San Diego Zoo Safari Park San Diego Zoo Safari Park News 2022

A male generic giraffe calf was born on August 29th to third time mom, Siri. He is the third generic giraffe calf born at the Safari Park this year and has been getting along very well with all the other giraffes in the group including Msituni, one of the female calves born earlier this year. The park now has 1.7 giraffes (4 adult females, an adolescent female, and the 1.2 calves).
 
Just visited the park 2 days ago for a small amount of time, any birds in their open air exhibits have been removed with signs explaining about HPAI. As for birds you can see, it’s any enclosed bird exhibits such as the Condors, Wings of the World walkthrough Aviary, and the smaller aviaries throughout the park.

Also, there are 5-6 new springbok fawn in the South Africa field habitat :)
 
On October 3rd, the zoo announced they transferred (0.0.60+) desert tortoises to The Living Desert Zoo & Gardens in California for a headstart program.

A second chance for tiny torts. | Scientists from San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance were called in to transfer endangered desert tortoise hatchlings from their outdoor headstarting habitats... | By San Diego Zoo Safari Park | Facebook

On October 7th, the zoo announced that (0.0.2) short-beaked echidnas named OJ and PJ hatched earlier in 2022.

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Great Argus said:
As I understand it their male is also due to leave. The current management is not interested in keeping them and for the present future the male will be their last.
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I was told by our tour guide in late September they were in the process of getting the current male a new girlfriend and had no intentions on stopping the black rhino program.
 
Nicholas LionRider said:
I was told by our tour guide in late September they were in the process of getting the current male a new girlfriend and had no intentions on stopping the black rhino program.
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Tour guides are not a reliable source in terms of population and species management, as has already been discussed in this thread on the previous page. From my current understanding of things, they will not be continuing with Black Rhino.
Tagging @Kudu21 since he may be able to clarify more than I can.
 
Great Argus said:
Tour guides are not a reliable source in terms of population and species management, as has already been discussed in this thread on the previous page. From my current understanding of things, they will not be continuing with Black Rhino.
Tagging @Kudu21 since he may be able to clarify more than I can.
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@Great Argus is correct -- Tour guides are generally not the most reliable sources of information about breeding and transfer plans nor animal management. Often times you get people in these positions who are young and very passionate about their job that get a little too zealous and make inferences that are not true.

It has been my understanding that the current management has no intention in continuing with black rhinoceros, deeming them "too difficult to manage" in the field exhibits. It would make little sense to break up an established pair with a breeding reccommendation to bring in another female and go through the difficult black rhinoceros introduction process (plus introducing her to the field exhibit and all that that involves) all over again.

The new management has gone back on some earlier decision, this is true; however, given the source of the information and the background information available, I would not hold my breath to see the park continue with this species.
 
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