Thoughts for 2022

AdrianW1963

AdrianW1963

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With 2021 coming to an end and it was a hard one for many people.

What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

What would make you return to collections more?

Should season tickets include parking?

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?


I will be returning in the new year around the end of January as moving away from the midlands so I would like to wish you all a very happy new year for 2022
 
AdrianW1963 said:
With 2021 coming to an end and it was a hard one for many people.

What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

What would make you return to collections more?

Should season tickets include parking?

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?


I will be returning in the new year around the end of January as moving away from the midlands so I would like to wish you all a very happy new year for 2022
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Fota wildlife park-Bears
Bristol for definite before it’s untimely closure, One of Pairi Daiza and Beauval, Edinburgh and Highland WP (Free on my fota annual pass) All first visits.
Actually never thought about seating. I rarely use it except for eating.
New species and exhibits generally.
Yes definitely.
The meerkat and colobus exhibit in Fota needs an update imo. Not an engaging exhibit even though it has both meerkats and a monkey. For Dublin Zoo, hippos need an update, easily the worst exhibit in the zoo.
 
I'd love to see some rare hoofstock like gorals or argali arrive at HWP (which is not my closest zoo but it is my local zoo in my heart)

For first times, I'd like to go to Hamerton or Exmoor

Seating is variably but more would be nice, especially facing enclosures of more obscure species

New exhibits and species are definately big causes for me to return, especially if those new species are birds or hoofstock

Yes but I can see why zoos don't include it

The monal (ex-capercaillie) aviaries in HP could be expanded to include more galliformes, particularly species such as red grouse, black grouse, tragopans and even the odd passerine
 
AdrianW1963 said:
With 2021 coming to an end and it was a hard one for many people.

What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

What would make you return to collections more?

Should season tickets include parking?

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?


I will be returning in the new year around the end of January as moving away from the midlands so I would like to wish you all a very happy new year for 2022
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Would love for Cincinnati to have takin again.

Collections I want to go to next year are Toledo, Fort Wayne, and National Smithsonian, along with the trip to Memphis in April.

They probably should although I do not end up sitting down a lot so if they do I almost never notice it.

Definitely should have free parking with a pass.

The entirety of Bear Hill just needs to remove the bear grottos and make a new exhibit. The area just is by far the most outdated bear exhibit I have seen and is just not suitable for its inhabitant. The hill it is on could easily make a rocky habitat for some sort of caprid such as takins or maybe a new exhibit for their Andean bear could also work in the area.
 
AdrianW1963 said:
What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?
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Spotted wobbegongs in Jakarta Aquarium and Papuan eagle in Ancol, they're new additions at those collections. I've never seen wobbegong and it's been a long time since I seen an Papuan eagle.

AdrianW1963 said:
Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?
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There aren't any new zoos and aquariums that I know aside from an aquarium in southern Java called PIAMARI, but I don't have the will to visit anywhere outside of the Jabodetabek region during the pandemic. There's actually another new aquarium in Bintaro in South Jakarta that planned to finished construction in 2022, so I'll probably go there if they opened this year.

AdrianW1963 said:
Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?
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I don't sit a lot in zoos so I don't thought about the quantity of seatings.

AdrianW1963 said:
What would make you return to collections more?
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New species and better exhibits for the animals, and by I mean "new species" I mean new animals that aren't morphs, hybrids, or deformed animals.

AdrianW1963 said:
Should season tickets include parking?
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Again, I don't thought about it since most zoos I visited have free parking if I remember.

AdrianW1963 said:
If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?
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I would alter Kampung Papua, an New Guinea themed exhibit in Taman Safari Bogor, probably the only one in Indonesia. Despite being largely ignored by the visitors, the enclosures are mostly great but some of the animal choices aren't.
- The cassowary exhibit is well decorated but a bit too small, no alteration aside from some small expansion.
- Remove the palm cockatoos, wreathed hornbills, and black-backed swamphen. Bird-of-paradise and crowned pigeon is more appropriate in New Guinea themed exhibit that those I removed. The former hornbill+swamphen aviary house red bird-of-paradise and western crowned pigeon, the former cockatoo aviary house twelve-wired bird-of-paradise and Victoria crowned pigeon.
- Remove the black swans with magpie goose as well as Papuan turtles like the Branderhorst's snapping turtles.
- The nocturnal animal enclosures should be more decorated with fake plants, logs, and dirt substrate. The spotted cuscus replace the Javan mongoose, the sugar glider will stay there.
- There's an sizeable open enclosure at the back of the exhibit. It's almost empty aside from two to three pademelons the last time I checked. It should be decorated with logs, plants, as well as an crocodile monitor.
- The last exhibit with the wallaby and tree-kangaroo is already great.
 
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AdrianW1963 said:
With 2021 coming to an end and it was a hard one for many people.

What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

What would make you return to collections more?

Should season tickets include parking?

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?


I will be returning in the new year around the end of January as moving away from the midlands so I would like to wish you all a very happy new year for 2022
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Chester has plenty of picnic tables, but needs benches opposite exhibits. I'd specifically like some in front of the aviaries alongside chimp island.
 
AdrianW1963 said:
With 2021 coming to an end and it was a hard one for many people.

What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

What would make you return to collections more?

Should season tickets include parking?

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?


I will be returning in the new year around the end of January as moving away from the midlands so I would like to wish you all a very happy new year for 2022
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Breeding of binturong, aye-aye and tree kangaroo. (The latter two unlikely given the age of the animals involved.)
Whipsnade.
Yes.
Better health. ;)
No. (But discounts for travelling by public transport might be an idea.)
Better visibility of our tigers . . .
 
SHAVINGTONZOO said:
Breeding of binturong, aye-aye and tree kangaroo. (The latter two unlikely given the age of the animals involved.)
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Chester has quite a young pair of tree kangaroo at present! The elderly female is now offshow I believe.
 
What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?
I would like to see more completed enclosures at Hamerton.


Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?
San Diego, or any other overseas really.


Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?
It's not something that I consider really.


What would make you return to collections more?
More money in my pocket. Although I can get free visits via the Chester pass, in these times I have chosen to pay for entry to those in the reciprocal scheme. Also, fewer idiots on the road as I getting to be a real grumpy driver.


Should season tickets include parking?
It's barely an issue in the UK as far as I can think (a couple in the Midlands) but I found paying for parking in some European countries a bit steep.


If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?
The Jaguar exhibit at Chester; all I wish for is something to indicate that they are inside or outside hiding out of view.
 
AdrianW1963 said:
With 2021 coming to an end and it was a hard one for many people.

What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

What would make you return to collections more?

Should season tickets include parking?

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?


I will be returning in the new year around the end of January as moving away from the midlands so I would like to wish you all a very happy new year for 2022
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At Colchester, I would like to see the current developments continue (such as the upgraded Penguin Shores) and also some more small species slotted in where possible - as well as the recently-arrived crested wood partridges, I would love to see Colchester's Feathers of the Forest display take on at least one Southeast Asian passerine - my preference would probably be the chestnut-backed thrush.
As for Call of the Wild Zoo, I'm just looking forward to seeing the indoor tropical area re-opened.

I would love to get to BugzUKParc when it opens next year.

I don't tend to think that much about the seating, as I spend pretty much all of my zoo visits on my feet. I guess it might be nice to have.

Things that would make me return to collections more would be continued work - I'm at the stage where I see any development (even if it is something like catering) as a good thing.

Never really considered the parking for season ticket prices, as a lot of the places I visit tend to have their own on-site parking.

Colchester - move out the last of the elderly lion-tailed macaques and replace them with yellow-throated martens in Wilds of Asia.
Call of the Wild - replace the African civets with smaller animals that would bulk up the Australia section and suit the enclosures better, such as long-nosed potoroos and brushtail possums.
 
As far as collections I would like to visit in 2022, I have my sights on Blue Planet Aquarium and Yorkshire Wildlife Park, along with re-visits to Chester Zoo, Dudley Zoo Blackpool Zoo and Safari Zoo Cumbria. However, bird flu has been going around recently, so many of the zoos I want to revisit have closed their aviaries. With this in mind, I'd rather wait until everything is fully open again before I put plans in place to go anywhere.
 
My family hopes to go to Southern California this summer; if we end up staying in the San Diego area, I hope to visit the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and Seaworld San Diego. My mom says she’d be willing to take me to those places as a high school graduation present.
 
For 2022 I'd like a normal year. Hopefully, COVID will be coming to a close. I just ordered the Sandmarc telephoto lens for the iPhone 13 Pro Max which I'll be upgrading to soon to get better 4K vids with 6x optical zoom capability. Most of all, I'm planning to visit Texas to see and film the numerous species held there.
 
I would love to see Minnesota Zoo re-acquire Clouded Leopards & Fishing Cats to move into the former Visayan Warty Pig & ASCO exhibits respectively.

I have tentative plans to visit the Shell Factory Nature Park in February (Mainly to see the only on-display(?) Bare-Tailed Wooly Opossum in the U.S). I also plan on visiting one or two zoos when I hopefully make it to South Africa. If I manage to get down to Dallas, I will likely visit DWA, a collection I have wanted to visit for a long time now.

I rarely consider seating when I visit zoos, so I don't really have an opinion.

New exhibits & (preferably rare) species will usually get me to return.

None of the zoos in my area have paid parking (except for Minnesota Zoo, but members don't have to pay for parking :)), so I again don't have much to say on the matter.

The Japanese Macaque exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo looks like it could collapse at any moment, with the concrete most certainly showing its age. I would like the ramp to be removed & relocated, as the exhibit would expand onto its old footprint.
 
What would you like to see in your local collection for 2022?

Slow loris's, Fishing cats mainly, Clouded leopards I don't think would have a large enough exhibit. Same with Sun bears.

Which collections would you like to visit in 2022 for the first time?

Monterey bay, This might be hard but the pressure is on!

Do you think some collections should have more seating around them?

Don't understand the question fully, but no.

What would make you return to collections more?

Upgrades of exhibits and rarer animals, hence why I want to visit Monterey bay.

Should season tickets include parking?

I don't really think so. I get it free so. . . .

If you could alter one exhibit in your local/favourite collection what would it be and why for 2022?
Since I have similar opinions on the MN zoo that Dhole dude just mentioned I'm going to do a change for Como instead . The cat house indoor exhibits. It may be a little too snobby of me to say that the indoor exhibits are bad because they don't look nice even if there very practical, but that's just it, they don't look nice. :p
It's not exactly what I want to see first when I walk into the Buildling.
 
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