TheEthiopianWolf03
Well-Known Member
Well I’ve been waiting on this for a while.
With schoolwork and other personal things happening lately to me, I haven’t had the time to do this review. I actually went to the zoo about a week ago.
The review will be formatted in a categorical way to make things easier to pinpoint and talk about.
Okay let’s start! This is Wolf Treks: Oakland Zoo
Animals:
The zoo has around 660 animals representing many species. The younger children will see some of the classic zoo animals like African elephants, lions, giraffes, and tigers. Zoo lovers get a chance to see two species of flying fox (A rare treat in the west coast), hamadryas baboons, and common elands.
Exhibits:
The zoo is split into 3 main areas. An African savannah, a tropical rainforest, and a children’s zoo. The children’s zoo is large and filled with the majority of reptiles in the zoo. Ringed tailed, black and blue eyed, and the newly added crowned lemur can be seen in the lemur exhibit while playful otters, lazy American alligators, and curious Malayan and island flying foxes are doing their natural behaviour for all the public to see.
The tropical rainforest has animals from Africa, Asia, and South America. One of the best sun bear exhibits I’ve seen is located in this area. The three sun bears are always up to something and will quickly become your favourite animals in the zoo. Next to the exhibit is the muntjac but good luck trying to find it as I’ve never gotten to see it in it’s exhibit. The lar gibbons are always active but sadly, the female died recently. The new South American aviary houses three species of macaw, great cusarow, and red rumpled agoutis. The only bad part about this area is the chimpanzee exhibit which need a MAJOR fix up.
The final exhibit is a bit self explanatory but still is impressive. The Africa savannah exhibits has one of the biggest African elephant enclosure (Which would be perfect for breeding) in the USA. Lions also have a large exhibit. Two aviaries, vervet monkeys, spotted hyenas, reptiles, and meerkats are some of the animals you will see in this area. A large baboon exhibit and a nice warthog exhibit are also in the area. The African veldt has giraffes, elands, and Egyptian geese. The exhibit is an okay size but needs to be bigger.
Attractions:
The zoo has a few rides in a little attraction area like a small roller coaster and carousel but I never go on those. The one ride that is worth going on in that area is the train. It takes you to the emus and walaroos. The sky ride is fun but the newly added gondola is the best. It takes you up to amazing views of the Bay Area. The restaurant has good food also.
Prices: Adult tickets are $22 and kids are $18. The parking is $10. It starts getting even more expensive when you count the lunch up at the landing cafe near the gondola. Membership covers most of that though.
Verdict?: The Oakland zoo is a nice small zoo with amazing animals, exhibits, and fun activities for everyone. This zoo was the first zoo I went to as a young toddler and inspired me to what I am today. It’s the best zoo in Northern California in my opinion. With the addition of California trail, the zoo will become even better. There are little improvements that need to be made of course but with the effort they put into California trail, it looks like this zoo will become one of the major zoos of the area.
Until I trek some more,
TheEthiopianWolf
With schoolwork and other personal things happening lately to me, I haven’t had the time to do this review. I actually went to the zoo about a week ago.
The review will be formatted in a categorical way to make things easier to pinpoint and talk about.
Okay let’s start! This is Wolf Treks: Oakland Zoo
Animals:
The zoo has around 660 animals representing many species. The younger children will see some of the classic zoo animals like African elephants, lions, giraffes, and tigers. Zoo lovers get a chance to see two species of flying fox (A rare treat in the west coast), hamadryas baboons, and common elands.
Exhibits:
The zoo is split into 3 main areas. An African savannah, a tropical rainforest, and a children’s zoo. The children’s zoo is large and filled with the majority of reptiles in the zoo. Ringed tailed, black and blue eyed, and the newly added crowned lemur can be seen in the lemur exhibit while playful otters, lazy American alligators, and curious Malayan and island flying foxes are doing their natural behaviour for all the public to see.
The tropical rainforest has animals from Africa, Asia, and South America. One of the best sun bear exhibits I’ve seen is located in this area. The three sun bears are always up to something and will quickly become your favourite animals in the zoo. Next to the exhibit is the muntjac but good luck trying to find it as I’ve never gotten to see it in it’s exhibit. The lar gibbons are always active but sadly, the female died recently. The new South American aviary houses three species of macaw, great cusarow, and red rumpled agoutis. The only bad part about this area is the chimpanzee exhibit which need a MAJOR fix up.
The final exhibit is a bit self explanatory but still is impressive. The Africa savannah exhibits has one of the biggest African elephant enclosure (Which would be perfect for breeding) in the USA. Lions also have a large exhibit. Two aviaries, vervet monkeys, spotted hyenas, reptiles, and meerkats are some of the animals you will see in this area. A large baboon exhibit and a nice warthog exhibit are also in the area. The African veldt has giraffes, elands, and Egyptian geese. The exhibit is an okay size but needs to be bigger.
Attractions:
The zoo has a few rides in a little attraction area like a small roller coaster and carousel but I never go on those. The one ride that is worth going on in that area is the train. It takes you to the emus and walaroos. The sky ride is fun but the newly added gondola is the best. It takes you up to amazing views of the Bay Area. The restaurant has good food also.
Prices: Adult tickets are $22 and kids are $18. The parking is $10. It starts getting even more expensive when you count the lunch up at the landing cafe near the gondola. Membership covers most of that though.
Verdict?: The Oakland zoo is a nice small zoo with amazing animals, exhibits, and fun activities for everyone. This zoo was the first zoo I went to as a young toddler and inspired me to what I am today. It’s the best zoo in Northern California in my opinion. With the addition of California trail, the zoo will become even better. There are little improvements that need to be made of course but with the effort they put into California trail, it looks like this zoo will become one of the major zoos of the area.
Until I trek some more,
TheEthiopianWolf
