Does San Diego Zoo really still have their Curvier's gazelles (Gazella cuvieri). I didn't think any were left in public collections in North America. I know that The Living Desert Zoo & Gardens in Palm Desert, Riverside County, California just phased theirs out. I didn't expect them to do this, but I can't say I am surprised by that move.
@UngulateNerd92 I am almost certain this is an old photo from the Horn and Hoof Mesa. I know it says 2015 but both this and the other gazelle photo are in exhibits that were demolished in 2009 for elephant odyssey.
@Westcoastperson I will say that the remaining row of Horn & Hoof Mesa remnants down the hill from Polar Bear Plunge did have Curvier's gazelles on my last visit a few years ago. I believe that they are still intact? I also vaguely remember taxa like Speke's gazelles, Arabian oryx, Grevy's zebras, Southern lesser kudu, Red-flanked duiker, and one Eastern giant eland Post-Elephant Odyssey. Pre-Elephant Odyssey, I remember that Calamian deer and possibly Bawean deer were some of the species kept on that row. I miss San Diego Zoo during the days of Horn & Hoof Mesa. Some people might not like me for saying this, but I actually prefer these older taxonomically organized exhibits (ie Horn & Hoof Mesa, Elephant Mesa, Dog & Cat Canyon, Stork & Crane Canyon etc.) and have fond memories of these exhibits during my childhood visits in the 1990s and early 2000s. As another zoochatter said about Berlin Zoo and Tierpark Berlin's exhibits during the directiorship of Dr. Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, I will also say about San Diego Zoo's older exhibits, they aren't as bad for the animals as people, mostly PETA and company like to say. Pardon my digression, but Red Rocks at St. Louis Zoo is my favorite still standing zoo exhibit in North America.
@Westcoastperson I'm pretty sure it was taken in 2015 since it was my first visit to SD (I'd really love to see the original Horn and Hoof Mesa though)! As @UngulateNerd92 mentioned, there are seven intact enclosures of Horn and Hoof Mesa right across the path from Polar Bear Plunge and the puma exhibit. During my 2015 visit they held Grevy's zebra, lesser kudu/Speke's gazelle, bontebok, southern gerenuk, Cuvier's gazelle, Chacoan peccary and maned wolf. All species remained there except for Cuvier's gazelle during my visit two years ago (and three Eastern giant elands were mixed with Grevy's zebra back then).
@UngulateNerd92 I don't think so. 2.2 were listed in the AZA ungulate program updates in 2019, but in their March 2021 update the number was down to 1.1, which I believe referred to the Living Desert pair.
