Starting Your Own Zoo

It's not that we don't like them; they're not even really ideas. They're just lists, and you've got plenty of them posted all across the forum!
 
I don't really see what the problem is with Gforrestersmith's lists. I like to read them and make up my own ideas using it.
 
They're just lists. No creativity. Anyone, and I MEAN ANYONE, can put a list together. They're not ideas. If someone made a list of the things they wanted in their new room, they still don't necessarily have an idea of what they want their room to look like. The list is one thing, but actually thinking up the zoo is another.

Plus, notice how this thread isn't in the Fantasy Zoo section?
 
Because this was a dead thread over a year old, and Fantasy Zoos have only existed for less than a week. But, I've moved it now.
 
AnaheimZoo said:
They're just lists. No creativity. Anyone, and I MEAN ANYONE, can put a list together. They're not ideas. If someone made a list of the things they wanted in their new room, they still don't necessarily have an idea of what they want their room to look like. The list is one thing, but actually thinking up the zoo is another.
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Yet on your last post of Design a Zoo its just a list:)
 
My last post was not an idea of mine. It was an example of the garbage that people have soiled the "Design A Zoo" thread with.
 
jbnbsn99 said:
Because this was a dead thread over a year old, and Fantasy Zoos have only existed for less than a week. But, I've moved it now.
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to be fair this thread didn't start out as listings of fantasy. It was a genuine question as to how to start a zoo in the real world, and there were several very good replies, followed by relevant ideas on how posters would do it themselves, and only later in the thread did it turn to fantasy.
 
Yes! You are right, which is why I disagreed with it being placed into the "Fantasy Zoos" section. Other members made it into another fantasy thread.
 
Zoology said:
Please anyone in the Sacramento, California area...
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But you already have a zoo!


This does raise an interesting question: Would zoo enthusiasts, the animals, and civic leaders benefit by having multiple smaller zoos throughout a random city? Sort of like branches of a library.

For example, one branch concentrates on primates; another on native wildlife; and a third on, say, big cats and hoof stock. It would be difficult finding the available space in highly urbanized areas, but this should possible in the cities West of the Mississippi River.

Europe's probably SOL in this scenario.
 
Buldeo said:
But you already have a zoo!


This does raise an interesting question: Would zoo enthusiasts, the animals, and civic leaders benefit by having multiple smaller zoos throughout a random city? Sort of like branches of a library.

For example, one branch concentrates on primates; another on native wildlife; and a third on, say, big cats and hoof stock. It would be difficult finding the available space in highly urbanized areas, but this should possible in the cities West of the Mississippi River.

Europe's probably SOL in this scenario.
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I believe this is kind of how the WCS does it. Queens is North and South American wildlife, the aquarium is marine life, Central Park is rainforest and Arctic/Antarctic wildlife, and Bronx is more all of that combined (except really marine life). I don't think Prospect Park has a theme, though.

~Thylo:cool:
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I believe this is kind of how the WCS does it. Queens is North and South American wildlife, the aquarium is marine life, Central Park is rainforest and Arctic/Antarctic wildlife, and Bronx is more all of that combined (except really marine life). I don't think Prospect Park has a theme, though.

~Thylo:cool:
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You're right about Queens and the NY Aquarium. Central Park has two themes, I'd say, the rainforest is one, and cold-weather species is the other, as Red Pandas, Snow Leopards, Japanese Macaques, and some other species they have aren't from polar regions. Bronx doesn't have a specific theme throughout the zoo, and Prospect Park doesn't, though if you ignore the Dingos and kangaroos, I'd say perhaps small animals.
 
statng my own

kbaker116 said:
Now their have been threads on Zoochat about your dream zoo and the animals that would be in it etc. But has anyone on Zoochat ever looked into starting their own actual zoo? It would take a lot of money to make it happen and of course a lot of time. I was just interested if anyone had maybe plans or looking into starting their own zoo in the future like myself.
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kbaker116 I have most of the paper needed to start a zoo. I am incorporated, and have a 501c3 and a small board of dirctors. If u wish to contact me you can.at millerphil77@yahoo.com;)
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I believe this is kind of how the WCS does it. Queens is North and South American wildlife, the aquarium is marine life, Central Park is rainforest and Arctic/Antarctic wildlife, and Bronx is more all of that combined (except really marine life). I don't think Prospect Park has a theme, though.

~Thylo:cool:
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Years since I've been there, but Prospect Park was considered a children's zoo with lots of interactive stuff.
 
I would have mostly caliifornia native wildlife focusing on mountain lions and coyote education. Have any ideas about starting your own zoo.
 
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