Toronto Zoo Exhibits!!

Welcome to the fourm! The public opening for the Tundra Trek is on August 1. Check out the link below to see if you would like to participate in the Tundra Trek Photo Contest.

http://www.zoochat.com/223/tundra-trek-photo-competition-90298/

If you could for future posting, post you questions/comments in relevent threads.
So for instance stuff about the Tundra Trek in the Tundra Trek from Beginning to End thread.
http://www.zoochat.com/223/tundra-trek-beginning-end-86480/

Thanks and welcome,
Quartz92.
 
As Ungulate once said, the male musk ox currently at Toronto Zoo is a hard to place animal as he is 15 years old, neteured and as said in previous posts... He has a tainted past

I think the supervisor you are all referring to is named Oliver Claffey. He is indeed a very nice man and he is a supervisor of Eurasia (I think?). I seen him on Zoo Diaries many times and have spoken with him a few times at TZ

The polar bear renovations (Tundra Trek) are scheduled to open August 1, 2009
 
Zoogoer2000 said:
I think the supervisor you are all referring to is named Oliver Claffey. He is indeed a very nice man and he is a supervisor of Eurasia (I think?). I seen him on Zoo Diaries many times and have spoken with him a few times at TZ.
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That name rings a bell, must have been him. I talk with him just about every evening there at TZ while I watch the snow leopard cubs.
 
tiffanyanddave said:
That name rings a bell, must have been him. I talk with him just about every evening there at TZ while I watch the snow leopard cubs.
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Yea I have seen him on Zoo Diaries a lot too, he is a very nice man indeed.
 
tiffanyanddave said:
That name rings a bell, must have been him. I talk with him just about every evening there at TZ while I watch the snow leopard cubs.
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About the snow leopard cubs, have they been named yet

If they have, I hope there names are a little more authentic than the 2007 litter (Maya and Kazi)
 
Zoogoer2000 said:
About the snow leopard cubs, have they been named yet

If they have, I hope there names are a little more authentic than the 2007 litter (Maya and Kazi)
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That was one thing that I did ask him. And no, the cubs have not been named yet. They are waiting for a few keepers to come back from vacations and so on, that way they all put in suggestions and they also do the vote themselves as to which names are picked. Apparently, things got a little heated over the naming of the snow leopard cubs last litter.
 
They should let the public name them! IMO. Tiffanyanddave, the next time you go to the zoo could you ask Oliver why the Babary Apes don't have water flowing through the exhibits. At the base of the hills there used to be a river.
 
The reason there is now water in the moats is becuase the zoo no longer houses the japanese macaques that used these moats. The barabary apes never use the water so there is no point
 
Wasn't the moat used as an enrichment item? I remember seeing on Zoo Diaries the keepers threw grapes in the moat, and the macaques had to go in and get them.
 
It is used as enrichment that episode was on today! The macaques also used it to swim without and grapes on warmer days.
 
While were ont he topic of that episode, does anyone know what ever happened to that baby muntjac (I'm guesssing it probably died) and who were the three cheetahs they were bringing in?
 
I'm completely clueless about the cheetahs. They were brought straight from africa right? The muntjac might have died, seeing he/she wasn't nursing very well. The zoo only has one muntjac left right?
 
None, the last muntjac died in the winter
 
I don't think the zoo was trying to phase out the muntjac's I think that they just couldn't find another mate. But then again I could be wrong.
 
Really? Oh, cuz I swear I remember reading on one of the other forums that they were a phase-out species.
 
The current phase out species as far as we know are the cape fur seal, musk ox, wisent, chamois, barbary sheep, scimitar horned oryx

There may be more though
 
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