November 2013. This exhibit is one of the old exhibits of the former Dog and Cat Canyon that is slated for demolition to make way for the new Africa Rocks exhibit complex.
November 2013. This exhibit is one of the old exhibits of the former Dog and Cat Canyon that is slated for demolition to make way for the new Africa Rocks exhibit complex.
This exhibit, right near the end of a major pathway, is also slated to be demolished? The enclosure is at least twice as large as this photo suggests (connecting yards) and it is by no means terrible but I suppose that there are a lot of exhibits that will soon be nothing but dust in the old Dog & Cat Canyon section of the zoo. Does anyone know exactly how many exhibits will be bulldozed? Twenty?
I've always stated in my 4 tours around San Diego Zoo that the left-hand side of the zoo map is filled with tremendously exciting exhibits and the right-hand side of the zoo is the part with a number of outdated, mediocre enclosures. For those ZooChatters that never visited before 2008 the right-hand side of the zoo will have changed a lot with 2009's "Elephant Odyssey" and then 2017's "Africa Rocks". Each complex is approximately 8 acres in size and for a major zoo to completely overhaul 16 acres and a massive number of exhibits is quite astonishing. When the AZA Conference is held in San Diego in late 2016 the "Africa Rocks" zone will still be under construction.
