King of Komodo Dragons
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San Diego Zoo Safari Park has also had breeding success with echidnas, with I believe 4 born since 2020
Brookfield Zoo Brookfield Zoo News 2024
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True, as I found out.
2020 first hatching / puggle (estimated hatching at February 2022, 14th.The parents of the first hatching were male Shaw and female Orange. This one died in 2021, I believe ...
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San Diego Zoo Safari Park Celebrates First-ever Echidna Puggle Hatching
San Diego Safari held 4.3 in 2022. That same year another 2 echidnas hatched to 2 different females Pink and Orange! The media alert notes 5.2 adults + 2 puggles for that year.
LINK:
Two Snuggly Puggles
I'm always glad to hear about puggles and I'm definitely impressed to see first-time breeding with such impressively older animals. The echidnas are one of my favorites for Brookfield and I hope if breeding continues some new holders may join the program. They're wonderful animals and don't seem terribly demanding.
A good question and certainly one that needs to be asked and investigated!
BTW: The breeding pair had previously produced an offspring at Philadelphia Zoo in 2008. Their puggle is actually M Kapi. Kapi was actually the first echidna to arrive in recent times at Chicago Brookfield. The breeding pair only arrived from Philadelphia in 2016.
NOTE: I also found out that a significant portion (ca. 43%, when looking at the status in 2022) of the current short-beaked echidna population in the USA is now in the 30-55 age range. However, the population in the 0-5 age class is 19% and the 6-15 age class is 38%.
Perhaps all this warrants its own thread, but then on a global scale (including Europe, Australia and Papua/Indonesia).
Echidnas and Pangolins, being the most successful breeders in the zoo.
Flamingo chicks hatch:
Brookfield Zoo welcomes 4 baby flamingos
Two chicks hatched on July 26, a third on July 28 and the youngest hatched on August 7.
Their genders are yet to be determined and the zoo says they are currently under the care of staff and housed behind the scenes.
Brookfield Zoo welcomes 4 baby flamingos
Two chicks hatched on July 26, a third on July 28 and the youngest hatched on August 7.
Their genders are yet to be determined and the zoo says they are currently under the care of staff and housed behind the scenes.
King of Komodo Dragons
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So I visited the park today, will mostly say some smaller things I noticed:
There's now 3 Greater Prairie Chickens in the Aviary, still no males but they're growing in numbers
This is the first time I have seen all the monkeys together in the SA section of Tropic World, the Capuchins were very interesting to finally see
There were three ducks in the first exhibit in the swamp, two I can confirm are Ringed Teals, but the third one I couldn't tell what it is, and there aren't signs for them yet
Speaking of the Swamp, the Tree Frog Exhibit from Australia is in here now, nothing has been put in it yet but I'm just surprised it's there
There's now 3 Greater Prairie Chickens in the Aviary, still no males but they're growing in numbers
This is the first time I have seen all the monkeys together in the SA section of Tropic World, the Capuchins were very interesting to finally see
There were three ducks in the first exhibit in the swamp, two I can confirm are Ringed Teals, but the third one I couldn't tell what it is, and there aren't signs for them yet
Speaking of the Swamp, the Tree Frog Exhibit from Australia is in here now, nothing has been put in it yet but I'm just surprised it's there
Look tab the timing, another pangolin born. It makes sense why they want to make a bigger exhibit in the African expansion in the future if the species is thriving well within the last few years.
I flew into Chicago for several big meetings but they were cancelled, so I thought I would go to the Brookfield Zoo tomorrow.
I saw an active pangolin at the Memphis Zoo a few years ago but would love to see one again. The feeding is typically around 3:30 so what time should I be in the building by? If I walk around there is there a chance I would miss it? I don't know the building's layout so I'm not sure.
Also does anyone have advise for seeing the following:
small-spotted genets
black-and-rufous elephant shrews
pachyderms
short-beaked echidnas
southern hairy-nosed wombats
crested capuchins
giant anteater in Tropic World
I am particularly looking forward to seeing The Living Coast and the smaller two pachyderm species.
I saw an active pangolin at the Memphis Zoo a few years ago but would love to see one again. The feeding is typically around 3:30 so what time should I be in the building by? If I walk around there is there a chance I would miss it? I don't know the building's layout so I'm not sure.
Also does anyone have advise for seeing the following:
small-spotted genets
black-and-rufous elephant shrews
pachyderms
short-beaked echidnas
southern hairy-nosed wombats
crested capuchins
giant anteater in Tropic World
I am particularly looking forward to seeing The Living Coast and the smaller two pachyderm species.
I'd get there around ten minutes ahead of time. It doesn't always happen exactly at 3:30 so you may have to linger for a bit. The exhibit is across from the elephant shrews, separated by a cloth curtain to keep the light out.
You'll just have to get lucky when it comes to the anteater, capuchins and sengis. The inhabitants of Tropic World South America aren't always out together at the same time and the sengis often have access to their off-exhibit quarters, so your mileage may very. The genet is most active either first thing in the morning or before closing in the evening. You shouldn't have any issues seeing the echidnas or wombat, and the pachyderms should all be visible outside.
I haven't seen the wombat since 2019! I think it's a hoax!
I didn't know they still had an anteater, I haven't seen it in years.
Sengis are almost always out in early afternoon.
Never seen the genet.
Echidnas are always visible, usually active, though the light is very poor.
I've only seen the black rhinoceros and the pygmy hippo at pachyderm house this year. Do they still have capybara, tapir?
I didn't know they still had an anteater, I haven't seen it in years.
Sengis are almost always out in early afternoon.
Never seen the genet.
Echidnas are always visible, usually active, though the light is very poor.
I've only seen the black rhinoceros and the pygmy hippo at pachyderm house this year. Do they still have capybara, tapir?
Yeah, the echidnas are always out and about, they love their exhibits. However, the Wombat always is just leaving or entering whenever I get to their exhibit, I get the impression it might be easy to miss them. There is a bit of rockwork at the back of their exhibit they can get behind to be out of view.
Can confirm from my last visit, they still have the tapir and capybara. But come at the time when things are less hot, the latter is known to walk indoors if they can't stay cool.
First of all, best of luck and hope you have a wonderful visit! Look forward to your thoughts.
The Habitat Africa - The Forest building is small; if you hang by the crocodile you might not quite see what's going on around the corner, but once you turn away from the crocodiles, everything is pretty visible at once. When waiting for the pangolin I've been able to watch the duiker, okapi, and sengi enclosure (not in use at the time) without losing sight of the pangolin area. My last visit to that exhibit, the keeper did announce himself before entering the bts area to start the feeding. I'd probably recommend being there a little before 3:30 -- it's usually about that time but does occasionally dip early. The sengi are right across from the pangolin so if they're visible you should see them!
The echidnas are very show and easily seen. There is usually one in the day room exhibit and two or three in the nocturnal area. The wombat are across from the echidna and somewhat more shy. I probably recommend doing Australia and Desert's Edge at the beginning and/or end of the day for your best shots at seeing the wombat and the genet, who I had really good luck with one one visit and missed on a subsequent trip. The genet is near the sand cat and beat-eared foxes if that helps in any way, although unlike the above examples you can't really view multiple species at the same time.
Tropic World: South America is not super consistent and for a while seemed empty every time I visited, but on my last visit I did see the anteater, tufted capuchins, squirrel monkey, sloth and spider monkeys all out at the same time; the crested had not arrived yet. This was around 1:20p in the afternoon if that is any help.
The pachyderms should be easy, I see the tapir and pygmy hippopotamus on almost every single visit. They are both in large enclosures though so may be a distance away. Banana (pygmy hippo) is a pretty active individual and there are two tapirs right now even if one or the other is not active. The capybara and a single black rhinoceros are also still present, but the capybara can often be missed. The interior of Pachyderm House is closed to the public now and some of the former exhibits are fenced.
I hope some of this helps.
Thank you both.
Wasn't there a baby wombat a few years ago? Is there only one now?
I will be going to Desert's Edge and Australia first. I was hoping to be at Tropic World around 1:30 as it was so that might end up working better than expected.
Is the dolphin presentation worth seeing?
USZOOfan42
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There is just one wombat currently, I visited at 10:30 at it was very active.
I haven't done a dolpin show in several years and definitely not since the reno. To my memory they were following the trend of it becoming a "here's how we train them to participate in their care" show. Certainly interesting but might not be worth it scheduling wise.
I'm not sure about the wombats but even when they were reported to have multiple, I don't think they ever had more than one on display at once. Mia is the only remaining wombat as far as I know. Her mother Kambora passed early last year. I am unsure what happened to her father Darryl. There were nine southern hairy nosed wombats in the US when Mia was born in 2017.
I don't think I've ever missed the wombat. I'm usually in the Australia House late in the day, around 4 or 5.