A male pudu fawn was born on July 11th to second time parents Ted and Maggie!
Fawning over you! Say hello to our baby pudu
Fawning over you! Say hello to our baby pudu
Woodland Park Zoo Woodland Park Zoo News 2021
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Most likely Batu from Philadelphia.
A looming fight yet again with the Seattle City Council who continues to fail to understand the nature of how modern, AZA accredited zoos operate. It'll be interesting to see this play out.
As Seattle eyes new operations pact with Woodland Park Zoo, animal rights activists raise concerns
As Seattle eyes new operations pact with Woodland Park Zoo, animal rights activists raise concerns
The zoo's in-house design team spent the summer renovating the Komodo dragon exhibit:
Komodo dragon exhibit is better than ever for the giant lizards and for you!
Komodo dragon exhibit is better than ever for the giant lizards and for you!
The Sumatran Orangutan 'Batu' did indeed transfer to Woodland Park Zoo.
Here is an article about the orangutan:
Welcome beautiful Batu! Female orangutan joins Godek on Trail of Vines
Red panda, Zan, escaped this morning. He thankfully didn't go far and keepers were able to keep an eye on him until they could lure him back around 3pm. Log into Facebook
The zoo's Northern Trail loop (built in the 1990s) has been rebranded as Living Northwest Trail, with new signage that reflects the Indigenous land acknowledgement of the area. Phase Two is coming in summer 2022 and will be the Pigott Family Lynx Exhibit and Phase Three is coming in fall 2022 and will be called Basecamp Northwest (formerly Tundra Building).
Living Northwest Trail - Woodland Park Zoo Seattle WA
Living Northwest Trail - Woodland Park Zoo Seattle WA
Melati, a 50 year old female hybrid orangutan, sadly passed away earlier today while recovering from a surgical procedure.
Zoo loses oldest orangutan, We will miss you sweet Melati
Zoo loses oldest orangutan, We will miss you sweet Melati
The zoo's draft Annual Plan 2022 has been released and the highlights include:
- capital projects will be a Canada Lynx exhibit to complement the redesign of the Living Northwest Trail (formerly Northern Trail). There will be two male lynx in the exhibit and they will be the first lynx at the zoo in exactly 30 years.
- "concept and schematic design for the former Day and Night Exhibits area" which has long been rumored to possibly become a New Guinea tree kangaroo complex
- turning Willawong (small Aussie bird feeding aviary) into a "repurposed space for ambassador animals"
- major maintenance projects will include several new roof renovations (Willawong building, giraffe barn, Tropical Rain Forest, etc.)
Odds n' sods:
- natural substrate will be added to the Family Farm area, plus wood chips will be added to the rhino exhibit
- an off-exhibit area will be built attached to the Tropical Rain Forest building for saki monkeys and golden lion tamarins
- there is a long list of breeding recommendations included in the document
- the zoo will receive a brand-new species (white-nosed coati) and a pair of them will be located in the Tropical Rain Forest building
- additional brown bears might join the zoo's collection (the current brothers are getting old)
- the hippos might or might not leave the zoo (there will be another evaluation)
Here is a link to the 9-page Annual Plan:
https://www.zoo.org/document.doc?id=2887
- capital projects will be a Canada Lynx exhibit to complement the redesign of the Living Northwest Trail (formerly Northern Trail). There will be two male lynx in the exhibit and they will be the first lynx at the zoo in exactly 30 years.
- "concept and schematic design for the former Day and Night Exhibits area" which has long been rumored to possibly become a New Guinea tree kangaroo complex
- turning Willawong (small Aussie bird feeding aviary) into a "repurposed space for ambassador animals"
- major maintenance projects will include several new roof renovations (Willawong building, giraffe barn, Tropical Rain Forest, etc.)
Odds n' sods:
- natural substrate will be added to the Family Farm area, plus wood chips will be added to the rhino exhibit
- an off-exhibit area will be built attached to the Tropical Rain Forest building for saki monkeys and golden lion tamarins
- there is a long list of breeding recommendations included in the document
- the zoo will receive a brand-new species (white-nosed coati) and a pair of them will be located in the Tropical Rain Forest building
- additional brown bears might join the zoo's collection (the current brothers are getting old)
- the hippos might or might not leave the zoo (there will be another evaluation)
Here is a link to the 9-page Annual Plan:
https://www.zoo.org/document.doc?id=2887
Thanks for sharing! There's tons of interesting bits of interesting info regarding future births and transfers in here as well. Here's some of the most notable things in there:
- Sloth bear Kushali may be pregnant and expecting cubs in late 2021 (AKA any day now) but no pregnancy is confirmed.
- Snow leopards Aibek and Marai, Malayan tigers Bumi and Azul, the zoo's Asian small-clawed otters, Humboldt penguins, wallaroos, Bennet's wallabies, Egyptian tortoises, and pudu are all recommended to breed in 2022.
- A mountain goat kid, a Matschie's tree kangaroo joey, and North American river otter pups are expected and will be born soon!
- Sempurna, the female Malayan tapir calf born at the zoo back in 2020, will be leaving the zoo in 2022 on an SSP recommendation.
- 1.2 gorillas will be moving to the zoo soon to form a new troop with Jumoke who has been living on her own for several months now.
- One of the female lions, either Kamaria or Ilanga, will be moving to Zoo de Granby in Canada soon while the other will remain and has a breeding recommendation with the male Xerxes.