Visited the Austin Zoo for the first time today. The reptile house is closed. As well certain areas are blocked off where 6 feet of distance from mammals (especially cats and dogs) could not be maintained. Also I opted not to take the train, where apparently they exhibit several more species. Therefore this is not a complete list. I am happy to report the zoo is rapidly improving though. It is building much nicer and professional exhibits, that are larger. The cat collection for example all has nice exhibits. As well enrichment was seen in almost all exhibits. I saw at least 7 empty displays, some of which were fairly old and outdated. I wonder if they will remove these exhibits.
Mammals:
Mammals:
- Alpaca
- American black bear
- Binturong
- Black-tailed prairie dog
- Bobcat
- Capybara
- Chital
- Common Brown Lemur
- Common marmoset
- Common squirrel monkey
- Gray fox
- Grey Wolf
- Kinkajou
- Lion
- Llama
- Mantled guereza
- Patas monkey
- Plains zebra
- Red-handed tamarin
- Ring-tailed lemur
- South American coati
- Tiger
- Tufted capuchin
- White-tailed deer
- Wedge-capped capuchin
- Puma (unseen)
- Genet (unseen, blocked off due to covid-19 risk)
- Visayan Warty Pig (unseen, only on the train)
- Red-ruffed lemur (unseen)
- Red fox (unseen)
- As well they had goats, pigs, a feral hog, wolf-dog hybrids, chickens, and turkey.
- Bare-eyed cockatoo
- Black-capped lory
- Black-headed parrot
- Blue-and-yellow macaw
- Chukar
- Common ostrich
- Great horned owl
- Indian peafowl
- Lilac-crowned Amazon
- Military macaw
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Red-and-green macaw
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Timneh Parrot
- Umbrella cockatoo
- Yellow-naped amazon
- American alligator
- Galápagos tortoise (Apparently donated by San Antonio Zoo in the 90's)
- African spurred tortoise
- Red-footed tortoise
- Leopard tortoise
