Blank Park Zoo Blank Park Zoo Full Species List

[birdsandbats]

Date of Visit: August 5 2021

Species not seen in italics

Parking Lot (This exhibit can only be seen from the parking lot and can be seen without paying admission)
1. Domestic Bactrian Camel, Sarus Crane

Indoor Exhibits

Discovery Center
1. Longsnout Seahorse, unidentified snail, unidentified starfish
2. Red Panda

Tropical Trail
1. White's Tree Frog
2. Woma Python
3. Golfoducean Poison Dart Frog
4. unidentified freshwater stingrays, assorted African cichlids
5. Indian Star Tortoise
6. Indian Star Tortoise
7. Green Iguana
8. Egyptian Fruit Bat
9. Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog
10. Panamanian Golden Frog
11. Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman, Red Piranha
12. Amazon River: Red-tailed Catfish, unidentified pacu, unidentified cichlid
13. Lake Malawi: assorted Lake Malawi cichlids (listed under a nonexistent scientific name)
14. Dragon Moray, assorted corals
15.Coral Reef: Powderblue Surgeon, Purple Tang, Yellow Tang, Orangelined Triggerfish, Orangespine Unicornfish, Whitetail Damselfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Saddle Back Butterfly, Foxface Rabbitfish, Sailfin Tang, Red Toother Triggerfish, Blue Ring Angelfish, Tomato Clownfish, Pennant Butterflyfish, Spanish Hogfish, Panther Grouper, Orbicular Batfish
16. Coldwater Saltwater Tank: unidentified anemone, unidentified starfish, unidentified fish x3
17. Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
Free-roaming Tropical Trail: Pond Slider, Speckled Mousebird, Crested Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Victoria Crowned-Pigeon, Ringed Teal, Australian Wood Duck, Hooded Pitta, Sunbittern, White-belled Go-away-bird, Scarlet-chested Parrot, Silver-eared Mesia, Gray-capped Emerald Dove, Mauritius Pink Pigeon, Rothschild's Peacock-Pheasant, Lady Amherst's Pheasant, Chinese Bamboo Partridge*

Outdoor Exhibits

Australian Walkabout
1. Walk-through: Black Swan, Bennett's Wallaby
2. Domestic Budgerigar
3. Corn Snake
4. Pilbara Rock Monitor
5. Laughing Kookaburra
6. Southern Cassowary
7. Southern Cassowary
8. Bush Thick-Knee, Tawny Frogmouth, Dollarbird, Egyptian Plover, Blue-faced Honeyeater
9. Wallaroo Station: Common Wallaroo, Bennett's Wallaby, Emu

Children's Zoo
1. Domestic Goat
2. Domestic Goat
3. Koi
4. Trumpeter Swan
5. Domestic Donkey
6. Indian Peafowl

Great Cats
1. African Lion
2. African Lion
3. African Lion
4. Amur Tiger
5. Amur Tiger

Africa
1. Generic Giraffe, Gray Crowned Crane, Addax, Slender-horned Gazelle, Helmeted Guineafowl
2. Hartmann's Mountain Zebra
3. Okapi, Blue Crane, Yellow-backed Duiker
4. Eastern Black Rhino
5. Eastern Black Rhino
6. Eastern Black Rhino
7. Red River Hog
8. Kori Bustard
9. Common Eland
10. Helmeted Guineafowl

Misc. Outdoor Exhibits
1. Chilean Flamingo
2. North American River Otter
3. Aldabra Tortoise
4. Ring-tailed Lemur
5. Mangellenic Penguin
6. Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion
7. Cinerous Vulture, White-handed Gibbon
8. Japanese Macaque
9. Bald Eagle
10. Red Panda


*A zookeeper told me the signage was out of date, so take the species in italics with a grain of salt.

 

[birdsandbats]

Forgot the signed but unseen Dromedaries in the Children’s Zoo.

 

[Coelacanth18]

Interesting, there seem to be some differences between my visit 2 years ago and the list you just posted:

Australian Walkabout

Africa

In 2019 the Australian Walkabout had Eclectus Parrot in an enclosure next to the entrance; Africa also had Taveta Golden Weaver (in a cage), Sulcata Tortoise (in with the bustard), Nyala and Southern Ground Hornbill, and Speckled Pigeon (in an unknown enclosure, don't have any photos of it). Are these animals not present anymore?

Misc. Outdoor Exhibits

You mentioned construction by the prairie dogs in the Blank Park thread, but were there no prairie dogs?

Tropical Trail

I photographed signage for a Madagascar exhibit with Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko, Blue-legged Mantella, and Madagascar Hissing Cockroach - the first of which I also photographed the animal. There was also an enclosure for Boa Constrictor, one for Prehensile-tailed Skink, and one by the exit for Scarlet Macaws. Are all of these gone too?

Free-roaming Tropical Trail

Your list is somewhat similar to what I saw/photographed, except that I did see multiple Gray-capped Emerald Doves as well as unsigned White-cheeked Turaco and Plumed Whistling Duck.

Red-tailed Catfish, unidentified pacu, unidentified cichlid

That enclosure also had signage for Silver Arowana and a species of freshwater stingray when I visited, but no signage for cichlids.

 

[birdsandbats]

Interesting, there seem to be some differences between my visit 2 years ago and the list you just posted:




In 2019 the Australian Walkabout had Eclectus Parrot in an enclosure next to the entrance; Africa also had Taveta Golden Weaver (in a cage), Sulcata Tortoise (in with the bustard), Nyala and Southern Ground Hornbill, and Speckled Pigeon (in an unknown enclosure, don't have any photos of it). Are these animals not present anymore?



You mentioned construction by the prairie dogs in the Blank Park thread, but were there no prairie dogs?



I photographed signage for a Madagascar exhibit with Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko, Blue-legged Mantella, and Madagascar Hissing Cockroach - the first of which I also photographed the animal. There was also an enclosure for Boa Constrictor, one for Prehensile-tailed Skink, and one by the exit for Scarlet Macaws. Are all of these gone too?



Your list is somewhat similar to what I saw/photographed, except that I did see multiple Gray-capped Emerald Doves as well as unsigned White-cheeked Turaco and Plumed Whistling Duck.



That enclosure also had signage for Silver Arowana and a species of freshwater stingray when I visited, but no signage for cichlids.

Thanks, it looks like my notes were a bit more incomplete than I thought. Eclectus, turaco, and Prehensile-tailed Skink are all present. None of the others you mentioned are, though. This includes the prairie dogs (the exhibit was empty).

 

[birdsandbats]

Apologies for all of the errors in the previous list, this should be the correct full list:

Date of Visit: August 5 2021

Species not seen in italics

Parking Lot (This exhibit can only be seen from the parking lot and can be seen without paying admission)
1. Domestic Bactrian Camel, Sarus Crane

Indoor Exhibits

Discovery Center
1. Longsnout Seahorse, unidentified snail, unidentified starfish
2. Red Panda

Tropical Trail
1. White's Tree Frog
2. Woma Python
3. Golfoducean Poison Dart Frog
4. Prehensile-tailed Skink
5. unidentified freshwater stingrays, assorted African cichlids
6. Indian Star Tortoise
7. Indian Star Tortoise
8. Green Iguana
9. Egyptian Fruit Bat
10. Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog
11. Panamanian Golden Frog
12. Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman, Red Piranha
13. Amazon River: Red-tailed Catfish, unidentified pacu, unidentified cichlid
14. Lake Malawi: assorted Lake Malawi cichlids (listed under a nonexistent scientific name)
15. Dragon Moray, assorted corals
16.Coral Reef: Powderblue Surgeon, Purple Tang, Yellow Tang, Orangelined Triggerfish, Orangespine Unicornfish, Whitetail Damselfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Saddle Back Butterfly, Foxface Rabbitfish, Sailfin Tang, Red Toother Triggerfish, Blue Ring Angelfish, Tomato Clownfish, Pennant Butterflyfish, Spanish Hogfish, Panther Grouper, Orbicular Batfish
17. Coldwater Saltwater Tank: unidentified anemone, unidentified starfish, unidentified fish x3
18. Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
Free-roaming Tropical Trail: Pond Slider, Speckled Mousebird, Crested Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Victoria Crowned-Pigeon, Ringed Teal, Australian Wood Duck, Hooded Pitta, Sunbittern, White-belled Go-away-bird, Scarlet-chested Parrot, Silver-eared Mesia, Gray-capped Emerald Dove, Mauritius Pink Pigeon, Rothschild's Peacock-Pheasant, Lady Amherst's Pheasant, Chinese Bamboo Partridge, White-cheeked Turaco*

Outdoor Exhibits

Australian Walkabout
1. Eclectus Parrot
2. Walk-through: Black Swan, Bennett's Wallaby
3. Domestic Budgerigar
4. Corn Snake
5. Pilbara Rock Monitor
6. Laughing Kookaburra
7. Southern Cassowary
8. Southern Cassowary
9. Bush Thick-Knee, Tawny Frogmouth, Dollarbird, Egyptian Plover, Blue-faced Honeyeater
10. Wallaroo Station: Common Wallaroo, Bennett's Wallaby, Emu

Children's Zoo
1. Domestic Goat
2. Domestic Goat
3. Koi
4. Trumpeter Swan
5. Domestic Donkey
6. Dromedary
7. Indian Peafowl

Great Cats
1. African Lion
2. African Lion
3. African Lion
4. Amur Tiger
5. Amur Tiger

Africa
1. Generic Giraffe, Gray Crowned Crane, Addax, Slender-horned Gazelle, Lesser Kudu, Helmeted Guineafowl
2. Hartmann's Mountain Zebra
3. Okapi, Blue Crane, Yellow-backed Duiker
4. Eastern Black Rhino
5. Eastern Black Rhino
6. Eastern Black Rhino
7. Red River Hog
8. Kori Bustard
9. Common Eland
10. Helmeted Guineafowl

Misc. Outdoor Exhibits
1. Chilean Flamingo
2. North American River Otter
3. Aldabra Tortoise
4. Ring-tailed Lemur
5. Mangellenic Penguin
6. Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion
7. Cinerous Vulture, White-handed Gibbon
8. Japanese Macaque
9. Bald Eagle
10. Red Panda


*A zookeeper told me the signage was out of date, so take the species in italics with a grain of salt.

 

[MonkeyBat]

Despite going there for most of my life (Even before I moved here I had family in the Des Moines area), I was unaware of how interesting the bird collection here was. I guessed I never really paid attention to it. It's been two years since my last visit, maybe I should go again sometime, after all, it's closer than Omaha.

I photographed signage for a Madagascar exhibit with Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko, Blue-legged Mantella, and Madagascar Hissing Cockroach - the first of which I also photographed the animal. There was also an enclosure for Boa Constrictor, one for Prehensile-tailed Skink, and one by the exit for Scarlet Macaws. Are all of these gone too?

I think I read somewhere the zoo replaced their macaws with golden headed tamarins.