This is the Mouse House. I'm not sure of these specific exhibits, but some of the species exhibited here are Short-Eared Elephant Shrews, House Mice, Acouchis, Norway Rats, Egyptian Spiny Mice, Chinchillas, Degus, Damaraland Mole Rats, Eastern Spotted Skunks, Dwarf Mongeese, Eurasian Harvest Mice, Prevost's Squirrels, Madagascar Giant Jumping Rats, Kangaroo Rats, North Luzon Giant Cloud Rats, and more.
No, thankfully. It was the zoo's original Small Mammal House, which in the early 60s was where experiments were conducted using red light and reversed light cycles to exhibit nocturnal animals. That R and D led to the building of the World of Darkness, which of course HAS closed, at least for now.
No, thankfully. It was the zoo's original Small Mammal House, which in the early 60s was where experiments were conducted using red light and reversed light cycles to exhibit nocturnal animals. That R and D led to the building of the World of Darkness, which of course HAS closed, at least for now.
Thanks for the info (Zooplantman too). I met some Bronx Zoo keepers at a giraffe conference last month and they said that the World of Darkness has been completely dismantled with all of the animals sent other places. Sad.
Woodland Park has shut down their nocturnal house too. Are they especially expensive to maintain? Other than Omaha's World Of Night and San Francisco's aye-aye exhibit there don't seem to be many nocturnal exhibits left.
No, thankfully. It was the zoo's original Small Mammal House, which in the early 60s was where experiments were conducted using red light and reversed light cycles to exhibit nocturnal animals. That R and D led to the building of the World of Darkness, which of course HAS closed, at least for now.
Proposals for a "gut rehab" of the building have been included in numerous versions of the ever-evolving plans for the zoo. It is too prominent a building to let sit empty for too long (although as others have noted, the architecturally-significant Lion House sat unused for over 20 years before extensively and expensively being converted to Madagascar!).
With new leadership imminent at WCS, all bets are off as to what comes next.
