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This is a thread made specifically so that people can post any news and / or comments that relate to the Bauru zoo.

This is a thread made specifically so that people can post any news and / or comments that relate to the Goiânia zoo.

This is a thread made specifically so that people can post any news and / or comments relating to Brasilia zoo in the Federal district / capital of the country.

I thought it would be very interesting to start this new thread, to talk about a zoo that is being built near the city of São Paulo (wich for who doesn't know, already has one of the largest zoos in Latin America). The institution seems to be close to inauguration, belongs to the same owner of...

This is the thread where we can discuss about the Rio de Janeiro zoo and its animals, as well as any other stuff related to the institution.

Currently: * Western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) - Batu Secret Zoo * Silvery marmoset (Mico argentatus) - Faunaland * Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) - Siantar Zoo, Cikao Park Purwakarta, and Batu Secret Zoo * Black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) - Batu Secret Zoo *...

Does anyone know zoos where lemurs are kept within the region ? What species are kept and how many individuals ? What are the enclosures like and are they adequate ? Muchas Gracias / Obrigado / Thank you

I found this interesting article the other day on the history of zoos in Latin America written by a scholar at Oxford University, UK. It chronicles the the ancient / Pre-Colombian history of zoos in the region, the colonial and post-independence periods and the modern history of these...

This is the cerrado biome exhibit at Belo Horizonte zoo. It houses a couple of gray brocket deers, a couple of greater rheas, two giant anteaters, and a few tapirs. The place is a little larger than an acre (near 5.000 m2/53.819ft2), has five pools (two big ones and three smaller ones).

Baby caiman rescued from the traffic. He's living in the old caiman pond with amazon turtles (Podocnemis expansa) and some Geoffroy's side-necked turtles (Phrynops geoffroanus). Hope he will be soon joining the zoo's caiman group in the main exhibit.

This is the male individual of marsh deer at BH zoo. A female arrived a few weeks ago, but I couldn't spot her on the exhibit.

This is the marsh deer exhibit at BH zoo. A male has been living there for a few years, and a female arrived a few weeks ago, but I couldn't spot her on the exhibit.

This is the cerrado biome exhibit at Belo Horizonte zoo. It houses a couple of gray brocket deers, a couple of greater rheas, two giant anteaters, and a few tapirs. The place is a little larger than an acre (near 5.000 m2/53.819ft2), has five pools (two big ones and three smaller ones).

This is a simulation of the spring of the brazilian river of São Francisco, right at the entrance of the zoo's thematic aquarium that exclusively represents the mentioned river.

First public butterfly house in Brazil.

7.500m2 (1.8 acre/80.730ft2) exhibit for the african bush elephants.

1300m2 (0,3 acre/13400ft2) dry moat style exhibit for gray woolly monkeys (lagothrix cana).

Row with six exhibits that hold four different species of hoofstock animals: Gemsbok, red-deer, fallow-deer and marsh-deer

Western lowland gorilla "Imbi" with her two offspring.