DesertTortoise
Well-Known Member
Denver Zoo Species List
Date of Visit : June 5, 2024
Notes :
Species signed but not seen are italicized
Species seen but not signed are in red
Exhibits :
Pinnacol African penguin Point
Benson Predator Ridge
Note: I did not go inside the actual building. These are just the outdoor exhibits.
Date of Visit : June 5, 2024
Notes :
Species signed but not seen are italicized
Species seen but not signed are in red
Exhibits :
Pinnacol African penguin Point
- African penguin
Benson Predator Ridge
- African lion
- African lion
- Spotted hyena
- Leopard tortoise
Pahaliya Ya Simba (Building)
- African rock python
- Puff adder (Off Exhibit)
- Dwarf crocodile
- Bald eagle
- Empty
- Grizzly bear
- Common raccoon
- American flamingo
- Chilean flamingo
- Meso-American slider, Hilaire’s side-necked turtle, yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle, white-blotched river stingray, green terror cichlid, common pleco, pink-tailed chalceus, red-hooked silver dollar, Midas cichlid, tiger shovelnose catfish, banded cichlid, false yellowjacket cichlid, bucktooth tetra
- Mexican spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata)
- Leopard tortoise (Off Exhibit)
- Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
- Blind cave tetra
- Common vampire bat
- Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat, Jamaican fruit bat
- Crocodile monitor
- Cherry barb, Boeseman’s rainbowfish, giant danio, clown loach, red rainbowfish
- Frontosa cichlid, lemon cichlid, featherfin speaker, Brichard’s cichlid, Marlier’s julie
- Central American jumping pitviper (Metlapilcoatlus mexicanus)
- Suphan cobra (Naja kaouthia Suphanensis)
- Gila monster
- King cobra
- Hagen’s pitviper
- McGregor’s pitviper
- Exhibit Under Construction (X2)
- Empty
- West African gaboon viper
- Giant waxy monkey tree frog
- Panamanian golden frog
- Mimic poison frog
- Magnificent tree frog
- Golden poison frog
- Yellow-banded poison dart frog
- Blue poison dart frog, green and black poison dart frog
- Amazon milk frog
- West African lungfish, unidentified cichlid
- Iridescent shark, clown featherback
- Red-bellied piranha, butterfly peacock bass, silver arowana, ripsaw catfish, tambaqui, red-tailed catfish, Tucanare peacock bass (Cichla monoculus)
- Empty
- Capybara
- Green tree monitor
- Mexican cantil
- Western green mamba
- Fan-Si-Pan horned pitviper
- Rinkhals
- Empty
- West African carpet viper
- Slender hognosed pitviper (Porthidium ophryomegas)
- Nile monitor
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Eyelash viper, Dendrobates dart frog sp.
- Chinese mountain pitviper (Ovophis monticola)
- Green cat-eyed snake
- Baron’s green racer
- Central Fijian banded iguana
- Plated leaf chameleon (Brookesia stumpffi)
- Chinese crocodile lizard
- Northwestern carpet python
- Porkfish, French grunt, cottonwick grunt, epaulette shark, doctorfish tang, silver moony
- Banded archerfish, duckbill sleeper, figure eight puffer fish, spotted scat
- Tomato clownfish, flame hawkfish, green chromis, upside down jellyfish
- Foxface rabbitfish, starry rabbitfish (Siganus stellatus), Indian brown sailfin tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii), sergeant major, bignose unicornfish, spotted unicornfish, bicolor angelfish, emperor angelfish, eye-stripe surgeonfish, sailfin snapper (Symphorichthys spilurus), orange-shoulder surgeonfish, eclipse hogfish (Bodianus mesothorax), magnificent rabbitfish, pennant coralfish, Koran angelfish (Pomacanthus semicirculatus), yellow tang, clown triggerfish
- Zebra moray, turkey moray, orangspined unicornfish (Naso lituratus), dwarf hawkfish, pennant coralfish, harlequin tuskfish, longhorn cowfish
- Spotted garden eel
- Panther grouper, Chinese zebra goby (Ptereleotris zebra), white-barred goby (Amblygobius phalaena), bluestreak cleaner wrasse, lagoon triggerfish, lemonpeel angelfish
- Blueface angelfish, purple tang, square anthias, hammer coral (Fimbriaphyllia ancora), leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.)
- Reef squirrelfish, flamefish, longsnout butterflyfish, queen angelfish, French angelfish
- Royal gramma, cherubfish, blackcap basslet, chalk bass, slippery dick, slate pencil urchin (Eucidaris tribuloides), rock-boring urchin (Echinometra lucunter)
- Rigid slipper lobster (Scyllarides nodifer), snowflake moray, bridled burrfish (Chilomycterus antennatus), red lionfish, spiny sea star (Echinaster sentus)
- Anemone crab (Neopetrolisthes maculatus), pajama cardinalfish, unidentified clownfish
- Leaf scorpionfish
- Goldspot goby (Gnatholepis thompsoni), peppermint shrimp, nassarius snail (Phrontis vibex), purple and yellow rainbow urchin (Salmacis belli)
- Florida kingsnake
- Prairie rattlesnake
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
- Cuban knight anole, spotted turtle
- Coastal plain cooter, Florida red-bellied turtle, Mississippi map turtle, Alabama map turtle, yellow-blotched map turtle, diamondback terrapin, spotted gar
- Alligator snapping turtle
- Boreal toad
- Eastern newt
- Southern redbelly dace, rosyside dace, rosefin shiner
- Bullsnake
- Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle
- Banded knob-tailed gecko
- Rhinoceros iguana
- Komodo dragon
- Komodo dragon
- Philippine sailfin lizard
- Black tree monitor
- New Caledonian giant gecko
- Jamaican boa
- Siamese crocodile
- Mata-mata
- Banded knob-tailed gecko
- Madagascar hissing cockroach
- Chilean rose tarantula
- Lined sole, glowlight tetra, neon tetra, serpae tetra, penguin tetra, X-ray tetra
- Mexican alligator lizard
- Horned bush viper (Atheris ceratophora)
- Mossy leaf-tailed gecko, green mantella, golden mantella, climbing mantella
- Southwestern speckled rattlesnake (Crotalus pyrrhus)
- Mangshan pitviper
- Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle
- Bee shrimp, rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) nerite snail sp.
- Mexican beaded lizard
- Vietnamese mossy frog
- Reimann’s snake-necked turtle
- Frilled lizard, northern blue-tongued skink
- Bumble bee toad
- Titicaca water frog
- Common flat-tail gecko, Koch’s giant day gecko (Phelsuma madagascariensis kochi)
- Taylor’s shield-tailed agama, South Arabian spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx yemenensis)
Egyptian tortoise
- Amur tiger
- Amur tiger
- Asian elephant OR Indian rhinoceros OR Malayan tapir
- Asian elephant OR Indian rhinoceros OR Malayan tapir
- Asian elephant OR Indian rhinoceros OR Malayan tapir
- Clouded leopard
- Asian elephant (Indoor)
Village Hall (Building)
- Great hornbill (Off Exhibit)
- Green tree python
- Green tree python
- Fishing cat
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Black-breasted leaf turtle
- Sarus crane
- Asian elephant OR Indian rhinoceros OR Malayan tapir
- Asian elephant OR Indian rhinoceros OR Malayan tapir
- Unspecified gibbon (Off Exhibit)
- Malayan tapir (Off Exhibit)
- Southern cassowary
- Southern cassowary
- Red kangaroo, red-necked wallaby
- Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Outdoor)
- Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Indoor)
- Bighorn sheep
- Rocky Mountain goat
- Humboldt penguin
- Andean condor
- Red-crowned crane
- Grey crowned crane
- Azure-winged magpie, Victoria crowned pigeon, swan goose, nicobar pigeon, Cabot’s tragopan
- Palm cockatoo
- Rainbow lorikeet, coconut lorikeet, blue-streaked lory
- Red ruffed lemur, ring-tailed lemur, white-headed lemur
- Tufted capuchin (Outdoor)
- Tufted capuchin (Indoor)
Emerald Forest (Building)
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Red ruffed lemur, ring-tailed lemur, white-headed lemur
- Bali myna
- Golden lion tamarin
- Prevost’s squirrel
- Aye-aye
- Geoffroy’s marmoset, emperor tamarin
- White-faced saki, golden lion tamarin
- Bolivian gray titi
- Red-capped mangabey
- Sumatran orangutan
Great Apes (Building)
- Sumatran orangutan
- Western lowland gorilla
- Western lowland gorilla
Forest Aviary
- Scaly-sided merganser, red-breasted goose, Baer’s pochard, puna teal, waldrapp ibis, smew, marbled teal, white-faced whistling duck, Egyptian vulture
- Cape porcupine
- Red river hog
- Mandrill
- Mandrill
- Rhinoceros hornbill
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey
- Mantled guereza
- White-faced saki, golden lion tamarin
- Cinereous vulture
- Grey crowned crane
Note: I did not go inside the actual building. These are just the outdoor exhibits.
- Eastern black rhinoceros
- Hippopotamus
- Pot-bellied pig
- Llama
- Grevy’s zebra, common ostrich
- Generic giraffe (Outdoor)
- Generic giraffe (Indoor)
- Przewalski’s horse
- Bactrian camel
- Yellow-backed duiker, Abyssinian ground hornbill, okapi
- Okapi
- Eastern bongo
- Somali wild ass
- Addax
- Empty
- African painted dog
- Lesser kudu, southern gerenuk, black crowned crane
- Cape buffalo
- Yellow-backed duiker, black crowned crane
