This Thursday I travelled off to Amsterdam to visit Artis agian, as it had been a little while...
Multiple terrariums in the reptile house were under construction. Some were as good as finished, some were just being emptied out. As OwenSluis mentioned, a lot of them has signs saying new inhabitants will be here in Spring 2025. So here's a new species list:
KZ2: Red-eyed tree frog
KZ3: Golfodulcean poison dart frog and Regina's poison dart frog (subspecies of Dyeing dart frog)
KZ4 Blue poison dart frog
KZ5 (coming soon) Kaiser's spotted newt
KZ6 (coming soon) Vietnamese crocodile newt
KZ7 Egyptian tortoise and Zoutpansberg girldled lizard
KZ8 Rio Fuerte beaded lizard and Guatamalan spiny-tailed iguana
GZ1: Green keel-bellied lizard
GZ2: Radiated tortoise and Common chuckwalla
GZ3 Radiated tortoise and Rhinoceros iguana
GZ4: Fiji banded iguana
GZ5, GZ6: "new inhabitants Spring 2025"
GZ7: Philippine sailfin lizard, McCord's snake-necked turtle and Chinese three-striped box turtle
GZ8: Royal python
GZ9: "new inhabitants Spring 2025"
GZ10: Fiji banded iguana
GZ11: "new inhabitants Spring 2025"
GZ12-1: Cape speckled tortoise
GZ13: Green tree python
GZ14: False gharial and Tricolour sharkminnow (I've still never seen the Red-eared bulbul)
GZ15: North African mastigure, Schneider's skink and Pancake tortoise
Other news:
The insectarium was almost completely closed for renovations
The old lion enclosure still isn't accessible to the Lemurs, I really thought they'd be able to get here by now. There was some construction going on, so they might be able to go there soon.
Speaking of lion enclosures: I thought the new lion enclosure looked very good, although it is a shame that you can't see the top of the enclosure, since that's where the lions hung around all day.
The Metzelaar's greenhouse didn't have any signage, which was a bit of a shame...
There was some major construction going on between the Pheasantry and the jaguar enclosures.
In the small mammal house, I thought the new European pond turtle and Glass lizard enclosure looked very good, although I was missing some European fish species. Some Bitterlings, Rudds or Tenches would really complete this enclosure.
Also in the small mammal house, I noticed that quite a few species have multiple enclosures. The Grey-handed night monkeys, Garden dormice and the Javan chevrotains all have three enclosures to themselves. In my opinion, they could easily have a small primate in with the chevrotains, and a ground-dwelling species in the Night monkey habitat, same goes for the Ring-tailed lemur enclosure. Something like armadillos would fit here perfectly.
Finally, I barely saw any animals in the Polder aviary. In general, we were very lucky with seeing animals, as we managed to see almost all of them. But in the Polder aviary we only managed to find the Eurasian spoonbills. Now, I love spoonbills, but it was odd to not see any of the other inhabitants of the giant aviary (which is supposed to also include Stock doves, Avocets, Geese and Plovers...)
Multiple terrariums in the reptile house were under construction. Some were as good as finished, some were just being emptied out. As OwenSluis mentioned, a lot of them has signs saying new inhabitants will be here in Spring 2025. So here's a new species list:
KZ2: Red-eyed tree frog
KZ3: Golfodulcean poison dart frog and Regina's poison dart frog (subspecies of Dyeing dart frog)
KZ4 Blue poison dart frog
KZ5 (coming soon) Kaiser's spotted newt
KZ6 (coming soon) Vietnamese crocodile newt
KZ7 Egyptian tortoise and Zoutpansberg girldled lizard
KZ8 Rio Fuerte beaded lizard and Guatamalan spiny-tailed iguana
GZ1: Green keel-bellied lizard
GZ2: Radiated tortoise and Common chuckwalla
GZ3 Radiated tortoise and Rhinoceros iguana
GZ4: Fiji banded iguana
GZ5, GZ6: "new inhabitants Spring 2025"
GZ7: Philippine sailfin lizard, McCord's snake-necked turtle and Chinese three-striped box turtle
GZ8: Royal python
GZ9: "new inhabitants Spring 2025"
GZ10: Fiji banded iguana
GZ11: "new inhabitants Spring 2025"
GZ12-1: Cape speckled tortoise
GZ13: Green tree python
GZ14: False gharial and Tricolour sharkminnow (I've still never seen the Red-eared bulbul)
GZ15: North African mastigure, Schneider's skink and Pancake tortoise
Other news:
The insectarium was almost completely closed for renovations
The old lion enclosure still isn't accessible to the Lemurs, I really thought they'd be able to get here by now. There was some construction going on, so they might be able to go there soon.
Speaking of lion enclosures: I thought the new lion enclosure looked very good, although it is a shame that you can't see the top of the enclosure, since that's where the lions hung around all day.
The Metzelaar's greenhouse didn't have any signage, which was a bit of a shame...
There was some major construction going on between the Pheasantry and the jaguar enclosures.
In the small mammal house, I thought the new European pond turtle and Glass lizard enclosure looked very good, although I was missing some European fish species. Some Bitterlings, Rudds or Tenches would really complete this enclosure.
Also in the small mammal house, I noticed that quite a few species have multiple enclosures. The Grey-handed night monkeys, Garden dormice and the Javan chevrotains all have three enclosures to themselves. In my opinion, they could easily have a small primate in with the chevrotains, and a ground-dwelling species in the Night monkey habitat, same goes for the Ring-tailed lemur enclosure. Something like armadillos would fit here perfectly.
Finally, I barely saw any animals in the Polder aviary. In general, we were very lucky with seeing animals, as we managed to see almost all of them. But in the Polder aviary we only managed to find the Eurasian spoonbills. Now, I love spoonbills, but it was odd to not see any of the other inhabitants of the giant aviary (which is supposed to also include Stock doves, Avocets, Geese and Plovers...)
