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5 comments:
Wade, what is, or was, this? I don't recognize this at all, and I thought I knew this zoo pretty well.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
It is gone now. I believe it was tore down in the 60's. Looking at the moated wall, it may have been rebuilt for a different exhibit. See what you can find out from your connections at the zoo.
Wade
Wade, I will try this afternoon, since that person would have just gone to lunch. Joe takes pictures of the champagne lions gratis for the adopt-an-animal program, and I just e-mailed one there.
Mary Ann
Wade, my friend at the Toledo Zoo returned my call. This exhibit was called Monkey Mountain, and opened in 1933. It then housed goats (are you paying attention, Margaret and Raul?), and then sea lions, before becoming a garden area. It is part of the area now under construction to become the new children's area. The old children's area will be torn up this fall to become part of the expanded elephant facilities, including bull quarters. There is an unsubstantiated urban legend about some monkeys escaping from Monkey Mountain decades ago and running around the neighborhood.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
Thank you. I have often wondered what became of Monkey Mountain, but could never find any thing. Are we not glad that things changed in the world of zoo exhibits?
Wade
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