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Below is a link to the $10 million Making Waves project, which includes expanded exhibits for hippos and penguins. If you click on the image there is an "encounter yard" for hippos and also "hippo grazing within gorilla habitat". Interesting! It is great to see Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continually upgrade some of its more disappointing areas and I believe that the facility will become the 13th in North America with underwater viewing of Nile Hippos.

Explore the Exhibit of Making Waves | CMZoo
 
That is great huge news! Looking at the map it looks like they have plans also to include Baboons. I am also curious as to which primate species to be added near the penguins. I wonder what will happen to the other species of the aquatics building?
 
The zoo's new silverback will be Gomo who will be arriving from Santa Barbara
 
Hippo Vacation and New Exhibit update

"Our hippo sisters, Zambezi (23) and Kasai (16), will be going on an extended vacation at Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, MO starting at the beginning of October. They will be gone while a new exhibit is built for them here with funds raised from our “Making Waves” capital campaign."

The new aquatics exhibit will provide new homes for both our hippos and penguins. Fundraising for the new exhibits are still underway.
The Zoo currently has $7.8 of the $10.4 million required for the expansion.Plans include a much larger and expanded hippo exhibit, underwater hippo viewing, new pools with African fish, and a new indoor space. There is also hope for the zoo to acquire a male.

The African penguins will also be getting a new habitat. “Their exhibit will be separate from the hippos and will include an outdoor space complete with grass, a sandy beach and a pool that will have underwater viewing.”

WaterholeA1-9-2016 | CMZoo
 
The Making Waves campaign has released an update. The renovated area will include new exhibits for Nile hippos, African penguins, lemurs, tortoises, saddle-billed storks, hoofstock, and other bird species. The plan states the penguin exhibit will be free roaming where guests can interact directly with the penguins much like the zoo's Australia Walkabout exhibit and the wallabies.

Article7-April2017 | CMZoo
 
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