A special breed of monkey is coming back to the Assiniboine Park Zoo.
The zoo announced Wednesday the lion enclosure
will be renovated to house white-handed gibbons, which will come back
to the zoo later this year.
“Assiniboine Park Zoo was home to gibbons for
many years and they were always a favourite with our visitors,” said
Gary Lunsford, Head of Zoological Operations at the Assiniboine Park
Zoo. “We’re pleased to have this opportunity to create and maintain a
spacious and naturalistic home for this species, and we are very happy
to be welcoming them back to our zoo family.”
The renovations will happen in two stages. The
first will see the indoor portion of the exhibit renovated throughout
the summer and fall for the gibbons to move in over the winter. Then the
outdoor portion will be reconstructed to open in spring of 2017, said
the zoo.
Once renos are done, a pair of young gibbons
will move in. "An endangered species and part of the Species Survival
Plan (SSP) program, white-handed gibbons are small, arboreal apes found
mainly in tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia," said the zoo.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2016/05/04/lion-enclosure-renovated-gibbons-assiniboine-park-zoo.html
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