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You're extremely lucky to see the mandrills and hogs in such close proximity, yet you're disappointed not having seen the De Brazza's monkey! Meanwhile every time I visit, the De Brazza's monkey and red river hogs are always hiding in the back and the mandrills are no where to be found! Thanks for the great pictures, Zebraduiker!

I think that is the first glass-fronted pig exhibit I've seen!

KCZooFan said:

I think that is the first glass-fronted pig exhibit I've seen!

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Columbus Zoo has a setup like this for Red River Hogs as well

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So does Dallas... after a fashion.

Of course, the Congo was done in 1998

what would you guys think of a set up like this for either

bornean bearded pigs
visayan warty pigs
southern bush pigs
pygmy hogs
giant forest hogs
white lipped peccaries
collared peccaries

or other tropical suidae or tayassuidae species

ungulate nerd said:

what would you guys think of a set up like this for either

bornean bearded pigs
visayan warty pigs
southern bush pigs
pygmy hogs
giant forest hogs
white lipped peccaries
collared peccaries

or other tropical suidae or tayassuidae species

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Imo, giant forest hogs seem like the best to hold in a glass-fronted enclosure. Just what I think.

ungulate nerd said:

what would you guys think of a set up like this for either

bornean bearded pigs
visayan warty pigs
southern bush pigs
pygmy hogs
giant forest hogs
white lipped peccaries
collared peccaries

or other tropical suidae or tayassuidae species

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Though most of Beardsley's exhibit for Chacoan Peccaries is a boardwalk with glass viewing, there are some actual ground level glass-fronted viewing for them.
http://www.zoochat.com/1133/chacoan-peccary-exhibit-225497/
If you look near the end of the fence, you can kind of see glass-fronted viewing at ground level.

Aesthetically an excellent enclosure, but I do wonder how much space this actually affords the pigs compared to something more basic.