Very cool
I am lucky enough to know from personal experience how charming and interesting a pangolin can be. Do you know the species of this individual?
I don't, and don't recall the keeper mentioning it either. Someone here can help without doubt.
It was a great little presentation, not only about the species in general but the history of this individual, how he came to be at San Diego, why he isn't on general exhibit and why they're so rare in zoos.
The presentation venue isn't that easy to find - I had to ask a volunteer - right at the back left of Discovery Outpost over a duck pond of all things, but anybody who is going must find a way back there for 1:30.
One of the things that surprised me a little about San Diego is that's its more compact than I expected. No excuses for not getting back to this.
It was a great little presentation, not only about the species in general but the history of this individual, how he came to be at San Diego, why he isn't on general exhibit and why they're so rare in zoos.
He was originally backstage but was more recently moved to a public exhibit that used to be a marmoset exhibit. It was that way in 2015 at least, they may have moved him backstage. I haven't been to the zoo for a few months.
Betsy or other SDZ regulars, do you know if he is still on public exhibit?
As David said, he was on public exhibit - but simply didn't show well. Basically nocturnal aside from the point in the day he'd worked out food arrived and therefore wakes up (briefly), it was felt a better way to show him was this way as you're guaranteed to see him each day.
When I visited on 4/5/16 the pangolin still had an exhibit in the Children's Zoo, in a glass-walled room. I certainly did not see him inside it however!
