The zoo is on strike, the animals are not!

[Catherine]

The zoo has a tremendous endangered animal breeding program. There is also a really good health centre so the Clouded Leopard cubs will be getting the best of care.

Vulnerable animals not on display. The cubs will be ready for the public before they are ever allowed into a public viewing area.
The zoo also breeds the Vancouver Island Marmots and has returned some to the wild. They are never on display. Their survival  as a species is so fragile that we will never get to see them. There is a tremendous amount of conservation and species survival work being done by the big zoos like Toronto Zoo and San Diego Zoo. Toronto has been putting Black Footed ferrets back in their prairie  native home. The zoo is also a release site for the Trumpeter Swans. They have been gone from Ontario for a long time. They brought in some swans from a west coast population. Their numbers have increased and some day we will see flocks of native wild swans again.

I can't wait to see the three baby Snow Leopards. They are so cute as cubs.