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A new area has been added to near future plans. After the flamingos are moved from the back of the zoo to the front (which will happen late this year), their current area will be renovated to a children's play area. It will be called World of Play and will feature themes set on Antarctica, South American Rainforest, and California Redwoods. A brief description and rendering can be found here: World of Play, Reid Park Zoo
 
Arizona Docent said:
A new area has been added to near future plans. After the flamingos are moved from the back of the zoo to the front (which will happen late this year), their current area will be renovated to a children's play area. It will be called World of Play and will feature themes set on Antarctica, South American Rainforest, and California Redwoods. A brief description and rendering can be found here: World of Play, Reid Park Zoo
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It looks great! Families with small children will now spend an extra hour or more at the zoo.
 
I was looking at the rendering and description (for World of Play) a bit closer. There appears to be a new building on the top left corner. According to the description it will be a place where parents can relax in the shade and "peek at animal ambassadors." So they are either going to move the ambassador animals from the current Conservation Learning Center (only the brown curved edge of which is visible in lower right of rendering) or they are going to use both areas and expand their ambassador animal collection.

Also in the bottom left of the rendering you can see the future bridge to the upcoming Asia expansion (it is labelled ASIA in green letters). This will be the lower entrance (over an existing road). There will be a similar bridge at the upper entrance by the cafe and spectacled bears.
 
Arizona Docent said:
And a bush elephant is also expecting (assuming the pregnancy is still going well).
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Kinda awkward that the zoo hasn't really provided any updates on the elephant pregnancy since last February. (However, since that February update said Semba, the expecting mom, was about halfway through her pregnancy back then, it's probably only a matter of time by now.)
 
SharkFinatic said:
Kinda awkward that the zoo hasn't really provided any updates on the elephant pregnancy since last February. (However, since that February update said Semba, the expecting mom, was about halfway through her pregnancy back then, it's probably only a matter of time by now.)
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Hmmm interesting. She was due this Spring so I would think regular updates would be forthcoming. I wonder if she lost the calf?
 
Arizona Docent said:
Going back to the elephant, I received the quarterly member magazine today and there is a feature on the elephant pregnancy. So presumably we are still set for a spring birth.
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Good to know. I'm hoping to make it back to Reid Park sometime this summer, and it seems I'll have two baby animals to look forward to seeing: an elephant calf and a zebra foal.
 
Arizona Docent said:
And just like all their other tamanduas they are kept off exhibit so we never get to see them. :( (Yes I know they occasionally bring them out for presentations, but the odds of being there when that happens are slim and seeing an animal on a leash on a stage does nothing for me).
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That is rather disappointing! At least at the Cincinnati Zoo, you're able to see their exhibit in the ambassador animal building. It's too bad Reid Park Zoo doesn't have a regular presentation, or maybe once a week, where visitors can see one of the tamanduas up close.
 
Elephantelephant said:
But zoo had announced this a year ago, now she just repeated the report and specified the date of birth of the calf.
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True, the recent news article is repetitive in a way but it provides an update on Semba's pregnancy by following up with how it's progressed since last year's announcement, providing an exact time frame of expectancy, and preparing the general public for the impending birth.
 
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