Toronto Zoo Fact of the Week.

You took the words right out of my mouth. Yes we would be the first accredited zoo to have them, I am not sure if the others around Canada my have them, but I highly doubt it!
 
Nope, we will for sure be the first and only
 
This is a fantastic thread idea!!!!
Love all this information!!!
So many great new species, would love to see Okapi in Toronto!!!
African Wild Dogs would be great but I would really miss the Hyenas.
 
The Okpai's will be tied into the giraffe exhibit renovation. So probably over where the giraffes are.
 
I know its not Moday but I am busy tomorrow and Monday so I said I'll do it earlier!

African Savanna:
Birds:

Surplus
- 0.1 Marabou Stork
- 3.0 Egyptian Geese

Acquire:
- 0.1 Secretary Bird
- 0.1 white-headed vulture or replace with 1.1 white lappette-faced vulture

Breed:
- Marabou Stork
- Crowned Crane
- Southern Hornbill

Future Species:
- Pair up all birds in Savanna
- Plans to developed current seal exhibit to accomadate aquatic birds. Species can include: pelicans, cormoants, black-footed penquins, spur-thighed plover, comb ducks, and fishing eagle.
 
Cool plans, I love the idea of re-adding penguins to the collection!

As for pictures, our only real hope with that would be Ungulate (He works with the fur seals) to take pcitures, but i'd never ask him to do that considering how busy he already is!

There are most likely pictures floating around on Flickr though
 
I love the idea of the seal exhibit being converted to a shorebird exhibit. Penguins coming back would be terrific, and the fish eagle will surely impress.

I'm semi speculating on where the African Wild Dogs will be coming from. Mountain View? They sure have a lot of them :)
 
I'm thinking Mountain View, but Bronx Zoo could also work
 
Just a blurb:
Size in meteres squared for exhibits in Tundra:
Arctic Wolf: 233.89
Polar Bear: 3825.61 = ~1 acre (of exhibited space)
Snowy Owl: 97.03
Reindeer: 410.5
 
I know its Sunday but tomorrow is a busy day!

Americas Pavilion & Paddock
Mammals:

Surplus:
- Golden Lion Tamarin (SSP)
- 0.0.1 Prehensile Tailed Porcupine

Aquire:
- 1.0 Golden Lion Tamarin
- 1.0 Two-Toed Sloth
- 0.1 Huffman's Sloth
- 0.1 Pygmy Marmoset

Breed:
- Pale-headed Saki
- Common Marmoset
- Pygmy Marmoset
- Golden Lion Tamarin
- Hoffman's Sloth
- Two-toed Sloth
- North American River Otter
- Prehensile Tailed Porcupine

Future Species:
(note for Tropical America's)
- New species for Black-footed Ferret exhibit
- New species for Praire Dog exhibit
- Re-do Beaver and Otter exhibits, possibly move jaguars to pavilion
- Dourocouli
- Paca
- Vampire Bats
 
Good looking plans, some very interesting species!

River otter pups would be good, just wondering if we could support that many otters as we already have three adults (Maybe the Nero could move to another holding area?)

If they combined the river otter and beaver exhibits, it could make a very good jaguar exhibit (Just mesh the top over to that thre could be lots of vertical space as well). If that did'nt work out, I think giant otters could fit into those exhibit (Its just acquiring them that is the problem)

I was hoping for a few more common/larger animals (Tapir, Capybara, Anteater, Mara) but Paca, Docourili and Vampire Bats are all rare/extinct in North American Zoo's, so that would be AMAZING if we could get our hands on some!

Possibly some sort of snake or lizard species could fit into the prairie dog/ black footed ferret exhibit (combine and enlarge the two exhibits = anaconda)
 
Quartz92 said:
Just a blurb:
Size in meteres squared for exhibits in Tundra:
Arctic Wolf: 233.89
Polar Bear: 3825.61 = ~1 acre (of exhibited space)
Snowy Owl: 97.03
Reindeer: 410.5
Click to expand...

So as of right now (Until Polar Frontier opens in Spring 2010), our polar bear exhibit is that second largest in North America! Once Polar Frontier opens, I think we'll be the third largest
 
Whats the first largest, is it Detriot or San Deigo?

Zoogoer your getting ahead of me they plan on joing both beaver and otter exhibits for jaguars and wait till I get to the reptile section to tell you about the anaconda's.

Ohh and btw, the Collections Magazine is out now! Lots of interesting stuff including plans for the African Pavilion!
 
Detroit is the 1st largest (San Diego's Polar Bear Plunge was the largest when it opened in 1996, later bypassed by Detroit in 2001)

oops, sorry about that
 
Very cool updates! I have to admit, I did have to look up Dourocouli :p Glad to see Vampire Bats are returning, too. Another old school species.

Ooo, anacondas . . .
 
Quartz92 said:
Just a blurb:
Size in meteres squared for exhibits in Tundra:
Arctic Wolf: 233.89
Polar Bear: 3825.61 = ~1 acre (of exhibited space)
Snowy Owl: 97.03
Reindeer: 410.5
Click to expand...

These numbers don't seem right ... the polar bear exhibit is certainly not ten times larger than the wolf exhibit. (Is the decimal in the wrong place for wolf / reindeer? 2338.9 m2 / 4105 m2?)
 
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