Mixed exhibit in the Etosha House at Basel Zoo 30/08/09

Home to Cape Rock Hyrax, Cape Ground Squirrel, Sociable Weaver and Peach-faced Lovebirds. There are no barriers above waist-height so the birds (and, I suppose, squirrels) are free to roam in the house.

There are some nice and interesting exhibits in this Swiss zoo, that´s for sure!

This house in particular is superb.

It's just to my taste - very attractive (naturalistic) exhibit interiors, barriers and public areas done smartly and attractively but with no sense of apology for being a Zoo Building (as can be suggested by some of the more half-hearted attempts at 'immersion'). A nicely diverse and esoteric selection of animal species and an imaginative approach to the education side - as well as a rough zoogeographic theme, the house is all about animal feeding and food webs. And it has the wonderful bee-eater/honey bee exhibit.

This house is superb, A must see in a great zoo.

However I did not see any lovebirds at the time of my visit (summer 2012)