Part of the old Fur Seal Exhibit at the Toronto Zoo
Toby, is this the old Bactrian Camel Barn?
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Ghost Exhibit's--Toronto Zoo
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Wade G. Burck
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4 comments:
Wade: Fur Seal exhibit, just reopened as a state of the art African penguin exhibit. Seals are all gone.
Barn/shelter is one of several in the Canadian Animal domain no longer used as the monorail was scrapped these shelters were for various deer species.
Toby
The Fur Seals were African Cape Fur Seals, a specie exhibited in several European zoos. A few US zoos imported Cape Fur Seals, I think in the 1970s, but they didn't do well. Marine mammal management back then was very basic. Too bad, would have been good to have anice program with another pinniped specie.
I always get this wave of nostalgia when I see pictures of Toronto Zoo's old exhibits/residents. I grew up with the zoo and over those twenty eight years I've been there, there's been so many changes. It really is a shame that Cape Fur Seals didn't take off. Terrific species.
Megan,
I remember when the Toronto Zoo first opened to incredible acclaim as the "zoo of the future". Plagued by a vast variety of insane issues over the years, while still a great zoo, it just never lived up to it's expectations and publicity.
Wade
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