The large main savannah in Borås Zoo, Sweden. Here you can see african elephants, zebras, african buffalos, eland antelopes blesboks and ostriches.
June 2005
The large main savannah in Borås Zoo, Sweden. Here you can see african elephants, zebras, african buffalos, eland antelopes blesboks and ostriches.
June 2005
Is there much change in terrain in this enclosure? I notice that towards the left hand side of the photo the ground shifts upwards, and is there a large pool of some kind? I'm curious as to why there is still grass in the paddock, as with all of those heavy mammals one would think that the exhibit would be all sand and dust by now.
Yes, the terrarin is hilly towards one side of the enclosure as is the terrain in all of Borås Zoo. The terrain is mainly flat with a few hills. There is no pool as such but there is at least one large waterhole.
The reason that there is still grass is quite simply that the enclosure is very big
Oh, I see! As you know, I have not been there for ages but judging from pictures here at ZooChat, I thought it looked just fine. But "muddy waterhole"...
@Dan: It was not a critique of the enclosure. Perhaps I should have said murky instead of muddy. I believe that the most naturalistic waterhole is a murky one And the savannah in Borås Zoo is, to me, the best one in Sweden (possibly in all of Scandinavia).
