San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo Species History

OboeKade

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Hello again everybody,

This has been a project of mine for nearly a decade now, and while it's not anywhere near finished (or updated) I wanted to go ahead and share it here. It is a live document including every SDZ exhibit and tracking which species it has held/holds currently, as well as the years in which these species were added/subtracted from the enclosure. This is a culmination of combing through old ZooChat threads and species lists, plus a few notes from my own visit. Full disclaimer: I used @geomorph 's species lists from 2013 and 2015 as bases and edited the structure from there.

It is NOT up to date, nor is it anywhere near organized/presentable, but I wanted to go ahead and post it here since I figured you all would be interested. I am hopeful to (eventually) turn this into an interactive website where you can click on each exhibit on a top-down SDZ map and view holdings, but I do not have the technical expertise to make this happen yet. It works as a document for now, despite its difficult navigability.

I will likely update it with 2023's and 2024's news at the end of the year, and if someone else would like to try their hand at making it more accessible, I am more than okay with that and am happy to collaborate with someone, too.

SDZ: San Diego Zoo Species List.docx
SP: San Diego Zoo Safari Park Species List.docx
 
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This looks like a spectacular project, especially if you are able to eventually turn it into an interactive website. It's amazing to look at some of those exhibits and see just how many different species have rotated through them over the years. Wow.
 
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