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Milwaukee Man · 28 Sep 2017

New arrivals are settling in at the new Alliance for Sustainable Wildlife. Some include bongos, sable antelope, and yellow-backed duiker.

https://wtop.com/science/2017/09/home-on-the-range-antelope-get-new-digs-in-new-orleans/

Milwaukee Man · 12 Oct 2017

Female gorilla Tumani arrived from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

New gorilla at Audubon Zoo may stay indoors for a little bit

Milwaukee Man · 24 Jan 2018

A giraffe was born at the Species Survival Center.

New Year celebration: Baby giraffe born in New Orleans

Milwaukee Man · 27 Jan 2018

Construction began on the lion exhibit - set to open next year.

WVUE : Construction begins on the Audubon Zoo's new lion exhibit

Milwaukee Man · 21 Mar 2018

Criaturas de la Noche (Spanish for “Creatures of the Night”) opens in a couple days:

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-03-21/audubon-zoos-newest-building-turns-day-to-night

snowleopard · 21 Mar 2018

Milwaukee Man said:
Criaturas de la Noche (Spanish for “Creatures of the Night”) opens in a couple days:

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-03-21/audubon-zoos-newest-building-turns-day-to-night

I've been eagerly anticipating the opening of this project and it is nice to finally learn some details. Seba's short-tailed bats (200 of them!), vampire bats, poison dart frogs, green tree frogs, giant cave cockroaches, tarantulas, ring-tailed cats and douroucoulis. The whole thing sounds fantastic as I'm a big fan of Nocturnal Houses.

Buldeo · 22 Mar 2018

Milwaukee Man said:
Construction began on the lion exhibit - set to open next year.

WVUE : Construction begins on the Audubon Zoo's new lion exhibit

I watched the video of this a while back, and, having recently learned of London Zoo's Land of the Lions exhibit, I can't help wonder if they're drawing some inspiration -- the train setup seems pretty on the nose.

Milwaukee Man said:
Criaturas de la Noche (Spanish for “Creatures of the Night”) opens in a couple days:

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-03-21/audubon-zoos-newest-building-turns-day-to-night

Very nice. It sounds like a great setup. Though, I keep imagining Olmec from Legends of the Hidden Temple when they're describing the idol head!

geomorph · 10 Apr 2018

I have just visited Audubon Zoo for the first time, and toured the new Criaturas de la Noche Bat House, which is adjacent to the existing Jaguar Jungle and South America Pampas exhibit areas. The new structure is rather small and contains 9 exhibits within its very dark interior. The visitor pathway is a short one-way route inside the simulated archeological dig shack. 3 of the exhibits are small room-sized enclosures with floor-to-ceiling glass panels, while the other 6 are smaller wall exhibits of various sizes. Each exhibit contains one species, seen in this order:

Seba's Short-tailed Bat
Nancy Ma's Night Monkey
Anthony's Poison Arrow Frog
Central American Giant Cave Roach
Red-eyed Tree Frog
Costa Rican Zebra Tarantula
Venezuelan Suntiger Tarantula
Common Vampire Bat
Ring-tailed Cat

When I visited, the Seba's short-tailed bats were very active, although difficult to really see individuals in the flurry and a bit of lighting glare since their exhibit is viewed from two sides. Otherwise everything else did not present itself. The level of detail of the exhibits was a little above average, and I think it is a nice addition to the zoo's Central and South American area.