This gibbon tower is inspired by my local zoo's old gibbon enclosures.
This is one of the experiment of 'one habitat, multiple species, multiple rooms', and meant to house three species of monkeys(middle one has a tad bigger space). Tried to make separate indoor rooms for each species, but it ultimately…failed, I'd say.
Tried two different methods for great apes, single habitat model(upper two, green concrete), and multiple habitats model(bottom, grey concrete, version 1), both had its issue and I'm trying to build a workaround or something.
Problems I met with this digital torment
- Due to the very limited space, and primates needing, and only accepting stupidly large feeding platform for their feeder, without the enrichment feeder keepers throw the food on the ground, and as it's on the GROUND ground, not the concrete "floor", It did not look so good. "single habitat" model suffered more, as food for the three species is just on the ground near the habitat gate, and all just had to mangle and then they just start to 'share' each others' rooms. I deemed that "non-functional", and decided to add a single enrichment feeder for each species.
- Due to how traversable area and barrier works, I cannot place habitat items like the feeder and water bowl too close to the habitat barrier, or each other. Less of a problem for "single habitat" model, but in "multiple habitat" model, I couldn't keep the habitat area as small as the former model, as some simple adjustment like closing the gate between outside cage and inner room can make the whole area unavailable. That's what happened to the bottom 'version 1' house. When I made a little gate and closed it when all the apes were on the outer side, the whole outer cage of orangutan habitat became unavailable and he was forced to stay indoors, making the middle cage obsolete.
- Green ape house suffered a problem that the keeper just wouldn't fill the third(the furthest) water bowl for some reason, so I had to compromise and make gorillas and orangutans share the big water bowl.
- Sometimes animals just think their enrichment feeder 'inaccessible', and when I moved the feeder it became accessible for a fraction of a time. Don't know why it happened and trying to find out.
and play Planet Zoo
. I have even been to a few contests in person.
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Why can't real zoos be square! Creating proper plaza slabs is extremely tedious work with precise angling with the plaster flooring.
I really like that habitat. I always don’t know, how to make the savanna’s not empty, but with the buffalo Grass, I think I found a good way. What do you guys say?