True, a very good exhibit, Red Pandas always have and always will excite me, I remember the feeling in my stomach as I laid my eyes on a Red Panda for the first time (in 1992 at the age of 11 in the Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands) and that feeling almost remains the same. The only Red Panda exhibits I can recall that I have been disappointed with are those in Zoo Berlin and Adelaide Zoo but they are only cages. They don't need much, really, some grass and one or two trees; lovely creatures.
So is the Brush Turkey aviary new? I didn't realise that. I think its great though, including the interactive stuff around it.
Shame the red panda is in a small cage now though. I imagine they could easily knock up a new enclosure for them somewhere though, there's plenty of space.
All of the space where Growing Wild now is was taken up by enclosures for an odd assortment of species (baboons, red pandas, tamarins, little penguins, quokkas etc.) that didn't really fit anywhere else. The red pandas had two excellent exhibits with huge trees that extended out over the visitor paths. One of these trees is in the brush turkey aviary and one is in the strange little exhibit for coatis. This looks like the exhibit now taken over by the coati exhibit and the brush turkey aviary is now in the same place as the exhibit behind this one.
