Ranking U.S. Sub/Antarctic Penguin Exhibits

Why do you Saint Louis so low and Milwaukee last? Both of those exhibits deserve to be higher.

Also, is Detroit really the best? It's certainly really good but I don't think it lives up to the hype.
 
birdsandbats said:
Why do you Saint Louis so low and Milwaukee last? Both of those exhibits deserve to be higher.
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Saint Louis is great but I think it could be slightly larger for the amount of birds it holds. I think it’s pretty high.
Milwaukees exhibit is not impressive, it doesn’t have anything unique to it and the water pool is too small.

birdsandbats said:
Also, is Detroit really the best? It's certainly really good but I don't think it lives up to the hype.
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Not to sound rude but could you elaborate on why you think this? You’ve hinted it a few times in the past so a solid reasoning would be nice.
 
Sphenisciologist said:
Saint Louis is great but I think it could be slightly larger for the amount of birds it holds. I think it’s pretty high.
Milwaukees exhibit is not impressive, it doesn’t have anything unique to it and the water pool is too small.
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Yes, but Saint Louis' exhibit is easily the most engaging exhibit - you're right there with the birds. From a visitor's standpoint it is by far the best.
Sphenisciologist said:
Not to sound rude but could you elaborate on why you think this? You’ve hinted it a few times in the past so a solid reasoning would be nice.
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It doesn't really do anything unique aside from just being big.
 
Jaxson said:
Is Seaworld Orlando top of this list now that it has the emperors
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Not necessarily, I wouldn’t rank an exhibit higher purely because they have a rare species. Having a unique species census does give an exhibit a cutting edge, but overall husbandry quality and habitat upkeep always comes before that.

I have also been wanting to do this for a while and I think with the upcoming closure of SeaWorld San Diego’s Penguin Encounter, it’s a good time to state that I would like to make a thread or update this current one, reviewing the countries various subantarctic penguin exhibits in a more intuitive manner than how I initially started this thread off a few years back, and only consider indoor cooled habitats. I would like to do exhibit descriptions in a similar fashion to threads reviewing the top exhibits in the country and what not, rather than just listing which ones I think are better, as was done earlier here. Whether I’d rank them or just go through the benefits of each and my preferences is still up in the air because subantarctic penguins exhibits are pretty homogeneous across the country, but its still an idea that I’d like to explore. I don’t know if it would be appropriate to make a new thread, but I wanted to make it known that it’s something I’d like to start working on soon. If anyone is curious in helping, feel free to reach out to me.
 
Random question but are there any facilities (in/out of the U.S) that only keep one sub-Antarctic species in exhibit (e.g. a solo King Penguin exhibit meaning no other species) that are just not banded penguins and little blues?
 
peruvianbirdie said:
Random question but are there any facilities (in/out of the U.S) that only keep one sub-Antarctic species in exhibit (e.g. a solo King Penguin exhibit meaning no other species) that are just not banded penguins and little blues?
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Wonders of Wildlife in Springfield, Missouri has an Antarctic exhibit with Gentoos only. Loveland Living Planet Aquarium used to be the same way with only Gentoos but they obtained a few Macaronis earlier this year. Southern Rockhoppers are kept in single species habitats at Fort Worth Zoo and New England Aquarium, but they’re more unconventional than your typical Antarctic/cold-weathered penguin habitat.
There are more facilities that only keep single-species Antarctic/subantarctic exhibits in Europe and Asia.
 
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