Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Zoo News 2014

Will the anteater go on exhibit in the new Rainforest of the Americas complex, or is this unknown at the time? If it will be in ROTA, I can only imagine that they'd either create a new exhibit or put it in with the tapirs and tamarins.
 
BeardsleyZooFan said:
Will the anteater go on exhibit in the new Rainforest of the Americas complex, or is this unknown at the time? If it will be in ROTA, I can only imagine that they'd either create a new exhibit or put it in with the tapirs and tamarins.
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They are building a new jaguar exhibit in ROTA. My guess is that the anteater will go somewhere in the old South America section, but I really don't know.

It seems like the tapir and tamarin exhibit would be too small for anteaters also.
 
DavidBrown said:
They are building a new jaguar exhibit in ROTA. My guess is that the anteater will go somewhere in the old South America section, but I really don't know.

It seems like the tapir and tamarin exhibit would be too small for anteaters also.
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I've heard about the new Jaguar exhibit.
I haven't visited the new complex (obviously) so thanks for letting me know that the tapir/tamarin exhibit is too small. The photos suggested that, but I wasn't quite sure.
 
From the U.S. Federal Register:

Applicant: Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, CA; PRT-26922B The applicant requests a permit to import six males and six female captive-born vicunas (Vicugna vicugna) from Tierpark Berlin, Germany, for the purpose of enhancement of the survival of the species.
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Fantastic news - it is nice to see that Los Angeles is getting some species back after sending gerenuk, peccaries and rock-wallabies across to Berlin.
 
Completion in December? That's pretty fast for this zoo as I am mentally preparing myself for it to be pushed back. Of course, it's not a super huge construction project.

I'm hoping to tour the new exhibit January 2015 so hopefully it will be built by then. Everything should be half grown in by then too.
 
that's exciting news for reptile enthusiasts. There's a bit of a misunderstanding on the journalist's part I think in the article, because shinglebacks are livebearers.
Within a warren of terrariums and aquariums in the zoo’s holding area, Recchio inspected his latest charges: three Mary River turtles, unknown to science until 1994; golden- and knob-tailed geckos, four apiece; eight Australian orange-eyed tree frogs; and another eight magnificent giant tree frogs, the largest on Earth.

Nearby were three shingle-backed skinks, whose tail look just like its head so it can run backward when attacked in the wild, tricking predators into taking swipes at the wrong end.

“I’m excited to work with something new,” said herp keeper Marlowe Robertson-Billet, who is particularly fond of the skinks — one eyeing her with vestiges of papaya on its face — which have already begun to lay eggs.
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