That was a long time ago! All I can remember at this point was Giant Anteaters, a Turaco - Hartlaub's I think - and the whitest polar bears I have ever seen.
When I get home later today I'll check my slides and photos and see what I've got in there.
I visited the Reid Park Zoo in 1988. There were pygmy hippos (you can see them at the very top of the map) and a polar bear. There was a South American tapir, but I don't remember what species it was.
There were lion-tailed macaques (which I think the zoo still has?), but no celebes crested macaque. The only small cat the zoo had was serval.
None of those antelope species were there.
The zoo is preparing to build a river hippo exhibit where the old elephant exhibit is on the map above. They had no river hippos in 1988. Did they really have them prior to that?
I visited the Reid Park Zoo in 1988. There were pygmy hippos (you can see them at the very top of the map) and a polar bear. There was a South American tapir, but I don't remember what species it was.
There were lion-tailed macaques (which I think the zoo still has?), but no celebes crested macaque. The only small cat the zoo had was serval.
None of those antelope species were there.
The zoo is preparing to build a river hippo exhibit where the old elephant exhibit is on the map above. They had no river hippos in 1988. Did they really have them prior to that?
They had one female African elephant and one female Asian elephant; the same ones that went to the San Diego Zoo when the new African elephant herd arrived at the zoo.
I don't remember what hoofstock species they had. They were just starting to build their giraffe exhibit.
Well, I have precious few slides of mammals from Reid Park. All I have is: Zebra, Giant Anteaters and juveniles, tiger exhibit (no idea which ssp), Wanderoo exhibit, and Chital and Nilgai in the same enclosure.
For the birdos, I photographed Ostrich, Red-breasted Toucan, Vulturine Guineafowl, Bahama Pintail, Bar-headed Geese, Hartlaub's Turaco, Grey-necked Crowned Crane, Sun Conure and Yellow-headed Amazon.
Looked for a guidebook in my collection, but couldn't find one. I have a suspicion Reid Park didn't produce one at the time.
I do not think the zoo has ever produced a guidebook.
The zoo has never had any great ape and never will. There are concerns about infecting the captive population with a local air-born condition known as Valley Fever.
