@Luke da Zoo nerd Here is an excerpt from my summer road trip to 4 European nations:
"The Small Monkey House, with the zebra-striped plane on the roof, is an old-school house with ugly tiles and a softened visitor area with a woodchip floor. The Hamadryas Baboon outdoor ‘blob’ should be demolished as that rockwork becomes incredibly hot in the summer months. The 1962 building isn’t pretty indoors, but the outdoor exhibits for Variegated Spider Monkeys, Yellow-breasted Capuchins and Ring-tailed Lemurs are all pretty good. Inside the Small Monkey House are 6 smaller species, with the most notable being one for Short-eared Elephant Shrews. A great thing about all of these European animal houses is that there are little treasures to be found tucked away in corners. Some zoo visitors saw the monkeys and lemurs in their outside exhibits and thus didn’t bother going into the building, but then they missed 6 small exhibits!
