Jambi
Well-Known Member
Of the zoos I've been to recently:
- Safari Zoo Cumbria - they have a walkthrough called "Worldwide Safari" that has a lot of different species living together: lemurs, kangaroos, wallabies, emus, ducks and geese, capybaras and muntjac deer. From there, there's a large section of the zoo where lemurs, capybaras and a selection of pheasants are completely free-roaming, this section also has a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs that aren't contained, but remain in one wide grassy area. There are also free-roaming Indian peafowl in another part of the zoo, and two large walkthrough aviaries, one with vultures and the other with a selection of different birds, including parrots and spoonbills.
- Lakeland Wildlife Oasis - there's a butterfly walkthough, which also includes a leafcutter ant colony with a rope set-up for them to climb on, though they had no butterflies during my last visit, they've mostly died off and the zoo is holding off on getting more until the weather is warmer. Their Tropical Hall where most of the reptiles and amphibians are kept has free-flyng Javan sparrows and Rodrigues fruit bats, with a wire mesh on the ceiling for the bats to hang from. Finally there's an African walkthrough aviary featuring hornbills, guineafowl, whistling ducks and a few other African birds, but on my last visit it was closed due to bird flu.
- Edinburgh Zoo - at least one lemur walkthrough (possibly more but I can't remember), a wallaby walkthrough with swamp wallabies and grey kangaroos, and they used to have an aviary called "Brilliant Birds", which has now been re-worked into a walkthrough featuring sloths and armadillos.
- Safari Zoo Cumbria - they have a walkthrough called "Worldwide Safari" that has a lot of different species living together: lemurs, kangaroos, wallabies, emus, ducks and geese, capybaras and muntjac deer. From there, there's a large section of the zoo where lemurs, capybaras and a selection of pheasants are completely free-roaming, this section also has a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs that aren't contained, but remain in one wide grassy area. There are also free-roaming Indian peafowl in another part of the zoo, and two large walkthrough aviaries, one with vultures and the other with a selection of different birds, including parrots and spoonbills.
- Lakeland Wildlife Oasis - there's a butterfly walkthough, which also includes a leafcutter ant colony with a rope set-up for them to climb on, though they had no butterflies during my last visit, they've mostly died off and the zoo is holding off on getting more until the weather is warmer. Their Tropical Hall where most of the reptiles and amphibians are kept has free-flyng Javan sparrows and Rodrigues fruit bats, with a wire mesh on the ceiling for the bats to hang from. Finally there's an African walkthrough aviary featuring hornbills, guineafowl, whistling ducks and a few other African birds, but on my last visit it was closed due to bird flu.
- Edinburgh Zoo - at least one lemur walkthrough (possibly more but I can't remember), a wallaby walkthrough with swamp wallabies and grey kangaroos, and they used to have an aviary called "Brilliant Birds", which has now been re-worked into a walkthrough featuring sloths and armadillos.
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