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TigerValley98 said:
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo rhino arrives safely in Chicago

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s large male eastern black rhinoceros Jimma is now a resident of the Windy City.

Jimma arrived safely at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago yesterday after a roughly six-hour trip by truck from Cleveland. An animal keeper from the Zoo accompanied him on the trip and will stay in Chicago for a day or two to help him acclimate.

The transfer to Brookfield was recommended by the Black Rhino Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. SSPs are cooperative breeding and management groups for endangered or threatened species including black rhinos, lowland gorillas, polar bears and African elephants.

The eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) is classified as “critically endangered” in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the primary organization for quantifying conservation assessment efforts. The IUCN estimates there are less than 1,000 of this rhino subspecies left in the wild, concentrated primarily in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.

Jimma came to Cleveland in 2005 from the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan to meet the Zoo’s adult female rhino Inge. He sired two offspring during his time here, female Zuri in 2007, who now lives at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, and female Johari in 2010, who still lives in Cleveland. Jimma was born in 1990 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California.

The Zoo currently has three female rhinos, Inge, who is estimated to be 18-20 years old, Kibibi, 8, and Johari, 21 months.

Northeast Ohio’s most-visited year-round attraction, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with hours extended to 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Admission is $12.25 per person, $8.25 for kids ages 2 to 11 and free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. Parking is free. Located at 3900 Wildlife Way, the Zoo is easily accessible from Interstates 71, 90 and 480.


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This might explain why there is a crate in the one of Brookfield Zoo's Black Rhino exhibits.
 
Cleveland's Ring Tailed Lemurs,Red Ruffed Lemurs and Muellers Gibbons are all now on exhibit on their summer islands at Waterfowl Lake.I sure was great seeing all of these primates incredibly active in natural exhibits.

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So wait, are there any more Eastern Black Rhinos on exhibit, or was Jimma the only one? I don't recall how many we had.
 
Four Egyptian Geese have recently hatched and can be seen on exhibit in the African Savannah.

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team tapir said:
We have three girls and I hope I got the names right here Inge,Johari and Kibbibi

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It would be interesting to see which bull they bring in eventually.
Johari is of breeding age now. Breeding female Inge still has her calf Kibibi with her .. She will not be bred AFAIK for another year or so.

Bontebok calf ... excellent! How many collections in the US still hold these?
 
Cleveland now has one of its two cheetah cubs on exhibit.The other is being housed at the zoos vetinary facility with a undisclosed injury.

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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo completes Big Creek water improvement project

Sustainability and environmental stewardship are core tenets of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s mission. This applies not just to the animals in the Zoo’s care and the operation of the park, but to the natural resources of the surrounding area and Big Creek, too.

One of the main sources of water pollution in urban areas is runoff from surfaces such as parking lots and roads. Rain and snow that fall on these surfaces collect contaminants from the ground such as road salt, oil and litter and carry them into our waterways. One inch of rain falling on a one-acre parking lot can produce 3,450 cubic feet of runoff, enough to fill a two-car garage.

“Everyone needs to do their part to help protect the rivers, lakes and streams that make up our watershed, and the Zoo is no different,” said Zoo Director Steve Taylor.

Last year, Cleveland Metroparks received a $180,000 Surface Water Improvement Fund grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to help stop pollution from entering Big Creek, a small tributary that runs through the Zoo and eventually feeds the Cuyahoga River and ultimately Lake Erie.

The grant was used to fund construction of a diversion channel and retention basin that will filter nearly 100 percent of the runoff from the 11-acre parking lot behind The RainForest before it enters Big Creek.

Water flows across the lot into the diversion channel where large gravel slows the water down to avoid soil erosion and filters out larger pollutants such as litter. The water then collects in the 30,000-square-foot retention basin where it is held for at least 48 hours to allow time for pollutants to settle out of the water. The water then travels through an underdrain where it is filtered again, this time through finer gravel and a special fabric that removes smaller pollutants, before it passes through a flow control system out into Big Creek.

By giving up a few dozen parking spaces, Cleveland Metroparks and the Ohio EPA are improving the water quality of Big Creek and the Lake Erie watershed.

Northeast Ohio’s most-visited year-round attraction, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with hours extended to 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Admission is $12.25 per person, $8.25 for kids ages 2 to 11 and free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. Parking is free. Located at 3900 Wildlife Way, the Zoo is easily accessible from Interstates 71, 90 and 480.

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I went to CMZ today. The contact animal barn is back open in Australian Adventure. The Camel Ride has moved back to AA. The seal & sea lion exhibit is closed for some renovations.
 
From Fort Wayne Children's Zoo's Facebook page:

Dingo pups Brumby and Elzey are heading to their new home at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo tomorrow. We'll miss the twp pups but are happy to supply dingoes for the Cleveland Zoo's new exhibit, opening later this summer!

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Argh!, Tiger Valley beat me to the punch re:the dingo news! :)
While hearing advance news of the aye aye and onager, news of the dingoes arrival was a pleasant, unexpected surprise while surfing Facebook. I'll be at the annual Aussie-themed CZS event in about two weeks, so if I hear anything, I'll share, but in the interim, does anyone know where they'll be going? The singing dog enclosure?
 
would it be a possiblity right across from the cheetahs in the tortoise exhibit. I might be going up on wednesday with a friend if i do, ill try and find out where they will be going.
 
I predict that the dingos will go the in current singing dog exhibit. I only saw one of the singing dogs Wednesday. I bet the singing dogs are being sent to other zoos. The only construction work at the zoo was around the Reinberger Homestead and that was around the exit gate for Wallaby Walkabout.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
It would be interesting to see which bull they bring in eventually.
Johari is of breeding age now. Breeding female Inge still has her calf Kibibi with her .. She will not be bred AFAIK for another year or so.

Bontebok calf ... excellent! How many collections in the US still hold these?
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I know Disney's Animal Kingdom has Bontebok at their park and at AK Lodge.
 
We can confirm that the dingo pups will be exhibited in the current singing dog yard.The zoos two singing dogs both of which were on exhibit today are going to be sent to a zoo in Kansas.Expect the dingos to be on exhibit sometime in August.

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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo saddened by death of zebras

A female Grant’s zebra and her unborn foal were found dead in their night quarters by animal keepers at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo early on the morning of July 4.

The seven-year-old female, Nettie, was pregnant with her second offspring and appeared to have died overnight during the birthing process. A necropsy (animal autopsy) will be performed to determine the cause of death and the Zoo will release results as soon as they become available.

The mare was born at the Zoo in May 2005 and was mother to a female foal, Autumn, also born at the Zoo in September 2010. The two shared their exhibit in the Zoo’s African Savanna with slender-horned gazelles.

Grant’s zebras (Eqqus burchellii boehmi) are native to Ethiopia, Somalia and northern South Africa. They have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years.


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Perhaps gearing up for its 20th anniversary in november the zoo has either (installed new misters,fixed a few,or simply turned them all on)along its medicine trail in the Rainforest exhibit.In addition there is an abundance of new signage focusing on Did you know facts about Clevelands Rainforest exhibit.

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