Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Full Species List by Exhibit at the Columbus Zoo

Moebelle

Moebelle

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I will later put the number of species at the zoo at the end of each animal , but now I am working on another thread that might take me a few days to finish. Correct me if I'm wrong. The list of animals is an attempt put in order of how they are exhibited at the zoo or how I saw it.

North America

Trumpeter Swan
Mexican Wolf
American Bison
Pronghorn
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Pony
Angora Goat
Barbados Blackbelly Sheep
Domestic Chicken
Jacob's Four-horned Sheep
Karakul Sheep
La Mancha Goat
Nigerian Dwarf Goat
Sudanese Nubian Goat
West African Pygmy Goat
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Moose
Reindeer
Timber Wolf
American Black Bear
Grizzly Bear
Cougar
Bobcat
Wolverine
American Coot
American Goldfinch
American Robin
Bobwhite Quail
Brown-headed Cowbird
Catbird
Cedar Waxing
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Meadowlark
Evening Grosbeak
Fox Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer Plover
Mourning Dove
North American Ruddy Duck
Northern Cardinal
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rufous-sided Towhee
Slate-colored Junco
Sora
Swainson's Thrush
Red-winged Blackbird
Redhead Duck
Tennessee Warbler
Tufted Titmouse
Song Sparrow
Yellow Rail
Yellow-rumped Warbler
White-throated Sparrow
Wilson's Warbler
Painted Turtle
Northern Bald Eagle
Black Crappie
Blunt Nosed Minnow
Central Stoneroller
Common Shiner
Golden Redhorse Sucker
Golden Shiner
Lake Chubsucker
Longeared Sunfish
Orange Spotted Sunfish
Rainbow Trout
Striped Shiner
Rosyside Dace
North American River Otter


Polar Frontier
Arctic Fox
Alaskan Brown Bear-2
Polar Bear


Asia Quest

Red-crowned Crane
White-naped Crane
Tufted Deer
Chinese Muntjac
Silvered Leaf Monkey
Water Monitor
Reticulated Python
Golden Mantel Flying Fox
Large Flying Fox
Silvered Leaf Monkey
Malayan Sun Bear
Asian Elephant
Eastern Black Rhinoceros
Red Panda
Golden Pheasant
Himalayan Impeyan Pheasant
Ringneck Pheasant
Swinhoe's Pheasant
Reeve's Pheasant
Turkmenian Markhor
Pallas' Cat
Amur Tiger
African Lion

Shores

Caribbean Flamingo Flamingo
American Alligator
Humboldt Penguin
Aldabra Tortoise

Reptile House
Indian Star Tortoise
Leopard Gecko
Standing's Day Gecko
New Caledonia Giant Gecko
Gila Monster
Spiny-tailed Iguana
Grand Cayman Iguana
Goliath Birdeater Tarantula
Axolotl
Panamanian Golden Frog
Hellbenders
San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
Prehensile-tailed Skink
Dumeril's Ground Boa
Madagascar Tree Boa
Macklot's Python
Savu Island Python
Scrub Python
Green Tree Python
Blood Python
Burmese Rock Python
Black Ratsnake
Radiated Ratsnake
False Water Cobra
Madagascar Giant Hognose Snake
Black Pine Snake
Louisiana Pine Snake
King Cobra
Northern Copperhead
Eyelash Palm Pitviper
Eastern Diamond Back Rattlesnake
Aruba Island Rattlesnake
Timber Rattlesnake
Canebrake Rattlesnake
Eastern Massasauga
McCord's Snake-necked Turtle
Siebenrock's Snake-necked Turtle
Saw-shelled Snapping Turtle
Spot-bellied Side-necked Turtle
Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle
Fly River Turtle
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Annam Leaf Turtle
Stripe-necked Leaf Turtle
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
Barbour's Map Turtle
Yellow-blotched Map Turtle
Delta Black-nobbed Map Turtle
Eastern Box Turtle
Hispaniolan Slider
Meso-american Slider
African Pancake Tortoise

Manatee Coast
West Indian Manatee
Hawksbill Turtle
Southern Red Stingray
Cownose Ray
Sailfin Molly
Porkfish
Bluestripe Grunt
Western Atlantic Seabream
Queen Angelfish
French Angelfish
White Mullet
Sergeant Major
Beaugregory
Atlantic Spadefish
Doctorfish
Ring-necked Duck
Canvasback
Buffleheads
Hooded Mergansers
Wood Duck
Pin Tail Duck

Discovery Reef
Cayenne Keyhole Limpet
Puppet Margarite
Lightfoot Snail
Channeled Turban Snail
Middle-spined Cerith
White-booted Cleaner Shrimp
Redlined Cleaner Shrimp
Red Reef Hermit Crab
Common Blunt-armed Sea Star
Pacific Longspined Black Sea Urchin
Green Pincushion Urchin
Black Boring Sea Urchin
Burrowing Sea Cucumber
Whitespotted Bamboo Shark
Epaulette Shark
Zebra Shark
Bonnethead Shark
Blacktip Shark
Southern Red Stingray
Splendid Garden Eel
Spotted Garden Eel
Soldierfish
Sabre Squirrelfish
Potbelly Seahorse
Orange Fairy Basslet
Vermillion Grouper
Marine Betta
Pajama Cardinalfish
Banggai Cardinalfish
Golden Travally
Spottail Threadfin Snapper
Diamond Fish
African Silverfish
Pakistani Butterflyfish
Sunburst Butterflyfish
Raccoon Butterflyfish
Lemon Butterflyfish
Golden Butterflyfish
Pearlscale Butterflyfish
Copperband Butterflyfish
Pyramid Butterflyfish
Black Pyramid Butterflyfish
Pennant Butterflyfish
Featherfin Butterflyfish
Saddleback Butterflyfish
Sickle Butterflyfish
Latticed Butterflyfish
Doublesaddle Butterflyfish
Vagabond Butterflyfish
Yellowtail Angelfish
Flame Angelfish
Blue Ring Angelfish
Arabian Angelfish
Emperor Angelfish
Yellowbanded Angelfish
Blue Koran Angelfish
Flame Hawkfish
Staghorn damselfish
Tomato Clownfish
Ocellated Clownfish
Pink Skunk Clownfish
Black Axil Chromis
Bluegreen Chromis
Sapphire Damselfish
Whitetailed Damselfish
Domino Damselfish
Black-and Gold Damselfish
McCosker's Flashlight Wrasse
Sixline Wrasse
Moon Wrasse
Mandarinfish
Old Glory Goby
Yellow Prawn Goby
Filamentfinned Prawn Goby
Purple Cap Firefish
Yellowheaded Firefish
Orbiculate Batfish
Bluespotted Spinefoot
Rabbitfish
Achilles Tang
Blue Tang Surgeon
Powderblue Surgeon
Clown Surgeon
Whitecheek Surgeon
Olive Surgeon
Red Sea Clown Surgeon
Convict Surgeon
Yellowfin Surgeon
Whitemargin Tang
Smoothhead Unicornfish
Bignose Unicorn Tang
Yellow Tang
Sailfin Tang
Purple Tang
Clown Triggerfish
Freckled Porcupinefish

African Forest

Angolan Colobus
African Grey Parrot
African Golden Oriole
Black Crake
Blue-throated Carmine Bee-eater
Buff-crested Bustard
Cattle Egret
East African Crowned Crane
Emerald Starling
Hamerkop
Hottentot Teal
Racquet-tailed Roller
Sacred Ibis
Speckled Pigeon
Violet-backed Starling
West African Crowned Crane
White-vented Bulbul
White-crowned Robin Chat
African Leopard
Mandrill(indoors)
Western Lowland Gorilla
Red River Hog
Bonobo
Gorilla(indoors)
Mandrill
Okapi
Black Duiker

Voyage to Australia and the Islands

Siamang
White-handed Gibbon
Sumatran Orangutan
Asian small-clawed Otter
Black Swan
Galah
Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
Komodo Dragon
Short-Beaked Echidna
Woylie(outdoors)
Queensland Koala(indoor and outdoor)

Lorikeet Garden
Rainbow Lorikeet

Kangaroo Walk-about
Red Kangaroo
Eastern Grey Kangaroo

Bob and Evelyn's Roadhouse
Woylie
Prevost's Squirrel
North Island Brown Kiwi
Fishing Cat
Matschie's Tree-Kangaroo
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Lesser Short-Nosed Fruit Bat
Indian Crested Porcupine
Laughing Kookaburra
Straw-necked Ibis
Magpie Goose
Indian Whistling Duck
Malayan Crestless Fireback
Crested Wood Partridge
Masked Lapwing
Nicobar Pigeon
Bleeding Heart Pigeon
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Jambu Fruit Dove
Goldie's Lorikeet
Eastern Rosella
Hooded Pitta
Fairy Bluebird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Metallic Starling
Bali Mynah
Grosbeak Starling
Golden Pheasant
Mariana Fruit Dove
Javan Pond Heron
Pied-Imperial Pigeon
White-Throated Ground Dove
 
@Mobelle: Thanks for taking the time to make the list. It really gives a flavor for what the Columbus Zoo is like.

A few questions:
1. Do you know why they have black rhino and African lions in Asia Quest? Are they there temporarily while they build an Africa section?

2. What is Discovery Reef? Is it an entire aquarium or one big tank that is adjacent to the manatees?

3. I've read that the Columbus gorilla exhibit is basically a big wire frame cage which has a very active social group of gorillas. What do you think of their cage environment compared to something more naturalistic like Cincy or Congo Gorilla Forest?

Ohio seems like a state with several good and interesting zoos to visit (Cincy, Columbus, Toledo, The Wilds).
 
DavidBrown said:
@Mobelle: Thanks for taking the time to make the list. It really gives a flavor for what the Columbus Zoo is like.

A few questions:
1. Do you know why they have black rhino and African lions in Asia Quest? Are they there temporarily while they build an Africa section?

2. What is Discovery Reef? Is it an entire aquarium or one big tank that is adjacent to the manatees?

3. I've read that the Columbus gorilla exhibit is basically a big wire frame cage which has a very active social group of gorillas. What do you think of their cage environment compared to something more naturalistic like Cincy or Congo Gorilla Forest?

Ohio seems like a state with several good and interesting zoos to visit (Cincy, Columbus, Toledo, The Wilds).
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1. Asia Quest was a predator and prey area. Before it was renovated the Pachyderm building held hippos, tapirs, African and Asian elephants, and of course the black rhino Also the rhino exhibit seems to be put out of the Asia region and put the elephants in it.

2. Discovery Reef is a small, separate aquarium next to Manatee Coast.

3. I am kind of off and on about the gorilla exhibit. a. It kind of looks ugly and something from the late 1800's. b. Although I hear that the apes really enjoy the enclosure. c. It gives the apes a wonderful chance to move around the whole exhibit without coming close to the ground. d. There are no trees or even bushes, just grass, which doesn't give them a whole lot of climbing space. and e. I think it needs to be more naturalistic, gorillas especially need to feel more at home.

You are very welcome. I enjoyed making the list and realizing how much more the zoo has to offer. Good thing I have a decent eidetic memory. :D
 
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No the Columbus Zoo now exhibits mandrills in the African Forest instead.Atlanta,San Diego,New Orleans and Detroit are the only US zoos that house drills.
 
We have not seen a pallas cat on display here in C-Bus in quite some time are they still at the zoo?

Team Tapir
 
They also have two cheetahs off exhibit that they bring on stage with anatolian shepards at the show by the entrance to the water park area.
 
I went august 2011 & october 2011 and never saw the pallas cat either. people said it was in log but i couldnt see anything im wondering if the zoo is going to put another species in there? you know what i wish they would do is somehow make that exhibit bigger,longer and wider and put the snow leopard in there!!!! right next to the predators prey cause markhor is what they hunt in the wild.

What other animals do they have in the show?
 
There are a couple of different shows but i only have seen one and it was about how the raised the cheetahs and the dogs together. when i went in june 2011 i saw the pallas cats, but not the orangutans.
 
Updated Species List!

North America
1. Trumpeter Swan
2. Mexican Wolf
3. American Bison, Pronghorn
4. Pony
5. Angora Goat
6. Blackbelly Sheep
7. Domestic Chicken
8. Nigerian Dwarf Goat
9. Black-tailed Prairie Dog
10. Alaskan Moose, Eastern Moose
11. Timber Wolf
12. North American River Otter
13. Cougar
14. Caribou
15. Grizzly Bear
16. Bobcat
17. Wolverine
18. Migratory Songbird Aviary: House Wren, Northern Bobwhite, Cedar Waxing, Brown-headed Cowbird, Eastern Bluebird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Northern Cardinal, Eastern Meadowlark, Swaison's Thrush, Harris' Sparrow, Sora, Palm Warbler, Yellow Rail, Eastern Towhee, Gray Catbird, Tennessee Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Evening Grosbeak, Ruddy Duck, Redhead Duck, Song Sparrow, Killdeer, Wilson's Warbler, American Robin, Baltimore Oriole, Indigo Bunting, Tufted Titmouse, American Coot, Fox Sparrow, Ovenbird, White-throated Sparrow, Mounring Dove, Carolina Chickadee
19. Bald Eagle
20. American Beaver
21. Kettle Lake: Least Darter, Central Mudminnow, Iowa Darter, Golden Shiner, Blackstripe Topminnow, Lake Chubsucker
22. Lake Eire Marsh: Warmouth Sunfish, Yellow Perch, Spotted Sucker, Pumpkinseed Sunfish, Golden Shiner
23. Paint Creek: Blackstripe Topminnow, Longear Sunfish, Spotfin Shiner, Dusky Darter, Redbelly Dace, Logperch Darter

Polar Frontier
1. Polar Bear
2. Alaskan Brown Bear
3. Arctic Fox

Heart of Africa
1. African Lion
2. Watering Hole: (rotational exhibit) Aardvark, Lesser Flamingo, Common Warthog
3. Cheetah, Labrador Retriever
4. Vervet Monkey
5. Savanna: Reticulated Giraffe, Grant's Zebra, Greater Kudu, Saddle-billed Stork, Thomson's Gazelle, Common Wildebeest, Dama Gazelle, Slender-horned Gazelle, Common Ostrich, East African Crowned Crane

Asia Quest
1. Tufted Deer, Red-crowned Crane
2. Reeve's Muntjac, White-naped Crane
3. Silvered Langur
4. Water Monitor
5. Reticulated Python
6. Golden-mantled Flying Fox, Large Flying Fox
7. Silvered Langur (Indoor)
8. Asian Elephant
9. Black Rhino (Indoor Viewing Only)
10. Amur Leopard
11. Sun Bear
12. Red Panda
13. Pheasant Aviary: Northern Shoveler, Golden Pheasant, Ring-necked Pheasant, Reeve's Muntjac, Western Cattle Egret, Azure-winged Magpie, Mountain Bamboo Partridge, Black-throated Laughing Thrush, Derbyan Parakeet
14. Markhor
15. Pallas' Cat
16. Amur Tiger

Expedition Congo: African Forest
1. Black-and-white Colobus
2. African Grey Parrot
3. African Forest Aviary: Hottentot Teal, African Golden Oriole, Blue-billed Roller, Emerald Starling, Cattle Egret, Common Bulbul, Buff-crested Bustard, Racquet-tailed Roller, Sacred Ibis, Violet-backed Starling, Speckled Pigeon, West African Crowned Crane, White-crowned Robin-Chat, African Black Crake, Helmeted Guineafowl
4. African Leopard
5. Western Lowland Gorilla
6. Gorilla (Indoor)
7. Bonobo
8. Red River Hog
9. Mandrill
10. Okapi
11. Black Duiker

Shores
1. Caribbean Flamingo
2. American Alligator
3. Reptile Building (List Below)
3. Humboldt Penguin
4. Aldabra Tortoise
5. Discovery Reef (List Below)
6. Manatee Coast (List Below)

Reptile Building
1. Eyelash Viper
2. Axolotl
3. Everglades Rat Snake
4. San Estaban Chuckwalla
5. Honduran Milk Snake
6. Standing Day Gecko
7. Yellow-blotched Map Turtle
8. Hellbender
9. Fly River Turtle
10. Black-knobbed Map Turtle
11. Rotl Island Snake-necked Turtle
12. Barbour's Map Turtle
13. Green Tree Python
14. Leach's Giant Gecko
15. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
16. Scrub Python
17. Dumeril's Ground Boa
18. Mexican Beaded Lizard
19. African Pancake Tortoise
20. Gila Monster
21. Grand Cayman Blue Iguana
22. Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
23. Spiny-tailed Iguana
24. Panamanian Golden Frog
25. Savu Python
26. Burmese Python
27. Spotted-bellied Side-necked Turtle, Yellow Spotted River Turtle
28. Alligator Snapping Turtle
29. Siebenrock's Snake-necked Turtle, Malaysian Giant Turtle, Serrated Snapping Turtle, Annam Pond Turtle
30. Spotted-bellied Sidenecked Turtle
31. Macklot's Python
32. Coahuilan Box Turtle
33. Carpet Python
34. Prehensile-tailed Skink
35. Blood Python
36. Asian Leaf Turtle, Radiated Rat Snake
37. Black Rat Snake
38. Eastern Plains Garter Snake, Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
39. Louisiana Pine Snake
40. Indian Star Tortoise
41. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Discovery Reef
1. Banggai Cardinalfish, Pajama Cardinalfish, Green Chromis, Raccoon Butterflyfish
2. Green Chromis, Tomato Clownfish, Banggai Cardinalfish, Pajama Cardinalfish, Orange Fairy Basslet, Purple Cap Firefish
3. Pot-bellied Seahorse
4. Chocolate Sea Star, Whelk
5. Orange Fairy Basslet, French Angelfish, Flame Angelfish, Sapphire Devil
6. Scribbled Angelfish, Bluering Angelfish, Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Pyramid Butterflyfish, Black Pyramid Butterflyfish, Powderblue Surgeon, White-cheek Surgeonfish, Convict Surgeonfish, Yellowtail Tang, Sailfin Tang, Bird Wrasse, Semicricle Angelfish, Obicular Angelfish, Longfin Batfish, Spotted Scat, Orange Unicornfish, Pennant Coralfish, Clown Triggerfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Whitetail Damselfish, Bluecheek Butterflyfish, Yellow Brown Wrasse, Bonnethead Shark, Eqaulette Shark, Harlequin Tushfish, Moon Wrasse, Moonfish, Pinktail Triggerfish, Silver Moony, Copperhead Butterflyfish, Green Sea Turtle, Southern Stingray, Longspine Butterflyfish, Sailfin Tang, Emperor Angelfish, Yellow Tang, Fire Anemonefish, Flame Hawkfish, Redtail Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Pajama Cardinalfish, Sea Goldie, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Sapphire Devil, Blue Chromis, Ornamented Wrasse, Achillies Tang, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Saddle Butterflyfish, Pearlsclae Butterflyfish, Fourspot Butterflyfish, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Keyhole Angelfish

Manatee Coast
1. Florida Manatee, Southern Stingray, Cownose Ray, Brown Pelican, Hawsbill Sea Turtle, Northern Pintail, Bufflehead Duck, Canvasback Duck, Hooded Merganser, Cownose Ray, Wood Duck, Ring-necked Turtle, Lookdown, Porkfish, Atlantic Spadefish, Bluestripe Grunt, Pompano

Australia and the Islands
1. Siamang, White-handed Gibbon
2. Bornean Orangutan, Sumatran Orangutan
3. Asian-smalled Clawed Otter
4. Black Swan, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Galah
5. Komodo Dragon
6. Koala, Brush-tailed Buttong
7. Koala (Outdoor)
7. Kangaroo Walk-About: Red Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo
8. Lorikeet Garden: Blue Mountain Lorikeet, Black Lory, Ornate Lorikeet, Yellow-streaked Lory, Black-streaked Lory
8. Roahouse (List Below)

Roadhouse
1. Blue-tounged Skink
2. Giant Prickly Walking Stick
3. Jungle Nymph
4. Prevost's Squirrel, Brush-tailed Buttong
5. Children's Python
6. Brown Kiwi
7. Bearcat
8. Tawny Frogmouth
9. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
10. Crocodile Skink
11. Indian Crested Porcupine, Pygmy Slow Lorius
12. Feathertail Glider
13. Roadhouse Aviary: Masked Lapwing, Hooded Pita, Nicobar Pigeon, Marian Fruit Dove, Crested Partridge, Grosbeak Starling, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Metallic Starling, Goldies Lorikeet, Eastern Rosella, Straw-necked Ibis, Lesser Whistling Duck, Red-bellied Leiothrix, White-throated Ground Dove, Golden Pheasant, Bali Mynah, Jambu Fruit Dove, Black-naped Fruit Dove, Luzon Bleeding Heart, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Javan Pond Heron, Magpie Goose, Laughing Kookaburra (separate)

Stingray Bay
1. Cownose Ray, Southern Stingray
 
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Moebelle said:
Updated Species List!

North America
10. Alaskan Moose

Heart of Africa
5. Savanna: Reticulated Giraffe, Grant's Gazelle, Greater Kudu, Saddle-billed Stork, Thomson's Gazelle, Common Wildebeest, Dama Gazelle, Slender-horned Gazelle, Common Ostrich, East African Crowned Crane

Roadhouse
12. Sugar Glider
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-There is a single eastern moose cow mixed in with the Alaskans.

-I do believe that you mean Grant's zebra and not Grant's gazelle. Also, you forgot the Masai giraffes.

-Are you sure that they are sugar gliders? They used to be feather-tailed gliders... That, of course, could've changed. I was just wondering.
 
Kudu21 said:
-There is a single eastern moose cow mixed in with the Alaskans.

-I do believe that you mean Grant's zebra and not Grant's gazelle. Also, you forgot the Masai giraffes.

-Are you sure that they are sugar gliders? They used to be feather-tailed gliders... That, of course, could've changed. I was just wondering.
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I will go back and look at the signage for the gliders, and thanks for the heads up on the moose and zebra thing.
 
Kudu21 said:
-There is a single eastern moose cow mixed in with the Alaskans.

-I do believe that you mean Grant's zebra and not Grant's gazelle. Also, you forgot the Masai giraffes.

-Are you sure that they are sugar gliders? They used to be feather-tailed gliders... That, of course, could've changed. I was just wondering.
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I went back and checked and they are in fact feather-tails.
 
Bib Fortuna said:
What species do the zoo has currently in the Nocturnal House, and what happend to the Tiger Quolls ?
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I believe the Tiger Quolls died; the species has not been exhibited in several years (and is, I believe, absent from North American collections entirely).

The current line-up for the nocturnal section of the Road House is:

Northern Brown Kiwi/Tawny Frogmouth
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Binturong
Tawny Frogmouth/Brush-tailed Bettong
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
Pygmy Slow Loris/Indian Porcupine
Feathertail Glider

There are also several terraria with smaller species of reptile and arachnid; I don't recall the exact species maintained at present (and there has been some turnover).
 
Moebelle said:
Updated Species List!
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a few queries////

I can't find any species called black-streaked lory, did you perhaps mean blue-streaked?

Also, on "Alaskan brown bear", does anyone know what type these are? the peninsular "gyas" race or the Kodiak island type?
 
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