Oh well clearly fake tarpits > Giant Eland exhibit...UGH
I think at one point they had Blue Duiker in the exhibit with Giant Elands. Would've been cool if they could've displayed Royal Antelope along with Giant Elands..reminds me of a drawing from my Guinness Book of World Records: Largest and Smallest antelope in the world!
I had posted it once before in a thread lamenting the loss of Horn and Hoof Mesa:
The Entire List in all it's glory!:
Horn and Hoof Mesa:
Barbary Red Deer
Bantang w/ Eurasian Wild Boar
Dorcas Gazelle
Calamian Deer
Common Duiker
Chacoan Pecary
Reeve's Muntjac
Mara w/ Golden-rumped Agouti
Zulu Suni
Giant Forest Hog or Bush Pig
Takin
Giant Eland w/ Black-faced Impala
Mhorr Gazelle
Red River Hog
Lowland Anoa
Beisa Oryx
Forest Buffalo
Curviar's Gazelle w/ Reeve's Muntjac and Warthog
Damara Zebra
Gerenuk
Giraffe
Bearded Pig
Steppe Polecat
Banded Mongoose
Bawean Deer
Russian Saiga
Mesopotamian Fallow Deer
Urial
African Kopje:
Klipspringer
Dwarf Mongoose
Rock Hyrax
South African Ground Squirrel
Goat and Sheep Canyon:
Japanese Serow
Snow Sheep
Dall's Sheep
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Mountain Goat
Central Chinese Goral
Spanish Ibex
East Caucasian Tur
Warthog
Bharal (next to big cats)
Big Cat Canyon:
Striped Hyena alternated with Siberian Lynx
Snow Leopard
Jaguar
North Chinese Leopard
Persian Leopard
African Civet
Caracal
Fossa
Corsac Fox
Tayra
Elephant Mesa/Australia:
African Elephant
Asian Elephant
Black Rhino
Common Duiker
Baird's Tapir
Yellow-backed Duiker
Feathertail Glider
Wild Cat
Banded Mongoose
Margay
Meerkat
Lowland Anoa
Indian Fruit Bat
Rwenzori Mountain Fruit Bat
Soemmerring's Gazelle
Parma Wallaby
Tasmanian Devil
Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
Koala
Tiger Quoll
Francois Langur
Bactrian Camel
Bear Canyon:
Lion-tailed Macaque
Bingturong
Malayan Sun Bear
Alaskan Brown Bear
Manchurian Brown Bear
Lion
Eurasian Otter
Spectacled Bear
Children's Zoo:
Pygmy Marmoset
Red-ruffed Lemur
Brown Spider Monkey
Gunther's Dik Dik
Red Panda
North American River Otter
House Mouse
Naked Mole Rat
Madagascar Streaked Tenrec (Can't believe I didn't see or photograph this! Don't even remember writing it down!!! Had no idea how rare in zoos these were/are)
Mountain Tapir
and not sure if I've posted this before but here's a list my dad wrote down in 1989 of the species that corresponded to the photos we took (really horrible photos, I was 6 and taking half of them haha)
1.) Wallaby
2.) White Koala
3.) Scimitar horned Oryx
4.) Slender Horned Gazelle
5.) Guanaco
6.) Rock Hyrax
7.) Bawean Deer
8.) South African Sringbok & Kenya Impala
9.) Celebes Babirusa
10.) South African Ostrich
11.) Lowland Nyala
12.) Mhorr Gazelle
13.) Saharan Dorcas Gazelle
14.) Beisa Oryx
15.) Greater Kudu
16.) Damara Zebra
17.) Mandrian Sika Deer
18.) Forest Buffalo
19.) Mexican Red Brocket Deer
20.) Arabian Oryx
21.) Mountain Anoa (obviously meant Lowland Anoa)
22.) Sichuan Takin
23.) Wood Bison
24.) Maxwell’s Duiker
25.) Cuvier’s Gazelle
26.) European Wild Boar
27.) Javan Banteng
28.) Pampas Deer with Patagonia Cavy/Mara
29.) North Indian Muntjac
30.) Sun Bear
31.) African Lion
32.) Southern Lea Lion
33.) Manchurian Brown Bear
34.) Spectacled Bear
35.) Aardwolf
36.) Bat Eared Fox
37.) Corsac Fox w Young
38.) Black Rhino
39.) Indian Rhino
40.) Fishing Cat
41.) Malayan Tapir
42.) Mouse Deer
43.) Sumatran Tiger
44.) DeBrazza’s Guenon
45.) Allen’s Swamp Monkey
46.) Celebes Crested Macaque
47.) Mantled Howler Monkey
