mweb08
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Ok, well I'd add a new exhibit there for them. There is enough space.
San Diego Zoo How would you improve SDZ?
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Ok, well I'd add a new exhibit there for them. There is enough space.
Yeah, its interesting the zoo actually has plenty of space but its going to cost to demolish lots of stuff. While the park has plenty of undeveloped areas for new exhibits.
mweb08, would you tear down Bear Canyon and turn it into an extended Sun Bear Forest and put the binturongs there?
What would be cool if they had a Sloth Bear Forest, Sun Bear Forest, then Giant Panda Forest. Three Asian forests where the center species are bears; that would be unique.
mweb08
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I would only tear down the beginning of bear canyon to fit binturongs, clouded leopards, and a couple more primate species. Plus maybe anoa and the sloth bear as you mentioned. Like you said, there's already an empty exhibit in SBF which can take one of the species other than the last two, but there's also some free space on the same side of the trail as the langur/gibbon enclosure. There's some open space as you leave SBF where they have those foot massagers and the open grass area that I don't see used much at all.
Ah yeah the grass lawn is now for "Ayers Rock" rock climbing. I dislike it severely/hate it, it seems like a waste of space and money to have that place. No one goes to the zoo to do rock climbing. They should turn that place into a perhaps a small deer enclosure or ape enclosure or keep it as a lawn for a picnic area.
You know how the San Diego Zoo can improve? If they start rotating their Gorilla Families DAILY instead of every other day
It's so annoying Or even better, make TWO gorilla exhibits, for each troop
It's so annoying Or even better, make TWO gorilla exhibits, for each troopI don't see why a zoo would build two gorilla exhibits when it already has one good one in place. As for the rotation, it would probably be better if the zoo sent one of the troops to another zoo so they could have there own exhibit. Several other zoos already have plans for new gorilla exhibits. I'd say most of the Lost Forest area of the zoo is already pretty good considering it's latest renovations in the past 50 years such as Gorilla Tropics, Monkey Trails, Tiger River, Ituri Forest. Only changes I would make is to make some of the exhibits more natural with added foliage.
Question: Does anyone else feel that the SDZ tries to avoid foliage in their enclosures? Like lots of areas are lushly planted and then the exhibit is just dirt and some trees. Why is that?
Question: Does anyone else feel that the SDZ tries to avoid foliage in their enclosures? Like lots of areas are lushly planted and then the exhibit is just dirt and some trees. Why is that?
It is because the animal inhabitants destroy the foliage (at zoos all over, not just SD). When Ituri Forest first opened, the large monkey exhibit had leafy trees but soon they ate all the leaves so now it has barren tree limbs. When Sun Bear Forest first opened there was grass throughout the bear enclosure, but they destroyed it so now it is just concrete. (Same thing happened at my zoo when we got visayan warty pigs - it took them about one week to turn a lush grass exhibit into a dirt/mud pile).
I figured that but how is it that some enclosures are always lush like Woodland Park Zoo's enclosures while others aren't? Maybe there isn't enough environment enrichment for the animals?