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Expedition Congo - Forests

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First part (of three) of a large project I am doing on the fauna of the Democractic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This part focuses on the forests of the DRC, including the lowland and montane rainforests and the swamp and riverine forests. See below for species list, see my personal thread for more.
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Expedition Congo - Forests

In this species list:
  • Numbered lists correspond to numbers on the map.
  • Dotted lists represent the different species housed in a mixed exhibit.
  • Striped lists represent species housed in different exhibits within a complex, such as a bird house or herp house.
On the design map:
  • Exhibits are drawn in green, with structural elements such as water, muddy areas, rocky areas, elevated areas not accesible to some species and overhead climbing structures drawn in different colors (blue, brown, dark brown and olive).
  • Pathways and visitor areas are drawn in ivory white and peach (playground).
  • Off-show animal and keeper areas are drawn in grey.
  • Buildings other than the dome, the wall of which is drawn in dark blue, are drawn in brown.
Gorilla, monkey and duiker islands and Gorilla, monkey and duiker house

Eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri)

L’hoest’s monkey or Mountain monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti)

Hamlyn’s monkey or Owl-faced monkey (Cercopithecus hamlyni)

Southern talapoin or Angolan talapoin (Miopithecus talapoin) and Simpson’s blue duiker (Philantomba monticola simpsoni or P. simpsoni)

Dryas monkey (Chlorocebus dryas)

Powell-Cotton’s Angola colobus (Colobus angolensis cottoni) and Weyns’s duiker (Cephalophus weynsi)

Rainforest House

Walk-through aviary, indoor and outdoor
  • Hartlaub’s duck (Pteronetta hartlaubii)
  • Nkulengu rail (Himantornis haematopus)
  • Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis)
  • Handsome spurfowl (Pternistis nobilis)
  • Blue malkoha or Chattering yellowbill (Ceuthmochares aereus)
  • Rwenzori turaco (Gallirex johnstoni)
  • Black-billed turaco (Tauraco schuettii)
  • African olive pigeon or Rameron pigeon (Columba arquatrix)
  • Splendid starling or Splendid glossy starling (Lamprotornis splendidus)
  • Chestnut-winged starling (Onychognathus fulgidus hartlaubii)
  • Prigogine's greenbul (Chlorocichla prigoginei)
  • Yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti)
  • Western bronze-naped pigeon (Columba iriditorques)
  • African green pigeon (Treron calvus)
  • Archer's ground robin or Archer's robin-chat (Cossypha archeri)
  • Bare-cheeked trogon (Apaloderma aequatoriale)
Breeding center for Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis)

Raptor and owl aviaries

1) Cassin's hawk-eagle or Cassin's eagle (Aquila africana)
2) Long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)
3) Black sparrowhawk, Black goshawk or Great sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus)
4) Congo bay owl (Phodilus prigoginei)
5) Shelley's eagle-owl (Bubo shelleyi)​

Parrot aviaries

Congo African grey parrot, Grey parrot, Congo grey parrot or African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)

Red-fronted parrot or Jardine’s parrot (Poicephalus gulielmi gulielmi)

Okapi and Yellow-backed duiker outdoor paddocks and house with indoor paddocks

Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) and Western yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor ruficrista)

Mixed aviary
  • Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata)
  • Hartlaub’s duck (Pteronetta hartlaubii)
  • Double-toothed barbet (Lybius bidentatus)
  • Red-collared babbler or Red-collared mountain-babbler (Turdoides rufocinctus)

Okapi house indoor aviaries:

- Golden-naped weaver (Ploceus aureonucha)
- Yellow-legged weaver (Ploceus flavipes)
- Ituri Batis or Chapin's Batis (Batis ituriensis)
- Yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta graueri)​

Carnivore/Insectivore exhibits

- Tree pangolin, White-bellied pangolin, White-bellied tree pangolin or Three-cusped pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis)
- Giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea)
- African golden cat (Caracal aurata)
- Giant forest genet (Genetta victoriae)
- Central African oyan or Central African linsang (Poiana richardsonii)
- Hammer-headed bat, Hammer-headed fruit bat or Big-lipped bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)​

Nocturnal house underneath carnivore/insectivore exhibits and house

- Prince Demidoff's dwarf bushbaby or Prince Demidoff's dwarf galago (Galagoides demidoff demidoff)
- Dusky bushbaby or Matschie's galago (Galago matschiei)
- East African potto (Perodicticus ibeanus ibeanus)
- Bates's pygmy antelope (Nesotragus batesi)
- Water chevrotain (Hyemoschus aquaticus)
- African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus)
- Red-chested owlet (Glaucidium tephronotum medje)
- Bates's nightjar or Forest nightjar (Caprimulgus batesi)
- Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus)
- Franquet's epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti)​

Herp house

- Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica)
- Rhinoceros viper, Butterfly viper or River jack (Bitis nasicornis)
- Jameson's mamba (Dendroaspis jamesoni)
- Lichtenstein's night adder, Forest night adder or Olive-green viper (Causus lichtensteinii)
- African bush viper, Green bush viper, Variable bush viper, Leaf viper, Common bush viper, Tree viper or Hallowell's green tree viper (Atheris squamigera)
- Montane egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis atra)
- Calabar python, Calabar ground python, African burrowing python, Burrowing boa, Calabar boa, Calabar ground boa, Calabaria, Two-headed boa, West African burrowing boa or West African ground boa (Calabaria reinhardtii)
- Northern African rock python (Python sebae sebae)
- Ituri forest chameleon (Trioceros ituriensis)
- Johnston's chameleon, Johnston's three-horned chameleon or Ruwenzori three-horned chameleon (Trioceros johnstoni)
- Strange-horned chameleon, Rwenzori plate-nosed chameleon or Single welded-horn chameleon (Kinyongia xenorhina)
- Rhampholeon hattinghi
- Forest hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys erosa)
- Sawtail lizard or Western neon blue-tailed tree lizard (Holaspis guentheri)
- Sparse-scaled forest lizard (Congolacerta vauereselli)
- African tree toad (Nectophryne afra)
- African foam-nest tree frog or Western foam-nest tree frog (Chiromantis rufescens)
- Phlyctimantis verrucosus​

Bird House

- Giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima)
- Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis)
- Black-casqued hornbill (Ceratogymna atrata)
- Red-billed dwarf hornbill (Lophoceros camurus)
- Neumann's coucal (Centropus neumanni or C. leucogaster neumanni)
- Black bee-eater (Merops gularis)
- Green-breasted pitta (Pitta reichenowi)
- Black-collared lovebird (Agapornis swindernianus)
- Nahan's partridge (Ptilopachus nahani) and Prigogine's double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris prigoginei)
- Latham's francolin or Forest francolin (Peliperdix lathami) and Rwenzori double-collared sunbird or Stuhlmann's sunbird (Cinnyris stuhlmanni)
- Buff-spotted flufftail (Sarothrura elegans) and Regal sunbird (Cinnyris regius)
- Eastern forest robin or Yellow-breasted forest robin (Stiphrornis erythrothorax xanthogaster or S. xanthogaster)
- White-headed robin-chat (Cossypha heinrichi)
- Yellow-mantled weaver (Ploceus tricolor)
- Shining drongo (Dicrurus atripennis)
- White-starred robin (Pogonocichla stellata)
- Many-colored bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor graueri)
- Lühder's bushshrike (Laniarius luehderi)
- Cameroon crested guineafowl (Guttera plumifera plumifera) and Hairy-breasted barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta)
- Black guineafowl (Agelastes niger) and Yellow-billed barbet (Trachyphonus purpuratus)
- Grauer's broadbill or African green broadbill (Pseudocalyptomena graueri)
- Eastern wattled cuckooshrike or Oriole cuckooshrike (Lobotos oriolinus)​

Hoofstock house and paddocks

Selous’s sitatunga or Zambezi sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii selousi or T. selousi) [With access to African forest elephant paddocks]

Lowland bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus) and Eastern bay duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis castaneus or C. castaneus)

Giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni meinertzhageni)

Itombwe black-fronted duiker (Cephalophus nigrifrons hypoxanthus or C. hypoxanthus)

African forest elephant paddocks and house

Main paddock, secondary paddock, bull paddock and house for African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis)

Elephant house small mammal exhibits (indoor/outdoor)

- Stuhlmann's elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni)
- Four-toed elephant shrew or Four-toed sengi (Petrodromus tetradactylus)
- Western tree hyrax, Western tree dassie or Beecroft's tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax dorsalis)
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel (Heliosciurus ruwenzorii ituriensis)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus)
- Emin's pouched rat, Emin’s giant pouched rat or Forest giant pouched rat (Cricetomys emini)​

Bonobo islands and house

Bonobo (Pan paniscus)

River Hog Café, Terraces and Playground

African forest buffalo, Red river hog, Golden-bellied mangabey and raptor exhibits and house

African forest buffalo, Red river hog and Golden-bellied mangabey island
  • African forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus)
  • Red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus)
  • Golden-bellied mangabey (Cercocebus chrysogaster)

Raptor aviaries

1) Chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk (Accipiter castanilius)
2) Bat hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus)
3) Palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis)
4) Congo serpent eagle (Circaetus spectabilis)
5) Crowned eagle, African crowned eagle or Crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus)
 
CMP
I have to say, this looks like your best map yet. It seems special care has been made to avoid backtracking, and this is something I really appreciate in maps and zoo layouts. The concept itself is also very cool.
 
KevinB
@ChunkyMunky pengopus

Thank you very much for your nice comments. It may well have been my most challenging map yet and the one I have spent the most time on also.

I'm not completely certain backtracking was completely avoided, but I did try my best to pay attention to that aspect with the side trails. I'm not sure though whether I'm going to use this type of concept again, it is not the easiest to do.
 
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