North Carolina Zoo North Carolina Zoo - New Exhibits

Last I read, the zoo is in the planning phases of replacing the African pavilion with new animal exhibits. The talk of Asian exhibits are only in the assessment stages and any new exhibits from these findings are years away.
 
gerenuk said:
Last I read, the zoo is in the planning phases of replacing the African pavilion with new animal exhibits. The talk of Asian exhibits are only in the assessment stages and any new exhibits from these findings are years away.
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Yeah... I'd say a decade and more. It's not simply about additional exhibits, but rather extending the zoo to cover a new region.
 
In this document about the North Carolina Zoo exhibits it mentions that a new African aquatic exhibit is being designed to replace the old Africa Pavilion. Does anybody know what the status of that project is, if any, and what the exhibit might feature?
(http://www.nczoo.org/newsroom/PressKit/Exhibits.pdf)

Also, have any of North Carolina's elephants become pregnant in the 3 years since this thread last discussed that possibility?
 
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Hey Guys, I volunteer at the NC Zoo and have been doing so since 1996. If you have any questions maybe I can answer them or can get the info you. New here!
 
ucumari said:
Hey Guys, I volunteer at the NC Zoo and have been doing so since 1996. If you have any questions maybe I can answer them or can get the info you. New here!
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Perhaps as starters you may be able to elaborate on the zoo renovations in the last posting! Plus what is happening on the rhino and elephant front .. (Africa is well represented at NC). Some other Continents would be an added bonus.

Your ID is same to a zoo exhibit in a German zoo!
 
Lets see...we are planning a new outdoor exhibit for the ocelots, we have been trying for pregnancies in both the elephants and rhinos with no luck. We flew in specialists to do AI twice but still no luck. We are getting a new rhino from Texas (I believe it's San Antonio) and hopefully this will help.
The polar bear exhibit is slowly coming along. Wouldn't look for the opening for a minimum (optimistically) of a year, probably early 2015.
An FYI, we have two gorilla babies that just turned one year old. We have the largest baboon and chimp troops in the US, maybe world (?)
Anyone interested in photos of the zoo, have a look here:
Collection: North Carolina Zoological Park
The name "ucumari" is the Andean bears name in local vernacular. It translates to bear with mystical powers. There was one at the National Zoo that I fell for hard. She passed away a few years ago. At the time she was the second oldest in US captivity.
Bandit (Andean Bear) - a set on Flickr
We are looking into starting an Asia continent exhibit but being state run funds are nearly impossible to obtain for capital improvements
Hope everyone has a great Sunday!
 
If the NC Zoo absolutely cannot exhibit Polar Bears in their new expanded enclosure, then I think they should move their Grizzly Bears there. In my opinion, their current Grizzly exhibit is the only exhibit that I feel lags behind every other of the NC Zoo's exhibits (sans the Ocelot in the Sonora Desert) in terms of quality. Plus, I really can't think of any other Arctic/sub-arctic animals that are suited for the exhibit.

Also, I had no idea the Zoo was planning an outdoor Ocelot exhibit.

And I may ask: what is to become of the African Pavilion? It has been mostly devoid of animals save for a Trumpeter Hornbill and possibly a Dwarf Crocodile (there was something in the former Dwarf Croc enclosure, I may upload a picture later) for years and set aside mostly for plant shows, which I believe is a waste of such a spacious building.
 
What's next for NC Zoo?
"new naturalistic exhibits and housing structures for Asia, Amazon, and Australia animals and plants, construction of new multi-purpose roads, and demolition of the outdated 45,000 square foot African Pavilion. "
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