Some minor news:
An new enclosure in the Safari Journey housed an baby orangutan, adjacent to the white-bellied sea eagle exhibit. It baffles me on how they get that idea. The exhibit it self aren't big for one adult orangutan (The baby's mother isn't there). It's probably there as mere "awww attraction" for visitors when there's already four other larger orangutan exhibits, three of which also have babies in it. I wish when the baby has grown up, they've used it for something else, like for smaller mammals.Taman Safari Bogor has put most of their European bisons on free-range, still under the supervision of the guards to avoid incidents. Their enclousure still have two or three bisons, probably the ones that aren't too friendly toward cars.
An unexpected addition to the park, an Guianan squirrel monkey, is displayed in an chain-link exhibit in the Australian Outback. There's only one monkey, despite being an social species, and there's no signage of the animal, so I'm guessing it's temporarily and will be replaced with the cotton-top tamarins from Jakarta Aquarium. Two young saltwater crocodiles is displayed together with Asian forest tortoises, it worked probably until the tortoises become fit in their mouth.
Some updates also occured in the Reptile Tunnel. Two new reptiles is displayed, such as the Burmese python and the yet to be classified Irian Jaya blue-tongued skink, although the Merauke blue-tongued skink and green tree monitor has been taken off display. The aquarium is apparently empty, the pirarucu, turtles, and other large fish has been taken off display. The staffs at Jakarta Aquarium could probably even listened to
@Fargusno's suggestion on sending some of their freshwater fish to Bogor, who knows.
In the Nocturnal House, an barn owl is replaced by, not one, but two buffy fish owls. I'm ok with owls in indoor exhibit and I even liked the concept, but the exhibit in the Nocturnal House isn't big and spacious for one barn owl, let alone two buffy fish owls. The red giant flying squirrel, an species rarely displayed in Indonesian zoos, has been taken off display and replaced with an even rarer, hard to find, and the world's most elusive, hedgehogs. I honestly don't want to rant anymore, the only thing I want to say is that atleast they're probably not in the Kampung Papua anymore.
