Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo Catoctin Species List, October 2022

[zoo_enthusiast]

The spider monkeys have a big, new yard!

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The bongo has a really big yard as well, next to the peafowl/across from the lions (which are where the wolves used to be, I think it held lions before the wolves?). I saw one male who was being kept in the back area, he wasn't out in the full exhibit yet. They're clearing most of the trees past it, below where it says "zebra loading station" on the map, hopefully for more ungulates or something?

Thanks! The wolf exhibit held white tigers before. Years ago the lions used to live in the small enclosure which currently houses white stork

 

[TinoPup]

Thanks! The wolf exhibit held white tigers before. Years ago the lions used to live in the small enclosure which currently houses white stork

The yard attached to the giant reptiles building?

 

[zoo_enthusiast]

The yard attached to the giant reptiles building?

Is that where the stork is now? No, the lions were in the enclosure around the corner from jaguars. If I recall the layout from my last visit correctly, that’s where the white stork was. Right now on your map it shows maras there. It was quite small and inadequate for two adult lions.

 

[TinoPup]

Is that where the stork is now? No, the lions were in the enclosure around the corner from jaguars. If I recall the layout from my last visit correctly, that’s where the white stork was. Right now on your map it shows maras there. It was quite small and inadequate for two adult lions.

It wouldn't have been that exhibit, that one's newer with a glass front and definitely wouldn't hold a carnivore, it held crested screamer on my last visit. I think you mean that weird stand alone wire one that faces the pond?

Photos from last visit:


Last time it had a red-napped crane. This time it had a pair of dingoes, the black and tan one and the red one that's lacking pigment.

The maras are in this one:


The tortoises are gone and the black-handed monkeys are across from it.There's construction going on in between the jaguars and the monkeys, and the iguanas have a new, bigger exhibit.

 

[zoo_enthusiast]

It wouldn't have been that exhibit, that one's newer with a glass front and definitely wouldn't hold a carnivore, it held crested screamer on my last visit. I think you mean that weird stand alone wire one that faces the pond?

Photos from last visit:
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Last time it had a red-napped crane. This time it had a pair of dingoes, the black and tan one and the red one that's lacking pigment.

The maras are in this one:
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it’s the wire one that is facing the pond that houses lions

 

[blospz]

I visited this week and although I don't have a detailed, up to date list, I can let you all know the changes that I saw.

• I'm not sure what reptiles may have left the collection as I didn't pay close enough attention, but I know Sulawesi giant sailfin dragon and either Weber's or Philippine sailfin dragon were added.
• In the former sloth exhibit in the front loop section is now a male and female greater curassow and red-handed tamarins.
• There's a white eared pheasant I believe in the same exhibit (or next to it) of a Vasa parrot.
• A palm nut vulture was added to the collection.
• I did not see any wallabies in the red kangaroo/emu yard.
• I may have not walked down the right path, but I feel like I did, but I didn't see an exhibit for the Amur leopard.
• The binturong exhibit was moved to behind the sun bear exhibit.
• Small clawed otters were not in their atrocious exhibit up front, but it does look like by the Koi pond, they have an upcoming outside exhibit for them.
• The mara exhibit now has two black howler monkeys. Both them and their neighbor, a male iguana, were very territorial.
• I didn't see an exhibit for coyote, but I may have walked past it. Wolf Woods was open and had Arctic wolves.
• The neotropical bat building was roped off in North America.

 

[wild boar]

I visited this week and although I don't have a detailed, up to date list, I can let you all know the changes that I saw.

• I'm not sure what reptiles may have left the collection as I didn't pay close enough attention, but I know Sulawesi giant sailfin dragon and either Weber's or Philippine sailfin dragon were added.
• In the former sloth exhibit in the front loop section is now a male and female greater curassow and red-handed tamarins.
• There's a white eared pheasant I believe in the same exhibit (or next to it) of a Vasa parrot.
• A palm nut vulture was added to the collection.
• I did not see any wallabies in the red kangaroo/emu yard.
• I may have not walked down the right path, but I feel like I did, but I didn't see an exhibit for the Amur leopard.
• The binturong exhibit was moved to behind the sun bear exhibit.
• Small clawed otters were not in their atrocious exhibit up front, but it does look like by the Koi pond, they have an upcoming outside exhibit for them.
• The mara exhibit now has two black howler monkeys. Both them and their neighbor, a male iguana, were very territorial.
• I didn't see an exhibit for coyote, but I may have walked past it. Wolf Woods was open and had Arctic wolves.
• The neotropical bat building was roped off in North America.

On your visit, did you notice if the Tonkean macaques were still signed anywhere? It seems like their booted macaque troop is still thriving, but I haven't seen anything on Zoochat about the Tonkean macaques in a while.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

I visited on July 11 and didn’t see any signage for or sign of the Tonkean macaques. Plenty of booted, of course. I wanted to ask a keeper about them on my way out, but they were already shutting down the entire zoo some hour and a half before the posted closing time and the macaques were already off exhibit with no keeper to be found anywhere nearby.

 

[blospz]

On your visit, did you notice if the Tonkean macaques were still signed anywhere? It seems like their booted macaque troop is still thriving, but I haven't seen anything on Zoochat about the Tonkean macaques in a while.

I also did not see any signs for Tonkean macaques on my two recent visits this year.