Asian Forest Sanctuary - Mineral Lick

August 2009. Sumatran tigers, white-cheeked gibbons, siamangs, lowland anoas, small-clawed otters, malayan tapirs and crested porcupines rotate through a series of 5 exhibits. There are some mixed-species habitats, and zoo visitors never truly know what animal will be in each exhibit whenever they pass through the Asian Forest Sanctuary.

All 3 times that I've visited the zoo there have been crested porcupines and small-clawed otters in this exhibit, which is the least glamorous of the 5 rotational habitats. Naturally the other species are not suited to the enclosure, and it is the smallest of the five exhibits. There is also the least amount of water in here, which is particularly troublesome considering that otters are found here. The other 4 rotational exhibits (which sometimes hold otters) all have much larger pools of water.