High Park Zoo and Riverdale Farm visit

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Dimples

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This is my report for High Park Zoo.

I got lost at the entrance and walked near the Grenadier Pond trail.

This counts as local wildlife, but I saw various birds, two swans and tons of Canada geese and babies. I tried to stay far from the babies, in case the Mom gets upset, but I almost walked into a full nest of them right by the trail.

I got lost again, and somehow circled back near the entrance, then had to go down the proper road. By this time my legs were hurting.

I saw.

A few Mouflon and Barbary sheep.
One bison hiding in the barn and peeking out
Two emu close to the fence.
Male peacock trying to impress the girl bird.
One yak sitting far away.
Shaved llamas that some kid was feeding a green leaf to.
A boy and girl Highland cattle - you could tell who's who - ahem

Most of these animals are, I assume, refugees of the Toronto Zoo.

This took 25 minutes.
Getting lost took 2 and a half hours of wandering.
 
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I also went to Riverdale Farm, just out of curiosity.

The barns were mostly empty.

I saw.
One Horse
A few sheep.
Two pigs.
Some goats.
A duck dipping it's head in the water to keep cool.
A frog swimming - wild not captive.
Different coloured chickens - white, red, grey.
Turkey

The complaint is the hill at the back of the farm is worse than the Canada Domain Hill. My damaged legs were annihilated. Nothing to see in the back area, only ponds and forest. They could put a sign to block you, but the farm is run by the government so as usual they don't bother.

40 minutes
 
The livestock displays at High Park were there long before the MTZ even existed. Did you see the big house at the top of the hill called 'the residence' in Riverdale Farm Park, that's where I lived.
 
Dimples said:
This is my report.

I got lost at the entrance and walked near the Grenadier Pond trail.

This counts as local wildlife, but I saw various birds, two swans and tons of Canada geese and babies. I tried to stay far from the babies, in case the Mom gets upset, but I almost walked into a full nest of them right by the trail.

I got lost again, and somehow circled back near the entrance, then had to go down the proper road. By this time my legs were hurting.

I saw.

A few Mouflon and Barbary sheep.
One bison hiding in the barn and peeking out
Two emu close to the fence.
Male peacock trying to impress the girl bird.
One yak sitting far away.
Shaved llamas that some kid was feeding a green leaf to.
A boy and girl Highland cattle - you could tell who's who - ahem

Most of these animals are, I assume, refugees of the Toronto Zoo.

This took 25 minutes.
Getting lost took 2 and a half hours of wandering.
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Not sure why you would think they came from the Toronto Zoo, other than both being entities owned by the city I don't think the two have anything to do with one and other. As far as I know the High Park Zoo isn't affiliated with any accreditation associations such as CAZA or AZA. Though the Toronto Zoo will take animals from unaccredited facilities and relocate them to sanctuaries or other accredited facilities. They've recently worked to ensure they weren't sending animals to unaccredited facilities.
All the animals at High Park are relatively domesticity at this point be legally acquired from numerous sources, even their bison likely comes from one of the bison that have been hybridized with cattle as pure Plains Bison very expensive.
 
@Riverdale Zoo

No.

It was a building above the tunnel.

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I tried to break in your house, but the door was locked. The most dangerous animal, human, has to be locked in.

My image is broken, sorry.
 
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