Yeah, I never like to see species leave, but the pumas are settling in great and are a hit with visitors. Maybe they'll have servals again once the Amur leopard cubs from last year go out to other facilities. Its entirely possible that they still have one bts.
AZA is focused on Bennett's and Tammar Wallabies. There's also a smaller population of Rock Wallabies in the AZA as well, and the Parma Wallaby population is all but doomed due to the sex imbalance and small size of the population (same story as with tinamous).
Oh okay I didn’t know that they still had capybaras and southern ground hornbills.
- Not likely unless Philly pulled a ZooParc De Beauval.
- Unless they did a Congo area/had the okapi utilize the long-rumored Large Mammal Trails, not likely.
- Philly should differentiate itself rhinowise from Maryland and Bronx, honestly I'd say they should pull a Lincoln Park and get black rhinos when Tony the white rhino passes on/gets transferred. Pretty cold tolerant, require less space, etc.
- Sadly not likely. I personally think they have the space for a bachelor group of elephants (at least), plus Zoo360/the opportunity to fill in Bird Lake for the giraffes/general large mammal habitat. Like, the space of the old Children's Zoo/picnic area and the space of Bird Lake being large mammal habitats connected by 360 trails totals to about 5-6 acres, which is plenty of usable space for elephants, and is especially a lot of space for giraffe, ostrich, ankole cattle, zebra, rhino (and hopefully hippo). I'm probably the most enthusiastic guy here who wants to see elephants back at Philly, but the main issue (to my understanding) is funding + lack of interest.
- YES. Rare Animal Conservation Center'd be perfect for these guys.
- Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls'd be perfect for fishing cat! Honestly I think they should be in the grotto next to the main giant otter habitat.
- Possible, but I don't see how they could fit within the zoo. Maybe in KidZooU?
- Issue is wing-clipping/providing a good aviary space for them to fly around in. Otherwise I'd be on board.
- Phase out species.
- As cool (no pun intended) as they'd be, I do think the penguins are a damn good replacement. That said, they did construct Penguin Point in such a way that it could be easily repurposed, so who knows?
- Also a phase out species.
- ...they still have southern ground hornbill - in Princess the Andean condor's former habitat next to the Avian Center
- Same story with the capybara.
- I guess you could throw them in with the kangaroos and emus? Issue is I think the AZA's primarily focusing on Bennett's.
- African striped weasel, not likely. Echidna'd require some teeth pulling, but it's not *impossible*. Past that, the Small Mammal House was closed mainly for ventilation reasons, and COVID just cemented that. So the zoo's basically working to rehome the small mammals throughout the campus - I am actually excited to see the vampire bats in Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls!
They don't have capybara anymore (not for a *long* while) but they do still have the hornbills.
Oh okay thanks for letting me know because it’s been a very long time since I’ve been there and all I can remember regarding the hornbill was them being right next to the hippos where the kids zoo is currently and regarding the fishing cat that part of the zoo where you say that they can put the fishing cat was where it was but it’s no longer there but instead of the grotto next to the river otters they were in a grotto that was right next to where they had Canadian lynx.
I know there are mutterings of wanting elephants back in Philly but I feel like with the standard set by zoos like Omaha and Portland, it's such an undertaking that it's genuinely intimidating.
- Not likely unless Philly pulled a ZooParc De Beauval.
- Unless they did a Congo area/had the okapi utilize the long-rumored Large Mammal Trails, not likely.
- Philly should differentiate itself rhinowise from Maryland and Bronx, honestly I'd say they should pull a Lincoln Park and get black rhinos when Tony the white rhino passes on/gets transferred. Pretty cold tolerant, require less space, etc.
- Sadly not likely. I personally think they have the space for a bachelor group of elephants (at least), plus Zoo360/the opportunity to fill in Bird Lake for the giraffes/general large mammal habitat. Like, the space of the old Children's Zoo/picnic area and the space of Bird Lake being large mammal habitats connected by 360 trails totals to about 5-6 acres, which is plenty of usable space for elephants, and is especially a lot of space for giraffe, ostrich, ankole cattle, zebra, rhino (and hopefully hippo). I'm probably the most enthusiastic guy here who wants to see elephants back at Philly, but the main issue (to my understanding) is funding + lack of interest.
- YES. Rare Animal Conservation Center'd be perfect for these guys.
- Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls'd be perfect for fishing cat! Honestly I think they should be in the grotto next to the main giant otter habitat.
- Possible, but I don't see how they could fit within the zoo. Maybe in KidZooU?
- Issue is wing-clipping/providing a good aviary space for them to fly around in. Otherwise I'd be on board.
- Phase out species.
- As cool (no pun intended) as they'd be, I do think the penguins are a damn good replacement. That said, they did construct Penguin Point in such a way that it could be easily repurposed, so who knows?
- Also a phase out species.
- ...they still have southern ground hornbill - in Princess the Andean condor's former habitat next to the Avian Center
- Same story with the capybara.
- I guess you could throw them in with the kangaroos and emus? Issue is I think the AZA's primarily focusing on Bennett's.
- African striped weasel, not likely. Echidna'd require some teeth pulling, but it's not *impossible*. Past that, the Small Mammal House was closed mainly for ventilation reasons, and COVID just cemented that. So the zoo's basically working to rehome the small mammals throughout the campus - I am actually excited to see the vampire bats in Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls!
- Not likely unless Philly pulled a ZooParc De Beauval.
- Unless they did a Congo area/had the okapi utilize the long-rumored Large Mammal Trails, not likely.
- Philly should differentiate itself rhinowise from Maryland and Bronx, honestly I'd say they should pull a Lincoln Park and get black rhinos when Tony the white rhino passes on/gets transferred. Pretty cold tolerant, require less space, etc.
- Sadly not likely. I personally think they have the space for a bachelor group of elephants (at least), plus Zoo360/the opportunity to fill in Bird Lake for the giraffes/general large mammal habitat. Like, the space of the old Children's Zoo/picnic area and the space of Bird Lake being large mammal habitats connected by 360 trails totals to about 5-6 acres, which is plenty of usable space for elephants, and is especially a lot of space for giraffe, ostrich, ankole cattle, zebra, rhino (and hopefully hippo). I'm probably the most enthusiastic guy here who wants to see elephants back at Philly, but the main issue (to my understanding) is funding + lack of interest.
- YES. Rare Animal Conservation Center'd be perfect for these guys.
- Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls'd be perfect for fishing cat! Honestly I think they should be in the grotto next to the main giant otter habitat.
- Possible, but I don't see how they could fit within the zoo. Maybe in KidZooU?
- Issue is wing-clipping/providing a good aviary space for them to fly around in. Otherwise I'd be on board.
- Phase out species.
- As cool (no pun intended) as they'd be, I do think the penguins are a damn good replacement. That said, they did construct Penguin Point in such a way that it could be easily repurposed, so who knows?
- Also a phase out species.
- ...they still have southern ground hornbill - in Princess the Andean condor's former habitat next to the Avian Center
- Same story with the capybara.
- I guess you could throw them in with the kangaroos and emus? Issue is I think the AZA's primarily focusing on Bennett's.
- African striped weasel, not likely. Echidna'd require some teeth pulling, but it's not *impossible*. Past that, the Small Mammal House was closed mainly for ventilation reasons, and COVID just cemented that. So the zoo's basically working to rehome the small mammals throughout the campus - I am actually excited to see the vampire bats in Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls!
Okay I am not really sure if it was a Parma wallaby it could have been a Tamar but with the okapi like I remember it used to be where the children’s zoo is now and then they moved it to a pen that had anteaters but with the rhinos thing could they pull like Sumatran or Javan rhinos but with the saddle billed storks they weren’t in the aviary they were instead across from the giraffe and like I feel that they should have taken down the wall that separates the giraffes from the rhino and the zebras or put in animals with the giraffes and I forgot some animals that i wanted to put the list of animals that I would like to back at the Philadelphia zoo and those animals are the coatimundi
- Not likely unless Philly pulled a ZooParc De Beauval.
- Unless they did a Congo area/had the okapi utilize the long-rumored Large Mammal Trails, not likely.
- Philly should differentiate itself rhinowise from Maryland and Bronx, honestly I'd say they should pull a Lincoln Park and get black rhinos when Tony the white rhino passes on/gets transferred. Pretty cold tolerant, require less space, etc.
- Sadly not likely. I personally think they have the space for a bachelor group of elephants (at least), plus Zoo360/the opportunity to fill in Bird Lake for the giraffes/general large mammal habitat. Like, the space of the old Children's Zoo/picnic area and the space of Bird Lake being large mammal habitats connected by 360 trails totals to about 5-6 acres, which is plenty of usable space for elephants, and is especially a lot of space for giraffe, ostrich, ankole cattle, zebra, rhino (and hopefully hippo). I'm probably the most enthusiastic guy here who wants to see elephants back at Philly, but the main issue (to my understanding) is funding + lack of interest.
- YES. Rare Animal Conservation Center'd be perfect for these guys.
- Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls'd be perfect for fishing cat! Honestly I think they should be in the grotto next to the main giant otter habitat.
- Possible, but I don't see how they could fit within the zoo. Maybe in KidZooU?
- Issue is wing-clipping/providing a good aviary space for them to fly around in. Otherwise I'd be on board.
- Phase out species.
- As cool (no pun intended) as they'd be, I do think the penguins are a damn good replacement. That said, they did construct Penguin Point in such a way that it could be easily repurposed, so who knows?
- Also a phase out species.
- ...they still have southern ground hornbill - in Princess the Andean condor's former habitat next to the Avian Center
- Same story with the capybara.
- I guess you could throw them in with the kangaroos and emus? Issue is I think the AZA's primarily focusing on Bennett's.
- African striped weasel, not likely. Echidna'd require some teeth pulling, but it's not *impossible*. Past that, the Small Mammal House was closed mainly for ventilation reasons, and COVID just cemented that. So the zoo's basically working to rehome the small mammals throughout the campus - I am actually excited to see the vampire bats in Red Panda Pass/Otter Falls!
With all due respect, there is legit no way in hell that any AZA zoo is getting Javan or Sumatran rhinos. Ideally they could get some Javan DNA and maybe use that to clone some with Indian rhino surrogates but that's just fantastical speculation
Oh okay but wait how did Cincinnati get the Sumatran rhino.
