Zoo construction

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  betsy

• 3 Mar 2011

Construction on new exhibits next to the pandas. This was taken at the Treehouse Cafe.

 

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  mstickmanp

• 4 Mar 2011

What was there before the construction began?

 

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  betsy

• 4 Mar 2011

mstickmanp said:

What was there before the construction began?

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Good question. I don't know the area was blocked off by a wall that had pandas painted by school children. I will ask next time I am there.

 

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  mstickmanp

• 4 Mar 2011

I was just looking at Google Earth and there was nothing there but a pile of logs just like in the photo above. Maybe you should ask about what was there even before the panda wall went up.

 

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  SMR

• 4 Mar 2011

Isn't that the location of the off-show part of Panda Canyon, with the red river hogs over on the left?

 

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  betsy

• 4 Mar 2011

SMR said:

Isn't that the location of the off-show part of Panda Canyon, with the red river hogs over on the left?

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Yes it is. Do you know if it was ever an animal exhibit?

 

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  Ituri

• 4 Mar 2011

Years and years and years ago, there was a string of large bird exhibits, I remember specifically cranes and cassowaries.

 

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  gerenuk

• 5 Mar 2011

This area was once planned to be "Ituri Forest Phase II".

 

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  Ituri

• 5 Mar 2011

Ituri Forest Phase II which would have included bongos, leopards, duikers, red river hogs, and more primates. Sigh...I miss the old bioclimatic plan.

 

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  Arizona Docent

• 17 Mar 2011

Good to see them finally making use of this wasted space in a prime location in the middle of the zoo. Why it was unutilized for so long was always a puzzle to me. An even bigger puzzle is why they didn't use it to make the small panda exhibits bigger from the beginning.