We try to get everyone's input as best as possible. We figure out what we'd like and then go to our maintenance guy who does most of our building. He can give us more suggestions and tells us what will work and will not work from a construction standpoint. It is a group effort with the initial ideas coming from the zookeepers. The biggest thing that effects us is snow.
Snow weighs heavy on the roofs of our buildings.
One collapses under the weight of the snow. Winter is the hardest on exhibits, snow, freezing and thawing cause things to crack. The zoo is 76 years old. It is owned by the borough of Norristown and is now supported by a board of supervisors. There is a society that helps fund the zoo.