Dallas Zoo Dallas Zoo News 2016

Bozie at the Smithsonian got very excited when she met Kandula. First she got especially excited when she smelled his poop and then again when she met him. It sort of makes sense that a Bull would cause excitement, Bulls mean breeding, among other things, breeding means new herd members (hopefully), so a Bull can be a harbinger of things to come.
 
SAVING FROGS: Amphibians are facing a global extinction crisis – here in our backyards of Texas, to the Costa Rican rainforests and beyond. The troubled dusky gopher frog is fighting to survive in Mississippi and we’ve hopped in to help. Our rescue mission in the DeSoto National Forest saved nearly 200 frogs. Read how these new Texans now have a zoo-backed insurance policy: http://zoohoo.dallaszoo.com/2016/04...-the-critically-endangered-dusky-gopher-frog/
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Zoo's Facebook. There are no plans for exhibit, and they are in quarantine indefinitely.
 
BIG BIRD NEWS!: Shout-out to our world-class bird department on welcoming a precious ray of hope – meet the second white-backed vulture chick to hatch in a U.S. zoo in 20 years! (The first chick was our girl Masika, who hatched last May.) With only 12 white-backed vultures in U.S. zoos, this hatching’s huge for the survival of this species native to sub-Saharan Africa that is at serious risk. Our bird team recently was awarded the honorable Plume Award by AZA's Avian Scientific Advisory Group for the success of our white-backed vulture breeding program. Here’s to many more hatchings for this remarkable bird species. (See the whole family in the aviary closest to Camp Okapi on the Gorilla Trail. While the chick is still too small to see, look for the nest platform, where you might catch mom or dad feeding it!)
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Zoo's Facebook. I think the one that hatched in may still lives at the zoo, I've seen a juvenile vulture in their exhibit but was unsure of species.
 
HAPPY TRAILS!: Two of our giraffes have moved on to big things! Kenya (pictured left) has joined the herd at the wonderful Fossil Rim Wildlife Center – just an hour and a half down the road! And our little man Kopano now calls The Living Desert home in beautiful Palm Springs, California. Kopano joins an all-male giraffe herd where he’ll thrive with his new pals. We still have a large giraffe herd here with 8 leggy giants ready to feed from your hands!
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Zoo's Facebook.
 
Zola and Tendaji (rescued) spent a few hours with Congo and Kamba in the savanna recently.
 
The three Aldabra tortoises have joined the seven lemurs in the Lemur Lookout habitat.
 
Notes and stuff:

A king vulture was born on April 24th. It and its mother are off exhibit until it fledges.

The Rüppell's griffon vulture pair has moved from Wings of the World to the first exhibit in the monorail queue.

The wreathed hornbills moved from their former exhibit to the former griffon vulture exhibit.

A west African black crowned crane pair was added to the lappet faced vulture exhibit on the monorail.

A demoiselle crane was added to the white stork exhibit in the monorail queue.

A nesting pair of white storks was added to the Great Rift Valley habitat on the monorail.

The baby bongo is on exhibit, but she's as big as her parents.

At least four aoudad were added to the Northeastern African mountains exhibit.

The lemur exhibit went under slight modification for the Aldabra tortoises (a few poles so they are confined to a certain area, while lemurs can come and go).

A male ostrich was added to the Somali wild ass/gemsbok exhibit.

The wood storks from the waterfowl lake were moved to the former red crowned crane exhibit.

The Galapagos tortoises now have access to the former Aldabra tortoise exhibit.

An East African gray crowned crane was added to the Great Rift Valley exhibit.

A young male nyala joined the three adult males in their exhibit.

Not news, but the behind-the-scenes aviary for yellow billed stork that is visible from the monorail actually holds at least ten storks.

Also, Tendaji (the bull) is spending some time in his yard today. He is quite small, but that's to be expected.
 
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The wallaby mob was allowed to choose the joey's name today. The choices were "Pedy" and "Burnum". The mob ate more food adorned with "Pedy" than with "Burnum", so the joey is now called "Pedy".
 
It's as if the one that died in Swaziland has been given back to us!

Two for the price one one! I can only imagine the excitement that must be going on in the Elephant house. I hope the father is someone genetically advantageous.
 
It's awesome that he was born, but I may not get to see him. I think he would be really genetically valuable, unless his father is also the sire of several other Swazi elephants.
 
Fantastic news that completely caught me by surprise. How long has it been since an elephant was born in Dallas Zoo? Where there any born before GOTS?
 
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