Does anyone here have info about the new orangutan enclosure being built in the zoo.The only thing I found is apparently the indoor area is gonna be 100 to 200 sq meter with natural plants and bedding.And something about adding fish into the enclosure.
ヒメトガリネズミ出産確認 飼育下で世界初か 札幌・円山動物園(毎日新聞) - Yahoo!ニュース The park bred species of pygmy shrew that is native to Hokkaido for the first time ever.
World’s oldest Diana monkey dies: World's oldest Diana monkey in captivity dies in Japan's Sapporo The world's oldest Diana monkey in captivity named "Washington" has died at the age of 39 at a zoo in Sapporo on Japan's northernmost main island, officials said Saturday. The male primate, born on Aug. 26, 1982, at an Oklahoma zoo in the United States, had sired a total of 13 offspring, contributing to the preservation of the endangered species. The monkey was eating through Friday, but his death was confirmed the following day, according to Sapporo Maruyama Zoo, where he had lived since 1984.
Some sad news and happy news to announce: The sad news is that on June 17th, they announced that their 1:0 Nile Hippo called "Don", passed away at the age of fifty-four years. The Zoo still has another hippo, his daughter, forty-eight-year-old "Zan". https://www.city.sapporo.jp.e.ain.h...ricazone/hippopotamus/r5/20230615kabadon.html The happy news is that nineteen-year-old Asian Elephant "Pearl" gave birth to a not-yet-gendered calf on August 19th. https://www.city.sapporo.jp.e.ain.hp.transer.com/zoo/03doubutsu/01elephant/r5/20230816syussan.html
A new Orangutan Exhibit is scheduled to open in late May. 札幌で早くも“夏日”に 初夏の陽気を動物園の人気者たちも満喫…東南アジアの熱帯雨林を再現した“新施設”が間もなくオープン 期待が高まる | 北海道ニュースUHB
Very nice, hopefully other Southeast Asian species are being exhibited in this new exhibit. It seems that Japanese zoos are changing little by little.
So I decided to snoop around and find more footage of the upcoming orangutan enclosure and I was able to find an 8 minute news report on the construction of the upcoming orangutan enclosure. The indoor enclosure is around 8 meters tall. Based on the footage the simians choose to stay up in the display enclosure rather than go down. Unfortunately other than a water monitor (statue) there aren’t any other species in this exhibit.