San Diego Zoo Safari Park Platypus at San Diego Zoo Safari Park

A potential long-term positive of a successful Platypus breeding program in the United States -- while obviously any zoo fan would be excited to see this species in and of itself, the addition of another charismatic and crowd-pleasing Australian species would add some wonderful incentive for new, renovated Australia habitats across the country. I've never been the best at reading the national room, but based on my local facilities, this feels like an exhibit theme that's taken some serious backseat lately.

What I'm trying to suggest is the success of this species could lead to a renewed focus on Australia and its unique species in American zoos.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves - the exhibit's only just started. Still, this is an incredibly exciting development!
 
JVM said:
A potential long-term positive of a successful Platypus breeding program in the United States -- while obviously any zoo fan would be excited to see this species in and of itself, the addition of another charismatic and crowd-pleasing Australian species would add some wonderful incentive for new, renovated Australia habitats across the country. I've never been the best at reading the national room, but based on my local facilities, this feels like an exhibit theme that's taken some serious backseat lately.

What I'm trying to suggest is the success of this species could lead to a renewed focus on Australia and its unique species in American zoos.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves - the exhibit's only just started. Still, this is an incredibly exciting development!
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Not to mention what I understand to be a serious decline in Nocturnal Houses in the US.
 
Don't know if this means anything, but the link attached earlier no longer works. About Platypus Pond under giving opportunities. Hopefully everything is fine, and just the page is no longer up.
 
I would say it's likely that plans have been halted for the time-being. As mentioned the page is also up and at the moment Australia is considering halting all exports to foreign countries as they review the ACTP situation and possible rework their foreign export policies.

~Thylo
 
DavidBrown said:
If the platypus arrive by then, probably. If there are no platypus by then, no. If it opens as a water rat, freshwater crocodile, or freshwater turtle exhibit, then we know platypus aren't coming in the near future.
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Ok. Also does anyone know how big the exhibit is?
 
John Marchwick said:
Delayed. I went to the park recently and asked some of their staff about what’s going on with the Platypus exhibit and they said it’s being delayed for now.
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Length of this delay may give a good impression whether platypus will actually come. Although, the safari park did actually build the exhibit so there must have been some promising movement on the inside.
 
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