If I Had My Own Zoo

[ZooMania]

When i was bored i made a list of animals id keep if i had my own zoo. and here is the result.

Okapi
Giraffe
Bongo
Red River Hog
Black Rhino
Sulawesi Crested Macaque
Malayan Tapir
Golden Lion Tamarin
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Hyacinth Macaws
Red Panda
Pied Tamarin
Blue Throated Macaw
Golden Conure
Capybara
Clouded Leopard
Lar Gibbon
Great Indian Hornbill
Indian Rhino
Congo Peafowl
Babirusa
African Wild Dog
Red Breasted Gesse
Red Crowned Crane
Lion Tailed Macaque
Ring Tailed Lemur
Red Ruffed Lemr
Black And White Ruffed Lemur
Bali Starling
Scimitar Horned Oryx
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Scarlet Ibis
Komodo Dragon
Black Lion Tamarin
Geoffreys Marmoset
Red Bird Of Paradise
Sumatran Orangutan
Bornean Orangutan
Mandrill
Carriibean Flamingo
Spectacled Bear
St Lucia Amazon Parrot
Addax
Philippine Spotted Deer
Pink Pigeon
Blue Crane
Visayan Warty Pigs
Congo Buffalo
Javanesse Green Peafowl
Elongated Tortoise
Coati
Javan Langue
Chilean Flamingo
Asian Elephant
Grevys Zebra
Aloatran Gentle Lemur
White Stork
Tuatara
Golden Pheasant
Bactrian Camel
Red Tailed Amazon Parrot
Superb Spero Starling
Southern Cassowarry
Pere David Deer
Brazilian Tapir
Snow Leopard
Palawan Peacock Pheasant
Crocodile Monitor
Przwalskis Wild Horse
Red Vented Cockatoo
Blue Poison Arrow Frog
Mauritius Kestrel
Derbyan Parakeet
Azure Winged Magpie
Reticulated Python
Great Argus Pheasant
West African Crowned Crane
Golden Headed Lion Tamarin
Meerkat
Golden Cheeked Gibbon
Belangers Tree Shrew
Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove
Cotton Topped Tamarin
Buffy Headed Capuchin
Pygmy Hippo
RoulRoul Partridge
Lowland Anoas
Spectacled Owl
Persian Onager
Writhed Hornbill
Wrinkled Hornbill
Azaras Agouti
Snowy Owl
Rodriuges Fruit Bat
Red Crested Turaco
Great Blue Turaco
Kafue Flats Red Lechwe
Arabian Oryx
Red Tailed Racer
Siberian Tiger
Diana Monkey
Lilac Breasted Roller
Rhinoceros Iguana
East African Green Mamba
Jamaican Boa
Blue Bellied Roller
Demoiselle Crane
Blue Throated Conure
Golden Capped Conure
Madagascan Tree Boa
Griffon Vulture
European Black Vulture
Warthog
Green Tree Python
Mindano Bleeding Heart Dove
Red Footed Tortoise
Green Cheeked Amazon Parrot
Ecuadorian Amazon Parrot
Nicobar Pigeon
Humboldts Pengin
Snouted Cobra
Red Billed Currasow
Sloth Bear
Lowland Gorilla
Aye-Aye
Kea
Yellow Backed Chattering Lorry
White Faced Scoops Owl
Great Grey Owl
Green and Black Poison Arrow Frog
Bintorung
Asian Small Clawed Otter
Palm Cockatoos
Gabon Viper
Gaur
Laughing Kookaburra
Burmese Brow Antlered Deer
Blue Winged Kookaburra
Eurasian Spoonbill
Green Tree Monitor
Dama Gazelle
Sitatunga
Mandarin Duck
Madagascan Teal
Red Crested Pochard
Indian Sarus Crane
Prevost Squirrel
Fishcers Turaco
Schalows Turaco
Livigstone Fruit Bat
Red Fronted Macaw
Mangrove Monitor
Golden Poison Arrow Frog
Spiny Turtle
Radiated Tortoise
Tawny Frogmouth
Banteng
Mount Apo Lorikeet
Papuan Lorikeet
Soccoro Dove
Visayan Tarictic Hornbill
Beaded Lizard
Gila Monster
White Eared Pheasant
Salvadoris Pheasant
Malayan Crestless Fireback Pheasant
Silvery Marmoset
Dhole
Red And Blue Lorry
Timor Sparrow

 

[NZ Jeremy]

As an NZer glad to see Tautara and Kea make your list, but no Kiwi..?

Not many Amphibians on that list...

 

[Al]

Cool list, some great species!Im afraid i wasnt bored when i wrote mine! those highlighted in red are species im particularly interested in!


Lowland Gorilla
Spot-nosed guenon

Mandrill
Drill
Golden-bellied mangabey
Colobus
Gelada

Coqueral’s sifaka
Belted ruffed lemur
Ring-tailed lemur
Sclater’s black lemur
White-fronted lemur
Red-bellied lemur
Crowned lemur
Mongoose lemur
Broad nosed bamboo lemur
Western gentle lemur

Aye-aye
Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
Lesser mouse lemur


White tiger
African lion
Cheetah
Clouded leopard
Marbled cat
Rusty spotted cat
Amur leopard cat
Temminck’s golden cat
Black-footed cat
Oncilla

Maned wolf
Bat-eared fox
Fennec fox
Artic fox
Aardwolf

Walrus

Giant otter
Short-clawed otter
Red-shanked douc langur
Golden-cheeked gibbon
Stump-tailed macaque

Pygmy slow loris
Lesser tree shrew
Phillippine tarsier
Senegal galago
Potto

Buffy-headed capuchin
Black howler monkey
Woolly monkey
Red uakari
Squirrel monkey
Black saki
Red titi monkey
Bolivian grey titi
Collared titi
Dourocoulli
White-handed tamarin
Emperor tamarin
White-bellied pygmy marmoset


Giant panda
Red panda

Meerkat
Ring-tailed mongoose
Narrow-striped mongoose

Binturong
Masked palm civet
Owston’s palm civet
Sri Lankan golden palm civet
Otter civet

Yellow-throated martin
Siberian weasel
Marbled polecat
Kinkajou
White-nosed coati
Striped skunk


Indian rhino

Malayan tapir
Baird’s tapir
Lowland tapir
Mountain tapir

Asian elephant
Manatee
Aardvark
Rock hyrax
Common hippo
Pygmy hippo
Red-river hog
Warthog
Visayan warty hog


Capybara
Pacarana
Paca
St. Vincent’s agouti
Acouchi
Prehensile-tailed porcupine
North American tree porcupine
Siberian chipmunk
Red squirrel
Prevost’s squirrel
Cloud rat
Crested rat
Desmarest hutia
Naked mole rat
Gambian mole rat
Ground squirrel
Giant flying squirrel
Striped grass mice
Madagascan jumping rat
Plains viscacha

Echidna
Giant anteater
Tamandua
Silky anteater
Fairy armadillo
Hairy armadillo
Hoffman’s two-toed sloth
Rothschild’s giraffe
Common zebra
Lesser kudu
Bontebok
Springbok

Gerenuk
Beira
Dik-dik
Okapi
Eastern bongo
Yellow-backed duiker
Zebra-backed duiker
Jentick’s duiker
Golden takin
Central Chinese goral
Greater mouse deer
Lesser mouse deer


Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo
Red kangaroo
Yellow-footed rock wallaby
Bridled nail-tailed wallaby
Quokka
Hairy-nosed wombat
Koala
Yellow-bellied glider
Feather-tailed glider
Musky rat kangaroo
Spotted cus-cus
Long-nosed potoroo
Tasmanian devil
Spotted quoll

Livingstone’s fruit bat
Rodrigues fruit bat
Straw coloured fruit bat
Tear-drop fruit bat
Seba fruit bat
Tent bats

Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Giant elephant shrew


Darwin’s rhea
Cassowary
Ostrich
Emu
Kiwi
East African crowned crane
Wattled crane
Paradise crane
White-napped crane

Saddle-billed stork
Storm’s stork
Lesser flamingo

Hyacinth macaw
Sun conure
Leadbeater’s cockatoo
Glossy black cocatoo
Masked lovebird
Grey headed lovebird
Double-eyed fig parrot
Blue-crowned hanging parrot
Rainbow lorikeet
Dusky lorikeet
Fijian collared lorie
Horned parakeet

Blue-crowned pigeon
Nicobar pigeon
Green-naped pheasant pigeon
Mindanao bleeding heart dove
Fruit pigeon

Temminck’s tragopan
Cabot’s tragopan
Indian peafowl
Helmeted guinea fowl
Congo peafowl
Edward’s pheasant
Golden pheasant
Palawan peacock pheasant
Chinese monal
White-bellied bustard

King vulture
Striated caracara
Secretary bird
Harpy eagle
White-faced scops owl
Philippine fish owl
Great grey owl
Pygmy owl
Burrowing owl

Kookaburra
Micronesian kingfisher
Guirra cuckoo

Kagu
Black-necked swan
Black swan
Egyptian goose
Andean goose
Red-breasted goose
Emperor goose
African pygmy goose
Green pygmy geese
Indian pygmy geese
White-winged wood duck
Rajah shelduck
Australian shelduck
S.African shelduck
Mandarin duck
Hartlaub’s duck
Baikal teal
Ringed teal
Madagascan teal
Hottentot teal
Chiloe wigeon
Rosybill
King eider
Smew
Long-tailed duck

White-faced whistling duck
Red-billed whistling duck
Steamer duck
Barrow’s golden eye
Harlequin duck

Hammerkop
Night heron
Madagascan crested ibis
Southern bald ibis
Scarlet ibis

Pink pelican
Australian pelican
Brown pelican

Fairy blue penguin

Yellow-throated laughing thrush
Bali starling
White-crested turaco
Great blue turaco

Eygptian plover

Ground hornbill
Sulawesi hornbill
Von der decken’s hornbill
African long-tailed hornbill
Visayan wrinkled hornbill
Toco toucan
Keel-billed toucan

Southern screamer
Grey winged trumpeter

Carmine bee-eater
Jacana
Sun bittern
Roul-roul

Hummingbird
Hooded pitta


Phillipine crocodile
Chinese alligator
Dwarf caiman
Tuatara

Aldabra giant tortoise
Red-footed tortoise
Matamata
Madagascan day gecko
Klemaeri day gecko
New Caledonian giant gecko

Fijian banded iguana
Rhinoceros iguana
Green iguana
Panther chameleon
Prehensile tailed skink
Fernando po fire skink
New Guinea blue-tongued skink
Gila monster
Emerald green tree monitor

Green anaconda
Gaboon viper
Eyelash viper

Mandarin newt
Oriental ire-bellied newt
Cane toad

Blue poison dart frog
Golden poison dart frog
Strawberry dart frog
Golden mantilla
Tomato frog
Rainbow burrowing frog
Marbled burrowing frog
Japanese giant newt
Argentine horned frog
Vietnamese mossy frog
Bird dropping frog
Lemon tree frog

 

[kiang]

Those in red Al are these animals you would like to see at Belfast or Belfast are interested in getting? Excluding those that are there already.

 

[PAT]

I would have more but my favorites are-
Okapi
Clouded Leopard
Malayan Tapir(Especially)
Pygmy Hippo
Dwarf Crocadile
Giant Otter (Especially)
Maned Wolf(Especially
Galopagas tortoise
Mandarine Ducks
Racoon
And I don't know if it would be viable but Amazon River Dolphin

 

[NZ Jeremy]

And I don't know if it would be viable but Amazon River Dolphin

I don't think it is... Not sure why myself... I'm pretty sure there is only one in captivity at Duisberg Zoo...

 

[^Chris^]

I don't think it is... Not sure why myself... I'm pretty sure there is only one in captivity at Duisberg Zoo...

One in Duisburg and 5 somewhere in South America (perhaps a columbian zoo?). I agree it'd be unlikely, but we can always dream.

 

[Xerxes]

Maybe a good idea to add to this thread what kind of exhibits, features, enclosures ,attractions etc. you would love to have in your own zoo ?

@ chris : I thought it was Venezuela, actually.
Boto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia there is stated which zoo it is.

 

[NZ Jeremy]

Maybe a good idea to add to this thread what kind of exhibits, features, enclosures ,attractions etc. you would love to have in your own zoo ?

Being from NZ I'd like to see a zoo specialising in NZ and Asian species in one of our smaller centres with animals or batchelor group from ARAZPA SSP's...

@ chris : I thought it was Venezuela, actually.

I stand corrected, also at:

Acuario de Valencia...

 

[Writhedhornbill]

I'd love to make a zoo specialising in Asian animals.

Loads of Pheasants, Hornbills, BoP, Storks, Lories and lorikeets and Pittas!

Here's a short list (I'm at school, so I've got to remember as much as possible!):

Chinese Monal
Sclater's monal
Bulwer's pheasant
Swinoe's pheasant
Siamese fireback
Crestless fireback
Crested argus
Argus
All the polyplectron species (palawan,Grey, Bronze tailed, Mountain Germain's, Malayan and Bornean.)
Roul Roul

Rufous hornbill
Writhed hornbill
Great hornbill
Wreathed hornbil
Sulawesi wrinkled hornbill
Wrinkled hornbill
Sumba Hornbill
Narcondam hornbill
Mindanao Tarictic
Sulawesi Tarictic
Mindoro Tarictic
Visayan Tarictic
Luzon Tarictic
Plain pouched hornbill
Black hornbill
Rhinoceros hornbill
White crowned hornbill
Bushy crested hornbill
Brwon hornbill

Red BoP
Greater BoP
Blue BoP
Goldie's BoP
Ribbon tailed astrapia
Lawes' parotia
Wilson's BoP
Magnificent BoP
King BoP

Storm's stork
Lesser Adjutanat
Oriental white stork
Woolly necked stork

I'll write more As soon as possible.

 

[ZooMania]

Updated List
Rodriguez Fruit Bat
Livingstone’s Fruit Bat
Belangers Tree Shrew
Aye-Aye
Ring Tailed Lemur
Red Ruffed Lemur
Black And White Ruffed Lemur
Aloatran Gentle Lemur
Geoffrey’s Marmoset
Silvery Marmoset
Golden Lion Tamarin
Black Lion Tamarin
Golden Headed Lion Tamarin
Cotton Topped Tamarin
Pied Tamarin
Buffy Headed Capuchin
Mandrill
Diana Monkey
Sulawesi Crested Macaque
Lion Tailed Macaque
Javan Langur
Lar Gibbon
Golden Cheeked Gibbon
Sumatran Orangutan
Bornean Orangutan
Lowland Gorilla
Prevost Squirrel
Capybara
Azaras Agouti
African Wild Dog
Dhole
Spectacled Bear
Sloth Bear
Red Panda
Asian Small Clawed Otter
Ring Tailed Coati
Binturong
Meerkat
Banded Mongoose
Siberian Tiger
Snow Leopard
Clouded Leopard
Asian Elephant
Black Rhinoceros
Indian Rhinoceros
Malayan Tapir
Brazilian Tapir
Grevy’s Zebra
Persian Onager
Przwalskis Wild Horse
Philippine Spotted Deer
Pere David Deer
Burmese Brow Antlered Deer
Bactrian Camels
Vicuna
Pygmy Hippo
Red River Hog
Visayan Warty Pig
Babirusa
Warthog
Okapi
Giraffe
Bongo
Scimitar Horned Oryx
Addax
Arabian Oryx
Congo Buffalo
Gaur
Banteng
Lowland Anoa
Sitatunga
Kafue Flats Red Lechwe
Dama Gazelle

Southern Cassowary
Humboldt Penguin
Sacred Ibis
Scarlet Ibis
Waldrapp Ibis
Eurasian Spoonbill
Hammerkop
White Stork
Marabou Stork
Caribbean Flamingo
Chilean Flamingo
Dalmatian Pelican
Mandarin Duck
Madagascan Teal
Red Breasted Gesse
Red Crested Pochard
European Black Vulture
Griffon Vulture
Mauritius Kestrel
Red Billed Curassow
Roulroul Partridge
Himalayan Monals
Congo Peafowl
Javanese Green Peafowl
Great Argus Pheasant
Salvadoris Pheasant
Golden Pheasant
Edwards Pheasant
White Eared Pheasant
Malay Crestless Fireback Pheasant
Palawan Peacock Pheasant
West African Crowned Crane
Blue Crane
Indian Sarus Crane
Demoiselle Crane
Red Crowned Crane
Wattled Crane
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Green Naped Pheasant Pigeon
Pink Pigeon
Nicobar Pigeon
Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove
Mindanao Bleeding Heart Dove
Socorro Dove
Yellow Backed Chattering Lory
Red And Blue Lory
Mount Apo Lorikeet
Papuan Lorikeet
Red Vented Cockatoo
Palm Cockatoo
Kea
Derbyan Parakeet
Hyacinth Macaw
Blue Throated Macaw
Illigers Macaw
Red Fronted Macaw
Golden Conure
Blue Throated Conure
Golden Capped Conure
St Lucia Amazon Parrots
Red Tailed Amazon Parrots
Green Cheeked Amazon Parrot
Ecuadorian Amazon Parrot
Red Crested Turaco
Fishcers Turaco
Schalows Turaco
Great Blue Turaco
Violet Turaco
White Crested Turaco
Spectacled Owl
Snowy Owl
White Faced Scoops Owl
Great Grey Owl
Tawny Frogmouth
Lilac Breasted Roller
Blue Bellied Roller
Blue Winged Kookaburra
Great Indian Hornbill
Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill
Writhed Hornbill
Wrinkled Hornbill
Visayan Tarictic Hornbill
Von Der Deckens Hornbill
Village Weaver
Bali Starling
Superb Spero Starling
Golden Breasted Starling
Timor Sparrow
Java Sparrows
Orange Headed Thrush
Chestnut Backed Thrush
Red Bird Of Paradise
Azure Winged Magpies
Red Billed Blue Magpies

Red Footed Tortoise
Elongated Tortoise
Galapagos Tortoise
Spiny Turtle
Tuatara
Philippine Sailfin Lizard
Crocodile Monitor
Green Tree Monitor
Rhinoceros Iguana
Komodo Dragons
Reticulated Python
Red Tailed Racer
East African Green Mamba
Mangrove Snake
Gabon Viper
White Lipped Viper
Jamaican Boa
Madagascan Tree Boa
Green Tree Python

 

[ZooMania]

Mixed Exhibits at the zoo
1. Elongated Tortoises & Belangers Tree Shrew
2. Lar Gibbon & Sumatran Orangutan
3. Lar Gibbon & Bornean Orangutan
4. Sumatran Orangutan, Golden Cheeked Gibbon & Malayan Tapirs
5. Bornean Orangutan, Lion Tailed Macaque & Golden Cheeked Gibbons
6. Brazilian Tapir, Vicuna & Capybara
7. Spectacled Bear & Coatis
8. Sloth Bear & Javan Langur
9. Red Panda & Asian Small Clawed Otter
10. Mandrills & Diana Monkeys
11. Javanese Green Peafowl, Red Billed Blue Magpie, Red Junglefowl & Azure Winged Magpie
12. Indian Rhinoceros, Gaur, Burmese Brow Antlered Deer, Banteng & Indian Sarus Crane
13. European Black Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Waldrapp, Red Breasted Gesse, White Stork, Eurasian Spoonbill, Demoiselle Crane & Red Crested Pochard
14. Red Crowned Crane, Mandarin Duck & Golden Pheasant
15. Persian Onager & Bactrian Camel
16. Pere David Deer & Przwalskis Wild Horses
17. Giraffes, Zebra, Scimitar Horned Oryx, Dama Gazelle, Crowned Crane & Sitatunga
18. Black Rhino, Meerkat & Lechwe
19. Banded Mongoose & Warthog
20. Black Lion Tamarin, Azaras Agouti & Geoffrey’s Marmoset
21. Pied Tamarin & Red Footed Tortoises (Indoor Only)
22. Golden Headed Lion Tamarin & Silvery Marmoset
23. Hyacinth Macaw, Golden Conure & Ecuadorian Amazon Parrots
24. Blue Throated Macaws, Red Tailed Amazon Parrots & Golden Capped Conure
25. Red Billed Curassow & Blue Throated Conure
26. Red Fronted Macaw & Green Cheeked Amazon Parrots
27. Hyacinth Macaws & Illigers Macaws
28. Rodriguez Fruit Bat & Livingstone’s Fruit Bat
29. Orange Headed Thrush & Timor Sparrow
30. Caribbean Flamingoes & Chilean Flamingoes
31. St Lucia Amazon Parrots & Socorro Dove
32. Ring Tailed Lemurs & Black And White Ruffed Lemurs
33. Congo Buffalo, Blue Cranes, Bongo & Red River Hog
34. Lowland Anoa & Babirusa
35. Philippine Spotted Deer & Visayan Warty Pig
36. Great Argus Pheasant & Chestnut Backed Thrush
37. Chestnut Backed Thrush & Salvadoris Pheasant
38. Derbyan Parakeet & White Eared Pheasants
39. Red Bird Of Paradise & Luzon Bleeding Heart Doves
40. Roulroul Partridges, Victoria Crowned Pigeons, Bali Starling
41. Great Argus Pheasant, Nicobar Pigeon, Red And Blue Lorry
42. Salvadoris Pheasant & Bali Starling
43. Visayan Tarictic Hornbill & Malay Crestless Fireback Pheasant
44. Victoria Crowned Pigeons & Papuan Lorikeet
45. Salvadoris Pheasant, Nicobar Pigeon & Red And Blue Lorry
46. Palawan Peacock Pheasant & Mindanao Bleeding Heart Doves
47. Roulroul Partridges, Nicobar Pigeon, Green Naped Pheasant Pigeon & Yellow Backed Chattering Lorries
48. Salvadoris Pheasant, Roulroul Partridges & Mount Apo Lorikeets
49. Palawan Peacock Pheasant, Mount Apo Lorikeet & Roulroul Partridges
50. Prevost Squirrel & Red Junglefowl
51. Sacred Ibis, Golden Breasted Starling, Village Weaver, Von Der Deckens Hornbill, Hammerkop Madagascan Teals, Congo Peafowl, Lilac Breasted Roller, Blue Bellied Roller & Superb Spero Starling
52.
53. Congo Peafowl & Schalows Turaco
54. Wattled Cranes & Marabou Stork
55. Himalayan Monal & Blue Crowned Laughing Thrush
56. White Eared Pheasant & Laughing Thrush

 

[CZJimmy]

Primates:
Western Lowland Gorilla
Sumatran Orang Utan
Mandrill
Lar Gibbon
Siamang
Olive Baboon
Lion-Tailed Macaque
Columbian Spider Monkey
Buffy-Headed Capuchin
Red Ruffed Lemur
Ring-Tailed Lemur
Sifaka
Aye-Aye
Black Lion Tamarin
Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin
Cotton Top Tamarin
Silvery Marmoset
Pygmy Marmoset
Diana Monkeys
Rhesus Macaque
Sulawesi Macaque

Hoofstock and Paddock Animals
Indian Rhino
American Bison
Grevy's Zebra
Thompson's Gazelle
Rothschild Giraffe
Arabian Oryx
Siatunga
Red River Hogs
Warthogs
Babirusa
Congo Forest Buffalo
Bongo
Okapi
Muntjac
Brazilian Tapir
Malayan Tapir
Bactrian Camel
Onager
Persian Goitered Gazelle
Gaur
Blackbuck
Pygmy Hippo
Anoa
Visayan Warty Pig
Philipine Spotted Deer
Roan Antelope
Sable Antelope
Wildebeest
Moose
Gemsbok

Carnivores
Amur Tiger
Asiatic Lion
Red Panda
Oriental Short-Clawed Otter
Snow Leopard
Clouded Leopard
Maned Wolf
Ocelot
Bush Dog
Sloth Bear
Striped Hyena
Cheetah

Rodents
Capybara
Mara
Red-Bellied Squirrel
Giant Squirrel
Spotted Paca
Turkish Spiny Mouse
Naked Mole Rat
Azara's Agouti
Prarie Marmot

Also Two-Toed Sloth, Coatimundi, Meerkat, Yellow Mongoose, Giant Anteater, Parma Wallaby, Short-Beaked Echidna, Hairy-Nosed Wombat, Koala and Patagonian Sealion

Birds
Andean Condor
Ostrich
Secretary Bird
Marabou Stork
Javan Sparrow
Palwan Peacock Pheasant
Congo Peafowl
Red Junglefowl
King Penguin
Gentoo Penguin
Humboldt Penguin
Dalmation Pelican
Greater Flamingo
Great Indian Hornbill
Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill
Red-Billed Hornbill
Oxpecker
Red Bird of Paradise
Turaco of some sort
Kookaburra
Kea
Cassowary
Snowy Owl
Milky Eagle Owl
Barn Owl
Bald Eagle
Toco Toucan
Keel-Billed Toucan
Scarlet Macaw
Hycianth Macaw
Red and Blue Lory
African Grey Parrot

Reptiles
Cuban Crocodile
Philippine Crocodile
African Dwarf Crocodile
American Alligator
Komodo Dragon
Caiman Lizard
Reticulated Python
Emerald Tree Boa
Green Anaconda
Thai Water Dragon
Rhino Iguana
Lesser Antilles Iguana
Green Iguana
Crocodile Monitor
Tuatara
Gila Monster
King Cobra

Amphibians
Poison Arrow Frogs
Horned Toad
Mallorcan Midwife Toad
Mountain Chicken
Axolotl


Completely unrealistic and would require the space of San Diego Wild Animal Park

 

[Sand Cat]

Wow, these zoos all sound amazing!! I've been thinking about this for the last couple of days (sad I know...), and I'm gonna try to post my list soon. It will mainly be mammals though - well, mainly carnivores and lemurs actually!

 

[Jurek7]

If I had my own zoo, I would build ten contrasting habitats:
- Hudson bay tundra,
- Namibian semidesert,
- Gabon rainforest,
- coral reef of Komodo, Indonesia,
- West Himalayan mountains,
- night hall,
- wetland of Assam,
- spiny forest of Madagascar,
- mulga bush of East Australia,
- mangroves of Sumatra.

For example MADAGASCAR SPINY FOREST

Tropical hall which represents two adjacent ecoregions in dry south-western Madagascar. This area is remarkable for its very strange specialised succulents, very high proportion of endemic species and very high speed of degradation.

Visitors enter the hall through Madagascar hut.
They look at the incredible landscape. On the sandy ground, otherwordly thorny plants grow. They are didieras known as "spiny octopus trees", bulbous-trunked pachypodiums and giant aloes. At the distance, giant baobabs grow. Rusty rocks frame the view.
Small plants immediately adjacent to visitors path are authentic, but the big mature plants at distance are models. Small hillocks and gullies ensure that visitors don't see each other, but the exhibit retains semi-open character. Fence topped by electric wire is hidden between plant trunks and rocks, so birds and reptiles have breeding area inaccessible for lemurs.
First inhabitants are birds, fruit bats, lizards, chameleons, tortoises and giant aldabran tortoises. They are models of extinct madagascan tortoises. Model giant egg of extinct elephantbird is buried in the sand near the path.
Visitors pass a waterhole framed by rocks. This is hunting place for ibis, turtles and ducks. It is also part of dividing barrier. Then visitors enter a cave. They emerge between ring-tailed and red-fronted lemurs. Cute lemurs roaming free are the biggest attraction of the hall. There is a themed cafe nearby.
Here is another landscape - maze of sharp, triangular limestone outcrops called "tsingy" or "stone forest". Here vsitors encounter a group of free-roaming crowned lemurs.
Visitors path enters then a gorge cut between rocks. This part is separated by overhead mesh. They go past tree boas on their tree and ring-tailed mongooses in moat-type exhibits. Then they go into the darkness and see a small vertical cave illuminated by light falling from above. This is replica of natural trap with bones of extinct giant lemur and pygmy hippo.
Then they pass by several glass-fronted exhibits realised as seen through openings in the rock. One has fossa. Another narrow-striped mongoose. The last playful diademed sifakas.
Then they enter education hall with some models of extinct animals and terrariums for ground boas, frogs etc.
Summer outdoor enclosures are large walk-thru island for lemurs, meshed enclosure for mongooses and large fossa enclosure separated by electric-topped fence. Many trees and branches give fossas climbing opportunities.

Animal list:
Reptiles and amphibians:
tomato frog, golden mantella, radiated tortoise, ploughshare tortoise, aldabran giant tortoise, spider tortoise, flat-tailed tortoise, madagascan water turtle, standing's day gecko, girdled lizard, three-lined girdled lizard, chameleon - two species, madagascan iguana, malagasy tree boa, malagasy ground boa.
Birds:
malagasy pond heron, malagasy sacred ibis, crested ibis, meller's duck, malagasy teal, madagascan partridge, harlequin quail, madagascan turtle dove, pink pigeon, madagascar blue pigeon, green pigeon, namarqua dove, giant coua, crested coua, red-capped coua, black parrot, vasa parrot, grey-headed lovebird, cuckoo-roller, long-tailed ground roller, madagascan white-eye, madagascan paradise flycatcher, malagasy drongo, sicklebill vanga, red fody.
Mammals:
livingstone's fruit bat, rodriguez fruit bat, ring-tailed lemur, red-fronted lemur, crowned lemur, diademed sifaka, small-toothed mongoose, ring-tailed mongoose, fossa.

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BTW - If somebody wants to build real exhibit on this idea - contact me!

 

[Taccachantrieri]

@Jurek7 As soon as I manage to rise the funds, I'll be contacting you. You will save your plans for me right ?

Have you heard of the Bronx Zoos Lion House renovation? They have a lemur spiny forest exhibit, and crocodiles displayed in the watery depths of tsingy's. Here's a link: Images for Bronx Zoo. It looks like a very interesting exhibit. I have always wondered why other Zoos haven't tried this out.

 

[Jurek7]

Yes, I have quite detailed plans in my mind!

Bronx zoo is interesting, but it is just a "room" with two species. I feel putting tortoises not separated from lemurs will stress them (tortoises don't show stress but do get stressed).

Basing on desert exhibit in Arnhem. Holland, such Madagascar hall "will fly" and even better. People will have nice all-year warm paradise, cafe, cute walk-thru primates, strange pants and rocks to examine, and lots of other animals.

 

[Jurek7]

As many zoos build polar bear exhibits, I decided I can invent one, too:

HUDSON BAY TUNDRA

This complex recreates Arctic, in particular the western shore of Hudson Bay in Canada.

As visitors enter, the path curves between steep grassy, boulder-littered hills. Artifical mist gusts the path. Then the view opens - and they are on the shore of Arctic bay. The landscape was carefully recreated, with grassy hills surrounding the shore, bare granite rocks, walls of iceberg blocking the bay outlet and ice-floes floating on the water. In the distance is waterfall and a lone wooden cabin. Patches of snow cover the distant hills.

People walk down the sandy beach, where common seals play in the water. They are separated only by a tiny irregularity of the beach hiding the electic wire. Whale bones lie on the beach. On the opposite side of the path, there are grassy slopes on which white Arctic foxes play. As people walk along the shore, past the rocky promontory, they come to walruses in shallow water. They can walk on the promontory - and you enjoy more views of seals and walruses from above, swimming over the pale sea bottom. They can walk down into the cave, and view pinnipeds from the side on rocks and underwater.

Then visitors step into the underwater tunnel and walk along the sea bottom. Seals swim overhead. Then people notice another, white animal swimming - this is polar bear swimming overhead. Visitors can enjoy polar bears swimming overhead until they go out of the tunnel. It ends under the ice floe, and people see the bear walking on the transparent ceiling looking like thin ice sheet - as the seal would see the bear.

Then people are in the educational gallery to learn about polar bears and Arctic. Glass windows allow different views of bears from the side in different backgrounds. - walking past, underwater, above water, fishing in stream, sliding on artifical ice slopes, jumping into water from high rocks. This gallery is actually under polar bear paddock.

Visitors can also go up. They find themselves in the wooden cabin surrounded by polar bears. They can experience the size and power of polar bears who lean on cabin windows, making walls creak and putting head high above people's heads. Actually, there are regular food treats hidden in panels above windows.

Then people return to the gallery and walk out under the waterfall and walk along the tundra. They enjoy polar bears in their grassy tundra and artcic wolves on the opposite side. There are regular feeding and training sessions of polar bears and wolves in a small amphitheatre.

Then stunted trees appear and people enter stunted forest in the tundra border, with gnarled birches and candle-shaped spruces adapted to catch low arctic sun. These are special botanical variety growing in columnar shape. People walk past aviary of great grey owls. You can normally enter the aviary, unless owls have chicks, when it is closed. Then they see wolverine - another playful predator, playing with tree stumps or in shallow pool.

DETAILS OF EXHIBIT

1 Innovative elements of exhibit:
- landscape and rock formations recreate actual spot on Earth surface,
- wafting mist,
- pool with naturalistic sandy bottom,
- artifical ice-floes,
- artifical ice allowing to slide down,
- rocky, stony and sandy beaches,
- rocks giving shade and hiding places,
- waterfall and stream,
- snow-cave with overhanging simulated ice,
- rolling grassy tundra with rocks, stunted spruce trees and patches of artificial snow on hills to slide down.
- spruces are of column-shaped variety which grows into shape adopted by arctic conifers to catch low arctic sun.
2. Varied views for visitors:
- from below: underwater in the tunnel,
- from below: under the simulated ice-floe on which the bear walks,
- surrounded by landscape: from the vessel deck,
- surrounded by landscape: from wooden cabin,
- almost-touching-bears: wooden cabin has cracks,
- from the side, close: behind the glass underwater and above water,
- without borders – from the rocky crag above pool and under waterfall,
- without borders – from grassy tundra through hidden moat.
3. Animals enrichment:
- live fish & dead food items thrown into the pool,
- food is hidden in sandy and pebbly beach, forcing bears to dig for it,
- periodically activated tube feeder abouve visitors’ viewing area,
- toys on strong springs allow bears to replicate tugging with prey: pushing down bar hidden in artifical snow (simulates bear breaking through the roof of a seal den)
- pulling the rope on springs (simulates pulling the struggling walrus),
- heavy walrus-toy which needs to be pushed away (simulates pulling the struggling walrus)
- pool,
- large size,
- cold places under rocks and inside snow-cave,
- different surfaces, including lots of grass, rocks, stimulated snow, pebbles, sand,
- artifical ice on slopes allows bears to play by sliding down,
- various “rubbish on the beach†are playthings – e.g. tree stumps, plastic containers,
- three different exhibits divided by hidden moats, bears are rotated between them.
4. Education themes:
- polar bears,
- climate change,
- arctic animals,
- radio-telemetry of bears,
- pollution of oceans
- Feeding and playing sessions are regular.

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If some zoo professional wants to borrow ideas for real exhibit, please contact me. I have some details in my imagination, and can exchange them for free. Or maybe for cuddling a baby bear. ​

 

[snowleopard]

@Jurek7: your ideal polar bear exhibit is excellent, but how much would it cost? I'm guessing close to $100 million, if one considers that $25-40 million appears to be the standard for arctic enclosures. Overall you do have some great ideas.

 

[reduakari]

Jurek:

The Bronx Zoo's Madagascar Spiny Forest will include Brown Lemurs, Foddies, Vasa Parrot and Ring-tailed Mongoose in addition to Ring-tailed Lemurs and Radiated Tortoises. Other species in the building include Tomato Frog, Phelsumas, Day Gecko, Coquerel's Sifakas, Fossa, Red Ruffed Lemur and Dumeril's Ground Boa.