What a bizarre enclosure! An excerpt from my 2010 review:
Hoofstock Yards – A top-notch collection in disappointing cement enclosures with high concrete walls on the sides and the occasional enormous rocky cliff as a backdrop. Species include: babirusa, warthog, red river hog, blue duiker, yellow-backed duiker, addax, Reeves’ muntjac, sand gazelle, white rhino, black rhino, Nubian ibex, addra gazelle, okapi, and a huge enclosure for marabou storks, African crowned cranes and topi antelope. There apparently used to be Grevy’s zebras and giraffes in that last enclosure, but the signage has been taken down even though there are a couple of buildings that were clearly built for giraffes still present.
The hoofstock yards are dull, in most cases far too tiny and derivative of the neighbouring yard, and zero thought or imagination has been put into exhibiting the creatures. It is the postage-stamp mentality all over again, and the addax and okapi tiered enclosures are easily the worst that I’ve ever seen. The addax has its feces all over the top section of its enclosure, and none anywhere else in the rest of the grotto. That makes me wonder if the antelope mainly stay on the top tier, which is about the size of a two-bedroom apartment. The Nubian ibex are kept behind chain-link fencing, which only adds to the humiliation of the dated rock “mountain”, and the enclosures are only memorable for their outdated method of showcasing hoofstock.
In this exhibit the okapi only has access to the tiny upper area:
