Self developed vulture enclosures

[Miniaturezoo954]

Hi, wanted to share my own zoo design ideas, and get the feedback from the experts in this area.

As some of you know i have been working for some years in a first of its kind large scale diorama zoo, and out of my love for vultures, i will include a small section in the park layout mainly dedicated to vultures.

I have built a couple of the enclosures already and plan on adding 3 more, for a total of 5 large mesh aviaries, in the pics of the two completed enclosures you can find southern african ground hornbill and raccoon dogs in one, and the other is especially made for California condors, but once the 5 enclosures are ready this are the species i have and will like to combine in them, a couple of the enclosures will have indivual sections as one already does, where the species displayed will be apart from other animals in the enclosure, here is the list of animals i will like to include in all 5 enclosures:

Andean condor
American black vulture
California condor
King vulture
Southern african ground hornbill
Eurasian black vulture
Griffon vulture
African white backed vulture
Hooded vulture
lappet faced vulture

My question is what small mammals could i combine with some of this vultures that has already being done in zoos, since i want the diorama model to be as realistic as possible, i would like to move some mammal species to this enclosures, i'm especially interested in:

Raccoon dog
Striped hyena
Brown hyena
Black backed jackal
Bush dog
Fennec fox

Do you know if any of this species have been combined with vultures in the past or present and does it work?

 

[Miniaturezoo954]

These two are pics of the finished enclosures, there is still some details to be changed, but the rest will look mostly like this with a different structural layout, and one will have much higher rockwork, this enclosure are made of artisan clay, and they are extremely heavy one weights about 26 pounds.


The pic of the king vulture is thru the mesh net, for some reason it looks a lot better in person, the pics take away from the realism, but the net is much easier to see thru than what the pics will show.

 

[markun]

Wow, I see now what a huge project this is. It would be cool to see some of your other exhibits.

 

[jwer]

Nice project, Amersfoort Zoo in the Netherlands combine their ex-injured and now non-releasable Griffon vultures with black-backed jackals. The vultures breed in the exhibit and allthough i do remember one incident (during which i think one vulture died) they seem to be doing alright together.