Sign at Auckland Zoos the tropics

Sign at new Tropics exhibit

What else lives in this area?

(ie. what other animal exhibits are there?)

They are building a new Cotton top tamarin enclousure to be part of the tropics which they say will be finished in September

Tygo said:

They are building a new Cotton top tamarin enclousure to be part of the tropics which they say will be finished in September

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So so far Cottontop Tamarins and Alligators right?

Are they going to add more species to it?

Yes
Not sure what other animals they are getting maybe only the alligators and tamarins

Tygo said:

Yes
Not sure what other animals they are getting maybe only the alligators and tamarins

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Thanks for that information

It will link through to the rainforest section when finished, which has tarantulas, spider monkeys, agouti, and golden lion tamarins. Across from this are the Galapagos Tortoises and macaws. So I'm guessing this area will be the "South American Precinct", as it has all the South American species the zoo holds (I think). It also has the bonnet macaques (phase out) and a pair of siamangs, but hopefully, and this is just my fantasy, they will move these out of there, and put brazilian tapir/capuchin in the siamang enclosure, and mesh over the macaque exhibit and add birds (amazons, toucans?) and capybara. Also the original cotton-top tamarin exhibit in the rainforest, currently disused, could have pygmy or common marmosets in it. I reckon that would be pretty awesome.

They would also have to remove the otters from the bonnet macque enclousure and could look at getting an American cat species.

oh true, i forgot about those them. yea that would be a cool enclosure for some ocelots or similar, but I cant see that happening

yeah they should look at a range of animals