Are these species in walk-through exhibit and where?

Jurek7 said:
A thread for asking about walk-through exhibits, after the excellent thread of @snowleopard showed a number of zoos keeping sitatunga in walkthrough paddocks.

Are there any walk-through exhibits with any gazelle species?
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Hello. I am quite sure none are currently held in walk-through enclosures.

Some users from Britain may be able to tell you about Longleat, which had african herbivores in a drive-through exhibit where you could leave the car and be one with the animals way back in the 1980s.
 
Answering myself: I found a curious comment by @LaughingDove about the place called Banyan Tree Al Wadi in United Arab Emirates: Arabian Oryx in a playground! - ZooChat

"The main function of this place is a luxury resort though it has a few animals as there is a mini zoo type thing within the resort (I didn't actually stay there overnight - too expensive - I just visited during the day). Free roaming around the place are Arabian Oryx and Arabian Gazelle which congregated in areas where the lawns were watered to eat the grass such as in this playground."

I wonder how much space is there and how confined are the gazelle? Is this some version of an American park with semi-wild white-tailed deer, but on the desert and with gazelle?
 
Jurek7 said:
Answering myself: I found a curious comment by @LaughingDove about the place called Banyan Tree Al Wadi in United Arab Emirates: Arabian Oryx in a playground! - ZooChat

"The main function of this place is a luxury resort though it has a few animals as there is a mini zoo type thing within the resort (I didn't actually stay there overnight - too expensive - I just visited during the day). Free roaming around the place are Arabian Oryx and Arabian Gazelle which congregated in areas where the lawns were watered to eat the grass such as in this playground."

I wonder how much space is there and how confined are the gazelle? Is this some version of an American park with semi-wild white-tailed deer, but on the desert and with gazelle?
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I recall seeing a few instances of similar things in the Middle East. Instead of deer roaming around a large park or estate you might have gazelles.
 
Jurek7 said:
A thread for asking about walk-through exhibits, after the excellent thread of @snowleopard showed a number of zoos keeping sitatunga in walkthrough paddocks.

Are there any walk-through exhibits with any gazelle species?
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Not sitatunga, but I believe a zoo somewhere in Asia has a sort of 'walkthrough' exhibit with sambhar. It's basically a low bridge over a paddock with the sambar being able to pass underneath. I'll try to post a pic if I can find it.
 
Jurek7 said:
A thread for asking about walk-through exhibits, after the excellent thread of @snowleopard showed a number of zoos keeping sitatunga in walkthrough paddocks.

Are there any walk-through exhibits with any gazelle species?
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Not quite a gazelle, but the now-closed Special Memories Zoo had a Nilgai walkthrough.
 
birdsandbats said:
Not quite a gazelle, but the now-closed Special Memories Zoo had a Nilgai walkthrough.
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Once Branféré Zoo (and perhaps Clères?) had a herd of Blackbucks in its main walkthrough.
Branféré still keeps Water Deer, Patagonian Maras, Red-necked Wallabies and hundreds of birds in this space.
 
Tapirus Lar said:
Not sitatunga, but I believe a zoo somewhere in Asia has a sort of 'walkthrough' exhibit with sambhar. It's basically a low bridge over a paddock with the sambar being able to pass underneath. I'll try to post a pic if I can find it.
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Animália Park has gray brocket deer in its South American walkthrough aviary.
 
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