Bioparc Valencia Zoo report

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Hupie

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A friend of my went to Valencia a week ago. Everywere on the forum i see people asking for pictures from Bioparc Valencia. So here they are:

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The brigde to the zoo

Africa Savannah part
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Savannh with wit rhino's, zebra's, eland antilope, ostrich.
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Marabou Storks can get higer on the rots foramations.

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Same exhibith, other view.
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Copyright photo's: Mark Du Floo
 
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The rhinobull has his own exhibith.
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The Aardvark and warthog exhibith. Also animals like Bat-eared Fox, Hystrix, Banded mongoose, and some reptiles,mouses.

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Hyena exhibith
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A bird cage with hyrax and Klipspringers.
 
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Hyrax in the bird cages beteen the rocks.

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The lion exhibith, they have an overlook on the savannah.

After the meerkats, the Dromedary camel place!
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Grass savannah with rotschild giraffes,waterbuck, impala, blesbucks, Saddle-billed Stork, Greater kudu, Sacred Ibis, grew crouned crane,Painted Stork.

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Restaurant.

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The shop

Equatoriaal space

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Modern hagenbeck.
On the front: dwarf buffalow and Red River Hog
Pelicans in the middle
And gorilla's, sitatoenga's, owl facedmonkeys and Debrazza monkeys in the back.

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The three is the way for visitors.
 
Great work Hupie. Thanks heaps for your effort.

It looks fantastic.
 
Then a exhibith for bongo, red forest duiker, and a crane species.
This is the exhibith for pygmee hippo, sitatunga’s, drill, ducks.

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al least the spotted neck otters, snakes and crcodiles.


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Madagascar:
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Fossa exhibith

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So this is it. If there is request for Ocenario Valencia, just let me know.
 
Thanks so much for all these extremely interesting photos! I´m not sure what to think about this zoo - is it fantastic or or is it awful? But I think I tend towards "fantastic" - the enclosures are big, the climate is great for the animals and I actually think one could learn to appreciate the fake rocks?!

One point though. Given the Spanish climate, the animals might well be kept outdoors 24/7 all year round. Does anybody know if this is the case or if they are locked into stables or off-exhibit enclosures when the zoo is closed for the day?
 
The photos are fantastic, even though many of the exhibits look alike and tend to blend together after a while. The warm climate hopefully allows the animals to avoid being locked up inside for too long, and if one can overlook the enormous artificiality of everything then the zoo appears to be fantastic. I am edging towards really supporting this interesting zoo, and so is it now one of the best in Spain?
 
Thank you very much for these pics, unfortunately they confirm what I had heard before - the zoo looks fantastic from the visitor`s point of view, but many enclosures are totally inadequat for the animals kept in them.

- the sitatunga/brazza monkey/gorilla enclosure is totally awful for the gorillas and the monkeys - way too open, hardly any climbing structures, no possibilities for the animals to get away from each other
-the chimp enclosure is a nightmare for the animals, hardly any climbing, too open, no possibilities for the apes to get away from each other
- the drill/pygmy hippo/brazza moneky/ talaopin enclosure is a nightmare for the monekys, for the reasons above - you must not monkeys in a sand pitch with ahrdly any climbing!!!
- the forest buffalo/red river hog enclosure is so barren
- and the ardvark/warty pig enclosure is even more barren and boring and awful for the animals then the forest buffelo/red river hog enclosure.

There are undoubtly worse zoos in Spain, and the old Valencia zoo was worse too, and the savannah in the middle is really nice and spacious - but this is a NEW zoo and that they have made so many terribly mistakes, building so many enclosures for so much money without thinking about the animals, especially all primate species - that is unexcuseable. Being a "bit" better then the concrete hell holes like the old Valencia zoo is NOT enough for a new zoo.
 
Very interesting points, Yassa. I have not seen many pictures of the chimp or gorilla enclosures, but I do not doubt what you write.

Seems like I have been seduced by all the pretty pictures. So this new zoo is a mixture of bad and good, then?

It is in deed especially annoying when newly built chimp and gorilla exibits are not good for the animals! One would have thought that there was enough knowledge by now! Damn shame!
 
If the chimp and gorilla habitats are truly wide open and expansive then they must be like many of the huge football field sized meadows that show up in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Toledo. It's amazing that zoos still don't comprehend basic facts about apes in terms of providing climbing opportunities, a canopy, and a variety of terrain in the enclosure. I can't stand the ape "pastures" with zero cover and nothing but hotwire and grass. I still say that the hoofstock and pachyderm exhibits in Valencia look above average in comparison to most zoos, and a thousand times better than the previous zoo in Valencia.
 
The gorilla enclosure is in the first 2 pics in post no. 9 on the first page of this thread (named sitatunga and brazza monkey enclosure, but they are mixed with the gorillas and what you can see on the pics is the space which is also used by the gorillas) and the chimp enclosure is the third pic after the 2 gorilla enclosure pics.
 
Note that the zoo is brand new.

I hope the vegetation will grow soon. Now looks very much like golf course.
 
Higher grass won`t help much in the chimp enclosure. And note that there is absolutely zero vegetation that could grow in the drill/talapoin ect. enclosure. Unless very serious changes in the enclosures are done (putting in tons of climbing structures and ropes at least, better netting all primate enclosures), in 10 years from now the primate enclosures will be as bad as they are today!
 
agree with most points here. The exhibits look great from the average visitors' point of view but look closer and they are just rather poor stage scenes from the animals' point of view of having to live in them 24 hours a day. To me the fossa exhibit was the worst - looks nice in the photo but in my opinion a very small living space.
But I thought the photo of the hyraxes on the giant rocks was great!
 
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