Every year for my birthday I always visit the Toronto Zoo. It’s a tradition and always memorable. To be honest, I’ve been visiting the Toronto Zoo and it’s amazing animals for over 30 years, 35 to be exact! I’ve grown up watching many of them grow and mature and have babies of their own. And…
With the end of 2013 rapidly coming – it’s only a few hours now – I decided to reflect on the year I’ve had. This past year I decided it’s now or never, and got out there to visit more zoos and aquariums, and boy has it been a zoo filled year. This year I visit 8 zoos, aquariums…
I’ve been itching to write this piece for a long while but felt too strongly about it and needed to think it though. There have always been the people who love zoos and aquariums and feel they are necessary and that they provide some good. Then there is the other side, the advocates for keeping animals…
It’s been close to 20 long years since giant pandas have been at the Toronto Zoo. The last time these beautiful and iconic animals were at the zoo it was only for a three-month period during the summer, but this time these two giant pandas will be at home at the Toronto Zoo for 5…
To me the best and most effective exhibits are ones that both totally immerse you in the exhibit/landscape, making you feel like you’re in the animal’s native habitat, and exhibits that expand your senses and enrich your understanding of what the particular species is all about. For instance an exhibit for a snow leopard that resembles…
The last pavilion is the Australasia Pavilion, which has seen many changes in the past few years, houses species from the Australian mainland and surrounding islands. One of my favourites and also the first animal you encounter upon entering the pavilion is the Matschie tree kangaroo. Shrouded in a hush of slight whisper, obeying “shh” signs,…
From the African Plains of Kesho Park you venture down the long, steep hill to the Canadian Domain. With the new Tundra Trek exhibit many of the animals that were once found in the Canadian Domain can now be found there and over the next few years the rest will follow. But for now down…
Lady of the Zoos 