![]() Now let’s look forward to celebrating our bird population. ![]() We are lucky to have a world class zoo in Brownsville (Gladys Porter Zoo) – a great place to take yourself, but especially exciting to the grandchildren who may visit. Did you attend the festival held on South Padre Island?Ĭancelled in previous years because of the pandemic, but celebrated this year was Boo at the Zoo in Brownsville … that is always a safe and fun way to celebrate Halloween. Somewhere in our beautiful Rio Grande Valley there will be a Monarch Festival. The Monarch Butterfly migrates about the same time each year – generally in mid to late October. If you haven’t done so already, why not mark your calendars with carry over dates for 2023. So many of these festivals are annual events and occur about the same time each year. Plus added to that enjoyment we have cities who are always promoting entertainment and special parades and festivals. For the most part we are able to enjoy the great outdoors throughout the entire year. The small world petting zoo was closed due to covid.We are truly blessed.This exhibit also holds caiman lizard and green iguana. Dwarf caiman have been moved into a large new exhibit in the reptile house.The Asian aviary is no longer a walkthrough and holds rhinoceros hornbill.The red brocket deer exhibit now holds red-flanked duiker and kori bustard.Didn't see white-tailed deer on my visit (this area is now the capybara/capuchin monkey exhibit).The former bearded pig exhibit is now home to 2 warthog.They have a newer map but it's not online). It's my prediction that this will allow an expansion of the tiny lion exhibit.Ī few other updates (gonna use this map as a baseline. Now the zoo is redeveloping the former sea lion exhibit and amphitheater for its African wild dogs. The new exhibits in the South American section for capybara, capuchin, and southern screamer are high quality as well. Next door they have a new mesh exhibit for Angolan colobus, linked via an aerial pathway to a holding building with 2 large dayrooms. They just last year opened an excellent river otter exhibit in one of the former bear grottos. The zoo has been described on here as stagnant in recent years, yet the zoo now seems to be moving forward on new and renovated exhibits. Sadly the winter storm last week seems to have killed off a lot of vegetation at the zoo, although I hope it recovers with the quickly rising temps. Many are not aesthetically pleasing although they serve there purpose. The exhibit are generally adequate bar a select few (lion, pygmy hippo, nocturnal house, bears). They also have gaur (I saw 5) which are one of my favorite animals. Highlight species for me were harnessed bushbuck (saw 2,2), pileated gibbon, Peruvian spider monkey, northern greater galago, brown widow, Texas coral snake, and diamondback water snake (saw them in the wild the day before). Due to covid-19 the zoo now is only open on Friday afternoons and all day Saturday/Sunday.įirst of all its got an amazing collection for its size (except for birds). I didn't have too much time to visit but greatly enjoyed it. Visited the zoo for the first time this week, while on a birding trip of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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