Future gorillas exhibit (2012)

This new exhibit will house two gorillas groups :
- a breeding group,
- a bachelor group of five males led by Ya Kwanza, silverback former from Jersey. This group is now at La Vallée des Singes in France (in the second bonobos exhibit) until next year.

The zoo owner say they take model on Congo in Bronx Zoo.

Antoine said:

This new exhibit will house two gorillas groups :
- a breeding group,
- a bachelor group of five males led by Ya Kwanza, silverback former from Jersey. This group is now at La Vallée des Singes in France (in the second bonobos exhibit) until next year.

The zoo owner say they take model on Congo in Bronx Zoo.

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Do you know where they are getting the funding for this exhibit? Or fro their other, fairly constant, new developments? Is it entirely from visitor income? This is not a cheap zoo to visit - it cost me €93 to enter with three children, and the food and retail is very pricy too - but there is so much being done, and a number of quite expensive-to-run exhibits too. I think I read that they get about 600,000 visitors a year, and I am fascinated by the fact that this zoo, with that level of visitation can do so much while so many british zoos, such as Marwell and Twycross, struggle, financially, on similar visitor numbers. I suspect that they get rather more bang for their buck with their exhibits than do UK zoos, on the whole, but even so, it is an impressive feat of development.

The zoo finances its projects on its own certainly by loans and thanks to the entrances fees (the price can explain they make more benefits). It is necessary to specify that they have their own team of construction employed year all.
The big projects succeed one another both or three years.

I admit that I wonder too how they make to hold this rhythm.

@Antoine: Can you please tell me where exactly (in the zoo) the new gorilla exhibit will be built?

"LUV IT"

Only on zoochat can we engage in a conversation started by a picture of fence. LOL

Antoine said:

This new exhibit will house two gorillas groups :
- a breeding group,

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I wonder where the breeding group animals will come from. Its been suggested Saarbruken Zoo which has a non-breeding trio in a cramped cage that really need relocating to a better enclosure such as this will certainly be.

zoomaniac said:

@Antoine: Can you please tell me where exactly (in the zoo) the new gorilla exhibit will be built?

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It will be in the area beyond the reptile house, close to the current perimeter where Barbary sheep, gibbons, rhesus monkeys can be found.

Re: the Saarbrucken group - I think this was just a suggestion that this would be good, rather than any thought that it might be likely - unfortunately.

Thanks for the answer sooty mangabey

Concerning the breeding group, the zoo say now that they will not get it at the beginning.

They will have a second bachelor group with three gorillas from Barcelona and Ramat-Gan and this group will be replaced in the future by a breeding group.

"The zoo owner say they take model on Congo in Bronx Zoo"

Way to shoot yourself in the foot to start with.