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San Diego Zoo welcomes tiny antelope calf - SignOnSanDiego.com
Tuesday, February 8
A couple weeks ago, came the baby hippo, who was kind of hard to describe as "a little bundle of joy," given his size. Now, at the San Diego Zoo, comes a truly little guy.

A royal antelope was actually born before the hippo, arriving on January 20. But weighing only 10 ounces and failing to nurse, he was moved to the zoo's veterinary hospital.

The little guy is so little, the nipple used to feed the little guy had to be specially designed. And the formula is also specially formulated to provide the proper nutrition.

He gets five bottle feedings a day and has gained a whopping seven ounces.

Royal antelope are the smallest of the antelope species and are native to the forests of West Africa, according to the zoo.

It's housed them since 2003, becoming the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to do so. The zoo's first birth of the species was in 2006.

The royal antelope is considered to be threatened in the wild due to habitat loss. When this guy gets a bit bigger, he'll be returned to his exhibit near the camels along Front Street at the zoo. Animal care specialists will continue to bottle feed him.
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Three new crested screamer babies! Dad is 30 years old and mom is 3 years old.
 

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betsy said:
Three new crested screamer babies! Dad is 30 years old and mom is 3 years old.
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Sad news, 2 of the 3 screamer babies were killed by a "visiting" great blue heron yesterday. They have taken mom, dad and the 1 remaining baby off exhibit.
 
betsy said:
Eastern Angolan colobus monkeys.
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They have now moved the parents (Grandpa and Fifi) Wolf's guenons in with the colobus monkeys in the exhibit next to the orangutans. Their children are still with the pigmy hippos.

Sadly the last crested screamer baby died, they are not certain why, might have something to do with dad's age.
 
Apparently there have been a few exhibits tacked onto the new Panda Canyon exhibits, including one for North Chinese Leopards.

FEBRUARY 17, 2011
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WEB SITE: Welcome to the San Diego Zoo

NEWS RELEASE

CHANGE IS COMING TO THE SAN DIEGO ZOO THIS SUMMER

New homes for endangered species and new show for guests

Let’s start “takin” about what’s new at the San Diego Zoo this summer: from fresh digs for rare and endangered species including takins, red pandas, pit vipers, hornbills, and a leopard to a new and interactive animal show.

When guests meander through the turnstiles they’ll be greeted by a new directional path that will guide them to their destination of choice, perhaps for a guided bus tour on a freshly painted double-decked bus or on foot to Panda Canyon where takins, red pandas and pit vipers will find newly built homes in the bamboo forest of a giant panda reserve.

As travelers journey through Panda Canyon, currently home to three giant pandas, they will encounter an animal that looks half goat and half antelope among six species of bamboo as well as other Chinese plants including camellias and azaleas. The animal, called a Sichuan takin, may not be as highly recognizable as the black-and-white bamboo bear, but it has a couple of similarities. This species depends on the same mountainous habitat as the giant panda and it is also considered a national treasure in the People’s Republic of China. The takin habitat will include hillsides that mimic their natural environment, giving them places to climb and jump.

In the wild, the takin and giant panda share their habitat with the red panda, an animal not related to pandas but to raccoons. They, too, will move to Panda Canyon as will an animal not associated with pandas, the Mangshan pit viper. This snake’s vibrant green-and-brown markings help it to camouflage into the bamboo forests.

Follow Park Way past Panda Canyon’s traditional Chinese landscape and the journey will end at a new cat habitat and one new aviary. The Zoo’s northern Chinese leopard will have a multi-level exhibit with rocks for climbing or taking in the morning sun. The aviary will be home to trumpeter hornbills, a unique-looking bird easily identifiable by the casque atop its bill.

Should the new directional path take guests toward Discovery Outpost instead, they may find themselves at a summer camp, where animals rule the roost. In this case the roost is the newly renovated Wegeforth Bowl. A fresh look and new program will invite the traveler to sit in the amphitheater and perhaps join in to help a trainee overcome obstacles to become a camp counselor.

The 100-acre San Diego Zoo is dedicated to the conservation of endangered species and their habitats. The organization focuses on conservation and research work around the globe, educates millions of individuals a year about wildlife and maintains accredited horticultural, animal, library and photo collections. The Zoo also manages the 1,800-acre San Diego Zoo Safari Park (historically referred to as the Wild Animal Park), which includes a 900-acre native species reserve, and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. The important conservation and science work of these entities is supported in part by The Foundation of the Zoological Society of San Diego.
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San Diego Zoo Public Relations Blog Archive Change Is Coming To The San Diego Zoo This Summer

Could someone who currently resides in San Diego give us some construction updates and some idea of where the new exhibits. Also, where exactly is the construction taking place?
 
kiang said:
Aren't trumpeter hornbills an African species?
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Yes

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpeter_Hornbill]Trumpeter Hornbill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

As far as construction goes, they are currently only working on the new entrance changes, I haven't seen anything started in Panda canyon yet but I haven't got since Saturday.
 
Hopefully these will be high quality exhibits as it has strong potential considering the animals involved.
 
zoo construction

I found out some interesting things about the construction at the zoo. They are hoping to be finished with the construction at the entrance by April 11th. I talked to a worker by the construction by the pandas and he told me that the construction is scheduled to be done before spring break if all goes well. When the takins are moved to panda canyon their old exhibit will be turned into a "theater". I am not quite sure how that is going to work. A new cat exhibit is going in by the general services buildings which are next to the big meercat exhibit. I posted pictures of the construction on the San Diego Zoo Gallery. If you are interested in more pictures just ask I am at the zoo at least once a week. I will try to get more information for everyone.
 
Thanks for the updates. Interesting about the new exhibit by the maintenance area. I hope it contains either servals or caracals, not something ridiculous like Pallas cats. By the time that I come home for summer, it looks like the zoo will have changed quite a bit. Do you have any idea where the Chinese Leopard exhibit and the Trumpeter Hornbill exhibits will be? If the Trumpeter Hornbill is along the edges of the Ituri Forest exhibit, it won't be so bad zone wise.
 
I just got back from the zoo and I talked to one of the info guys. He said that they will be remodeling all of cat canyon which will start after the front and the panda exhibit is done. He thought that the remodel on the Chinese leopard exhibit was part of phase 2 along with the rest of cat canyon. He didn't know anything about a new cat exhibit by the meerkats but he did say that they are going to expand the zoo acres by making an exhibit currently off zoo grounds if they can find the funds needed to complete this. He didn't seem to sure on the area, he just said that the zoo had received additional land adjacent to the current land and they were drawing plans in preparation. He thought that it was going to be somewhere by the goat turn but he wasn't sure.

I know the zoo has the kids train that is next to the kids zoo and Spanish village, I wonder if that is where they will expand. I guess until I hear more this is just a rumor.
 
sandiegomaster said:
I just got back from the zoo and I talked to one of the info guys. He said that they will be remodeling all of cat canyon which will start after the front and the panda exhibit is done. He thought that the remodel on the Chinese leopard exhibit was part of phase 2 along with the rest of cat canyon. He didn't know anything about a new cat exhibit by the meerkats but he did say that they are going to expand the zoo acres by making an exhibit currently off zoo grounds if they can find the funds needed to complete this. He didn't seem to sure on the area, he just said that the zoo had received additional land adjacent to the current land and they were drawing plans in preparation. He thought that it was going to be somewhere by the goat turn but he wasn't sure.

I know the zoo has the kids train that is next to the kids zoo and Spanish village, I wonder if that is where they will expand. I guess until I hear more this is just a rumor.
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You are right until I see the actual new exhibits it is all rumor. I guess you need to know who to talk to. I got 2 different stories about the Crested Screamer deaths from 2 different keepers.
 
sandiegomaster said:
FWI there is a new Jaguar to be a companion with Nidiri,

Quarantine for New Animals

and a new sun bear to replace the one that just left,

Big Move for Sun Bears
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Just wondering, but what happened to the father of the last two sun bears born?

Also, rumors of the zoo expanding have been around for awhile before. If they did expand toward the goat turn around, there are currently no paths that direct visitors near there because the path around EO heads directly through the area. It would be a weird area to expand to too.
 
Otter Lord said:
Just wondering, but what happened to the father of the last two sun bears born?
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I was wondering the same thing...

EDIT: I was reading the comments from the blog and it says that Dibu moved to the Columbus Zoo and now goes by the name Ralph.
 
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