When and if Indy does a Gorilla complex, will they make a skyscraper for the gorillas and have airplanes flying around it like the Dumbo ride at Disney?
When and if Indy does a Gorilla complex, will they make a skyscraper for the gorillas and have airplanes flying around it like the Dumbo ride at Disney?
This is part of Indys' Masterplan ! It will be the greatest gorilla exhibit ever.What a joke this exhibit is.We been holding off on forming a opinion and have been hoping to visit it in person, however these recent photos might have changed our minds.Total garbage.
I still hope somewhere that we are wrong and that only the bad parts have been photographed and there is still some nice indoor holding with a lot of climbing opportunities and natural substrate and a good sizes outdoor enclosure. But I fear that won't be the case...
I still hope somewhere that we are wrong and that only the bad parts have been photographed and there is still some nice indoor holding with a lot of climbing opportunities and natural substrate and a good sizes outdoor enclosure. But I fear that won't be the case...
Or it's an elaborate publicity stunt and in a month the zoo will come out with a statement saying something along the lines of 'now you know what the world will look like when all of the rainforests have been destroyed' and move the orang-utans to a more suitable exhibit they've been building in secret.
Five different people on this thread called the new orangutan exhibit either a church or a cathedral, while another thought that it was a T.V. or radio station. Whether it is kitschy architecture or an embarrassment to the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, either way San Diego's Elephant Odyssey just breathed a huge sigh of relief. After 5 years of abuse the baton for the most controversial zoo exhibit in America has just been passed. This ugly metal rocketship will hold the crown until someone builds something worse, and based on early photos that might be difficult.
Given the huge windows, I wonder how warm and sticky the indoor enclosures will get when the sun is shining directly in-and how many birds will collide with those windows...
San Diego's Elephant Odyssey just breathed a huge sigh of relief. After 5 years of abuse the baton for the most controversial zoo exhibit in America has just been passed.
Yes, it's undeniably ugly.
But the big question is how suitable is it? Please can someone tell us about what matters most: how have the orangs reacted to it?
How active are they? Do they use all the features of the exhibit? Has their behaviour changed in any way since they were introduced into it? Do they differ individually? Have they destroyed anything yet? Have they been given any enrichment? Do they come up to the windows to watch the public (the Sumatran females at Chester certainly do, much to the enjoyment of the visitors)?
It may be too early to get definitive answers to all these questions, but the exhibit was designed for the orangs and so its success or failure must be judged mainly on these terms.
I disagree, it wasn't designed solely for the orang utans, it was designed to make an architectural statement too. And success or failure in terms of animal welfare is one thing but as a zoo exhibit there are more factors to consider.
