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...
Regulars on this site know that I am a wild cat fanatic and often travel to find obscure small cats. Sand cats, though not present in large numbers, are present in several zoos in the USA. However the public does not have access to a lot of these.
Phoenix Zoo opened a new exhibit a couple years...
Al Ain wildlife park is exporting 4 sand cats to the USA.
Two male and two female sand cats will be flown to zoos in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas where they will become founders of a new sand cat breeding programme intended to further diversify the genetics of populations in the US...