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Posts for June 2010
Tracking Our Water Usage
Adelaide Zoo’s water consumption is now being tracked with mains and bore meters. The maintenance department installed meters on the Adelaide Zoo’s 4 bores in early October 2009. This work was accompanied by fitting of pressure switches, fixing of leaks, isolation of cross-connections and changes to flow discharges.
Together Again
Our two Orang-utans, Karta and Kluet, have been back on exhibit together for just over a month now, having given Kluet time to grow and mature a little more.
Each afternoon they are brought into their off limit area and separated for the night, for management reasons, after spending the day together. They are more than happy to go their separate ways once inside the building and receive their evening meal from keepers.
Pandas Celebrate Six Months in Australia and Unveil Plans to Go Solar Thanks to AGL
Wang Wang and Funi, the Adelaide Zoo’s much-loved Giant Pandas today celebrated their six month anniversary in Australia with the announcement that they will soon receive solar power to their enclosure courtesy of AGL Energy, Australia’s largest integrated renewable energy company.
The pandas were officially welcomed to Australia by Governor General, Quentin Bryce almost six months ago and have been settling well into their new habitat. They have attracted around 70% more visitors to the zoo than ever before, including over 25% of people from interstate.
Extension of the Lion Exhibit
Myself, Jason (Horticulture) and Mark (Maintenance) have been very busy little bees over on the Big Cat Round, renovating an exhibit for our three African Lions. Unfortunately our Persian Leopard, Cubba, passed away but we wanted to put his exhibit to good use and give our Lions so more room to move.
This could have been a very large and involved job, but when this exhibit was built it was connected to the Lion exhibits so the sliding gates were still there, much to our relief. Mark and I got to work on removing boards that formed a wall between the exhibits, checking all the slides and locks work, checking the fencing and stabilising the platform at the front of the exhibit (lions weigh almost three times as much as Cubba did!).
