Greater than 30,000 guests flocked to the San Antonio Zoo over the weekend for the grand opening of Congo Falls, officers with the wildlife park informed the Present.
The brand new exhibit marks the primary time gorillas have known as the San Antonio Zoo house in additional than 30 years, and Congo Falls has already grabbed nationwide media consideration because of a characteristic on NBC’s At present Present final week.
Congo Falls homes seven western lowland gorillas as a part of the Affiliation of Zoo & Aquariums Species Survival Plan. The world options three distinct habitats, a waterfall, overhanging trails and a construction zoo officers invoice because the world’s tallest gorilla tower.
From now by way of Dec. 31, San Antonio Zoo members get unique entry to Congo Falls an hour earlier than the park opens. Tickets to Congo Falls, which is included with common admission, can be found on the San Antonio Zoo web site.
Though getting gorillas to the Alamo Metropolis was no small feat and took a decade of labor, San Antonio Zoo CEO Tim Morrow isn’t accomplished but, telling the San Antonio Report that he’s now eyeing the zoo’s land west of U.S. Freeway 281 for an elephant exhibit.
“We’re an elephant zoo,” Morrow informed the publication. “We need to be engaged with elephant conservation.”
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Town’s first gorilla habitat in additional than three many years, Congo Falls on the San Antonio Zoo, opens to the general public Dec. 13.
The San Antonio Zoo hasn’t housed gorillas in over three many years.
The $30 million gorilla habitat will open to the general public Dec. 13.
