There’s a new Mickey in Orange County, though he has a ways to go before he’s as ubiquitous as his Anaheim counterpart.
debuted its 11-month-old, 50-pound jaguar named Mickey earlier this week after the facility received the big cat about a month ago.
The screen blocking Mickey’s enclosure was raised on Monday, allowing the jaguar and the zoo’s visitors to meet.“Although he’s been here for a while, he’s been acclimating to his new habitat behind visual blocks,” said zoo manager Don Zeigler, who’s been working at the eight-acre center inside the 477-acre Irvine Regional Park since 1991. “Now he has full visibility to not just view people but other habitats around him.”Young jaguar Mickey ventures out at the Orange County Zoo.
“He told me that if I ever had a proper habitat suitable for a jaguar [then] he would either gladly loan me or give me an animal,” said Zeigler, noting that the O.C. Zoo now owns Mickey. “We both had a desire to educate the public about jaguars.”, there are around 173,000 jaguars on Earth, with about half residing in Brazil.
Zeigler said the animals once roamed the American Southwest, calling the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas home. A jaguar known as El Jefe was believed to be the last in the United States,
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