Just went today and can confirm there are still giant anteaters, but they're labelled as black crowned night herons.
Detroit Zoo Detroit Zoo News 2020
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According to their twitter, the lemurs are back in their habitat next to the tigers. Also, Keti and Ta-Shi are in the habitat behind the grizzly bears. I’d prefer if they were in the actual red panda exhibit, but I guess Keti isn’t ready for those large trees.
That likely means they're phasing them out. As for the bat exhibit, I wouldn't trust the map treks unless they're pretty up to date. Otherwise it might just be there from a while ago and they just haven't changed it.
It seems like Detroit is disappointingly phasing out a LOT of animals the past few years...
I’ve thought that for a while. I could easily name a dozen species of mammal that have disappeared from the collection in the past decade, for example, and far fewer new ones have been added.
I find it extremely frustrating. Even their aviary and reptile house doesn't have as much species as before, and visits become even less worthwhile (unlike Toledo has something new every visit)...
My thoughts exactly.
Did Detroit's King Brown snake get transported to Omaha? If so, what was the reasoning for this??
They showed the newly renovated exhibit for the two species of uromastyx and Egyptian tortoises today. It looked larger so maybe the king brown snake's exhibit is now part of the new uromastyx and tortoise exhibit? Also for everyone, somebody posted this picture and it's supposed to be from the Detroit Zoo. What species of turtle is this? It looks like some larger Asian turtles I've seen, but not sure.
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A female Japanese macaque was born June 3:
We can't get enough of the adorable snow monkey born at the Detroit Zoo
The baby macaque named Jun, which means “pure” in Japanese, was born to parents Carmen and Haru. She has a big sister, 1-year-old Hana, the first snow monkey birth at the Zoo in 13 years.
Carmen was born at the Detroit Zoo in 2002 and Haru arrived in 2016.
Jun's birth brings the snow monkey troop to 10.
We can't get enough of the adorable snow monkey born at the Detroit Zoo
The baby macaque named Jun, which means “pure” in Japanese, was born to parents Carmen and Haru. She has a big sister, 1-year-old Hana, the first snow monkey birth at the Zoo in 13 years.
Carmen was born at the Detroit Zoo in 2002 and Haru arrived in 2016.
Jun's birth brings the snow monkey troop to 10.
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Jungle Man
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I am sorry, but I think you used the wrong link. This link is for the Woodland Park Zoo baby birds, not for the Japanese Macaque baby.
I'm going to assume the one at Omaha was a former Detroit inhabitant (unless Omaha imported but I highly doubt it)
Which I'm still quite salty about, then again it's Detroit so who knows what other species they'll want to dump out...
Anyone know when Detroit’s African wild dogs left?
I think around 2010?
Oof, that’s not as recent as I thought they left
I think the king brown snake is gone. I walked through briefly yesterday and don't recall seeing the exhibit.
Yeah, it wasn’t there when I visited last March, so I’d say it went to Omaha then from other recent pics I’ve seen
39 endangered Great Lakes piping plovers hatch at Detroit Zoo in most successful year ever:
The Detroit Zoo is celebrating its “most successful” year of hatching and rearing endangered Great Lakes piping plovers.
The Detroit Zoological Society’s Piping Plover Captive Rearing Program began nearly 20 years ago, but never has it had the impact it did in 2020, when 39 of Detroit Zoo-reared shoreline birds were released in Northern Michigan.
Full article: 39 endangered Great Lakes piping plovers hatch at Detroit Zoo in ‘most successful’ year ever
The Detroit Zoo is celebrating its “most successful” year of hatching and rearing endangered Great Lakes piping plovers.
The Detroit Zoological Society’s Piping Plover Captive Rearing Program began nearly 20 years ago, but never has it had the impact it did in 2020, when 39 of Detroit Zoo-reared shoreline birds were released in Northern Michigan.
Full article: 39 endangered Great Lakes piping plovers hatch at Detroit Zoo in ‘most successful’ year ever
Well, I finally made it out to the zoo today. There were more people than we were expecting, but it wasn’t obnoxiously crowded. I saw the new pronghorn, one of which seemed to be interacting with a rhea through the fence. My mom got a video of the new baby macaque, which I unfortunately did not see when I visited the habitat (we split up to explore the zoo at our own paces).