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Elephant Paddock Renovation 19.6.10

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Sometime this summer, I believe.
 
Resurfacing and arranging the paddock into gentle terraces to prevent degradation and improve drainage, with a bit of general landscaping while they're at it.
 
Resurfacing and arranging the paddock into gentle terraces to prevent degradation and improve drainage, with a bit of general landscaping while they're at it.

Thanks for that, do they have a sand paddock?
 
Resurfacing and arranging the paddock into gentle terraces to prevent degradation and improve drainage, with a bit of general landscaping while they're at it.

Is there less of a slope on the elephants' side, down to the public wall/barrier now? If I remember rightly if they came down to the front before they were well below eyelevel, is it likely to be different now?
 
Thanks for that, do they have a sand paddock?

This is the only outdoor paddock (somewhere between sand and earth), but there is sand in at least part of the indoor areas if I recall.


Is there less of a slope on the elephants' side, down to the public wall/barrier now? If I remember rightly if they came down to the front before they were well below eyelevel, is it likely to be different now?

Not sure - I think it will be a shallower slope but not sure if it will get any less deep at the edges.
 
On my visit latley it appeared that the slope at the front is massively shallower then what it was
 
It should be done in mid July. Before the first baby is born. :)

That is perfect, because I will be visiting in September. The only problem is I am such a cat fanatic that I might get stuck all day at the jaguar exhibit and miss the rest of the zoo ;)
 

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