Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Species List

DesertTortoise

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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Species List

Date of Visit : June 8, 2024

Notes :
Species signed but not seen are in italics.
Species seen but not signed are in red.

Exhibits:

Rocky Cliffs
  • Mountain goat
  • Mountain goat
Water’s Edge Africa
  • Von der Decken’s hornbill (Off Exhibit)
  • African penguin, pink-backed pelican (Outdoor)
  • African penguin, pink-backed pelican (Indoor)
  • Domestic Guinea pig
  • Ring-tailed lemur (Outdoor)
  • Hippopotamus (Outdoor)
  • Ring-tailed lemur (Indoor)
  • Hippopotamus (Indoor)
  • Hippopotamus (Indoor)
  • Grey crowned crane (Indoor)
  • Grey crowned crane (Outdoor)
Primate World (Building)
  • Naked mole
  • Golden lion tamarin, emperor tamarin
  • Sumatran orangutan (Indoor)
  • Sumatran orangutan (Indoor)
  • Bornean orangutan (Indoor)
  • Sumatran orangutan (Outdoor)
  • Bornean orangutan (Indoor)
  • White-cheeked gibbon (Indoor)
  • White-cheeked gibbon (Outdoor)
  • Western lowland gorilla (Outdoor)
  • Western lowland gorilla (Indoor)
Rocky Mountain Wild
  • Alaska moose
  • Mexican wolf
  • North American porcupine
  • Cougar
  • Canada lynx
  • North American river otter
  • Bald eagle
  • Grizzly bear (Exhibit closed)
Asian Highlands
  • Amur tiger
  • Empty
  • Amur leopard
  • Amur leopard
Australia Walkabout
  • Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Outdoor)
  • Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Indoor)
  • Australian shelduck
  • American alligator (Outdoor)
  • American alligator (Indoor)
  • Red-necked wallaby
  • Emu
  • White’s tree frog
  • Cane toad
Budgie Buddies Aviary
  • Budgerigar, cockatiel, princess parrot
Domestic Goats
  • Domestic goat
The Loft (Building)
  • American beaver (Outside)
  • Wyoming toad
  • Western hognose snake
  • Ball python
  • Hoffman’s two-toed sloth, red-footed tortoise, Indian star tortoise
  • Western screech owl
  • Azure-winged magpie
  • Striped skunk
  • Saharan spiny-tailed lizard
  • African pygmy hedgehog
  • Pancake tortoise
  • Desert kingsnake
  • Bornean short-tailed python
  • Spotted python
  • Andean milksnake
  • Leopard gecko
  • Black-footed ferret
  • Domestic ferret
  • Bullsnake
  • Northern blue-tongued skink
  • New Guinea blue-tongued skink
  • Prehensile-tailed skink
  • Egyptian tortoise, Moroccan spiny-tailed lizard
  • Ornate box turtle
  • Southern three-banded armadillo
  • Southern three-banded armadillo
  • Fire skink
  • Kenyan sand boa
  • Lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec
  • Domestic chinchilla
  • Domestic chinchilla
  • Southern flying squirrel
  • Common degu
My Big Backyard
  • Easter egger chicken, domestic guineafowl
  • Brazilian porcupine
  • Domestic chickens : Polish, Cochin, Australorp, Yokohama, Bielefelder, Red star, Wyandotte, Silver spangled hamburg, Delaware
  • Koi
  • Patagonian mara
  • Holland lop rabbit
  • Red-footed tortoise, Indian star tortoise
The Treehouse (Building)
  • Axolotl
  • Tiger salamander
  • African bullfrog
  • White’s tree frog
  • Blue death feigning beetle
  • Emperor newt
  • Emperor newt
  • Emperor newt
  • Red-eyed treefrog
  • Land hermit crab sp.
  • Garden fruit chafer
  • Giant African millipede
  • Western honeybee
  • Green bottle blue tarantula
  • Arizona blonde tarantula
  • Simandoa cave roach
  • Madagascar hissing cockroach
  • Curlyhair tarantula
  • Fairy cow pillbug
  • Chilean rose tarantula
Scutes Family Gallery (Building)
  • Barn owl (Outside)
  • Burmese python
  • Blue-tongued skink
  • Gila monster
  • European glass lizard
  • Hoffman’s two-toed sloth, western pond turtle
  • Blue tree monitor
  • Panther chameleon
  • Gargoyle gecko
  • Tokay gecko
  • Crested gecko
  • Common chuckwalla
  • Saharan uromastyx
  • Valliant’s strange agama
  • Baja blue rock lizard
  • Collared lizard
  • Woma python
  • Taiwanese beauty snake
  • Gray-banded kingsnake
  • Black-tailed cribo
  • Mandarin ratsnake
  • Children’s python
  • Rosy boa
  • Nelson’s milksnake
  • Pearl River map turtle
  • Ornate box turtle
  • Leopard gecko
  • Leopard gecko
Encounter Africa
  • Abyssinian ground hornbill
  • Eastern black rhinoceros
  • Meerkat
  • Meerkat
  • African bush elephant (Outdoor)
  • African bush elephant (Indoor)
African Rift Valley
  • African lion (Outdoor)
  • African lion (Indoor)
  • Meerkat
  • Mantled guereza, rock hyrax
  • Cape griffon vulture
  • Cape porcupine
  • Red river hog
  • Generic giraffe (Outdoor)
  • Generic giraffe (Indoor)
  • Generic giraffe, western cattle egret (Outdoor)
  • Okapi, western cattle egret
* There were also Eurasian griffon vultures signed with the cape vultures, but I believe they are no longer present.

Bear and Tapir Area
  • Grizzly bear
  • Asiatic black bear
  • Mountain tapir, Muscovy duck
 
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Species List

Date of Visit : June 8, 2024

Rocky Cliffs - 1 species

Water’s Edge Africa - 5 species

Primate World (Building) - 7 species

Rocky Mountain Wild - 8 species

Asian Highlands - 2 species

Australia Walkabout - 7 species

The Loft (Building) - 32 species

My Big Backyard - 4 species

The Treehouse (Building) - 18 species

Scutes Family Gallery (Building) - 28 species

Encounter Africa - 4 species

African Rift Valley - 10 species

Bear and Tapir Area - 4 species

TOTAL SPECIES: 130 species (excluding all domestics)
 
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