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Major zoos with financial difficulties don’t really close, anyways. They just slowly close things. It’s more likely Milwaukee’s worst case scenario would be way more like the Bronx Zoo’s 2010s experience than outright closure.
 
Persephone said:
Major zoos with financial difficulties don’t really close, anyways. They just slowly close things. It’s more likely Milwaukee’s worst case scenario would be way more like the Bronx Zoo’s 2010s experience than outright closure.
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That much I figured but it’s always good to know at the same time, especially when there are those speaking of closure.
 
Since I'm currently at the zoo, there are a few updates I'd like to say,
The Giant Turtle in the Amazon tank is still alive, saw it today, the Mandrill enclosure has some construction going on, possibly will see something coming in there once that's all done, looks like new branches, Red Ruffed Lemurs have taken over the old cotton top enclosure in the primate house, so thinking we might get some more stuff moved over soon, Milk Frogs will be coming back once it cools down a bit
Update because something major happened
A baby giraffe was just born less than an hour ago, and the prairie dog exhibit is just a mound of dirt with the backstage still standing
 
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savetherhino said:
Ziggy had her calf on the 4th of August
Milwaukee County Zoo - Zoo baby boom continues! | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | The baby boom continues! Our second calf of the season was born yesterday (8/4) to Ziggy and Baha, their 4th calf. The calf was: Born at 12:20 p.m. ...
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I was there! Was elsewhere in the zoo while the calf was born, but I got to see the calf stand up for the first time!

Unrelated... they need to open the outdoor gorilla and bonobo viewing. What is going on with that!?! And why is the family gorilla troop never in the outdoor exhibit?
 
AnonGibbon said:
I was there! Was elsewhere in the zoo while the calf was born, but I got to see the calf stand up for the first time!

Unrelated... they need to open the outdoor gorilla and bonobo viewing. What is going on with that!?! And why is the family gorilla troop never in the outdoor exhibit?
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The rumors I heard are the new zoo director does not like those exhibit spaces and would like to see them change. As for why they aren’t currently outside that’s a great question they really haven’t been outside since covid so I’m wondering if it has something to do with that.
 
AnonGibbon said:
I was there! Was elsewhere in the zoo while the calf was born, but I got to see the calf stand up for the first time!

Unrelated... they need to open the outdoor gorilla and bonobo viewing. What is going on with that!?! And why is the family gorilla troop never in the outdoor exhibit?
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I'm not really a fan of them either
 
MKE Zoo guy said:
The rumors I heard are the new zoo director does not like those exhibit spaces and would like to see them change. As for why they aren’t currently outside that’s a great question they really haven’t been outside since covid so I’m wondering if it has something to do with that.
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I never understood why the Zoo didn’t take advantage of the well-established forest that is practically surrounding the enclosures when they were built/renovated - it’s a near-perfect solution in my eyes. I get that the train tracks are right there and I’m sure the Zoo wants to preserve as much of the remaining Milwaukee forest as possible especially with how destructive apes can sometimes be, but I feel there are ways to work around that like overhead passages or a bit of foliage protection respectively.
 
Other 2022 News:

On March 7th, the zoo announced the recently acquired (0.1) giant Pacific octopuses name, Chalupa.

Milwaukee County Zoo - Say hello to Chalupa | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | Help us welcome Chalupa, our new giant Pacific octopus Chalupa won with 50.1% of the votes. Our followers voted from five names our animal care team...

On May 27th, the zoo announced the gender of the prehensile-tailed porcupine born in April, (0.1), and named Barby.

Milwaukee County Zoo - Our prehensile-tailed porcupette has a name | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | Say to Barby, the now 3-month old prehensile-tailed porcupette. Her quill test revealed it's a girl! Her name Barby comes from her barbed quills The...

On June 11th, the zoo announced that the (2.1) North American river otters born in late February are now on exhibit and are in rotation with the other litter that was born in 2022.

Milwaukee County Zoo - Clover's pups are out and about | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | You can now see Clover and her pups swimming and rolling around! They will be rotating with Shamrock's pups.

On June 17th, the zoo announced that (0.0.11) domestic goats (breed(s) not specified) were born.

Milwaukee County Zoo - New Kids! | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | Meet our new kids! Eleven... yes ELEVEN, goats were born and the barn has never been more rambunctious!

On June 21st, the zoo announced the (0.1) reticulated giraffe that was born in late May's name, Poppy.

Milwaukee County Zoo - World Giraffe Day - Giraffe Calf Update | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | Zookeeper Joan updates us on the new giraffe calf.

On July 15th, the zoo announced the names of the (0.0.3) Japanese macaques that were born in 2022; Emi, Sora, and Tomaru.

Milwaukee County Zoo - 3x the fun | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | 3x the fun! Check out Emi, Sora, and Tomaru on Macaque Island!

On July 28th, the zoo announced the gender of the red panda cub, (0.1).

Milwaukee County Zoo - Red Panda Cub Update | Facebook | By Milwaukee County Zoo | Red panda cub continues to grow. She's now up to 1158g and her eyes are open
 
On the recent newsletter, “Wild Things,” the zoo is going to be keeping the oryx’s even after they start construction on the final phase of Adventure Africa. They will be moving to African Watering Hole exhibit, it’s the one with waterbucks, greater kudu, zebras.

It was an interesting read because they acknowledged that they came here to fill the empty space of the old elephant exhibit. Though will be moving to watering hole later on. Now that we have 3 females, 1 is 6 and the other 2 are 1, I wonder if this means they may start a breeding program at the zoo, or will they become a holding center for this species.
 
MKE Zoo guy said:
It was an interesting read because they acknowledged that they came here to fill the empty space of the old elephant exhibit. Though will be moving to watering hole later on. Now that we have 3 females, 1 is 6 and the other 2 are 1, I wonder if this means they may start a breeding program at the zoo, or will they become a holding center for this species.
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They will most likely only be holders. Scimitars are incredibly difficult to place because there are just so many of them. Often times AZA facilities cannot even pawn them off on private facilities because they’re so readily available and most facilities that want them can easily get them.
 
There are many exhibits on zoochat notoriously considered to be awful because they are out of date with contemporary care - particular those that rely on rockwork - but Milwaukee's Bonobo outdoor exhibit is much more recent than any such old grottos and offers even less space for the animals. The other outdoor primate habitats - the gorilla yard, orangutan cage, etc. are not impressive at all but still vastly superior compared to this.

On the bright side, Schimitar-horned oryx will be an exciting species to see! They seem very common overall and yet, never at the zoos I happen to visit.
 
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