Buffalo Zoo Buffalo Zoo News 2013

5 Meerkats were born recently.
Several Roseate Spoonbills hatched at the zoo and are on exhibit in the Rainforest exhibit.
 
I was having trouble posting recently, but now I have it situated. Anyway I am thrilled about the tamandua news! I hope they all go out on exhibit soon and it be wonderful to go to a zoo with a few tamanduas all out and about.
 
This is the response I got when I asked the zoo about the tamanduas being on exhibit:

"Hi Andrew, right now none of the tamanduas are on exhibit. We're developing a plan for them and will announce if that changes."

I almost think they tamanduas have been off exhibit ever since they got them last August (sort of like Reid Park Zoo). Hopefully they'll become an exhibit soon. The zoo also informed me their other male, Alejandro, passed away earlier this year. He was one of my favorite zoo animals of all time so it's quite a loss for me. He was probably one of the most active tamanduas in a zoo.
 
Current Rotation Layout for Vanishing Animals Exhibits:

* Andean Bear/Polar Bear cubs
* Manned Wolf/Andean Bear
* Snow Leopard/Serval
* Snow Monkeys (alone)
* Crested Macaque (alone)
* Mandrill/Ring Tailed Lemur

The lionesses from the Smithsonian Zoo are still in quarantine. I saw the sibling trio. I am assuming the male has gotten a vasectomy as he is of the age to mate and I have seen a couple years ago him attempting to mount his sister.

There may be a new hyena or one under supervision. I saw two keepers closely observe the one on exhibit, but I did not want to ask them.

Asian elephants are once again separated. Granted I haven't been to the zoo in a year and a half, but I am remembering more often that they were separated. I am assuming the two females may not get along all the time. But when you see one of them swaying back and forth inside on a warm day, it really makes you want to see them moved to another zoo!
 
What's the status on the new entrance?

Based on photos I've seen, it looked done, but I haven't heard any news about it. :confused:
 
It is mostly done but they are still working on the new wallaby walk-thru and filling the gift shop. The new zoo sign is massive in person.
 
The sign is massive! Well, the kookaburras are taking over where the lorikeets used to be so I would assume it's right behind there in a walking area before you reach the reindeer. I did not see any construction for it when I went last month and because I didn't go on that trails, that would be my guess.
 
Milwaukee Man said:
Buffalo Zoo Short Funding for Polar Bear Exhibit | wgrz.com
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tease the visitors by sending away the bears... nothing new with Zoos scare tactics. if they cut the junk out (lynx, wolf, eagle, birds, interp. center) they have the funds to do it now. trim some rock work, and use fencing. not the most aesthetic, but it works nicely at Hogle and others. why not here? the wolf and lynx look ridiculously small. if they used the interp center for viewing and interp, the bears could have more space and there would be no need for this drama.
 
Gulo gulo said:
tease the visitors by sending away the bears... nothing new with Zoos scare tactics. if they cut the junk out (lynx, wolf, eagle, birds, interp. center) they have the funds to do it now. trim some rock work, and use fencing. not the most aesthetic, but it works nicely at Hogle and others. why not here? the wolf and lynx look ridiculously small. if they used the interp center for viewing and interp, the bears could have more space and there would be no need for this drama.
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Totally agree and in our opinion should of never spent a penny on its elephant exhibit rather they should have stop exhibiting them and a fantastic and bigger Arctic Region would probably be done by now !

Team Tapir223
 
I always thought one of the big cat grottoes could be used for the polar bears. However, you still have a lack of a big pool (there's only a small one probably the same size they have now). Also, are they sending their tigers away or will they be rotating? I am not sure why they just don't start construction and hope for the rest of the money later. That's what Seneca Park Zoo did with their lion exhibit and as far as I know, they eventually got the money they needed. Start on it and if you need to make cuts along the way, then so be it. I agree, the other animals are not needed if it can save money. What it comes down to it...the polar bears, who are already there, are in need of a new, modern, permanent home.
 
Going on another comment made by team tapir, they are going to have this same issue when faced to revamp their elephant exhibit and get a new elephant in order to keep them.
 
Consider that the zoo is not only about nice housing for the animals, vital as that must be.
In the struggle for visitation and future funding (without which there will be no zoo in the future), great exhibits and visitor experiences are necessary tools. This zoo has struggled for YEARS and is slowly coming back, growing, adding new exhibits. Apparently they want to do it "right" as they see it. And perhaps sending away tigers is not the road to maintaining visitation.

This discussion is an interesting contrast to all of the "Best Marmot Exhibit In SouthEast Wyoming" threads that fill the USA zoo forum here. You can't have it both ways: criticize a zoo for not having the best exhibit of its kind anywhere and also insist they throw together something and just get the darn animal out.
 
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