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King of Komodo Dragons said:
Excitingly the aquarium now has at least 2 Indochinese Green Magpies
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Leave it to DWA to randomly import something unexpected!

King of Komodo Dragons said:
According to one keeper I asked, they either don't have anymore hummingbirds, or they do but they weren't out on exhibit, I wanted to clarify which he meant but he was busy and took off.
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Last I was aware they only had a few left of one species, which per lack of observations are either bts or gone.

King of Komodo Dragons said:
I was only able to locate 1 of the 4 species of woodpecker they keep, i'm not sure if that mean they are down to just that species now(I definitely saw the puerto rican woodpeckers, i need to go through a few photos as i may of seen the panamanian acorn woodpecker too, but is may have also been a puerto rican.)
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Pretty sure they've been down to one species for some time now. Bit surprised they still have them really.

King of Komodo Dragons said:
One keeper I spoke to said that if something is one the handout then they still have it, I'm not so sure as the golden-handed tamarins and wattled guans
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Both marked present on USDA six months ago, it may have changed since then but they were there til at least recently. DWA shunts stuff around a lot to make things extra complicated.
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
some notes from my visit today

  • Excitingly the aquarium now has at least 2 Indochinese Green Magpies sharing the exhibit with wompoo fruit doves, green-naped pheasant pigeon, palm cockatoo, ect
  • A male, female, and baby Red-Backed Bearded Saki now live with the gian anteater, helmeted curassow, ect.
  • I spoke with one of the keepers and they said they have tried to breed the three-toed sloths, just haven't had any luck yet.
  • The exhibit next to the pygmy marmosets, that used to house black-necked aracari was vacant.
  • The exhibit that housed spot-billed toucanet now houses Crimson-Rumped Toucanet
  • The wall of amphibians in Cloud Forest trek finally has signage, here is the current species list (Lehmann's Poison Frog, Anchicaya Poison Frog, Blue Harlequin Poison Frog, Splendid Leaf Frog + Andres Poison Frog(Tado locality), Andres Poison Frog(Playa de Oro locality), Fringed Leaf Frog, Limon Harlequin Toad, Amazonian Poison Frog, Red-Headed Poison Frog, Mimic Poison Frog, Sira Poison Frog, Summer's Poison Frog, Brazilian Poison Frog, Golden Poison Frog, Rio Pescado Stubfoot Toad, Hoodmoed's Harlequin Toad, Elegant Harlequin Toad)
  • According to one keeper I asked, they either don't have anymore hummingbirds, or they do but they weren't out on exhibit, I wanted to clarify which he meant but he was busy and took off.
  • I was only able to locate 1 of the 4 species of woodpecker they keep, i'm not sure if that mean they are down to just that species now(I definitely saw the puerto rican woodpeckers, i need to go through a few photos as i may of seen the panamanian acorn woodpecker too, but is may have also been a puerto rican.)
  • To absolutely no one's surprise there wasn't a sign of a hoatzin anywhere lol(would love to know how that rumour started)
  • The aquarium is down to just one weedy seadragon and has gone out of leafy seadragon
  • They are also down to just two japanese spider crabs.
  • One keeper I spoke to said that if something is one the handout then they still have it, I'm not so sure as the golden-handed tamarins and wattled guans I haven't seen in a long time, the tamarins I'm not sure I ever saw, the guans had their habitat taken by trumpeters, channel-billed toucan, and orinoco goose, so I'm fairly certain they don't have them anymore unless anyone knows otherwise.
  • DWA has replaced the former lesser devil rays with common cownose rays.
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Do you plan to upload media? The cownose rays have been there since at least early 2024, great to see they keep expanding their collection. Are the red backed sakis easy to spot?
 
USZOOfan42 said:
Do you plan to upload media? The cownose rays have been there since at least early 2024, great to see they keep expanding their collection. Are the red backed sakis easy to spot?
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Yes, I plan to upload a few pictures, likely later today. The sakis liked to stay high, but they did come down late in the afternoon after their food was put out. The young one was very active.
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
some notes from my visit today
  • DWA has replaced the former lesser devil rays with common cownose rays.
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I didn’t know DWA ever had Mobulas! Their website is so unclear about this sort of thing…I know I’m going to have to go there if I ever want to find out exactly which elasmobranchs they have, unless someone has a current species list.
 
Local_Shark said:
I didn’t know DWA ever had Mobulas! Their website is so unclear about this sort of thing…I know I’m going to have to go there if I ever want to find out exactly which elasmobranchs they have, unless someone has a current species list.
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From what I saw yesterday, their elasmobranch collection consists of Sandbar Shark, Largetooth Sawfish, Cownose Ray, Southern Stingray, Blue-Spotted Stingray, and potentially Atlantic Stingray too(not sure on the I'd on that one).
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
From what I saw yesterday, their elasmobranch collection consists of Sandbar Shark, Largetooth Sawfish, Cownose Ray, Southern Stingray, Blue-Spotted Stingray, and potentially Atlantic Stingray too(not sure on the I'd on that one).
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Interesting, not a whole ton of sharks. Thank you so much for letting me know, though! It’s on the list but unfortunately not super high priority as Texas is more of a down the line trip for me
 
2 Pieces of 2024 News Not Mentioned:
On June 7th, it was announced that the zoo temporarily acquired 31 captive-bred Orinoco crocodiles from various facilities across North America for 30 days before transporting the crocodiles to Venezuela to be released into the wild.

Back to Los Llanos: Restoring the Orinoco Crocodile | Wonders of Wildlife

On October 15th, it was mentioned that the zoo acquired 2+? horned guans from the Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri*.

* Information given by @Grant in the Saint Louis Zoo News 2024 thread (Page 6 Post #120).

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On March 20th, the aquarium announced that 2 pied tamarins were born recently.

2.4K views · 74 reactions | Pied tamarins are one of the most endangered primates, found only in a small region of Brazil. With habitat loss threatening their population, every... | By The Dallas World Aquarium | Facebook
 
I overheard a keeper in the African Penguin habitat
saying that there’s plans to redo that section into a rockhopper exhibit (fully indoors) and make it a section with other stuff I didn’t hear. I believe maybe an Australian or Islands. She said that it’ll open by 2028.
Edit- She also said they will get rid of African penguins entirely, I only saw 3-4 on my visit.
 
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King of Komodo Dragons said:
some notes from my visit today

  • Excitingly the aquarium now has at least 2 Indochinese Green Magpies sharing the exhibit with wompoo fruit doves, green-naped pheasant pigeon, palm cockatoo, ect
  • A male, female, and baby Red-Backed Bearded Saki now live with the gian anteater, helmeted curassow, ect.
  • I spoke with one of the keepers and they said they have tried to breed the three-toed sloths, just haven't had any luck yet.
  • The exhibit next to the pygmy marmosets, that used to house black-necked aracari was vacant.
  • The exhibit that housed spot-billed toucanet now houses Crimson-Rumped Toucanet
  • The wall of amphibians in Cloud Forest trek finally has signage, here is the current species list (Lehmann's Poison Frog, Anchicaya Poison Frog, Blue Harlequin Poison Frog, Splendid Leaf Frog + Andres Poison Frog(Tado locality), Andres Poison Frog(Playa de Oro locality), Fringed Leaf Frog, Limon Harlequin Toad, Amazonian Poison Frog, Red-Headed Poison Frog, Mimic Poison Frog, Sira Poison Frog, Summer's Poison Frog, Brazilian Poison Frog, Golden Poison Frog, Rio Pescado Stubfoot Toad, Hoodmoed's Harlequin Toad, Elegant Harlequin Toad)
  • According to one keeper I asked, they either don't have anymore hummingbirds, or they do but they weren't out on exhibit, I wanted to clarify which he meant but he was busy and took off.
  • I was only able to locate 1 of the 4 species of woodpecker they keep, i'm not sure if that mean they are down to just that species now(I definitely saw the puerto rican woodpeckers, i need to go through a few photos as i may of seen the panamanian acorn woodpecker too, but is may have also been a puerto rican.)
  • To absolutely no one's surprise there wasn't a sign of a hoatzin anywhere lol(would love to know how that rumour started)
  • The aquarium is down to just one weedy seadragon and has gone out of leafy seadragon
  • They are also down to just two japanese spider crabs.
  • One keeper I spoke to said that if something is one the handout then they still have it, I'm not so sure as the golden-handed tamarins and wattled guans I haven't seen in a long time, the tamarins I'm not sure I ever saw, the guans had their habitat taken by trumpeters, channel-billed toucan, and orinoco goose, so I'm fairly certain they don't have them anymore unless anyone knows otherwise.
  • DWA has replaced the former lesser devil rays with common cownose rays.
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Two more changes I forgot to note, and realized as I was organizing my photos. they no longer have Barred Owls and have replaced them with Spectacled Owls. and one I was surprised I didn't realize when I was there, the amazon tank no longer has any Arapaima. With how popular they are though I wouldn't be surprised if DWA gets some more Arapaima at some point.
 
Cool piece of news for my fellow fish nerds, according to this article (Reef Builders is very trustworthy), DWA has received a few Threespot Rabbitfish (Siganus trispilos) which are incredibly rare in captivity. I don't know about other countries because even Zootierliste doesn't have the species listed, but from what I could find, it's only the second time the species has entered the US, and these might possibly be the only ones in a US Aquarium.
It's not that surprising given DWA's incredible Australian fish collection (their "Lord Howe Island" tank from what I've seen is bonkers), but these will be a very cool species to try and spot since they're not very "flashy".

In the article, the divers who collected them said that they're "a little easier to collect due to the rubble zones made by the recent cyclones", so we might see more Aquariums acquire the species hopefully.
 
Ebirah766 said:
Now THAT is a rarity!
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Another interesting thing the collectors mentioned in the article is how a lot more species of fish that weren't being collected before in Western Australia are now starting to be collected on collection trips due to a peak in interest and smaller environments being made to the weather that make it easier for collection. I think in a few months, we'll start seeing some species in aquariums that we've never really seen before. Hopefully some facilities, DWA and Steinhart are the ones that come to my mind first, will be exhibiting them for the public to see. I'm excited to see what's more to come
 
DWA is listed in Zootierliste as having a different subspecies of Emperor Tamarin than everyone else (S. i. imperator rather than S. i. subgrisescens), is this accurate?
 
Coelacanth18 said:
DWA is listed in Zootierliste as having a different subspecies of Emperor Tamarin than everyone else (S. i. imperator rather than S. i. subgrisescens), is this accurate?
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yes, it does seem to be S. i. imperator based on my photos and photos online(i double checked as my photos weren't the best. While not always the best source, wikipedia's page for Emperor Tamarin, uses DWA's animals as the example picture for the Black-Chinned Emperor Tamarin subspecies. so I think ZTL is correct in this case.
 
From the (most complete) most up to date walkthrough video I could find, it appears there's a Colin's / Cocos-keeling Angelfish (Centropyge colini) in the smaller "New Guinea" tank with the Shrimpfish (36:56 in the video). Granted, the video is from late April, though I don't see why it wouldn't be there still. A very rare species that should be noted (if only they managed to sign half the species..)
There's a pretty high chance I'll be making a visit at the end of the year so I'll have to keep an eye out.
 
Northwest_FIsh_Keeping said:
From the (most complete) most up to date walkthrough video I could find, it appears there's a Colin's / Cocos-keeling Angelfish (Centropyge colini) in the smaller "New Guinea" tank with the Shrimpfish (36:56 in the video). Granted, the video is from late April, though I don't see why it wouldn't be there still. A very rare species that should be noted (if only they managed to sign half the species..)
There's a pretty high chance I'll be making a visit at the end of the year so I'll have to keep an eye out.
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That’s been there over a year because I photographed one in April of 2024
 
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