Yes, and forgive me for heading away from the thread, but there's also (or used to be) a "special" exhibit hidden behind the Muller's/Siamang island that's only visible from the VIP function room in the bistro - it used to have a group of cotton-top tamarins in it.
That's them! Pig-tailed macaques. You young pups can sure help an old fella with Alzheimer's remember the old days!
Yes, the pygmy hippo exhibits were a row of three (I think), glass-fronted exhibits, with under-cover walkway for the visitors. The pygmy hippo night dens backed onto the side of the old ele barn. They were basically big concrete water troughs. They now have the large cycads in the Japanese garden growing over where they used to be.
I'll have to check the guidebook this evening, but I think the tiger exhibit in that book was along the side wall, down near the back entrance. Behind the lake that used to have the white-handed gibbons on it. (Did you ever hear the story about the naked man that lived on that island???
)Yup - It was a very bold and modern move to remove that fence, and have an "open-moated" exhibit. Very forward thinking at the time
