A question for all the old time zoo chatters. First of all, the glass has been new since the past half decade or so, but I remember much more waterworks in this exhibit before. The water feature in the back was a waterfall right, and the moat before the glass used to be a huge waterfall I believe. Was there anything connecting these two water features before?
I don't recall the exact patterns of water circulation before, but I think you are about right. I just want to know why they felt the need to make this visual atrocity? Did they have a tapir escape?
A question for all the old time zoo chatters. First of all, the glass has been new since the past half decade or so, but I remember much more waterworks in this exhibit before. The water feature in the back was a waterfall right, and the moat before the glass used to be a huge waterfall I believe. Was there anything connecting these two water features before?
I remember a waterfall in the rear crevice, but thought the foreground was just a pool/moat, with some rather awkward metal posts that were intended to keep the tapirs from climbing out on the visitor's side. This new barrier is--as Ituri notes--hideous but (sadly) not so surprising given the current level of exhibit design throughout the Zoo
