Does this mean the over indulgence in domestic stock in every which way exclosure is about to end? Can we now expect more wild animal and threatened species to arrive at the park fit for a safari / rangeland setting?
I wish also they invest somewhat in native Iberian fauna like lynx and wild cat and a few of the raptor and vulture species, martens and the like as well as some more African ungulates
And maybe a fresh start with their rhinos .... at too slow a going with the current male Sagan and no breeding from cow Zola. Their last definite calf, a male (that succumbed 3 days after birth) was born November 2015 (source: studbook 2018).
I can't confirm anything, but I sure hope it does! The yaks left Cabárceno (I don't know where) by 2020, and the arrival for something different was highly anticipated. With the announcement for the lemur exhibit mentioned above and general rework the park is having when it comes to renovating existing infrastructure (elephant barn, fencing and hardstand in various enclosures, ungulate/wallaby stable reconstructions,...) I sense a feeling of "change", in a good way of course. I have hope that with the lemur exhibit once done the park will try and be more "experimental" with their enclosures. I do think that exhibits for smaller native mammals would be amazing, as well as a large aviary for vultures.
When it comes to what I'd like to see at the park I really think getting more caprids and cervids would be the best step to take. If you take into account that the park only houses a single wild caprine species (European mouflon, if we don't count the sheep and goats in the farm area) and three cervids (Red and fallow deer as well as the elk) you really start to notice something is missing. I'd love to see the park get back on keeping Pere David's deer, species they once exhibited but no longer house, as well as the White-lipped deer or even Finnish forest reindeer. With caprids, the Iberian ibex would be an amazing pick, as well as the Mishmi takin, Bharal, Tadjik markhor,...
But what I really want to see at the park is a final reform of all indoor housing/stables. I've never seen what the carnivore and baboon houses look like, but I'm sure that they are in need of an upgrade. I'd also love to see regulations on the tiger and bear populations, proper fencing for Barbary macaques at the Iberian fauna exhibit, an entire renovation of the farm area making the exhibits suitable for it's inhabitants, expansion of the sea lion facility... There are many things that need fixing at the park as for now.
Eurasian elk were a very pleasant surprise, there were no zoos in Spain where this species was exhibited since the death of the last male in the Madrid zoo and I always thought of them as a species that suits the park both in exhibit design and climate (Better than in Madrid for that matter,...)
Anything Spanish, or even Portuguese or French, would be better than using the super common border collies and whatnot.
