Milwaukee Public Museum Survival of the Slowest Full Species List

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Milwaukee Public Museum is currently running a temporary exhibit called "Survival of the Slowest" that features live animals. It is at the museum from February 11-May 19, 2023. The exhibit is focused on animals that move slowly.

1. Common Boa
2. Green Iguana, Red-footed Tortoise
3. Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth
4. Central Bearded Dragon
5. Ball Python
6. Common Box Turtle
7. Madagascar Giant Hognose Snake
8. Pine Snake
9. African Pygmy Hedgehog
10. Gray Ratsnake
11. Chaco Golden-knee Tarantula (Grammostola pulchripes)
12. Russian Tortoise
13. Common Leopard Gecko
14. African Spurred Tortoise
15. unidentified horned frog
16. Green Basilisk
17. Giant Madagascar Day Gecko
 
Also, basilisk - a species with the claim to fame of literally running across the surface of the water - as a slowpoke?
 
Aardwolf said:
Also, basilisk - a species with the claim to fame of literally running across the surface of the water - as a slowpoke?
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That was my thought too! Also hedgehogs are not slow.

It seems like they just had access to a bunch of easily-obtainable and easily-housed animals and built the idea around them, rather than having the idea and obtaining animals to fit.
 
Chlidonias said:
That was my thought too! Also hedgehogs are not slow.

It seems like they just had access to a bunch of easily-obtainable and easily-housed animals and built the idea around them, rather than having the idea and obtaining animals to fit.
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I suspected this too - the marketing for the exhibit pretty much only features the sloth. They probably that idea around that one species, and I guess the tortoises.
 
This seems to be a traveling exhibit, as I've come across the same exhibit multiple times when doing my Anteaters, Armadillos, and Sloths list.
 
Smaggledagle said:
This seems to be a traveling exhibit, as I've come across the same exhibit multiple times when doing my Anteaters, Armadillos, and Sloths list.
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Because it is. The exhibit is run by Little Ray’s Nature Centre from Canada. I visited this exhibit was at the Florida Museum at Gainesville back at 2021. They might be switching some species as they go to other locations but I did not take notes of the species back then so my memory might be failing me.

@birdsandbats is this how the enclosures looked like by any chance?

Hafrican Pygmy Hedgehog - ZooChat
Two-toed sloth enclosure - ZooChat
 
PossumRoach said:
Because it is. The exhibit is run by Little Ray’s Nature Centre from Canada. I visited this exhibit was at the Florida Museum at Gainesville back at 2021. They might be switching some species as they go to other locations but I did not take notes of the species back then so my memory might be failing me.

@birdsandbats is this how the enclosures looked like by any chance?

Hafrican Pygmy Hedgehog - ZooChat
Two-toed sloth enclosure - ZooChat
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The hedgehog exhibit looked very similar, just with a second hide in addition to what is seen in that photo.

The sloth exhibit was completely different though.
 
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