Don’t worry, San Diego still has them and they’re probably temporary off exhibit and will probably return sometime sooner or later
I wonder if the San Diego Zoo will be getting new female gorillas for the exhibit?
Most likely it will remain a bachelors group while the Safari Park will have the breeding group.
Ive heard this is temporary and the De Brazzas Monkeys will return shortly.
Not surprised but a shame to hear. I know it was discussed a few pages back that San Diego looks to be phasing out the species. Do we know what will happen to their enclosure?
There is still the troop of Angolan colobus in the exhibit that also held the last black crested mangabeys, which is the old lion-tailed macaque exhibit in Sun Bear Forest. The old black crested mangabey exhibit across from the bonobos that is being referenced by @Jambo has, indeed, held the Zoo's second South African vervet troop for quite awhile now. This move occurred after the Zoo's last breeding age black-crested mangabeys were moved out to other institutions.
I think that depends on your definition of "major rarity". If we look at primates with 10 or less holders, they house blue-eyed black lemur, bonobo, gelada, lesser spot-nosed guenon, silvery langur, South African vervet, and Wolf's mona monkey.
Does the polar bear renovations include bringing new polar bears to the zoo within a few years or are they planning to wait for their current three senior bears to pass?
Kind of sad that the zoo's last Red Panda passed away, now the zoo as of right now is Red Panda-less, hopefully they’ll get Red Pandas again sooner or later probably once the Asian Passage renovation is finished and they can have them by the Giant Pandas.
Hope the San Diego Zoo doesn’t phase out the Andean Bears like they’re doing with the Sun Bears. Maybe they can relocate the Andean Bears to Elephant Odyssey to represent the Short-Faced Bears and they can move the Grizzly Bears to the Polar Plunge area and build a new exhibit for them if they phase out the Bear Grottoes.
The Zoo is not without red pandas. 0.1 "Adira" is still at the Zoo and living in the exhibit across from the first giant panda exhibit in Panda Ridge.
I would be surprised if the Zoo ends up maintaining all five non-phase-out bear species long-term. There just really is not enough space to maintain proper exhibits for all of them. They seem very committed to giant pandas, polar bears, and sloth bears, but I could see the fate of the Andean and grizzly bears being up in the air looking ahead. Bear Canyon and Urban Jungle are pretty much set to be the next major renovations at the Zoo, but I think that, especially, with a new CEO coming in eventually, a lot of what the future of the Zoo will look like will be up in the air. I wouldn't be surprised to see some shake ups of other areas, too.
