These exhibits were the zoo's first attempt at constructing more naturalistic exhibits instead of simply displaying animals in cages.
This plan called for extensive renovations and the construction of more naturalistic exhibits.
The Asian Forest, which opened in 1983, was the first area of the zoo that utilized this new philosophy of naturalistic exhibits.
The African Savanna was the next area to obtain naturalistic exhibits when it was completed in 1987.
Jaguar Junction houses both regular phase and melanistic ("black") jaguars in a large naturalistic exhibit.
Situated on 125 acres of naturalistic exhibits, it provides a natural habitat for more than 3,300 animals representing 280 species.
The zoo was one of the first to put animals into naturalistic "cageless" exhibits.
The facility underwent a dramatic transformation in the 1970s and 1980s, with the additions of many new, naturalistic exhibits.
The 194 acres of the Milwaukee County Zoo are arranged into naturalistic exhibits of rare and wild mammals, birds, fish and reptiles.
Zoo boards and directors saw a need to move animals out of sterlie, iron-barred cages and into more naturalistic exhibits that help educate the public.