Rizz Carlton
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Old map from 2016, posted by @snowleopard in the Ragunan Zoo (Who have been very helpful in gathering these informations 
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Zoo Map - 2016 - ZooChat
It's worth noting that most older maps like this one and current online maps are sometimes innacurate and left out a lot of stuffs. But, this map might be good enough to give an insight to what the zoo looked like only a few years ago, which had drasticly changes in term of species.
In contrast to current map shown in the zoo ground, this map showed the zoo appears rotated. The north and west entrances, the two most popular entrance point of the zoo, is shown in this map located at the south and east respectively, same with the other entrances. The current ground zoo map is accurate in term of directions and points, regardless on which entrance you entered.
These are noticable differences from today.
)Zoo Map - 2016 - ZooChat
It's worth noting that most older maps like this one and current online maps are sometimes innacurate and left out a lot of stuffs. But, this map might be good enough to give an insight to what the zoo looked like only a few years ago, which had drasticly changes in term of species.
In contrast to current map shown in the zoo ground, this map showed the zoo appears rotated. The north and west entrances, the two most popular entrance point of the zoo, is shown in this map located at the south and east respectively, same with the other entrances. The current ground zoo map is accurate in term of directions and points, regardless on which entrance you entered.
These are noticable differences from today.
- In the Children's Zoo, llama was signed as the mini zoo's inhabitant. Either this is the actual llama or were actually alpacas, I'm not sure. No llamas or alpacas are kept in the Children's Zoo or anywhere within the zoo.
- There's appears to be an additional smaller Australian pelican exhibit near the Children's Zoo entrance. As it was not present this year, its more than likely that the exhibit has been drained and demolished for some unspecified reasons.
- There is an icon labelled as "ular mayang sari" near the Children's Zoo. This is formerly the zoo's snake presentation and attraction.
- As had been known previously, the zoo's zebra had been displayed in the current sitatunga exhibit behind the giraffes and is shown in this map.
- In the exhibit complex near the main Sumatran elephant exhibits, the current muntjac and agile wallaby/dusky pademelon exhibits had been once occupied by Bawean deers, Malayan tapirs, and Arabian oryx. The deers and tapirs have been moved to the rather secluded part of the zoo (Especially the tapir), while the Arabian oryx (Formerly housed in the current muntjac exhibit) has been phased out of display due to either being deceased or taken off-display.
- The currently main capybara exhibit have had previously houses North Sulawesi babirusas. While nearby, the current South African ostrich exhibit appears to had housed agile wallaby/dusky pademelon.
- There's appears to had been a secondary Komodo dragon exhibit/complex near the main and current one, which wasn't seen anywhere within the zoo this year. It's likely that these had now been an off-display holdings and breeding facility for these dragons (Which can be seen near the current Komodo dragon exhibit).
- There were once more exhibits in the southern part of the zoo, including aviaries for Bali myna (The larger icon possibly indicated a more special breeding facility) and exhibits for horses (Possibly for rides as well).
- In the Schmutzer Primate Centre (Which there hasn't been any accurate and up-to-date map recently), it was shown that they still have their ring-tailed lemurs in these area of the zoo. From observations, it appears that the current Bornean white-bearded gibbon exhibit is where the lemurs were once housed.
- In the bear complex in the main carnivora complex, it was signed that the area once had more diverse bear species with the addition of the American black bears. The single black bears have occupied it's current exhibit, with the bears of the carnivora complex mostly consisted of sun bears and atleast an Sri Lankan sloth bear.
- In the main herbivore complex, the nilgai and water buffalos once occupy the current Bawean deers exhibits, with the buffalos and Javan rusa deers also occupied the current smaller capybara exhibits in this area. The three massive grassland exhibit also are then-signed to house nilgai (Two exhibits) and Javan rusa deers (One exhibit), which as of August now houses Malayan sambar, water buffalo, and one empty exhibit.
- The map also signed two exhibits/icons for elands, which the zoo had the East African eland subspecies. This (sub)species are nowhere to be seen in the zoo as of this year and are likely to be phased out.
- The current American black bear exhibit was assigned as for an "European bear", which was in reality was a Syrian brown bear. The subspecies was kept a while ago since the 90's and up to the 2000's, so I'm not sure if they had been displayed until 2016. The animal might possibly be off-display like the sloth bear once was, but considering since when the bear was kept, its also likely that it has passed away.
- The 2016 map also suggest that the current small bird aviary complex was once a Komodo dragon exhibit, meaning that the aviary complex was fairly new.
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