Construction of new lion enclosure, 1982

Looking eastwards. One edge of the sloping hillside that was built up to the level of the public walkway on the eastern side. A concrete wall was then built with a large glass viewing window. A viewing blind, shaped like a round African mudhut was built just out of shot to the left.
The wire cages seen in the background housed jaguars, and a few other animals at various times.

@Hix and then from what I've gathered from your info sharing over the years and my memories from the mid-late 90s. The Lions moved out of here for renovations which entailed creating the ground level viewing through glass on the path below to the south (and then reopened for the Zoo's Sumatran Tigers) and the demolition of the viewing path above here around the pit, with the exception of the round mudhut that was kept for the end of the African Waterhole zone and the path seperating this pit from the enclosures to the east was kept as the viewing path for the exhibit which replaced the aforementioned two wire enclosures at the back of this photo by demolishing them and the space reconstructed into one larger exhibit used firstly for the Lions (starting circa Sep' '93) and then sometime in mid-late 1999 if my memory serves, that exhibit became the home of Mr Hobbs & Victoria (and possibly Lucille) the Sun Bears right?