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Arizona Docent said:
A large grazing area and space for up to five hippos certainly sounds promising...
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Emphasis on the word "sounds"... Let's hope they actually stick to this plan for a large, grazeable enclosure, rather than backpedaling on it like Dallas did.

Free-roaming penguins sounds delightful! Hopefully people will have enough common sense not to get their fingers nipped :p
 
Updates to Primate World have been completed. Improvements include new outdoor spaces that can be used by orangutans, gorillas, and siamangs. These new spaces will allow all orangutans to have access to outside spaces everyday.

The Aquatics building is now closed in preparation for demolition which should happen later this month.

Four Canada lynx kittens were born in May.

Eve, a female siamang was brought in from Brec's Baton Rouge Zoo to be a companion to the zoo's lone male siamang, Wayan.
 
Echobeast said:
Updates to Primate World have been completed. Improvements include new outdoor spaces that can be used by orangutans, gorillas, and siamangs. These new spaces will allow all orangutans to have access to outside spaces everyday.
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Thanks for all of the updates but I do have a question in regards to your comment about Primate World. You mention outdoor spaces and does that mean there are 2-3 new outdoor exhibits that have been built? The gorillas already have an enormous hillside enclosure and so is the new outdoor area closer to the current orangutan habitat? Are the new zones a sort of rotational area for the various species?
 
snowleopard said:
Thanks for all of the updates but I do have a question in regards to your comment about Primate World. You mention outdoor spaces and does that mean there are 2-3 new outdoor exhibits that have been built? The gorillas already have an enormous hillside enclosure and so is the new outdoor area closer to the current orangutan habitat? Are the new zones a sort of rotational area for the various species?
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Two meshed enclosures were built on the south side of the building so they are located between the current outdoor exhibits for gorillas and orangutans. They are actually behind two indoor exhibits so viewing is different than the other outdoor exhibits. Guests can view animals in the new outdoor spaces through windows in the back of the indoor exhibits. One of these indoor exhibits was also split into two. One half for siamangs and the other half for gorillas and orangutans. The dividing wall also has a window so the animals can see each other through it. Because the zoo only had one outdoor orangutan space but more than one group of orangutans, these new spaces were built so that all animals could have outdoor access everyday. This also gives the zoo extra spaces for the gorillas because as of right now, the troop is not fully introduced to the silverback that came in last spring.
 
Anadyr, a two year old, male Amur leopard that arrived from Yorkshire Wildlife Park in the U.K. can now be seen on exhibit. He will form a breeding pair with the zoo's younger female, Anya.
 
Lynx kittens (all female) were on exhibit today but didn't roam very far. They also now have names; Adelaide, Norrie, Aspen, and Frisco. Named after four ghost towns in Colorado.
 
The zoo's 15 year old Pallas' cat, the oldest in AZA, has passed away. The zoo now is without any Pallas' cats and from what I hear, will seek a breeding pair.
 
Official date for the demolition of the Aquatics building is August 23rd. The zoo will be holding a ceremony to celebrate the occasion.
 
In the zoo's annual report, it is mentioned that the zoo plans on building a new pizza restaurant by Spring 2019 and a new conservation building for the zoo's black-footed ferret, Wyoming toad, and Panama amphibian conservation efforts no later than 2020.

Link to the report:
http://www.cmzoo.org/docs/AnnualReport.2016-2017.pdf
 
The zoo recently had the birth of three meerkat pups.
 
Rosie the 28 year old Andean bear was euthanized this afternoon.
 
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