tigertiger
Well-Known Member
A few things that I learned on my visit to the zoo today (I'm unemployed and a member, I go a lot):
a. They're hoping their female polar bear is pregnant after breeding activity last week.
b. I still can't manage to see the orangs. If anyone happens to know why, that would be great.
c. I noticed this the other week but the Tayra and Fossa exhibits switched and I couldn't understand why. Today, it made sense: the zoo is now exhibiting a highly active pair! (Presumably, a breeding pair)
d. I was in the Cat House today (yes, that Cat House) while a zoo planning committee of specialist was going through and I overheard a few wonderful plans for the building. Firstly, it seems they agree with many of you and want to give many of the cats larger environments. They also want to spruce the general interior with more natural vegetation so that it's not a dark, dense building. They want to switch the route of the building (so that the entrance is what is now the exit), and connect and revamp many of the spaces and turn the building more into a small carnivore home (presumably because of the zoos larger plans for cats..). In the present carcal exhibit, they are planning fennec foxes. There was talk of combining the Geoffrey cat and tayra exhibit to make way for a large bearcat exhibit, better digs for the fossa and to put a oncilla where the fossa presently are. Spruce up the pallas cat exhibits, add a snake exhibit where the black-footed presently is, give more space to the clouded leopard (and more sprucing to keep the cat in the eye of visitors), and a new fishing cat exhibit.
Thought that was interesting.
e. Cincinnati won't be actively breeding gorillas anymore.
a. They're hoping their female polar bear is pregnant after breeding activity last week.
b. I still can't manage to see the orangs. If anyone happens to know why, that would be great.
c. I noticed this the other week but the Tayra and Fossa exhibits switched and I couldn't understand why. Today, it made sense: the zoo is now exhibiting a highly active pair! (Presumably, a breeding pair)
d. I was in the Cat House today (yes, that Cat House) while a zoo planning committee of specialist was going through and I overheard a few wonderful plans for the building. Firstly, it seems they agree with many of you and want to give many of the cats larger environments. They also want to spruce the general interior with more natural vegetation so that it's not a dark, dense building. They want to switch the route of the building (so that the entrance is what is now the exit), and connect and revamp many of the spaces and turn the building more into a small carnivore home (presumably because of the zoos larger plans for cats..). In the present carcal exhibit, they are planning fennec foxes. There was talk of combining the Geoffrey cat and tayra exhibit to make way for a large bearcat exhibit, better digs for the fossa and to put a oncilla where the fossa presently are. Spruce up the pallas cat exhibits, add a snake exhibit where the black-footed presently is, give more space to the clouded leopard (and more sprucing to keep the cat in the eye of visitors), and a new fishing cat exhibit.
Thought that was interesting.
e. Cincinnati won't be actively breeding gorillas anymore.
