Call of the Wild Zoo Call of the Wild Zoo review and species list

[DesertRhino150]

I went this morning (for about an hour's visit) to Call of the Wild Zoo in South Woodham Ferrer, Essex (on the former site of Tropical Wings Zoo) for one of their open days. These are some of my thoughts on the place, along with a full list of the species visible today:

First, my thoughts:

• The place looks exactly how you would expect a place to look that is reopening after being closed for four years; some of the empty enclosures look quite damaged, the paths are in a bit of a state and the wood on some of the structures is on the point of rotting away. The main new structure, a refreshments hut, is the best-quality thing there at the moment.
• The enclosures range from being halfway decent (the Into Africa building, formerly a recently-opened Amazonia house at Tropical Wings) to godawful (one of the African civet enclosures was, I think, a chicken enclosure when Tropical Wings was open - it is a mesh tube with literally nothing inside it apart from the civet itself, which was understandably asleep in the corner).
• The Tropical House was closed although there was a talk that would have allowed you to go inside at 15:00, but there was no way I was hanging around for that long.
• Despite this, I think the place does show promise and I look forward to revisiting once the place is fully open in 2022, hopefully by which point they will have ironed out some of the biggest flaws.

Now onto the species list - I have decided to sort the animals out roughly in the order I saw them in. The species marked with an asterisk (*) were signed but not visible while species marked in italics were visible but not signed:

Africa
Into Africa (two enclosures with indoor viewing)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Common genet

Small standalone aviary
- Congo grey parrot

Walkthrough enclosure (formerly for lemurs)
- African pygmy goat

Medium-sized outdoor enclosure
- Meerkat

Open-topped pit display
- African crested porcupine *
- Yellow mongoose *

Two small enclosures on opposite sides of the path
- African civet

Two small roofed enclosures along the main path near entrance to 'The Americas'
- Serval

Two aviaries behind the display lawn
- Barn owl *
- Tawny owl *

Australia
Walkthrough enclosure that makes up half of the former wallaby walkthrough
- Bennett's wallaby

Paddock that originally made up the other half of the wallaby walkthrough
- Llama

Small annex to the aforementioned paddock
- Kunekune pig

The Americas
Two aviaries along aviary row
- Bengal eagle owl
- Asian brown wood owl

Small standalone cage
- American red squirrel

Medium-sized standalone cage
- Laughing kookaburra

Larger aviary
- Harris's hawk

Petting corner (indoors)
- Guinea pig
- Domestic rabbit

Small semicircular aviary
- White cockatoo

Small paddock
- Domestic donkey

Open-topped enclosure
- Striped skunk *

Large aviary
- Domestic helmeted guineafowl

Two small adjoined aviaries
- Striated caracara

There are also several species listed, either on the top or on labels around the park, as 'coming soon', including:
- Ring-tailed lemur (a bit ironic, as it's the only animal listed as being at the zoo on their website)
- Common marmoset
- South American coati
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Macaws (the biggest aviary in the aviary row in the Americas; species not listed but the poster depicted a blue-and-yellow macaw)

 

[migdog]

I visited yesterday and waited around to have a look in the tropical house. I will post pictures in the gallery. Its coming along nicely and the zoo are hoping to house a crocodile species in there in time for opening (in Feb).

Agree some of the enclosures need work and I hope the team will improve them over time. Was impressed with the meerkat enclosure which wasn't there previously. The civet enclosed was definitely one of the worst.

There were two additional skunks in the empty "macaw" aviary that they're hoping to mix with the other one. A lot of birds are currently off show due to bird flu.

 

[ParathePineapple]

I went this morning (for about an hour's visit) to Call of the Wild Zoo in South Woodham Ferrer, Essex (on the former site of Tropical Wings Zoo) for one of their open days. These are some of my thoughts on the place, along with a full list of the species visible today:

First, my thoughts:

• The place looks exactly how you would expect a place to look that is reopening after being closed for four years; some of the empty enclosures look quite damaged, the paths are in a bit of a state and the wood on some of the structures is on the point of rotting away. The main new structure, a refreshments hut, is the best-quality thing there at the moment.
• The enclosures range from being halfway decent (the Into Africa building, formerly a recently-opened Amazonia house at Tropical Wings) to godawful (one of the African civet enclosures was, I think, a chicken enclosure when Tropical Wings was open - it is a mesh tube with literally nothing inside it apart from the civet itself, which was understandably asleep in the corner).
• The Tropical House was closed although there was a talk that would have allowed you to go inside at 15:00, but there was no way I was hanging around for that long.
• Despite this, I think the place does show promise and I look forward to revisiting once the place is fully open in 2022, hopefully by which point they will have ironed out some of the biggest flaws.

Now onto the species list - I have decided to sort the animals out roughly in the order I saw them in. The species marked with an asterisk (*) were signed but not visible while species marked in italics were visible but not signed:

Africa
Into Africa (two enclosures with indoor viewing)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Common genet

Small standalone aviary
- Congo grey parrot

Walkthrough enclosure (formerly for lemurs)
- African pygmy goat

Medium-sized outdoor enclosure
- Meerkat

Open-topped pit display
- African crested porcupine *
- Yellow mongoose *

Two small enclosures on opposite sides of the path
- African civet

Two small roofed enclosures along the main path near entrance to 'The Americas'
- Serval

Two aviaries behind the display lawn
- Barn owl *
- Tawny owl *

Australia
Walkthrough enclosure that makes up half of the former wallaby walkthrough
- Bennett's wallaby

Paddock that originally made up the other half of the wallaby walkthrough
- Llama

Small annex to the aforementioned paddock
- Kunekune pig

The Americas
Two aviaries along aviary row
- Bengal eagle owl
- Asian brown wood owl

Small standalone cage
- American red squirrel

Medium-sized standalone cage
- Laughing kookaburra

Larger aviary
- Harris's hawk

Petting corner (indoors)
- Guinea pig
- Domestic rabbit

Small semicircular aviary
- White cockatoo

Small paddock
- Domestic donkey

Open-topped enclosure
- Striped skunk *

Large aviary
- Domestic helmeted guineafowl

Two small adjoined aviaries
- Striated caracara

There are also several species listed, either on the top or on labels around the park, as 'coming soon', including:
- Ring-tailed lemur (a bit ironic, as it's the only animal listed as being at the zoo on their website)
- Common marmoset
- South American coati
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Macaws (the biggest aviary in the aviary row in the Americas; species not listed but the poster depicted a blue-and-yellow macaw)

Very interesting list, I am a big fan of all the birds here and hopefully the introduction of lemurs and otters will help get this place enough popularity to get it turning into a nice small zoo with a unique collection of small mammals and birds.

 

[DesertRhino150]

I went for my first visit to Call of the Wild Zoo since it truly opened today. I will give my thoughts on the place now that it has been open for a while and also provide an updated species list.

My thoughts:

• Everything is now at a much higher standard than it was back in December; where previously there were several enclosures I would say were unsuitable for their inhabitants, I would now say that all of them are at least acceptable.
• Lots of little improvements have been made to the guest areas, including an enlarged gift shop, the play area which is now finished and the large seating grandstand by the animal display lawn.
• The Tropical House remains the highlight of the place, as it was during its earlier Tropical Wings Days; it has largely remained the same with the exception of the former koi pond that has been netted over and repurposed to house the caiman and also one of the smaller mesh enclosures has become a glass-fronted display.
• One feature that I feel really added to the Tropical House were the addition of a couple of free-standing wooden pillars with terraria inside them - only one was occupied, but it really added something to the entire experience.
• As for upcoming new species, I saw a partially collapsed banner for leaf-cutting ants. I have no idea where the flamingo lagoon was supposed to be going; I didn't see any signage for it. If anyone can offer any insight into where the signs were in relation to the rest of the zoo, it would be much appreciated.

Now onto the species list - I have decided to begin with the left-hand side of the park, with the African, Australian and Asian sections, before going to the right-hand side of the park entrance, with the Americas and the Tropical House. As before, species marked with an asterisk (*) were signed but not visible while species marked in italics were visible but not signed.

Asian Section
Medium-sized outdoor enclosure with pool
- Asian small clawed otter * (enclosure was being cleaned for most of the morning)

Single aviary behind display lawn grandstand
- Bengal eagle owl

The second aviary in this area was being redeveloped and was empty

African Section
Smaller netted outdoor enclosure with viewable indoor enclosure (within Into Africa)
- Common genet

Large meshed outdoor enclosure with viewable indoor enclosure (within Into Africa)
- Black-and-white colobus monkey

The indoor area for the colobuses has been expanded since my first visit, when ruffed lemurs lived here

Small mesh aviary
- Congo grey parrot

Walkthrough enclosure
- Ring-tailed lemur
- African spurred tortoise *

Medium-sized outdoor enclosure
- Meerkat

Medium-sized netted outdoor enclosure
- Serval

The servals are much better off than they were previously in what appears to be an update of the former Tropical Wings coati enclosure

Open-topped pit display
- African crested porcupine *
- Yellow mongoose *

Smaller netted outdoor enclosure
- African civet

The civet enclosure has now been upgraded a fair bit; they have an elevated platform and logs to climb on with a straw-lined den under the platform (where the one civet I could see was asleep) as well as live plants

Large mesh-roofed outdoor enclosure
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur

Tall aviary along main path toward the Americas section
- Turkey vulture

Second tall aviary along main path toward the Americas section
- Common brown lemur
- Domestic helmeted guineafowl

Australian Section
Walkthrough paddock, separated from the rest of the wider walkthrough area
- African pygmy goat
- Silkie bantam chicken

Small paddock adjacent to the first walkthrough
- Kunekune pig

Medium walkthrough paddock, with a low wooden separation barrier
- Bennett's wallaby
- Greater rhea
- Silkie bantam chicken

The walkthrough is now no longer a dead-end; after entering the wallaby area, you then go through the goat enclosure and come out by the left-hand side of the ruffed lemur enclosure

The Americas
Small aviaries for display birds, each housing a single species
- Chaco owl
- Western European (white-breasted) barn owl
- Tawny owl
- Central European (brown-breasted) barn owl

Five aviaries along aviary row
- Blue-throated macaw
- Striated caracara
- Asian brown wood owl
- Laughing kookaburra
- Bolivian squirrel monkey

For whatever reason, the path in front of the squirrel monkey enclosure was blocked off and the animals unsigned, although they were very much in evidence and are even labelled on the online map

Small standalone cage
- Black-headed caique

Medium-sized standalone cage
- American red squirrel *

Medium-sized mesh aviary
- Harris's hawk

Medium-sized mesh aviary
- Ring-tailed coati

Small semicircular aviary
- Umbrella cockatoo

Small central paddock
- African pygmy goat (all billies with large horns)

Two small open-topped runs on the lawn between goats and coatis/hawks, each housing a single species
- Guinea pig
- Tortoise (possibly an African spurred hatchling)

Large paddock on hardstanding (former seating area outside Tropical Wings restaurant)
- Domestic donkey

The former Petting Corner is now off-show; as well as including the indoor enclosure for coatis, it also housed
- Meerkat

Around the back of the Petting Corner, near the entrance to the Tropical House, a former aviary is being redone with new glass windows, so should hopefully be inhabited in the not too distant future.

Large aviary at top of the Americas section
- Continental giant rabbit

Medium-sized aviary at top of the Americas section
- Hyacinth macaw

Smaller mixed aviary at the top of the Americas section
- Blue-and-gold macaw
- Green-winged macaw

Singles of both species were sharing this aviary

Tropical House
Largest enclosure in the former Rainforest Corner in its Tropical Wings days
- Burmese python

Row of five smaller terraria, each holding a single species
- Veiled chameleon *
- Sailfin lizard (labelled as Amboina Hydrosaurus amboinensis)
- Biak tree monitor
- Cuvier's dwarf caiman
- Northern caiman lizard

Main walkthrough section in Tropical House
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Green-cheeked conure
- Domestic goldfish (in ponds)
- Tropical butterflies (I saw common postman, Peleides blue morpho, giant owl and common lime swallowtail)

Large netted enclosure with planted pond and central island
- Spectacled caiman

Small mesh enclosure, near first viewing area for caiman
- Common marmoset

Small display case, directly adjacent to first mesh enclosure
- Tropical butterfly pupae

Small glass-fronted (formerly mesh) enclosure, near second viewing area for caiman
- Six-banded armadillo

Small terrarium, set between the two armadillo viewing windows
- Green tree python

Free-standing pillar terrarium
- Assassin bug (labelled as Rhynocoris iracundus, although the tiny view I got of one - just its legs - indicated the more standard Platymeris biguttatus)

The second free-standing pillar terrarium was empty but, judging by the quantity of dead bramble in there, was previously home to some kind of stick insect

Largest of the mesh enclosures, away from the caiman area
- Crested wood partridge
- Goldie's lorikeet
- Java sparrow

Medium mesh enclosure, near the exit of the Tropical House
- Nile monitor

Bug Corner; a small room at the exit of the Tropical House with a counter with two terraria on it
- West African giant snail
- Mexican redknee tarantula

There was a whole bank of terraria behind the counter; the only inhabitants I could see in any of them were desert locusts and sun beetles Pachnoda marginata peregrina

Discovery/Education - occupies the former Tropical Wings restaurant. I didn't enter, but did see a terrarium inside and took a photograph of the sign
- Central bearded dragon

 

[oflory]

I went for my first visit to Call of the Wild Zoo since it truly opened today. I will give my thoughts on the place now that it has been open for a while and also provide an updated species list.

My thoughts:

• Everything is now at a much higher standard than it was back in December; where previously there were several enclosures I would say were unsuitable for their inhabitants, I would now say that all of them are at least acceptable.
• Lots of little improvements have been made to the guest areas, including an enlarged gift shop, the play area which is now finished and the large seating grandstand by the animal display lawn.
• The Tropical House remains the highlight of the place, as it was during its earlier Tropical Wings Days; it has largely remained the same with the exception of the former koi pond that has been netted over and repurposed to house the caiman and also one of the smaller mesh enclosures has become a glass-fronted display.
• One feature that I feel really added to the Tropical House were the addition of a couple of free-standing wooden pillars with terraria inside them - only one was occupied, but it really added something to the entire experience.
• As for upcoming new species, I saw a partially collapsed banner for leaf-cutting ants. I have no idea where the flamingo lagoon was supposed to be going; I didn't see any signage for it. If anyone can offer any insight into where the signs were in relation to the rest of the zoo, it would be much appreciated.

Now onto the species list - I have decided to begin with the left-hand side of the park, with the African, Australian and Asian sections, before going to the right-hand side of the park entrance, with the Americas and the Tropical House. As before, species marked with an asterisk (*) were signed but not visible while species marked in italics were visible but not signed.

Asian Section
Medium-sized outdoor enclosure with pool
- Asian small clawed otter * (enclosure was being cleaned for most of the morning)

Single aviary behind display lawn grandstand
- Bengal eagle owl

The second aviary in this area was being redeveloped and was empty

African Section
Smaller netted outdoor enclosure with viewable indoor enclosure (within Into Africa)
- Common genet

Large meshed outdoor enclosure with viewable indoor enclosure (within Into Africa)
- Black-and-white colobus monkey

The indoor area for the colobuses has been expanded since my first visit, when ruffed lemurs lived here

Small mesh aviary
- Congo grey parrot

Walkthrough enclosure
- Ring-tailed lemur
- African spurred tortoise *

Medium-sized outdoor enclosure
- Meerkat

Medium-sized netted outdoor enclosure
- Serval

The servals are much better off than they were previously in what appears to be an update of the former Tropical Wings coati enclosure

Open-topped pit display
- African crested porcupine *
- Yellow mongoose *

Smaller netted outdoor enclosure
- African civet

The civet enclosure has now been upgraded a fair bit; they have an elevated platform and logs to climb on with a straw-lined den under the platform (where the one civet I could see was asleep) as well as live plants

Large mesh-roofed outdoor enclosure
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur

Tall aviary along main path toward the Americas section
- Turkey vulture

Second tall aviary along main path toward the Americas section
- Common brown lemur
- Domestic helmeted guineafowl

Australian Section
Walkthrough paddock, separated from the rest of the wider walkthrough area
- African pygmy goat
- Silkie bantam chicken

Small paddock adjacent to the first walkthrough
- Kunekune pig

Medium walkthrough paddock, with a low wooden separation barrier
- Bennett's wallaby
- Greater rhea
- Silkie bantam chicken

The walkthrough is now no longer a dead-end; after entering the wallaby area, you then go through the goat enclosure and come out by the left-hand side of the ruffed lemur enclosure

The Americas
Small aviaries for display birds, each housing a single species
- Chaco owl
- Western European (white-breasted) barn owl
- Tawny owl
- Central European (brown-breasted) barn owl

Five aviaries along aviary row
- Blue-throated macaw
- Striated caracara
- Asian brown wood owl
- Laughing kookaburra
- Bolivian squirrel monkey

For whatever reason, the path in front of the squirrel monkey enclosure was blocked off and the animals unsigned, although they were very much in evidence and are even labelled on the online map

Small standalone cage
- Black-headed caique

Medium-sized standalone cage
- American red squirrel *

Medium-sized mesh aviary
- Harris's hawk

Medium-sized mesh aviary
- Ring-tailed coati

Small semicircular aviary
- Umbrella cockatoo

Small central paddock
- African pygmy goat (all billies with large horns)

Two small open-topped runs on the lawn between goats and coatis/hawks, each housing a single species
- Guinea pig
- Tortoise (possibly an African spurred hatchling)

Large paddock on hardstanding (former seating area outside Tropical Wings restaurant)
- Domestic donkey

The former Petting Corner is now off-show; as well as including the indoor enclosure for coatis, it also housed
- Meerkat

Around the back of the Petting Corner, near the entrance to the Tropical House, a former aviary is being redone with new glass windows, so should hopefully be inhabited in the not too distant future.

Large aviary at top of the Americas section
- Continental giant rabbit

Medium-sized aviary at top of the Americas section
- Hyacinth macaw

Smaller mixed aviary at the top of the Americas section
- Blue-and-gold macaw
- Green-winged macaw

Singles of both species were sharing this aviary

Tropical House
Largest enclosure in the former Rainforest Corner in its Tropical Wings days
- Burmese python

Row of five smaller terraria, each holding a single species
- Veiled chameleon *
- Sailfin lizard (labelled as Amboina Hydrosaurus amboinensis)
- Biak tree monitor
- Cuvier's dwarf caiman
- Northern caiman lizard

Main walkthrough section in Tropical House
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Green-cheeked conure
- Domestic goldfish (in ponds)
- Tropical butterflies (I saw common postman, Peleides blue morpho, giant owl and common lime swallowtail)

Large netted enclosure with planted pond and central island
- Spectacled caiman

Small mesh enclosure, near first viewing area for caiman
- Common marmoset

Small display case, directly adjacent to first mesh enclosure
- Tropical butterfly pupae

Small glass-fronted (formerly mesh) enclosure, near second viewing area for caiman
- Six-banded armadillo

Small terrarium, set between the two armadillo viewing windows
- Green tree python

Free-standing pillar terrarium
- Assassin bug (labelled as Rhynocoris iracundus, although the tiny view I got of one - just its legs - indicated the more standard Platymeris biguttatus)

The second free-standing pillar terrarium was empty but, judging by the quantity of dead bramble in there, was previously home to some kind of stick insect

Largest of the mesh enclosures, away from the caiman area
- Crested wood partridge
- Goldie's lorikeet
- Java sparrow

Medium mesh enclosure, near the exit of the Tropical House
- Nile monitor

Bug Corner; a small room at the exit of the Tropical House with a counter with two terraria on it
- West African giant snail
- Mexican redknee tarantula

There was a whole bank of terraria behind the counter; the only inhabitants I could see in any of them were desert locusts and sun beetles Pachnoda marginata peregrina

Discovery/Education - occupies the former Tropical Wings restaurant. I didn't enter, but did see a terrarium inside and took a photograph of the sign
- Central bearded dragon

Very glad to hear about the African civet exhibit - I felt it was very bare indeed before.

 

[qthemusic]

I went for my first visit to Call of the Wild Zoo since it truly opened today. I will give my thoughts on the place now that it has been open for a while and also provide an updated species list.

My thoughts:

• Everything is now at a much higher standard than it was back in December; where previously there were several enclosures I would say were unsuitable for their inhabitants, I would now say that all of them are at least acceptable.
• Lots of little improvements have been made to the guest areas, including an enlarged gift shop, the play area which is now finished and the large seating grandstand by the animal display lawn.
• The Tropical House remains the highlight of the place, as it was during its earlier Tropical Wings Days; it has largely remained the same with the exception of the former koi pond that has been netted over and repurposed to house the caiman and also one of the smaller mesh enclosures has become a glass-fronted display.
• One feature that I feel really added to the Tropical House were the addition of a couple of free-standing wooden pillars with terraria inside them - only one was occupied, but it really added something to the entire experience.
• As for upcoming new species, I saw a partially collapsed banner for leaf-cutting ants. I have no idea where the flamingo lagoon was supposed to be going; I didn't see any signage for it. If anyone can offer any insight into where the signs were in relation to the rest of the zoo, it would be much appreciated.

Now onto the species list - I have decided to begin with the left-hand side of the park, with the African, Australian and Asian sections, before going to the right-hand side of the park entrance, with the Americas and the Tropical House. As before, species marked with an asterisk (*) were signed but not visible while species marked in italics were visible but not signed.

Asian Section
Medium-sized outdoor enclosure with pool
- Asian small clawed otter * (enclosure was being cleaned for most of the morning)

Single aviary behind display lawn grandstand
- Bengal eagle owl

The second aviary in this area was being redeveloped and was empty

African Section
Smaller netted outdoor enclosure with viewable indoor enclosure (within Into Africa)
- Common genet

Large meshed outdoor enclosure with viewable indoor enclosure (within Into Africa)
- Black-and-white colobus monkey

The indoor area for the colobuses has been expanded since my first visit, when ruffed lemurs lived here

Small mesh aviary
- Congo grey parrot

Walkthrough enclosure
- Ring-tailed lemur
- African spurred tortoise *

Medium-sized outdoor enclosure
- Meerkat

Medium-sized netted outdoor enclosure
- Serval

The servals are much better off than they were previously in what appears to be an update of the former Tropical Wings coati enclosure

Open-topped pit display
- African crested porcupine *
- Yellow mongoose *

Smaller netted outdoor enclosure
- African civet

The civet enclosure has now been upgraded a fair bit; they have an elevated platform and logs to climb on with a straw-lined den under the platform (where the one civet I could see was asleep) as well as live plants

Large mesh-roofed outdoor enclosure
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur

Tall aviary along main path toward the Americas section
- Turkey vulture

Second tall aviary along main path toward the Americas section
- Common brown lemur
- Domestic helmeted guineafowl

Australian Section
Walkthrough paddock, separated from the rest of the wider walkthrough area
- African pygmy goat
- Silkie bantam chicken

Small paddock adjacent to the first walkthrough
- Kunekune pig

Medium walkthrough paddock, with a low wooden separation barrier
- Bennett's wallaby
- Greater rhea
- Silkie bantam chicken

The walkthrough is now no longer a dead-end; after entering the wallaby area, you then go through the goat enclosure and come out by the left-hand side of the ruffed lemur enclosure

The Americas
Small aviaries for display birds, each housing a single species
- Chaco owl
- Western European (white-breasted) barn owl
- Tawny owl
- Central European (brown-breasted) barn owl

Five aviaries along aviary row
- Blue-throated macaw
- Striated caracara
- Asian brown wood owl
- Laughing kookaburra
- Bolivian squirrel monkey

For whatever reason, the path in front of the squirrel monkey enclosure was blocked off and the animals unsigned, although they were very much in evidence and are even labelled on the online map

Small standalone cage
- Black-headed caique

Medium-sized standalone cage
- American red squirrel *

Medium-sized mesh aviary
- Harris's hawk

Medium-sized mesh aviary
- Ring-tailed coati

Small semicircular aviary
- Umbrella cockatoo

Small central paddock
- African pygmy goat (all billies with large horns)

Two small open-topped runs on the lawn between goats and coatis/hawks, each housing a single species
- Guinea pig
- Tortoise (possibly an African spurred hatchling)

Large paddock on hardstanding (former seating area outside Tropical Wings restaurant)
- Domestic donkey

The former Petting Corner is now off-show; as well as including the indoor enclosure for coatis, it also housed
- Meerkat

Around the back of the Petting Corner, near the entrance to the Tropical House, a former aviary is being redone with new glass windows, so should hopefully be inhabited in the not too distant future.

Large aviary at top of the Americas section
- Continental giant rabbit

Medium-sized aviary at top of the Americas section
- Hyacinth macaw

Smaller mixed aviary at the top of the Americas section
- Blue-and-gold macaw
- Green-winged macaw

Singles of both species were sharing this aviary

Tropical House
Largest enclosure in the former Rainforest Corner in its Tropical Wings days
- Burmese python

Row of five smaller terraria, each holding a single species
- Veiled chameleon *
- Sailfin lizard (labelled as Amboina Hydrosaurus amboinensis)
- Biak tree monitor
- Cuvier's dwarf caiman
- Northern caiman lizard

Main walkthrough section in Tropical House
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Green-cheeked conure
- Domestic goldfish (in ponds)
- Tropical butterflies (I saw common postman, Peleides blue morpho, giant owl and common lime swallowtail)

Large netted enclosure with planted pond and central island
- Spectacled caiman

Small mesh enclosure, near first viewing area for caiman
- Common marmoset

Small display case, directly adjacent to first mesh enclosure
- Tropical butterfly pupae

Small glass-fronted (formerly mesh) enclosure, near second viewing area for caiman
- Six-banded armadillo

Small terrarium, set between the two armadillo viewing windows
- Green tree python

Free-standing pillar terrarium
- Assassin bug (labelled as Rhynocoris iracundus, although the tiny view I got of one - just its legs - indicated the more standard Platymeris biguttatus)

The second free-standing pillar terrarium was empty but, judging by the quantity of dead bramble in there, was previously home to some kind of stick insect

Largest of the mesh enclosures, away from the caiman area
- Crested wood partridge
- Goldie's lorikeet
- Java sparrow

Medium mesh enclosure, near the exit of the Tropical House
- Nile monitor

Bug Corner; a small room at the exit of the Tropical House with a counter with two terraria on it
- West African giant snail
- Mexican redknee tarantula

There was a whole bank of terraria behind the counter; the only inhabitants I could see in any of them were desert locusts and sun beetles Pachnoda marginata peregrina

Discovery/Education - occupies the former Tropical Wings restaurant. I didn't enter, but did see a terrarium inside and took a photograph of the sign
- Central bearded dragon

Re the empty pillar enclosure with dead bramble: Last time I visited I'm sure I saw an off show terrarium containing a female Jungle Nymph, perhaps this was the former inhabitant of the empty enclosure?
I took a shot of the Flamingo sign( see above), but can't exactly remember where it was in the zoo sorry.

 

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Re the empty pillar enclosure with dead bramble: Last time I visited I'm sure I saw an off show terrarium containing a female Jungle Nymph, perhaps this was the former inhabitant of the empty enclosure?
I took a shot of the Flamingo sign( see above), but can't exactly remember where it was in the zoo sorry.

Opposite/near the colobus I believe!

 

[DesertRhino150]

I went for a couple of hour visit to Call of the Wild Zoo today, and a sufficient number of species have either moved or changed that I will provide an update to the species list. Any vertebrate that is italicised and underlined is not mentioned on the zoo's Zootierliste page. Anything with an asterisk (*) was unseen by me:

Entrance corridor and Rainforest Corner
Entrance corridor has three different tanks of varying sizes:
Northern caiman lizard
False water cobra
Spectacled caiman

Rainforest Corner has one large and five smaller tanks:
Burmese python
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Green tree python
Biak tree monitor
Amboina sailfin lizard
Common blue-tonged skink

Tropical House
The Tropical House (which was nearly unbearably hot today) has four smaller enclosures; the main walkthrough is also divided up into a smaller area (reserved for butterflies) and the larger area (primarily for birds):

A few butterflies - I noticed an owl butterfly, several Heliconius and a pair of Dryadula phaetusa
Many free-flying birds, including Victoria crowned pigeon, green-cheeked parakeet, Java sparrow, crested wood partridge, red-crested turaco, diamond dove, rainbow lorikeet and gouldian finch
One pond for koi carp and common goldfish
A second pond for Central American wood turtle
Six-banded armadillo
Nile monitor
Black-headed caique
Red-phase green iguana and red-footed tortoise

The large caiman enclosure is still empty - judging by the elevated logs and a sign on some housing near the armadillos, it may be used for monkeys.

Area outside the Tropical House
Includes a new glass-fronted enclosure (formerly an aviary), a mostly off-show enclosure with just the indoor area visible (formerly home to surplus meerkats) and the donkey paddock.

European genet
Common marmoset
Domestic donkey

Discovery Centre (accessed around the corner of the Tropical House, past the donkeys - potentially easy to miss)
There is a wall of smaller tanks for a variety of smaller creatures (many of the tanks had no labels):
Forest scorpion, Heterometrus spinifer * (mistakenly referred to as an African forest scorpion, rather than Asian)
Mint-green poison frogs (I think a colour morph of the golden poison frog)
A mixed-species tank for a pair of Madagascar giant day geckos and a group of Madagascar hissing cockroaches
Mexican redknee tarantula
Chilean rose tarantula
White-spotted assassin bug * (unlabelled, only identified via a shed skin)
African sun beetle
Splashback poison frog and green-and-black poison frog
An unlabelled young horned frog, probably the ornate horned frog
Macleay's spectre stick insect
West African giant land snails (young) and an unidentified millipede

Although I didn't access either, there was an animal encounter in one room with a guinea pig (so it is possible there are other animals there), and the Jungle Room had several tanks, only two of which I could see were signed:
Corn snake *
Royal python *

First courtyard
Consists of several open-topped enclosures, mainly for domestic species, plus a number of aviaries around the perimeter.

Kune-kune pig
Domestic guinea pig and African spurred tortoise
A mix of red-tailed black cockatoo, Australian king-parrot and ring-necked parakeet
Great horned owl
A mix of blue-and-yellow macaw and green-winged macaw
American red squirrel
Umbrella cockatoo
Continental giant rabbit
Striped skunk
Ring-tailed coati
Hyacinth macaw
Blue-throated macaw

The aviary row (formerly for the blue-throated macaws, caracara, wood owl, kookaburra and squirrel monkeys) has been demolished and is being turned into new walkthroughs for the goats and wallabies.

Bird of Prey corner
The older part of the bird of prey housing, mostly home to owls:

Barn owls (both Central European and West European subspecies)
Laughing kookaburra
Tawny owl *
Chaco owl

New aviary section
Combines a row of four brand-new aviaries connected to the bird flight display area with the two larger aviaries (one formerly home to brown lemurs):

Harris's hawk
Bengal eagle owl
Laughing kookaburra
Turkey vulture
Bolivian squirrel monkey (incorrectly labelled as common squirrel monkey)
Striated caracara

Into Africa
Combines the two enclosures attached to the Into Africa house, plus the small standalone aviary:

African grey parrot
Common brown lemur
Mantled guereza

Asian Section
For the purposes of this, I have combined the Asian mixed enclosure with the two smaller aviaries behind the animal show grandstand:

Asian small-clawed otter and binturong
Asian brown wood owl
European red fox (labelled as 'fur fox')

New paddock
On the site of a picnic area opposite the guereza outdoor enclosure, a new mixed-species paddock has been built:

Mixed display for a llama and a greater rhea

African Section
Combines the lemur walkthrough, enclosures for serval, meerkat, porcupine, civet and other lemurs:

Mix of ring-tailed lemurs, helmeted guineafowl and African spurred tortoise
Serval
Slender-tailed meerkat
African crested porcupine
African civet
Black-and-white ruffed lemur

Walkthrough area
Combines the wallaby walkthrough and livestock walkthrough areas:

Bennett's wallaby, Patagonian mara and a collection of domestic chickens
African pygmy goat and domestic chickens
Kune-kune pig

According to this, I saw nine vertebrate species not currently listed as being present at the zoo, plus two new species that I didn't see.

 

[qthemusic]

Another visit today, as I wanted to see what the numbers were like in the school holidays. The car parks were quite full, but there was still space to move around in the zoo. As @DesertRhino150 states above, quite a bit has moved, and here's what I witnessed.
Entrance Corridor and Rainforest Corner:
As above, apart from the Burmese Python has moved to the old Armadillo enclosure in the Tropical House, and a Retic has replaced the Burm.
The Cuvier's exhibit has been revamped and he has a much larger pool than the little tray of water he had before.
Tropical House
Remains the same as above, however the 6 Banded Armadillo (Digby) has moved to outside opposite the Genet, and the Burmese Python now inhabits the enclosure. The butterflies seem to be contained within the former section of the house, whilst the free flying birds (species as post above) are contained in the latter section, with the Nile Monitor, and Red Iguana. There is a lot of work going on in the central enclosure, which has been drained, and is closed off to the public with dust sheets against the glass so you can't see in.
On talking to a keeper, it's still likely to house an alligator in the future.
Outside.
The Common Marmosets are back on show in the old Ring Tailed Coati enclosure, (opposite the tropical house) . The Coati's have long since moved to a larger enclosure in the Courtyard. And the donkeys have moved to the farmyard area, that was the old walkthrough. The rest of the outside remains as Desi's post above.
Discovery Area
I'm not too familiar with inverts, and as the tanks didn't have labels, I can't comment on what was species was present. The Madagascan Day Gecko was housed here, and the Splashback Poison Frogs.
Other news
The baby Ring-Tailed Lemur twins are growing well. They are both boys named Ollie and Otis. Marli (first baby born) now approx 3-4 months is also doing well and has become the escapologist of the troupe. He's taken to hanging on the underside of pushchairs to get out of the enclosure, so keepers have to be very vigilant. Also nice to see Sheldon (Sulcata) thundering around the same enclosure, he's quite a favourite with the kids and very good natured.
Think that about wraps it up.