Brookfield Zoo Brookfield Zoo list of species on exhibit October 2024

Grant

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5+ year member
I visited Brookfield Zoo the last two weekends, and compiled a list of all species listed/seen on exhibit. The swamp was closed for maintenance, so it is not included in this list. Areas listed as SNS are "signed not seen"

Hamil Family Play Zoo

- Koala (outdoor)
- Toco Toucan, Red-Legged Seriema
- Koala (indoor)
- Dumeril's Ground Boa
- Ball Python
- Burmese Python

Wild Encounters
- Domestic Goat
- Llama
- Reindeer
- White-Nosed Coati
- Bennett's Wallaby
- Budgerigar

Seven Seas
- Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

Pinniped Point
- California Sea Lion
- California Sea Lion
- California Sea Lion
- Gray Seal

Clouded Leopard Rainforest
- Off-exhibit
- Thai Bamboo Racer
- Chinese Emperor Newt
- Weber's Sailfin Lizard
- Clouded Leopard
- Binturong
- Ring-Tailed Lemur
- Tentacled Snake
- Halmahera Giant Gecko
- Giant Indian Scorpion
- Giant Indian Scorpion
- Mandarin Ratsnake
- Prevost's Squirrel (SNS)
Big Cats
- Snow Leopard
- Amur Tiger
- Sloth Bear
- African Lion
- Amur Leopard
Desert's Edge
- Slender-Tailed Meerkat
- Damaraland Mole Rat
- Naked Mole Rat
- Pallas Cat
- Ocelot
- Bat-Eared Fox
- Small-Spotted Genet
- Arabian Sand Cat

Pachyderm House
- Capybara
- Pygmy Hippo
- Galapagos Tortoise (SNS)
- Lowland Tapir
- Eastern Black Rhinoceros
- Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Australia House & Yards
- Bennett's Wallaby
- Bennett's Wallaby, Western Grey Kangaroo
- Western Grey Kangaroo, Bennett's Wallaby, Cape Barren Goose
- empty exhibit
- Prehensile-Tailed Skink
- Green Tree Python
- Carpet Python
- Laughing Kookaburra, Short-Beaked Echidna
- Spiny-Tailed Monitor
- Papuan Olive Python
- Frilled Dragon (signed, exhibit empty)
- Short-Beaked Echidna
- Back exhibit- empty
- Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
- Rodrigues Fruit Bat

31st Street/Hoofstock Yards
- Bactrian Camel
- Bactrian Camel
- Addax
- Addax
- Grevy's Zebra
- Grevy's Zebra
- Grevy's Zebra (SNS)

Habitat Africa- The Savannah
- Reticulated Giraffe (outdoor, main yard)
- Reticulated Giraffe (outdoor, side yard)
- Kopje Freeflight: Violet-Backed Starling, Emerald Starling, Taveta Golden Weaver, White-Cheeked Turaco, Speckled Mousebird, Common Bulbul
- Klipspringer (SNS)
- African Spur-Thighed Tortoise, Leopard Tortoise- outside yard, SNS
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Pancake Tortoise, Plated Lizard (SNS)
- White-Throated Monitor
Outdoor Yards
- African Painted Dog
- Klipspringer
- Nyala

Habitat Africa- The Forest
- Okapi
- Yellow-Backed Duiker (SNS)
- African Dwarf Crocodile
- Red-Flanked Duiker, Congo Peafowl, Red-Billed Hornbill
- Black & Rufous Elephant Shrew
- White-Bellied Tree Pangolin
- Heavily planted habitat with no signage or visible inhabitant
- Okapi (indoor) (SNS)
- Red-Flanked Duiker- outdoor yard (SNS)
- Okapi
- Okapi
- Red-River Hog

Great Bear Wilderness/Wolf Woods
- American Bison
- Mexican Grey Wolf (SNS)
- Bald Eagle
- Brown Bear
- Polar Bear
- Polar Bear

Reptiles & Birds
starting with right side habitats from entrance:
- Lake Titicaca Frog
- Panamanian Golden Frog
- Gray's Monitor
- Argus Monitor
- Reticulated Python
- Tiger Ratsnake
- Gray-Banded Kingsnake
- Empty exhibit (under construction)
- Papuan Olive Python
Left side
- Brazilian Dart Frog, Anthony's Dart Frog, Yellow-Headed Dart Frog (SNS), Blessed Dart Frog (SNS), Glass Bloodfin Tetra, Neon Tetra, Serpae Tetra
- Veiled Chameleon
- Madagascar Tree Boa
- Timor Python
- Spiny-Headed Tree Lizard
- Philippine Tree Skink
- Green-Tree Monitor
- Rough-Nosed Plated Lizard, Home's Hinge-Backed Tortoise
- Jamaican Iguana
- Jamaican Boa
- South American Green Racer
- Home's Hinge-Backed Tortoise (juvenile)
- Puffing Snake (Phrynonax poecilonotus)
- Desert Iguana, Gila monster, Baja Blue Rock Lizard (SNS), Common Chuckwalla
- Baker's Spiny-Tailed Iguana
- Caiman Lizard
- Free Flight Aviary: Blue-Throated Macaw (on sticks in middle of aviary), Sunbittern, Red-Billed Leiothrix, Wattled Curassow, Blue-Grey Tanager, Amazonian Motmot, Troupial, Gambel's Quail (SNS), Green Honeycreeper (SNS), Crested Wood Partridge (SNS), Red-Capped Cardinal, Puna Teal, Saffron Finch, Silver-Beaked Tanager, Bay-Headed Tanager, Violaceous Euphonia, Paradise Tanager, Brazilian Teal (SNS), Andean Cock of the Rock

Formal Pool
- American White Pelican, American Flamingo

Feathers and Scales
Right side reptile habitats
- Eastern Indigo Snake
- Chinese Crocodile Lizard
- Prairie Rattlesnake
- Smooth-Headed Iguana
- Arizona Mountain Kingsnake
- Egyptian Tortoise
- Desert Grasslands Whiptail (SNS)
- Common Wall Lizard (SNS)
- Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
- Madagascar Spider Tortoise
Left side reptile habitats
- Rough Green Snake
- Eastern Fox Snake
- Chicago Garter Snake
- Green Tree Frog, Cope's Gray Tree Frog (SNS)
- Spotted Turtle
- Western Hognose Snake
- Carrot-Tail Viper Gecko (SNS)
- Bumblebee Toad (SNS)
- Aruba Island Rattlesnake
- European Glass Lizard
- Puerto Rican Boa
- West African Gaboon Viper
- Knob-Tailed Gecko
- Rosy Boa
Bird habitats
- Free Flight Aviary: Andean Cock of the Rock (SNS), Green Honeycreeper, Silver-Beaked Tanager (SNS), Blue-Billed Curassow, Saffron Finch, Blue-Grey Tanager, Red-Capped Cardinal, Troupial (SNS), Amazonian Motmot, Curl-Crested Aracari, Turquoise Tanager
- White-Winged Dove, Roadrunner, Gambel's Quail
- Red-Vented Bulbul, Victoria-Crowned Pigeon, White-Rumped Shama, Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush, Speckled Mousebird (SNS)
- Tawny Frogmouth, Blue-Faced Honeyeater, Wonga Pigeon
- Gambel's Quail, Collared Finchbill Bulbul, Beautiful Fruit Dove, Jambu Fruit Dove
- Scarlet-Faced Liocichla, Chestnut-Backed Thrush, White-Rumped Shama (SNS), Crested Wood Partridge, Beautiful Fruit Dove, Jambu Fruit Dove, Collared Finchbill Bulbul
- Andean Condor (outdoor aviary)

Living Coast
- Blue-Striped Pipefish, Peppermint Shrimp
- Black Ocellaris Clownfish, Yellow Tang, Powder Blue Tang, Flame Angelfish, White Ribbon Moray Eel, Orange Skunk Clownfish
- Warty Frogfish (SNS)
- no signage, nothing seen
- Longnose Gar, Bowfin, Rock Bass, Warmouth, Orange-Spotted Sunfish, Pumpkinseed Sunfish, Bluegill, Walleye, Yellow Perch, White Crappie, Black Crappie, Channel Catfish
- Weatherfish, Round Goby (SNS)
- Banded Archerfish
- Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, Bar Jack, Cownose Ray, Atlantic Spadefish, Lookdown (SNS)
- Moon Jelly
- Frilled Upside Down Jelly
- Cherubfish, Neon Goby, Flamefish, Royal Gamma
- Leopard Shark, Swell Shark, Horn Shark, Garibaldi Fish, Opaleye, Half Moon, Striped Surfperch, California Moray Eel
- Mandarin Dragonet (SNS), Two-Spot Hogfish, Canary Fangblenny, Striped Cleaner Wrasse, Coral Beauty Angelfish, White-Booted Cleaner Shrimp
- Epaulette Shark (pup)
- Red Lionfish, Dogface Puffer, Purple Tang
- Bat Star, Strawberry Anemone
- Sailfin Tang, Domino Damselfish, Pavo Damselfish, Blue Tang, Longnose Butterflyfish, Ocellaris Clownfish, Tomato Clownfish, Orange Fairy Basslet, Harlequin Tuskfish (SNS), Coral Beauty Angelfish, Royal Empress Angelfish
- Blind Cave Fish
- Brazilian Rainbow Boa
- Giant Banded Tailless Whip Scorpion
- Texas Blind Salamander
- Humbolt Penguin, Gray Gull, Inca Tern

Turtles/Tortoises- seasonal exhibit. From signage usually holds:
- Spotted Turtle, Red-Eared Slider, Ornate Box Turtle, Eastern Box Turtle, Three-Toed Box Turtle

Prairie Aviary
- Sandhill Crane, Cattle Egret, Greater Prairie Chicken (SNS)

Macaws
- Blue & Gold Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Hyacinth Macaw

Tropic World- all free-flight birds were SNS
South America:
- Cotton-Top Tamarin, Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth
- Tufted Capuchin, Crested Capuchin, Squirrel Monkey, Black-Handed Spider Monkey, Giant Anteater
- Green Honeycreeper, Silver-Beaked Tanager, Blue-Grey Tanager, Red-Capped Cardinal, Saffron Finch
Asia:
- White-Cheeked Gibbon, Asian Small-Clawed Otter
- Bornean Orangutan
- Jambu Fruit Dove, Collared Finchbill Bulbul
Africa:
- Angolan Colobus, Red-Tailed Guenon
- Red-Billed Firefinch, White-Headed Buffalo Weaver, Common Bulbul, Blue-Bellied Roller, Violaceous Turaco
- Western Lowland Gorilla
 
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