A very important sign that deals with what the people walking through this exhibit are probably thinking. I like when zoo's cover different geographical places. Given the biodiversity of our planet, you'd there would be more than just Equatorial Africa, Amazon, SE Asia, North America, and the Tundra.
I agree, the South American pampas is radically underrepresented in American zoos (and probably the world's zoos). Now, if only Santa Ana would get a pampas cat...
I agree, the South American pampas is radically underrepresented in American zoos (and probably the world's zoos). Now, if only Santa Ana would get a pampas cat...
In Europe you tend to find most bigger zoos have some kind of South American 'pampas' exhibit, but usually some combination of the same few (not necessarily geographically accurate) species:
Guanaco
Vicuna
Greater or Darwin's Rhea
Brazilian Tapir
Capybara
Mara
Increasingly, you can add Giant Anteater to the list. They always make nice exhibits but they tend to be very same-y. You occasionally see oddball additions such as Collared Peccaries at Stuttgart or (pinioned?) Turkey Vultures at Zlin - but these tend to have effect of messing up the geographic/habitat theme even more!
