More GLTs than you could ever hope to see--they are in just about every other exhibit here, often mixed with things like agoutis, elephant shrews, etc.
From pictures I took, there were these animals;golden lion tamarin, golden-headed lion tamarin, pen-tailed tree shrew, black and rufous elephant shrew, white-faced saki, red-ruffed lemur, Linne's two-toed sloth, dameraland mole rats, burrowing owls, meerkats, prevost's squirrel, naked mole rat, prehensile-tailed porcupine, howler monkey, three-banded armadillo, degu, chinchilla, brown lemur, greater hedghog tenrec, acouchi, and rock hyrax, while cages for howler monkeys, prevost squirrel, and king vulture, and a collared peccary exhibit surround the building
Good suggestion! They answered me a few days later with this:
Smithsonian's National Zoo
Hi Alexander,
Thanks for your message! Though, we think you may have us confused with someone else. We just checked our archives going back to 1900, and we have never had pen-tailed tree shrews. We did have Low’s squirrels, Sundasciurus lowii in the collection from 1983 to 2003. They are squirrels, not shrews, but they were probably named after the same person since they share a species name. Hope this helps!
We did have Low’s squirrels, Sundasciurus lowii in the collection from 1983 to 2003. They are squirrels, not shrews, but they were probably named after the same person since they share a species name.
They're both named after Sir Hugh Brooke Low, a 19th C. British civil servant in Malaya - and apparently the first man to climb Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.*
*Source: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals (fantastic book, co-written by a Zoochatter!)
A more up to date list (though I'm sure to forget some):
* golden lion tamarin
* golden-headed lion tamarin
* Geoffrey's marmoset
* short-earred elephant shrew
* naked mole rat
* Prevost's squirrel
* prehensiled-tail porcupine,
* red ruffed lemur
* white faced saki monkey
* howler monkey
* meerkat
* two toed sloth
* elegant crested tinamou
* three banded armadillo
* greater Madagascar tenrec
* rock hyrax
* degu
* dwarf mongoose
* banded mongoose
* black footed ferret
* acouchi
* Northern tree shrew
It's funny looking at this list and seeing so many of them, it surprises me there are still about five empty exhibits. It is probably because they have reduced the amount of repeated exhibits.
