Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles zoo

Writhedhornbill

Writhedhornbill

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Los Angeles zoo is located in Griffith Park. It has many rare species such as Mountain Tapirs ( A personal favourite of mine) And bald uakaris ( rare in zoos). At the Moment the zoo is in a mess. There is a lot of construction work which makes you feel like your more at a building site than a world famous zoo.
 
I didn't even realise Los Angeles had a zoo!

Otherwise I would have visited last time I was there (did a road trip: Los Angeles -> San Diego -> Phoenix -> Grand Canyon -> Las Vegas -> Los Angeles)
 
interestingly of the few mountain tapirs in captivity, all are decended from a brother/sister pair at the LA zoo. this species is endangered, but of the few kept in zoos, they appear to thrive as well as the other tapir species. its a prime example of a potentially very benificial breeding program suffering from the lack of founders. hopefully the american zoos will negotiate to aquire valuble new stock from peru...be it from the wild or some little obscure zoo we have never heard of..
 
The amount of zoos with them has grown dramatically. It started with a pair at LA and now there are 4 possible breeding groups. The newest is in San Francisco.
 
more zoos for Sim

Hey Sim ,
There is a smaller zoo at Santa Ana ( not far from Disneyland ) , and Phoenix has a zoo , and there is the Southern Nevada Zoo at Las Vegas as well
 
I went for a talk last night by the director of Barraquia zoo in columbia. She has spent many years changing what was a dismal grotty torture hose into a paradise for animals. They have spent many years funding conservation for the cotton top tamarin and parrots suffering from the pet trade.
She also mentionedd that there was a captive breeding programme for the mountain tapir. This programme is co-ordinated by the los angeles zoo.
 
those pics there are nice, but when u watch video footage etc, its realy i thought very avergae, for 20 mill, it still has the unsightly huge mock rock flat wall at the rear of the exhibit.

though i would still love to see it in person.
 
I watched the videos and the exhibit looks pretty good. But the price tag seems a bit high for an enclosure of that size/complexity.

I love how the gorillas waste no time in destroying the foliage, despite the hot wire grass in place.
 
i beleive there is 2 exhibits, a bachelor, and group one, with f cousre sunsequent behind scences holdings.
 
Just a question, does anyone know what exactly the status is of the bald uakari's at Los Angeles Zoo. Since they are not on the animal pages of the site, i would presume they might have been taken behind the scenes? I've read an article a while back in IZN that they had an older pair that didn't seem to mate and then imported two young females to go with them and try and breed from them.

Does anyone know whether they are all still alive and whether they are visable to the public? Does anyone have photo's of their enclosure or the animals themselves?

I only just missed the two white uakari's in Cologne (they both just died when i went there :( ) and now i'm curious at the red uakari's at LA...
 
jwer said:
Just a question, does anyone know what exactly the status is of the bald uakari's at Los Angeles Zoo. Since they are not on the animal pages of the site, i would presume they might have been taken behind the scenes? I've read an article a while back in IZN that they had an older pair that didn't seem to mate and then imported two young females to go with them and try and breed from them.

Does anyone know whether they are all still alive and whether they are visable to the public? Does anyone have photo's of their enclosure or the animals themselves?

I only just missed the two white uakari's in Cologne (they both just died when i went there :( ) and now i'm curious at the red uakari's at LA...
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The group of red uakari are back stage mainly because the male uakari is aggressive toward male humans, so they only have female zookeepers for them. It is planned to build them a new exhibit in the new South American Rainforest exhibit, but since the male is aggressive they will put them as a background exhibit behind the new jaguar exhibit. By them being background they are still going to be visible and will also make it look as if it is a real rainforest because of the predator and prey concept. This is still an idea, so it's not comfirmed yet.

The red uakari are still visible through the perimeter road by the outside entrance to the south america area. If you look up to the right coming from the aviary or if you look to your left coming from the bird show.
 
Found a picture that might interest some...

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Philippine monkey-eating eagle
 
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Does anyone happen to have a "list" of planned, dicussed and confirmed species that will be within RainForests of The Americas?
 
Zoogoer2000 said:
Does anyone happen to have a "list" of planned, dicussed and confirmed species that will be within RainForests of The Americas?
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The only confirmed species are the Giant Otters. Other than that I'm not sure as they are still going through the design phase.
 
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