Couple of small changes:
1. At Rhino Reserve, construction has expanded. Now access to the bongos and flamingos (and still the zebras, and former crane yard) has been cut off. At the cut off line, there were large piles of top soil and a Bobcat handling them. My hopes is that the top soil is used to cover the rocky/gravel filled zebra yard.
2. In the Asian building of Jungle Trails: a fake tree was added between the loris and the genet exhibit. This tree is identical to the one in the African building where branches and leaves break out across the ceiling of the first hallway.
3. The Pygmy slow lorises were off exhibit.
4. In Wings of the World, the covering to the Grasslands exhibit was placed down once again - meaning the habitat has new residents.
5. At Swan Lake: the small 'Wetland Trail/Sandhill Crane' exhibit closed last year. The exhibit was an open topped marsh that had a natural line of brush (and a small fence) to keep the crane from entering into the actual lake. Recently, that fence and brush were taken down, giving more land space to the Trumpeter Swans. They were laying in that area and they can get closer to guests than ever before.