Mixed species enclosures and other changes for Burgers Zoo

Mr Gharial said:
That's kinda true with all rhinos. In Wildlands, which is already pretty infamous, has already had two incidents with rhinos, resulting in a dead zebra and a dead ostrich. Both killed in the same spot
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Why do you think Wildlands is infamous?

As Wildlands stated, the Rhino incidents were the first incidents in over 30 years that those animals are kept together. After investigation they indeed concluded that both incidents took place at the same spot, the entrance to the stables. They are planning to change that part of the enclosure so it will not happen again. Untill the enclosure is changed, the rhino's will not be together with the other animals.

As mentioned earlier here it could just be that the zebra and ostrich have started it. If the rhino then gives a push back because it's a bit frustrated, it can have fatal consequences due to its weight.
 
MennoPebesma said:
Why do you think Wildlands is infamous?

As Wildlands stated, the Rhino incidents were the first incidents in over 30 years that those animals are kept together. After investigation they indeed concluded that both incidents took place at the same spot, the entrance to the stables. They are planning to change that part of the enclosure so it will not happen again. Untill the enclosure is changed, the rhino's will not be together with the other animals.

As mentioned earlier here it could just be that the zebra and ostrich have started it. If the rhino then gives a push back because it's a bit frustrated, it can have fatal consequences due to its weight.
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Most recently, the escaped raccoons, along with an escaped prairie dog, an escaped wallaby that got eaten by lions, and in the previous zoo, even escaped cheetahs. They even admitted that the current prairie dogs are barely even contained at all and escape all the time
 
Mr Gharial said:
Most recently, the escaped raccoons, along with an escaped prairie dog, an escaped wallaby that got eaten by lions, and in the previous zoo, even escaped cheetahs. They even admitted that the current prairie dogs are barely even contained at all and escape all the time
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Burgers' Zoo: an escaped tiger, escaped bison, escaped chimpanzees and recently the escaped meerkats. In every zoo animals sometimes escape. Even if the enclosure is proper built. Some animals are more dangerous than others.

So, your point is?
 
It's been a little while. But after looking over it again I do realise that the Safari was a bit... Ambitious

I want to redesign it but I think I'll need some help because my brain is very stubborn and refuses to cooperate

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I want to take out the warthog and the aardwolf enclosures and expand the lion and cheetah habitats. As well as adding in another aviary to be less walkthrough-y and more similar to gierenrots at blijdorp and most of the aviaries at beekse bergen.

"Squirrel" is new and refers to Smith's bush squirrel

I do kind of want to keep the shoebills in the larger walkthrough. They have been kept in shared species walkthroughs before
 

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Mr Gharial said:
It's been a little while. But after looking over it again I do realise that the Safari was a bit... Ambitious

I want to redesign it but I think I'll need some help because my brain is very stubborn and refuses to cooperate

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I want to take out the warthog and the aardwolf enclosures and expand the lion and cheetah habitats. As well as adding in another aviary to be less walkthrough-y and more similar to gierenrots at blijdorp and most of the aviaries at beekse bergen.

"Squirrel" is new and refers to Smith's bush squirrel

I do kind of want to keep the shoebills in the larger walkthrough. They have been kept in shared species walkthroughs before
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Ok move the porcupine, mongoose, hyrax exhibit to where the warthogs were. You have two options: You can keep the path and put animal bridges above the path, or you can make it all one large exhibit and move the path to go on the side of the building. Same kind of idea for the cheetahs and aardwolves although I would suggest the large exhibit idea to give them more space to run.
 
Westcoastperson said:
Ok move the porcupine, mongoose, hyrax exhibit to where the warthogs were. You have two options: You can keep the path and put animal bridges above the path, or you can make it all one large exhibit and move the path to go on the side of the building. Same kind of idea for the cheetahs and aardwolves although I would suggest the large exhibit idea to give them more space to run.
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You could still keep the paths if you elevate them right? Therefore you wouldn't need to construct animal bridges and have a more spacious enclosures.
 
Westcoastperson said:
Ok move the porcupine, mongoose, hyrax exhibit to where the warthogs were. You have two options: You can keep the path and put animal bridges above the path, or you can make it all one large exhibit and move the path to go on the side of the building. Same kind of idea for the cheetahs and aardwolves although I would suggest the large exhibit idea to give them more space to run.
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I think it'd be better to make the visitor path go over the enclosures

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Alright then, but how do we split up the aviary?
 

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Not really, seems very expensive and difficult to clean for what it’s worth for the animals. But then again that is in general a trend in the US, a focus on expensive exhibits focussed on being attractive to visitors.
 
Westcoastperson said:
For that you might just have to do two separate aviaries.
Do you guys not have the zoo 360 in Europe? It's becoming very popular in America.
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I was planning on doing two seperate ones, but I don't know how to split up the species, or where to put the second aviary

I've never heard of zoo 360, I looked it up, but burger's zoo is all about natural enclosures, I don't think the mesh tunnels would fit in
 
Mr Gharial said:
I was planning on doing two seperate ones, but I don't know how to split up the species, or where to put the second aviary

I've never heard of zoo 360, I looked it up, but burger's zoo is all about natural enclosures, I don't think the mesh tunnels would fit in
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So just to be sure, are we talking about the large aviary with the flamingo's?
 
Mr Gharial said:
The wading bird aviary, yes
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You could move the vulture aviary next to the path between the monkey islands and the white pelican enclosure. The hornbill aviary could be moved opposite of the old vulture aviary, this way you should have enough room to make a second aviary for the wading birds.
 
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