Gothamist has the latest Prospect Park Zoo news: Apparently there’s a new panda in town and his name is Mao Mi.
Yay something new to see at the Zoo. I was getting sick of going nose-to-nose with the prairie dogs and those hamadryas baboons with the red bottoms. Just kidding. I could never get sick of those hamadryas baboons.
Yes, it’s a well-designed, jewel of a zoo, but new animals and exhibits are always good.
Mao Mi is a Red Panda and the newest addition to Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn. He arrived last week from Michigan’s Binder Park Zoo as part of a Wildlife Conservation Society breeding project. Red Pandas
are an endangered species with fewer than 2,500 adults thought to
remain in the wild in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Nepal and Burma.Mao Mi will probably be mated with this young lady,
who has been residing at the zoo since at least last year. If Brooklyn
is lucky it could see its own Red Panda birth in the near future.
And don’t forget the Saki monkeys! They’re new, too! We also have live animal demonstrations several times each Saturday and Sunday. Get to meet som of our animals up close and personal. Some of them are “touchable”!
Actually MeiLin, the female panda was sent on her “arranged marriage” to another zoo. The zoo professionals who manage captive red pandas around the world are looking at a mate for MaoMi. He won’t be alone for long!
speaking of new animals – come see the kangaroo joey and watch the news for more new critters. (have you seen our golden lion tamarins?)
And we’ve also done a huge spruce up – paint, carpet – we’ve even uncovered the fabulous original terrazzo floor in the rotunda (baboon) building!
awesome!