Parque de Cotia (new zoo in São Paulo)

David Matos Mendes said:
Yes, I think some of those are definitely gonna be kept there. Meerkats are very likely to be part of the collection, IMO, as the aquarium keeps quite a considerable amount of them. I mentioned the kangaroos first as I'm quite sure the exhibit for these mammals in the aquarium is quite crowded.
They mentioned keeping gorillas indeed, but I'm not sure if they have a way to obtain some in short/medium term. Giraffes and zebras will be kept in the savannah exhibit, afaik, and indian rhinos will be kept in an indian themed exhibit wich I have already posted here.
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and what about the quantity of animals, can we expect over 1000 animals?
 
BetoYoung said:
and what about the quantity of animals, can we expect over 1000 animals?
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Oh yes, I would say so. They seem to have the objective of appearing in the national major zoos scenery, and for that, they are much probably gonna keep a large collection. I would be more radical and guess something between 2000 to 3000.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Oh yes, I would say so. They seem to have the objective of appearing in the national major zoos scenery, and for that, they are much probably gonna keep a large collection. I would be more radical and guess something between 2000 to 3000.
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yeah, just like the lisbon zoo, they have 3000 animals. and also they keep indian rhinos.
 
BetoYoung said:
yeah, just like the lisbon zoo, they have 3000 animals. and also they keep indian rhinos.
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Yes, but Animalia park will be way larger than Lisbon in territory. For what I could see, they will be one of the largest institutions in the country when talking about constructed area (and much probably, will be one of the largest collections too). As we brazilians use to say, they've got the knife and the cheese on their hands, so now I just hope they become an actual conservationist institution (would be a little utopic, but I'm usually optimistic :D).
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Yes, but Animalia park will be way larger than Lisbon in territory. For what I could see, they will be one of the largest institutions in the country when talking about constructed area (and much probably, will be one of the largest collections)
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it seems like it will surpass the collection of the san diego zoo, and that sounds awesome.
 
BetoYoung said:
it seems like it will surpass the collection of the san diego zoo, and that sounds awesome.
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Oh, I'm not mentioning the number of species. When I say 2000/3000, I mean the total animal population. If I had to guess the number of species, I would say something around 300.
 
hey guys, i discovered something awesome today, i saw a new update about animalia park, and it seems like i discovered which animals they will keep, and it looks like they really will hold lions and maned wolves. And also they will hold giraffes, zebras, hippos,flamingos, animals from the amazon, raccons, deer, colobus monkey, gorillas,jaguars, kangaroos, elephants, meerkats, pelicans, cheetahs, hyenas, rhinos, crocodiles and including pandas. this was realesed 4 days ago.
 
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BetoYoung said:
hey guys, i discovered something awesome today, i saw a new update about animalia park, and it seems like i discovered which animals they will keep, and it looks like they really will hold lions and maned wolves. And also they will hold giraffes, zebras, hippos,flamingos, animals from the amazon, raccons, deer, colobus monkey, gorillas,jaguars, kangaroos, elephants, meerkats, pelicans, cheetahs, hyenas, rhinos, crocodiles and including pandas. this was realesed 4 days ago.
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Wait a moment. Pandas? Really? Do you know where animalia park plans to acquire these animals from?
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Wait a moment. Pandas? Really? Do you know where animalia park plans to acquire these animals from?
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i don't know, but if you searched animalia park update 7, search update in our language( brazilian portuguese) you will see a concept of the future map of the park, and there are many posts, and one of the posts include pandas.
 
BetoYoung said:
possibly from china, or from americans zoos that keep pandas, like smithsonian zoo and memphis zoo.
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If they would want to receive pandas from either Smithsonian or Menphis, they would have to be accredited by AZA, wich I highly doubt they will be. Just like I previously mentioned about their gorilla plans, I'm still quite doubtfull about this panda stuff.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
If they would want to receive pandas from either Smithsonian or Menphis, they would have to be accredited by AZA, wich I highly doubt they will be. Just like I previously mentioned about their gorilla plans, I'm still quite doubtfull about this panda stuff.
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me too, i don't know where they will bring these pandas, but if they do, that will be awesome, and i'm also doubtfull about the pandas, and i don't think our weather is good for them, and do you remember when the former riozoo said they would bring giant pandas to the zoo? this was in 2014 and now we are in 2021, and nothing happened.
 
BetoYoung said:
me too, i don't know where they will bring these pandas, but if they do, that will be awesome, and i'm also doubtfull about the pandas, and i don't think our weather is good for them, and do you remember when the former riozoo said they would bring giant pandas to the zoo? this was in 2014 and now we are in 2021, and nothing happened.
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I'm not in favor of keeping giant pandas in Brazil at all... One of the motives, as you said, would be the weather. Bringing pandas to Rio, specially the way the zoo was at that time, was a ridiculous idea. I tend to think the chinese government gave up on that, as we had no news since then.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
I'm not in favor of keeping giant pandas in Brazil at all... One of the motives, as you said, would be the weather. Bringing pandas to Rio, specially the way the zoo was at that time, was a ridiculous idea. I tend to think the chinese government gave up on that, as we had no news since then.
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you're right, but hey, did you see the new update?
 
BetoYoung said:
you're right, but hey, did you see the new update?
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Yes, I saw, and I have to admit I quite liked what I've seen. The map seems to be in proccess of making, as I think there are still some animals to add, but the whole trail looks really nice IMO. Their exhibits seem to be of great quality, and that would not be an obstacle for them to be accredited by AZA, at least as far as I know. The issues I see are related to conservational/technical issues. I hope they somehow follow those purposes in a satisfactory way...
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Yes, I saw, and I have to admit I quite liked what I've seen. The map seems to be in proccess of making, as I think there are still some animals to add, but the whole trail looks really nice IMO. Their exhibits seem to be of great quality, and that would not be an obstacle for them to be accredited by AZA, at least as far as I know. The issues I see are related to conservational/technical issues. I hope they somehow follow those purposes in a satisfactory way...
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i hope so as well.
 
Red pandas are breeding very well in both of the Santiago de Chile zoos. Maybe some of the surplus will go to São Paulo.
 
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