Design a Zoo

Status
Not open for further replies.
Yes, but I am young and haven't been to many zoos. Although I have lurked on this website for many years, and it is my main source of information.

~ Thaumatibis
 
Also, how easy would it be to import primates from one of the many primate rescue centers in Vietnam? And what about burmese banteng?

~ Thaumatibis
 
My Turn

My zoo will have 8 Areas, they will be the African Forest, African Savannah, Asian Rainforest, Himalayan Expedition, South America, North America, Australian Outback, Madagascar, and the Reptile House.
I will post in sections first is the African Forest
African Forest
Your Journey starts of in the dense forests of the Congo,on your journey you will see what lies beyond the trees in the jungles of the beautiful continent of Africa.You will walk under a arch with vines on it and then your journey really begins.The first exhibit is a lush, tree filled exhibit with a small pool and a lot of things to climb, the animal that lies beyond the fence of this exhibit is the beautiful African Leopard, a trio lives in this exhibit.2 normal coated,1 black coated,are all on exhibit at a time, the leopards enjoy naps on the trees and chasing each other on the rocky outcroppings in the back of the exhibit. For enrichment, keepers put out meat stuffed dummies on the trees for the leopards. Once past the first exhibit you will spot a beautiful waterfall and a huge tree filled forest exhibit that is home to probably the most well known ape, the Chimpanzee.This exhibit is just a little under an acre in size and is home to 16 chimpanzees, the apes enjoy wrestling and climbing and usually come up to glass in the tunnel viewing area that is designed to be a tree for the chimps to climb. The exhibit across the way is home to the chimps close relatives,the Bonobos. Like the chimpanzee exhibit, the bonobos have many areas to climb and play, but there are 3 groups of bonobos, each group has 14 of these apes and are rotated throughout the day. Further along the path is medium sized exhibit home to the Mandrills and Red River Hogs. The mandrills usually are gentle with the swine that also call this exhibit home. There are 6 mandrills and 4 red river hogs but usually only 3-4 mandrills and 1-2 hogs are out each day. The red river hogs enjoy wallowing in the mud while the mandrills venture throughout the lowland exhibit. The next exhibit is for the star animal of the area, the gorilla,The 4 Acre exhibit allows the zoo to have 4 groups on exhibit, 2 groups on the East and West and 2 on the North and South exhibits along with indoor rooms.14 Western Lowland Gorillas call the zoo home and the great apes can roam their huge habitats that have moats separating the guests from the apes. Just after the viewing glass for the gorillas is another viewing glass for Allen's Swamp Monkeys who like to hang around on the ground. Across from the gorillas are Wolf's Guenon After the gorillas is a small forest exhibit that Angolan Colobus Monkeys call home and like to roam around their exhibit. There are 6 colobus on exhibit. Ahead is a tunnel and Giant Forest Hogs reside just before the tunnel entrance.The Forest Hog exhibit is lush and is like a meadow but surrounded by trees.Upon entering there is a large viewing glass for the Pygmy Hippos which love to swim but stroll along the land more often than their bigger and more well known relatives,the Common Hippos. Also Inside the tunnel are small wall exhibits for Dwarf Crocodiles, African Clawed Frogs,Lungfish,and much more. Near the exit of the tunnel is another viewing glass for the Congo Clawless Otters and Spotted-necked Otters, who rotate throughout the day. Once you exit the tunnel there will be a forest area for the zoos large group of Bongos and Red Capped Mangabeys the bongos roam around their exhibit and munch on leaves and fruits while the monkeys usually stay in the trees. Further along is a dense forest exhibit that is filled with trees that is home to the elusive Okapi and the tiny Red-flanked Duiker who usually hang around the back of their forest exhibit because they like to stay hidden. The next exhibit is a large exhibit for African Forest Buffalo, the buffalo are usually around the front with the calves and the males mainly stay of exhibit when calves are present. Next to the Buffalo exhibit is a small exhibit for Long-tailed Pangolins who eat only ants and termites.Then another small exhibit near the pangolins is home to Black-footed mongooses who have a dark tinted glass so no sun goes in and a dark exhibit because these mongooses are nocturnal and are usually hard to spot and only come out on occasion.
Next is an exhibit for the rarely seen African Palm Civet in and come out at certain times.After that there is a netted forest exhibit for Zebra Duikers and De Brazza's Monkeys. The final exhibit is a 2.5 acre exhibit for African Forest Elephants who usually stay in the back but will come to the front to feed from the browsers, 6 African Forest Elephants call this exhibit home and sometimes do deep rumbling calls. Behind the elephants is a restaurant and restrooms. The restaurant allows for the visitor to see the elephants through a glass window.

I will post the African Savannah exhibit and Madagascar areas soon
~Hope you like it, BossMayhem250
 
Last edited:
Missing Animals from African Forest

Giant Forest Hog-exhibit is outside and is seen before entering the tunnel
Red-capped Mangabey-Share exhibit with Bongos
Allen's Swamp Monkey-Near the Gorillas
Wolf's Guenon-Exhibit is across from Gorillas
De Brazza's Monkey-Share exhibit with Zebra Duiker
Zebra Duiker-Shares exhibit with De Brazza's Monkey
Red-flanked Duiker-Shares exhibit with Okapi
 
Last edited:
BossMayhem250 said:
My zoo will have 8 Areas, they will be the African Forest, African Savannah, Asian Rainforest, Himalayan Expedition, South America, North America, Australian Outback, Madagascar, and the Reptile House.
I will post in sections first is the African Forest
African Forest
Your Journey starts of in the dense forests of the Congo,on your journey you will see what lies beyond the trees in the jungles of the beautiful continent of Africa.You will walk under a arch with vines on it and then your journey really begins.The first exhibit is a lush, tree filled exhibit with a small pool and a lot of things to climb, the animal that lies beyond the fence of this exhibit is the beautiful African Leopard, a trio lives in this exhibit.2 normal coated,1 black coated,are all on exhibit at a time, the leopards enjoy naps on the trees and chasing each other on the rocky outcroppings in the back of the exhibit. For enrichment, keepers put out meat stuffed dummies on the trees for the leopards. Once past the first exhibit you will spot a beautiful waterfall and a huge tree filled forest exhibit that is home to probably the most well known ape, the Chimpanzee.This exhibit is just a little under an acre in size and is home to 16 chimpanzees, the apes enjoy wrestling and climbing and usually come up to glass in the tunnel viewing area that is designed to be a tree for the chimps to climb. The exhibit across the way is home to the chimps close relatives,the Bonobos. Like the chimpanzee exhibit, the bonobos have many areas to climb and play, but there are 3 groups of bonobos, each group has 14 of these apes and are rotated throughout the day. Further along the path is medium sized exhibit home to the Mandrills and Red River Hogs. The mandrills usually are gentle with the swine that also call this exhibit home. There are 6 mandrills and 4 red river hogs but usually only 3-4 mandrills and 1-2 hogs are out each day. The red river hogs enjoy wallowing in the mud while the mandrills venture throughout the lowland exhibit. The next exhibit is for the star animal of the area, the gorilla,The 4 Acre exhibit allows the zoo to have 4 groups on exhibit, 2 groups on the East and West and 2 on the North and South exhibits along with indoor rooms.14 Western Lowland Gorillas call the zoo home and the great apes can roam their huge habitats that have moats separating the guests from the apes. Just after the viewing glass for the gorillas is another viewing glass for Allen's Swamp Monkeys who like to hang around on the ground. Across from the gorillas are Wolf's Guenon After the gorillas is a small forest exhibit that Angolan Colobus Monkeys call home and like to roam around their exhibit. There are 6 colobus on exhibit. Ahead is a tunnel and Giant Forest Hogs reside just before the tunnel entrance.The Forest Hog exhibit is lush and is like a meadow but surrounded by trees.Upon entering there is a large viewing glass for the Pygmy Hippos which love to swim but stroll along the land more often than their bigger and more well known relatives,the Common Hippos. Also Inside the tunnel are small wall exhibits for Dwarf Crocodiles, African Clawed Frogs,Lungfish,and much more. Near the exit of the tunnel is another viewing glass for the Congo Clawless Otters and Spotted-necked Otters, who rotate throughout the day. Once you exit the tunnel there will be a forest area for the zoos large group of Bongos and Red Capped Mangabeys the bongos roam around their exhibit and munch on leaves and fruits while the monkeys usually stay in the trees. Further along is a dense forest exhibit that is filled with trees that is home to the elusive Okapi and the tiny Red-flanked Duiker who usually hang around the back of their forest exhibit because they like to stay hidden. The next exhibit is a large exhibit for African Forest Buffalo, the buffalo are usually around the front with the calves and the males mainly stay of exhibit when calves are present. Next to the Buffalo exhibit is a small exhibit for Long-tailed Pangolins who eat only ants and termites.Then another small exhibit near the pangolins is home to Black-footed mongooses who have a dark tinted glass so no sun goes in and a dark exhibit because these mongooses are nocturnal and are usually hard to spot and only come out on occasion.
Next is an exhibit for the rarely seen African Palm Civet in and come out at certain times.After that there is a netted forest exhibit for Zebra Duikers and De Brazza's Monkeys. The final exhibit is a 2.5 acre exhibit for African Forest Elephants who usually stay in the back but will come to the front to feed from the browsers, 6 African Forest Elephants call this exhibit home and sometimes do deep rumbling calls. Behind the elephants is a restaurant and restrooms. The restaurant allows for the visitor to see the elephants through a glass window.

I will post the African Savannah exhibit and Madagascar areas soon
~Hope you like it, BossMayhem250
Click to expand...

Wow! I will keep this in mind when I... someday design my zoo

~Thaumatibis
 
lowland anoa said:
Sounds nice to add to your zoo.
Click to expand...
Sorry I wasn't here recently... I didn't notice page 60! :D
I've drawn up a rough species list for my indochina exhibit. Feedback would be nice :o
-Burmese banteng
-Asian Wild Boar
-Malayan tapir
-Pale-capped pigeon
-Tiger keelback
-Dhole
-Clouded leopard
-Sun bear
-Gabriella's golden-cheeked gibbon
-Phraye's langur
-Red-shanked Douc
-Fea's muntjac
-Hahtinh langur
-Chinese pangolin
-Pygmy slow loris
-Hog deer
-Rufous-necked hornbill
-Burmese tortoise
-Vietnamese mossy frog
-Vietnamese peasant
-Vietnamese giant flying squirrel(Subspecies of Indian giant flying squirrel)
So, what do you think? I'm still working on this and other exhibits. I'll post a more detailed version later. Any ideas or species that I should definitely add? Thanks.

~Thaumatibis
 
siamang27 said:
And if you think that's a lot of birds, you definitely don't want to see the huge Asian aviary with around 80 species in it!
Click to expand...
This was a looong time ago, but Mr. Siamang was reading this thread recently, and I must say, that Asian aviary sounds interesting. Do post more! Pleeease?:)

~Thaumatibis
 
Sorry

Sorry I haven't posted the next piece my computer broke and I am currently using my iPad from work. I am a Map designer and I designed a map on that computer and it broke but luckily it's saved on the cloud so it will be up soon hopefully
~ BossMayhem250
 
BossMayhem250 said:
Sorry I haven't posted the next piece my computer broke and I am currently using my iPad from work. I am a Map designer and I designed a map on that computer and it broke but luckily it's saved on the cloud so it will be up soon hopefully
~ BossMayhem250
Click to expand...
Post soon!

~ Thaumatibis
 
Japanese Kingdom

The Japanese Kingdom would be on an island known as Animal Island. Visitors would board a boat to Animal Island. Old fallen signs in Russian and Japanese would lie in heaps as visitors drew closer to the island itself. A sign at the island's boat dock would say, "Welcome to Animal Island. This island was abandoned by Japan and Russia. Now colonies of macaques, as well as cranes, serows, black bears, and koi live here." The first exhibit would be Macaque Outcrop, a massive island surrounded by a moat in the center of the island. Japanese macaques would romp and play on this island, with enrichment and various other features, like grass, rocks, mud, water and trees. Koi, Mandarin ducks, and pintail ducks would swim in the moat. A small Japanese pagoda would be home for turtles, lizards, and other Japanese herps, such as giant salamanders and mamushi snakes. All exhibits would be large, glass-fronted and naturalistic. Visitors would exit the pagoda and go on a path to the serow/crane exhibit- 5 acres with rocks and mountains for the serows. Red-crowned cranes would also share this exhibit, with a waterfall, grass, trees, rocks, mud, and varying areas of elevation and height.
 
Animal Adventures Zoo

Hello. My name is Kai Burney. I am really new to Zoochat, but I think that this seems really cool, being able to look at exhibits and zoos. I love the zoos that you people have made, they're awesome!!! I think I'm going to give it a shot. First, though: I don't know about all those cow breeds and whatnot, so please forgive me for being bland on the Kid's Zoo, just saying "cows" and "pigs.":p Otherwise, I hope you enjoy!!!
NORTH AMERICA

Canadian Taiga
The Canadian Taiga is a beautiful, large exhibit home to many Canadian species. The first area in this exhibit is "Predators and Prey" which emphasizes the predator-prey relationship in the taiga. The animals that prey on each other are placed across from each other. They are separated by a corridor that visitors walk through. They have tall rock walls, or mesh as barriers, and glass as the corridor barrier. The enclosures are planted with bushes, grass, conifers (obviously), and wild flowers. There are also some decidous trees. There are also logs, boulders, and sticks in the enclosures. Across from each other are Canadian Lynx and Snowshoe Hare, North American Marten and Least Chipmunk, and Fisher and North American Porcupine. Other animals are shown as well, like Striped Skunks, And Wolverines. In a smaller enclosure, that is inside, are American Mink. Lastly, there are the Flying Squirrels. The enclosure is shaped like a rectangle, with a smaller rectangle that visitors walk through. The enclosure is dimly lit, and there are logs, conifers, some decidous trees, grass, rocks, and bushes. The ceiling of the smaller rectangle is glass, which allows visitors to look up and see Northern Flying Squirrels gliding above them. Next is the Beaver Lake enclosure. Beaver Lake is home to 5 American Beavers, two adults and three babies. There is a manmade beaver dam in the enclosure, but the beavers have contributed to it with twigs and sticks provided in their exhibits. There are some logs in the exhibit, but they are firmly attached to the ground, as they are for decoration. Their is a large amount of water for the beavers to swim and play in. There are also aquatic plants and weeds, as well as rocks under the water. There is above and below water viewing. Lastly there is the Giants of the Forest exhibit, housing Cougars, Moose, Black Bears, and Brown Bears. Timid quite a large exhibit, and there are treats left out for the bears and cougars. Next time: Western Deserts and the Southwest.
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top