Actually I think the signpost is outdated and the hog badgers replaced the Large-Spotted civets (the badgers were kept in an outdoor enclosure prior to this)
Unless, ofcourse, the zoo got its hands on some new Great-Spotted civets and hawk owls.
this sign is indeed well out of date. As of yesterday:
*Several cages were empty (completely dark, with “closed for renovation” signs on the glass), namely those for Hog Badger, Bat-eared Fox and Rock Hyrax. (I know what was in them when occupied because the signage was still in place but unlit). There was a fourth “empty for renovation” cage set up like a desert but with no acompanying signage to tell me what had been in it previously.
*All occupied cages were fairly brightly lit, completely negating the very concept of a nocturnal house. Consequently all but one animal (a Common Palm Civet) were asleep, and while most species could be seen curled up in a ball somewhere in the cages some couldn't be seen at all.
*There were two large and detailed informational signs for Flat-headed Cat, one before you entered the house itself and one inside the house (somewhat near the empty “desert” cage mentioned above). It would seem odd having two such explicit signs for a species unless they had had that species recently.....
Species on show:
*Small Indian Civet (could not see any)
*Large Indian Civet (one in a ball on the floor)
*Masked Palm Civet (one in a ball on a log)
*Common Palm Civet (one active)
*Small-toothed Palm Civet (one just showing as a ball inside a hollow log)
*Binturong (three animals in two enclosures which were far too small)
*Leopard Cat (three asleep)
*Paca (two animals from the Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo)
*Indian Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista philippensis (just a ball right up the back in a box the first time I passed but I went back a few minutes later and it was having a scratch, took a minute to stare at me, then went back to sleep)
*Asian Brush-tailed Porcupine (one seen, asleep)
*Malayan Crested Porcupine (four, all asleep in a too small cage)
*Central African Hedgehog [African Pigmy Hedgehog] Atelerix albiventris (none visible)
*Sugar Glider (none visible)
*Asian Slow Loris Nycticebus bengalensis (one asleep)
*flying fox sp. (they were labelled as Common Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus but there were at least six or seven [hard to view where they were] and all of them were far too small to be vampyrus)
