Zoo Tours: Mixup Madness | Asian Forest Sanctuary | Point Defiance Zoo

[@ZooTours]

*Question of the Episode:* What never before featured animal attraction would you'd like to see in 2025? So far I'm aiming for Dallas World Aquarium, Roger Williams, Woodland Park, and Denver as priorities. This video tour will be redone within the next couple of years (so heads up on the quality), but for now, you can compare the Asian Forest Sanctuary with its 'almost for certain' inspiration - the Louisville Zoo's Islands. A complex that was the first in the nation to rotate so many large animals at once: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZLVl4KMpNBofqs Watch this if you would like to get a full breakdown of the Point Defiance Zoo, rather than just one exhibit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJmsiWx7ntGVqtE Species List: 1. Lowland Anoa, Sumatran Tiger, Siamang, White-handed Gibbon, Malayan Tapir, Wrinkled Hornbill, Asian Small-clawed Otter 2. Clouded Leopard (Cats of the Canopy) Here is my ideal list of the rotation I was hoping to see: 1. Exhibit #1: Siamang 2. Exhibit #2: Malayan Tapir 3. Dayroom: Wrinkled Hornbill 4. Exhibit #3: Asian Small-clawed Otter 5. Exhibit #4: Lowland Anoa / White-handed Gibbon 6. Exhibit #5: Sumatran Tiger Remembering Suki: www.pdza.org/remembering-suki/ Overview on the Zoo's Conservation Fund: www.pdza.org/care/holly-reed/ Link with all of the Sanctuary's signage: www.lindafeltner.com/projects/asian-forest-sanctuary-pdza/

[@samuelazzaro]

Central Park Zoo

[@TreySarver-p5x]

I would like you to go to the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo Birmingham Zoo and Montgomery Zoo as well

[@koju737]

The Dallas world aquarium is amazing. Funny, cause I live close to Tacoma and my Dad lives in Dallas, so I've been to it multiple times. Woodland Park is also incredible, but it's huge so I'm sure that would be a lot more work.

[@LucasGoddard-fn9bb]

If your including the zoos out of America I would definitely say Chester zoo’s islands

[@nathan8569]

Of the ones you listed, I’m torn between Denver and Woodland Park. I’ve been to the Denver Zoo many times and would love to hear your opinions on it. But I’d also be up for an evaluation of Woodland Park, since it’s on my list zoos I’d love to visit in the future.

[@ohyes8949]

The Dallas World aquarium sounds neat, with its copious amounts of South American birds.

[@slaughterhater]

It is also the only zoological facility outside of South America that has the three toed sloth!

[@bird-watcher-91]

I’m with you on this! As a bird nerd, DWA is a place I’m determined to visit.

[@JLWhiteHorse]

I'm a lifelong resident and have been to this zoo many times over the decades, so have had the pleasure of watching its change and growth. They've done some wonderful things. Best bragging point for the zoo, though, has to be the red wolves - which I figure will be discussed in another episode. The story of this zoo's connection to the wolf is a must!

[@zoolover4669]

Philly is getting a new and improved bear exhibit and new flamingo habitat and when I was their earlier this month they were enhancing some habitats so Philly could be nice for a visit. Also adventure aquarium would be cool being one of the only aquariums to have hippos.

[@alextepe4309]

The Philadelphia zoo would be a nice feature for the following year.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

I completely agree with you on that but I would love to see the new bear country exhibit when it opens in 2026.

[@lukeslegos6834]

Hey you should give us tours of Seattle’s woodland park zoo

[@joshuazerbel2495]

Another great and definitely a reason to visit Point Defiance and also as for the Zoo in 2025 I would like to see the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo covered because it’s the highest elevated zoo in the country, overall fantastic episode and can’t wait for the next one

[@hydraplays2808]

The oregon zoo. its nearish woodland park and its the zoo i grew up on. A great one!

[@manwithakora8430]

I would suggest to leave Woodland Park Zoo until after they finish the new forest trail, and if you do get to go back to Washington during the summer I would say to visit the Northwest Trek or the Seattle Aquarium.

[@bradybearss9188]

Sedgwick County zoo and Roger Williams zoo for sure. Also more of Toledo and Detroit zoos to be featured would be awesome.

[@Riddlexr2412]

I am happy to see animals from my country, Indonesia, very healthy🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

I would love to see the Philadelphia zoo featured for sure mostly because it’s the zoo I mainly went to when I was young but I would also love to see do the Oregon zoo because it’s an amazing zoo in my opinion especially their big elephant exhibit.

[@davidwesley2525]

The Oregon Zoo has the Newly Rebuilt Polar Bear Exhibit & Chimpanzee Exhibit. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@saruscrane4953]

Point Defiance seems like the Akron Zoo of the northwest! Looking forward to seeing Denver Zoo’s bull Asian Elephant complex!

[@georgebennett715]

I'd love to see Gladys Porter Zoo featured in the new year! It's design, sandwiched in and built over the river, is quite fascinating to me and, being British, this channel's probably my best way to experience it!

[@iloveautumn9682]

I would love to see the Woodland Park Zoo!

[@PhillipNeumeier]

Oklahoma City Zoo or Tulsa Zoo would be a big highlight for me in 2025. It would also be great to see Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and Denver Zoo

[@pazzer151]

You should visit Vienna Zoo, the oldest currently running Zoological park!

[@juliusfucik4011]

Just last year I had a 5 minute long encounter there with Asian rhino, that went into the water and was a mere meter away. A very nice park with a big variety of animals. Beautiful scenery and good layout imho.

[@Redeyetetraguy]

I would love to see a updated version of touring Henry Doorly zoo in omaha

[@DC_Consulting_DC]

In March we were surprised that a small town like Tacoma, WA has such a nice zoo. Glass is great. The Winnipeg, Manitoba zoo has a fantastic polar bear exhibit with lots of glass.

[@scoops63official]

Visit the Sedgwick County Zoo! It's definitely one of the more underappreciated zoos in the US.

[@andrewmazza5184]

Of your priority ones listed in your pinned comment, definitely Roger Williams, Woodland Park, and Denver are preferred. Otherwise, my personal preferences: Philadelphia Zoo is a major one to check out. Though a good part of me thinks it’s best to wait until after their Bear Country exhibit is renovated in 2026. As an NJ resident, I encourage an NJ trip to visit Adventure Aquarium, Turtle Back Zoo, and Cape May Zoo. Any or all. I can gladly give insight on their history (most/especially Turtle Back) Whenever you go back to NYC to do Bronx again (which you should definitely do after Summer 2025 when World of Darkness returns), definitely try to hit up any or all of the other WCS facilities (Centra Park, Prospect Park, Queens, New York Aquarium) along the way. They’re all small but deserve representation! Keep doing the good work Zach!

[@alextepe4309]

Elephant trek in Cincinnati is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2025. That would also be a nice feature.

[@kylemccollum3996]

Great tour as always, @ZooTours. The zoos that I would love to see would either be Denver, or the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo,

[@BeaMcGee-kv8sf]

The Oregon zoo would be my top pick as they are a quiet zoo on the edge of Portland and they are somewhat famous for their elephants and are expecting a baby in march!

[@williamwerner2156]

An Indian Rhino exhibit would be a great addition!Also an Oraguatuan exhibit and Sloth or Sunbears

[@DG_253]

I remember back being in a class at the zoo, and voting on the name for the new anoa. Baby Bean won!

[@Nolan-qj7sm]

I’ve been here so many times

[@AnthonyGentile-w6l]

Albuquerque Zoo. It's such an underrated gem

[@MrEliasmonkey]

You should visit the Fresno chafe zoo

[@MrJoey166]

Dallas World Aquarium would be great. Maybe while you’re there you could go an about an hour and a half away to the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler. It’s very well done for a smaller zoo and they have a brand new South America section!

[@StarGiraffinum]

This reminds me of the Trail of the Tiger at the Virginia Zoo, my former local zoo. As for zoos you've never featured before, I recommend either Ripley's Myrtle Beach Aquarium (I know you did the Tennessee one) or the Virginia Aquarium I guess (yes aquariums are technically zoos).

[@WarrenEverett-c7m]

The Chattanooga zoo would be spectacular

[@justintaylorkegley3470]

You would love the National Aviary I went there a few times I love it

[@joedesena5402]

0:49 Either Staten Island Zoo (my local zoo), New York Aquarium, or Virginia Aquarium

[@bealmeister3222]

If you ever decide to travel to Canada, check out either the Toronto Zoo or Calgary Zoo.

[@gdcaliber4748]

I'd love to see you feature the Oregon Coast Aquarium at some point if you're still in the PNW area! :)

[@NostalgiawithJack]

It would be great that you should visit the Kansas City Zoo for next year. It's a massive zoo (202 acres), and they just opened their aquarium just last year.

[@Sonicfan323]

2:38 As a zoo volunteer in Miami, I don’t think you can a smaller species of cattle than that. I usually say hi to our resident Lowland Anoa every time I take my monthly walk around the zoo.

[@LocalShark22]

I’d love to see you do a feature on the Seattle Aquarium’s new building, if you spent any time there while in the area at PDZA.

[@Philip.Bc.Why.Not_]

I would love to see mystic aquarium!

[@boydfransen1222]

I just visited woodland park for the first time and I’d love to see you do a tour of it, but you should wait till after they complete construction on their forest trailhead exhibit in 2026

[@TheRoadrunnerFromHell]

You should see the Toronto Zoo on Ontario.

[@MarcelloStudios09-zu8lk]

You better get to Oregon zoo soon, they have the only Bornean elephant in a USA zoo

[@velociraptor4you3291]

As a former resident of Pueblo, Colorado, I’d like to suggest _its_ own little local zoo…the Pueblo Zoo…as something to cover in a future video.

[@ARandomPaleoartist]

Kind of funny that you mentioned the Woodland Park Zoo since I’ll be going there in May 😂

[@lesliechu8879]

Visit the San Francisco Zoo, Phoenix Zoo, & the Sacramento Zoo soon in 2025! And here are 6 zoo trivia questions for you & your girlfriend, Zak..... 1) How many zoos around the world are famous for housing sacred ibises in their aviaries? 2) Do you wish for the Oakland Zoo to house star-nosed moles at the California Trail in the future? 3) What year did the San Francisco Zoo welcomed Gauhati the Indian Rhinoceros to his new home at the former elephant enclosure? 4) Which zoos in America are known to house mayflies in their Insect Zoo attractions? 5) What year did the Sacramento Zoo welcomed a rare okapi to the African Habitat area? 6) How many rescued brown bears has the Woodland Park Zoo housed so far?

[@Alexxxfly14]

I would love to see Philadelphia Zoo!! Also hear me out Sedgwick county zoo in Wichita Kansas for being relatively middle of nowhere its a pretty big zoo with a decent variety at least what I remember from when I was a kid

[@Chuck02]

The Potawatomi Zoo in Indiana would be nice to see

[@MrPigSir]

Visit more of the Memphis zoo

[@Zombie9Slayer]

I think the best Asia area in a zoo I have ever been to is at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo (which is convenient for me as it is only 40 minutes away from me). The Asia section has a couple of nice paddock like exhibits as well as a large Asian Elephant habitat which is 7 acres The Zoo is currently only home to 1 Siberian Tiger at the moment but they want to bring in a female to start breeding again. The Rhinos of Nepel exhibit is excellent that features 2 Indian Rhinos (one of the paddocks is currently home to a White Rhino until he is moved to another zoo). One of the highlights of the Asia section is "Passage through Asia" a drive through which features several species of Deer including Pere David's, Fallow, Barasingha, Japanese Sika, Hog and Chinese Water as well as Bactrian Camel, Przewalski's Horse and 2 elderly female Blackbuck. They have also recently acquired 4 Javan Banteng. In the paddock next door to the Indian Rhino house is a mixed paddock for Visayan Warty Pigs and 1 Philippine Spotted Deer (another recent arrival) And opposite that paddock is a large field for their Yak herd. But I think the best exhibit in the Asia section has to be the "Monkey Forest" which opened in April 2024 which features 2 very large paddocks, one for Sulawesi Babirusa and Francois Langur, and the other for Lowland Anoa and Sulwesi Macaque. The Zoo also houses 4 other Asian Mammals that can be found elsewhere in the zoo. The UK's only Indian Gaur can be seen in a large paddock near the Giraffes and in the paddock next door are Nilgai. Red Pandas and Asian Small Clawed Otters can also be found in 2 island exhibits around here. Hope everyone likes the list of Asian mammal species at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.

[@Nissanghmohanbabu]

Roger Williams is great but you should also visit the Southwick's Zoo.

[@christianbontempo8859]

If I were to recommend a zoo to you, I’d say maybe check out the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey. There’s also the Palm Beach Zoo in Florida

[@briandrzewiecki5861]

Would love to see you at the Buffalo Zoo.

[@Shrock568]

To answer the question for this episode I think you should visit Wonders of Wildlife.

[@mariedufore8795]

I would like you to the the Roger Williams Park Zoo while the species list is small it is stacked and it’s one of the older zoos in the country

[@Colinyoung-l4s]

Please do one for Edinburgh zoo in Scotland.😊

[@ChristopherR-u5l]

Yes, greater one horned rhinos are coming to the zoo. Although my favorite animal is the giant panda my second favorite is the greater one horned rhino, I wonder when the Point Defiance zoo is going to get greater one horned rhinos

[@gabrielcontreras1091]

in 2025 i would love to see you visit phenix zoo, ody sea quarium, and world wildlife zoo aquarium and adventure park. lets show phenix AZ some well deserved love

[@davidwesley2525]

Zoo Tours should Feature the Oregon Zoo from My Hometown of Portland Oregon. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@flipper3135]

Can you do a tour of the el paso zoo please 😊

[@Ywabag]

You should go to Kansas City.

[@lycaonpictus2008]

I’d love to see Woodland Park Zoo featured in 2025

[@BrendanConnell]

Which would I like to see in 2025? Tough call, but if it's on the continent, then I'd say Fossil Rim in Glenrose Texas. It's a breathtaking contemporary to the Wilds in Cumberland and safari-focused, but given how impressive is your experience of zoos already, I'm pretty hard pressed to imagine a zoo you haven't seen unless you went off to either Europe or Japan. - take care, slainte chugat

[@maximoforte9463]

When are you going to Philadelphia Zoo for their Primate Sanctuary

[@JacksonKoopman]

Have you been to zoo Miami, or the Omaha zoo?

[@JaredThomas-st1fz]

Not only that Suki was also the last Elephant in a Washington state zoo I history and the said sate zoos had no plans on bringing back elephants or Hippos (since the last one from Seattle moved to the San Diego zoo) in the future and focuses on Indian Rhinos

[@ChristopherR-u5l]

Is the Point Defiance zoo going to get a greater one horned rhino to replace Suki? Although my favorite animal is the giant panda my second favorite is the greater one horned rhino

[@LeviHanks-tf3oi]

Ripley believes it or not aquarium, or Wonder National Wildlife aquarium and museum in Springfield Missouri.

[@JustaLostSoul]

Woodland Park Zoo please!

[@Shrew612]

My home zoo ❤

[@laurawilson5666]

Sad to hear the elephant died it's one of my favorites in any zoo

[@dinodude9532]

I would very much like it, if you visited the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans Louisiana

[@ZooTours]

That is actually on my goal list for next year! Whenever the new exhibit opens.

[@dinodude9532]

@ZooTours well you're in luck, because it should be finished some time in January

[@jasonpeacock9735]

They have confirmed that they are ending their elephant program. Point Defiance was a pioneer in “No Contact” elephant care and training. For years, they were used by the AZAA to house problematic elephants. Suki, for instance, loved human interaction but was extremely aggressive to other elephants. This lead to her having to be isolated. I agree that Indian Rhinos would be a great use of the space.

[@MarcelloStudios09-zu8lk]

Bronx zoo’s world of darkness is returning in summer 2025, please do a zoo tour for that when it does

[@ModernTyrannosaurus]

Como Zoo would be cool to see.

[@farlong4948]

Here are some of my ideas for never-before featured zoos I would like to see in the future: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (Colorado Springs, CO) Denver Zoo Toronto Zoo Calgary Zoo Vancouver Aquarium Dallas World Aquarium Phoenix Zoo Sonoran Desert Museum (Tucson, AZ) Oklahoma City Zoo Kansas City Zoo Sedgwick County Zoo (Wichita, KS) Mesker Park Zoo (Evansville, IN) Franklin Park Zoo (Boston, MA) Boston Aquarium National Aviary (Pittsburgh, PA) Audubon Zoo (New Orleans, LA)

[@samconran8441]

I'm from England and there are a few good zoos here London zoo Paignton zoo and Chester zoo.

[@WildWonders-wi2ki]

You make a video of mill mountain zoo

[@brodybearing5625]

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo would be rad

[@CrazyCreatureCaricatures-nc3fs]

Love it since I live near there! Their elephant exhibit is certainly interesting.

[@jakeheinzelman3908]

How about san fran zoo or sleepy hollow In san jose

[@socketbob]

Zoo Sauvage Northern Quebec only does cold animals.

[@rexcool6]

Paphos zoo or Limassol in cyprus

[@otterlord5906]

Honolulu Zoo bro

[@mandragoraaaaaa]

I would like you to visit a zoo in South America. I am from Chile and in our country there is the Bioparque Buin Zoo, it is considered one of the best on the continent and it has a large number of species that are organized according to their distribution and they also have an area for nocturnal animals, a herpetarium, an aquarium, an arthropodarium, there are like 3 aviaries, one from Australia, one from South America and another from Chile, there is also an area where you can pet farm animals and there is also a marine show with sea lions and penguins (there is no animal abuse). It is one of the best there is on the continent and in our country, and the animals are very well cared for, they have a large space to roam and their enrichment every day. Buin Zoo is also involved in conservation projects for several endangered species, as well as plants and fungi since it is a biopark. I hope you can visit it one day, you will like it. Greetings from Chile🇨🇱

[@joshh9431]

San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park

[@calizoos4072]

it says never before featured..........

[@joshh9431]

Oh, how about Woodland Park Zoo, Philadelphia Zoo, Kansas City Zoo, Sedgwick County Zoo, and Oklahoma City Zoo

[@FamilyFunZooAdventures]

The Woodland park zoo

[@steliosstanis2125]

🐅🦧🌏🌴🌺

[@Dylan-v6l]

The phoenix zoo

[@annettejones1345]

chester zoo

[@Friceptfs]

Bronx zoo

[@ZooTours]

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[@JGlez-xn2uj]

Bcn zoo