Bronx Zoo Bronx Zoo 2013

ThylacineAlive said:
I liked Amazing Amphibians, but I think it needed a bit more work. It was my understanding that it was to educate about endangered amphibians as well as a place to display the zoo's amphibian collection but I think it needed more immersive stuff and more conservation aspects.

~Thylo:cool:
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- I would have liked it if it had not been in zoo center. This building is very beautiful and should be showcased instead of covered up as Amazing Amphibians did. The zoo has several species in the reptile house, jungleworld, congo, madagascar and off exhibit. The new exhibit will mean that the other half of the building will now be open. I can vaguely remember when the sumatran rhino and malayan tapir lived in here. It was simaler to the current rhino indoors but had mulch flooring.
 
uszoo said:
- No there was a space with about 10 small tanks for frogs. They have been removed but there are at least 15-20 species of frog scatered around the zoo still.
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I would love to see an Amphibian Center back (it is really a crisis we should be (made) aware of in terms of global impact of global warming and chytrid fungi and how this will affect the rest of the Animal Planet at Bronx. Particularly so, since WCS is the conservation arm vehicle of the Society and involved in that work in situ.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I would love to see an Amphibian Center back (it is really a crisis we should be (made) aware of in terms of global impact of global warming and chytrid fungi and how this will affect the rest of the Animal Planet at Bronx. Particularly so, since WCS is the conservation arm vehicle of the Society and involved in that work in situ.
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While no actual Amphibian center is there they do have signs and other stuff here and there like by the Kihansi Spray Toad terrarium.

~Thylo:cool:
 
I was told last time I was there by a keeper that they were going to have a nocturnal kiwi exhibit in the Aquatic Bird House. I believe she said that they do have a kiwi on exhibit in Bird World but he is always in a nest box and she has never even seen him out.
 
Phantom Gaur said:
I was told last time I was there by a keeper that they were going to have a nocturnal kiwi exhibit in the Aquatic Bird House. I believe she said that they do have a kiwi on exhibit in Bird World but he is always in a nest box and she has never even seen him out.
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- There is no sign for a kiwi in world of birds. There is a good chance that it has been kept in one of bird breeding buildings near tiger mountain. Thanks for partially confirming my obsevation.
 
uszoo said:
- There is no sign for a kiwi in world of birds. There is a good chance that it has been kept in one of bird breeding buildings near tiger mountain. Thanks for partially confirming my obsevation.
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Not that Bronx always has signs for many of the species in World of Birds. These breeding buildings are behind the World of Birds building beyond the ex-Emu, current White-Naped Crane yard right?

@Phantom Gaur, when did you visit the zoo last.

~Thylo:cool:
 
No those are just for the cranes. If you look on google maps it is the large building in between tiger mountain and world of birds.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Any news on the Indian rhino breeding program?
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Well the zoo has 8 Indian Rhinos I believe but haven't had a calf in a few years. I know they've sent sperm from one male to Cincinnati which was used in the successful AI of one of their females but the calf later died.

~Thylo:cool:
 
I visited in November, I think ( the Monorail was closed for the season). I spoke with a keeper in the Bird World building that was doing the Bee Eater buffet about the kiwis. She said that there was one on display in one of the areas where you can look down from the second level. She said he was in a nesting box and that she herself had never seen him out and she had to check on him in his box every day just to make sure he was alive. She didn't tell me which area he was in though. She was also the one to tell me that they were building a nocturnal exhibit in the Aquatic Bird House. If I remember correctly, she also told me that one of the other WCS smaller zoos had Kiwi eggs that they were incubating.
 
Phantom Gaur said:
I visited in November, I think ( the Monorail was closed for the season). I spoke with a keeper in the Bird World building that was doing the Bee Eater buffet about the kiwis. She said that there was one on display in one of the areas where you can look down from the second level. She said he was in a nesting box and that she herself had never seen him out and she had to check on him in his box every day just to make sure he was alive. She didn't tell me which area he was in though. She was also the one to tell me that they were building a nocturnal exhibit in the Aquatic Bird House. If I remember correctly, she also told me that one of the other WCS smaller zoos had Kiwi eggs that they were incubating.
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Very interesting! Thanks for reporting. The smaller zoo was definitely either Prospect or Central Park.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Phantom Gaur said:
I visited in November, I think ( the Monorail was closed for the season). I spoke with a keeper in the Bird World building that was doing the Bee Eater buffet about the kiwis. She said that there was one on display in one of the areas where you can look down from the second level. She said he was in a nesting box and that she herself had never seen him out and she had to check on him in his box every day just to make sure he was alive. She didn't tell me which area he was in though. She was also the one to tell me that they were building a nocturnal exhibit in the Aquatic Bird House. If I remember correctly, she also told me that one of the other WCS smaller zoos had Kiwi eggs that they were incubating.
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- No offense but keepers are not the most reliable many times. The part about the kiwi being held in world of birds sounds as if it is true but the eggs being incubated does not. With there being a handful of kiwis in the Us it's hard to believe that Wcs would not make any public statement. Kiwi eggs take around 90 days to hatch so they would have been hatched. The Wcs has been good at highlighting important crucial births such as the Maleo.
 
uszoo said:
- No offense but keepers are not the most reliable many times. The part about the kiwi being held in world of birds sounds as if it is true but the eggs being incubated does not. With there being a handful of kiwis in the Us it's hard to believe that Wcs would not make any public statement. Kiwi eggs take around 90 days to hatch so they would have been hatched. The Wcs has been good at highlighting important crucial births such as the Maleo.
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If it's true that Kiwi eggs are being incubated at a smaller WCS zoo, they'll likely wait for the chicks to actually hatch until they announce it.
 
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