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Chimp outdoor enclosure at Basel Zoo 30/08/09

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Like so many central European zoos, the monkey/ape house is the least impressive of the zoo's houses. With the exception of a nice outdoor island for the woolly and squirrel monkeys, the outside enclosures are clearly afterthoughts (two small cages between three great ape species and unviewable cages for the monkeys on the roof). Shame, because the rest of the zoo is almost uniformly superb.
Like so many central European zoos, the monkey/ape house is the least impressive of the zoo\'s houses. With the exception of a nice outdoor island for the woolly and squirrel monkeys, the outside enclosures are clearly afterthoughts (two small cages between three great ape species and unviewable cages for the monkeys on the roof). Shame, because the rest of the zoo is almost uniformly superb.
 
Was this photo taken in Thailand?;) Holy smokes the ape house at the Basel Zoo is nasty, but then again the rest of the zoo looks quite impressive. Can us ZooChatters observing this crappy little chimp cage assume that the zoo has plans to overhaul its ape exhibits?
 
The holding was once one of the better ones in europe.
Where now the bears and otters are, there'll be build the outdoors for the apes soon (as Maguari should know after the zoohistorica ;) )
 
Unfortunately we missed the Basel tour as we turned up half an hour late! (the Mulhouse tour was at 2.30 and I think we had that time stuck in our mind!)

Good to hear plans are in hand. :)
 

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