I love our houston zoo so much. The Panamal (south American) area, the wetlands and the bears exhibit are all new. They are constantly rearranging things as they continue to introduce new regional exhibits. We were sad to see them close their huge bird garden, aquarium and bird house in 2020 but are excited to see those birds integrated into the new exhibits. They also announce baby animals all the time. We have celebrated 🍾 so many baby elephants and Giraffes
Fun fact South America's Pantanal opened back at 10/10/20 it is a new exhibit but it wont be next year for Galapagos islands next year in the fall ( it is for the keeping our world wild campaign that started in 2018 ) another fun fact it was the first time Houston zoo had giant river otters, at 15:06 it used to be a home for jaguars the pigmy hippo it was here last year at the 23rd of November when it was shown to the public. next year is their 100th birthday for the zoo and galapagos islands at the zoo will open next fall on april 8th they announced.
@20:50 Titanoboa. A pretty recent discovery too, as it was unearthed in 2009. The discovery is actually a pretty extraordinary story and a once in a lifetime kind of find. They were find in the Cerrejon Formation of South America during a mining excavation that unearthed hundreds of fossils, including fossilized plants. Many of the bones were initially attributed to being some kind of crocodylomorph (crocodilian, basically), before one of the intern students noticed a spinal vertebrae was oddly shaped, and absolutely massive, for a crocodylomorph. They ended up shifting back through the fossilized fauna they uncovered and soon realized that many of the bones actually belonged to some kind of very large snake, which was later confirmed with one of their peers (I forget his name, but he was the one behind the discovery of Gigantophis, another giant snake). They ended up traveling back to the Cerrejon Formation and uncovered even more snake fossils, about 28 complete specimens of different sizes, with the largest being around 42 ft long, making it the largest known snake to have ever lived.
I’m sorry you hurt your foot I broke my right ankle earlier at the middle of March but I’m almost recovered now. I’m just almost done with outpatient PT
If you’re giving information about animals and such please get your information correct are used to work there for 17 years as a teacher one small thing orangutan at the end it’s TAN not TANG there’s no G also you call them turtles they are tortoises turtles are usuallyIn water and have a flat shell Tauruses live on the ground and dig holes in The ground to live in at least most of them are some there’s so many and they all might do different things I have enjoyed it a whole lot I have moved to the Texas Hill country and have missed it so much and now I’m too sick to go and visit if you get a chance to go back maybe you can get a special orangutan tour if you let them know you’re there they can make sure there are plenty of them out In the exhibit I look forward to seeing your other videos I saw the Lincoln children’s zoo one which was really good thank you so much take care and God bless