Parque de Cotia (new zoo in São Paulo)

David Matos Mendes said:
I would support myself on the possibilities of most of these being part of the collection. Maybe not initially, but they do have the ressources to do such as the park grows even more. This place brings high expectations in therms of collection indeed... That's no doubt.
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yeah, they have a great potential of having new species that were once held in brazilian zoos, and bring new species to brazil.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
I have no idea about their opening date, but if I had to guess, I'd say they'll open before everything is finished, just like Bioparque do Rio. If there are expansions to happen, they might take place with the zoo and park already working.

About the enclosures near the gorilla exhibit, they are supposed to be for cheetah and spotted hyena, according to the map they have previously released. That lighthouse enclosure near the rhinos is supposed to hold white pelicans, and one of the aviaries in front is already holding flamingos, afaik.

Talking about the gorilla exhibit, there's no such a thing as a perfect size. Theoretically, the bigger it is, the better. Of course, it's a zoo, so animals should be visible at some point, even though they should have spots to hide whenever they want. If you check our enclosure for said animals here in Belo Horizonte, it's not extremely big (2000m2) yet it's pretty suitable for them. So it is that they have bred four times in less than ten years together. Enrichment and vegetation has a huge role in my opinion. Also, we're not sure the Animalia is indeed gonna keep gorillas; these are very difficult animals to obtain and they haven't contacted BH zoo so far. Let's wait and see...

On the regard of elephants, I have heard they were initially the main focus of the Animalia park (so it was that it was to be named as "Parque dos elefantes" until a certain point) but they no longer intend to keep them, at least not for now. They are about to receive five giraffes, but I have no idea when that would happen; and about the pandas, I have absolutely no information.
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i bet they were going to receive south african giraffes.
 
Matrin71 said:
from what I followed through the drone images and through the park workers the hyena and cheetah enclosure are the ones above the gorilla, the enclosure that has the lighthouse are for sea lions, the gorilla enclosure is the largest enclosure next to the rhinos, and the flamingo enclosure according to the map is where it is marked "exotic birds", the pelicans I believe is one next to the hyenas (but I'm not sure). I mentioned are being built next to the gorilla, a place where it used to be empty.
according to the workers and the map, they will indeed have gorillas and by the amount of information that has already been confirmed, I do believe that they will have gorillas no matter how difficult it is.
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also have you heard they will also keep nile crocodiles and colobus monkeys?
 
David Matos Mendes said:
I have no idea about their opening date, but if I had to guess, I'd say they'll open before everything is finished, just like Bioparque do Rio. If there are expansions to happen, they might take place with the zoo and park already working.

About the enclosures near the gorilla exhibit, they are supposed to be for cheetah and spotted hyena, according to the map they have previously released. That lighthouse enclosure near the rhinos is supposed to hold white pelicans, and one of the aviaries in front is already holding flamingos, afaik.

Talking about the gorilla exhibit, there's no such a thing as a perfect size. Theoretically, the bigger it is, the better. Of course, it's a zoo, so animals should be visible at some point, even though they should have spots to hide whenever they want. If you check our enclosure for said animals here in Belo Horizonte, it's not extremely big (2000m2) yet it's pretty suitable for them. So it is that they have bred four times in less than ten years together. Enrichment and vegetation has a huge role in my opinion. Also, we're not sure the Animalia is indeed gonna keep gorillas; these are very difficult animals to obtain and they haven't contacted BH zoo so far. Let's wait and see...

On the regard of elephants, I have heard they were initially the main focus of the Animalia park (so it was that it was to be named as "Parque dos elefantes" until a certain point) but they no longer intend to keep them, at least not for now. They are about to receive five giraffes, but I have no idea when that would happen; and about the pandas, I have absolutely no information.
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well, i hope they still can be able to bring elephants to the park, if they bring, probably will be the asian elephant or maybe the african elephant.
 
About giraffes and elephants, I don't have further info. The truth is elephant transportation is incredibly expensive, so I'm not sure if they'll think about doing such acquisitions soon...

Giraffes should have arrived until the inauguration though, as far as I know.
 
BetoYoung said:
also have you heard they will also keep nile crocodiles and colobus monkeys?
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yes i heard about the colobus and the crocodile. the aquarium of são paulo has three colobus so I don't know if they are really going to transfer them or acquire new ones. the kangaroos, meerkats and lemurs I believe have already been transferred from there, because I went a few months ago and the enclosures had a smaller amount of animals than they used to have.
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BetoYoung said:
well, i hope they still can be able to bring elephants to the park, if they bring, probably will be the asian elephant or maybe the african elephant.
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I believe they will have it, the only thing I have doubts about is where their enclosure will be, because they are very large animals that need a lot of space and there does not seem to be any enclosure with the necessary space for them
 
Matrin71 said:
I believe they will have it, the only thing I have doubts about is where their enclosure will be, because they are very large animals that need a lot of space and there does not seem to be any enclosure with the necessary space for them
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I higly suspect they have given up the elephants for now. Maybe in the future they build another enclosure to keep them, but who knows...
 
David Matos Mendes said:
I have heard about the colobus monkeys. I think they're gonna transfer the ones they keep in the aquarium. No info about the nile crocs though...
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well, remember the play na diversao site that showed a selection of slides? so, one of photos shows animals that park should have like elephants, lions, crocs, giraffes, kangaroos, giant pandas. but if there aren't any, so sorry about that.
 
BetoYoung said:
well, remember the play na diversao site that showed a selection of slides? so, one of photos shows animals that park should have like elephants, lions, crocs, giraffes, kangaroos, giant pandas. but if there aren't any, so sorry about that.
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I know. I remember those photos. I just think those animals might take a little bit more to join the collection... Some they haven't even started to contact institutions to acquire, such as gorillas, for example.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
About giraffes and elephants, I don't have further info. The truth is elephant transportation is incredibly expensive, so I'm not sure if they'll think about doing such acquisitions soon...

Giraffes should have arrived until the inauguration though, as far as I know.
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Do you know where the giraffes are coming from? From the controversial import that was made by Bioparque Rio?
 
arafan said:
Do you know where the giraffes are coming from? From the controversial import that was made by Bioparque Rio?
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No, not those giraffes. Cotia park never had any relation to those imports, and afaik they're gonna obtain their individuals from European zoos.
 
BetoYoung said:
Booyah. I bet all animals will already be in the park, but will the park be totally finished?
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I think it won't be all finished, mainly because they acquired this land recently, they will probably expand the park after it opens as time goes on.
but let's follow it, there's still three months until then
 
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