Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Zoo News 2021

African Grey said:
May animal transactions:
https://s36593.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/05.2021-animal-transactions.pdf

April meeting minutes: https://s36593.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Zoo-Commission-minutes-April-2021.pdf

Really surprised that the California Science Center is getting a Fennec Fox. I'm guessing that it is going to replace the Turkey Vulture and Roadrunners in that current exhibit.
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Well, a breeding Blue-eyed Black Lemur is always good, and we can hope for births soon. Also, this shows that Santa Barbara is moving along with its new Australian exhibit.
 
Just some updates from my visit today at the zoo:

1. The Aviary and Harpy Eagle Overlook is now open. New signage has gone up for the newer additions in recent years: Indochinese Green Magpie, Red Billed Blue Magpie, and Black Collared Starling.

2. Some roundhouses are fully open and it seems to be a specific pattern: roundhouses with no carnivores or primates are open.

3. Dragons of Komodo is now open with one smaller Komodo dragon on exhibit present, possibly a female awaiting for the new male to be imported into the zoo soon.

4. The LAIR is slated for reopening soon as well, wasn’t given a specific date but from the conversation I had it is expected to open very soon.

5. All of the Koalas were off exhibit today when posted signs indicating they are indeed not on exhibit.
 
Westcoastperson said:
Well they must be continuing Goral breeding because another was recently born.
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Yes, the second baby was born on or about June 1 from what I was told on June 6 when I saw her (I think it's a girl, but I'm not certain). The male who passed away earlier this year is the father of both babies, so he managed to get both females pregnant before he passed away.
 
Westcoastperson said:
Well they must be continuing Goral breeding because another was recently born.
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I feel like a lot gets lost in translation when talking about animal management. The Chinese goral is currently still an SSP program— it just will not be under the new SSP system, as most current SSPs will not be. The TAG is just also not looking at continuing the program due to the overall lack of success. That said, at the end of the day, the institutions themselves are always allowed to continuing working with a species even if that species isn’t supported by the TAG or an SSP. With goral there is a wider institutional interest— facilitates that don’t have them want them; however, despite, that interest and efforts to put pairs together, there has not been a lot of successful breeding/rearing of offspring and the population is aging. It’s great that LA is committed to still breeding the species (I was very happy to see them there last month), but it is very unlikely that them doing so will save the species in North America long term unless an import is possible.
 
I do have a photo of the Goral kid born earlier with their mom, both were on exhibit and indeed it’s a bittersweet that the male was able to pass on their legacy.
 
Kudu21 said:
I feel like a lot gets lost in translation when talking about animal management. The Chinese goral is currently still an SSP program— it just will not be under the new SSP system, as most current SSPs will not be. The TAG is just also not looking at continuing the program due to the overall lack of success. That said, at the end of the day, the institutions themselves are always allowed to continuing working with a species even if that species isn’t supported by the TAG or an SSP. With goral there is a wider institutional interest— facilitates that don’t have them want them; however, despite, that interest and efforts to put pairs together, there has not been a lot of successful breeding/rearing of offspring and the population is aging. It’s great that LA is committed to still breeding the species (I was very happy to see them there last month), but it is very unlikely that them doing so will save the species in North America long term unless an import is possible.
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I thought the rationale of zoos is conservation breeding and providing ex situ safe havens for endangered species around the globe. So, I do not think the new system you are talking about is actually doing the job better if so many species of conservation interest will fall by the wayside (???).
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I thought the rationale of zoos is conservation breeding and providing ex situ safe havens for endangered species around the globe. So, I do not think the new system you are talking about is actually doing the job better if so many species of conservation interest will fall by the wayside (???).
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Limited number of individuals, limited amount of participating facilities and lack of breeding success means that some programs need to be set aside for more successful programs as sad as that may be. It’s better to have a few super successful programs for endangered species than a bunch of small, ultimately failing programs. You have to look at the bigger picture to see that it is impossible for every endangered species we want to have a breeding program in zoos to have one.
 
Julio C Castro said:
That’s amazing! Are the roundhouses fully open by now? I visited about a month ago and the ones open were the ones without carnivores or primates :/ I’d really love to photograph the family!
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Some are fully open, some are fully closed and some are partially open. For this partially open roundhouse, they put up a plastic barrier to keep people further back from the railing at the ocelot exhibit while allowing access in front of the other 2 exhibit spaces. The middle space has the blue-billed curassow family. The other space (where the crested caracara had been quite some time ago) now has the older curassow chick that was raised by foster parents at the Avian Conservation Center.
 
Elena said:
Some are fully open, some are fully closed and some are partially open. For this partially open roundhouse, they put up a plastic barrier to keep people further back from the railing at the ocelot exhibit while allowing access in front of the other 2 exhibit spaces. The middle space has the blue-billed curassow family. The other space (where the crested caracara had been quite some time ago) now has the older curassow chick that was raised by foster parents at the Avian Conservation Center.
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Thank you very much, I plan to make a visit for Wednesday or Thursday this coming week :)
 
So while looking through the zoo's website I found two very interesting presentations. The first is a summary of the EIR which puts California, Asia, Rainforest, Africa,and Play zones opening in the next 5-10 years. the rest will be in 10-20 years.
https://s36593.pcdn.co/wp-content/u...-Plan-EIR-Presentation-for-Zoo-Comm-Final.pdf
The other is the completed EIR and I don't remember it being 1350 pages long but now it is so.
https://s36593.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/LA-Zoo-EIR-Final_webres.pdf
 
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