What happened to the 2,000-plus animals at the Dallas Zoo when the winter storm hit?
The cheetah habitat at the Dallas Zoo is pictured blanketed in snow on Feb. 3, 2022. Cheetahs brothers Brutus and Finnick hunkered down indoors with the rest of the animals at the zoo during this year's snow storm.As North Texans stocked up on groceries ahead of this week’s winter storm, Dallas Zoo workers were busy with their own winter preparations for the 2,000-plus animals that call the place home.
With thousands of animals housed across about 105 acres, the process was started a few days before the storm, which brought between 1.7 and 2.5 inches of sleet and snow across the Dallas-Fort Worth area Thursday.
Ziggy, a Eurasian eagle owl, spent time outside Wednesday watching snowflakes fall, while Nubian boer goat sisters Sugar and Spice got to frolic through the snow Thursday.“When we do these kinds of things, we monitor them and we’re watching to make sure that they’re not going to hurt their legs and they know what to do,” Liu said. “They tend to adapt pretty well to that kind of stuff.”
Aside from managing staff shortages caused by the storm, the center has also had to balance how much food to prepare in advance for each area of the zoo, as each facility has limited space in its refrigerators. When the storm passes and the ice melts, staff at the Dallas Zoo will have to thoroughly check each habitat to make sure the storm didn’t cause any damage.“We always have to be vigilant about falling limbs, trees falling, that kind of stuff,” Liu said. “We always check the fence line to make sure if there’s a lot of ice that it didn’t damage any of the fence lines of the habitat. … There is a lot of cleanup and checking on things before we actually put animals back out.
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