fantastic hoofstock savanna

Arizona Docent · 4 May 2013

April 19, 2013 (click photo for enlarged view).
This exhibit was unexpected and completely blew me away. Perhaps the best hoofstock exhibit I have ever seen in a traditional zoo. Massive hilltop savanna for grevy zebra, nyala, lesser kudu. Nice boardwalk with exhibit on all sides and stunning view of the city below. Nice waterhole to left of main viewing shelter. Animals have access to the forest on far right and there is yet more savanna out of picture to the right of this. Simply brilliant.

Maguari · 6 May 2013

It's a fantastic paddock. Beautiful rolling grassland with bits and bobs of other landscapes as well. Felt a little under-used last time I was there (a few years back now) but then not being stuffed to the limit with earth-churning animals is probably why it stays looking so good!

IanRRobinson · 6 May 2013

My abiding memory of this paddock is of a Carrion Crow killing a young Rabbit, complete with attendant sound effects. After 25 years it still remains a most unpleasant memory.

kiang · 7 May 2013

A valid point there from Maguari, it does feel a little under used, especially with the lesser kudu, usually way over in the copse at the far end of the enclosure.
Warthog were initially brought to the zoo, to join the African plains exhibit, but they never got that far up the hill, ostriches have been mentioned over the years too.

cracker · 9 May 2013

kiang said:
A valid point there from Maguari, it does feel a little under used, especially with the lesser kudu, usually way over in the copse at the far end of the enclosure.
Warthog were initially brought to the zoo, to join the African plains exhibit, but they never got that far up the hill, ostriches have been mentioned over the years too.

A pair of ostriches were kept in this enclosure several years ago.

Zooplantman · 9 May 2013

kiang said:
A valid point there from Maguari, it does feel a little under used, especially with the lesser kudu, usually way over in the copse at the far end of the enclosure.
Warthog were initially brought to the zoo, to join the African plains exhibit, but they never got that far up the hill, ostriches have been mentioned over the years too.

Amused that Maguari's

not being stuffed to the limit with earth-churning animals

is your

a little under used

DavidBrown · 9 May 2013

I know that this zoo has been talking about bringing back megafauna into its collection. Is this exhibit big enough that they could add giraffes and/or white rhinos in to it, or is that not practical?

Maguari · 9 May 2013

Zooplantman said:
Amused that Maguari's is your

In Kiang's defence, 'a little under-used' were also my words, just I then rationalised it!

I was offering a balanced view of the low animal density! :-D

Shirokuma · 10 May 2013

It's pretty hilly but isn't there a flattish paddock next to it at the bottom? I remember addax and I think the current map shoes vicuña. I often wondered if that could be incorporated and maybe white rhino could be added or even a giraffe paddock on that level.

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