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Two baby common marmosets has been born.
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LPZ acquire a pair of red-handed tamarins.
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Lembang Park and Zoo acquried the Asian golden cat.
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LPZ has added the Celebes crested macaque
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Five birds were reportedly missing from the zoo's aviary, which include an eclectus parrot, Tanimbar correla, and three macaws.
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LEMBANG PARK & ZOO VISIT REVIEW (28 AUGUST 2022, PART 1)
After 2 years of waiting since 2020, I finally got the chance to go to LPZ, now that restrictions in Indonesia has finally relaxed. I went there by train at 6:40 AM and arrived to Bandung at 9:20 AM. No traffic jam nor rain thankfully, and my rented car took me there and arrived to LPZ at 10 AM. The ticket costed 50k rupiahs, and it was a paper bracelet than can be used for a day. The ticket didn't include animal feeding and rides, and if it includes them it costs 140k rupiahs. Anyways, enough of that, on to the zoo.
The first exhibit that I saw was the bengal tiger exhibit, which is a part of a restaurant with a cat cafe and ice cream parlor above. The exhibits are pretty good and spacious though. Next is the reptiles exhibit, with a varanid and crocodylian complex at the beginning. The komodo dragon exhibit previously housed a large water monitor back in 2020 as seen on videos, and the New Guinea crocodile was Panjul's former exhibit before its relocation. Panjul's exhibit is now at the exit of the reptile area. Located between the New Guinea and the Saltwater crocodile exhibits is a small aquatic exhibit housing a lone albino Asian softshell turtle named Gading. Apparently it was donated by Lucky Hakim (a famous Indonesian artist/influencer), and the exhibit was intended for dwarf caimans prior to Gading's donation.
Inside the reptile castle (or Istana Reptile), there are exhibits housing various snakes and lizards including a yellow anaconda, as well as a megatank housing a lone arapaima and several other popular predatory fishes like pacus, gars, arowanas, dorados, probarbus and shovelnose catfish. There's also a blue fish tank housing a short-bodied Asian arowana. Visitors can also take pictures and interact with tegus, blue-tongued skinks and bearded dragons for free there. On the exit, Panjul's exhibit can be seen, as well as exhibits for tortoises and turtles. The tortoise exhibit houses several African spurred tortoises and Asian forest tortoises, while the turtle exhibit houses an albino common snapping turtle and some red-eared sliders, with a few albino individuals. Panjul's exhibit was supposed to have an underwater viewing area, but since its pond dried up, it became a normal viewing area.
Across the reptile exhibit, is a carnivore house for several felines. There are servals, caracals and also Asian golden cats. The carnivore house reminds me of European zoos, and pretty well built. There's also a primate complex showcasing local primates native to Java (including Bandung) such as leaf monkeys, siamangs, gibbons, crab-eating and pigtail macaques, and not far from it is an orangutan exhibit with a lone male Sumatran orangutan. Near the complex, there's also 2 exhibits with porcupines and 2 species of peafowls (green and indian). There's also several bird-of-prey exhibits, an Onagadori chicken exhibit and owl houses. After that, I went to the amphiteatre to watch the animal show.
The show started with Disney cosplayers dancing, before the real animal show starts. It wasn't much of a show like in TSI, mostly showcasing dogs and macaws performing before the zookeepers came in and showed off several animals from binturongs, monkeys, crocodiles and snakes. After that, the birds of prey show started, showcasing some raptors and 2 species of hornbills. Only one bird of prey that wasn't housed in the aviaries in the show, and it was a peregrine falcon. It was too hard to photograph it sadly. After the show ends, I went to the hornbill aviary, and saw some species of hornbills native to Indonesia (except for Rufous hornbill) and saw Mipan and Zuzu in their exhibit alongside normal alpacas.
TO BE CONTINUED!!
After 2 years of waiting since 2020, I finally got the chance to go to LPZ, now that restrictions in Indonesia has finally relaxed. I went there by train at 6:40 AM and arrived to Bandung at 9:20 AM. No traffic jam nor rain thankfully, and my rented car took me there and arrived to LPZ at 10 AM. The ticket costed 50k rupiahs, and it was a paper bracelet than can be used for a day. The ticket didn't include animal feeding and rides, and if it includes them it costs 140k rupiahs. Anyways, enough of that, on to the zoo.
The first exhibit that I saw was the bengal tiger exhibit, which is a part of a restaurant with a cat cafe and ice cream parlor above. The exhibits are pretty good and spacious though. Next is the reptiles exhibit, with a varanid and crocodylian complex at the beginning. The komodo dragon exhibit previously housed a large water monitor back in 2020 as seen on videos, and the New Guinea crocodile was Panjul's former exhibit before its relocation. Panjul's exhibit is now at the exit of the reptile area. Located between the New Guinea and the Saltwater crocodile exhibits is a small aquatic exhibit housing a lone albino Asian softshell turtle named Gading. Apparently it was donated by Lucky Hakim (a famous Indonesian artist/influencer), and the exhibit was intended for dwarf caimans prior to Gading's donation.
Inside the reptile castle (or Istana Reptile), there are exhibits housing various snakes and lizards including a yellow anaconda, as well as a megatank housing a lone arapaima and several other popular predatory fishes like pacus, gars, arowanas, dorados, probarbus and shovelnose catfish. There's also a blue fish tank housing a short-bodied Asian arowana. Visitors can also take pictures and interact with tegus, blue-tongued skinks and bearded dragons for free there. On the exit, Panjul's exhibit can be seen, as well as exhibits for tortoises and turtles. The tortoise exhibit houses several African spurred tortoises and Asian forest tortoises, while the turtle exhibit houses an albino common snapping turtle and some red-eared sliders, with a few albino individuals. Panjul's exhibit was supposed to have an underwater viewing area, but since its pond dried up, it became a normal viewing area.
Across the reptile exhibit, is a carnivore house for several felines. There are servals, caracals and also Asian golden cats. The carnivore house reminds me of European zoos, and pretty well built. There's also a primate complex showcasing local primates native to Java (including Bandung) such as leaf monkeys, siamangs, gibbons, crab-eating and pigtail macaques, and not far from it is an orangutan exhibit with a lone male Sumatran orangutan. Near the complex, there's also 2 exhibits with porcupines and 2 species of peafowls (green and indian). There's also several bird-of-prey exhibits, an Onagadori chicken exhibit and owl houses. After that, I went to the amphiteatre to watch the animal show.
The show started with Disney cosplayers dancing, before the real animal show starts. It wasn't much of a show like in TSI, mostly showcasing dogs and macaws performing before the zookeepers came in and showed off several animals from binturongs, monkeys, crocodiles and snakes. After that, the birds of prey show started, showcasing some raptors and 2 species of hornbills. Only one bird of prey that wasn't housed in the aviaries in the show, and it was a peregrine falcon. It was too hard to photograph it sadly. After the show ends, I went to the hornbill aviary, and saw some species of hornbills native to Indonesia (except for Rufous hornbill) and saw Mipan and Zuzu in their exhibit alongside normal alpacas.
TO BE CONTINUED!!
LEMBANG PARK & ZOO VISIT REVIEW (28 AUGUST 2022, PART 2)
My adventure there continued to the Big Bird Aviary. It costed 25k rupiahs to get in, and I got a complimentary cup of bird food (sunflower seeds) to feed the inhabitants. The exhibit houses a mix of parrots and some non-parrot avians such as green turacos and Eurasian tree sparrows. I got to feed an Eclectus parrot there, and even got to take a pic with it too. Sadly, I saw some parrots there snatching the plastic cups from visitors and eating the sunflower seeds from it, which might risk their health if swallowed. Outside the Big Bird Aviary are series of smaller aviaries, housing rare Indonesian birds such as flame bowerbird, Queen Victoria's riflebird, BoPs, green magpies and Pesquet's parrot, and an open exhibit housing a lone lesser adjutant (which is kinda risky since they can peck and injure the visitors. Not far from it is an otter exhibit, housing a family of Asian small-clawed otters and a separate exhibit houses a lone hairy-nosed otter (supposedly the first to be exhibited in Indonesia). A meerkat exhibit lies by the two otter exhibits, with a beach theming, and there's also two squirrel exhibits housing Prevost's squirrel and black giant squirrels.
On the central part of the zoo, there is a ratite exhibit with South African ostriches and leucistic rheas, as well as two large exhibits housing South African lions and Siberian tigers. Visitors can feed them at certain times, but they kept refusing to eat since they're already full. There's also 2 binturong exhibits, one housing Sumatran binturongs and one housing Javan binturongs mixed with Asian palm civets. There's also a Goodfellow's tree kangaroo exhibit and a raccoon exhibit (which surprisingly looks empty since they're asleep). I also saw a rabbit park where visitors can buy carrots to feed them, and a sunbear exhibit housing a lone male. There's also a cheetah exhibit housing a male donated by Instagram influencer Hendrico Adrian (who blocked me on Instagram like a friggin buttmunch), who also donated a pair of brown hyenas housed in one of the three carnivore houses located on the eastern part of the zoo, alongside larger servals and caracals.
Going further east, there's an elephant exhibit housing 2 female and 1 male Sumatran elephants from Bali (I think they're from either Elephant Safari Park & Lodge Bali or Mason Elephant Park). Visitors can feed them with seasonal fruits (I got melons during my visit) for 25k rupiahs and the elephants are very friendly. Thankfully, visitors aren't allowed to ride them since it's considered animal abuse to ride elephants. Going north from the elephant exhibit are a series of deer exhibits housing Fallow deers, Indian muntjacs, axis deers and Sunda sambars, and there's also a waterfowl aviary housing various waterfowls from Asia, North America and South America. Not far from it is a koi pond and some domestic animal and waterfowl exhibits, housing pelicans, crowned cranes, Chinese geese, dwarf goats, merino sheeps and cassowaries. The areas south of the elephant exhibit and north of the goat exhibit are still under construction, and according to the zookeepers they're building:
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My adventure there continued to the Big Bird Aviary. It costed 25k rupiahs to get in, and I got a complimentary cup of bird food (sunflower seeds) to feed the inhabitants. The exhibit houses a mix of parrots and some non-parrot avians such as green turacos and Eurasian tree sparrows. I got to feed an Eclectus parrot there, and even got to take a pic with it too. Sadly, I saw some parrots there snatching the plastic cups from visitors and eating the sunflower seeds from it, which might risk their health if swallowed. Outside the Big Bird Aviary are series of smaller aviaries, housing rare Indonesian birds such as flame bowerbird, Queen Victoria's riflebird, BoPs, green magpies and Pesquet's parrot, and an open exhibit housing a lone lesser adjutant (which is kinda risky since they can peck and injure the visitors. Not far from it is an otter exhibit, housing a family of Asian small-clawed otters and a separate exhibit houses a lone hairy-nosed otter (supposedly the first to be exhibited in Indonesia). A meerkat exhibit lies by the two otter exhibits, with a beach theming, and there's also two squirrel exhibits housing Prevost's squirrel and black giant squirrels.
On the central part of the zoo, there is a ratite exhibit with South African ostriches and leucistic rheas, as well as two large exhibits housing South African lions and Siberian tigers. Visitors can feed them at certain times, but they kept refusing to eat since they're already full. There's also 2 binturong exhibits, one housing Sumatran binturongs and one housing Javan binturongs mixed with Asian palm civets. There's also a Goodfellow's tree kangaroo exhibit and a raccoon exhibit (which surprisingly looks empty since they're asleep). I also saw a rabbit park where visitors can buy carrots to feed them, and a sunbear exhibit housing a lone male. There's also a cheetah exhibit housing a male donated by Instagram influencer Hendrico Adrian (who blocked me on Instagram like a friggin buttmunch), who also donated a pair of brown hyenas housed in one of the three carnivore houses located on the eastern part of the zoo, alongside larger servals and caracals.
Going further east, there's an elephant exhibit housing 2 female and 1 male Sumatran elephants from Bali (I think they're from either Elephant Safari Park & Lodge Bali or Mason Elephant Park). Visitors can feed them with seasonal fruits (I got melons during my visit) for 25k rupiahs and the elephants are very friendly. Thankfully, visitors aren't allowed to ride them since it's considered animal abuse to ride elephants. Going north from the elephant exhibit are a series of deer exhibits housing Fallow deers, Indian muntjacs, axis deers and Sunda sambars, and there's also a waterfowl aviary housing various waterfowls from Asia, North America and South America. Not far from it is a koi pond and some domestic animal and waterfowl exhibits, housing pelicans, crowned cranes, Chinese geese, dwarf goats, merino sheeps and cassowaries. The areas south of the elephant exhibit and north of the goat exhibit are still under construction, and according to the zookeepers they're building:
- A mini safari park housing African mammals such as antelopes, hippos, white rhinos and zebras
- A South American exhibit housing capybaras and flamingos
- A hotel/villa for visitors like their main park (Batu Secret Zoo)
- A giraffe exhibit located at the former equestrian space
- A branch of LPZ in Serpong (BSD to be exact), which will open in 2024 (apparently called Serpong City Zoo)
- Fill the megatank with more fishes, such as barramundi, red-tailed catfish, motoro stingray, African tigerfish, giant pangasius, silver arowana and peacock bass
- Make a lemur exhibit by the mini safari park to create an African complex, housing ring-tailed, black-and-white and brown lemurs
- Fill up the water in Panjul's exhibit to create an underwater viewing experience
- Give the orangutan and sunbear a mate
- Convert the koi exhibit to a pond where the arapaimas will be housed once they outgrew the megatank
- Screw the megatank, build an actual aquarium section with a better yet bigger megatank and several other freshwater/marine exhibits including a mini shark tank for blacktip reef sharks and bamboo sharks
- Focus on conservation and improve their facilities
- A taste of Batu Secret Zoo in Lembang. A zoo in Lembang is something that I wished for since early 2010s, when Lembang finally caught up with tourism with the opening of places such as Floating Market and Grafika Cikole, in hopes to lure in tourists that are fed up of going to Puncak thanks to their stoobid traffic jams, and I wished for a zoo to lure in those who wanted to go to Taman Safari but unable to do so because of the same reason. At last, my wish came true in late 2019, but I had to wait 2 years to go to LPZ thanks to the pandemic. However, the wait was worth it! The zoo itself is awesome, the facilities are good and as for the welfare? Mm.. pretty good. Just need some improving like replacing the plastic cups used to feed the birds with edible and eco-friendly paper cups (so they can be eaten by the birds), encouraging conservation by breeding their rare and endangered collections and limiting feeding by visitors. I will come back here again when I get another chance.
Photos coming soon!!
A Nile Hippo male and two bulls of Watusi cattle arrived to Lembang from Batu Secret Zoo.
Both species will live in new drive through Safari that is in its final stage of preparation before it's opening for Idul Fitri 2023.
Hopefully animal management team at Lembang will be able to provide good care for them.
Both species will live in new drive through Safari that is in its final stage of preparation before it's opening for Idul Fitri 2023.
Hopefully animal management team at Lembang will be able to provide good care for them.
A Safari area? Sweet!
IDK but this section hasn't been updated for almost a year...
- The safari area has opened, called Kampung Satwa (Animal Village). It houses several larger animals like hippo, pygmy hippo, tigers (tabby and white bengal tigers), cheetahs, donkeys, watusis, alpacas and some primates like proboscis monkey and red-tailed monkey. More animals will be added soon here like lemurs and giraffe (which hasn't arrived yet since the zoo's opening. It's almost 5 years, LPZ!)
- LPZ also acquired the red kangaroo as of this year, but no idea where they're housing it.
LPZ recently uploaded images of a new exhibit for an unknown inhabitant. I suspect this was going to be the giraffe exhibit, but since Kampung Satwa has opened they probably moved the plan for the giraffe there. As seen here it appears to be a cement-floored exhibit with water, and a place for the inhabitant to bask/take a rest from swimming. @Rizz Carlton suspected it to be a pinniped exhibit, and I suspected it might be housing their larger crocodiles, and guests could feed them from the viewing platforms.
Whatever it is, I am still waiting for more news about it, since LPZ hasn't updated on any new exhibits since the beginning of this year.
Whatever it is, I am still waiting for more news about it, since LPZ hasn't updated on any new exhibits since the beginning of this year.
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The new exhibit was confirmed to be a hippo exhibit after I asked their official account on Instagram, presumably the ones previously in Kampung Satwa were moved in here from their previous exhibit. As Rizz Carlton said before, LPZ received a hippo from Surabaya Zoo in exchange for a pair of capybaras and and one of their white tigers, so both hippos (the one from 2023 and 2024) might be housed there for a possible breeding program. Probably the pygmy hippos moved in to the former hippo exhibit in Kampung Satwa to make way for the lemurs in the future.
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UPDATE:
After watching deHakim's latest videos, turned out..
- The hippos in the new exhibit are different individuals compared to the ones in Kampung Satwa. The pygmy hippos are still staying in their old exhibit (the one that was supposedly for the lemurs), so as the zoo's current hippos.
- The new hippo exhibit was built in the former waterpark site, which was demolished because of declining new visitors because of Lembang's cold water and air climate. The former giraffe exhibit is now being repurposed as a camel exhibit, with over 10 camels coming soon to the park as its new inhabitants.
- The giraffe will be inhabiting Kampung Satwa soon, with no specific date of arrival. Currently, its barn holds Timor deers. Japanese cranes, crowned cranes and turkeys has been added to Kampung Satwa as well.
- A new primate island exhibit is planned to be built in the lake area.
Lembang Park and Zoo 2024 update:
- A dromedary camel exhibit is being built near the amusement park area, previously was meant to be for the giraffes before Kampung Satwa opened. It used to be an equestrian park until a flood struck LPZ and destroyed it.
- The former water park has been converted into an exhibit for the zoo's nile hippo that was in Kampung Satwa. Its former place there has been occupied by the zoo's pygmy hippo pair.
- The tiger restaurant where Mari Makan and Baso Si Loreng eateries at is now home to the zoo's normal and white bengal tigers.
- In Istana Reptile's entrance, there were several changes such as the phasing out of the New Guinea crocodile and the albino Asian softshell turtle, now replaced by more saltwater crocodiles and a common snapping turtle.
- Nothing much changed in the indoor area, though the megatank was emptier than before.The zoo's lone arapaima isn't there anymore and some of the fishes that I saw back in 2022 are no longer in display, save for an alligator gar, a golden Asian arowana, some albino pacus and a golden dorado. The anaconda exhibit housed small red-eared sliders as tankmates.
- Meanwhile in Istana Reptile's entrance, the Asian giant tortoise is now off display and its former space in the tortoise exhibit is used for the keepers to show off some of the off display reptiles on a random basis, usually during sunny weather.
- The primate complex now features 2 foreign primates (red-tailed monkey and tufted capuchin) and some Natuna Island surilis. The rest hasn't changed since my visit back in 2022. The adjacent owl exhibit is being refurbished.
- The former peafowl and porcupine exhibit is being converted into an exhibit for Malayan tapirs.
- The former cat/small carnivore complex now houses a mish-mosh of avians and mammals. White peafowls, Malayan peacock-pheasants, squirrel monkeys and Sunda porcupines are housed there.
- The zoo no longer houses Siberian tigers, as they were sent to Bandung Zoo. The former Siberian tiger exhibit now houses the zoo's surplus white lions.
- A new BoP aviary complex is located near the former Siberian tiger exhibit. It housed local BoPs such as black kite, brahminy kite, Javan hawk eagle, crested serpent eagle and changeable hawk eagle.
- The squirrel exhibit only housed plantain and Prevost's squirrels. The exhibits for the giant black squirrel and prairie dog were under refurbishment.
- Nothing much changed in the Big Bird Aviary except that I saw something that I did not see during my 2022 visit, a violet turaco.
- The ratite exhibit only housed ostriches as the rheas has been moved to Kampung Satwa.
- Nothing much changed in the small primate aviary except that the common marmosets now occupies 2 exhibits.
- Nothing much changed in the sun bear exhibit.
- The former cheetah exhibit has been converted into two separate exhibits for the zoo's brown hyenas and peafowls.
- The raccoons in LPZ is no longer in display and now occupied by the zoo's grizzled tree kangaroos.
- The zoo's hairy-nosed otter was actually a mislabeled smooth-coated otter.
- The zoo only displayed Sumatran binturongs and the former Javan binturong and common palm civet exhibit has been dismantled. The Javan binturongs can only be seen during the animal presentation show.
- The former brown hyena exhibit in the carnivore complex (near the serval and caracal exhibits) is being refurbished into an exhibit for African leopards.
- The Lisung Gunung restaurant's aquarium still housed Malawi cichlids, though mixed with GloFish (just why)
- Kampung Bebek has been refurbished into an open-air exhibit for the zoo's pelicans and swans, as well as the bar-headed geese. There are also tilapias swimming there, presumably live food for the pelicans.
- The former Kampung Bebek inhabitants has been moved to an aviary with underwater viewing panels that was built on the zoo's former fallow deer and Sunda sambar exhibit site. Unsigned ibises (Australian and scarlet) and little black cormorants were added into the exhibit.
- The domestic animal complex now featured capybaras, pelicans, black swans, flamingos, muntjacs, merino sheeps and etawa goats
- A new extension to the zoo known as Kampung Satwa has opened. It featured mostly African faunas along with some farm animals such as donkeys, merino sheeps, alpacas and turkeys. Japanese cranes and white-naped cranes were housed there as well. Rhinos, giraffes, zebras and antelopes will be housed there with the latter 2 arriving first later this year.
- Nothing much changed in the small bird aviaries except for the addition of the kookaburras.