Where are the Madagascar exhibits in North America?

DavidBrown

DavidBrown

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Has anybody here compiled a directory of the Madagascar exhibits in American zoos?

The only purely Madagascar exhibits that I could think of are the Bronx Zoo and Omaha Zoo, neither of which I have seen because they were built after I visited these zoos.

Are there any Madagascar exhibits in American zoos that have tenrecs or mention them in displays? Do any of them have models of displays about the extinct giant lemurs and elephant birds?

It seems like just about every zoo has lemurs, but very few zoos have exhibits about their habitat.
 
Tropics Trail at the Minnesota Zoo starts with a Madagascar area, here is the excerpt from my review from May 2010:

"The first exhibit is a small open rocky yard for radiated tortoise; large graphics inside illustrate other animals from Madagascar that are now extinct, including a nearby bronze Madagascan giant tortoise statue in the path for climbing. A nearby simulated baobab trunk has an imbedded terrarium for Madagascar hissing cockroach and a larger imbedded habitat for Standings day gecko mixed with lesser hedgehog tenrec! The latter has a window view to an adjacent medium netted enclosure filled with branches for ring-tailed and red-ruffed lemurs, also viewed from a shelter next to it."

The graphics within the radiated tortoise exhibit include giant sloth lemur and elephant bird.
 
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