I came across this thread while doing research for another thread of mine (on Ed Wynn impersonations) and so thought I’d bump it to share my own experiences and some recent discoveries.
I often watched this show as a kid, though usually only for lack of anything better on TV at the time. In retrospect, 11-year-old me was impressed with the show’s production values—the costumes and set design were really first-rate for a children’s show, and the cast were clearly talented actors and singers who (with the possible exception of Vereen) were really putting everything they had into the performances. But I found the storylines bland and mundane, and most of the characters absolutely insufferable. Bravo Fox was overly pretentious and fussy, Lookout Bear was one of those losers who tries to act like he’s cool, Mayor Ben was distant and boring, and Talkatoo Cockatoo’s bubbly squawking was the pinnacle of annoyance. Worse yet, nearly all the characters were imbued with the intelligence of a wet paper bag. You’d think that a troupe of hypertalented, anthropomorphic animals would have loftier problems than, say, figuring out who glued someone’s shoes to the floor. Maybe I just wasn’t the right target age for this show.
I was surprised to find that the Zoobilee Zoo website linked from @acrossthesea’s OP is not only still up, but actually has news items from as recently as June 2020. (Apparently there was a virtual cast reunion that month, which can be viewed online.) At least one of the cast members, Gary Schwartz (who played Bravo Fox), has his own YouTube channel where he occasionally posts Zoobilee Zoo material, including this hilarious (and off-colour) outtake reel which I discuss elsethread.