Carnivore House Interior at Berlin Zoo, 31/08/11

Maguari · 28 Sep 2011

Cats in the Carnivore House include:

Ocelot
Sri Lankan Rusty-spotted Cat
Jaguarundi
Arabian Sand Cat
African Lion
Jaguar
Persian Leopard
Javan Leopard
Amur Leopard
Malayan Tiger

The house is also home to Dwarf, Narrow-striped and Ring-tailed Mongooses, Meerkats, Fossas, Corsac and Arctic Foxes, Tayras and Bao-Bao the Giant Panda. The nocturnal house is in the basement.

Arizona Docent · 29 Sep 2011

Now that is an animal lineup I could live with!

(Although from what I can see in the background, the enclosures might make me not want to see it after all).

chizlit · 29 Sep 2011

Arizona Docent said:
Now that is an animal lineup I could live with!

(Although from what I can see in the background, the enclosures might make me not want to see it after all).

You are right AD, all the planting is on the outside of the cages! Such beautiful cats in very poor conditions, but this isn't even as bad as Tierpark (East Berlin Zoo).

Maguari · 29 Sep 2011

Many of the outdoor exhbits for larger animals in this house are of the 'could be bigger' scale - not problematically small I'd say but you wouldn't want them much smaller. The lions and tigers have landscaped moated exhibits and Bao-Bao has a glass-walled paddock - the other exhibits are all cages.

Predictably, the leopards and jaguars come off the worst - one or two of the leopard exhibits are very small.

Otherwise it's OK - I won't criticise the indoor holdings as the vast majority of big cat indoor holdings I've seen are just the same. Neither bad nor particularly good.

chizlit · 29 Sep 2011

Yes you are right in what you say, but as you know I do have a bee in my bonnet when it comes to Berlin's cat houses, they could and should be better, and the fact that most other cats houses are as bad as these doesn't make any of them right.

Maguari said:
Many of the outdoor exhbits for larger animals in this house are of the 'could be bigger' scale - not problematically small I'd say but you wouldn't want them much smaller. The lions and tigers have landscaped moated exhibits and Bao-Bao has a glass-walled paddock - the other exhibits are all cages.

Predictably, the leopards and jaguars come off the worst - one or two of the leopard exhibits are very small.

Otherwise it's OK - I won't criticise the indoor holdings as the vast majority of big cat indoor holdings I've seen are just the same. Neither bad nor particularly good.

Animal · 29 Sep 2011

For the spiecies list: It's 4,1 zoo-mix-lions and 0,1 Barbarylion.

kiang · 1 Oct 2011

To me there seems to be a pattern to the major animal houses at both the zoo and the Tierpark, huge public areas and relatively small animal areas, my guessing behind this must be the large number of visitors to both collections.

Maguari · 1 Oct 2011

kiang said:
To me there seems to be a pattern to the major animal houses at both the zoo and the Tierpark, huge public areas and relatively small animal areas, my guessing behind this must be the large number of visitors to both collections.

That's standard 'large mammal house' design of a certain era - check out Stuttgart's apes, Wuppertal's cats/apes, or Basle's apes for more examples.

Actually, see also the Casson Pavilion at London.

Carnivore House Interior at Berlin Zoo, 31/08/11

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