Keep, steal, demolish

London Zoo:
Keep: Blackburn Pavilion - a work of art, and my favourite exhibit in a British zoo.
Steal: Hippo House (Zoo Antwerpen) - a lovely exhibit that can fix London's megafauna drought without disturbing the place's city zoo energy and includes a lovely aviary with multi-level viewing.
Demolish: Animal Adventure - some mediocre coati, meerkat and conure exhibits along with a lot of domestics feels like a waste of space in a zoo as limited as London.

Whipsnade Zoo:
Keep: Spicer's Field - huge, spacious, well-designed with many hills and viewing angles, and with the country's only Gemsbok.
Steal: Sangay Bergenebelwald (Zoo Zurich) - with the Sloth Bears gone, a tropical bear species will massively help, and (since they share with coatis) could mark the start of a South American exhibit.
Demolish: Marabou Aviary - far too small for Marabou, although I like the idea of having an aviary visible from a restaurant, and I do miss when it had egrets. As long as something nice replaces it, this would be my pick.
 
Indianapolis Zoo:
Keep: Deserts, a great exhibit, with a decent reptile collection.
Steal: Tropical Asia from Woodland Park Zoo. Although I’ve never been, it seems like a decent Forest exhibit which would cover Forests in the Indianapolis Zoo
Destroy: If I’m basing off of “Steal” then I would pick Forests, but without the steal, I would destroy the lorikeet and budgie aviaries which are dull, and the wannabe Brown Bear Grotto
 
Brookfield Zoo

Keep: Habitat Africa! The Forest
Steal: Gelada Reserve, bringing back relatives of three iconic phased-out species.
Demolish: Hamill Family Wild Encounters

I don't mind Wild Encounters, it just felt the most expendable to me.

Milwaukee County Zoo

Keep: Herb and Nada Mahler Family Aviary
Steal: Night Hunters
Demolish: Small Mammal House

I was originally going to take a different route but I couldn't bear to get rid of Small Mammal House without replacing it with a nocturnal house. I considered Omaha's exhibit but that felt like too generous a steal.

I'll figure out Lincoln Park sometime!
 
Home Zoo: Edinburgh Zoo
Keep: Penguin Rock
Steal: Berlin Zoo's Welt der Vogel
Demolish: Monkey House
 
This is fun! Home zoo is the Minnesota Zoo.

Keep: Tropics Trail. Huge nostalgia factor for me and my favorite animals are on display there.
Steal: Kingdoms of the Night from Henry Doorly. Super fun and immersive environment- something I think the MN Zoo struggles with.
Demolish: The eyesore of a dolphin tank in Discovery Bay.
 
birdsandbats said:
First I've heard of anyone disliking it! Also I love the Tropics Trail but it's objectively probably the worst part of the zoo - so interesting you've chose to keep that.
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It's definitely impressive in size, and while the animals are out and about it's interesting... but most of the time when I visit it's just a very big chunk of bare concrete and water in the focal point of Discovery Bay. I'm the first to admit I don't know a thing about housing dolphins (or, as has been the case in recent years, Hawaiian monk seals) but I'd very much rather see it replaced with a less show-friendly, more natural-looking space. It doesn't help that it's located right next to a very densely-planted gigantic tank full of all sorts of fish; comparatively it just looks really bland IMO, very outdated.

The nostalgia factor and my tapir bias 110% influence my keeping the Tropics Trail LOL i am easy to influence unfortunately
 
Homezoo: Zoo Osnabrück
Keep: Underground Zoo
Steal: Burgers Desert but with some larger species and outdoor areas
Demolish: Angkor Wat (Asia area including elephants)
 
Fota Wildlife Park
Keep: The Asian sanctuary area since I believe it's quite well done in regards to animal welfare and looks (if it's too big an area, then the eagle and seal complex for the unique mixed species enclosure alongside good husbandry in my opinion).
Steal: London zoo's new reptile house for its lovely species collection showcased in great enclosures.
Demolish: The flamingo enclosure, since it's a small grassy lawn home to pinioned or wing clipped birds.
Dublin Zoo
Keep: The gorilla enclosure which is is huge and shaded with a good house. I believe it can do with more climbing structures but I don't think it is bad currently.
Steal: Chester's Spirit of the Jaguar complex including the house and bush dogs due to the wonderful exhibitry from the pictures I have seen of it and species collection, with London's Komodo dragon house being a close second with it adding an interesting and endangered reptile species alongside a good complex.
Demolish: I would say the hippo enclosure but since I believe it is likely to be phased out when its resident dies, I would go for the Humboldt penguin enclosure which isn't as big as I'd like it to be alongside a shallow pool.
 
Home Zoo: Zoom Torino
Keep: Lemur Island (By far the best walkthrough exhibit in Italy)
Steal: Serre Tropicale from Zoo de Paris (A really good exhibit with a really interesting collection that includes both iconic species such as manatees/giant anteaters and rarities such as the bearded saki/blue-throated piping-guan. Would make sense in Zoom since it mixes Madagascar, an area that is already important in the zoo, and South America, an area for which the zoo seems to have plans)
Demolish: Tiger Temple (Way too small for one tiger, and there's three. Almost zero hiding spots aside from a single bamboo bush in the middle of the exhibit, simply terrible)
 
Home Zoo: Colchester zoo
Keep: Kingdom of the wild - without the massive savanha paddocks and the large indoor building, colchester zoo would be less memoriable for me.
Steal: Equatorial dome - ZooParcDeBeauval - a stunning exhibit that in colchester zoo could have the chance to increase its popularity. Plus, I don't believe West Indian Manatees are currently held in a UK zoo.
Demolish: Dragons of Komodo - With the equatorial dome coming in, The komodos could have a much better home.
 
Rohin said:
Fota Wildlife Park
Keep: The Asian sanctuary area since I believe it's quite well done in regards to animal welfare and looks (if it's too big an area, then the eagle and seal complex for the unique mixed species enclosure alongside good husbandry in my opinion).
Steal: London zoo's new reptile house for its lovely species collection showcased in great enclosures.
Demolish: The flamingo enclosure, since it's a small grassy lawn home to pinioned or wing clipped birds.
Dublin Zoo
Keep: The gorilla enclosure which is is huge and shaded with a good house. I believe it can do with more climbing structures but I don't think it is bad currently.
Steal: Chester's Spirit of the Jaguar complex including the house and bush dogs due to the wonderful exhibitry from the pictures I have seen of it and species collection, with London's Komodo dragon house being a close second with it adding an interesting and endangered reptile species alongside a good complex.
Demolish: I would say the hippo enclosure but since I believe it is likely to be phased out when its resident dies, I would go for the Humboldt penguin enclosure which isn't as big as I'd like it to be alongside a shallow pool.
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I was mistaken about the flamingos. Their enclosure is quite good although this wasn't the case previously. However, the birds are not flighted.
 
Home Zoo: Franklin Park Zoo

Keep: Tropical Forest Dome
I think that it is personally the best exhibit in the zoo.

Steal: San Diego Zoo’s Australian Walkabout
I know some of the plants won’t be the same but it would still look amazing.

Demolish: Outback Trail
This exhibit is literally a visually ugly field with even uglier fence.
 
Home Zoo: Colchester Zoo

Keep: Playa Patagonia- Simply one of the zoo's best exhibits, great for its inhabitants and exciting for visitors with the underwater tunnel spanning the length of the sealion pool. It is still one of the most expensive and impressive developments in the zoo to date over 20 years after it opened.

Steal: Outback Aviary- Hamerton Zoo Park- This Australian themed walkthrough aviary accompanied by a Common Wombat enclosure would be a great addition to the zoo to increase the numbers of birds and Australian species at the zoo, as well as add a rare and charismatic animal to the zoo in the form of wombats.

Demolish:
I would be tempted to say the Red River Hog enclosure- in its design it is perhaps the most mediocre of enclosures in the Edge of Africa area, and furthermore the species are currently being outshone by the zoos other African pigs, the breeding group of Common Warthogs located not very far away. Additionally, the Red River Hog enclosure seems to be in the area planned for the zoos new African Lion exhibit, however, as this means it could be getting demolished soon anyway, I decided to go for another option.
Koi Niwa- This heavily themed exhibit has a nice concept, however in recent times it seems to me to be on a slight decline and maybe feeling its age a bit. This category is a difficult decision and nothing stands out to me in particular but one of these would probably be my pick.
 
El Paso Zoo
Keep - Chihuahuan Desert. A beautiful immersive space with diverse creatures from the Chihuahuan desert of the U.S. and Mexico.
Steal - Sanctuary Asia, Oklahoma City Zoo. A large Asia exhibit eith elephants and rhinos.
Demolish - Animals of Asia. An old area of the zoo with a hodgepodge of animals from all over Asia.
 
Let's see.
Detroit
Keep: The Polk Penguin Conservation Center
Steal: Cleveland's Bear Hollow / Columbus's Asia Quest / Lincoln Park's Seal Pool
Demolish: The old Penguinarium so a modern aquarium can take it's place.
 
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