Denver Zoo Asian Tropics

Yes, Asian Tropics sounds a lot better in my opinion. Most likely it will still be known as Asian Tropics. Denver Zoo has done too much "Asian Tropic" advertising to just forget about the original name. Though I quite dislike it when zoo exhibits are named after a family's last name or a Business.
 
Pacarana said:
Yes, Asian Tropics sounds a lot better in my opinion. Most likely it will still be known as Asian Tropics. Denver Zoo has done too much "Asian Tropic" advertising to just forget about the original name. Though I quite dislike it when zoo exhibits are named after a family's last name or a Business.
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Toyota Elephant Passage seems to be the official new name:

Denver Zoo: Toyota Elephant Passage

November's construction update includes a couple of photos of exhibits:

Denver Zoo: Toyota Elephant Passage - Construction Updates
 
Maybe toyota is going to use it to launch a new car line called the passage!! :) I can see the commercials already elephants versus hamsters in cars :)
 
Well, whatever the name is, it will still be a good exhibit and serve a good purpose. The only thing I'm a little worried about with this exhibit is their fishing cats and otters. They will be inside permanently! They will have no outside access. I herd from a keeper that the fishing cat cage will be open and not enclosed in their indoor cage. Haven't they already learned with Cheyenne Mountain Zoo that thats a really bad idea! I have a strange feeling that when you enter the indoor complex that it will stink really bad.
 
Pacarana said:
Yes, Asian Tropics sounds a lot better in my opinion. Most likely it will still be known as Asian Tropics. Denver Zoo has done too much "Asian Tropic" advertising to just forget about the original name. Though I quite dislike it when zoo exhibits are named after a family's last name or a Business.
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I agree with you on this one, but sometimes it's for the best to do so because of the financial benefits this naming brings. 5.4 million is a welcome extra to the budget I can imagine. Though I agree with you and I don't see why it couldn't have been called the Toyota Asian Tropics.
 
Well that is an unexpected arrival. I was at FWZ yesterday and there were still signs up saying he was there.
 
For the record, I like the idea of an all bull herd.

The slideshow portrays him in a yard with cable siding - not very attractive (or photo friendly) - but I assume this is a smaller side yard. The website drawings show a boardwalk over a river with open viewing, which looks very promising.

As for the lack of lanscaping (except grass), I remember reading a while back that they were storing the plants in a greenhouse. Maybe they are still there and will not be planted until it is a bit warmer?

June 1 opening date seems a bit odd - why not move it one week earlier to Memorial Day weekend? (For those of you outside the USA, Memorial Day is a major holiday on the last Monday in May and is generally considered to be the official start of the summer vacation season).

Any ZooChatters planning to go out there this summer to see it? (As far as I know we do not have any forum members from Denver).
 
Arizona Docent said:
Any ZooChatters planning to go out there this summer to see it? (As far as I know we do not have any forum members from Denver).
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Denver Zoo is included on my summer road trip itinerary, and it should be almost the final attraction of the journey before we head northwards back into Canada. I'm really looking forward to the visit and so by the middle of August I will be posting an extensive review of a zoo with several top-notch exhibit complexes and a very large collection of animals. Primates are usually amongst the favourites of any zoogoer, and Denver has 30 species in the 7-acre Primate Panorama.
 
Denver is certainly on our radar this year although not yet sure whether it'll be in the summer or the fall.

Team Tapir
 
@AZ, I have a feeling all the yards shown in the video were holding yards. I don't think the zoo would show off the exhibit in a preview video, I think it was to wet the appetite of the zoogoers, so to speak
 
Arizona Docent said:
Any ZooChatters planning to go out there this summer to see it? (As far as I know we do not have any forum members from Denver).
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I will be heading to Denver to see Asian Tropics after my family's week-long summer camping trip in mid-July. I will make sure and take plenty of pictures and post them up.
 
Arizona Docent - I believe all the plants have been planted by now and there just waiting for them to grow.

I actually live in Denver and go to the zoo quite often. I'm sure I'll be there when Asian Tropics, I mean, Toyota Elephant Passage;) when it opens on June 1.

I'm very excited for this new exhibit and I'm happy that the pachyderms get newer enclosures and Denver can exhibit clouded leopards again but I'm honestly not to thrilled with the exhibit right now. It isn't summer yet so it does look different but I feel that the enclosures for the animals, especially the elephants are small. The same size of the elephants cage right now. I might be wrong but thats just what I see so far.
 
Yeah, I am losing interest in this project. When I saw construction of it this summer (practically all of the hardscape, no plants yet) I was impressed by the amount of planning, the concepts, and the publicity of the exhibit, but not the design. I figured it was too early to judge it too much, but I don't think its going to be anything mind-blowing (aside from the engineering put into the rotation of Malayan Tapirs, Indian Rhinos, and Asian Elephants!)
 
Just heard that Knoxville is hoping to move its breeding bull and bring in two more females in order to open up the yards and establish a non breeding female herd.

Team Tapir
 
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