Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park Formerly kept Species Zoo Tampa/Lowry Park Zoo

Good to know she's still hanging in there! I saw her in May, but I couldn't check ZIMS right now to confirm if she was still kicking.
 
Updated list based off of great contributions from other ZC members.

Asian Domain/Gardens:
Asian Elephant
Sloth Bear
Sumatran Tiger
White Tiger
Arabian Oryx
Przewalski's Horse
Bearded pig
Bactrian camel
Persian leopard
Tufted Deer
Warty pig

Primate World:
Chimpanzee
Wooly Monkey
Black howler monkey
Silvered Langur

Wallaroo Station:
New Guinea Singing dogs

Australian Outback: (closed section, was only accessible via horse drawn cart)
Red kangaroo
Grey kangaroo
Various Australian birds in an aviary

Safari Africa:
Warthog
Grevy's zebra
Cheetah
Great white pelican
various African wading birds (demolished aviary)
Dromedary camel
Meerkat (they may be off exhibit, but their habitat is being used for porcupine now)
Royal antelope
Gerenuk
Bontebok
Common eland
Scimitar Oryx
Common duiker
Thomson's gazelle
Striped Hyena

Florida/Wild Florida:
White alligator
Philippine crocodile
White-tailed deer
Key deer
American plains bison
American Turkey
American crocodile
Goliath grouper
Tarpon
various fish and small reptiles
Brown Pelican
Common cormorant
Cownose Stingray (all gone, but will be back)
Southern Stingray (all gone, but will be back)
Yellow stingray

Discovery Center: (kids touch building now used for storage)
Various small reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates

Main Aviary:
Honestly, this section has turn over and no real "main" bird being focused on. The Greater hornbills are not on exhibit normally, but they are still at the zoo.

Other:
Naked mole rats (I have been told they may still be at the zoo, but they are not on display)
Red Panda (temp loan)
Tasmanian Devil (temp loan)
Sarus crane
Orinoco Crocodile
Patagonia Sea Lion (temp loan 2014)

Old Lowry Park Zoo (before the major remodel):
Lion (unknown)
Sea Lion
Penguin (unknown)
Jaguar (one reference I found)
Monkey (unknown species)
 
Piggybacking on a request in another ZT thread, here are the changes in Safari Africa that I know of, but there are probably more. I will review it habitat by habitat as if one were walking through it.

Current Safari Africa vs original Safari Africa:
Expedition Wild Africa (Jeep ride): Skyride with side habitat for duiker and hornbill
African porcupine: Meerkat
Aldabra tortoise: warthog
Nyala/Hornbill: Bongo, lesser kudu, duiker, crowned crane, ground hornbill
Marabou Stork: gerenuk
Masai Giraffe/Mountain Zebra: Giraffe and grants zebra
Side Aviaries: Greater bushbaby
African Elephant/lechwe/impala: African Elephant, impala, Thompson's gazelle
White Rhino: white rhino, grevy's zebra
Shoebill stork: Shoebill stork (albeit the original habitat was removed and the were BTS for a few years), African spoonbill, Saddle-billed stork
Painted Dogs: Cheetah and striped hyena
Okapi: okapi and marabou stork, duiker
Pygmy Hippo: Pygmy hippo
Red River Hog: Red River hog

Habitats completely removed and not replaced:
Secretary Bird
Camel safari
Large wading bird aviary with greater African flamingo, great white pelican, yellow billed stork, ring tailed lemur, shoebill stork, and other wading birds.

Animals removed that I am not quite sure where they were:
Bontebok
Common eland
Scimitar Oryx
Royal antelope

Additions:
Side aviaries between the plaza and Ituri Forest area (which is a name they pretty much dropped)
Various animals on Expedition Africa ride: bongo, kudu, crowned crane, patas monkey, etc.
 
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Based on what is listed from a 1988 map of the zoo. I just thought it would be nice to help further add on to the thread’s already impressive list with the following animals that are listed below. Although I do not exactly know when each of these animals were removed from the collection; it’s possible that at least, some of them may have been quickly removed, not too long after the zoo’s initial reopening:

Asian Domain/Gardens:
Gaur
“Persian Gazelle” - (Goitered)

Primate World:
Red Ruffed Lemur
Lion-Tailed Macaque
Spider Monkey - (unknown species)

Other:
Chilean Flamingo - (which according to the map, were kept in the small pond area right of the main entrance)
 
Austin the Sengi said:
Based on what is listed from a 1988 map of the zoo. I just thought it would be nice to help further add on to the thread’s already impressive list with the following animals that are listed below. Although I do not exactly know when each of these animals were removed from the collection; it’s possible that at least, some of them may have been quickly removed, not too long after the zoo’s initial reopening:

Asian Domain/Gardens:
Gaur
“Persian Gazelle” - (Goitered)

Primate World:
Red Ruffed Lemur
Lion-Tailed Macaque
Spider Monkey - (unknown species)

Other:
Chilean Flamingo - (which according to the map, were kept in the small pond area right of the main entrance)
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Great additions! I remember those flamingo, they are where the macaw are now. They had red ruffed lemur at least until 2004 or so, probably longer, they were still there when I was a volunteer in primates. I vaguely remember lion tailed macaque and spider monkey, but those were before (or after) my time. Guar and Goitered gazelle I have no memory of, can you let me know where they were? My guess would be guar where the rhino are and gazelle where the Sulawesi aviary or lory aviary are.
 
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Guar and Goitered gazelle I have no memory of, can you let me know where they were? My guess would be guar where the rhino are and gazelle where the Sulawesi aviary or lory aviary are.
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Well SwampDonkey, according to what is shown on the map; both the gaur and the Sarus cranes were indeed kept in the same area where the Indian rhinos are now. In addition, the map also shows that the Persian gazelles were located in the area where the Lorikeet aviary is today. The same also goes with the Arabian oryx, which may or may not have been mixed with the gazelles during that time. For bonus information; the map also highlights that there was once a camel ride area somewhere in the current anoa yard, which of course would’ve had the Bactrian Camels from the exhibit next door, (in the area where the Sulawesi aviary is now).
 
Austin the Sengi said:
Well SwampDonkey, according to what is shown on the map; both the gaur and the Sarus cranes were indeed kept in the same area where the Indian rhinos are now. In addition, the map also shows that the Persian gazelles were located in the area where the Lorikeet aviary is today. The same also goes with the Arabian oryx, which may or may not have been mixed with the gazelles during that time. For bonus information; the map also highlights that there was once a camel ride area somewhere in the current anoa yard, which of course would’ve had the Bactrian Camels from the exhibit next door, (in the area where the Sulawesi aviary is now).
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Awesome info, thanks! To add some detail to that:
both the gaur and the Sarus cranes were indeed kept in the same area where the Indian rhinos are now.
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That makes sense, once the rhino came the cranes were moved to a yard beside the old petting zoo, approximately where the tiger rollercoaster is now. When the old petting zoo was demolished they also offloaded the cranes.
The same also goes with the Arabian oryx, which may or may not have been mixed with the gazelles during that time.
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Interesting, now that could make sense. The oryx were about where the Sulawesi aviary is now, but they may not have been there back in 1988, I am not sure.
For bonus information; the map also highlights that there was once a camel ride area somewhere in the current anoa yard, which of course would’ve had the Bactrian Camels from the exhibit next door, (in the area where the Sulawesi aviary is now)
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Now that is going back! Eventually when the elephants left the camel ride moved to where the babirusa are now as the elephant ride was in that space. The space was used for reeve's muntjac, among other animals over time. They later had a dromedary camel ride in Africa, but that was removed when the large water bird marsh aviary was demolished.
 
Add Hartman's Mountain Zebra to the list. They are no longer signed and have not been seen at the zoo for months.
 
RE the Orinoco Crocodiles:
I just saw on Kamp Kenan's Youtube/Facebook that a man named Kyle Asplundh of the company/sanctuary JAWS Florida received 4 female Orinoco crocodiles from ZooTampa about a month ago (from filming the video anyway). Interesting that the zoo had been holding them for so long. Does anyone know when they went off exhibit and remember where they were?
 
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RE the Orinoco Crocodiles:
I just saw on Kamp Kenan's Youtube/Facebook that a man named Kyle Asplundh of the company/sanctuary JAWS Florida received 4 female Orinoco crocodiles from ZooTampa about a month ago (from filming the video anyway). Interesting that the zoo had been holding them for so long. Does anyone know when they went off exhibit and remember where they were?
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That video is old, Kamp Kenan and Kyle have not been on speaking terms for years. You can tell its an old video from the fact the Orinoco Crocodiles are at Kyle's old facility and not the new one they have been at for over a year.
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
That video is old, Kamp Kenan and Kyle have not been on speaking terms for years. You can tell its an old video from the fact the Orinoco Crocodiles are at Kyle's old facility and not the new one they have been at for over a year.
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Thanks for the tips, I honestly had not heard of Kyle before so I was not aware of any history. I only started "following" Kamp Kenan a month or so ago. Odd that he would just post the video now, I guess it was just content he had been saving.
 
SwampDonkey said:
Thanks for the tips, I honestly had not heard of Kyle before so I was not aware of any history. I only started "following" Kamp Kenan a month or so ago. Odd that he would just post the video now, I guess it was just content he had been saving.
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This is typical Kamp Kenan, usually the facebook videos are clips from old youtube videos, to this day neither he nor Kyle have directly stated why they don't talk to each other anymore, Kyle has his own youtube channel called Primitive Predators and he features the Orinoco Crocodiles there is some videos.
 
Confirmed that all the Cuban Amazon parrots are gone as they have been returned to the breeder that contracted them to the zoo. Also Red-browed Amazon, but I am not sure if they were part of the contract, but I would assume so as they are also gone now as of the same time.
 
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