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The Primate House opened in 1927, and it was known for housing a popular gorilla named Bushman (1931–1951), one of the only gorillas in a U. S. zoo at the time. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] From 1920 until a Zoo expansion in 1994, the 1893 World's Fair Viking ship was located at the zoo. [ 20 ]
The first Como Zoo primate house was built in 1969 and was rebuilt in 1985. The Gorilla Forest is the largest all mesh gorilla enclosure in North America. [ 8 ] Animals in this exhibited include, blue-eyed lemurs , patas monkeys , emperor tamarins , golden-headed lion tamarins , spider monkeys , western lowland gorillas , Sumatran orangutans ...
Henry Vilas Zoo is a 28-acre (11 ha) public zoo in Madison, ... Opened in 1995, the Primate House houses three species of primates, Bornean orangutans, ...
A 2-year-old female western lowland gorilla died at the Calgary Zoo after sustaining head injuries from the ... the young primate died. "Eyare was moving around in the back of the house, roaming ...
The most recent update to the zoo is the addition of the Michael and Quirsis Riney Primate Canopy Trails, a $13 million, 35,000 sq ft state-of-the-art outdoor exhibit for the zoo's primates. Primate Canopy Trails opened 12 July 2021 and is connected to the nearby Primate House built in 1925. [12]
Elk at the zoo, ca. 1901. The first zoo in Saint Paul was started when in 1897, the city of St. Paul received a gift of three deer. Additional animals followed, when more room was needed to house the animals they were moved to facilities at Como Park. Como Zoo continued to grow through donations of animals and money.
Monkey House, facing Monkey Island, was the original primate exhibit in the zoo. In recent years, it served as a winter residence for the capuchins but as of 2023 it is no longer in use. The brick building is considered a historic structure and repurposing of some kind is likely.
One of the oldest functioning animal houses in the zoo, the small primate house is the centre of the zoo's primate collection and includes: De Brazza's monkeys, pileated gibbons, L'Hoest's monkeys, king colobus, ring-tailed lemurs, red titis, emperor tamarins and grey mouse lemurs.