The European garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) is a species only occurring in the Limburg region in the Netherlands, but has become critically endangered there, sadly, and conservation projects, in which GaiaZoo participates, have started.
This is an exhibit for a species (European Garden Dormouse) that is extremely small. Wow. In 2015, when I toured 81 zoos that summer, I visited a roadside zoo in the state of Arkansas that had a fully-grown Chimpanzee in a cage not much larger than the one in this photo.
@snowleopard Yes, the European dormouse isn't much larger than your common mouse. It is a pretty great exhibit, even though it could maybe use a bit of greenery somewhere (something that may yet come in the future).
The chimpanzee thing sounds rather horrible. I think I might in fact have seen your photos of the chimpanzee cage you mentioned in the gallery... in any case I saw a really bad chimpanzee case from one of your zoological (mis)adventures. I have seen some less good exhibits in zoos myself but not quite as bad as some of the stuff you've seen.
Luckily there's still good and nice zoos (like GaiaZoo) in this world to enjoy.
In any case, your examples are absolutely disgusting. What an awful place. Perhaps apart from the Olmense Zoo back in the late 1990's, when it first became open to the public, I haven't ever seen anything quite this bad.
Then again I've only visited 42 or so zoological facilities compared to your hundreds.
@birdsandbats I'm not sure how visible they will be, as they hadn't been in there long at the time. That said, I only saw one curled up, supposedly asleep, in one of the nesting boxes one can view into inside the Limburg House (see elsewhere in the gallery for images).
Brown Lemur - could almost be Sanford's, but looks probably nearer to White-fronted than anything else.
Whichever - it is very interesting to read the varying differences of opinion over what constitutes a 'poor' enclosure. The USA certainly looks like a land of extremes.
