Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden What's Gnu at the Cincinnati Zoo - 2014

Moebelle said:
AFRICA update:
The zoo finally built the hoofstock fence (thin and rocky) on the left side of the Plains exhibit. However, it is only a few feet tall and it connects to the wild dog exhibit, which can only mean one thing... Like the lions there will be a moat that separates the dogs from the hoostock. There will also not be an observational deck viewing for the dogs as the plan says but it will be up front, glass viewing. This was really hard to explain but I do have a photo.

Other updates
1. The alligator in Manatee Springs is still off exhibit
2. Behind the camels and in the off exhibit area I saw two red pandas. For those who don't know, the panda exhibit is not even close to the camels, so I found this extremely rrare and unusual.
3. Unlike every other exhibit in Wildlife Canyon, there was red tape in front of the warty pigs.
4. World of the Insect is currently closed. The zoo is putting up new facts around every wall of the building.
5. The supposed Goldies Lorikeet in Wings of the World is actually a Red-flanked Lorieet.
6. There is another unidentified bird in WotW, but it is in the South America exhibit.
7. I heard a docent say that Saari the Bactrian Camel might give birth within a couple of weeks.
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Thank you for the update, Moebelle.

As far as the red pandas go, well, the red panda exhibit is staffed by the Wildlife Canyon keepers, but I just don't exactly know why they would have any of the red pandas down there...
 
The "Giraffe is Expecting" article on the zoo page says Lulu, the giraffe born in October of 2012, will be transferred to The Wilds in the spring to make space.
 
I thought that Tessa appeared to be expecting the last time I saw her; this is very exciting news. With the recent birth of "Jack" the Bactrian camel, a giraffe calf due any day, a baby gorilla due in July, and the apparent hint of other major births to come from some zoo employees today, this shall prove to be a big year for the zoo in terms of crowd-drawing babies.
 
Im thrilled Jomo and Asha are expecting in July. Jomo was the second gorillas name I learned at Toronto Zoo... after his dear old dad Charles who I have a special love for. Jomos always been a favourite of mine. And hes passing on some great genes with both of his father and mother Josephine being wild born. Im also excited that hes possibly having a second baby with Anju sometime this year too.

Its kind of funny hes about to become a dad again when he just became a big brother again here in Toronto to a cute little half sister.
 
Kudu21 said:
I thought that Tessa appeared to be expecting the last time I saw her; this is very exciting news. With the recent birth of "Jack" the Bactrian camel, a giraffe calf due any day, a baby gorilla due in July, and the apparent hint of other major births to come from some zoo employees today, this shall prove to be a big year for the zoo in terms of crowd-drawing babies.
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But we still lack the birth of the one baby everyone really wants.

~Thylo:cool:
 
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