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FunkyGibbon said:
@Ding Lingwei do you have an estimated completion date for the Wetlands Area?

Also, will the cranes and storks move from the existing enclosure by the lake?
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A sign outside the construction site says August 30. Haven’t heard any recent update though. The zoo keeps a large off-exhibit collection of cranes so it would probably make more sense to put some of those animals in the new exhibit (but that’s just my guess;)).
 
It occurs to me that this thread hasn’t been updated this year, so here I am. Some of the “news” are actually from last year but not announced until 2018.


- The zoo has decided to replace the old macaque cages with new primate exhibits. The demolition of the old cages will start by the end of 2018.

- Two red goral calves were born in 2017, one in July and the other in September, bringing the world captive population to 25 animals (Meanwhile their last Chinese goral passed away last year).

- A sun bear cub was born on September 10th, 2017.

- A baby giraffe was born on January 20th 2018; a second was born on April 22nd.

- Three black-backed jackal cubs were born in February.

- A female South China tiger cub was born on March 8th. Another cub was born in early June.

- A brown-mantled tamarin was born on March 10th, the first successful breeding for this species in Chinese zoos.

- Three Oriental white stork chicks hatched in April.

- The zoo imported two Eurasian lynx from Germany. Both cats arrived on April 12th and now can be seen in the former dhole exhibit. (Their last dhole now lives in the zoo’s off-site breeding center.)

- A female Bornean orangutan was born to parents Binbin and Feifei on April 29th, which makes her the second orangutan ever born at the zoo. Their first baby orangutan was born in October 2016 to the same pair.

- Hog deer fawns were born in April.

- 19 Chinese water deers arrived in June for the East China exhibit.

- Four green-cheeked parakeets fledged in June.

- One red-crowned crane, two sarus cranes, two blue cranes and two demoiselle cranes hatched in June.

- An elongated tortoise hatched in July; two more hatched in August.

- Six black-headed parrots and ten blue-headed parrots have been on exhibit since July. The latter were never exhibited in Shanghai before.

- An oriental pied hornbill fledged in August.

- Eight Chinese alligators hatched in September.

- Other recent births include Przewalski's horse, plain zebras, addax, scimitar oryx, bharals and two African penguin chicks.
 
I visited on Sunday, taking advantage of the early (6.30!) opening time to do almost a complete visit before it started to get very busy at around 10.30.

The big update is that the Chinese Wetlands area is open and for the most part looks great. It is a huge improvement on what was there before. The small carnivore exhibits are still too small in my opinion, and this is especially frustrating given that there is plenty of unused space around them; they could have easily been quadrupled in size. For this reason I think that this development is going to age quite poorly, but for now it is good. The area has been extensively relandscaped, indicating the city spent quite a lot of money on the development, which also bodes well.

One of the lawns (north of the elephant exhibit) has been repurposed as a reservoir. Earth embankments now surround it and it is full of mud from the main waterfowl lake, half of which has been drained. Hopefully this is just a temporary usage and they plan to develop the land as exhibit space. Certainly the elephants could do with a significant upgrade, as could the bears.

In general there was a lot of low-level building and infrastructure upgrade work going on around the site. It's possible that some of it is connected and will form the basis of a future area development but mostly it seemed spread out and it was hard to see a pattern.

I counted four chimpanzee juveniles, and two orangutan infants, all bar one housed separately from mothers. I suspect that some of these come from other zoos, as I don't think Shanghai could actually have produced them all.

For the first time I encountered a volunteer who was stationed at a 'trouble spot' (the baboons) to stop visitors feeding the animals. I don't know if this was just because it was a 'tourism day' in China (half-price at many attractions); she said she only does it six times a year so maybe, but on the other hand there could be an extensive rotation system. Visitor behaviour is a major problem in Chinese zoos and it's great to see Shanghai take some proactive steps as well as all the passive measures like signage and preventative enclosure design that are already present.

The building work mentioned by @Ding Lingwei in the primate area has not materialised. I think the zoo has imported Red-eared Guenons because for the first time I saw multiple individuals of this species.

A question for Ding: does the zoo actually hold Przewalski's Horse onsite? I blitzed through the ungulate section on this visit but I think I only saw Mongolian wild ass and I don't recall them from previous visits either.
 
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Thanks for the nice review. Two questions arise:
Which wader / waterbird (???) species are exhibited in the Wetlands area.
What small carnivores are currently in the collection?
 
Not surprised about the primate area given the delays in their small carnivores exhibit... As for the Przewalski's horses, I saw a group during my last visit in 2017, and I can find some pictures from last year as well as an announcement of a recent birth. Not sure about current situation though.
 
FunkyGibbon, could the orang infants not simply been both the 2016 and more recent infant Bornean born here as DG alluded to in his earlier report on comings and goings at Shanghai Zoo?
 
FunkyGibbon said:
A question for Ding: does the zoo actually hold Przewalski's Horse onsite? I blitzed through the ungulate section on this visit but I think I only saw Mongolian wild ass and I don't recall them from previous visits either.
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There are still Przewalski's horses on exhibit, just next to the Mongolian wild ass enclosure.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Thanks for the nice review. Two questions arise:
Which wader / waterbird (???) species are exhibited in the Wetlands area.
What small carnivores are currently in the collection?
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For waterfowl and waders I have no idea I'm afraid.
Small carnivores:
Asian Badger, Hog Badger, Masked Palm Civet, Racoon Dog, Leopard Cat, Lynx (Eurasian?), Caracal, Serval, Fennec Fox, Black-backed Jackal and Maned Wolf. I might be forgetting some...

Kifaru Bwana said:
FunkyGibbon, could the orang infants not simply been both the 2016 and more recent infant Bornean born here as DG alluded to in his earlier report on comings and goings at Shanghai Zoo?
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I think you are right about the orangutans. Because the chimps are always in small groups with some off-show it's hard to gain a feeling of how many they actually have. I may well be wrong as I found photos from last year that also show several babies, and presumably females would be more likely to reproduce if their young are removed?
 
FunkyGibbon said:
The big update is that the Chinese Wetlands area is open and for the most part looks great. It is a huge improvement on what was there before. The small carnivore exhibits are still too small in my opinion, and this is especially frustrating given that there is plenty of unused space around them; they could have easily been quadrupled in size. For this reason I think that this development is going to age quite poorly, but for now it is good. The area has been extensively relandscaped, indicating the city spent quite a lot of money on the development, which also bodes well.
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Photos from the visit are now in the gallery:

Shanghai Zoo - ZooChat
 
Yet another badly outdated update...

"News" from 2019

-The East China exhibit opened on Earth Day (there're already plenty of photos of the exhibit in the gallery and a nice review by @FunkyGibbon in this thread). The zoo also opened a new amphibian section in their reptile house in May, featuring Argentine horned frog, Chinese flying frog, orange-legged Budgett's frog (Lepidobatrachus llanensis), White's tree frog, Hong Kong whipping frog, tiger salamander and Pingchi's newt (Pachytriton granulosus).

- A baby hippo and a baby Brazilian tapir were born on January 3.

- An African penguin chick hatched in Febuary.

- Multiple primate species successfully bred in the spring, including ring-tailed lemur, lion-tailed macaque and mantled guereza.

- A red-footed tortoise hatched in April, followed by an elongated tortoise and a Burmese star tortoise in May.

- A male Francois' langur was born in May.

- Four Chinese water deer fawns were born in June, marking the first birth in the newly-opened East China exhibit.

- Two male giraffe calves were born in August and September; a female was born in November.

- A female pileated gibbon was born in October, the second child of the breeding pair.

- A white-fronted capuchin was born in October.

- Three pairs of coscoroba swan arrived in November, a new species for Shanghai.

- A Hermann's tortoise hatched in November.

- Six Nancy Ma's night monkeys (another first for the zoo) were imported from Peru in December.
 
And some announcements from 2020:

- A wave of lock-down babies were announced in social media, including two black-backed jackal pups, plain zebra foal, three hog deer fawns and one baby takin.

- The zoo’s female hippo “Little Thing” gave birth to her fourth calf on March 20.

- A lion-tailed macaque baby was born in early April.

- The zoo added a new tank for Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Asian common toad) and Fejervarya multistriata in the amphibian section.

- Twelve Chinese water deer fawns were born between May and June.
 
I went to Shanghai Zoo on October 7, my first zoo visit in 2020. The new primate exhibits are now completed and open to visitors. Much to my disappointment the old mandrill and baboon row, which I thought would be replaced by the new enclosures, is still there. Turned out it was another row of old primate cages right across the gibbon exhibits that got demolished. On the bright side, the new enclosures are well furnished, all with decent size and height. The three new enclosures hold pileated gibbons, siamang and yellow-checked gibbons. Together with the old enclosures of northern white-cheeked gibbons and skywalker hoolock gibbon, they now form a gibbon-themed plaza, which makes Shanghai Zoo one of the few places in the world that where one can literally hear all four genus of gibbons singing at the same time. The zoo recently announced a series of ambitious projects including new bear exhibit, new hippo exhibit and a second “rainforest building” style reptile house, though no time table was given.

Various babies were on exhibit, the most adorable one being a baby Brazilian tapir born on September 8. A baby orangutan was on view indoors with the mother. A baby chimp was kept in the nursery (a keeper said the female gave birth to twins but this one was rejected and had to be hand-raised). The nursery also held a baby black-and-white ruffed lemur and a baby gibbon which I couldn’t tell the species.

On other news, according to the zoo’s social media account four South China tiger cubs were born on July 4 but apparently kept off show.
 
Here Are The List Of Animal That Shanghai Zoo Previously Exhibited：
American Bison
Black And Gold Howler Monkey
Brown Booby
Coypu Rat
Goral
L'Hoest's Monkey
Alpine Ibex
Iberian Ibex
Tufted Deer
Chinese Golden Cat
Snow Leopard（Seen In A Book）
Formosan Macaque
Assam Macaque
Black Lemur
Laughing Kookaburra
Striped Mongoose
Dhole
Corsac Fox
Cheetah
Grey Mouse Lemur
Binturong
Arctic Fox
Polar Bear
Striped Skunk
Chinese Merganser
White Headed Langur
Jaguar
Lowland Anoa
Thorold's Deer
Chinese Wild Boar
Sambar
 
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Another year has passed since I last updated this thread though I’ve uploaded photos about pretty much everything new in Shanghai. Below is a summary of social media announcements of the zoo’s official account since October 2020.

New Species:

A collared crow (Corvus torquatus) has been on exhibit in the tropical bird house since February, sharing an aviary with Temminck's tragopan and red-billed blue magpie. The bird was joined by two other collared crows in my recent visit.

A rescued brown hawk-owl (Ninox scutulata) joined the raptor collection in June.

Two three-year-old Komodo dragons made their public debut on September 29, marking the first time the species ever exhibited in Shanghai. The pair currently lives in two connected and refurbished enclosures in the reptile house but will eventually move to the planned new reptile house after fully grown.

Recent Births:

Three cougar cubs, two males and one female, were born on September 19, 2020 to first-time mom Guoguo, who was born in the zoo three years ago. The cubs were given access to the outdoor yard since late November.

Four African penguin chicks hatched between November 2020 and January 2021.

An addax calf was born in January.

Two scimitar oryx calves were born on January 26 and 31.

A female spotted hyena cub was born on February 20.

A baby giraffe was born on March 26.

A bharal calf was born in April.

Two fennec fox kits were born on April 17.

A baby Brazilian tapir was born in May.

Little Thing the hippo gave birth to her fifth baby on May 10.

Multiple Chinese water deer fawns were born through May and June.

Other recent births include Chimpanzees, Malayan porcupines, South China tigers, blackbucks, eastern spot-billed ducks and Chinese box turtle.
 
In A Video On Weibo，There Are Two Siamangs Revealed，One Is The Female One“Fafa”，And The Other One's Gender Is Not Announced Yet.
Watch The Video Here：
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It seems that panda Ya Ya from Memphis is in quarantine for a month, anyone know where she is being kept - or if the public can view her?
 
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