enclosures

Let's start the new Tierpark year with a look back at some of last year's highlights: I hope they'll publish an official outlook on 2024 shortly, but for now that's what I am looking forward to: 1) The Asia enclosure likely will open this Spring (Asian Small-Clawed Otters, Babirusas, Black...

This is a row of parrot aviaries, as well as enclosures for African spurred tortoise and red-fronted brown lemurs.

An aviary for parrots.

I've been doing some thinking and reading about the necessity of ex-situ Eulemur conservation lately given how dire the situation facing many of these is in the wild in Madagascar. I wanted to start this thread specifically about the genus within zoos and discuss what the best enclosures for...

I'm not sure if a thread like this has been posted before, but which animals do you think get the best enclosures typically? Perhaps meerkats or prairie dogs, or maybe poison dart frogs?

Oh look, SJ13 talking about something ape related! What a shocker! As the title suggests, anyone else fancy ranking their top five enclosures? We'll go by Twycross rules and say best orangutan, best gorilla, best chimpanzee and best bonobo enclosures. Ranking indoors and outdoors separately...

Hi Crew, I'm staff at the newly rebought Warrawong sanctuary in Adelaide. We've been offered a wombat ad we are now trying to design a new enclosure. I was planning on stopping at a few parks for inspiration but we are running out of time. We really like the idea of visible dens and night time...

All four species and several subspecies of hyrax are kept in european zoos. I know this because of Zootierliste. But I do not know how common they are in zoos on other continents. Do many zoos in America, Africa and The Middle East keep hyraxes? I want to know more about their natural history...

Hello my name is nicki I was curious if anyone knows where I can find all the regulations for enclosures and care of zoo animals. thanks for all your help :D

I've been having a discussion on another forum about captive chimps. The person I've been speaking to is very anti-zoo and cites Antwerp as a very bad exhibit with unhappy animals. I've never been, but it's my belief that keepers tend to work hard to keep their charges happy even if the...

You can see a Lion-tailed macaque in the foreground, and a White-cheeked gibbon in the background (on the tree). Photo taken August 2007.

These enclosures were built in the 1950s and were demolished in 1996 when the condor aviary was built. The wall at teh rear was part of the Kamchatka bear enclosure and the fence formed part of the bear walkway. The bear enclosure is now the condor aviary.

Several cages were built in 1967 to the south of the cat house, to house the jaguars which were thought unsuitable to be housed in the main cat house. They were demolished in 1985 to make way for the Axis Deer Enclosure.

The caracal female in the African Aviaries in Copenhagen Zoo. The aviaries opened in 2004, and are some of the best of the smaller enclosures in the zoo. Taken in Copenhagen Zoo, 2007.