Asian and African Elephants at the Same Zoo

jbnbsn99

jbnbsn99

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I am wondering how many zoos keep both Asian and African Elephants. I'm not necessarily interested in zoos with one exhibit that mix Africans and Asians (San Diego and Woodland Park), but rather zoos that have two separate exhibits devoted to each species. The only one I can think of right now is Miami.
 
jbnbsn99 said:
I am wondering how many zoos keep both Asian and African Elephants. I'm not necessarily interested in zoos with one exhibit that mix Africans and Asians (San Diego and Woodland Park), but rather zoos that have two separate exhibits devoted to each species. The only one I can think of right now is Miami.
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Until 2004 San Francisco had both--now they have neither.
 
Columbus is supposedly going to include African elephants in its grand scheme of creating a massive African Savanna, so by 2012 or 2013 that zoo could well have both species. Incidentally, once the African and South American areas are complete then the Columbus Zoo might be close to the # 1 zoo in North America in terms of its overall collection of animals. San Diego and the Bronx will have to compete with both Columbus and Omaha for the sheer size and variety of their animal collections.
 
We are also currently housing the three Cleveland girls so we do have both species. Technically one of our yards is entirely devoted to the Africans (we put our Aux. yard back in use for the Asians) so we do have two separate exhibits devoted to both species.
 
Paington Zoo in the UK houses 1 african elephant (Dutches) and 1 Asian elephnt (Gay) both female, in the same exhibit.
 
Tierpark Berlin has decent-sized herds of both species.
 
Barcelona had both species in different exhibits a few years ago.
Also in the old Hannover zoo (befor it became Erlebniszoo Hannover) the two species were seperated (I don't know for how long). Today, Hannover shows only Asian Elephants.
Maybe there can be a few more in southern (Lissabon?) and eastern Europe.
 
Taronga Western Plains Zoo has both. I believe 2 female Africans and 3 female Asians and have a share of 4 exhibits.
 
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