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Editor: mary mcmillanDesign: Nesnadny + SchwartzContributing Photographers: Jeanne DeBonis, Sandy Gross, roger mastroianni

Cleveland Zoological SocietyChairman: Patrick S. mullinPresident: robert J. rogersExecutive Director: Elizabeth T. Fowler

Cleveland Metroparks ZooDirector: Steve H. Taylor

Z is published by the Cleveland Zoological Society for members and friends. An annual subscription is included in every membership. Family memberships, which offer free admission to Cleveland metroparks Zoo, are available at $70 and $90 annually.

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Dear Zoo Members and Friends, Get ready for another season of family fun at YOUR Zoo! Come for an hour or a full day, but be sure to get close to amazing animals, beautiful gardens and cool summer exhibits.

DINOSAURS! comes to life with a roar this summer (free for members), together with the mesmerizing butterflies of Flutter! and a very interesting exhibit, The Scoop on Poop.

Construction news is all good! The Fulton Road Bridge is nearing completion. The RainForest Café and Food Court renovations are done, with all menus updated.

Progress continues on African Elephant Crossing and it’s easy to see what a wonderful new habitat and conservation center this will become when it opens in 2011.

Help bring the herd home by making a gift. Your support will move us closer to claiming a challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation and ensure this exhibit reaches its full potential

– for YOU and for the ELEPHANTS.

You know the Zoo offers great value, fun and learning in a beautiful, inspiring environment, so tell a friend!

If you have school-age children or grandchildren, please urge their teachers to plan a field trip. Most of the Zoo’s educational programs are FREE for schools in Cuyahoga County. These opportunities have a positive, lasting impact on children, inspiring curiosity about the natural world and a lifelong love for science.

We look forward to sharing the excitement of creating one of the nation’s best zoos, right here in Northeast Ohio. Thank you for your support.

—elizaBeth t. fowler, CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

—steVe h. taylor, CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO DIRECTOR

AS tHe ZOO’S nOnpROfIt AdvOCAte And pARtneR, tHe CLeveLAnd ZOOLOGICAL SOCIety IS COMMItted tO:

• Raising awareness of the Zoo as a community priority

• Improving all aspects of the Zoo, from exhibits to programs to daily operations

• Giving visitors, members and donors great value for their investment

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cover photo by Jeanne DeBonis, above by Elizabeth Thibodeaux

zfeatures WHAt’S ZOO? 4 The latest in Zoo news

SHOW tIMe! 6 Professor Wylde’s Animal Show offers visitors an eye-catching and educational program

SWIM teAM 8 The Zoo welcomes two new sea lions

jUSt HeRd It 12 Progress report for African Elephant Crossing

ACqUISItIOn 14 How we decide which animals to have at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

bRIdGe bUILdInG16 Hope for isolated orangutan populations within the Kinabatangan

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what’szoo?HEllos & GoodbyEsFinding Gold. Look closely the next time you are in The RainForest and you may catch a hint of gold. The Zoo’s two adult golden lion tamarin recently welcomed a youngster to the family. The golden lion tamarin is one of several dozen species of squirrel-sized primates found in South and Central America. These lit-tle primates are only about 24” long and often

about half of that is their tail. Young are born fully furred and with their eyes open, and weigh an average of two ounces. When looking for the Zoo’s newest tamarin, check out the adult’s back — youngsters ride piggy-back, most often on their father. Juvenile members of the family also carry and care for newborns. Like many New World primates, golden lion tamarin are threatened by destruction of their rain forest habitat and by human encroachment.

Growing up and moving away. Your Zoo has many successful breeding pro-grams ranging from black rhino to giraffe, red panda, koala, and even screaming hairy arma-dillo. As any parent knows, managing a whole bunch of youngsters requires planning, coop-eration, patience, and space. Zoo staff work long and hard to ensure that youngsters and their

parents have the best care and habi-tat possible, both here in Cleveland and at the more than 200 Associa-tion of Zoo and Aquarium (AZA) accredited institutions across the US. Several high-profile young-sters have new homes where they will ultimately help the survival of their species:

• Zuri, a black rhino, is headed to Oregon while her mom, Inge, and sister, Kabibbi, remain here with male Jimma

• Two red panda cubs are going to New York and Indiana

• Omaroo, the koala that traded places with the Zoo’s current male, Bulkee, is now living in France. This switch was par-ticularly successful as both the Zoo’s female koala already have joeys. These are signifi-

cant births as Bulkee represents a new bloodline for the US koala population.

Each of these animals were very special young-sters beloved by their keepers and Zoo guests and we know that they will be equally special in their new homes.

Big ears, little primate. Lesser gala-gos are small, woolly, long-tailed primates with mobile, oversized naked ears. Their ears can move independently of one another and are, proportionate to body size, the largest among

the primates. As galagos jump through thorn bush or thick growth, they fold their delicate ears flat against their heads to protect them. The little animals are found over most of sub-Saha-ran Africa, ranging from Senegal east to Soma-lia and down to South Africa. They are both arboreal and nocturnal in their habits and their bat-like ears enable them to track insect prey in the dark. Your Zoo recently welcomed a pair of lesser galagos to the Primate, Cat & Aquatics Building. “It’s been awhile since we had this species at the Zoo,” said Curator of Primates and Small Mammals Chris Kuhar, “and there are probably less than a dozen in zoos across North America. As coordinator of the Noctur-nal Prosimians SSP, I am hoping we will have success with this breeding pair.” Let’s hope the galagos were listening.

Elite Fleet. The Zoo recently announced the addition of a second bus to its signature ZooBus program. The Zoo hopes to expand the program significantly in 2010. For the past 22 years, the ZooBus has provided free round-trip service for qualifying Cuyahoga County (and Hinckley Township) schools and commu-nity groups. Your Zoo is the only zoo in the United States that provides its own free bus ser-vice. The program operates weekdays throughout the year, making two trips a day, on average, with the program always booked to capacity. Generous donations to the Cleveland Zoologi-cal Society from Zoo friends and donors make possi-ble the capital and operational support for the ZooBus that

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Membership MattersWelcome to all of our new members! If you haven’t yet come for a visit, what

are you waiting for? the Zoo looks better than ever and getting here will be easier once the fulton Road bridge reopens. We look forward to seeing all of

our members this summer!

plan your visit by making sure you have your membership cards and a photo Id for quick and easy entry. If you’ve misplaced your cards, please call the Membership

Office at (216) 661.6500, ext 4421 to order your replacements today!

did you know that your Cleveland Zoological Society Membership entitles you to free or discounted entry to over 130 zoos nationwide? Check out our website for a complete

list of participating zoos.

Have a WILd time Online! bookmark ClevelandZooSociety.org to print out temporary membership cards, purchase Twilight at the Zoo tickets, and check out the latest Zoo hap-

penings on our daily events calendar.

Calling all party Animals! Celebrate your child’s next birthday at the Zoo with party packages designed for children ages 2-12. your wild celebration includes a reserved private room in the

The RainForest, a healthy snack or pizza for 20 children, and a visit with Zoo mascot “buddy.” Additional activities are offered at an added cost . for more information and to make your reser-

vation, call (216) 635.3303. Reservations are available for members only, must be made at least three weeks in advance, and are available on

a first come, first served basis.

If you have a child in school, here’s a great way you can help your child, your school and your Zoo — all for fRee! Ask your child’s teacher to plan a Zoo field trip. Cuyahoga County schools are offered fRee admission to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and may choose from an array of fRee educational programs. for schools with tight budgets, we even offer fRee roundtrip

transportation on the ZooBus! the Zoo and Zoo society are dedicated to the concept that all children, regardless of circum-

stance, should benefit from the best conservation education pro-grams, field trips and natural world experiences the Zoo has to offer.

Registration for Zoo Outreach, Distance Learning/Video on Demand, transportation to and from the Zoo with the Zoo Bus, and field trip pro-

grams begins August 2. for more information, log onto clemetzoo.com.

— Steve Aspacher, Manager of Member and donor Services

allows our region’s children access to quality science education and time in nature. Dominion has provided a charitable grant to provide lunch for ZooBus riders, mak-ing their awe-inspiring Zoo experience an even more memorable one.

did you Know?discovered in a fossilized river delta, this dinosaur, deltadromeus, is thought to have been one of the longest dinosaurs at approximately 44 feet and also one of the fastest on land because of its long, slender limbs. all the animatronic dinosaurs! roar and move just like they did millions of years ago. each is built on a steel frame by Billings Productions of mcKinney, texas, and covered with an intricately painted foam rubber skin. state-of-the-art elec-tronics and air pistons power the dinosaurs’ movements, and a booming sound system gives them their voices.

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there is an old show-business maxim: never work with kids or ani-mals. well, the zoo’s Conservation education department does both every day and they love it. this is especially true for the show staff that write and produce both Professor Wylde’s animal show and Australian Adventure’s Camp Ballarat show. here’s an inside look at show-business, zoo-style.

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Once the animals are chosen and the behavior identified, training begins. By encouraging behaviors the animals naturally exhibit, staff are able to use positive reinforcement to reward the animals when they respond as desired. That said, different reinforcements work for different ani-mals. The python is trained to sit calmly, but food reinforcement doesn’t really work as snakes eat only once every two weeks. Instead, making handling a calm and pleasurable experience is the way to proceed.

There are 11 human show cast members who can play any of the six human parts in either show. Rotating parts is good not only for the educators but also for the animals. Each person has a slightly different relationship with the show animals and variety keeps things fresh for the entire cast. However, we all have off days and, if a show animal chooses not to participate on any given day, the sequence of scenes is

“Being on stage for an audience is the final result of lots of hard work” said Jim Nemet, Senior Education Specialist in the Zoo’s Con-servation Education Department. “We plan and train all year. With the summer shows, Boo at the Zoo and the Traveling Show for schools, we are actually on stage year-round.” Jim has been working on the Zoo’s animal shows since the opening of Australian Adven-ture back in 2000. This summer, Professor Wylde’s Animal Show at the Zoo’s Amphithe-ater offers visitors an eye-catching and educa-tional program about wildlife that gives his ‘students’ a fun look at how the Zoo designs exhibits for its animals. The Camp Ballarat Show in Australian Adventure focuses on the importance of ecotourism, respect for animals and conservation of native habitats.

Jim and the show staff design the shows around natural behaviors that the animals are physi-cally capable of doing. You won’t see any flam-ing hoops or bicycle riding here. Instead, you’ll see the fennec foxes digging, the vulture flying and the sloth hanging around. Show animals are chosen for their ability to fit in well with the show’s message, with consideration given to what is best for the animal. While it might be nice to use, say, a koala, the sleepy and shy nature of the koala does not make them good show animals.

designed so that animals can be given the day off with no interruption of the larger show. Alter-nately, sometimes things don’t go quite as planned. There have been several “fly-offs” by some of the birds — Karoo the white-stork ended up at a local parking lot once. Then and now, each bird is fitted with a transponder before the show to track them in the event of an unscheduled off-Zoo landing.

The training is done, the script is written and the cast is set. Thirty minutes before show-time, the staff prepare the sets and organize the animals back stage according to a very specific checklist. Three people are needed to run each show but, as they are both actors and stagehands, you’ll never see all three on stage at once. The audience gathers and everyone is ready. Sit back and enjoy the show!

— Mary McMillan, Director of Finance and Operations

“Cast” members may include:

• An Australian bird trio

• Bo, a greater sulphur-crested cockatoo

• Mr. Palm, a palm cockatoo

• Mel(bourne), a rose-breasted cockatoo

• Fiki, an African guinea fowl

• Two fast-flying North American peregrine falcons

• Phyl, an Egyptian vulture

• Choctaw, an American alligator

• Mali and Egypt, two female African fennec foxes

• Slomo, a two-toed sloth

• Cucumber, a 14-foot-long Burmese python

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B uzz and Annabelle are year-old sea lions whose lives began, and nearly ended, off the coast of California. Both were almost dead from starva-

tion when they were rescued. In 2009, many sea lions suffered due to lack of fish to eat when the trade winds and currents that usually drive fish toward the California coast were absent, caus-ing a low food supply. Additionally, both Buzz and Annabelle are partially blind. Buzz, an 80-pound male, has impaired vision in his right eye; Annabelle, a 60-pound female, was shot in the left eye (probably by a fish-erman) and the damage was so severe the eye had to be removed. Luckily, both young sea lions were rescued by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, and nursed back to health. They were just two of a record 1,700 marine mammals rescued by the Center in 2009.

It is unusual for the Zoo to acquire wild-born animals but sometimes circumstances have a way of taking over. Zoo animal care staff had been looking for new sea lions to join Mikey, the current resident, along with four harbor seals, in the pool in Northern Trek. Most new Zoo ani-mals come from other accredited zoos, but Zoo staff had also reached out to the Marine Mam-mal Center. “The timing was perfect,” said Sironen, “but due to the condition of these two animals, we spent quite a bit of time considering whether the Zoo would be the best placement for them.” Because of their vision problems, Buzz and Annabelle cannot be released back into the wild and both will require specialized care for the rest of their lives.

After discussion among the keepers, curators and veterinary staff,

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only capable, but a lso obliged to take on the task. “In the end, we take care of animals, it’s that sim-ple,” said Sironen. “This is the first time in 20 years the Zoo has par-ticipated in an exotic rescue-rehab. Knowing that sea lions can live 20

or 30 years and that these two are only a year old, we

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them,” Sironen said.

The animals flew from Oakland, CA, to Cleve-land on a FedEx flight accompanied by Travis Vineyard, an Assistant Animal Care Manager at the Zoo. Once here, the seals spent a month in quarantine in the Sarah Allison Steffee Cen-ter for Zoological Medicine, a standard proce-dure for all new animals. Introducing new animals to current Zoo residents is always done carefully and, given Buzz and Annabelle’s

special circumstances, special precautions were taken. “As

pups, these two would have lived in a large

group, so it ’s not a question of the num-ber of animals in the pool. This has more to do with becoming comfortable in a place

they can’t see very well,” said Sironen.

Before being fully integrated into the Northern Trek group, both

Buzz and Annabelle received target training to help with health checks and were also familiar-ized with having drops put in their eyes. “Given their visual issues, we are better off teaching them now about eye drops rather than waiting until a situation comes up where they will need to be medicated on a regular basis,” said Sironen. The final stage of their introductions involved a pool divided by a retractable gate. With Buzz and Annabelle on one side and Mikey and the harbor seals on the other, each group could get acquainted with the smell and presence of the others while also having space for a safe retreat if needed. “The first time we opened the solid door and left the gate down, Mikey came over to investigate and Buzz put himself between the newcomer and Annabelle. Buzz is protective now but we are confident that the whole group will get along just fine.”

Buzz and Annabelle are now enjoying the whole pool in Northern Trek and are learning how to participate in public training demonstrations. Despite their tough first year, both Buzz and Annabelle can expect to lead long and comfort-able lives thanks to the work of the Marine Mammal Center and your Zoo. Now that’s something to write home about.

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Not surprisingly, at as much as 13,000 pounds, elephants require an enormous amount of food. They are herbi-vores on the largest possible scale! Each day a herd may spend 12-18 hours a day feeding, eating between 200-600 pounds of grasses, tree foliage, bark, twigs, and other vegetation. This gets washed down by as much as 50 gallons of water – enough to fill a standard bathtub.

Living beings on this scale have a significant impact on the animals — including humans — around them. Elephants are a keystone species that influence the composition of their environment while often benefiting other species.

For instance, African elephants have an extraordinary ability to locate underground water and dig pools, help-ing to provide many other species with water during droughts. The downside for people is that the elephants may dig up a village’s water pipes!

African elephants can wreak havoc on trees and shrubs, but this enables vegetation — such as grasses — to grow and sustain other species.

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How can yoU HElP?o Send in a gift for african elephant Crossing when renewing your membership Or make an additional gift while renewing at our on-site membership booth.

o Donate online at ClevelandZooSociety.org – you can help bring the herd home with just a click of your mouse!

o use the african elephant Crossing Donation Station in the Zoo’s exhibit hall, located right next to the exhibit model.

o Pick up an african elephant Crossing brochure during a Zoo visit and mail in your gift.

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African Elephant Crossing will not only be a wonderful place for elephants, it will also be a place for visitors to enter a living classroom and take a compelling journey into the world of the African elephant and its fragile habitat. Intelligent, charismatic and socially complex, elephants are powerful ambas-sadors for endangered species. Their story — natural history, family bonds and future as a species — is compelling. Throughout the exhibit, visitors will come to understand how human survival is intertwined with that of the elephant.

The Elephant Crossing entryway is designed to allow both people and elephants to move through the exhibit. This gated structure will periodically close to pedestrians in order to allow elephants to

“migrate” from one habitat to the next. It is a demonstration of how sharing space with the earth’s largest land mammal is an amazing, but sometimes inconvenient, business.

Bustling with cultural activity, the Kgotla (“meeting place” in Setswana) represents the decision-making center of a Botswana village. Surrounded by the wildlife of the Savanna and Mopani Ranges, this area will showcase practical, sustainable solutions to conflicts over natural resources.

The Sydell L. Miller Elephant Conservation & Visitor Center will house a year-round public education center, which features the Zoo’s commitment to elephant conservation and care. Visitors will learn about animal care, genetics and reproduction, and how zoos are break-ing new ground in elephant care and conservation here.

— Fiona M. Green, Manager of Capital & Special Gifts

We need your help now more than ever! Help us earn a challenge grant of $725,000 from the Kresge Foundation. With only 9% to go in our campaign, your gift can count as double and help us meet the Kresge Challenge, complete our campaign and Bring the Herd Home.

New or increased gifts made through April 30, 2011 will be matched 1:1 by Kresge! That’s right; you can DOUBLE the impact of your gift. Add a matching gift from your company and have THREE times the impact. Help make BIG things happen in our region and take the African Elephant Crossing Kresge Challenge.

KEEP tHosE KREsGE MatcHablE GiFts coMinG!

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it’s ComPliCated. In 2009, the Zoo acquired more than 140 different reptiles, birds and mammals while at the same time sent more than 70 animals from those classifications to other zoos. The Zoo also acquired several hun-dred amphibians, fish and invertebrates. Here are some of the factors the professional animal management staff considers in making animal transaction decisions.

First, a large portion of animal management involves “pairing up” existing animals in our Zoo’s collection and sending animals to be paired with animals in another zoo. For ani-mals in populations managed nationally by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), decisions are often made for us. For instance, in 2009 we needed an unrelated male koala to pair with our Zoo’s two female koalas. The koala SSP (Species Survival Plan) recom-mended that we acquire “Bulkee,” a male koala from France. We did that and now Bulkee has sired two joeys.

In the case of red pandas, we have been very suc-cessful in the last several years and the Zoo’s adult pair of pandas has produced five cubs. The Zoo only has room for one pair of red pandas. Therefore, when the cubs grew up, the Zoo

(with recommendations from the red panda SSP) placed them in other zoos.

The acquisition of new species of animals is much more complicated, although some of the decision making is common sense. For instance, many guests would like us to have penguins. Why not? The answer is quite simple. Our Zoo does not have a proper exhibit for penguins at this time. Another factor in choosing a new spe-cies is the Zoo’s current site plan. It might be nice to have llamas or guanacos back at the Zoo but we currently have no outdoor South Ameri-can section and it would not be appropriate to put these animals in the African Savanna or Northern Trek. These particular species are not naturally found in those geographic locations.

The addition of black-footed cats to the Zoo’s collection in 2008 was a different story. The Zoo had an appropriate exhibit in the Primate, Cat & Aquatics Building and expertise in breeding many species of small cats. In addi-tion, the black-footed cat SSP needed participa-tion by more zoos.

The black-footed cat acquisition illustrates an often deciding factor in selecting new species, the importance of that species to AZA

collectively managed programs like SSPs. Many SSP species serve as “insurance colonies” because the species needs help to avoid extinc-tion in the wild. Your Zoo works with other zoos to help sustain viable populations of these species. Gorillas, golden-lion tamarins, Amur tigers, Mexican gray wolves, black rhinos, Fiji Island banded iguanas and Andean condors are some examples of the 50 SSP species main-tained here in Cleveland.

Zoo animal collections are not static. New exhibits replace older ones and new animals are needed for these exhibits. For instance, African Elephant Crossing will exhibit meerkats, a first for our Zoo. In the wild, the status of a population of animals can change, either for better or worse. All this has to be considered as the Zoo and the Zoo Society move ahead with the new Strategic Plan and make decisions on future renovations and new exhibits. If you have thoughts on what you would like to see in our Zoo, e-mail me at sht@clevelandmetroparks.com.

— Steve H. Taylor, Zoo Director

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mail to: adoPt an animal, Cleveland Zoological Society, 3900 Wildlife Way, Cleveland, Ohio 44109Call (216) 661.6500 ext. 4440 or Visit ClevelandZooSociety.org

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the zoo’s California sea lions are a crowd favorite and for good reason. these sleek and graceful swimmers are gregarious and fun to watch. Cel-ebrate the newest additions to the zoo’s swim team, Buzz and annabelle, and you will be also be supporting one of the zoo society’s most important fundraising programs. help ensure that your zoo continues to provide the best possible care and environment for our sea lions, as well as the thou-sands of other animals that call our zoo “home.”

your sea lion package starts at just $75 and includes:

• An official “ZooParent” collectible key chain

• A collectible plush toy

• Personalized adoption certificate

• A color photo and fun fact sheet about sea lions

• A full year of award-winning membership publications

• An invitation to ZooFriends’ Night 2011, a ViP family summer event (mailed separately)

• Name recognition on ClevelandZooSociety.org

Trick out your single adoption to the $100 level, and the ZooParent will receive all of the above AND a terrific T-shirt (or tote-bag) and recognition on zoo grounds.

At the $250 adoption level give them something to bark about! VIP Zoo-Parents will receive all the benefits above AND an invitation for them and a guest (16 years or older) to go behind-the-scenes and meet our sea lions up close and personal. it’s a great opportunity to meet our slippery sea lions and talk to their keepers, too!

donations are fully tax-deductible, and adoptions make great gifts for that special someone that needs an animal that roars, can swim 25 miles-per-hour and can hold its breathe for up to 40 minutes — a sea lion!

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Kinabatangan, Malaysia, 11th April 2010: The orangutan bridge project to reconnect isolated orangutan populations within the Kinabatangan has obtained conclusive proof of success recently via photographic evidence.

“Over the years we have received numerous local eye witness reports of the orangutans using these rope bridges but this is the first time we have received photographic evidence which clearly shows a young male orang-utan using the first rope bridge we constructed

to cross over Resang river, a small trib-utary of Kinabatangan,” stated primatologist, Dr. Isabelle Lackman.

The photographs were obtained from a member of the local community, Ajirun Osman Aji. According to Ajirun, the young male orangutan spent about 20 minutes at the rope bridge tree before actually crossing over. “It seemed like once he decided to cross, he did so very fast going over in about three minutes from the Pangi Forest Reserve into Lot 1 of the Kin-abatangan Wildlife Sanctuary,” shared Ajirun.

Dr. Lackman explained that in the past orangutans would have used tall old growth forest as “natural bridges” over small rivers. However, the orangutan’s no longer have this luxury since most trees have been logged. “Today the orangutan is facing more human-made obstacles such as illegal planting for oil palm all the way down to the river bank leaving no riparian reserve which are actually required by law under the Environment Protec-tion Enactment of 2002 as well as the Water Resources Enactment of 1998,” said Dr. Lackman.

Furthermore, oil palm plantations also contribute to isolation of orang-utan populations when they build large drains (sizes of small rivers) to draw off excess water from the cultivation of palm oil. All the great ape species, which includes the orangutans, are unable to swim. To address such issues and to reconnect isolated populations, KOCP has built a total of six rope bridges.

“With support from various partners at American and European zoos, pri-vate foundations and the Borneo Conservation Trust of Japan we tried different designs using single ropes and more recently using old fire hoses intertwined together. This was to see if different designs would be used by the orangutans,” said wildlife veterinarian Dr. Ancrenaz.

Camera traps were also set up to capture pictures in the event of orang-utans using the rope bridges. However they either malfunctioned or were destroyed by macaques that use the rope bridges regularly.

“Using rope bridges is a quick fix but eventually the most ideal solution would be to reconnect the forest

and we are all working on this. And when I say ‘we’ I mean everyone from Governmental sector to environmental NGOs and crucially the palm oil industry as well,” added Dr. Ancrenaz.

Furthermore, genetic modeling carried out jointly by KOCP, SWD, Car-diff University and Danau Girang Field Centre has shown that unless action is taken to reconnect these populations, most of the current isolated orangutan populations within the Lower Kinabatangan will go extinct within our lifetime. At present, surveys carried out by SWD and KOCP show that there are 1,000 orangutans within protected and non-protected areas of the Lower Kinabatangan. Sabah has an estimated 11,000 orang-utans making it the stronghold for the Malaysian orangutan population with 80 percent of the nation’s wild orangutan population.

According to the Director of the SWD, Dr. Laurentius Ambu, reconnect-ing forest via forest corridors or patches of forest is the next crucial step in addressing this issue for orangutans as well as other wildlife in Sabah.

“Even though it will be an expensive and long process, reconnecting isolated populations will ensure the long term survival of not only Sabah’s orang-utans but other unique species such as the Bornean pygmy elephants, the sun bear, also the clouded leopards and many more,” said Dr. Laurentius.

Information is taken from a joint press release of the Sabah Wildlife Department and HUTAN.

The Zoo Society was an early funder for this project when marc wasn’t sure that it would work but wanted to give it a try. It is heartening to know that, after all this time, the bridge that the orangutans are using is one of the original bridges — one of our bridges.

— mary mcmillan, Director of Finance and Operations

hoPe for isolated orangutan PoPulation within the KinaBatangan

The Zoo and Zoo Society took a chance more than five years ago and were recently rewarded with results.

Back in 2005, dr. marc ancrenaz began a project to build bridges for orangutans on the island of Borneo and the

zoo society provided start-up funding. marc and dr. isabelle lackman are co-directors of the Kinabatangan

orangutan Conservation Project (KoCP), a joint effort of the sabah wildlife department (swd) and hutan,

a french grass roots non-governmental organization. they released the following update this spring:

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KENyA ANd ITs wIldlIFEoCTobER 8 – 20, 2010From bustling Nairobi to Kenya’s famous parks and reserves, this affordable adventure will excite you from the moment you land in Africa. Escorted by Sue Allen, Manager of Marketing & Public Relations, you will visit Kenya’s largest national park, Tsavo and also Amboseli Reserve. At Lake Nakuru National Park and Lake Naiva-sha you will be delighted to find thousands of African flamingoes lining the shores plus the buffalo, giraffe and plains zebra commonly seen in the park. The safari will then move to Maasai Mara, Kenya’s most famous reserve. Maasai Mara has good populations of lions and hyena as well as jackal, leopard and cheetah, plus Grant’s and Thomson gazelle, impala, wildebeest, eland and others.

TANZANIA MIGRATIoN sAFARIMARCH 2011Don’t miss this opportunity to travel with Zoo Director Steve Taylor to view the greatest wild-life spectacle on Earth, Tanzania’s Great Migration! From the storied national parks of Tanzania, witness the annual journey that nearly 2.5 million herbivores make while fol-lowing the rains that sustain them. The Great Migration is thought to provide some of the best game viewing on the planet. This 14 day adventure will take you through Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater Park, and the Serengeti National Park, where you’ll find many of Africa’s most majestic acacia trees.

boTswANA TENT sAFARIJUly 2011From the massive central grasslands and the unique ecology of the Okavango Delta to the Northern border where savannahs meet the great rivers which form the Zambezi, Botswana has it all! You’ll travel with Zoo Director Steve Taylor as you explore Botswana in open landrovers while game watching and in pon-toon boats while exploring the delta. Elephants, leopards, hippos and wild dogs are just some of the animals you’re likely to encounter on this wild adventure! These 14 days promise to be unforgettable.

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For more information, or to reserve your place at the Travel Preview, contact us at (216) 661.6500, ext. 4420 or email Travel@ClevelandZooSociety.org. All trips & pricing subject to change. Call for the most up-to-date information.

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join us for the city’s largest fundraiser and the summer’s wildest party! wind your way through the zoo enjoying an assortment of complimen-tary food, beer, wine, and soft drinks. dance under the stars to the rhythms of 14 bands, playing Motown, rock, salsa, swing, country and blues. 21 and over only. All proceeds benefit the Cleveland Zoological society, the advancement partner of Cleveland metroparks zoo.

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