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Hello everyone, I visited the Beijing Zoo today and I tried to make a species list of it. For the time being, I was unable to finish it. The species list below only features animals from a few zones in the zoo, and the names of the zones are in bold. Species that were not seen are underlined. I will finish this species list once I get my chance, but for now, here's the incomplete version:

Elephants
  • African bush elephant
  • Asian elephant

Rhinos & Hippos
  • Hippopotamus
  • Southern white rhinoceros
  • Baird's tapir

Eagle Hill

  • White-tailed sea eagle
  • Golden eagle

African Animals Zone

  • Gemsbok
  • Plains Zebra
  • Giraffe

Deer Garden

  • Red goral
  • Chinese goral
  • White-lipped deer
  • Chinese muntjac
  • Gemsbok
  • Siberian roe deer
  • Siberian ibex
  • Père David's deer
  • Wapiti
  • Black muntjac
  • Domestic camel
  • Kiang
  • Asiatic wild ass
  • Przewalski's horse
  • Argali
  • Blesbok
  • Scimitar-horned oryx
  • Golden takin
  • Sichuan takin
  • Giant eland
  • Barbary sheep
  • Addax

Snub-Nosed Monkeys
  • Golden snub-nosed monkey
  • Black snub-nosed monkey
  • Grey snub-nosed monkey

Panda Complex
  • Giant Panda

Pheasant Garden
  • Green peafowl
  • African grey parrot
  • Red and green macaw
  • Blue and yellow macaw
  • Indian peafowl
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Temmink's tragopan
  • Lady Amherst's pheasant
  • Moluccan eclectus
  • Pink cockatoo
  • Blue-fronted amazon
  • Java sparrow
  • Budgerigar
  • Cockatiel
  • Black-capped lory
  • Reeve's pheasant
  • Swinhoe's pheasant
  • Brown-eared pheasant
  • Silver pheasant
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Golden pheasant

Misc. Exhibits
  • Lowland paca
  • Masked palm civet
  • Eurasian eagle-owl
  • Northern raccoon
  • South American coati
  • Diana monkey
  • Red and white giant flying squirrel
  • Grivet
  • Northern pig-tailed macaque
  • Blue monkey
  • Ring-tailed lemur
  • Common squirrel monkey

Monkey Hill
  • Rhesus macaque
  • Common patas monkey

Canids Zone
  • Black-backed jackal
  • Grey wolf
  • Fennec fox
  • Striped hyena
  • Spotted hyena
  • Silver fox (melanistic red fox)
  • Raccoon dog

That's it :). I did not get to finish recording the rest of the species from the Canids Zone before hurrying to check out other exhibits since the park was almost closing.
 
Hello everyone, I visited the Beijing Zoo today and I tried to make a species list of it. For the time being, I was unable to finish it. The species list below only features animals from a few zones in the zoo, and the names of the zones are in bold. Species that were not seen are underlined. I will finish this species list once I get my chance, but for now, here's the incomplete version:

Elephants
  • African bush elephant
  • Asian elephant

Rhinos & Hippos
  • Hippopotamus
  • Southern white rhinoceros
  • Baird's tapir

Eagle Hill

  • White-tailed sea eagle
  • Golden eagle

African Animals Zone

  • Gemsbok
  • Plains Zebra
  • Giraffe

Deer Garden

  • Red goral
  • Chinese goral
  • White-lipped deer
  • Chinese muntjac
  • Gemsbok
  • Siberian roe deer
  • Siberian ibex
  • Père David's deer
  • Wapiti
  • Black muntjac
  • Domestic camel
  • Kiang
  • Asiatic wild ass
  • Przewalski's horse
  • Argali
  • Blesbok
  • Scimitar-horned oryx
  • Golden takin
  • Sichuan takin
  • Giant eland
  • Barbary sheep
  • Addax

Snub-Nosed Monkeys
  • Golden snub-nosed monkey
  • Black snub-nosed monkey
  • Grey snub-nosed monkey

Panda Complex
  • Giant Panda

Pheasant Garden
  • Green peafowl
  • African grey parrot
  • Red and green macaw
  • Blue and yellow macaw
  • Indian peafowl
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Temmink's tragopan
  • Lady Amherst's pheasant
  • Moluccan eclectus
  • Pink cockatoo
  • Blue-fronted amazon
  • Java sparrow
  • Budgerigar
  • Cockatiel
  • Black-capped lory
  • Reeve's pheasant
  • Swinhoe's pheasant
  • Brown-eared pheasant
  • Silver pheasant
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Golden pheasant

Misc. Exhibits
  • Lowland paca
  • Masked palm civet
  • Eurasian eagle-owl
  • Northern raccoon
  • South American coati
  • Diana monkey
  • Red and white giant flying squirrel
  • Grivet
  • Northern pig-tailed macaque
  • Blue monkey
  • Ring-tailed lemur
  • Common squirrel monkey

Monkey Hill
  • Rhesus macaque
  • Common patas monkey

Canids Zone
  • Black-backed jackal
  • Grey wolf
  • Fennec fox
  • Striped hyena
  • Spotted hyena
  • Silver fox (melanistic red fox)
  • Raccoon dog

That's it :). I did not get to finish recording the rest of the species from the Canids Zone before hurrying to check out other exhibits since the park was almost closing.
Wow, such a large collection of ungulates, snub nosed monkeys and pheasants!
 
There are no big cats or did I miss something?

I was unable to finish the whole species list in one visit, which means that the version above is incomplete. I will make a complete version once I get another chance to visit the zoo. I live in Beijing myself, so we probably won't have to wait for too long before I make the complete version:).
 
Hello everyone, I visited the Beijing Zoo today and I tried to make a species list of it. For the time being, I was unable to finish it. The species list below only features animals from a few zones in the zoo, and the names of the zones are in bold. Species that were not seen are underlined. I will finish this species list once I get my chance, but for now, here's the incomplete version:

Elephants
  • African bush elephant
  • Asian elephant

Rhinos & Hippos
  • Hippopotamus
  • Southern white rhinoceros
  • Baird's tapir

Eagle Hill

  • White-tailed sea eagle
  • Golden eagle

African Animals Zone

  • Gemsbok
  • Plains Zebra
  • Giraffe

Deer Garden

  • Red goral
  • Chinese goral
  • White-lipped deer
  • Chinese muntjac
  • Gemsbok
  • Siberian roe deer
  • Siberian ibex
  • Père David's deer
  • Wapiti
  • Black muntjac
  • Domestic camel
  • Kiang
  • Asiatic wild ass
  • Przewalski's horse
  • Argali
  • Blesbok
  • Scimitar-horned oryx
  • Golden takin
  • Sichuan takin
  • Giant eland
  • Barbary sheep
  • Addax

Snub-Nosed Monkeys
  • Golden snub-nosed monkey
  • Black snub-nosed monkey
  • Grey snub-nosed monkey

Panda Complex
  • Giant Panda

Pheasant Garden
  • Green peafowl
  • African grey parrot
  • Red and green macaw
  • Blue and yellow macaw
  • Indian peafowl
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Temmink's tragopan
  • Lady Amherst's pheasant
  • Moluccan eclectus
  • Pink cockatoo
  • Blue-fronted amazon
  • Java sparrow
  • Budgerigar
  • Cockatiel
  • Black-capped lory
  • Reeve's pheasant
  • Swinhoe's pheasant
  • Brown-eared pheasant
  • Silver pheasant
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Golden pheasant

Misc. Exhibits
  • Lowland paca
  • Masked palm civet
  • Eurasian eagle-owl
  • Northern raccoon
  • South American coati
  • Diana monkey
  • Red and white giant flying squirrel
  • Grivet
  • Northern pig-tailed macaque
  • Blue monkey
  • Ring-tailed lemur
  • Common squirrel monkey

Monkey Hill
  • Rhesus macaque
  • Common patas monkey

Canids Zone
  • Black-backed jackal
  • Grey wolf
  • Fennec fox
  • Striped hyena
  • Spotted hyena
  • Silver fox (melanistic red fox)
  • Raccoon dog

That's it :). I did not get to finish recording the rest of the species from the Canids Zone before hurrying to check out other exhibits since the park was almost closing.

Great list!
Recently ZooTierListe (ZTL) has gone global, I am not sure if you are familiar with this website, but it gives an overview per species (which zoos they are kept in, how many etc).
It would be a great help if you add more information about Beijing Zoo to this website or from different zoos. ;) This thread gives more information about ZTL and the guidelines.
I have already added most of the species from this list to Zoo Beijing on ZTL, I haven't added all species because I had no information on their subspecies status.
 
Great list!
Recently ZooTierListe (ZTL) has gone global, I am not sure if you are familiar with this website, but it gives an overview per species (which zoos they are kept in, how many etc).
It would be a great help if you add more information about Beijing Zoo to this website or from different zoos. ;) This thread gives more information about ZTL and the guidelines.
I have already added most of the species from this list to Zoo Beijing on ZTL, I haven't added all species because I had no information on their subspecies status.

Thanks for adding my species list to ZooTierListe! I will definitely add more information about Beijing Zoo to the website after I make the complete version of my list. For the subspecies, I'm afraid that most of them are unspecified and almost no information is provided:confused:.
 
There are no big cats or did I miss something?
The last jaguar of the five ones used to keep in Beijing Zoo passed away in 2021; the last cheetah passed away two months ago; the last snow leopard passed away around 2016; the clouded leopard passed away more than a decade ago; now there are only two leopards kept in off-exhibit area of the felid house, where the Eurasian lynx, caracal and serval are on exhibit, and Amur tigers and lions exhibited in another exhibit.
 
The last jaguar of the five ones used to keep in Beijing Zoo passed away in 2021; the last cheetah passed away two months ago; the last snow leopard passed away around 2016; the clouded leopard passed away more than a decade ago; now there are only two leopards kept in off-exhibit area of the felid house, where the Eurasian lynx, caracal and serval are on exhibit, and Amur tigers and lions exhibited in another exhibit.
How did you find out all this information? Zoos in China unlike the US don’t really disclose all that information on animal passings and stuff. My family is actually from China, so I visit once a year. Last year, there was a sign at the cheetah exhibit(entirely in Chinese) saying the cheetah was very old and he was receiving palliative, end of life care. If you would look at him you would tell he was definitely at the end of his life, so I didn’t expect him to last much longer. He looked so skinny, his coat was all shaggy, he walked quite stiffly and wouldn’t walk around much and he just overall looked like he was nearing the end. Visitors were complaining he didn’t look good and there was a sign at the exhibit to keep quiet while observing him as he was sick and old. I really think he should have been retired from display, although he did have 24/7 access to go inside but the sign did say he still liked to lay in the sun during the middle of the day so I was able to catch him one last time. What’s in the exhibit now? I hope the zoo puts the leopards that you mentioned kept off-exhibit in the felid house in the cheetah exhibit.
 
How did you find out all this information? Zoos in China unlike the US don’t really disclose all that information on animal passings and stuff. My family is actually from China, so I visit once a year. Last year, there was a sign at the cheetah exhibit(entirely in Chinese) saying the cheetah was very old and he was receiving palliative, end of life care. If you would look at him you would tell he was definitely at the end of his life, so I didn’t expect him to last much longer. He looked so skinny, his coat was all shaggy, he walked quite stiffly and wouldn’t walk around much and he just overall looked like he was nearing the end. Visitors were complaining he didn’t look good and there was a sign at the exhibit to keep quiet while observing him as he was sick and old. I really think he should have been retired from display, although he did have 24/7 access to go inside but the sign did say he still liked to lay in the sun during the middle of the day so I was able to catch him one last time. What’s in the exhibit now? I hope the zoo puts the leopards that you mentioned kept off-exhibit in the felid house in the cheetah exhibit.
Now, the serval is in the cheetah's old exhibit.
 
@baboon and @Raikou: Do you have any further information on the leopard situation? In terms of what individuals (sex, age, reproductive state, species/subspecies and their genetics)!!!

What is the general status of leopard subspecies in PR of China. I know that f.i. with snow leopard now only Xining Zoo in Xin is in the frame with a larger zoo population. But I would love to know what about North China Leopard, Amur or other subspecies and clouded leopard and the like.
 
@baboon and @Raikou: Do you have any further information on the leopard situation? In terms of what individuals (sex, age, reproductive state, species/subspecies and their genetics)!!!

What is the general status of leopard subspecies in PR of China. I know that f.i. with snow leopard now only Xining Zoo in Xin is in the frame with a larger zoo population. But I would love to know what about North China Leopard, Amur or other subspecies and clouded leopard and the like.
It is said that the Beijing Zoo also houses two leopards, a male North China leopard and a female leopard said to be an Indochinese leopard.

The bloodlines of leopards in most zoos in China have not been tested.

There are snow leopards in Golmud City, Qinghai Province. Snow leopards are also kept in several zoos in Tibet, such as Norbulingka, Lhasa

There is currently no zoo in China that has an Amur leopard (with confirmed pedigree).

Currently, only Chongqing Zoo in China raises clouded leopards, and there is only one elderly female clouded leopard.
 
@Raikou, thank you very much. Really do appreciate your comments and additional information.

I do hope the genetics of Leopards get more attention from the China Zoo Association soon as it is imperative that the ex situ populations get a boost through careful management.

Same is true for Snow leopard and Clouded leopard.
 
@Raikou, thank you very much. Really do appreciate your comments and additional information.

I do hope the genetics of Leopards get more attention from the China Zoo Association soon as it is imperative that the ex situ populations get a boost through careful management.

Same is true for Snow leopard and Clouded leopard.

Well……to tell the truth, Clouded leopard will possibly be vanished in a comple of years later. There is only one clouded leopard left in China mainland's zoo, which is very critical.
 
The last jaguar of the five ones used to keep in Beijing Zoo passed away in 2021; the last cheetah passed away two months ago; the last snow leopard passed away around 2016; the clouded leopard passed away more than a decade ago; now there are only two leopards kept in off-exhibit area of the felid house, where the Eurasian lynx, caracal and serval are on exhibit, and Amur tigers and lions exhibited in another exhibit.
I have heard that the last clouded leopard in Beijing zoo was last seen in around 2006.
 
My bad that I did not keep you guys updated, but I had been busy in the previous months, and today I finally had a second chance to visit the zoo and finish up the species list, which I left incomplete this January. The names of the zones in the park will be in bold, and since it was raining today, a decent amount of animals were not in their enclosures. The names of these species will be underlined. The species list does not include animals from the children's zoo.

Elephants

  • African bush elephant
  • Asian elephant

Rhinos & Hippos
  • Nile hippopotamus
  • Southern white rhinoceros
  • Baird's tapir

Eagle Hill
  • White-tailed sea eagle
  • Golden eagle

African Animals Zone
  • Gemsbok
  • Plains Zebra
  • Giraffe (exhibit under maintenance)

Deer Garden

  • Red goral
  • Chinese goral
  • White-lipped deer
  • Chinese muntjac
  • Gemsbok
  • Siberian roe deer
  • Siberian ibex
  • Père David's deer
  • Wapiti
  • Black muntjac
  • Domestic camel
  • Kiang
  • Asiatic wild ass
  • Przewalski's horse
  • Argali
  • Blesbok
  • Scimitar-horned oryx
  • Golden takin
  • Sichuan takin
  • Common eland (signed as giant eland)
  • Barbary sheep
  • Addax

Snub-Nosed Monkeys
  • Golden snub-nosed monkey
  • Black snub-nosed monkey
  • Grey snub-nosed monkey

Panda Complex
  • Giant Panda

Pheasant Garden (no species were underlined because I did not visit this zone today, so I do not know which species were off display. All species listed for this zone are based on what I saw on January 3rd 2024)
  • Green peafowl
  • African grey parrot
  • Red and green macaw
  • Blue and yellow macaw
  • Indian peafowl
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Temmink's tragopan
  • Lady Amherst's pheasant
  • Moluccan eclectus
  • Pink cockatoo
  • Blue-fronted amazon
  • Java sparrow
  • Budgerigar
  • Cockatiel
  • Black-capped lory
  • Reeve's pheasant
  • Swinhoe's pheasant
  • Brown-eared pheasant
  • Silver pheasant
  • Blue-eared pheasant
  • Golden pheasant

Misc. Exhibits (near the closed nocturnal house)
  • Lowland paca
  • Masked palm civet
  • Eurasian eagle-owl
  • Northern raccoon
  • South American coati
  • Diana monkey
  • Red and white giant flying squirrel
  • Grivet
  • Northern pig-tailed macaque
  • Moloney's monkey
  • Ring-tailed lemur
  • Common squirrel monkey

Monkey Hill
  • Rhesus macaque
  • Common patas monkey

Canids Zone
  • Black-backed jackal
  • Mongolian wolf
  • Fennec fox
  • Striped hyena
  • Spotted hyena
  • Silver fox (melanistic red fox)
  • Raccoon dog
  • Corsac fox
  • Meerkat
  • Red fox
  • Masked palm civet
  • Northern raccoon
  • South American coati
  • Yellow throated marten
  • Red panda

Bear Hill and Polar Bear Hall
  • Polar bear
  • Brown bear (exhibit under maintenance)
  • Asiatic black bear (exhibit under maintenance)

Felids Zone
  • Serval (2 individuals housed in two enclosures, one in their old enclosure and one in the former cheetah habitat)
  • Caracal
  • Eurasian lynx

Tigers and Lions
  • African lion
  • Siberian tiger
  • Bengal tiger

Australian Animals Zone
  • Red kangaroo
  • Red-necked wallaby
  • Southern cassowary
  • Common emu
  • Galah
  • Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
  • Short-billed corella
  • Sulphur-crested cockatoo
  • Australian king parrot
  • Salmon-crested cockatoo

South American Animals Zone
  • Greater rhea
  • Lowland paca
  • Common green iguana
  • Red-eared slider turtle (unsigned, housed together with the lowland paca and green iguana)
  • Linne's two-toed sloth
  • Lowland paca (housed together with the sloths)
  • Great anteater
  • Guanaco
  • Alpaca
  • South American coati

Tapir houses & adjacent exhibits
  • Malayan tapir
  • Baird's tapir
  • Banded mongoose

Waterfowl Lake

· Whooper swan

· Black swan

· Great white pelican

· Bar-headed goose

· Mandarin duck

· Northern pintail

· Common crane

· Grey crowned crane

· Black-necked crane

· White naped crane

· Ruddy shelduck

· Black crowned night heron

· Mallard

· Swan goose


Pheasants (housed in Bird Garden)

· Blue-eared pheasant

· Brown-eared pheasant

· White-eared pheasant

· Temmink's tragopan

· Swinhoe's pheasant

· Reeve's pheasant

· Lady Amherst's pheasant

· Silver pheasant

· Chukar


Flamingo House (Bird Garden)

· Chilean flamingo

· American flamingo

· Greater flamingo

· Yellow-billed stork

· Marabou

· Oriental stork


Misc. Bird House (Bird Garden)

· Crested mynah

· Madagascar bulbul

· Light-vented bulbul

· Red-billed leiothrix

· Java sparrow

· Eastern spotted dove

· Oriental turtle dove

· Eastern red-shouldered dove

· Black-throated laughingthrush

· Collared grosbeak

· Orange-headed thrush

· Timor zebra finch

· Long-tailed finch

· Wreathed hornbill

· Eurasian skylark

· Horned lark

· Chinese grosbeak

· Buffy laughingthrush

· Black-throated laughingthrush

· Red-winged laughingthrush

· Greater necklaced laughingthrush


Hornbill House (Bird Garden)

· Trumpeter hornbill

· Silvery cheeked hornbill

· Southern ground hornbill

· Black-necked aracari

· Great hornbill

· Major Mitchell's cockatoo

· Red-billed toucan

· Red-billed hornbill


Aviary (Bird Garden)

· Eurasian spoonbill

· Black-faced spoonbill

· Black stork

· Scarlet ibis

· Black necked ibis

· Grey heron

· Oriental turtle-dove

· Java sparrow

· Budgeriar

· Cockatiel


Parrot House (Bird Garden)

· Black-capped lory

· Red-winged parrot

· Coconut lorikeet

· Golden-capped parakeet

· Blue and yellow macaw

· Sulphur-crested cockatoo

· Alexandrine parakeet

· Yellow-crowned Amazon

· Orange-winged Amazon

· Short-billed corella

· Major Mitchell's cockatoo

· African grey parrot

· Rose-ringed parakeet

· Eclectus parrot

· Hyacinth macaw

· Blue and yellow macaw

· Red and green macaw


Apes

· Chimpanzee


Tropical monkeys house

· Common squirrel monkey

· Black-and-white ruffed lemur

· Red-tailed monkey

· Black-capped capuchin

· Weeper capuchin


Gibbon House

· Northern white-cheeked gibbon

· Geoffroy‘s spider monkey

· De Brazza's monkey

· Celebes crested macaque

· Southern yellow-cheeked gibbon

· Northern white-cheeked gibbon

· Skywalker hoolock gibbon

· Eastern hoolock gibbon


Penguin House and Otter Exhibit

· Asian small clawed otter

· Magellanic penguin

· Humboldt penguin
 
Here's the species list for the Reptiles & Amphibians House.

Reptiles & Amphibians House (ground level)

· Siamese crocodile

· Common snapping turtle

· Giant Asian pond turtle

· Red-eared slider turtle


· Chinese giant salamander

· Crucian carp (unsigned)

· Oriental weatherfish (unsigned)


· Strawberry poison frog (red and green variations)

· Granular poison frog

· Uakari poison frog

· Golden poison frog (mint green variation)

· Bumblebee poison frog

· Lehmann's poison frog

· Green poison frog

· Phantasmal poison frog

· Dyeing poison frog


· Hermanns tortoise

· Tricarinate hill turtle

· Elongated tortoise

· Sucata tortoise

· Leopard tortoise

· Painted turtle

· Red-footed tortoise

· Indian star tortoise

· Yellow-margined box turtle


· Aldabra giant tortoise


· Spectacled caiman

· Common snapping turtle


· Chinese alligator


· Asiatic toad

· Chinese flying frog

· Chinese fire-bellied newt

· Branford’s whipping frog

· Budgett's frog

· White's tree frog

· Argentine horned frog (albino)

· Black spotted pond frog

· Blanford's whipping frog

· African clawed frog (albino)

· Cranwell's horned frog

· Asian yellow pond turtle

· Chinese softshell turtle

· Southern New Guinea snapping turtle

· Pig-nosed turtle

· Common musk turtle

· Scorpion mud turtle

· Reeve's turtle

· Mata mata

· Alligator snapping turtle

· Beal’s eyed turtle

· Stripe-necked leaf turtle

· Ouachita map turtle

· Red-eared slider turtle

· Red-bellied turtle


· Alligator snapping turtle

· Siebenrock's snake-necked turtle

· Red-bellied turtle


· Red-footed tortoise

· Green iguana

· Spotted Amazon river turtle


· Sucata tortoise


· Great mynah

· Golden-crested mynah

· Red-tailed laughingthrush

· Collared finch bill

· Orange-headed thrush

· Orange-bellied leafbird

· White-crested laughing thrush


· Ploughshare tortoise

· Radiated tortoise


Reptiles & Amphibians House (basement)

· Central bearded dragon

· Leopard gecko

· Fat-tailed gecko

· Chinese skink

· Przewalski's wonder gecko

· Carrot-tailed leopard gecko

· Rough-scaled plated lizard

· Sudan plated lizard

· Gila monster

· Black-and-white tegu

· Green iguana

· Red tegu

· Blue-tongued skink

· Chinese crocodile lizard

· Red-eyed crocodile skink


· Reticulated python


Reptiles & Amphibians House (second floor)

· Burmese python

· Red-tailed boa

· Corn snake

· Nelson’s milk snake

· Keeled rat snake

· Rainbow boa

· Black kingsnake

· California king snake

· Florida king snake

· Dwarf sand boa

· Western hog-nosed snake

· Carpet python

· Reticulated python (albino)

· Stripe-tailed rat snake

· Red-banded snake

· King rat snake

· Short-tailed pit viper

· Korean rat snake

· Ball python

· Honduran milk snake

· Chinese cobra

· Pueblan milk snake
 
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