MOG2012
Well-Known Member
Hi! As a resident of Massachusetts, and has grown up with Zoo New England, I’ve always been interested in these zoos and its futures. This is meant to be hypothetical but a realistic masterplan to improve Franklin Park Zoo, and Stone Zoo. New species added are marked in bold. I’ll start with Franklin Park Zoo.
Children’s Zoo
While this isn’t the strongest section of the zoo, the aviary is amazing so I think this exhibit should be themed after the animals of East and North Asia.
There isn’t that much to add to this exhibit as it’s a typical farmyard exhibit but there could be some changes.
As I removed some species from Nature’s Neighborhood, I felt they would go well in this seasonal exhibit.
I’ll continue with the African exhibits later this week.
Current SSP Species Count: 7
Children’s Zoo
While this isn’t the strongest section of the zoo, the aviary is amazing so I think this exhibit should be themed after the animals of East and North Asia.
- Replace the Red Panda & Reeve’s Muntjac with Pallas’s Cat, an underrepresented feline
- Demolish the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog enclosure, and replace it with a play structure
- Demolish the Eagle Nest, and replace it with a Japanese Serow enclosure
- In the aviary, the Bufflehead is replaced with Mandarin Duck, and the Canvasback is replaced with Baer’s Pochard. Also, Elliot’s Pheasant and Red-Billed Blue Magpie would be added
- I would also replace the Blanding’s Turtle with Northern Snakehead and replace the Pumpkinseed & Spotted Turtle with Koi Fish & Chinese Pond Turtle
- The last thing I would do to change this area would be to add/renovate/open a building in the back of Nature’s Neighborhood, titled Land of the Dragons. It would be home to every major group of reptile (other than Tuatara)
- The main star is a Chinese Alligator
- Another animal is the rare Japanese Giant Salamander
- Snakes would be represented by the venomous Mangshan Pit Viper
- Finally, there would be a mixed species enclosure between Chinese Water Dragon and Yellow Pond Turtle
- Pallas’s Cat Otocolobus manul
- Japanese Serow Capricornis crispus
- Azure-Winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus, Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri, Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa, Cabot’s Tragopan Tragopan caboti, Elliot’s Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti, Golden Pheasant Chrysolophus pictus, Hooded Crane Grus monarcha, Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata, Red-Billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythrorhyncha, Red-Breasted Goose Branta ruficollis, Red-Breasted Merganser Mergus serrator, Scaly-Sided Merganser Mergus squamatus
- Northern Snakehead Channa argus
- Chinese Pond Turtle Mauremys reevesii, Koi Cyprinus rubrofuscus
- Chinese Alligator Alligator sinensis
- Japanese Giant Salamander Andrias japonicus
- Mangshan Pit Viper Protobothrops mangshanensis
- Chinese Water Dragon Physignathus cocincinus, Yellow Pond Turtle Mauremys mutica
There isn’t that much to add to this exhibit as it’s a typical farmyard exhibit but there could be some changes.
- I would add an enclosure near the sheep for Wild Turkey
- Outside of the Barn near the owls, I would add an aviary for the cute American Kestrel
- Black Welsh Mountain Sheep Ovis aries
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Nigerian Dwarf Goat Capra hircus
- Poitou Donkey Equus asinus
- Guinea Hog Sus domesticus
- Dexter Cattle Bos primigenius
- Heritage Chicken Gallus gallus domesticus
- Barn Owl Tyto alba
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Mediterranean Miniature Donkey Equus asinus, Miniature Horse Equus ferus caballus
As I removed some species from Nature’s Neighborhood, I felt they would go well in this seasonal exhibit.
- I would add a pond for Blanding’s Turtle, and a seperate pond for Pumpkinseed & Spotted Turtle
- Assorted Butterfly & Moth species
- Blanding’s Turtle Emydoidea blandingii
- Pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus, Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata
I’ll continue with the African exhibits later this week.
Current SSP Species Count: 7
