Zooplantman
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Not as far as I know...but my list is a couple of years old
New Exhibits in 2008
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Not as far as I know...but my list is a couple of years old
No Tropics Building for Kansas City this year
It appears that because of Kansas City's budget deficet, the zoo wont be opening a Tropics building this year, but has been pushed back to a 2009 opening. The Polar Bear exhibit has also been pushed back to 2010.
www.kansascity.com | 04/30/2008 | New zoo entrance should get visits off to a good start
It appears that because of Kansas City's budget deficet, the zoo wont be opening a Tropics building this year, but has been pushed back to a 2009 opening. The Polar Bear exhibit has also been pushed back to 2010.
www.kansascity.com | 04/30/2008 | New zoo entrance should get visits off to a good start
Additions and Delays to 2008 list:
ADDITIONS
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum - Life on the Rocks
Cincinnati Zoo - Giraffe Ridge
Good Zoo - Australian Adventure
Henry Doorly Zoo - Butterfly and Insect Pavilion (Amphibians too!!)
DELAYED
Columbus Zoo - Polar Frontier to 2009
ADDITIONS
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum - Life on the Rocks
Cincinnati Zoo - Giraffe Ridge
Good Zoo - Australian Adventure
Henry Doorly Zoo - Butterfly and Insect Pavilion (Amphibians too!!)
DELAYED
Columbus Zoo - Polar Frontier to 2009
ANyhuis
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A couple 2008 Exhibits you missed
Here's a couple of additional new exhibits for 2008:
1. Insect and Butterfly Pavilion -- Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
2. Of course we're standing by for possible announcement of impending new Giant Panda exhibit in Oakland. They are building the exhibit.
Here's a couple of additional new exhibits for 2008:
1. Insect and Butterfly Pavilion -- Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
2. Of course we're standing by for possible announcement of impending new Giant Panda exhibit in Oakland. They are building the exhibit.
Zooplantman
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They are building the exhibit but have not yet announced it? What does that mean? Are they building it at night in secret?
Giant pandas in Oakland? Wow. First Adelaide in South Australia, and now possibly Edinburgh in Scotland and Oakland in the U.S. China has dollar signs in its eyes...
Zooplantman
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They are building the exhibit but have not yet announced it? What does that mean? Are they building it at night in secret?
OK, I answered my own question: abc7news.com: Oakland Zoo Prepares For Rare Pandas 4/04/07
Toronto plans to acquire them too. I heard a few years back that China would begin to cut back on loaning pandas. I know that Seattle and Omaha both also were planning to get giant pandas. Im pretty sure that Seattle is out of the game, but I havent heard much of Omaha.
To clarify, the director of Conservation, Research, and Education at the Toronto Zoo would LIKE to acquire a pair of giant pandas (and has been pushing the idea for a decade or so). The rest of the zoo, and the city, are not so sure ... but it makes for a good headline.
Who wouldn't want giant pandas in their collection? The Woodland Park Zoo's master plan for years now has included an Asian Highlands section right next to their Northern Trail area....but whether Seattle are any closer now to obtaining a pair of pandas is anyone's guess. Oakland have apparently been battling over pandas for 8 years, but at least Adelaide broke through and will be the only zoo in the entire southern hemisphere with elusive and expensive giant pandas. I think just about every major zoo on the planet has had pandas on their wish list at one time or another...
The Toronto Zoos Projects are as follows:
-The Austrilasian Pavillion Renovation and feature exhibit The Great Barrier Reef
Opening on May 16 2008
-The Tundra Trek Project
Opening in 2009
- part of the Tundra Trek will be the Polar Bear Exhibit which is slated to open early 2009
- The Mixed Wood and Borel Forest Exhibits
- In designing phases
- Eurasia
- In designing phases
Unknown of, but were mentioned
- Tropical Americas
-The Austrilasian Pavillion Renovation and feature exhibit The Great Barrier Reef
Opening on May 16 2008
-The Tundra Trek Project
Opening in 2009
- part of the Tundra Trek will be the Polar Bear Exhibit which is slated to open early 2009
- The Mixed Wood and Borel Forest Exhibits
- In designing phases
- Eurasia
- In designing phases
Unknown of, but were mentioned
- Tropical Americas
mstickmanp
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Half of the elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo will open sometime by the end of the year. This will allow for Billy (the elephant) to move to that half while the other half is being built.
Can i add a few of Australia's
Taronga Zoo opened a new Great Southern Oceans exhibit earlier this year.
Melbourne is also building a new ocean themed exhibit that no one knows much about and from the progress i have seen it doesn't look like it will be finished by the end of the year.
Kyabram Fauna Park is building a new exhibit for southern hairy nosed wombat
Australia Zoo is building a White Rhino exhibit which i think they plan on turning into a full on African Savanah. As well as a new, huge lemur forest exhibit that ia being built.
And I had another one that i can't think of right now. And I'm sure there are more.
Taronga Zoo opened a new Great Southern Oceans exhibit earlier this year.
Melbourne is also building a new ocean themed exhibit that no one knows much about and from the progress i have seen it doesn't look like it will be finished by the end of the year.
Kyabram Fauna Park is building a new exhibit for southern hairy nosed wombat
Australia Zoo is building a White Rhino exhibit which i think they plan on turning into a full on African Savanah. As well as a new, huge lemur forest exhibit that ia being built.
And I had another one that i can't think of right now. And I'm sure there are more.
dragon(ele)nerd
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hmm, there are some poorly designed forums on the web that talk about Melbourne wanting to remake the area of the african forest, I personally think it is a good idea,
mstickmanp would you know if anymore elephants are coming to LA Zoo?
mstickmanp would you know if anymore elephants are coming to LA Zoo?
Following on from PAT, I'll add a few UK ones...
- Chester have already opened up 2 new exhibits this year. These are a refurbished crocodile pool for Phillipine Crocodiles and the other new exhibit is the Cheetah enclosure which is on the site of the former Lechwe enclosure. Later this year, Chester will open a butterfly house and a walk-through African aviary (and hornbill aviary) will also be built.
- London refurbished the old bird house.
- Whipsnade have already opened up new indoor accomodation for the Indian Rhinos and new enclosures were built for the cheetahs and sloth bears which moved from London.
- Colchester zoo are building a new Orang Utan enclosure which will open later this summer. Colchester have also built a new exhibit called 'worlds apart' which is a series of small enclosures which contain rhinoceros iguana, water monitors and a walk-through Tamarin enclosure (cuban crocodiles will temporarily live here whilst a new exhibit is built next year). Also opened this year is an exhibit which is home to two-toed sloths, green iguanas, emperor tamarins and silvery marmosets (the tamarins and marmosets have seperate enclosures).
- Edinburgh have opened a multi-million pound chimpanzee enclosure, a lorikeet building and 'living links' which allows studies to take place on groups of squirrel monkeys and capuchins.
- Paignton Zoo opened a crocodile house which contains Nile Crocodiles, saltwater crocodiles, cuban crocodiles, reticulated pythons and more reptiles.
- West Midlands Safari Park have built an area for Cheetahs
- Knowsely Safari Park opened up an outdoor sealion pool
- Belfast Zoo opened a rainforest house which includes two-toed sloth, rodrigues fruit bats, red-footed tortoises and a variety of birds.
- Cromer Zoo opens as a South American collection.
side note: if a moderator reads this thread, perhaps it could be moved to general discussion, so more regions' new exhibits can be discussed in more detail.
- Chester have already opened up 2 new exhibits this year. These are a refurbished crocodile pool for Phillipine Crocodiles and the other new exhibit is the Cheetah enclosure which is on the site of the former Lechwe enclosure. Later this year, Chester will open a butterfly house and a walk-through African aviary (and hornbill aviary) will also be built.
- London refurbished the old bird house.
- Whipsnade have already opened up new indoor accomodation for the Indian Rhinos and new enclosures were built for the cheetahs and sloth bears which moved from London.
- Colchester zoo are building a new Orang Utan enclosure which will open later this summer. Colchester have also built a new exhibit called 'worlds apart' which is a series of small enclosures which contain rhinoceros iguana, water monitors and a walk-through Tamarin enclosure (cuban crocodiles will temporarily live here whilst a new exhibit is built next year). Also opened this year is an exhibit which is home to two-toed sloths, green iguanas, emperor tamarins and silvery marmosets (the tamarins and marmosets have seperate enclosures).
- Edinburgh have opened a multi-million pound chimpanzee enclosure, a lorikeet building and 'living links' which allows studies to take place on groups of squirrel monkeys and capuchins.
- Paignton Zoo opened a crocodile house which contains Nile Crocodiles, saltwater crocodiles, cuban crocodiles, reticulated pythons and more reptiles.
- West Midlands Safari Park have built an area for Cheetahs
- Knowsely Safari Park opened up an outdoor sealion pool
- Belfast Zoo opened a rainforest house which includes two-toed sloth, rodrigues fruit bats, red-footed tortoises and a variety of birds.
- Cromer Zoo opens as a South American collection.
side note: if a moderator reads this thread, perhaps it could be moved to general discussion, so more regions' new exhibits can be discussed in more detail.
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Oregon Zoo Future
Oregon Zoo's "Red Ape Reserve" has officially been bumped back about 9 months, and now has an opening date of Spring 2009. "Predators of the Serengeti" is still Summer 2009 so things will be exciting there next year.
Oregon Zoo's "Red Ape Reserve" has officially been bumped back about 9 months, and now has an opening date of Spring 2009. "Predators of the Serengeti" is still Summer 2009 so things will be exciting there next year.
mstickmanp
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There is plans to get females for Billy by the time the whole exhibit opens in 2009. I'm not sure how many more the zoo is getting.
dragon(ele)nerd
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hmm, a new breeding program will have an excellent outcome, Billy is the second most valuable bull in America behind Tulsa's Sneezy
mstickmanp
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And it also helps that he is in his early twenties. The only problem is finding female Malaysian elephants, since the only ones left in other zoos worldwide are too old to breed. I think the zoo should do what Taronga zoo did by going to elephant camps in southeast asia in search of female elephants.
dragon(ele)nerd
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Yes, one of only young female Malaysian elephant I can think of in European and American zoos which has been successfully bred is Layang Layang (Azizah) in Whipsnade. Many females are in Asian zoos were born in Malaysia. Australia has four born in the country. Probably more, some cows with an unknown birth place could of been born in Malaysia as well. Not hot on this kind of stuff. Pretty bad though my Parents were born in Malaysia.