Best and worst local zoo exhibits

Como Zoo
Best: Poler bears, tropical encounters.
Worst: Aquatics

Hemker Park and zoo.
Best: Rhino, Red Panda
Worst: Blue Bellied Roller


Minnesota Zoo
Best: Tiger, Takin, Grizzly Bear, etc (More or less the whole zoo is good)
Worst: Red River Hog


SEA LIFE Minnesota
Best: Main tunnels
Worst: Camion.
 
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Best: African Elephant Crossing, followed by Asian Highlands, Rosebrough Tiger Passage, the RainForest, Australian Adventure
Worst: Primate, Cat and Aquatics Building

Akron Zoo
Best: Pride of Africa, Wild Asia
Worst: Can't really think of anything that would be the worst.
 
Since Cleveland is working on updating my two worst exhibits (Bear grottos at the moment and primates in the future), I figured I'd redo my list.

Best:
RainForest Entrance and Tropical Island
Always gives off Disney vibes in a good way
Elephant Crossing
Anything is better than the old elephant exhibit
Asian Highlands
The leopards and pandas are always a delight to watch
Tiger Passage
Always a joy looking up and seeing the tigers above you
Giraffe Exhibit
What can I say? I'm a sucker for giraffes
Wolf Wilderness Lodge
While having a simple wolf exhibit, the theming/pond exhibit makes up for it

Worst:
Gorillas [Current Exhibit]
Thankfully going to be upgraded soon with Primate Forest. While the outdoor exhibit isn't awful, it certainly isn't great. Same can't be say for the indoor exhibit.
Seal Pool
This exhibit needed to be taken out a long time ago, preferably when Asian Highland was built. The poor seals barely have any space for swimming and in all the times I've been I've never once seen them use their waterfall pool.
Former Polar Bear Grotto
Now home to Grizzly, Black and temporarily Sloth Bears, this exhibit is 90% mock-rock.

Honorable Mention
Koalas.
The exhibit's very nice, and it's for koalas. It's not one of the landmark exhibits but it's still extremely nice.

Dishonorable Mention
Lions
Another grotto-type exhibit
 
Toronto Zoo
Best -> In my totally honest opinion, I find the Olive Baboon and African Penguins have the best enclosures in the whole place.
Worst -> I don't know... I like most of the exhibits, but I think until the outdoor Orangutan bit is done the Orangutan habitat is my least favourite.
Elephants and Alligators said:
Best: African velvit (what can I say that hasn't already been said?)
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Question... what's an African velvit?
 
Van Beal said:
Toronto Zoo
Best -> In my totally honest opinion, I find the Olive Baboon and African Penguins have the best enclosures in the whole place.
Worst -> I don't know... I like most of the exhibits, but I think until the outdoor Orangutan bit is done the Orangutan habitat is my least favourite.

Question... what's an African velvit?
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I think they meant to say African Veldt :p.
 
Philadelphia Zoo
Best: I'd say McNeil Avian Center but most of it is still blocked off. I'll probably give it to Big Cat Falls or the Reptile and Amphibian House, which both make the best of relatively limited space.

Worst: A lot of people dislike PECO Primate Reserve, but its exhibits are very functional and the new nocturnal wing makes it a bit more distinct. My pick is the Rare Animal Conservation Center, which is nothing more than a straight hall of small indoor habitats which has also lost many of its most interesting residents (like the dwarf mongoose). The elephant shrews are really the only exciting thing here. Dishonorable mention to the giraffe, zebra, and rhino grottoes.
 
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Best: The habitat for Shadow (adult grizzly bear).
Worst: Pick your big cat habitat. They’re probably fine but they’ve never sat well with me, the current cougar habitat especially.

Vancouver Aquarium
Best: Straight of Georgia, with an honourable mention to the former golden toad habitat.
Worst: the only outdoor pool the seals/sea lions were in while the cetaceans were around.
 
Milwaukee County Zoo
Best: Aviary

Worst: Pachyderm Paddocks

Racine Zoo
Best: Walkabout Creek

Worst: Orangutan
 
BDrop said:
Worst: Pachyderm Paddocks
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What pachyderm paddocks? The elephants and hippos have good outdoor yards, and there aren’t any rhinos at the moment (unless you count yaks as pachyderms, which they aren’t). If you mean the indoor stalls, I totally agree with you. They remind me of an indoor pool you’d see at a high school or something.
 
Corangurilla said:
What pachyderm paddocks? The elephants and hippos have good outdoor yards, and there aren’t any rhinos at the moment (unless you count yaks as pachyderms, which they aren’t). If you mean the indoor stalls, I totally agree with you. They remind me of an indoor pool you’d see at a high school or something.
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By pachyderm, they may have been referring to the gorillas (according to your definition of pachyderm from the hot takes thread, that is ;))
 
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BURGERS' ZOO
best: burgers' bush
worst: reindeer exhibit (which is currently being remodelled, so hopefully not the worst soon)

AVIFAUNA
best: lake roundwalk
worst: vulture aviaries

APENHEUL
best: lemur area
worst: bonobo exhibit (they don't really have any bad ones, but this is imo the worst, i think they can present it better, maybe i'm biased since i don't like bonobos/chimpanzees)
 
I'm talking about the indoor enclosures for the rhinos, and hippos. The outdoor enclosures for those 2 are great but the indoor enclosures, which one of the hippos spends almost all of her time in, are pretty bad.
 
St Augustine Alligator Farm

Best: World of crocs, African birds

Worst: Outdoor reticulated python, Gabon viper


St Augustine Aquarium

Best: Main coral reef tank.

Worst: Nurse sharks
 
Memphis Zoo-
Best: Really hard to pick. Lot's of contenders including Cat Country, The Northwest Passage, Teton Trek, and the Zambezi Hippo Camp
Worst: I have to go with the African Veldt. It's way out of date.

Little Rock Zoo-
Best: Their primate exhibit but that's not saying much.
Worst: Pretty much all of it :(
 
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