covid19

Plenty of signage around for covid information.

A few hand gel washing stations around the zoo

A hand Wash station on the way out of the goat pen area. Where you can buy food to feed the goats.

New research on the susceptibility of lemurs to COVID-19 is detailed in one of todays mongabay articles. Endangered and endemic: Madagascar’s lemurs susceptible to coronavirus infection

Many collections have animal enclosures, such as walkthroughs, or opportunities to feed animals (I remember you could pay extra to feed the Flamingos at Los Angeles Zoo). One theory of the origin of this zoonotic virus is that it that the virus jumped from an animal, such as a bat, onto a human...

Yes, a long subject title. Today many zoos are in trouble as they are shuttered, furloughing staff, pleading for funds. Some small zoos will not reopen. But when the stay-at-home orders are lifted, even when there is a vaccine, the world economic situation will be the worst it has been in...