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OO and 2009 is the Year of the Gorilla! AZA has dedicated this year to the Gorillas
 
Zoogoer2000 said:
for anyone wondering, there are currenly 6 Mandrills. Does anyone know if threre due to get a new outdoor exhibi twith the renovation?
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Actually, there are 7 mandrills at the zoo;
On exhibit are Jabba (the male), Annette (breeding female), Kesi, Tammy, and the baby (tentatively named "Mohawk", or Mo for short).
Off exhibit are two bachelor males, Ndoki and Rafiki

The construction on the pavilion is currently on hold until next winter. The plans are going to be rejigged, but I do not think an outdoor mandrill exhibit is in the cards (too much $$$). The indoor gorilla exhibit barrier renovation is complete, but when the gorillas were introduced back into it, several started playing with (and pulling off) the clapboards around the viewing window. Currently they are working on repairing/strengthening these before putting the gorillas back out.
 
What are those silver poles sticking out of the ground in the gorilla exhibit? They are diagonal.
 
I'm not really sure what you're referring to ... they might be parts of the scaffolding?
 
no I think they are being built into the ground I thought it might be to hold up net of some sort. I no for sure its not apart of scaffolding. its near the area where the large log is you can sit on accross from the crocodiles. Do you know anything for sure about the plans for the African Pavilion? Anything else new to/at the zoo?
 
I beleive Ungulate posted what the plans are for the Afrcian Rainforest Pavilion in the Future Developments Section. As for the mandrill outdoor exhibit. I don't see why they don't have the current mandrill outdoor exhibit on display. Was it ever even on display?
 
Also, did'nt the zoo use to have two breeding male mandrills as I remember there was Jabba and then they also had another male named Carter
 
There have been several adult male mandrills that have lived at the Toronto Zoo, although only three of them (Willy, Arthur, and Jabba) have been in breeding situations.

There was indeed a mandrill named Carter (now living at the LA Zoo, with the name "Rainbeau") - he was born at the zoo, but was removed from the group when he started becoming sexually mature.

The old baboon exhibit (where a mandrill is currently housed) was accessible to the public when it was the old "Africa Paddocks"; the back loop was closed after the construction of the savannah with the intent of separating public roads and service roads. The exhibit and holding are in slight disrepair and definitely not up to standards for being viewed by the public.
 
Ungulate said:
There was indeed a mandrill named Carter (now living at the LA Zoo, with the name "Rainbeau") - he was born at the zoo, but was removed from the group when he started becoming sexually mature.
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Do you know when Carter was born? And while he was at Toronto was he really shy? Because at the LA zoo he is always hiding while the females walk around the exhibit.
 
Carter was born in 1993. He was off-exhibit for quite a while before he left for LA in 2001, and thus had little public exposure. This may, perhaps, account for his lack of comfort with the public.
 
Ungulate said:
Carter was born in 1993. He was off-exhibit for quite a while before he left for LA in 2001, and thus had little public exposure. This may, perhaps, account for his lack of comfort with the public.
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Thanks for the info! That explains why he is so shy.

Also, personally I like Carter as a name for him better than Rainbeau. Rainbeau is too girly for him.
 
He was named after Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays (baseball team) - the team won the World Series in 1993 (for the second year in a row!) thanks to a winning hit by Joe.
 
Thanks Ungulate. I remember seeing Carter on Zoo Diaries and i seem to remembe rhim beign at the health centre
 
Ungulate, I would like to know if you recived any news on Nogozi, and the pygmy hippos. Has breeding happened with the hippos and gorillas?
 
I do not know if this was brought up in another thread but the zoo currently has 3 male and 1 female lion, is there any way the lions will breed? Or are all the lions related? Is there any plans for future breeding?
 
Quartz92 said:
I do not know if this was brought up in another thread but the zoo currently has 3 male and 1 female lion, is there any way the lions will breed? Or are all the lions related? Is there any plans for future breeding?
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All the lions are related. Nokonda is spayed, Lindy and Jerroh are neutered leaving Rowdy the only intact lion (Lindy and Jerroh's father). From the last lion feeding I attended, the keeper explained the plan is to phase out the current pride and then bring in new lions.
 
O thank you Meaghan, it is interesting to know that they are phasing the current pride out, I don't understand why the just don't get a breeding pair. I do know that it is more complicated than it sounds. If they do phase them out I wonder if there will be a lion exhibit expansion? I think the zoo should expand the current lion exhibit, like having an off exhibit yard and then aquairing a breeding pair! Baby lions would bring more visitors! they could really redo that area of the savanna, with the hyenas and lions exhibit expand the two of them!
 
Quartz92 said:
O thank you Meaghan, it is interesting to know that they are phasing the current pride out, I don't understand why the just don't get a breeding pair. I do know that it is more complicated than it sounds. If they do phase them out I wonder if there will be a lion exhibit expansion? I think the zoo should expand the current lion exhibit, like having an off exhibit yard and then aquairing a breeding pair! Baby lions would bring more visitors! they could really redo that area of the savanna, with the hyenas and lions exhibit expand the two of them!
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong- but the current demand for lions isn't high. They're not endangered- and my understanding is that there's a surplus of them in zoos (hence- why Nokanda- a "rare white lion" can be spayed). While I agree that baby lion cubs are absolutely adorable, I'd hate to think what would happen to them afterwards if a suitable home wasn't found for them...or if they had to be euthanized as a result :(
 
Which is another reason why I think the zoo should expand there facilities for the lions!
 
I'm just worried about what will happen to the lions if they're being phased out. Where would they go? I know Toronto Zoo had a hell of a time trying to place Simba when he was born, so I can't imagine them trying to rehome their current pride. Please don't get me wrong- I'd love the idea of an expanded lion exhibit (the new one is at least much better than the old-hyena pen they were in before), but I'd like to know that they're doing so because it's in the animals' best sake, not to boost attendance....(Plus Rowdy is an absolute sweetheart so I've heard- it would be such a shame to lose a beautiful boy).
 
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