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Monorail or Gondola?

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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #300 on: December 03, 2021, 08:40 AM »
Work on the elevated walkway and pathing fences



Foreground is the next habitat to be worked on (snow leopards), but behind that you can see some of the rock work being completed along the barriers and den viewing area.



Work starting on the main viewing building/barn for hoofed animals/Education Center.
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« Reply #301 on: December 08, 2021, 10:09 AM »
Entrance on one side of the leopard viewing building starting to take shape.



Foreground is what will be the habitat for mixed hoof animals (non African). Background is the building being worked on that will house the animals and have viewing areas.



Another quick shot of this habitat, which will be worked on next. The Monorail and the train actually pass through this habitat.



Looking down on the layout of this building.
Red is the leopard viewing and exhibits.
Blue is the Learning Center.
Yellow are the holding barns and viewing of the hoofed animals.

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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #302 on: December 12, 2021, 08:58 AM »
Working on scenery in front of the leopard viewing windows.



Scenery placement throughout the rest of the habitat.



More work on the building
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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #303 on: December 12, 2021, 02:24 PM »
I like the 'ruined temple' theme running throughout this habitat.
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« Reply #304 on: December 19, 2021, 11:23 AM »
Here is the completed building and the habitat beyond it.



Here is the west entrance to the leopard viewing building








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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #305 on: December 19, 2021, 01:35 PM »
Very nice. I like those torchieres shaped like lotuses(?) outside the viewing building. Maybe you mentioned in an earlier post but, are there any actual leopards (or substitute animals) in this habitat?
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« Reply #306 on: December 19, 2021, 05:34 PM »
They are leopards. Technically in the zoo they are amur leopards and these are a different species, but close enough
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« Reply #307 on: December 23, 2021, 06:45 AM »
Inside the viewing building. Leopard viewing through the windows on the left and inside barn ungulate animal viewing on the right.










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« Reply #308 on: December 23, 2021, 03:09 PM »
I like the mosaic artwork thingy hanging from the ceiling. Took me a minute, but I finally figured out that it was a leopard laying on a tree branch. ;)
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« Reply #309 on: December 28, 2021, 01:46 PM »
The east side entrance to this building



This is where you also access The Learning Center.



From above


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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #310 on: January 01, 2022, 10:16 AM »
More of the leopard habitat around the viewing building






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« Reply #311 on: January 01, 2022, 12:53 PM »
I like those rustic trellises on the upper-floor walls. Is that something you came up with? I never knew that lily pads grew out from a central point like that. First day of the new year and I learned something new!
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« Reply #312 on: January 01, 2022, 03:16 PM »
YEP - that design was all me on this one. No modified workshop building here.
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« Reply #313 on: January 07, 2022, 09:22 PM »









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« Reply #314 on: January 08, 2022, 12:33 PM »
I like how the monorail (bi-rail?) goes through the hole-in-the-rock. I see leopards!
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« Reply #315 on: January 12, 2022, 08:07 AM »
along the east side of this habitat there is also a viewing area that looks in on a cave-like den area for the animals.






Back entrances to the den



Another viewing area

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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #316 on: January 12, 2022, 10:31 PM »
I like the sign in the first pic.
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« Reply #317 on: January 13, 2022, 11:05 AM »
more workshop finds...no way did I create that from scratch
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« Reply #318 on: January 18, 2022, 09:32 AM »
More of the leopard habitat.






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« Reply #319 on: January 18, 2022, 01:07 PM »
I think I like the middle pic best. It has a nice "you-are-there", guests' point of view feel to it. And we can see pretty much see the whole enclosure.
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« Reply #320 on: January 23, 2022, 08:10 AM »
THX

Continuing on the pathway around the habitat...we have the glass domed bridge at the far end of the habitat. This give a great view of the habitat including an eye-level view of some of the climbing features. The cats also enter the backstage area under this bridge, so chances are you will see a lot of activity here.










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« Reply #321 on: January 23, 2022, 01:13 PM »
That enclosed bridge looks nice. Rather striking. Does it have a counterpart in the real-life zoo?
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« Reply #322 on: January 23, 2022, 07:30 PM »
Nope. this was designed by me as the new pathing in the master plan has the path going around the enclosure this way. with the backstage access there somehow I had to make this work.
The current big cat habitats are standard pathing going past rock encrusted sections for each animal.
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« Reply #323 on: January 23, 2022, 07:35 PM »
reminder of what the master plan looks like for this section of the zoo
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« Reply #324 on: January 23, 2022, 07:40 PM »
this is what they pretty much look like today
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« Reply #325 on: January 28, 2022, 07:21 AM »
trail coming down from the bridge







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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #326 on: January 28, 2022, 02:25 PM »
I like your use of bamboo fencing in this area.
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« Reply #327 on: February 02, 2022, 11:06 AM »
THX!!!
I try to make/use some different fence types. I just did a few more creative ways of fencing on the next habitat.

But for now, here are a few more pics of this habitat.









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« Reply #328 on: February 07, 2022, 03:36 PM »
Looking from over the tiger habitat over to the leopard habitat



Over by the learning center I added a faux bird cage in the intersection of the pathing.



Another random shot of the walkway bridge with the leopard access to the backstage area.
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Re: Brookfield Zoo
« Reply #329 on: February 07, 2022, 10:17 PM »
Your Brookfield Zoo looks fun and interesting. I'm sure the real zoo is as well, but they should study what you've done here. They could learn a thing or two! But, as always, money plays a big factor in what's possible in real life.
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