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What happened to the zoos caribou? And are they still going to convert the old north Pacific aquarium into a tropical house or is that canceled?
 
Point Defiance Zoo is sending away its two male walruses (8 year-olds) to other zoos for breeding purposes, with the seals, sea lions and penguins all taking turns in the current exhibit in the coming months. There is still future plans for the zoo to have walruses, but only either juvenile or non-releasable animals. It is rather bleak to consider that there are only 14 walruses in captivity in the U.S.A.

Here is the zoo's announcement:

Farewell, Walrus Boys! - Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
 
Operation on endangered red wolf:

Endangered red wolf from Wash. zoo gets novel operation at OSU - KTVZ

Chester, who was born at the Tacoma, Wash. zoo nearly two years ago, is one of only about 260 red wolves remaining in the world.

Chester was born with a congenital defect in his liver known as a shunt, where a blood vessel bypasses the liver and allows unfiltered blood and toxins to run throughout his body. To fix it, doctors needed to block the errant vessel and keep the blood running through his liver’s filtration system.

Full article in link
 
I visited last week, the old walrus exhibit is now housing a solitary harbor seal. Its really quite saddening now. The caribou are also gone, with both enclosures seemingly now holding only two Muskox of which they need a much larger herd IMO.

On a positive note the camels were gone and there was construction going on in that area of the zoo whilst I was there. My hope is that they are pursuing the development of the Australia area they proposed in the Master Plan, although I am not getting my hopes up.
 
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Female Sumatran Tiger Arrives

Endangered Sumatran tiger returns to Point Defiance Zoo

Sumatran tiger Indah returned to her home at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Friday.

Indah was one of three cubs born at the Tacoma zoo in 2014. She left the zoo two years later as part of the Species Survival Plan for Sumatran tigers.

Zoo assistant curator Erin Carey says Indah is already comfortable in her surroundings and seemed to recognize her sister Kirana.

The Point Defiance Zoo is home to three other Sumatran tigers, Bandar, 7, Kali, 7, and Kirana.
 
Zoofan15 said:
Operation on endangered red wolf:

Endangered red wolf from Wash. zoo gets novel operation at OSU - KTVZ

Chester, who was born at the Tacoma, Wash. zoo nearly two years ago, is one of only about 260 red wolves remaining in the world.

Chester was born with a congenital defect in his liver known as a shunt, where a blood vessel bypasses the liver and allows unfiltered blood and toxins to run throughout his body. To fix it, doctors needed to block the errant vessel and keep the blood running through his liver’s filtration system.

Full article in link
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Red wolf-wise they maintain just around 50 red wolves on their off site facility with 6 female reds on exhibit. That is almost a quarter of the world population!
 
LionTamarin said:
As in what animals live in what enclosures, which animals are housed together, like that type of stuff.

Here's an example of a species list with the other Washington State Zoo, the Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo - Species List 8/9/19 [Woodland Park Zoo]
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In Point Defiance's case even their map is pretty accurate with most on-exhibit species held shown on the map. Between the map and website list it's not very hard to piece together PDZA's species together. They don't have many mixed species aviaries or exhibits outside of the aquarium. The aquarium buildings would be the only tricky part off the map, and the most likely to be generalized and inaccurate anyways on a species list such as the one you reference.

Furthermore the majority of us live nowhere near the zoo nor have a species list on hand. We don't have them just lying around to give out when asked.
 
LionTamarin said:
As in what animals live in what enclosures, which animals are housed together, like that type of stuff.

Here's an example of a species list with the other Washington State Zoo, the Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo - Species List 8/9/19 [Woodland Park Zoo]
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The website has exactly this, you just have to follow the links. Apparently you want someone else to type them into one list for you so you don't have to follow the links yourself. I am not trying to be mean, really I am not, so don't take this as a personal attack. But if you really think a list like this would be helpful, then why don't you use the zoo website to create the list yourself? From my brief look, they DO break it down into what animals are in what exhibits, which ones live together (the aquarium exhibits for example), and so on.
 
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