Wow. I'm glad you posted this, giving a visual image of how small the viewing area really is. For anyone who has visited and/or seen pictures from Woodland Park's Jaguar Cove and Jacksonville's ROTJ, this is incredibly different. It's not necessarily a bad thing, since in my experience, I have yet to see a jaguar actually use the pool. It's just polar opposite to the other beautiful, expansive areas. For those who visit Jax and Seattle on a regular basis or have at least a few times, what have you seen?
Wow. I'm glad you posted this, giving a visual image of how small the viewing area really is. For anyone who has visited and/or seen pictures from Woodland Park's Jaguar Cove and Jacksonville's ROTJ, this is incredibly different. It's not necessarily a bad thing, since in my experience, I have yet to see a jaguar actually use the pool. It's just polar opposite to the other beautiful, expansive areas. For those who visit Jax and Seattle on a regular basis or have at least a few times, what have you seen?
I've never seen a jaguar in the water at Woodland Park, and I go to that zoo 2-3 times a year. The viewing windows in both Seattle and Jacksonville are enormous, and there is room for far more people than at Miami Metrozoo's jaguar exhibit. Then again, Jacksonville and Woodland Park must surely have North America's two best jaguar habitats.
I must agree with snowleopard that the Jax Zoo's ROJ undwater view is big enough for a bigger crowd. Salsa(the black jaguar that goes swimming) has be reintroduce to the bigger habitat with the pool but one of the viewing class shattered and so far they are repairing it.
