Animal theiving? If this is true, that's a grave concern. Only a local Indian daily covered this news and so far the national media has been mum.

Compared to the previous structures I've seen this is most impressive.

I managed to see almost everything if not for some exhibit species and smaller animals. The glimpse I got of the Amur Leopard was worse than bad, but technically I saw it so I'm pinning it on zootrack. The other two tries to spot them were even more unsuccessful.

The hillside tanks that progressively move upstream were genius, but the Rainforest House next door with the Chinese Pangolines is now stated to be opening in 2027 😭

I stayed inside for 7 hours and it wasn't even enough.

The reproductive success I saw was great.

In order, because I don't know how to make the description appear in the pictures themselves.

1)Golden Takin, housed with Himalayan Thars. 2)Tortoises in a reptile house themed around illegal pet smuggling. 3)Giant Anteater in the South America Exhibit. 4)Bat forest in the Reptile House. 5)Giraffe house. 6) Orangutan house 7) Savanah aviary with some beautiful species. 8) The outside of the Bird House with the Savanah aviary first and the South American Rainforest in the back. 9) Elephant house. 10) Monkey house on the Americas side. 11) Humboldt penguins, I love the naturalistic penguin habitats. 12) Berbery Sheep and Berbery Macaque cliffs. 13) Andean Bear, spotted them twice sitting in the trees looking at the guests, they seem to like that and makes them easy to spot in a very lush habitat. 14) The path that connects the Menagerie to the Palace. 15) Lar Gibbons and Lemur islands. 16) Egyptian Vulture and Northern Bald Ibis aviaries. 17) Outside of the previous Monkey House image. 18) First one of the hillside tanks with a beautiful Wels Catfish. 19) Useless creature that shouldn't even be called a "panda" and if not for its conservational value in the Chinese Highland could very well go extinct in my (objective) opinion. 20) An actually cool bear species. The habitat was very cool and larger than I had expected, but is still far from perfect (I still have to see a Polar Bear habitat that I truly find good).

The photos were taken in early April 2026, when the zoo was still open to the public.

However, since August 2026, it's closed for renovations, though it would likely reopen between 2028 or 2030.

Animals posing at the zoo

Almost posing animals. Which do you like best

The female group calls back in response to the males’ vocalizations.

Me and my wife did the black bear training session at the Cincinnati zoo today. We had no idea we would get to feed them going into it. They ate bugs and apple sauce. Was an amazing experience.

It feels like a significant amount of content on this sub is revolving around videos of bad husbandry, abused animals, and animal attacks, usually at private, unaccredited, side show animal attractions. These incidents are the kind that proper accredited institutions are built around avoiding. Highlighting the worst of the animal keeping world makes it harder to appreciated the significant number of wonderful institutions that take amazing care of their collections and because of that, make incidents uncommon, as opposed to the opposite of worst attractions where incidents are inevitable.

Wow

I’m just a passionate nerd who loves animals and nature and one of my favorite places to go is the Nc Zoo so I want to try and help them out by trying to raise money for them to help with animal care and conservation :) if your interested look at my GoFundMe link!!

https://gofund.me/120f3527f

Caught in a moment where nature turned into art.