Your zoo visits

[Hugo98]

Good to hear you liked both Berlin zoos @Marvinb !

The zoo has grevy zebra and i dont think i saw a second zebra enclosure. Could be wrong tho

There are indeed two zebra species in Tierpark. The grevy's zebras live in the large savannah enclosure, while the mountain zebras have their own enclosure in front of the savannah. If you are lucky, you can see both species at once because the two habitats are seperated by just a moat.

But one thing i really wish is that they maybe relocate some animals out of the zoo into the much bigger Tierpark. The great apes were the first one i thought of. They are currently in the primate house which doesnt really hold up to modern standards (but they are going to redo it, which is great). So ideally they split them up and keep orang and bonobo at the zoo and move Gorilla and chimp to the tierpark.

The gorilla is the mascot of the zoo (take a look at the logo), so this won't happen. But I agree about splitting them up, I would keep gorilla and bonobo in the zoo and chimp and orang-utan in the Tierpark. This won't happen either though, but there will be some even more radical change: the zoo recently published they will only keep gorillas in future. They will get an entirely new house and outdoor habitat in the expansion area (where the mixed African, South American and Australian habitats are at the moment). All animals from this area will be moved within the zoo or to other zoos. The current monkey house will only have monkeys in future, no apes anymore. The plans for all the other apes are scrapped because of the lack of money.
That said, I highly doubt we will see any apes in Tierpark anytime soon, to be honest.

 

[PlanetJameson]

Spent the day at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens and had the best time. It had changed quite a lot since I’d been there last. There were tons of really fantastic habitats, but the absolute crown jewel of the zoo, at least for now, is the Land of the Tiger area, specifically the Malayan and Sumatran Tiger habitat. It was jaw-dropping. I say “for now” as they’re currently building a new 73 million dollar manatee rehabilitation habitat and zoo entrance complex and the concept artwork is gorgeous. Can’t wait to see it when it opens.

Aldabra Giant Tortoise

Warthog

Kudu

Wood Stork - These are actually wild. There’s a very large breeding colony across the waterway from the Kudu and Southern White Rhino habitat.

The next 3 were all in a big aviary that was also home to the giant otters
Inca Tern

Some kind of Cormorant

Masked Lapwing

American Flamingo

Babirusa

Bongo ……the babies

 

[PlanetJameson]

Land of the Tiger - Home to 4 tigers, 2 Malayan, and 2 Sumatran

In order to get there you have to walk along a rather lengthy pathway through a mature bamboo forest.

The habitat itself is quite large, split in half by an enclosed air conditioned viewing area. Both sides are connected by elevated enclosed catwalks that go over the guest pathways, centered by a large fake root cage/tree structure so the tigers are sometimes above you. It was absolutely spectacular.

 

[FlameWizard492]

Spent the day at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens and had the best time. It had changed quite a lot since I’d been there last. There were tons of really fantastic habitats, but the absolute crown jewel of the zoo, at least for now, is the Land of the Tiger area, specifically the Malayan and Sumatran Tiger habitat. It was jaw-dropping. I say “for now” as they’re currently building a new 73 million dollar manatee rehabilitation habitat and zoo entrance complex and the concept artwork is gorgeous. Can’t wait to see it when it opens.

Aldabra Giant Tortoise
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Warthog
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Kudu
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Wood Stork - These are actually wild. There’s a very large breeding colony across the waterway from the Kudu and Southern White Rhino habitat.
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The next 3 were all in a big aviary that was also home to the giant otters
Inca Tern
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Some kind of Cormorant
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Masked Lapwing
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American Flamingo
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Baribusa
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Bongo ……the babies
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Man it has been YEARS since I’ve been there. I really wanna go back!

 

[PlanetJameson]

Man it has been YEARS since I’ve been there. I really wanna go back!

It was my first time back in 15 years and I only live 2 hours away. Embarrassing. lol. I absolutely plan on being there opening day for the new manatee habitat. It’s already 2 years behind schedule, but the concept is dope.

 

[Stygi]

Had a wonderful visit to Chester zoo yesterday whilst the chaos of the pack reveal was unfolding. The new heart of Africa section is quite nice and will improve further in future when the Secretary birds and Bat eared foxes are introduced. The highlight of the day for me was the Spectacled bears, after 3 times missing them 3 times before I have finally seen them.

 

[Aramar]

Today I visited the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich. What an amazing park! I've spent a little more than 6 hours to see it all. I've been lucky and managed to see most of the animals. The only major animal I didn't see was the Eurasian wolf. I'll try to share some pics when I have some free time one day.

Here are some pics I took.

The amazing great white pelicans. They are so big! I want them!

Two brothers thinking about eating me:

The most important animal in the zoo: the house mouse!

Agouti and baby!

Agoutis share with spider monkeys:

Larger animals now:

Open exhibit for common toads. I miss the exhibit animals so much!

Chimps:

Another one thinking of eating me:

Lovely porcupine habitat:

To be continued...

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

Went for a visit to Colchester Zoo today, with the main aim of seeing the brand-new enclosure for their buffy-headed capuchin monkeys, which is right next to the zoo entrance. It is absolutely massive for the four capuchins (for a long time, the space was two enclosures, housing orangutans, sun bears and gibbons at different times) and it looks pretty incredible. None of my pictures really do the enclosure justice, so this is the zoo's own video about the opening of the enclosure.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd4nAsuS-IA


One unexpected highlight was finding that one of the Humboldt penguins was sitting on at least one egg - they normally nest inside special boulder-shaped nest boxes here at the zoo, so getting to see a penguin egg was something new for me.

Instead of white-faced sakis, Colchester have the far more rarely-kept Guianan bearded saki, with multiple animals divided between two groups. I got a very clear view of one on top of its climbing frame. Even though they are fairly big (about the size of cats), they have the most comical high-pitched squeaky calls.

Recently, the warthogs have had another litter of piglets. They seem to do very well with breeding them, and quite a few other big zoos have warthogs bred at Colchester in recent times. The three males at London Zoo and the three females in the newly-opened Heart of Africa at Chester Zoo are all from litters born at Colchester.

Also, had the good fortune to see the slender-snouted crocodile getting fed on whole tilapia. In the same building as the crocodile, there is a brand-new male chimpanzee called Napoleon. Because he was still settling in, I decided not to try and photograph him for the time being.

 

[Aramar]

Second part of my visit to Munich Zoo:

My favourite animal

Arctic fox

Some nilgais

The watching tiger

Lovely yak

Our tuxedo friends:

Our tall friends

Timon

Some stripes:

 

[CaprinemasterAT]

Munich is my favorite Zoo at all time, I was there last year. Such a beautiful Zoo with alle the water.

 

[Hugo98]

Went for a visit to Colchester Zoo today, with the main aim of seeing the brand-new enclosure for their buffy-headed capuchin monkeys, which is right next to the zoo entrance. It is absolutely massive for the four capuchins (for a long time, the space was two enclosures, housing orangutans, sun bears and gibbons at different times) and it looks pretty incredible. None of my pictures really do the enclosure justice, so this is the zoo's own video about the opening of the enclosure.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd4nAsuS-IA


One unexpected highlight was finding that one of the Humboldt penguins was sitting on at least one egg - they normally nest inside special boulder-shaped nest boxes here at the zoo, so getting to see a penguin egg was something new for me.
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Instead of white-faced sakis, Colchester have the far more rarely-kept Guianan bearded saki, with multiple animals divided between two groups. I got a very clear view of one on top of its climbing frame. Even though they are fairly big (about the size of cats), they have the most comical high-pitched squeaky calls.
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Recently, the warthogs have had another litter of piglets. They seem to do very well with breeding them, and quite a few other big zoos have warthogs bred at Colchester in recent times. The three males at London Zoo and the three females in the newly-opened Heart of Africa at Chester Zoo are all from litters born at Colchester.
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Also, had the good fortune to see the slender-snouted crocodile getting fed on whole tilapia. In the same building as the crocodile, there is a brand-new male chimpanzee called Napoleon. Because he was still settling in, I decided not to try and photograph him for the time being.
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The new capuchin monkey area looks great, very nicely equipped and veeery spacious. I think this would be perfect to combine them with other South American animals like agoutis or armadillos on the ground and tamarins and tamanduas for the arboreal part.

What I notice here are these very light, clean, playground like climbing logs. You know what I mean? I have to say that I do not really like the look of them. I prefer more natural logs with bark and branches. But apparently this is a British thing? I've seen those kind of logs mostly on pictures of British zoos, from Central European zoos I'm more used to the natural logs. I'm wondering why this is the case.

 

[CaprinemasterAT]

I was (again) in Vienna last Saturday and will be there tomorrow as well, beside, here are some pics of Saturday.

 

[Stygi]

Hamerton zoo:
Black Backed Jackal:

Tayra:

Syrian Brown Bear:

Serval:

Common Wombat:

Tasmanian Golden Possum:

Southern Cassowary:

Dingo:

Oncilla:

Bat Eared Fox:

 

[Marvinb]

Hamerton zoo:
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Tayra are so cool!

 

[Stygi]

Johnson’s of old hurst zoo:
African lion:

Meerkat:

Raccoon dog:

Nile crocodile:

Siamese crocodile:

Saltwater crocodile:

Broad snouted caiman:

Spectacled caiman:

Nile monitor:

 

[FoxyDee]

Wonderful photos @Stygi ! And wow, that zoo has a really nice collection of crocodillians.

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

Thanks to a College technical visit, i've finally got the chance to visit the USP museum and the São Paulo Aquarium, and while the former was considerably more important as i've never went to it before and my bigger interest on paleontology (they had several pieces about Spectrovenator and Tapuisaurus relationship, a mount showing Smilodon and Megatherium colliding, a Oxalaia skull replica and even a Carnotaurus skeleton as examples) and some non-public stuffs thanks to the visit, the aquarium was also a blast, as for the first time in my life i saw a polar bear cub and axolotls, and as it's officially a zoo, it will be the one facility i will show here.

Therefore, here some pictures i take there.

Spoiler: Freshwater tanks - Fishs, reptiles and axolotls

One of the very first tanks one can see, sadly my specie list was messy on the beggining, so i can't tell what species are here.

Maria Fernanda, the female green iguana resting on a three bench, her partner, Pedro Paulo was hidden seomewhere else.

A sneaky boa constrictor.

As i've said before, this was my first time observing axolotls, and one thing that i can say about this visit is that while i would be unluckly with the australian critters down the line, i had plenty of luck with the more lazy fellas, the axolotls would often swin around (including one clumsy individual failling to swin upwars) making things more enjoyable...

...But it wasn't as impressive as watching an very active Broad-snouted caiman and Arrau turtle moving around it habitat, this individual on the photos is a female, and in the last one you can also see the Yacare and some tambaquis alongside them.

Binho, an albino Yacare.

Amazonian nursery aquarium, containing Ocellate river stingray, bigtooth river stingray, striped metynnis, spotted metynnis, freshwater angelfish, demon eartheater, kissing prochilodus and tucan fish.

Giant Gourami on the Mega Asians aquarium

Amazonian fishes aquarium, including oscar, leopard cactus pleco, midas ciclid, dorado, Smoth back river stingray, Ocellate river stingray, largespot river stingray, arawana and ripsaw catfish.

The smallest fishes on the aquarium, the tetra tucano.

Spoiler: Saltawater: Among sharks, rays, garoupas and penguins

Some of the smaller tanks before approaching one of the highlights of the whole aquarium

And then one of the my most jaw droping experiences: An submarine themed are with three major tanks, one on the right with dusky grouper, one on the left with sand tiger sharks and nurse shark, and one above our heads with reef sharks, zebra sharks and green sea turtles, all the aquarium had stingrays aswell, alongside two smaller aquarium with urchins and spotted garden eels.

I must say, beeing surrounded by so many giant fishs and some oddities was the highpoint of the aquarium for me.

After that we had several reef themed aquariums, that while way smaller, where still very pleasant

And of course, it woudn't be an Brazilian aquarium without magellanic penguins.

Spoiler: Amazonian titans and surrounding area

The Amazonian titans aquarium, another of the zoo highlights, it currently contains Pacu (with three leucistic individuals), arapaimas and...

Tapajos, the resident Amazonian manatee

An view from above the water to the aquarium

Alongside a southern tamandua nearby, this are also used to hold howler, but they habitat as been empty since they departure to Animalia.

A zooming baby Harbor seal (and the man cleaning it house).

A playful neotropical otter was nearby, playing on the sand of it habitat, IIRC, this was the female, while her partner was swimming in the nearby pool, watching him get out of the water just to flip back to it was a vision to behold.

Spoiler: International zoo area: Africa, Indonesia, Australia and Arctic

A little bit of water with sliders before diving in a more dry area.

Some meerkats walking around, there's currently two populations of meerkats on the zoo

Alongside than there's leopards geckoos and ringtailed lemurs, there used to be more animals in this area, including more lemurs and colobus, but they were sent to Animalia.

the Indonesia section opens with a large colony of Large flying foxes

And is followed by a burmese python exhibit.

As i said earlier, i was very unlucky with the australian animals, as aside from the Kangaroos, none of the other animals (echidna, wombat and koalas) were visible, it was at least cool to watch this massive group of kangaroos.

And of course, the zoo current biggest (not litterally) Innabitant: Nur! The only Brazilian polar bear.

At this moment i was already used to see the animals eating, as we arrived at feeding time, but it was a real surprise to see Nur joining everyone else, despite Aurora initial rejection.

When we arrived, nur was lying on a blind spot, so it was a real delight seeing her march around with her mother.

And last, but not least, a vert active (and vocal) Brown fur seal.

 

[Aramar]

After a couple weeks living in my new city I finally went to the zoo today and bought the annual pass. I took many photos, but I only had my mobile, so quaility isn't top. I share some of them:

Some of the "rare" animals were very active today

The lions were sleeping all morning, but it's nice to see the savannah hervibores behind

The baby elephant is so cute:

The cat and the rhino!

Hippo kiss

And I let you name this pic:

 

[FlameWizard492]

After a couple weeks living in my new city I finally went to the zoo today and bought the annual pass. I took many photos, but I only had my mobile, so quaility isn't top. I share some of them:

Some of the "rare" animals were very active today
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The lions were sleeping all morning, but it's nice to see the savannah hervibores behind
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The baby elephant is so cute:
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The cat and the rhino!
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Hippo kiss
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And I let you name this pic:
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Where is this?

 

[Marvinb]

Where is this?

Im reasonably sure its valencia, but i could be wrong