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kiang

kiang

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The Antwerp zoo has announced plans for a new restaurant a mixed aviary featuring African buffalo an extension of the giraffe enclosure amongst other plans.

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I think it sounds quite exciting and innovative. I do wonder if the old rhino house won't look rather out of place though.
 
Ituri said:
That's one impressive aviary to hold African Buffalo. ;)
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Part of the idea is to try to get birds like cattle egrets and oxpeckers perching on the buffalo. If it works it will be fantastic!
 
I love this idea. For a small landlocked zoo housing a large species of hoofed animal and many species of bird on the same area is great. The new zebra/ giraffe exhibit though seems to be small. Has the zoo abandoned plans to expand the elephant's exhibit?
 
Wow, a walk-through aviary with African buffalo and birds, what a brilliant idea! This is certainly one of the most novel ideas for a new exhibit I have heard for a while, can't wait to see how it goes!

This is the (not perfectly translated) description of the exhibit from the link in the OP:

The Cape buffalo get a new biotope between birds, which you access through a dried underground riverbed that starts under the new restaurant in a canyon-staging at three different levels over an area of ​​nearly 8000m ². The buffalo bird habitat will be domed at a height between 7 and 18 meters which 150 birds to admire their beauty, of cattle egrets that piggyback on the back of a buffalo in over your head shaving birds as kapgieren. The visitor can go on three different levels and each experienced a separate experience. The panoramic view from the restaurant on the Savannah is also proving to be spectacular. The visitor has a magnificent view of the microcosm by the abundant greenery that creates a privacy area for birds. Here they can breed to their hearts.

The beautiful scenery of the historic building Rhino will be integrated into the buffalo habitat and a home for birds. At the end of this trail you get a vantage point overlooking giraffes and zebras, which have a place in the second Savannah Area.
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I'm a little confused about the description of the species set to inhabit the restored Pig Building though, any ideas what the first two are?

The Pigs building is restored to its basic form with historical fencing and is an extension of the Savannah with spoon dogs, puppies trunk and African warthogs as residents. The building is accessible from both sides and thus we get an extra all-weather facility with. Already, 80% of the animals in ZOO Antwerp also to visit when the weather: both too hot and too cold.
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A rough google search I think they are bat eared fox and sengi! Which I'm guessing will be the giant rufous and black species! What an amazing development!
 
The single giant elephant shrew is the first (and sofar only) offspring of the Rotterdam couple. Antwerp is Europe's second holder of the rufous giant elephant shrew atm. It's been at Antwerp for a few months now, I think it must have been mentioned somewhere in 2013...
 
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