. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Fig. 10. The Exotarium Tower overlooking the "seal cliffs" (2008). Photograph: Sabine Binger. sor, constantly tried to improve the living conditions of the animals, trying out all sorts of lamps, heating equip- ment and other means to improve the climate control of the terraria. They also did lots of work on nutrition and disease prevention and carried out the associated physi- cal changes and improvements to the building, such as spe- cial rooms to prepare food, raise foraging animals and raise newly born reptiles and amphibians. Terraria were eq
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Fig. 10. The Exotarium Tower overlooking the "seal cliffs" (2008). Photograph: Sabine Binger. sor, constantly tried to improve the living conditions of the animals, trying out all sorts of lamps, heating equip- ment and other means to improve the climate control of the terraria. They also did lots of work on nutrition and disease prevention and carried out the associated physi- cal changes and improvements to the building, such as spe- cial rooms to prepare food, raise foraging animals and raise newly born reptiles and amphibians. Terraria were equipped with appropriate soil substrate for digging species as well as stones and trees for climbing species, in addition to hiding places and other structures, paving the way to modern reptile keeping. Another remarkable change was the renovation of the crocodile enclosure which had made it necessary to give up the crocodile col- lection in around 1975 and to send the gharial (which had been living at Frankfurt Zoo since 1958) to the Gharial Breeding Centre in Orissa, India in 1979. After the reno- vation of the building had been completed, Nile crocodiles returned to the zoo in 1977, but the enclosure turned out to be unsuitable for that aggressive species. Finally, in 1990, Frankfurt Zoo started keeping Australian freshwater crocodiles, which started breeding regularly in 1994 and still do so today. This is one of the many breed- ing successes at the Frankfurt Exotarium since Rudolf Wicker became its curator in 1984. He took over at a time when again some necessary renovation work had started, and so the opportunity to build a big landscape terrarium for freshwater tortoises (1987) was seized. The group of Cyclura cornuta then consisted of shy and aggressive an- imals. They had come to the zoo in 1974, but Wicker re- placed them by ten new animals imported from the zoo in Santo Domingo. These animals laid eggs for the first time in 1987, but the keeping facility was not the m
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