The jaguar and ocelot exhibits are a bit more open than I was expecting, as 'Trail of the Jaguar' opened in 2017 and I imagined some vegetation would have grown in, but Elmwood Park Zoo has done a good job considering that the whole thing cost only $3 million. What did you think of the zoo, @TinoPup?
This exhibit has been changed a bit, too - on my 2018 visit it held red fox and arctic fox.
I like the zoo. It's extremely kid-heavy, more than any zoo similar in size, which is great for families and schools (not so great for me, but hey, I was a kid going to zoos once, too).
This exhibit area is fantastic, especially for that price; possibly my favorite smaller zoo exhibit that I've seen. It's well built, well signed, and has great viewing, while still being great for the animals and the keepers. It mixes species that are a little more common in zoos - jaguars, desert tortoise - with a few rarer ones that people likely don't think about, like the woodrat especially, which is only kept elsewhere by WWZ and AZ-Sonora.
Some exhibits really need upgrades. The bobcat one is size appropriate but visually awful, along with some others in that area. I wish they'd spent money improving those instead of building the sloth exhibit, absolutely everyone has sloths these days.
