I was thinking more along the lines of driving from MA to PA, vs trip on it's own. It's tiny, if seeing fossa is the goal you can be in and out in 10-20 minutes, an hour or two if you want to see the whole place. And it's a lot cheaper
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I was thinking more along the lines of driving from MA to PA, vs trip on it's own. It's tiny, if seeing fossa is the goal you can be in and out in 10-20 minutes, an hour or two if you want to see the whole place. And it's a lot cheaper
Visited the zoo today, and there are a few things that I noticed:
1. The mhorr gazelle and red river hogs were back on exhibit. A sign was up saying the watusi are coming soon, but the animals were on exhibit. It looked to be plantless-though, and I have no clue whether or not their will be grass or not.
2. I know it was previously pointed out about the birds being off exhibit, but there was a bird species I managed to see today: Caribbean Flamingos. After the bears, I walked past their exhibit- and there were multiple moving pink/red shapes seen through the translucent windows of their holding. Not a good view by any chance, but I still saw the Flamingos enough to count it for the zoochat challenge!
Overall, it was a good visit. I saw pretty much every species I wanted to (including the mhorr gazelle!) and there were only a few species that were off exhibit for the cold (Giant Otter, Meerkat, Mongoose Lemur). Less than I expected to be indoors. Everything else was outside or at least on exhibit. I did not see a Jaguar, and two of the big cat fall habitats held amur leopard today.
1. The mhorr gazelle and red river hogs were back on exhibit. A sign was up saying the watusi are coming soon, but the animals were on exhibit. It looked to be plantless-though, and I have no clue whether or not their will be grass or not.
2. I know it was previously pointed out about the birds being off exhibit, but there was a bird species I managed to see today: Caribbean Flamingos. After the bears, I walked past their exhibit- and there were multiple moving pink/red shapes seen through the translucent windows of their holding. Not a good view by any chance, but I still saw the Flamingos enough to count it for the zoochat challenge!
Overall, it was a good visit. I saw pretty much every species I wanted to (including the mhorr gazelle!) and there were only a few species that were off exhibit for the cold (Giant Otter, Meerkat, Mongoose Lemur). Less than I expected to be indoors. Everything else was outside or at least on exhibit. I did not see a Jaguar, and two of the big cat fall habitats held amur leopard today.
Any photos?
Of anything in particular? I took a handful at the zoo, but none were really spectacular.
Any of the renos on The Phase/the new ankoles.
The new ankole were not on exhibit, but I did see a sign for coming soon with a silhouette of one. I took some pictures of the mhorr gazelle (one of the rarities I was most excited to see) and will find my best one to share with you.
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Last of the Summer wine for the mhorr gazelle then.
What do you mean?
Animallover360
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So nice to hear that Philadelphia Zoo is getting a new species! Seems like the past 15 or so years has been downsizing the amount of species they have (and still are)
Well it is replacing a critically endangered Gazelle species with a domestic Cattle species. So if your idea of "nice to hear" is the addition of cookie-cutter Domestics, then I suppose it's good news. I'd rather have seen literally anything else in that exhibit though, such as replacing the mhorr gazelle with the similar and just as endangered Addra Gazelle.
Animallover360
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Wait, there getting rid of the mhorr gazelle? If that’s the case then that is ridiculous. I thought they were an addition to the plains
They have a singular, elderly mhorr gazelle who is the only one left in the AZA. It is EXTREMELY unlikely they get more after the current Gazelle passes away, even if they would like to.
Animallover360
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I mean, we are talking about the zoo that replaced elephants with Poitou donkeys… (that enclosure was small for elephants though)
They only have 0.1 gazelle and she is very old.
Tbf, we don't know what they're going to do once she dies, but given that they've opted for cows it seems to me as though they have little interest in participating in real ungulate programs..
EDIT: Cross-posted
~Thylo
They replaced a small elephant enclosure with a children's zoo
Yeah it's mostly domestics but it's still better than nothing or keeping elephants in subpar conditions.
Animallover360
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Knowing them they would add nothing else lol
Knowing the condition of the holding areas of the African hoofstock enclosures at the zoo, I would not want them to bring in any valuable and/or endangered species until they are able to construct new housing for them — the current barns are by no means up to modern standards for these species, and the zoo knows this. Filling the space with a large, attractive, low-maintenance, domestic species until they can move forward with any plans for new giraffe and hoofstock enclosures and holding, which are of high priority for the zoo, is an appropriate and responsible solution in the meantime. As has been discussed previously, the zoo is hard pressed for funding compared to most other zoos of its stature, so progress is going to take time. I don’t think anyone would rather the space sit empty.
I think that would mean death for the duikers or dik-diks probably
I'm not sure how well a duiker (depending on species) and especially a dik-dik could fair up against an angry hog. Not to mention the lack of availability of dik-diks in zoos over here.
~Thylo
I think that would mean death for the duikers or dik-diks probably
I'm not sure how well a duiker (depending on species) and especially a dik-dik could fair up against an angry hog. Not to mention the lack of availability of dik-diks in zoos over here.
~Thylo
Then why are the storks and the gazelle safe? Come to think of it the only other species I've seen with RRH are mandrills and De Brazza's guenons. And Cavendish's dik-dik has several breeders in the AZA.