Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden What's Gnu at the Cincinnati Zoo - 2015

Moebelle said:
The Cincinnati Zoo had a slow and sometimes painful 2014, we had lost Nikki the famous Indian Rhinoceros, the zoo had also lost a white lion, due to construction the okapis and bongos were taken off display the entire summer (but based on where I worked I got to interact with the okapis), and despite opening Phase 4 of Africa on schedule, the zoo was late on displaying significant species for the exhibit until October came around. However, 2015 is already bringing great promises, it has been announced that Lesser Kudu will arrive at Africa, and African Painted Dog pups were just born.

On the bright side, in 2014 the 2016 hippopotamus plans were released, the zoo completely revamped the Passenger Pigeon Memorial, and there were about 25 Zoo Babies presented, including a baby gorilla, eastern bongo, and African lions.

Since I am fuzzy on last year's time line, I thought I would just show a list I composed of species that the zoo had gained/added and species the zoo had stopped displaying.

New Species of 2014
1. Ruppell's Vulture
2. Ostrich
3. African Painted Dog
4. Eastern Box Turtle
5. Eastern Newt
6. Russian Sand Boa
7. Rhinoceros Viper (previously displayed)
8. Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
9. Pueblan Milk Snake
10. Western Pond Turtle
11. Green Basilisk
12. Cane Toad (previously displayed)
13. Red-flanked Lorikeet
14. Blue Grey Tanager
15. Long-tailed Salamander
16. Zophobas Darkling Beetle
17. Carolina Mantis
18. Flat Rock Scorpion
19. Antilles Tree Spider
20. Blatchey's Walking Stick
21. Green June Bug
22. Common Diving Beetle
23. Texas Bullet Ant
24. Congo Peafowl (previously displayed)
25. Fire-bellied Newt
26. Hawk-headed Parrot
27. Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (previously displayed)
28. Masked Lapwing
29. Blacksmith Plover
30. Helmeted Currasow
31. Southern Orange Bishop
32. Mexican Dwarf Crayfish

Species Taken off Display in 2014
1. Imperial Shag
2. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
3. Red-flanked Lorikeet
4. Vietnamese Centipede
5. Giant African Millipede
6. Mexican Redknee Tarantula
7. White-winged Scoter (also a new species)
8. Whirligig Diving Beetle
9. Indian Ornamental Tarantula
10. Bullet Ant
11. Lesser Adjutant Stork
12. Opal-rumped Tanagaer
13. Black-casqued Hornbill
14. African Fat-tailed Gecko
15. Wood Duck
16. Double-crested Cormorant
17. Parrot Snake
18. Indian Ornamental Tarantula (also a new species)
19. Australian Prickly Walking Stick
20. Emperor Tamarin
21. Northern Carmine Bee-eater
22. Red-eared Slider
23. Banded Dwarf Cichlid
24 Tiger Oscarfish
25. Red Devil Cichlid
26. Green Severum
27. Golden-breasted Starling
28. White-naped Raven
29. Black-capped Lory
30. Honey Ant
31. Goliath Bird-eater
32. Green Leaf Katydid
33. Golden-headed Manakin
34. Suci the Sumatran Rhinoceros (largest loss of the year)
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WAIT! SO there are absolutely zero Sumatran rhinos at the Cincinnati Zoo?! I know one died not too long ago.
 
iluvwhales said:
WAIT! SO there are absolutely zero Sumatran rhinos at the Cincinnati Zoo?! I know one died not too long ago.
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Suci, the second baby born to Cincinnati's breeding pair, died. Subsequently, her brother Harapan was returned to the zoo and put on exhibit in her place. Harapan is supposed to be leaving the collection soon, though, so it will probably not be long before the Sumatran rhino is again absent from U.S. collections.
 
jibster said:
Suci, the second baby born to Cincinnati's breeding pair, died. Subsequently, her brother Harapan was returned to the zoo and put on exhibit in her place. Harapan is supposed to be leaving the collection soon, though, so it will probably not be long before the Sumatran rhino is again absent from U.S. collections.
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Not quite true. Harapan returned to the zoo and was on-exhibit at the same time as Suci for a good period of time before her death.

~Thylo:cool:
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Not quite true. Harapan returned to the zoo and was on-exhibit at the same time as Suci for a good period of time before her death.

~Thylo:cool:
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Thanks for the correction. I never saw the two together - was it after Ipu's death that Harapan was brought back? I thought I remembered that Harapan had been transfered elsewhere and brought back shortly after the death of another rhino - may have just had the rhinos confused on this point.
 
jibster said:
Thanks for the correction. I never saw the two together - was it after Ipu's death that Harapan was brought back? I thought I remembered that Harapan had been transfered elsewhere and brought back shortly after the death of another rhino - may have just had the rhinos confused on this point.
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I know he was at White Oak and then LA for a while but not sure if he was brought back only after Ipuh died. I know he didn't go on-exhibit until then, though. When I visit the summer of 2013 both Suci and Harapan were on-exhibit.

~Thylo:cool:
 
In case anyone has ever wondered, the current lineup for the Wings of Wonder bird show is as follows:

Mammals:
-White-nosed coati
-Fancy rat
-Striped skunk

Birds:
-Domestic chicken
-Indian runner duck
-Roller pigeon
-Homing pigeon
-Eleonora cockatoo
-Greater sulpher-crested cockatoo
-Hyacinth macaw
-Green-winged macaw
-Yellow-naped Amazon
-Rhinoceros hornbill
-Abyssinian ground hornbill
-Red-legged seriama
-Black vulture
-Barred owl
-Spectacled owl
-Bald eagle
-African penguin (Including one with a black chest instead of white)
-Emu

Harris hawks and ring-billed gulls are currently being trained for the show... Interesting fact, because of the gull population boom around Lake Erie, the state has been giving out permits for the destruction of nests. The zoo bought one of these permits and went and collected eggs, and these are the gulls now being trained for the show.
 
Oh! And a couple other notes from my short poke around a portion of the zoo after my interview with the Wings of Wonder staff....

-In addition to all of the general species information signs around the savanna, they have installed a long, narrow identification board in the middle viewing area with the picture and common name of every species in the exhibit on it... So that'll be a nice aid for people!

-Also, the bat-eared fox siblings were back on exhibit in Africa... Their signs were all in their normal places, and the meerkats were signed as being in the indoor exhibit, though I did not see any of them... I do not know what exactly that was about... Are they rotating them now or...? I don't know.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Not quite true. Harapan returned to the zoo and was on-exhibit at the same time as Suci for a good period of time before her death.
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Hence the announcement of their intention of trying to mate them together.

Is it still planned for Harapan to go to L.A. next?
 
Now that the Eurasian eagle-owl has moved into the former Siberian lynx enclosure, a pair of spectacled owls have moved into the former eagle-owl enclosure inside of Night Hunters. Several vines have been intertwined around the tree in the enclosure to give the birds more places to perch and move about.

Also, the enclosure inside of the Nursery that is usually used as a maternity ward for the aardvarks is currently completely papered over... I do not know what is going on there.
 
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