Just visited the zoo yesterday. Some species updates:
- The capybara are gone, and their exhibit is now a second enclosure for giant anteater;
- The exhibit between the two leopard species is currently inhabited by a crested porcupine;
- There are no longer crowned cranes in the giraffe exhibit;
- The bird exhibit near the front entrance that once held cockatoos now holds kookaburra and tawny frogmouth;
- The black-footed cats have been replaced with fennec foxes.
Ask me any questions you might have; there aren't a lot of gallery photos and nothing but small news updates since 2011, so I don't know how much of what I saw was different than in the recent past.
Also, weird experience. There was a black-crowned night heron in the Humboldt penguin exhibit. The reason that it's weird is because this is the second time I have seen a wild black-crowned night heron in a Humboldt penguin enclosure at a zoo; the first time was at Saint Louis. The penguins looked equally uncomfortable both times.
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