The leopard simply paces back and forth all day long beneath its fake blue sky backdrop...and the cat house is unbelievably noisy when the free zoo is packed with visitors.
And how much money would you need for that? How much effort would you put into "[making] a lion house?"
@RhinoIguana, please stop spamming generalized and fantasized comments on other's posts. It does not add to the discussion of the zoo's actual exhibit.
However, interestingly enough, just now while googling some photos of the jaguar enclosure in this house (which is also in the Zoochat gallery of course, and is "landscaped" quite differently to the leopard one), I saw that there were some photos of the jaguar in the terrarium pictured above. So perhaps the jaguar is in this one now, and that is why pachyderm pro thinks the photo is of a jaguar?
actually, here's a photo by carlos55 taken December 2014 showing a jaguar in this box - it is sitting on the rock directly in front of (but behind) the leopard in the above photo, above where the log is. http://www.zoochat.com/577/jaguar-lpz-397119/
He says that now (then) only the jaguars and servals were inside the house, each species had three cages, and all the other cats were housed outside.
I figured that was probably the source of confusion.
Incidentally, I've just been re-reading Mason & Rushen's Stereotypic Animal Behaviour (2008). For any ZooChatters interested in carnivore pacing, Chapter 3 provides an excellent discussion of the topic.
