The shared exhibit for Indian sloth bears and rhesus macaques in Leipzig Zoo, located near the entrance area. This mix seems to work just fine, no problems at my visit.
The shared exhibit for Indian sloth bears and rhesus macaques in Leipzig Zoo, located near the entrance area. This mix seems to work just fine, no problems at my visit.
This exhibit made its debut in 2002, but is it a redevelopment of an existing enclosure? Those impressively large rock walls in the background seem as if they are older than that time period.
This exhibit made its debut in 2002, but is it a redevelopment of an existing enclosure? Those impressively large rock walls in the background seem as if they are older than that time period.
Seems there is enough space for both species, plus ample climbing. The rock walls at the back certainly look better than bars, I would argue that it hardly makes any difference to the exhibit. Not the best bear enclosure I've seen by far, but I think it looks good enough.
Seems there is enough space for both species, plus ample climbing. The rock walls at the back certainly look better than bars, I would argue that it hardly makes any difference to the exhibit. Not the best bear enclosure I've seen by far, but I think it looks good enough.
Space-wise it is great, and I think this only shows half the exhibit (or perhaps there are two exhibits for the bears, but the macaques can use both?). The other is to the left of this one.
I was thinking that from the photo it doesn't seem all that big but at the same time not too small either. If there is actually twice this much space then that's even better.
It's certainly a far better enclosure than most bear enclosures I've seen (empty, concrete...poor bears always get shafted in zoo exhibitry it seems ).
I'd actually really like to see a forested sloth bear enclosure if anyone has seen one and can post a link.
There are no sloth bears in zoos around me (yet). But there is one nice Asiatic black bear enclosure in Ostrava, it could easily hold sloth bears instead, so I think it is close enough?
Space-wise it is great, and I think this only shows half the exhibit (or perhaps there are two exhibits for the bears, but the macaques can use both?). The other is to the left of this one.
