The back wall was meant to protect he animals from cold winds, but it also blocked out the fantastic view of Sydney Harbour. The wall - and the ugly fences - have been removed.
The back wall was meant to protect he animals from cold winds, but it also blocked out the fantastic view of Sydney Harbour. The wall - and the ugly fences - were removed in the very early 1980's.
This was one of the better mammal exhibits at Taronga, because it hard a dirt floor. Virtually the entire zoo was concrete - floors, walls and roof. Ungulates, primates, carnivores, elephants, all kept on concrete. Even some Australian mammals (like Hairy-nosed wombats) were kept on concrete, and tree kangaroos were on concrete covered in sawdust.
