It's a recent re-use of a former Cheetah exhibit, that in itself was nothing special when it opened as part of the Carter Giraffe House in 1982. I'm sure the hyenas are even rougher on the minimal vegetation in the exhibit than were the original inhabitants.
It's a recent re-use of a former Cheetah exhibit, that in itself was nothing special when it opened as part of the Carter Giraffe House in 1982. I'm sure the hyenas are even rougher on the minimal vegetation in the exhibit than were the original inhabitants.
The cheetahs weren't really that hard on the landscape. The shade was the real limitation, and the difficulty of finding the cheetahs if the exhibit had been densely planted. It was simply not designed to be a successfully landscaped enclosure.
Well neither has seen a serious re-think in decades and both have old existing trees. They are simply light-renovations of the old yards and so not so much "improvements" as change of characters. (In other words, new animals in tidied up old yards)
