles: 39 species and 149 specimens; Total: 237 species/subspecies and 1532 specimens. Attached here are: Zoo Master Plan showing location; Concept; Color Scheme; and the Overall Schematic.
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Attached here are the Detail Key; the Building schematics; and the schematics for the Aquarium and the Dolphin Complex (these three sets of schematics are the old color scheme);
Visitor Experience Part I
Visitor Experience Part II
Next Week: I start several weeks of Temperate South America.
Next Week: I start several weeks of Temperate South America.
Today I unveil the completely new sections of the World ZG Zoo: Temperate South America and its eight subsections. The attached concept document is different from what was composed for other areas, partly because of scale. The three other areas I've reposted (Arctic, Antarctic and Galapagos) display a total, for all three, of 237 species/subspecies and 1532 specimens. This area, by itself, displays a currently estimated 747 species/subspecies and 2662 specimens. The other reason is that I am much less familiar with these species, and as I collected the lists for the exhibits, I needed also to collect information about their size, habitat preferences, diet, breeding behavior, social vs. solitary, etc., so I could properly design their exhibits and make decisions about which species can be appropriately displayed together in multi- species exhibits and even whether males and females of the same species can be housed together. As a result, the final concept document is 96 pages long. If anyone would like to see the whole thing, am happy to share it. Just ask. Here are two excerpts from the concept:
"The concept for this exhibit area is encountering a temperate world most residents of other temperate areas don't know exists—a place whose dramatic terrain and unique climates have been shaped by the relatively recent rise of the Andes and their continuing volcanic activity, a place of astonishing diversity of habitats and species, especially for anuran amphibians, lizards, and small mammals, including a bat, a frog and a toad that all live in a subpolar climate, so much diversity that there are many lizards and even some small mammals that have no common name in any language, and a place in which Charles Darwin—whose name is attached to several of the animals you will see—actually spent more time than in the Galápagos. The area from which the species for this exhibit area have been selected is defined by the range of the apex predator, the Southern South American Puma, a subspecies, Puma concolor puma (per Culver et al. 2000).
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Exhibit Groupings (G-J have been combined in the Aquarium section):
A. Central Exhibits: Wide-Ranging Animals, incl. Large Mammals and Birds
B. Austral Forests
C. Patagonian Steppe & Low Monte
D. Southern Andean Steppe & High Monte
E. Chilean Matorral
F. Temperate Wetlands
G. Aquarium (Marine Fish and Invertebrates, Semi-Aquatic Marine Mammals and Sea/Shore Birds)
H. Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas
I. Juan Fernández & Desventuradas Islands
J. Tristan de Cunha & Gough Islands
K. Cetaceans"
Today, in addition to the information on the area overall, the details of the Dolphin and Wetlands exhibit areas are included. The former won't be too exciting, it is adapted from the design for the Galapagos dolphin complex but has an entirely different set of species of dolphins and porpoises. The rest of this area, though, is quite different from what you've seen before. From Overall Color Schematic, you can see how this area dovetails with the Antarctic/Subantarctic Exhibits, which corresponds with the actual zoogeography.
"The concept for this exhibit area is encountering a temperate world most residents of other temperate areas don't know exists—a place whose dramatic terrain and unique climates have been shaped by the relatively recent rise of the Andes and their continuing volcanic activity, a place of astonishing diversity of habitats and species, especially for anuran amphibians, lizards, and small mammals, including a bat, a frog and a toad that all live in a subpolar climate, so much diversity that there are many lizards and even some small mammals that have no common name in any language, and a place in which Charles Darwin—whose name is attached to several of the animals you will see—actually spent more time than in the Galápagos. The area from which the species for this exhibit area have been selected is defined by the range of the apex predator, the Southern South American Puma, a subspecies, Puma concolor puma (per Culver et al. 2000).
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Exhibit Groupings (G-J have been combined in the Aquarium section):
A. Central Exhibits: Wide-Ranging Animals, incl. Large Mammals and Birds
B. Austral Forests
C. Patagonian Steppe & Low Monte
D. Southern Andean Steppe & High Monte
E. Chilean Matorral
F. Temperate Wetlands
G. Aquarium (Marine Fish and Invertebrates, Semi-Aquatic Marine Mammals and Sea/Shore Birds)
H. Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas
I. Juan Fernández & Desventuradas Islands
J. Tristan de Cunha & Gough Islands
K. Cetaceans"
Today, in addition to the information on the area overall, the details of the Dolphin and Wetlands exhibit areas are included. The former won't be too exciting, it is adapted from the design for the Galapagos dolphin complex but has an entirely different set of species of dolphins and porpoises. The rest of this area, though, is quite different from what you've seen before. From Overall Color Schematic, you can see how this area dovetails with the Antarctic/Subantarctic Exhibits, which corresponds with the actual zoogeography.
Attached to this are the details for the Cetaceans of Temperate South America.
Attached are the details for the Wetlands of Temperate South America, starting, of course, with fifty Chilean Flamingos!
Another great exhibit and nice to see something new from you! I really like the inclusion of the falklands into South America, while the sheer variety in species in that Chilean wetland zone would have some members in here drooling as they went in for their first visit.