The Sedgwick County Zoo is an AZA

Association of Zoos and Aquariums

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums was founded in 1924 and is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.The AZA headquarters is located in Silver...

-accredited wildlife park and major attraction in Wichita

Wichita, Kansas

Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...

, Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

. Founded in 1971 with the help of the Sedgwick County Zoological Society, the zoo has quickly become recognized both nationally and internationally for its support of conservation programs and successful breeding of rare and endangered species. Having over 2,500 animals of nearly 500 different species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

, the zoo has slowly increased its visitors and now ranks as the number one outdoor tourist attraction in the state.

Exhibits

Downing Gorilla Forest

Downing Gorilla Forest starts out in a recreation of a small Congo village with exhibits for De Brazza's monkey

De Brazza's Monkey

De Brazza's monkey is an Old World monkey endemic to the wetlands of central Africa.- Taxonomy :Locally known as swamp monkeys, these primates are named after the Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. They were given the species name neglectus because of their skill in hiding from...

, colobus monkey

Black-and-white colobus

Black-and-white colobuses are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus, native to Africa. They are closely related to the brown colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus. The word "colobus" comes from Greek κολοβός kolobós , and is so named because its thumb is a stump.Colobuses are herbivorous, eating...

, pink-backed pelican

Pink-backed Pelican

The Pink-backed Pelican is a member of the pelican family of birds. It is a resident breeder in Africa, southern Arabia and apparently extinct in Madagascar in swamps and shallow lakes.-Description:...

, and white pelican. Across bridge is an exhibit for saddle-billed stork

Saddle-billed Stork

The Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in west Africa.This is a close...

, as well as one for black crowned crane

Black Crowned Crane

The Black Crowned Crane is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It was once called also Kaffir Crane.It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although in nests in somewhat wetter habitats. There are two subspecies: B. p. pavonina in the west and the more numerous B. p...

 and okapi

Okapi

The okapi , Okapia johnstoni, is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa...

. The main attraction is a large gorilla

Gorilla

Gorillas are the largest extant species of primates. They are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies...

 exhibit. They can be viewed in their indoor home, outside through large viewing windows or across a moat.

Pride of the Plains

A path winds around exhibits of lion

Lion

The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...

s, red river hog

Red River Hog

The red river hog , also known as the bush pig , is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa, with most of its distribution in the Guinean and Congolian forests...

s, and two exhibits of meerkat

Meerkat

The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan"...

s. Each exhibit has several different views from all side. The whole area has a kopje theme, with giant boulders. At the end is an exhibit for African wild dog

African Wild Dog

Lycaon pictus is a large canid found only in Africa, especially in savannas and lightly wooded areas. It is variously called the African wild dog, African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, painted dog, painted wolf, painted hunting dog, spotted dog, or ornate wolf...

s.

Penguin Cove

Opened in 2007, Penguin Cove is the zoos first marine exhibit, and home to a colony of Humboldt penguins

Humboldt Penguin

The Humboldt Penguin is a South American penguin, that breeds in coastal Peru and Chile. Its nearest relatives are the African Penguin, the Magellanic Penguin and the Galápagos Penguin...

. The $1.5 million exhibit features a 42000 gal pool with rocky areas and coves on each side.

Tiger Trek

This $3 million Asian themed naturalistic exhibit was opened in 2009, and houses Amur tigers, Malayan tigers, red pandas, bar-headed geese, brow-antlered deer, and more.
Journey through Africa

The Downing Gorilla Forest

• Western lowland gorilla
  Western Lowland Gorilla
  The western lowland gorilla is a subspecies of the western gorilla that lives in montane, primary, and secondary forests and lowland swamps in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It is the gorilla usually found in zoos...
  
  
• Black-and-white colobus
  Black-and-white colobus
  Black-and-white colobuses are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus, native to Africa. They are closely related to the brown colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus. The word "colobus" comes from Greek κολοβός kolobós , and is so named because its thumb is a stump.Colobuses are herbivorous, eating...
  
  
• De Brazza's Monkey
  De Brazza's Monkey
  De Brazza's monkey is an Old World monkey endemic to the wetlands of central Africa.- Taxonomy :Locally known as swamp monkeys, these primates are named after the Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. They were given the species name neglectus because of their skill in hiding from...
  
  
• Saddle-billed Stork
  Saddle-billed Stork
  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in west Africa.This is a close...
  
  
• Eastern Bongo
  Bongo (antelope)
  The western or lowland bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus, is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate and among the largest of the African forest antelope species....
  
  
• Okapi
  Okapi
  The okapi , Okapia johnstoni, is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa...
  
  
• Greater flamingo
  Greater Flamingo
  The Greater Flamingo is the most widespread species of the flamingo family. It is found in parts of Africa, southern Asia , and southern Europe...
  
  
• Black lemur
  Black Lemur
  The Black Lemur is a species of lemur from the family Lemuridae. Like all lemurs, it is endemic to Madagascar. Originally, the species was thought to have two subspecies, Eulemur macaco macaco and Eulemur macaco flavifrons, both of which were elevated to species status by Mittermeier et al. in...
  
  
• Black-and-white ruffed lemur
  Black-and-white ruffed lemur
  The black-and-white ruffed lemur is the more endangered of the two species of ruffed lemurs, both of which are endemic to the island of Madagascar. Despite having a larger range than the red ruffed lemur, it has a much smaller population that is spread out, living in lower population densities...
  
  
• Red ruffed lemur
  Red Ruffed Lemur
  The red ruffed lemur is one of two species in the genus Varecia, the ruffed lemurs; the other is the black-and-white ruffed lemur . Like all lemurs, it is native to Madagascar and occurs only in the rainforests of Masoala, in the northeast of the island...
  
  
• Ring-tailed lemur
  Ring-tailed Lemur
  The ring-tailed lemur is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to Lemuridae, one of five lemur families. It is the only member of the Lemur genus. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar...
  
  

Pride of the Plains

• Meerkat
  Meerkat
  The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan"...
  
  
• Warthog
  Warthog
  The Warthog or Common Warthog is a wild member of the pig family that lives in grassland, savanna, and woodland in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P...
  
  
• Slender-horned Gazelle
• Arabian Oryx
  Arabian Oryx
  The Arabian Oryx or White Oryx is a medium sized antelope with a distinct shoulder hump, long straight horns, and a tufted tail. It is a bovid, and the smallest member of Oryx genus, native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian peninsula...
  
  
• Hamadryas baboon
  Hamadryas Baboon
  The Hamadryas baboon is a species of baboon from the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons; being native to the Horn of Africa and the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural...
  
  
• African Lion
  Lion
  The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...
  
  
• African wild dog
  African Wild Dog
  Lycaon pictus is a large canid found only in Africa, especially in savannas and lightly wooded areas. It is variously called the African wild dog, African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, painted dog, painted wolf, painted hunting dog, spotted dog, or ornate wolf...
  
  
• Red River Hog
  Red River Hog
  The red river hog , also known as the bush pig , is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa, with most of its distribution in the Guinean and Congolian forests...
  
  
• Caracal
  Caracal
  The caracal is a fiercely territorial medium-sized cat ranging over Western Asia, South Asia and Africa.The word caracal comes from the Turkish word "karakulak", meaning "black ear". In North India and Pakistan, the caracal is locally known as syahgosh or shyahgosh, which is a Persian term...
  
  
• Blue-winged Goose
  Blue-winged Goose
  The Blue-winged Goose is a waterfowl species which is endemic to Ethiopia. It is the only member of the genus Cyanochen.- Relations :...
  
  
• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
• Black Crowned Crane
  Black Crowned Crane
  The Black Crowned Crane is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It was once called also Kaffir Crane.It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although in nests in somewhat wetter habitats. There are two subspecies: B. p. pavonina in the west and the more numerous B. p...
  
  
• Great White Pelican
• Egyptian Goose
  Egyptian Goose
  The Egyptian Goose is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae, and is the only extant member of the genus Alopochen...
  
  
• Kori Bustard
  Kori Bustard
  The Kori Bustard is a large bird native to Africa. It is a member of the bustard family. It may be the heaviest bird capable of flight....
  
  
• Pink-backed Pelican
  Pink-backed Pelican
  The Pink-backed Pelican is a member of the pelican family of birds. It is a resident breeder in Africa, southern Arabia and apparently extinct in Madagascar in swamps and shallow lakes.-Description:...
  
  
• Saddle-billed Stork
  Saddle-billed Stork
  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in west Africa.This is a close...
  
  

See Eye to Eye with Giraffes

• Bontebok
  Bontebok
  The Bontebok is an antelope found in South Africa and Lesotho. The Bontebok has two subspecies; the endangered Bontebok , occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the Blesbok occurring in the highveld.The Bontebok stands 80 to 100 cm at the shoulder and...
  
  
• Hippopotamus
  Hippopotamus
  The hippopotamus , or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" , is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal and the heaviest...
  
  
• African Bush Elephant
  African Bush Elephant
  The African Bush Elephant or African Savanna Elephant is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both it and the African Forest Elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African Elephant...
  
  
• Eastern Black Rhinoceros
  Eastern Black Rhinoceros
  The Eastern Black Rhinoceros is also known as the East African Black Rhinoceros. It is a subspecies of the Black Rhino...
  
  
• Reticulated Giraffe

Asia
Asian Forest

• Demoiselle Crane
  Demoiselle Crane
  The Demoiselle Crane, Anthropoides virgo, is a species of crane that breeds in Central Asia and winters in India, with a few found in Cyprus and eastern Turkey as well. The crane annually migrates to Africa and South Asia in winter...
  
  
• White Stork
  White Stork
  The White Stork is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average from beak tip to end of tail, with a wingspan...
  
  
• Hooded Crane
  Hooded Crane
  The Hooded Crane, Grus monacha is a small, dark crane. It has a grey body. The top of the neck and head is white, except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye...
  
  
• Mandarin Duck
  Mandarin Duck
  The Mandarin Duck , or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck. It is 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan.-Description:...
  
  
• Red-breasted Goose
  Red-breasted Goose
  The Red-breasted Goose is an endangered species of goose in the genus Branta. It is sometimes separated in Rufibrenta but appears close enough to the Brent Goose to make this unnecessary, despite its distinct appearance.- Description :All the species of the Branta genus are distinguished by their...
  
  
• Amur leopard
  Amur Leopard
  The Amur leopard , also known as the Far Eastern leopard, Korean leopard, and Manchurian leopard is one of nine recognised subspecies of leopard. It is a wild feline predator native to the mountainous areas of the Russian Far East. It used to inhabit the forests of Korea and China, but it has...
  
  
• Bar-headed Goose
  Bar-headed Goose
  The Bar-headed Goose is a goose which breeds in Central Asia in colonies of thousands near mountain lakes and winters in South Asia, as far south as peninsular India. It lays three to eight eggs at a time in a ground nest....
  
  
• Ruddy Shelduck
  Ruddy Shelduck
  The Ruddy Shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea, is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae...
  
  
• Red-crested Pochard
  Red-crested Pochard
  The Red-crested Pochard is a large diving duck.Their breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes in southern Europe and southern and central Asia. They are somewhat migratory, and northern birds winter further south and into north Africa.The adult male is unmistakable. It has a rounded orange...
  
  
• Smew
  Smew
  The Smew is a small duck, which is somewhat intermediate between the typical mergansers and the goldeneyes . It is the only member of the genus Mergellus; sometimes included in Mergus, this genus is distinct and might actually be a bit closer to the goldeneyes...
  
  
• Tufted Duck
  Tufted Duck
  The Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula, is a medium-sized diving duck with a population of close to one million birds.- Description :The adult male is all black except for white flanks and a blue-grey bill. It has an obvious head tuft that gives the species its name.The adult female is brown with paler...
  
  
• Indian Muntjac
  Indian Muntjac
  The Common Muntjac , also called the Red Muntjac, Indian Muntjac or Barking deer is the most numerous muntjac deer species. It has soft, short, brownish or greyish hair, sometimes with creamy markings. This species is omnivorous, feeding on fruits, shoots, seeds, birds' eggs as well as small...
  
  
• Malayan Tapir
  Malayan Tapir
  The Malayan Tapir , also called the Asian Tapir, is the largest of the four species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. The scientific name refers to the East Indies, the species' natural habitat...
  
  
• Red panda
  Red Panda
  The red panda , is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It is the only species of the genus Ailurus. Slightly larger than a domestic cat, it has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs...
  
  
• Brow-antlered Deer

Slawson Family Tiger Trek

• Amur Tiger
• Malayan Tiger
  Malayan Tiger
  The Malayan tiger is a tiger subspecies that inhabits the southern and central parts of the Malay Peninsula and has been classified as endangered by IUCN in 2008 as the population was estimated at 493 to 1,480 adult individuals in 2003; none of the three subpopulations likely harbors more than 250...
  
  

Australia

Mammals

• Matschie's Tree-kangaroo
  Matschie's Tree-kangaroo
  Matschie's Tree-kangaroo , also known as the Huon Tree-kangaroo is a tree-kangaroo native to the Huon Peninsula of North Eastern New Guinea...
  
  
• Tammar Wallaby
  Tammar Wallaby
  The Tammar Wallaby , also known as the Dama Wallaby or Darma Wallaby, is a small member of the kangaroo family and is the model species for research on kangaroos and marsupials. It is found on offshore islands on the South Australian and Western Australian coast...
  
  
• Wallaroo
  Wallaroo
  A Wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The name "wallaroo" is a portmanteau of wallaby and kangaroo. The term is not generally used by Australians...
  
  

Birds

• Australian Brush-turkey
  Australian Brush-turkey
  The Australian Brushturkey or Australian Brush-turkey, , also frequently called the Scrub Turkey or Bush Turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Illawarra in New South Wales...
  
  
• Australian White-eyed Duck
• Australian Wood Duck
  Australian Wood Duck
  The Australian Wood Duck, Maned Duck or Maned Goose is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia. It is the only living species in the genus Chenonetta...
  
  
• Beautiful Fruit Dove
• Black Swan
  Black Swan
  The Black Swan is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic...
  
  
• Blue-faced Honeyeater
• Cape Barren Goose
  Cape Barren Goose
  The Cape Barren Goose is a large goose resident in southern Australia. The species is named for Cape Barren Island, where specimens were first sighted by European explorers.-Taxonomy:...
  
  
• Cotton Pygmy Goose
  Cotton Pygmy Goose
  The Cotton Pygmy Goose or the Cotton Teal, Nettapus coromandelianus is a small perching duck which breeds in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, southeast Asia and south to northern Australia.-Description:...
  
  
• Crested Pigeon
  Crested Pigeon
  The Crested Pigeon is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for far tropical north areas. It is the only member of the genus Ocyphaps.There are only two Australian pigeon species that possess an erect crest, being the Crested Pigeon and the Spinifex Pigeon...
  
  
• Double-wattled Cassowary
  Cassowary
  The cassowaries are ratites, very large flightless birds in the genus Casuarius native to the tropical forests of New Guinea, nearby islands and northeastern Australia. There are three extant species recognized today...
  
  
• Eastern Rosella
  Eastern Rosella
  The Eastern Rosella is a rosella native to southeast of the Australian continent and to Tasmania. It has been introduced to New Zealand where feral populations are found in the North Island and in the hills around Dunedin in the South Island.-Taxonomy:The Eastern Rosella was named by...
  
  
• Eclectus Parrot
  Eclectus Parrot
  The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus, is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands...
  
  
• Emu
  Emu
  The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. It is the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. There are three subspecies of Emus in Australia...
  
  
• Galah
  Galah
  The Galah , Eolophus roseicapilla, also known as the Rose-breasted Cockatoo, Galah Cockatoo, Roseate Cockatoo or Pink and Grey, is one of the most common and widespread cockatoos, and it can be found in open country in almost all parts of mainland Australia.It is endemic on the mainland and was...
  
  
• Kea
  Kea
  The Kea is a large species of parrot found in forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About long, it is mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wings and has a large narrow curved grey-brown upper beak. The Kea is the world's only alpine parrot...
  
  
• Laughing Kookaburra
  Laughing Kookaburra
  The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is a carnivorous bird in the kingfisher family Halcyonidae. Native to eastern Australia, it has also been introduced to parts of New Zealand, Tasmania and Western Australia. Male and female adults are similar in plumage, which is predominantly brown and...
  
  
• Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
  Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
  The Major Mitchell's Cockatoo also known as Leadbeater's Cockatoo or Pink Cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia...
  
  
• Masked Lapwing
  Masked Lapwing
  The Masked Lapwing , previously known as the Masked Plover and often called the Spur-winged Plover or just Plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent...
  
  
• New Zealand Scaup
  New Zealand Scaup
  The New Zealand Scaup commonly known as a Black teal, is a diving duck species of the genus Aythya. It is endemic to New Zealand. In Maori commonly known as papango, also matapouri, titiporangi, raipo .-Description:...
  
  
• Orange-bellied Fruit Dove
• Palm Cockatoo
  Palm Cockatoo
  The Palm Cockatoo , also known as the Goliath Cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family. It is the only member in subfamily Microglossinae and the only member of the monotypic genus, Probosciger...
  
  
• Plumed Whistling Duck
  Plumed Whistling Duck
  The Plumed Whistling Duck , also called the Grass Whistle Duck , is a whistling duck which breeds in New Guinea and Australia. It is a predominantly brown-coloured duck with a long neck and characteristic plumes arising from its flanks...
  
  
• Puna Ibis
  Puna Ibis
  The Puna Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitat is swamps.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  
• Rainbow Lorikeet
  Rainbow Lorikeet
  The Rainbow Lorikeet, is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia , Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In Australia, it is common along the eastern seaboard, from Queensland to South Australia and northwest Tasmania...
  
  
• Scarlet Ibis
  Scarlet Ibis
  The Scarlet Ibis is a species of ibis that inhabits tropical South America and also Trinidad and Tobago. It is the national bird of Trinidad and is featured on the Trinidad and Tobago coat of arms along with Tobago's national bird, the Rufous-vented Chachalaca.-Taxonomy:This species is very...
  
  
• Tawny Frogmouth
  Tawny Frogmouth
  The Tawny Frogmouth is an Australian species of frogmouth, a type of bird found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. The Tawny Frogmouth is often mistaken to be an owl...
  
  

Reptiles

• Diamond Python
  Morelia spilota spilota
  Morelia spilota spilota is a subspecies of carpet python , popularly known as the Diamond Python. It is a medium to large snake, found in coastal areas and adjacent ranges of south-eastern Australia...
  
  

South America

South American Walk Through

Mammals

• Baird's Tapir
  Baird's Tapir
  Baird’s Tapir is a species of tapir that is native to Central America and northern South America. It is one of three Latin American species of tapir.-Names:...
  
  
• Chacoan Peccary
  Chacoan peccary
  The Chacoan peccary or Tagua is a species of peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. About 3000 exist in the world...
  
  
• Chilean Pudu
  Pudú
  The pudús are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu; the world's smallest deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of southern Chile...
  
  
• Common squirrel monkey
  Common Squirrel Monkey
  The common squirrel monkey is a small New World primate from the Cebidae family, and native to the tropical areas of South America.-Location:...
  
  
• Giant Anteater
  Giant Anteater
  The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, is the largest species of anteater. It is the only species in the genus Myrmecophaga. It is found in Central and South America from Honduras to northern Argentina...
  
  
• Guanaco
• Jaguar
  Jaguar
  The jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...
  
  
• Maned Wolf
  Maned Wolf
  The maned wolf is the largest canid of South America, resembling a large fox with reddish fur.This mammal is found in open and semi-open habitats, especially grasslands with scattered bushes and trees, in south, central-west and south-eastern Brazil The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the...
  
  
• Southern Tamandua
  Southern Tamandua
  The southern tamandua, also called a collared anteater, or lesser anteater , is a species of anteater from South America. It is a solitary animal, found in many habitats from mature to highly disturbed secondary forests and arid savannas. It feeds on ants, termites and bees...
  
  
• Tayra
  Tayra
  The tayra , also known as the Tolomuco or Perico ligero in Central America, and San Hol or viejo de monte in the Yucatan Peninsula is an omnivorous animal from the weasel family Mustelidae. It is the only species in the genus Eira...
  
  

Birds

• American Avocet
  American Avocet
  The American Avocet is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae.This avocet has long, thin, gray legs, giving it its colloquial name, "blue shanks". The plumage is black and white on the back with white on the underbelly. The neck and head are cinnamon colored in the summer...
  
  
• Andean Goose
  Andean Goose
  The Andean Goose, Chloephaga melanoptera, is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae.It is resident around lakes and marshes in the high Andes, usually well above 3000 m...
  
  
• Andean Tinamou
  Andean Tinamou
  The Andean Tinamou is a tinamou, found commonly in high altitude shrubland, in the Andes of South America.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
  Blue-and-yellow Macaw
  The Blue-and-Yellow Macaw , also known as the Blue-and-Gold Macaw, is a member of the group of large Neotropical parrots known as macaws. It breeds in forest and woodland of tropical South America from Trinidad and Venezuela south to Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay...
  
  
• Blue-crowned Motmot
  Blue-crowned Motmot
  The Blue-crowned Motmot, Momotus momota, is a colourful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of eastern Mexico, Central America, northern and central South America, and Trinidad and Tobago...
  
  
• Blue-headed Parrot
  Blue-headed Parrot
  The Blue-headed Parrot, also known as the Blue-headed Pionus, Pionus menstruus, is a medium large parrot. It is about 27 cm long and they are mainly green with a blue head and neck, and red under tail feathers. It is a resident bird in tropical and subtropical South America and southern...
  
  
• Blue-winged Teal
  Blue-winged Teal
  The Blue-winged Teal is a small dabbling duck from North America.-Description:The Blue-winged Teal is long, with a wingspan of , and a weight of . The adult male has a greyish blue head with a white facial crescent, a light brown body with a white patch near the rear and a black tail. The adult...
  
  
• Boat-billed Heron
  Boat-billed Heron
  The Boat-billed Heron - colloquially known as the Boatbill - is an atypical member of the heron family, and was formerly thought to be in a monotypic family, Cochlearidae....
  
  
• Buffon's Macaw
• Chiloe Wigeon
  Chiloe Wigeon
  The Chiloe Wigeon is one of three species of wigeon in the dabbling duck genus Anas. Unlike other wigeons, the sexes are similar and pairs are monogamous. This bird has a metallic green head, and a gray bill with a black tip. Its breast is barred black and white and its sides are orange brown...
  
  
• Common Trumpeter
  Trumpeter (bird)
  The trumpeters are a family of birds restricted to the humid forests of the Amazon and Guiana Shield in South America. They are named for the trumpeting or cackling threat call of the males. The three species resemble chickens in size; they measure 45 to 52 centimetres long and weigh 1 to 1.5...
  
  
• Coscoroba Swan
  Coscoroba Swan
  The Coscoroba Swan is a species of waterfowl inhabiting southern South America. It is the smallest of the birds called "swans", but still a large species of waterfowl, averaging 4.2 kg , 1 m long and 1.57 m across the wings...
  
  
• Crested Screamer
  Crested Screamer
  The Southern Screamer , also known as the Crested Screamer, belongs to the order Anseriformes. It is found in southeastern Peru, northern Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina. Its diet consists of plants stems, seeds, leaves, and, rarely, small animals.-Description:The...
  
  
• Cuban Amazon
• Golden Conure
  Golden Conure
  The Golden Parakeet or Golden Conure, Guaruba guarouba, formerly classified as Aratinga guarouba, is a species of Neotropical parrot. Sometimes known as the Queen of Bavaria Conure, it is the only species in the genus Guaruba.Its plumage is mostly bright yellow, hence its common name, but it also...
  
  
• Green-cheeked Amazon
• Green-winged Macaw
• Guira Cuckoo
• Hyacinth Macaw
  Hyacinth Macaw
  The Hyacinth Macaw , or Hyacinthine Macaw, is a parrot native to central and eastern South America. With a length of about 100 cm it is longer than any other species of parrot...
  
  
• King Vulture
  King Vulture
  The King Vulture is a large bird found in Central and South America. It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, though some believe that William Bartram's Painted...
  
  
• North American Ruddy Duck
  Ruddy Duck
  The Ruddy Duck is a small stiff-tailed duck.Their breeding habitat is marshy lakes and ponds throughout much of North America, and in South America in the Andes. They nest in dense marsh vegetation near water. The female builds her nest out of grass, locating it in tall vegetation to hide it from...
  
  
• North Black-bellied Whistling Duck
  Black-bellied Whistling Duck
  The Black-bellied Whistling Duck , formerly also called Black-bellied Tree Duck, is a whistling duck that breeds from the southernmost United States and tropical Central to south-central South America. In the USA, it can be found year-round in parts of southeast Texas, and seasonally in southeast...
  
  
• Red-fronted Macaw
  Red-fronted Macaw
  The Red-fronted Macaw, Ara rubrogenys, is a parrot endemic to a small semi-desert mountainous area of Bolivia. It is highly endangered, and there may only be 150 or so birds left in the wild; it has been successfully bred in captivity, and is available, if not common, as a pet.-Description:The...
  
  
• Red-legged Seriema
  Red-legged Seriema
  The Red-legged Seriema or Crested Cariama is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family , included in the "Gruiformes" in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly placed in a distinct order Cariamae...
  
  
• Red-lored Amazon
• Ringed Teal
  Ringed Teal
  The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American forests. It is the only species of the genus Callonetta...
  
  
• Roseate Spoonbill
  Roseate Spoonbill
  The Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae...
  
  
• Spectacled Owl
  Spectacled Owl
  The Spectacled Owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata, is a large tropical owl. It is a resident breeder from southern Mexico and Trinidad, through Central America, south to southern Brazil, Paraguay and northwestern Argentina...
  
  
• Sun Conure
  Sun Conure
  The Sun Parakeet or Sun Conure is a medium-sized brightly colored parrot native to northeastern South America. The adult male and female...
  
  
• Sunbittern
  Sunbittern
  The Sunbittern, Eurypyga helias is a bittern-like bird of tropical regions of the Americas, and the sole member of the family Eurypygidae and genus Eurypyga.-Description and reproduction:...
  
  
• Thick-billed Parrot
  Thick-billed Parrot
  The Thick-billed Parrot, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha is an endangered, medium-sized, up to 38 cm long, bright green parrot with a large black bill and a red forecrown, shoulder and thighs...
  
  
• White-cheeked Pintail
  White-cheeked Pintail
  The White cheeked Pintail or Bahama Pintail is a dabbling duck of the Caribbean, South America, and the Galápagos Islands....
  
  
• White-faced Whistling Duck
  White-faced Whistling Duck
  The White-faced Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna viduata, is a whistling duck which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America.This species is gregarious, and at favoured sites, the flocks of a thousand or more birds arriving at dawn are an impressive sight...
  
  
• White-fronted Amazon
• Yellow-collared Macaw
• Yellow-headed Amazon
• Yellow-knobbed Curassow
  Yellow-knobbed Curassow
  The Yellow-knobbed Curassow is a large species of bird found in forest and woodland in Colombia and Venezuela. It feeds mainly on the ground, but flies up into trees if threatened. Its most striking features are its crest, made of feathers that curl forward, and the fleshy yellow knob at the base...
  
  
• Yellow-naped Amazon
• Yellow-shouldered Amazon

Reptiles

• Rhinoceros Iguana
  Rhinoceros Iguana
  The Rhinoceros Iguana is a threatened species of lizard in the family Iguanidae that is primarily found on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, shared by the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They vary in length from 61 to 137 cm and skin colors range from a steely gray to a dark green...
  
  
• South American yellow-footed tortoise

KOCH Orangutan & Chimpanzee Habitat

An Incredible Habitat for Incredible Creatures

• Common chimpanzee
  Common Chimpanzee
  The common chimpanzee , also known as the robust chimpanzee, is a great ape. Colloquially, the common chimpanzee is often called the chimpanzee , though technically this term refers to both species in the genus Pan: the common chimpanzee and the closely related bonobo, formerly called the pygmy...
  
  
• Sumatran orangutan
  Sumatran Orangutan
  The Sumatran orangutan is one of the two species of orangutans. Found only on the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia, it is rarer and smaller than the Bornean orangutan. The Sumatran orangutan grows to about tall and in males...
  
  

Children's Farm

• African goose
  African goose
  The African is a breed of domestic goose. Not actually African at all, African breed geese are descended from the wild Swan Goose, just like their close cousin the Chinese goose. Though they share some similar characteristics , the two can be distinguished by the African's larger dewlap and...
  
  
• American Cream Draft
  American Cream Draft
  The American Cream Draft is a rare draft horse breed, the only such breed developed in the United States that is still in existence. It is known for its cream color and amber eyes, produced by the champagne gene. The only other color found in the breed is chestnut, and the cream color produced by...
  
  
• American tunis sheep
  Tunis (sheep)
  The Tunis is a medium sized sheep, that is naturally hornless, with cream-colored wool and a cinnamon-red face and legs. This breed is raised primarily for meat.-Characteristics:...
  
  
• Angora goat
  Angora goat
  The Angora goat is a breed of domestic goat that originated in Ankara , Turkey and its surrounding region in central Anatolia...
  
  
• Arapawa Goat
• Asiatic buffalo
• Black Turkey
  Black (turkey)
  The Black, sometimes referred to as the Black Spanish or the Norfolk Black, is a breed of domestic turkey. The Black was developed in Europe from the first turkeys brought there from North America by explorers. Despite the monikers of “Spanish and “Norfolk” , birds of this type are to be found in...
  
  
• Brown Swiss Cow
  Brown Swiss
  Brown Swiss is a breed of dairy cattle that produces the second largest quantity of milk per annum, over . The milk contains on average 4% butterfat and 3.5% protein, making their milk excellent for production of cheese. The Brown Swiss is known for a long gestation period, immense size, large...
  
  
• Cayuga Duck
  Cayuga Duck
  A Cayuga Duck is a breed of domesticated duck used for egg and meat production as well as an ornamental bird. The Cayuga name is taken from Cayuga Lake, one of the lakes in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where the breed was popularized...
  
  
• Crested Duck
  Crested Duck (domestic breed)
  The domestic Crested Duck is a duck breed descended from the Mallard. It has its appearance because it is heterozygous for a genetic mutation causing a deformity of the skull...
  
  
• Domestic sheep
• Domestic Yak
  Yak
  The yak, Bos grunniens or Bos mutus, is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population...
  
  
• Domestic Zebu
  Zebu
  Zebu , sometimes known as humped cattle, indicus cattle, Cebu or Brahmin cattle are a type of domestic cattle originating in South Asia, particularly the Indian subcontinent. They are characterised by a fatty hump on their shoulders, drooping ears and a large dewlap...
  
  
• Dominique Chicken
• Dromedary Camel
  Dromedary
  The dromedary or Arabian camel is a large, even-toed ungulate with one hump on its back. Its native range is unclear, but it was probably the Arabian Peninsula. The domesticated form occurs widely in North Africa and the Middle East...
  
  
• Fayoumi Chicken
  Egyptian Fayoumi
  The Fayoumi is a breed of chicken originating in Egypt. Fayoumis are a very old breed in their native region, and are named for the Faiyum Governorate southwest of Cairo and west of the Nile...
  
  
• Guinea Hog
  Guinea Hog
  The Guinea Hog, also called the Pineywoods Guinea, Guinea Forest hog, Acorn Eater, and Yard pig, is a breed of domestic pig originating in the United States. Despite its name, the breed is not from Guinea, though the foundation stock is thought to be derived from West Africa...
  
  
• Hereford Pig
  Hereford (pig)
  The Hereford, often called the Hereford Hog, is a breed of domestic pig named for its color and pattern, which is similar to that of the Hereford breed of cattle: red with a white face. Originating in the United States, the Hereford is a rare variety of swine which was created from a synthesis of...
  
  
• Highland cattle
  Highland cattle
  Highland cattle or kyloe are a Scottish breed of beef cattle with long horns and long wavy coats which are coloured black, brindled, red, yellow or dun....
  
  
• Indian Runner Duck
  Indian Runner Duck
  Indian Runners are an unusual breed of domestic duck. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddling, they run. The females usually lay about 150 – 200 eggs a year or more, depending whether they are from exhibition or utility strains...
  
  
• Jacob sheep
  Jacob (sheep)
  The Jacob sheep is a rare breed of small, piebald , polycerate sheep. Jacobs may have from two to six horns, but most commonly have four. The most common color is black and white, but they may also be blue and white or lilac and white in coloring. Jacobs are usually raised for their wool, meat,...
  
  
• Japanese silkie chicken
  Silkie
  The Silkie is a breed of chicken named for its atypically fluffy plumage, which is said to feel like silk. The breed has several other unusual qualities, such as dark blue flesh and bones, blue earlobes, and five toes on each foot...
  
  
• Karakul sheep
• Khaki Campbell
  Khaki Campbell
  A Khaki Campbell is a breed of domesticated duck that originated in England and is kept for its high level of egg production. The breed was developed by Adele Campbell of England at the end of the 19th century. The "Khaki" portion of the name refers to the duck's typical color.-Description:Adult...
  
  
• Mammoth jackstock
  American Mammoth Jack
  The American Mammoth Donkey, commonly known as the Mammoth Jack, or American Mammoth Jack is a descendant of multiple breeds of donkey imported to the United States. Breeds that influenced the Mammoth Jack include the Maltese donkey, Poitou donkey , Andalusian donkey, Majorcan donkey, and...
  
  
• Milking Devon
  Milking Devon
  The Milking Devon is a breed of cattle from the United States. Originally derived from British North Devon cattle brought to North America in the 17th century, the two strains have since diverged significantly, and the breed is often called the American Milking Devon to differentiate it from its...
  
  
• Miniature donkey
  Donkey
  The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus, is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African Wild Ass, E...
  
  
• Mule
  Mule
  A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes. Of the two F1 hybrids between these two species, a mule is easier to obtain than a hinny...
  
  
• Mulefoot
  Mulefoot
  Mulefoot are a breed of domestic pig which is named for its solid, non-cloven hooves reminiscent of a mule. These pigs are typically black, on rare occasions having white spots, and typically reach a weight of 400-600 pounds by the age of two years....
  
  
• Narragansett Turkey
  Narragansett Turkey
  The Narragansett Turkey is a breed of Meleagris gallopavo which descends from a cross between the Eastern Wild Turkey and the domestic turkey brought to Colonial America by English and other European colonists beginning in the 17th century...
  
  
• Navajo-Churro sheep
  Navajo-Churro sheep
  The Navajo-Churro, or Churro for short, is a breed of domestic sheep originating with the Spanish Churra sheep obtained by the Navajo Indian tribe. The breed is renowned for its hardiness and adaptability to extremes of climate. Its wool consists of a protective topcoat and soft undercoat...
  
  
• Nigerian Dwarf Goat
  Nigerian Dwarf (goat)
  The Nigerian Dwarf goat is a miniature dairy goat breed of West African ancestry. Originally brought to the United States on ships as food for large cats such as lions, the survivors originally lived in zoos. Nigerian Dwarf goats are popular as hobby goats due to their easy maintenance and small...
  
  
• Pilgrim Goose
  Pilgrim Goose
  Pilgrim Geese are a breed of domestic goose. The origins of this breed are unclear, but they are thought to be either descended from stock in Europe, or developed from American stock during the Great Depression era.-Description:...
  
  
• Pineywoods Cattle
  Pineywoods (cattle)
  Pineywoods cattle are an endangered breed of landrace heritage cattle that are descended from the original Spanish stock left along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama by the Spanish explorers in the early 16th century...
  
  
• Poitou donkey
  Baudet de Poitou
  The Baudet de Poitou is a breed of donkey originating in the Poitou region of France. One of the most distinctive donkey breeds, it is also among the rarest and least-known...
  
  
• Randall Cattle
  Randall Cattle
  Randall cattle are a rare breed of cattle that originated in Sunderland, Vermont.-Origin:Randall cattle are a rare breed of purebred cattle developed in Sunderland, Vermont, USA, on the farm of Samuel Randall, and later his son, Everett Randall. The Randall family kept a closed herd for over 80 years...
  
  
• Royal Palm Turkey
  Royal Palm (turkey)
  The Royal Palm is a breed of domestic turkey. One of the few turkeys not primarily selected for meat production, the Royal Palm is best known as an ornamental bird with a unique appearance, largely white with bands of metallic black. Primarily kept as an exhibition bird, or on small farms, it lacks...
  
  
• San Clemente Island goat
• Shire horse
  Shire horse
  The Shire horse is a breed of draught horse or draft horse . The breed comes in many colours, including black, bay and grey. They are a tall breed, with mares standing and over and stallions standing and over. The breed has an enormous capacity for weight pulling, and Shires have held the world...
  
  
• Tamworth pig
• Texas Longhorn
  Texas longhorn (cattle)
  The Texas Longhorn is a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns, which can extend to tip to tip for steers and exceptional cows, and tip to tip for bulls. Horns can have a slight upward turn at their tips or even triple twist. Texas Longhorns are known for their diverse coloring...
  
  
• Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
  Pot-bellied pig
  The pot-bellied pig is a breed of domesticated pig originating in Vietnam.-Description:Considerably smaller than standard American or European farm pigs, most adult pot-bellied pigs are about the size of a medium- or large-breed dog, though their bodies are denser at 8 to 136 kg...
  
  
• Watusi Cattle
  Ankole-Watusi (cattle)
  The Ankole-Watusi is a breed of cattle originally native to Africa. Its large, distinctive horns, that can reach up to from tip to tip, are used for defense. Ankole-Watusis weigh from . Living in the savannas and open grasslands, their diet consists of grass and leaves...
  
  

Cessna Penguin Cove

• Humboldt Penguin
  Humboldt Penguin
  The Humboldt Penguin is a South American penguin, that breeds in coastal Peru and Chile. Its nearest relatives are the African Penguin, the Magellanic Penguin and the Galápagos Penguin...
  
  
• Inca Tern
  Inca Tern
  The Inca Tern is a seabird in the family Sternidae. It is the only member of the genus Larosterna.This uniquely-plumaged bird breeds on the coasts of Peru and Chile, and is restricted to the Humboldt current...
  
  

Amphibians & Reptiles

• African Pancake Tortoise
  Pancake tortoise
  The pancake tortoise is a flat-shelled tortoise native to Tanzania and Kenya. Its name is derived from the flat shape of its shell. It is the only member of the genus Malacochersus.-Description:...
  
  
• Aldabra giant tortoise
  Aldabra Giant Tortoise
  The Aldabra giant tortoise , from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world....
  
  
• Aquatic caecilian
  Typhlonectidae
  Typhlonectidae, also known as aquatic caecilians or rubber eels, is a group of Gymnophiona amphibians found in South America.They are viviparous animals, giving birth to young that possess external gills...
  
  
• Arizona black rattlesnake
  Crotalus oreganus cerberus
  Crotalus oreganus cerberus is a venomous pitviper subspecies found in the southwestern United States.-Description:According to Wright and Wright , adults grow to an average length of 78-109 cm...
  
  
• Australian Big-headed turtle
  Big-headed Turtle
  The big-headed turtle is a species of turtle in the family Platysternidae.-Background:Previously considered a distinct family placed on occasion in "Kinosternoidea", it was later moved to the Emydidae. With the Geoemydidae being split off from these, it seems wisest to reinstate, at least for the...
  
  
• Australian Snake-necked turtle
  Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle
  The Roti Island snake-necked turtle is an extremely threatened turtle species from Rote Island south west of Timor between New Guinea and Australia...
  
  
• Barred Tiger Salamander
  Ambystoma mavortium
  Ambystoma mavortium, commonly known as the Barred Tiger Salamander, is a species of salamander found from southwestern Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, south through the western United States to Texas and northern Mexico.- Description :The tiger salamander is the...
  
  
• Bearded pygmy chameleon
• Black-tail Rattlesnake
  Crotalus molossus
  Crotalus molossus is a venomous pitviper species found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Four subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.-Description:...
  
  
• Chinese alligator
  Chinese Alligator
  The Chinese alligator or Alligator Alligator sinensis) is one of two known living species of Alligator, a genus in the family Alligatoridae. The Chinese alligator is native only to China...
  
  
• Chinese stripe-necked turtle
  Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle
  The Chinese stripe-necked turtle is a species of turtle in the Geoemydidae family. It is found in China , Taiwan, and northern & central Vietnam....
  
  
• Colorado River toad
  Colorado River Toad
  The Colorado River toad, Bufo alvarius, also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, is a psychoactive toad found in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States...
  
  
• Cottonmouth
  Agkistrodon piscivorus
  Agkistrodon piscivorus is a venomous snake, a species of pit viper, found in the southeastern United States. Adults are large and capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite. When antagonized they will stand their ground by coiling their bodies and displaying their fangs...
  
  
• European Fire Salamander
  Fire Salamander
  The fire salamander is probably the best-known salamander species in Europe. It is black with yellow spots or stripes to a varying degree; some specimens can be nearly completely black while on others the yellow is dominant. Shades of red and orange may sometimes appear, either replacing or mixing...
  
  
• Fly river turtle
• Giant marine toad
  Cane Toad
  The Cane Toad , also known as the Giant Neotropical Toad or Marine Toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean...
  
  
• Golden Mantella
  Golden Mantella
  The Golden Mantella is a small, terrestrial frog endemic to Madagascar.-Description:As suggested by the name, the Golden Mantella has an aqua/chartruse dorsal surface. The ventral surface is yellow in females, and a lighter yellow in the males. The inside of the thigh occasionally exhibits bright...
  
  
• Great Plains Toad
• Green Tree Python
• Honduran Milk Snake
  Milk Snake
  The milk snake or milksnake is a species of king snake. There are 25 subspecies among the milk snakes, including the commonly named scarlet kingsnake...
  
  
• Jamaican iguana
  Jamaican iguana
  The Jamaican Iguana is a large species of lizard of the genus Cyclura endemic to Jamaica. It is the largest native land animal in the country, and is critically endangered, being thought extinct since 1948...
  
  
• Jeweled lacerta
  Lacerta
  Lacerta is one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Its name is Latin for lizard. A small, faint constellation, it was created in 1687 by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its brightest stars form a "W" shape similar to that of Cassiopeia, and it is thus...
  
  
• King cobra
  King Cobra
  The king cobra is the world's longest venomous snake, with a length up to 5.6 m . This species, which preys chiefly on other snakes, is found predominantly in forests from India through Southeast Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia...
  
  
• Komodo dragon
  Komodo dragon
  The Komodo dragon , also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang and Gili Dasami. A member of the monitor lizard family , it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of in rare cases...
  
  
• Madagascar tree boa
  Madagascar Tree Boa
  Boa manditra is a non-venomous boa species endemic to the island of Madagascar. The specific epithet is also the Malagasy common name for this snake...
  
  
• Panamanian golden frog
  Panamanian golden frog
  The Panamanian golden frog is a critically endangered toad which is endemic to Panama. It has been considered a subspecies of A. varius, but is now generally regarded as a separate species. While the IUCN still lists it as critically endangered, it may have been extinct in the wild since 2007...
  
  
• Plains Leopard Frog
  Plains Leopard Frog
  The Plains Leopard Frog It is sometimes referred to as Blair's Leopard Frog, named after the noted zoologist and University of Texas professor, Dr. W. Frank Blair.- Description :...
  
  
• Puerto Rican Crested Toad
  Puerto Rican Crested Toad
  The Puerto Rican Crested Toad or simply Puerto Rican Toad is a species of toad found only in Puerto Rico. It is the only species of toad native to Puerto Rico. The species formerly occurred in Virgin Gorda. It is listed as a threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service due to habitat loss and...
  
  
• Red-bellied short-necked turtle
  Red-bellied Short-necked Turtle
  The Red-bellied short-necked turtle or Jardine River turtle is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family....
  
  
• Rio Fuerte beaded lizard
  Beaded lizard
  The Beaded lizard is a species of venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala. Along with its congener, the Gila monster , it is the only lizard to have evolved an overt venom delivery system, and has long been considered the only venomous lizard...
  
  
• Rubber Boa
  Rubber Boa
  The Rubber Boa is a snake in the family Boidae that is native to the Western United States.-Taxonomy:The Rubber Boa is a snake in the family Boidae and genus Charina. The name Charina is from the Greek for graceful or delightful, and the name bottae honors Dr. Paolo E. Botta, an Italian ship's...
  
  
• Russian Cobra
  Naja oxiana
  Naja oxiana or the Central Asian Cobra is a species of venomous snake found in Central Asia.-Distribution:It is found in Afghanistan, NE Iran, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, SW Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The type locality is Transcaspia....
  
  
• Saw-shelled turtle
• Sheltopusik
• Southern Alligator Lizard
  Southern Alligator Lizard
  The Southern alligator lizard is a lizard native to the Pacific coast of North America. It is common throughout Southern California and can be found in grasslands, chaparral, and forests as well as urban areas. In dry climates, it is likely to be found in moist areas or near streams. Three...
  
  
• Standing's day gecko
  Standing's day gecko
  The Standing's day gecko is an arboreal and diurnal species of gecko, native to southwest Madagascar. It is among the largest living species of day geckos. Standing's day gecko feeds on insects and nectar.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Tentaceled snake
  Erpeton Tentaculatum
  The tentacled snake , is a rear-fanged aquatic snake native to South-East Asia. It is the only species of its genus, Erpeton, and the two tentacles on its snout are a unique feature among snakes...
  
  
• Timor Python
  Python timoriensis
  Python timoriensis is a nonvenomous python species found in South East Asia. A dwarf form, no subspecies are currently recognized.-Description:...
  
  
• Water Dragon
  Australian Water Dragon
  The Australian Water Dragon , which includes the Eastern Water Dragon and the Gippsland Water Dragon The Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii), which includes the Eastern Water Dragon (P. l. lesueurii) and the Gippsland Water Dragon The Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii),...
  
  
• Woodhouse's Toad
• Yellow pond turtle

Jungle

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Mammals

• Common Vampire Bat
  Common Vampire Bat
  The Common Vampire Bat is a small leaf-nosed bat native to the Americas. It is one of three extant species of vampire bat, the other two being the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat and the White-winged Vampire Bat. Along with them, it is the only parasitic mammal. It mainly feeds on the blood of livestock...
  
  
• Golden lion tamarin
  Golden Lion Tamarin
  The golden lion tamarin also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae...
  
  
• Green Acouchi
  Green Acouchi
  The Green Acouchi, Myoprocta pratti, is a species of rodent in the acouchi genus, part of the family Dasyproctidae, from South America. Its distribution is in western Amazonia, west of the Rios Negro and Madeira, in northwestern Brazil, northeastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, and...
  
  
• Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
  Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
  Hoffmann's two-toed sloth is a species of sloth from Central and South America. It is a solitary nocturnal and arboreal animal, found in mature and secondary rainforests and deciduous forests...
  
  
• Indian Flying Fox
• Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
  Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth
  Linnaeus's two-toed sloth , also known as the Southern two-toed sloth or unau, is a species of sloth from South America, found in Venezuela, the Guyanas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil north of the Amazon River....
  
  
• Prevost's Squirrel
  Callosciurus
  Callosciurus is a genus of squirrels collectively referred to as the "Beautiful squirrels". They are found mainly in Southeast Asia, though a few species also occur in Nepal, northeastern India, Bangladesh and southern China. Several of the species have settled on islands. In total, the genus...
  
  

Birds

• Black Crake
  Black Crake
  The Black Crake, Amaurornis flavirostra, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. It breeds in most of sub-Saharan Africa except in very arid areas. It undertakes some seasonal movements in those parts of its range which are subject to drought...
  
  
• Bleeding-heart dove
  Luzon Bleeding-heart
  The Luzon Bleeding-heart is one of a number of species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba that are called "bleeding-hearts".They get this name from a splash of vivid red colour at the centre of their white breasts...
  
  
• Blue crowned pigeon
  Western Crowned Pigeon
  The Western Crowned Pigeon, also known as the Common Crowned Pigeon or Blue Crowned Pigeon, Goura cristata, is a large, blue-grey pigeon with blue lacy crests over the head and dark blue mask feathers around its eyes. Both sexes are almost similar but males are often larger than females...
  
  
• Blue Dacnis
  Blue Dacnis
  The Blue Dacnis or Turquoise Honeycreeper, Dacnis cayana, is a small passerine bird. This member of the tanager family is found from Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina...
  
  
• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
  Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
  The Blue-capped Cordon-bleu is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania in East Africa. This small finch does fairly well in captivity given adequate conditions, however, breeding this finch is said to be quite difficult.-Habitat:The Blue-capped Cordon-bleu inhabits subtropical or...
  
  
• Blue-gray Tanager
  Blue-gray Tanager
  The Blue-grey Tanager, Thraupis episcopus, is a medium-sized South American songbird of the Tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima...
  
  
• Blue-necked Tanager
  Blue-necked Tanager
  The Blue-necked Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela....
  
  
• Chestnut Munia
• Collared finch-billed bulbul
  Bulbul
  Bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands...
  
  
• Crested Quail-dove
  Crested Quail-dove
  The Crested Quail-Dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is endemic to Jamaica.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:...
  
  
• Crested Wood Partridge
  Crested Wood Partridge
  The Crested Partridge also known as the Crested Wood Partridge, Roul-roul, Red-crowned Wood Partridge or Green Wood Partridge is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds...
  
  
• Elliot's Laughingthrush
  Elliot's Laughingthrush
  Elliot's Laughingthrush is a bird species in the Old World babbler family . In the proposed rearrangement of the laughingthrushes, it is placed in the genus Trochalopteron, as T. elliotii....
  
  
• Emerald Starling
• Fairy-bluebird
  Fairy-bluebird
  The two fairy-bluebirds are small passerine bird species found in forests and plantations in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines. They are the sole members of the genus Irena and family Irenidae, and are related to the ioras and leafbirds.These are bulbul-like birds of open forest or thorn...
  
  
• Fulvous-crested Tanager
  Fulvous-crested Tanager
  The Fulvous-crested Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family, the tanagers.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela....
  
  
• Golden-headed Quetzal
  Golden-headed Quetzal
  The Golden-Headed Quetzal is a colorful bird native to highlands forests in South America.- Description :Males and females are approximately the same size, having a total length of ca. 35 cm and a weight of 160 g. as adults. Adult males are iridescent green with a golden cast to their heads,...
  
  
• Greater Green Leafbird
  Greater Green Leafbird
  The Greater Green Leafbird is a species of bird in the Chloropseidae family. It is distinguished from the Lesser Green Leafbird by its powerful beak, yellow throat and eye ring of the female; and lack of a yellow border along the black throat patch found in the male c...
  
  
• Green Acouchi
  Green Acouchi
  The Green Acouchi, Myoprocta pratti, is a species of rodent in the acouchi genus, part of the family Dasyproctidae, from South America. Its distribution is in western Amazonia, west of the Rios Negro and Madeira, in northwestern Brazil, northeastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, and...
  
  
• Green-naped pheasant pigeon
  Pheasant Pigeon
  The Pheasant Pigeon is a large terrestrial pigeon found in the primary rainforests of New Guinea and nearby islands. It ranges primarily over hilly and lower mountain areas, but can also be found in lowlands....
  
  
• Green-winged Pytilia
  Green-winged Pytilia
  The Green-winged Pytilia is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of .It is found in most of Africa south of the Sahara...
  
  
• Grosbeak Starling
• Lavender Waxbill
  Lavender Waxbill
  The Lavender Waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch native to Central Africa and widely introduced in the USA...
  
  
• Lesser green broadbill
  Green Broadbill
  The Green Broadbill, Calyptomena viridis, is a small, approximately 17 cm long, brilliant green-plumaged bird with a black ear patch, wide gape bill, rounded head, short tail and three black bars on wings. The beak itself is very weak and almost hidden by the crest above it. Both sexes are...
  
  
• Madagascar Buttonquail
  Madagascar Buttonquail
  The Madagascar Buttonquail is a species of bird in the buttonquail family Turnicidae.It is endemic to Madagascar.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
  
  
• Nicobar Pigeon
  Nicobar Pigeon
  The Nicobar Pigeon, Caloenas nicobarica, is a pigeon found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Nicobar Islands, east through the Malay Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau. It is the only living member of the genus Caloenas....
  
  
• Parrot-billed Seedeater
  Parrot-billed Seedeater
  The Parrot-billed Seedeater is a small species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in various shrubby habitats in western Ecuador and western Peru. Outside the breeding season, it is quite social and frequently seen in flocks with other small seed-eating birds.-References:* BirdLife...
  
  
• Pied Avocet
  Pied Avocet
  The Pied Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and western and Central Asia. It is a migratory species and most winter in Africa or southern Asia...
  
  
• Pink-capped Fruit Dove
• Red-billed Leiothrix
  Red-billed Leiothrix
  The Red-billed Leiothrix, Leiothrix lutea, is a member of the Old World babbler family. It is a common cagebird and amongst aviculturists it goes by various names: Pekin Robin, Pekin Nightingale, Chinese Nightingale, Japanese Nightingale, and Japanese Robin, the last two being misnomers as it is...
  
  
• Red-capped Cardinal
  Red-capped Cardinal
  The Red-capped Cardinal, Paroaria gularis, is a small South American bird. It belongs to Paroaria, a genus of red-headed cardinal-tanagers in the family Thraupidae, unlike the cardinals proper which are in the Cardinalidae...
  
  
• Scarlet Macaw
  Scarlet Macaw
  The Scarlet Macaw is a large, colorful macaw. It is native to humid evergreen forests in the American tropics. Range extends from extreme south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in lowlands up to up to...
  
  
• Schalow's Turaco
  Schalow's Turaco
  The Schalow's Turaco is a frugivorous bird in the Musophagidae family. It is named after Herman Schalow. Mature birds have, on average, the longest crests of any turaco species....
  
  
• Southern Yellow Grosbeak
• Speckled Mousebird
  Speckled Mousebird
  The Speckled Mousebird is the largest species of mousebird, as well as one of the most common.- Description :This bird is about 35 cm long, with the tail comprising approximately half the length, and weighs about 57 grams...
  
  
• Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill
• Turquoise Tanager
  Turquoise Tanager
  The Turquoise Tanager, Tangara mexicana, is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident bird from Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and much of Brazil...
  
  
• Variable Seedeater
  Variable Seedeater
  The Variable Seedeater, Sporophila corvina, is a passerine bird which breeds from southern Mexico through Central America to the Chocó of north-western South America. The taxonomy is confusing, and it was formerly considered a subspecies of Sporophila americana...
  
  
• Victoria Crowned Pigeon
  Victoria Crowned Pigeon
  The Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Goura victoria, is a large, bluish-grey pigeon with elegant blue lace-like crests, maroon breast and red iris. The bird may be easily recognized by the unique white tips on its crests. Both sexes are similar. It is on average 74 cm long and weighs 2,384 grams...
  
  
• Violet Turaco
  Violet Turaco
  The Violet Turaco is a large turaco, a group of African near-passerines. It is a resident breeder in the forests of tropical west Africa. It lays two eggs in a tree platform nest....
  
  
• Violet-backed Starling
  Violet-backed Starling
  The Violet-backed Starling , also known as the Plum-coloured Starling or Amethyst Starling, is a relatively small species of starling in the Sturnidae family. This strongly sexually dimorphic species is found widely in woodland of mainland sub-Saharan Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004....
  
  
• White-bellied Go-away-bird
  White-bellied Go-away-bird
  The White-bellied Go-away-bird, Corythaixoides leucogaster, is a widespread bird of Africa in the turaco family.- Description :This species averages 51 cm in length. Its long, pointed grey and black tail with a white median band is distinctive. A white wing patch is conspicuous in flight...
  
  
• White-collared Kingfisher
• White-vented bulbul
  Bulbul
  Bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands...
  
  
• Wonga Pigeon
  Wonga Pigeon
  The Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca is a pigeon that inhabits areas in eastern Australia with its range being from Central Queensland to Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia....
  
  
• Yellow-winged Pytilia

Fish

• African knifefish
  African knifefish
  The common name African knifefish belongs to at least two fish species, including:*Gymnarchus niloticus, the only member of family Gymnarchidae*Xenomystus nigri, a member of family Notopteridae...
  
  
• African Lungfish
  Protopterus
  The African lungfishes are the genus Protopterus and constitute the four species of lungfish found in Africa. Protopterus is the sole genus in the family Protopteridae.-Description:...
  
  
• Apple Snail
  Ampullariidae
  Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum...
  
  
• Banded archerfish
  Banded archerfish
  The banded archerfish is a brackish water perciform fish of the archerfish genus Toxotes. It is silvery in colour and has a dorsal fin towards the posterior end. It has distinctive, semi-triangular markings along its sides. It is best known for its ability to spit a jet of water to "shoot down"...
  
  
• Bandit Catfish
  Bandit corydoras
  Bandit corydoras or bandit cory is a common name shared by two similar but distinct species of fish:*Corydoras metae, also known as the masked corydoras, bandit catfish, or Meta River corydoras....
  
  
• Bluegill
  Bluegill
  The Bluegill is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose. It is a member of the sunfish family Centrarchidae of the order Perciformes.-Range and distribution:...
  
  
• Clown knifefish
  Chitala chitala
  Chitala chitala or clown knifefish is a fish of the genus Chitala found in India and other countries in Southeast Asia. Main foods are smaller fishes and fish pellets . They have been introduced to some areas of the United States. As an aquarium fish, they are popular in the United States and...
  
  
• Congo tetra
  Congo tetra
  Described by Boulenger in 1899, the Congo Tetra is found in the upper Congo Basin in slightly acidic, murky waters similar to those that tetras from South America inhabit.- Aquarium Keeping :...
  
  
• Corydoras
  Corydoras
  Members of the South American Corydoras genus are freshwater temperate and tropical catfish in the armored catfish family , and are commonly referred to as corydorases, cories, or cory catfish.-Taxonomy:...
  
  
• Dwarf gourami
  Dwarf gourami
  The dwarf gourami, Trichogaster lalius , has an almost translucent blue color, with vertical red to dark orange stripes. In its native range it is dried for food, and it is also kept as an aquarium fish. It has become highly popular for aquaria.Dwarf gouramis from Singapore may carry dwarf gourami...
  
  
• Featherfin squeaker
  Featherfin squeaker
  The featherfin squeaker or Featherfin Synodontis is a species of Synodontis catfish. The fish's habitat is located in Chad, Niger. Also known simply as featherfin catfish. Featherfin squeakers are called such due to their ability to make noises to communicate with one another and also for their...
  
  
• Flying fox sharkminnow
  Flying fox (fish)
  The flying fox is a popular freshwater community-aquarium fish that belongs to the Cyprinidae family. It is known to eat green algae...
  
  
• Giant gourami
  Giant gourami
  The Giant Gourami is a gourami, a freshwater fish belonging to the sub-family Osphroneminae in the family Osphronemidae. Some other larger members of this family are also occasionally or regionally referred to as "giant gouramis", including the banded gourami, Trichogaster fasciatus, and the three...
  
  
• Glowlight tetra
  Hemigrammus erythrozonus
  Hemigrammus erythrozonus, also known as the glowlight tetra, is a small tropical fish found in the wild in the Essequibo River, Guyana, South America. It is silver in colour and a bright iridescent orange to red stripe extends from the snout to the base of its tail. The front part of the dorsal...
  
  
• Gold barb
  Gold Barb
  The Green Barb or Chinese Barb is a subtropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family . Its native habitat is the Red River basin in southeast China. This species was originally named Barbus semifasciolatus, and is also referred to as Capoeta semifasciolata, Barbus fasciolatus, and...
  
  
• Golden-breasted Starling
  Golden-breasted Starling
  The Golden-breasted Starling, Cosmopsarus regius also known as Royal Starling is a medium-sized, up to 35cm long, passerine in the starling family. The adult has a metallic green head and upperback, bright golden yellow breast and belly, dark bill and legs, white iris and metallic violet blue on...
  
  
• Green swordtail
  Green swordtail
  The green swordtail is a species of freshwater fish in family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes. A live-bearer, it is closely related to the southern platyfish or "platy" and can crossbreed with it...
  
  
• Green sunfish
  Green sunfish
  The green sunfish is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. A panfish popular with anglers, the green sunfish is also kept as an aquarium fish by hobbyists. They are usually caught by accident, while fishing for other game fish...
  
  
• Harlequin rasbora
  Harlequin rasbora
  The Harlequin Rasbora a small fish belonging to the Family Cyprinidae, subfamily Rasborinae, which was originally given the scientific name of Rasbora heteromorpha...
  
  
• Iridescent shark
  Iridescent shark
  The iridescent shark is a species of shark catfish native to the rivers of Southeast Asia. It is found in the Mekong basin as well as the Chao Phraya River, and is heavily cultivated for food there...
  
  
• Largemouth bass
  Largemouth bass
  The largemouth bass is a species of black bass in the sunfish family native to North America . It is also known as widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucketmouth, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, linesides, Oswego bass, southern largemouth...
  
  
• Leopard bush fish
  Leopard bush fish
  The Leopard bush fish , also known as Leopard bushfish, Spotted ctenopoma, Leopard ctenopoma, Spotted climbing perch, Spotted leaf fish, African leaf fish, Spotted cichlid or Spotted bushfish, is a freshwater fish...
  
  
• Longnose gar
  Longnose gar
  The longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus, is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar.- Description :...
  
  
• Mollies
  Poecilia
  Poecilia is a genus of euryhaline brackish water fish in family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes. The type species is P. vivipara. Live-bearers, the Poecilia species are collectively known as mollies, with the exception of Endler's livebearer and the famous guppy...
  
  
• Moonlight gourami
  Moonlight gourami
  Trichopodus microlepis , the moonlight gourami or moonbeam gourami, is a labyrinth fish of the family Osphronemidae. This peaceful, attractive species is a popular aquarium fish....
  
  
• Ornate Bichir
  Ornate Bichir
  The Ornate Bichir is a bony fish that lives in Lake Tanganyika and the Congo River basin in Central and East Africa.-Description:...
  
  
• Pacu
  Pacú
  Pacu or pacú is the common name of several South American fishes.PACU, Pacu or pacú may also refer to:*Piaractus mesopotamicus , a South American ray-finned fish that is endemic to the Paraguay-Paraná River basin*Tambaqui , known as black pacu, black-finned pacu, giant pacu*Philippine Association...
  
  
• Plecostomus
  Plecostomus
  Hypostomus plecostomus is the scientific name for a type of freshwater tropical Central and South American fish belonging to the family Loricariidae. They are large algae eaters, and to differentiate them from small algae eaters, they are often referred to as plecostomus, often abbreviated as...
  
  
• Red devil cichlid
  Amphilophus labiatus
  Amphilophus labiatus is a large cichlid fish endemic to Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua in Central America. In the aquarium trade A. labiatus is often sold under the trade name of red devil, a common name which they share with Amphilophus citrinellus.-Appearance:Colouration in wild specimens is...
  
  
• Red-bellied piranha
  Red-bellied piranha
  -Diet:Their diet consists largely of fish, insects, worms, crustaceans, and the occasional larger animal. In contrast to their reputation, they usually feed on dead, dying, and injured vertebrates in the wild, but have been known to attack healthy animals. The fish usually feed in large schools...
  
  
• Redtail catfish
  Redtail catfish
  The redtail catfish, Phractocephalus hemioliopterus, is a pimelodid catfish named for its red or orange caudal fin. In Venezuela it is known as cajaro and in Brazil and even in a few parts of Bay of Bengal it is known as pirarara. It is the only extant species of the genus Phractocephalus. This...
  
  
• Rosy barb
  Rosy barb
  The rosy barb is a subtropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family . It originates in Bengal, India and other parts of Southeast Asia.-Physical description:...
  
  
• Samoan White-eye
  Samoan White-eye
  The Samoan White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family.It is endemic to the island of Savai'i in Samoa....
  
  
• Silver arowana
  Silver arowana
  The silver arowana, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, sometimes spelled arawana, is a freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae, commonly kept in aquaria...
  
  
• Spotted Raphael catfish
  Agamyxis pectinifrons
  The spotted talking catfish or spotted raphael catfish is a species of catfish of the family Doradidae....
  
  
• Tinfoil barb
  Tinfoil barb
  The Tinfoil Barb is a tropical Southeast Asian freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae. This species was originally described as Barbus schwanenfeldii by Pieter Bleeker in 1853, and has also been placed in the genera Barbodes and Puntius...
  
  
• White Cloud Mountain minnow
  White Cloud Mountain minnow
  The White Cloud Mountain minnow is a hardy, species of freshwater fish and coldwater fish often kept in aquaria.These creatures are brilliant for children as they are very easy to look after. The species is a member of the carp family of order Cypriniformes, native to China...
  
  

Reptiles

• Puerto Rican Boa
  Puerto Rican Boa
  The Puerto Rican Boa is a slender, terrestrial, viviparous boa with a dark brown coloration. It grows up to be about six to nine feet long. It feeds on small mammals, birds and lizards. As a member of the rainbow boas , it belongs to the family of the true boas...
  
  

Amphibians

• Cuban tree frog
  Cuban tree frog
  Osteopilus septentrionalis, commonly known as the Cuban tree frog, is an amphibian native to the Caribbean region of the Western Hemisphere. It is the largest tree frog of North America...
  
  
• Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
  Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
  Dendrobates auratus, also known as the green and black poison dart frog or the green and black poison arrow frog, and sometimes mint poison frog , is a brightly-colored member of the order Anura native to Central America and north-western parts of South America...
  
  
• Smoky Jungle Frog
  Smoky Jungle Frog
  The Smokey Jungle Frog or Smoky Jungle Frog is a species frog in the Leptodactylidae family. Its local Spanish name is sapo-toro comun ....
  
  

North America

Big Bear Watering Hole

• Grizzly bear
  Grizzly Bear
  The grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
  
  
• American black bear
  American black bear
  The American black bear is a medium-sized bear native to North America. It is the continent's smallest and most common bear species. Black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying greatly depending on season and location. They typically live in largely forested areas, but do leave forests in...
  
  
• White-tailed deer
  White-tailed Deer
  The white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States , Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru...
  
  
• North American River otter

Featured Exhibits

• Nelson's Elk
  Elk
  The Elk is the large deer, also called Cervus canadensis or wapiti, of North America and eastern Asia.Elk may also refer to:Other antlered mammals:...
  
  
• North American Porcupine
  North American Porcupine
  The North American Porcupine , also known as Canadian Porcupine or Common Porcupine, is a large rodent in the New World porcupine family. The Beaver is the only rodent larger than the North American Porcupine found in North America...
  
  
• Bald Eagle
  Bald Eagle
  The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. It is the national bird and symbol of the United States of America. This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the White-tailed Eagle...
  
  
• Western Turkey vulture
  Turkey Vulture
  The Turkey Vulture is a bird found throughout most of the Americas. It is also known in some North American regions as the Turkey Buzzard , and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John Crow or Carrion Crow...
  
  
• Sandhill Crane
  Sandhill Crane
  The Sandhill Crane is a large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird references habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills in the American Midwest...
  
  
• Eastern Wild Turkey
  Wild Turkey
  The Wild Turkey is native to North America and is the heaviest member of the Galliformes. It is the same species as the domestic turkey, which derives from the South Mexican subspecies of wild turkey .Adult wild turkeys have long reddish-yellow to grayish-green...
  
  
• Trumpeter swan
  Trumpeter Swan
  The Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator, is the largest native North American bird, if measured in terms of weight and length, and is the largest living waterfowl species on earth. It is the North American counterpart of the European Whooper Swan.-Description:Males typically measure from and weigh...
  
  
• Mexican wolf
  Mexican Wolf
  The Mexican Wolf is a subspecies of the Gray Wolf. It is native to North America, where it is the rarest and most genetically distinct subspecies.- Physical features :...
  
  
• Pronghorn
  Pronghorn
  The pronghorn is a species of artiodactyl mammal endemic to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the prong buck, pronghorn antelope, or simply antelope, as it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and...
  
  
• Cougar
• Prairie bison
  American Bison
  The American bison , also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds...
  
  
• Black-tailed prairie dog
  Black-tailed Prairie Dog
  The black-tailed prairie dog , is a rodent of the family Sciuridae found in the Great Plains of North America from about the USA-Canada border to the USA-Mexico border. Unlike some other prairie dogs, these animals do not truly hibernate. The black-tailed prairie dog can be seen aboveground in...
  
  

Reptile Building

• Diamondback water snake
  Nerodia
  Nerodia is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as water snakes.- Description :Nerodia species vary greatly, but all are relatively heavy-bodied snakes, sometimes growing to 1.2 m or larger. They have flattened heads, with small eyes that have round pupils, and keeled...
  
  
• Great Plains Skink
  Great Plains Skink
  The Great Plains Skink is — together with the Broad-headed Skink — the largest skink of the genus Eumeces...
  
  
• Ornate box turtle
  Ornate box turtle
  The Ornate box turtle is one of only two terrestrial species of turtles native to the Great Plains of the United States. It is one of the two different subspecies of Terrapene ornata. It is the state reptile of Kansas...
  
  
• Osage Copperhead
  Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster
  Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster is a venomous pitviper subspecies found in the central region of the United States.-Description:Gloyd and Conant gives maximum total lengths of 990/723 mm for males/females, while mentioning that other sources give a maximum total length for this subspecies of...
  
  
• Prairie rattlesnake
  Prairie rattlesnake
  Prairie rattlesnake may refer to:* Crotalus viridis, a.k.a. the plains rattlesnake, a venomous pitviper species native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico....
  
  
• Red-sided Garter Snake
  Garter snake
  The Garter snake is a Colubrid snake genus common across North America, ranging from Alaska and Canada to Central America. It is the single most widely distributed genus of reptile in North America. The garter snake is also the Massachusettsstate reptile.There is no real consensus on the...
  
  
• Yellow mud turtle
  Yellow mud turtle
  The yellow mud turtle is a species of mud turtle that can be found in the Central United States.- Description :...
  
  
• Reticulated Gila monster
  Gila monster
  The Gila monster is a species of venomous lizard native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexican state of Sonora...
  
  
• Western massasauga
  Sistrurus catenatus
  Sistrurus catenatus is a venomous pitviper species found primarily in the United States. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.-Description:...
  
  
• Timber rattlesnake
  Crotalus horridus
  Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake, is a species of venomous pitviper found in the eastern United States. This is the only rattlesnake species in most of the populous northeastern United States. No subspecies are currently recognized....
  
  

Facilities

Tram tours are free and go throughout the zoo. Boat tours through the Africa and America sections are available for a fee.

The future

The zoo is currently planning a new zoo entrance and a new elephant management complex for the future, as well as some new additions to the Amphibians and Reptiles building.

Incidents

• On May 6, 2011, a first-grade student on a class field trip climbed over a four-foot fence then crossed the eight-foot gap of the Amur leopard
  Amur Leopard
  The Amur leopard , also known as the Far Eastern leopard, Korean leopard, and Manchurian leopard is one of nine recognised subspecies of leopard. It is a wild feline predator native to the mountainous areas of the Russian Far East. It used to inhabit the forests of Korea and China, but it has...
  
  exhibit. The boy was attacked. He suffered lacerations and puncture wounds to his head and neck before a bystander kicked the leopard in the head. The injuries were not considered life threatening and the zoo does not plan to euthanize the endangered animal.