Whats up with that gross-looking dead zebra on exhibit?
Wild Africa is what zoo’s call an immersion exhibit. That means that the goal is for the guests and the animals to feel as though they are actually in Africa, watching a herd of waterbuck casually stroll by, grazing on grass. To achieve this, many of the signs are distressed with hammers, trash bins are disguised as barrels, and the savannah is complete with a lion’s kill being picked at by vultures. The model was constructed from fiberglass and is used to feed the carnivorous birds in the exhibit. The point is not to be disturbing or gross, but to educate the zoo guests on predator/prey relationships.
