Auckland Zoos tiger dies... » Auckland Zoo

Auckland Zoos tiger dies...
14-05-2006

discovered this article in Zoonewsdigest. quite a shame that she died but very fortunate that that she has a sister that can take her place with the male tiger soon to arrive from israel...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10381616

Auckland Zoo tigers
18-05-2006

I hope that the zoo makes use of this time to at least make improvements to the tiger enclosure , if not build a completely new one . It is one of the last of the original "pit" enclosures , and although it has been enlarged , it still is not very well designed for Sumatran tigers

18-05-2006

yes yes i agree, but what else would you house in there without major renovatins, i say, just demolish the whole pit, but then the zoo will lose room. I cant really see the exhibit being converted but i woudl like it to be, (i know its wrong but i like pit exhibits, esspecially as noce as that one)

05-09-2006

It is unfortunate that some of the best enclosure designs from an observation point of view are not the best designs for the animals.

Then again, I guess zoos are not the best places for animals anyway - better they were in the wild, where it is much more difficult to view them (or conserve them !).

I quite liked the pit enclosure at Auckland Zoo - it gave a new perspective on the animals which I hadn't seen before ... got a much better view of them (especially at feeding time when they made the tiger climb a tree to get the food).

tiger enclosure
05-09-2006

perhaps the zoo could camouflage the viewing areas somewhat , so the people can still peep in and observe the tiger from behind thick vegetation or something
--- but wont be in full view of the tiger/s . I wonder if this will help in animal behavior enrichment , if the tiger can hear and smell the people , but have a harder job seeing them ?