Auckland Zoo Ideas for the South America Rainforest Trail (fantasy)

[Jambo]

I agree. The Rainforest originally opened to house Siamang and macaques from Asia; and various monkeys and tarantulas from South America. The Siamang pair raised several offspring in that exhibit, making it a hive of activity throughout the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.

New Zealand doesn’t currently have an IHS for tapir, but with renewed interest in Australia, it could follow.

I’ll otherwise be interested to see what happens with the lemur as with three elderly female RTL, the zoo has the option to phase out soon. Going back to 2014 and there was interest in acquiring Red ruffed lemur.

Auckland previously planned for a Lemur walkthrough near the entrance. Plans indicated it would replace their current exhibit and the neighboring exhibits of which one is now empty, and the other housing Red Panda.

Priority will presumably be on the new nature playground in the coming years and then the Rhino extension eventually. Still I would be very surprised if there wasn't any further word on this come five years time.

I remain of the opinion that a large walkthrough space featuring both Ring Tails and Red Ruffed Lemurs would be a nice addition to the entrance precinct.

 

[Zoofan15]

Auckland previously planned for a Lemur walkthrough near the entrance. Plans indicated it would replace their current exhibit and the neighboring exhibits of which one is now empty, and the other housing Red Panda.

Priority will presumably be on the new nature playground in the coming years and then the Rhino extension eventually. Still I would be very surprised if there wasn't any further word on this come five years time.

I remain of the opinion that a large walkthrough space featuring both Ring Tails and Red Ruffed Lemurs would be a nice addition to the entrance precinct.

Yeah I’m wondering if those plans have been scrapped as it’s been over 10 years since that was on the cards and other aspects of the master plan have been lost along the way - including an underwater viewing window for hippopotamus (for obvious reasons) and the flamingo aviary.

I agree it would be a nice addition to build upon the existing entry precinct. Auckland’s entry precinct is bland, but functional. I like how they have a ticket counter seperate to the entrance turnstiles, eliminating the bottleneck seen at New Zealand’s other main zoos.

 

[Michael Stace]

Now that Australia has a new population of coatis, wouldn't it be nice if a pair of coati were put in the old siamang exhibit.

 

[Zoofan15]

Now that Australia has a new population of coatis, wouldn't it be nice if a pair of coati were put in the old siamang exhibit.

It would. They’d need to build an exhibit as it’s long been demolished, but the land space is there:



The dens are still intact, suggesting they could be repurposed for something:

 

[Jambo]

Now that Australia has a new population of coatis, wouldn't it be nice if a pair of coati were put in the old siamang exhibit.

Or just mixed in with the Squirrel Monkeys to provide an interesting mixed species display. The exhibits activity has semi declined following the losses of the Capybara.