Topeka Zoo Topeka Zoo Species List

[DesertTortoise]

Topeka Zoo species list 2022

Date of visit: August 13, 2022

Notes

• No-shows are in italics.

• The discovery building was closed during my visit.

• There was no signage for any of the free-roaming animals in the tropical rainforest building. I only noted the species that I saw.

Exhibits

Liana’s forest

• Bornean orangutan
• Malayan sun bear

Africa

• Patas monkey, kirk’s dik-dik, and domestic guineafowl
• Lion
• African painted dog
• Asian elephant and African bush elephant
• Hippopotamus
• Reticulated giraffe and East African crowned crane

Tigers

• Sumatran tiger
• Sumatran tiger

Animals and man building

• Hippopotamus
• Asian elephant and African bush elephant
• Reticulated giraffe
• Cape porcupine
• Black-and-white ruffed lemur

Insect zoo

• Brazilian black tarantula
• Mexican red-knee tarantula
• Zebra-legged tarantula
• Blue death-feigning beetle
• Peppered cockroach
• African giant millipede
• Asian forest scorpion
• Two-spotted assassin bug
• Unspecified tailless whip scorpion
• Salmon pink birdeater tarantula
• Two-striped walking stick
• Ecuadorian olive-gray tarantula
• Sabah walking stick
• Malayan jungle nymph
• Madagascar hissing cockroach
• Vietnamese walking stick
• Unspecified scorpion

Tropical Rainforest

• Golden lion tamarin
• Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle
• Cuvier’s dwarf caiman
• Greater Malayan chevrotain
• Greater Malayan chevrotain (Exhibit was signed for three-banded armadillo)
• Red-footed tortoise

Free-roaming

• Hoffman’s two-toed sloth, Indian flying fox, violet turaco, hamerkop, blue-gray tanager, taveta golden weaver, red-capped cardinal, roseate spoonbill, blue-throated piping guan, Amazonian mot-mot, Venezuelan troupial, Bali myna, Temminck’s tragopan, white-cheeked pintail, ringed teal, and hybrid whistling duck

Children’s zoo

• Domestic goat

North America

• Trumpeter swan
• Eurasian eagle-owl
• Pronghorn and wild turkey
• Golden eagle
• American black bear
• North American river otter
• Cougar

Butterflies

• Black swallowtail, painted lady, gulf fritillary, monarch, red admiral, cabbage white, mourning cloak, and unsigned white-lined sphinx

Kay’s garden

• Koi

Miscellaneous exhibits

• Virginia opossum
• Striped skunk
• American crow
• Red-tailed hawk
• Eastern screech owl
• African spurred tortoise

 

[cubsmaster]

Once again thanks for this, will be visiting in a few weeks. Looking forward to seeing the golden eagle.

 

[steveroberts]

@DesertTortoise It sounds like Topeka Zoo currently doesn't have Ostriches anymore

Thanks so much for the list, am new to the US forum

 

[RandomZooVisitorYT]

@DesertTortoise It sounds like Topeka Zoo currently doesn't have Ostriches anymore

Thanks so much for the list, am new to the US forum

They have ostriches out now as well as thompsons gazelle and bontebok that are working on intros