New Youtube Channel!

[kbaker116]

Hello everyone,

I recently started a Youtube Channel. It will have a range of videos on many different species. Currently my videos only consist of just a few videos of the animals at the Educational Facility that I volunteer at. I was hoping to get suggestions from you guys on any ideas for videos. I am also going to add clips from my zoo trips. Here's the link.

YouTube - myzootube16's Channel

Thanks!

 

[kbaker116]

I appreciate all of those who subscribed! Thanks!

 

[Zoo Visitor]

Hello everyone,

I recently started a Youtube Channel. It will have a range of videos on many different species. Currently my videos only consist of just a few videos of the animals at the Educational Facility that I volunteer at. I was hoping to get suggestions from you guys on any ideas for videos. I am also going to add clips from my zoo trips. Here's the link.

YouTube - myzootube16's Channel

Thanks!

I subscribed right after you posted a comment on my YouTube channel and I looked at your new channel. I love the fact that more and more people are posting zoo videos on YouTube.

It is a wonderful way to show everyone that zoo animals do have good lives (and to refute the accusations of all those PETA and anti-zoo people!)

Regarding your sungazers video:

I just posted this comment: "I wish zoos wouldn't transfer animals unless absolutely necessary. Keepers as well as visitors should form attachments to the animals they see. And those emotional bonds should be encouraged because those feelings are the feelings that inspire true commitments to wildlife conservation."

 

[kbaker116]

I just posted this comment: "I wish zoos wouldn't transfer animals unless absolutely necessary. Keepers as well as visitors should form attachments to the animals they see. And those emotional bonds should be encouraged because those feelings are the feelings that inspire true commitments to wildlife conservation."

Yes they will be missed, but the animals were in a basement and didn't see the public. Also they weren't very popular with our guests so we decided to use the large amount of space for another species. We now have three banded armadillos, instead.

 

[Zoo Visitor]

Yes they will be missed, but the animals were in a basement and didn't see the public. Also they weren't very popular with our guests so we decided to use the large amount of space for another species. We now have three banded armadillos, instead.

The fact that they were kept in a basement where the visitors couldn't see them does make a difference (although I think the feelings of the keepers should be as important as the feelings of the visitors).

Were they kept in a basement because they weren't popular with the visitors? Also, what did the zoo do to try to create an interest in them?

 

[kbaker116]

The fact that they were kept in a basement where the visitors couldn't see them does make a difference (although I think the feelings of the keepers should be as important as the feelings of the visitors).

Were they kept in a basement because they weren't popular with the visitors? Also, what did the zoo do to try to create an interest in them?

I was sort of attached to one pair but the other 6 were very skittish and didn't let me even get close to them. I only saw 6 out of the 8 while we had them. We did have an outdoor enclosure but it wasn't within public view. We are basically in a village type setting with a vetrainary office and groomers at the right of the parking lot, and a pet supplies store to the north. Around behind the pet store is our emu trio and black swans. Across from that is our hay barn where we keep our muntjacs, corvids, and alligator and snapping turtle in the winter. In front of the hay barn we have a corn crib with our pair of Cravens. In front of that is a horse stall that we modified to suit a 5ft long alligator during the summer months. In front of the groomers we have our Arctic Fox, and Turkey vulture (separate enclosures). Behind the Vet office we have our farm animals. In front of the vet office we have our parrots. Behind the hay barn we have our riding arena and stables. That is where we have our Red Kangaroos, and Parma Wallabies, and Turkeys. In the basement of the Pet Store we had our Axolotl breeding area, Used to be Sungazers now Three Banded Armadillos, In one separate room our breeding cockroaches, and in another separate room two of our African Sulcata Tortoises. In the main room where we had the Sungazers we also had two young Aldabra Tortoises. In our office area is where we keep the other reptiles, which include Gila Monster, Burmese Python, Ball Python, Cane Toads, and Legless Lizards. That's basically a simplified tour of our place.

We tried many things to create an interest in them but since they are brown small lizards they aren't as interesting to the general public. They were in our reptile program but it isn't our most popular program.

 

[Zoo Visitor]

We are basically in a village type setting with a vetrainary office and groomers at the right of the parking lot, and a pet supplies store to the north ...

This sounds very much like the Animal Kingdom Zoo about 20 miles from where I live.

http://www.animalkingdomnj.net/

I visit there a few times a year. You can see a few videos I recorded there on my other YouTube channel. My son and I especially enjoy watching the hyenas.

The owner of the Animal Kingdom Zoo, who is a veterinarian, says she thinks of all the animals as her pets. And it is interesting to see her cats and dogs mingling with giraffes, tapirs, mandrills, llamas, zebras, ostriches, and more.

If you have a chance to look at the Animal Kingdom Zoo's website and at my videos recorded there, let me know what you think. I like the fact that visitors can feed all the animals and touch most of them. But I don't like some of the attractions, like the Looney Tunes Moon Bounce the zoo is currently advertising.

As I have said once or twice, if I ran or owned a zoo, I would not have any attractions that did not focus visitors' attention on the live animals right there in the zoo. Those to me are "distractions".

You didn't mention anything like that in your description. Do you have amusement type features too?

 

[kbaker116]

You didn't mention anything like that in your description. Do you have amusement type features too?

Not at all, most of area isn't really opened to the public yet and is free to whoever wants to see the animals. Feeding isn't permitted only to the farm animals and special treats for the crows.

I have heard of the Animal Kingdom Zoo what do you think of it? I haven't heard many good things about it. I know they have a pretty large primate collection. I remember it was up for sale on the internet a year or two ago, for around 5 million I think.

 

[Zoo Visitor]

...
I have heard of the Animal Kingdom Zoo what do you think of it?

I have visited the Animal Kingdom Zoo several times a year for and seen the same animals all appearing to stay healthy throughout those years. So I think the animals are healthy and well-cared for, but not as well cared for as at the other zoos I visit often.



This zoo has a good variety of animals, too, especially of primates:

Addax (antelope)

African Leopard Tourtoise

Anteaters

Arctic Fox

Brown Capuchin Monkey

Bush Baby

Camel

Cavy

Common Marmoset

Coati Mundis

Colobus Monkey

Coyote

Crested Macaque

Debrazza Monkey

Fennec Fox

Giant African Crested Porcupine

Giraffe

Grey Arm Macaque

Grivet Monkey

Hamadryas Baboon

Kangaroo

Lemur (three species)

Llama

Managabey

Muntjac

Olive Baboon

Patas Monkey

Scimitar Oryx

Siamang Gibbon

Spider Monkey

Spotted Hyena

Syke Monkey

South AmericanTapir

Three-toed Sloth

White faced Capuchin

White Handed Gibbon

Wolf


I will be visiting there again within the next few weeks so I will wait to say more to see if anything is new or different.

 

[kbaker116]

Don't they also have Diana and Blue Monkeys?

 

[Zoo Visitor]

Don't they also have Diana and Blue Monkeys?

This is on their website:

"... we have the Mandrill Baboon with its stunning blue face, exotic Japanese Snow Macaques, three species of lemurs and fifteen other species of primates. We are also honored to have many endangered species here at Animal kingdom. The Spot Nosed Guenon being among the rarest.. "





Diana and blue monkeys must be two of the fifteen other primate species. I do remember Diana monkeys, but not blue monkeys. I will look through my photos and videos. And will check when I visit again.