Hello there, fans of zoos that force me to not use massive amounts of ungulates, welcome to Wesselfell, a zoo in the Eifel, a hilly area in germany where my grandparents come from. Inspired mainly by the Eifel zoo, i wanted to do a zoo in a hilly enviroment, a bit of a valley with a river flowing through it. The Eifel zoo is a bitter sweet story, because a few years ago it was wrecked by a flood, with multiple animals drowning or having to be shot. I was there both before and after the flood, and especally the time before was and still is very important to me, because its some of the last memories of my grandpa before his illness got worse.
Today, the eifelzoo is an example of making the best from the worst, renovating to make it better for everything that survived the flood. For example, the old large cat house was really old and had only small cages for the leopards, tigers and lions. They wanted to renovate it anyways, but after the leopards and tigers drowned in the flood, they are now aiming for it to be the best place the lions could have, combining the habitats and renovating them.
But enough of the inspiration, lets get into the plan for the first stage of the zoo.
Instead of starting out with a finished habitat, this time im gonna show the plan i have made for myself, both to hear your thoughts and to maybe motivate some more people to choose some animals.
This is a rough and absolutly not set in stone plan of the lower parts of my zoo. Something you cant see here is the entrance area, which will be featured later down the line when its actually worth showing here, but whats important is, that it has a way to the right, leading to the bridge in the bottom of the pic, aswell as to the side, onto those hils on the left. Theres also a viewpoint for the bisons on the other side of the river right at the entrance, making them our more or less entrance animal, hopefully helping to ease the guest flow if they should ever be allowed here.
The bison habitat is the only one i started to build for so far, being what i hope to be the heart of my zoo, being visible from multiple points and angles as a nice panorama shot.
Next to them will be a smaller habitat for prariedogs, for the nice prarie panorama. Afterwards we will go around a yet not decided habitat for a medium size animal towards the carnivore house (black), where we can find both indoor and outdoor habitats for meerkats, arctic foxes and jaguars, because we do not region lock ourself. We also pass the gemsbock, sadly the only not bison ungulate in the zoo, that will propapply be shelterd in a extension of the bison stable. Between the red, blue and darkgreen habitats you can also see a staff path, that will go along behind the scenes and connect to all 4 habitats. On the right will be more habitats, depending on how many animals i will still get, but one thats for sure will be the elephant house.
But just planing is a bit dry, so look! I build a bridge today! Isnt it pretty? Now thats what really counts, not that half the detail work isnt even remotly on show in this picture, curse you bigger objects swallowing smaller objects
But thats it for today, i hope you liked this introduction and if you have any idears, sugestions, feedback or what ever you wanna chare, im allways happy to hear it.
See you next time ^^
Today, the eifelzoo is an example of making the best from the worst, renovating to make it better for everything that survived the flood. For example, the old large cat house was really old and had only small cages for the leopards, tigers and lions. They wanted to renovate it anyways, but after the leopards and tigers drowned in the flood, they are now aiming for it to be the best place the lions could have, combining the habitats and renovating them.
But enough of the inspiration, lets get into the plan for the first stage of the zoo.
Instead of starting out with a finished habitat, this time im gonna show the plan i have made for myself, both to hear your thoughts and to maybe motivate some more people to choose some animals.
This is a rough and absolutly not set in stone plan of the lower parts of my zoo. Something you cant see here is the entrance area, which will be featured later down the line when its actually worth showing here, but whats important is, that it has a way to the right, leading to the bridge in the bottom of the pic, aswell as to the side, onto those hils on the left. Theres also a viewpoint for the bisons on the other side of the river right at the entrance, making them our more or less entrance animal, hopefully helping to ease the guest flow if they should ever be allowed here.
The bison habitat is the only one i started to build for so far, being what i hope to be the heart of my zoo, being visible from multiple points and angles as a nice panorama shot.
Next to them will be a smaller habitat for prariedogs, for the nice prarie panorama. Afterwards we will go around a yet not decided habitat for a medium size animal towards the carnivore house (black), where we can find both indoor and outdoor habitats for meerkats, arctic foxes and jaguars, because we do not region lock ourself. We also pass the gemsbock, sadly the only not bison ungulate in the zoo, that will propapply be shelterd in a extension of the bison stable. Between the red, blue and darkgreen habitats you can also see a staff path, that will go along behind the scenes and connect to all 4 habitats. On the right will be more habitats, depending on how many animals i will still get, but one thats for sure will be the elephant house.
But just planing is a bit dry, so look! I build a bridge today! Isnt it pretty? Now thats what really counts, not that half the detail work isnt even remotly on show in this picture, curse you bigger objects swallowing smaller objects
But thats it for today, i hope you liked this introduction and if you have any idears, sugestions, feedback or what ever you wanna chare, im allways happy to hear it.
See you next time ^^