You can see it says tapir across from the tropical rain forest. That is now the alligator exhibit. At the time this map was made, the tapirs moved into the former rhino exhibit. I remember visiting the zoo in 1994 and the rhinos were gone and the tapirs were in their old exhibit, so this map is behind the times of what was on the ground.
@fs_squid8711 I'm happy to answer your questions. Feel free to ask. I don't recall the chimps having grass, although maybe they did plant the bottom of the grotto with grass. It was the nasty set of grottoes where the anteater is now, except the moat had not been filled in. There were originally three grottoes for gorillas, chimps, and orangs.
The Fresno ape grottoes were barbaric. They did the right thing and sent their gorillas away, but they should have sent the chimps to better homes too decades before they did. I never understood why they did not build modern great ape exhibits for the gorillas and chimps when they could have in the 1980s.
After the gorillas were sent off in the early 1990s, the chimp and former gorilla space were consolidated so that the chimps had marginally more space (although still grossly inadequate). The orangs were stuck in their hellhole until the current orang exhibit was built in the early 2000s (2001?).
@fs_squid8711 Fresno's committed to African elephants, and given the layout of the zoo there's no way they could bring Asian elephants back. They are replacing them (and the Indian rhinos too) with Malayan tapir and babirusa!
@FrederickA I collect zoo maps and have a large collection of them. Sometimes I gather together my doubles/extras and trade them with other zoo nerds, or occasionally a friend will gift me an old zoo map and that was the case here.
