desert

Buy Fish by JZX, Singapore. 14/02/2025.

9.30.2022

Hello! I am the Animal Care Coordinator at a small, ZAA accredited zoo in Southern Nevada. Post Covid I wear many hats at the zoo but what I am working on now is designing a tentative plan for creating some new animal enclosures for species we want to bring to the zoo and re-vamping enclosures...

While "tropical rainforest" houses (usually with a focus on South America, SE Asia or a mix of everything "rainforesty") are a common feature in many non-tropical zoos and exhibit complexes on Artic/Antarctic habitats or the African savanna grassland aren't unheard of (usually centered around...

The American Southwest/Mexico is a region that you sometimes find great representation for in zoos, other times you won't. Most often, there are a couple of terrariums for animals such as gila monsters, rattlesnake species, etc. What are some of the best representations you have seen of this...

A map I made of the Great Deserts of the West area at the Oceanian fantasy zoo I am making.

A pair of exhibits for Southern Hairy-nosed wombats and Rothschild's rock-wallabies, along with a pretty simplistic building :D, a few glass viewing panels and some solar panels. This is about a 70th of the whole map. Not all of it is this detailed, but I try to make it look realistic, so...

Just moved in and already fighting!

Resting in his/her brand new enclosure

A combination that works wonders.

A combination that works wonders.

A new addition to the Terrari, includes Bell's dabb lizards and African gold skinks

A new addition, includes Gila monsters and blue spiny lizards.

Two new desert terraria, representing reptiles from the Sahara (left) and the Sonora (right). They're each aproximately 3mx2m in size.

In april I visited the United Arab Emirates to do all 7 emirates in 7 days which I managed but while I was there I visited a place called banyan tree al wadi resort and private nature reserve in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. Now that a gallery has been made I will be adding photos but here I...

Desert bighorn sheep at the Phoenix Zoo