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Has construction shown any good indication on what the leopard exhibits are going to look like yet? Is there an opening date that they're going for?
 
Milwaukee Man said:
Asian Leopards the Next Zoo Panda? Habitat Aims to Breed Rare Cat - Times of San Diego
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San Diego can breed anything! Even two male hyenas!


Times of San Diego said:
The 16,500-square-foot habitat will include 5,500 square feet of multi- level living space with rock outcroppings, slopes with felled trees and shrubs, and other features to encourage natural behaviors
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Sounds like a nice sized habitat. I assume that the other 11-thousand sf will be for visitors?

It also sounds like (on paper anyway) that the habitat will incorporate overhead pathways. That's an idea I've been fond of since I heard about the National Zoo's O'Line.

Any idea on if the plans are publicly available?
 
betsy said:
The anoas and visayan warty pigs on off exhibit. I am not sure they are coming back.

I posted a picture of the aye-aye exhibit in the gallery. I think it is a horrible exhibit for many reasons. There are 4 cages like this in between the sun bear and grizzly bear exhibits. There is Schmidt's red tailed monkey and Debrazza guenon in the first one on the left. The aye-aye is in the one in the back on the left hand side. In the first one on the right there is ring-tailed lemur and red-collared lemurs. Kikuyu colobus are in the back on the right. I am assuming the lemurs will moving to new exhibits when the Madagascar area opens in a couple of years. I am not sure if this area of the zoo will get a facelift any time soon.
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I am extremely surprised they put an Aye-Aye in those cages, which I thought were the zoo's worst exhibits. And how would anyone ever see them???
 
zooboy28 said:
Rather surprised that the zoo hasn't held such an iconic family of birds for 35 years. Surely the African and Humboldt Penguins would do well in San Diego's climate? Was this to avoid competing with Sea World?
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Yes, they have been avoiding competing with Sea World. Prior to Sea World's penguin exhibit the zoo did have several species of penguins. They apparently sent their penguins to Sea World when they built their big exhibit.

Sea World doesn't have African penguins so these exhibits will still complement each other.
 
zooboy28 said:
I am extremely surprised they put an Aye-Aye in those cages, which I thought were the zoo's worst exhibits. And how would anyone ever see them???
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They are just being held there until the nocturnal exhibit for the aye-aye is built in the new lemur complex as part of Africa Rocks. These cages were constructed as holding for the monkeys while the Monkey Trail exhibits were being built and the old primate complex was torn down.
 
DavidBrown said:
They are just being held there until the nocturnal exhibit for the aye-aye is built in the new lemur complex as part of Africa Rocks. These cages were constructed as holding for the monkeys while the Monkey Trail exhibits were being built and the old primate complex was torn down.
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Ah, I see. They obviously kept the cages for much longer than necessary if they were just for holding while Monkey Trails was built - that must have been a while ago now?
 
Construction on the new Amur leopards and snow leopard exhibits have begun.
 
The construction on the new Africa Rocks area of the zoo has begun. I posted the new zoo map that shows the area that will be closed until 2017. They have also started building the new employee parking structure. It will be located on the south side of the zoo. It will be between the Museum of Art and the zoo.
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but there is a mother and cub serval on exhibit in Africa Rocks. (Based on the photos on the zoo Facebook page, the cub is very young - I would guess about a month).
 
Can someone who has been to the San Diego Zoo recently confirm what is in the small exhibit by the first top window of the tiger exhibit in Tiger River? It shamefully held pygmy marmosets, but when I was at the zoo in August, the exhibit was gutted.
 
Otter Lord said:
Can someone who has been to the San Diego Zoo recently confirm what is in the small exhibit by the first top window of the tiger exhibit in Tiger River? It shamefully held pygmy marmosets, but when I was at the zoo in August, the exhibit was gutted.
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As of November 19th, it is still empty.
 
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