Detroit Zoo Detroit Zoo Species List August 2024

USZOOfan42

USZOOfan42

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This is my first ever species list and there has not been a list since 2019 by @birdsandbats!
The zoo has had many losses and changes and I hope I didn’t miss many species.

Polk Penguin Conservation Center
1. King Penguin, Gentoo Penguin, Rockhopper Penguin, Macaroni Penguin, Chinstrap Penguin

Wildlife Interpretive Gallery
Butterfly Garden
1. Smooth-banded Sister, Mexican Sister, Belus Swallowtail, Gold Rim Swallowtail, Red Rim, Grecian Shoemaker, Mexican Shoemaker, Zebra Mosaic, Crimson Patch, Glasswing, Agalla Clearwing, Red Cracker, Starry Night Cracker, Juno Longwing, Mexican Bluewing, Orange Tiger, Gray Cracker, Variable Cracker, Orange Cracker, Blue Wave, Mexican Bluewing, Blue Morpho, White Morpho, Pale Owl, Narrow-banded Owl, Broad-banded Swallowtail, Ruby-spotted Swallowtail, Torquatus Swallowtail, Ruby-spotted Swallowtail, Arcas Cattleheart, Iphidamas Cattleheart, Pink-spotted Cattleheart, Montezuma Cattleheart, Zebra Longwing, Small Postman, Postman, Cyndo Longwing, Sapho Longwing, Hecale Longwing, Doris Longwing, Hewison's Longwing, Scarce Bamboo Page, Large Tiger, Cream-colored Tigerwing, Malachite, Rusty-tipped Page, Disturbed Tigerwing, Purple King Shoemaker, Harmonia Tigerwing, Isabella's Longwing, Julia Longwing, Mexican Longwing, Tiger Leafwing, Marbled Longwing, Scarlet Leafwing, Common Olive Wing, Apricot Sulphur

Matilda Wilson Free Flight Aviary
1. Green-Winged Macaw
2. Sunbittern, Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush, Crested Wood Patridge, Sacrlet Ibis, Spur-Winged Lapwing, Common BulBul, Oriole Warbler, American Robin, Black-Naped Fruit Dove, Jambu Fruit Dove, Gray-Capped Emerald Dove, Bleeding-Heart Dove, Black Crake, Boat Billed Heron, Green Heron, Green Woodhoopoe, White-Headed Buffalo Weaver, African Pygmy Goose, Superb Starling, Emerald Starling, Red-Billed Leiothrix, Hooded Pitta, Nicobar Pigeon, Speckled Mousebird, Violet Turaco, Tanager Hybrid, Turquoise Tanager, Blue-Gray Tanager, Taveta Golden Weaver

Cotton Family Wetlands
1. North American River Otter
2. American Beaver

Holden Reptile Conservation Center
1. Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
2. Wood Turtle
3. Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake
4. European Legless Lizard
5. Green Tree Python
6. Timor Python
7. Chinese Alligator, Arrau Turtle
8. Chinese Alligator
9. Eastern Indigo Snake
10. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
11. Eastern Box Turtle, Black Rat Snake
12. Rhinoceros Viper
13. Emerald Tree Boa
14. Fiji Banded Iguana
15. Reticulated Python
16. Gaboon Viper
17. Arrau Turtle
18. Prehensile-Tailed Skink
19. San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
20. Beaded Lizard, Sonoran Spiny Tailed Iguana
21. Egyptian Tortoise, Spider Tortoise, Sahara spiny tailed lizard
22. Star Tortoise
23. Mcord’s Box Turtle
24. Black Tree Monitor
25. Matamata, Yellow-Spotted Sied-Necked Turtle
26. Indo-Chinese Spitting Cobra
27. Giant Plated Lizard, Pancake Turtle
28. Savu Island Python
29. Jamaican Boa
30. Fly River Turtle
31. Black Breasted Leaf Turtle
32. Coahuila Box Turtle
33. Dwarf Caiman

Asian Forest
1. Lappet-Faced Vulture, Cinereous Vulture
2. White Lipped Deer, Bactrian Camel
3. Red Panda
4. Red Panda
5. Amur Tiger

African Forest
1. Allen’s Swamp Monkey, Schmidt's guenon
2. Greater Rhea, Sandhill Crane (Temporary)
3. African Spoonbill, Greater Flamingo, Chilean Flamingo
4. Common Eland, Common Ostrich
5. Domestic Donkey (Temporary)
6. Domestic Donkey (Temporary)

Great Apes Of Harambee
1. Western Lowland Gorilla
2. Western Lowland Gorilla (Indoor)
3. Chimpanzee (Indoor)
4. Chimpanzee

African Grasslands
1. African Spurred Tortoise, American White Pelican
2. Aardvark/Giant Anteater (rotated)
3. Reticulated Giraffe
4. Grevy’s Zebra, Eastern White-Beared Wildebeest
5. Common Warthog
6. White Rhinoceros
7. Japanese Macaque
8. Ring Tailed Lemur, Red Ruffed Lemur, Crowned Lemur
Hangout
9. African Straw-Colored Fruit Bat, Hoffman’s Two-Toed Sloth
10. African Rock Python
The Hideaway
11. Ring Tailed Lemur, Red Ruffed Lemur, Crowned Lemur (Indoor)
12. Speckled Mousebird
13. African Lion

Australian Outback Adventure
1. Southern Cassowary
2. Red Kangaroo, Red Necked Wallaby

American Grasslands
1. Gray Wolf
2. American Bison
3. Bald Eagle
4. European Wolverine

Arctic Ring Of Life
1. Polar Bear
2. Sea Otter
3. Polar Bear

National Amphibian Conservation Center

1. Emperor Spotted Newt
2. Lake Titicaca Frog
3. Changchun Stout Newt, Emperor Newt, Andersons crocodile newt, Mossy Frog
4. Red eyed tree frog, Northern Orange legged leaf frog
5. Axolotl
6. Smooth Sided Toad
7. Pumpkinseed Sunfish
8. Golden, Bernhard’s, Betsileo’s, Blue Legged, Splendid Mantellas
9. Hellbender
10. Spiny Headed Tree Frog
11.Texas Blind Cave Salamander
12. Cranwells Horned Frog
13. Mimic Dart Frog, Dyeing Dart Frog
14.Green and Black, Blue, Black Legged, Yellow Handed, Golfodulcean Poison Dart Frogs
15. Smoky Jungle Frog
16. Green, Arboreal Mantellas
17. Fringed Leaf Frog
18. African Clawed Frog
19. Pumpkinseed Sunfish
20. Japanese Giant Salamander
21. Puerto Rican Crested Toad, Cuban Tree Frog
22. Striped Newt, Narrow Striped Dwarf Siren, Cherry Shrimp
23. Kihansi Spray Toad
24. Wyoming Toad

Free Roaming
1. Indian Peafowl

Please correct me if I got anything wrong, I don’t think I missed any species or exhibits.
 
Since @birdsandbats original list there are many notable losses. Many of these animals were due to old age or expansion of a new habitat but since the new director we have lost only a few species being a few animals to old age. Here are a few notable species we lost in the last 5 years
American Grasslands
Bush Dog- Replaced by Cassowary then demolished
Prairie Dog- Habitat empty, all died?
Domestics- New area, only lost horses and cattle
Tree Kangaroo- Old Age and demolished for new area (may be alive still)
Main Bird Enclosure (Flamingos and Rheas)- Demolished and many birds moved to other parts of the zoo, only lost 2 vulture species( recently gained a new one!)
Main SA habitat- Dying exhibit losing many incredible species and only the Rhea remains (demolished) guanaco, tapir, capybara, pronghorn, fallow deer, peccary and many other hoofstock were removed.

African Grasslands
Flamingo Habitat- Lost only Grey Crowned Crane, and White Stork(could still be bts)
Eland Habitat- Only saddle billed stork and many other species within the last decade
Kookaburra Habitat- replaced by lemurs, was previously a lemur habitat

Arctic Ring Of Life
Arctic Fox- replaced by viewing gallery
Seals- replaced by sea otters

Asian Forest
Camel Habitat- Lost only elk, many other animals in last decade
Empty Habitat- Lost Lion Tailed Macaque, replaced recently by 2 African monkey species

Gains
We have gained many notable species including:
• Crowned Lemur and Red Ruffed Lemur, joined Ring Tails

• Allen’s Swamp and Red Tailed Monkeys, replaced old Lion Tailed Macaque habitat

• Cassowary replaced bush dogs then later moved to new habitat in the location of the old emu habitat

• Chinstrap, Rockhopper and Macaroni Penguins, joined new habitat

• Sea Otters, replaced Seals

• Tigers, got new renovated habitat
 
In the near future there are many new species to expect and new of the same species, it should be expected we gain regular babies at the zoo, giraffe, chimpanzee, penguins, etc. but I would expect we gain more births from gorillas, probably from the other Cincinnati female and one of the zoo’s African primates. I also think the zoo will gain a male lion in the near future and possibly many other gains of new species. A volunteer told me after the new area is constructed the new director wants to redo the Asia section and possibly a new SA section. With kid zone in mind a volunteer recently told me there is planned to be giant anteaters, bush dogs, prairie dogs, stingrays, llamas, and many domestics. As for an asia revamp I would expect asian primates and hopefully hoofstock and a few carnivore species (snow leopard and otter). I hope everything I mentioned happens and this new directer is successful in such a promising zoo with many qualities getting better every day.
 
USZOOfan42 said:
Since @birdsandbats original list there are many notable losses. Many of these animals were due to old age or expansion of a new habitat but since the new director we have lost only a few species being a few animals to old age. Here are a few notable species we lost in the last 5 years
American Grasslands
Bush Dog- Replaced by Cassowary then demolished
Prairie Dog- Habitat empty, all died?
Domestics- New area, only lost horses and cattle
Tree Kangaroo- Old Age and demolished for new area (may be alive still)
Main Bird Enclosure (Flamingos and Rheas)- Demolished and many birds moved to other parts of the zoo, only lost 2 vulture species( recently gained a new one!)
Main SA habitat- Dying exhibit losing many incredible species and only the Rhea remains (demolished) guanaco, tapir, capybara, pronghorn, fallow deer, peccary and many other hoofstock were removed.

African Grasslands
Flamingo Habitat- Lost only Grey Crowned Crane, and White Stork(could still be bts)
Eland Habitat- Only saddle billed stork and many other species within the last decade
Kookaburra Habitat- replaced by lemurs, was previously a lemur habitat

Arctic Ring Of Life
Arctic Fox- replaced by viewing gallery
Seals- replaced by sea otters

Asian Forest
Camel Habitat- Lost only elk, many other animals in last decade
Empty Habitat- Lost Lion Tailed Macaque, replaced recently by 2 African monkey species

Gains
We have gained many notable species including:
• Crowned Lemur and Red Ruffed Lemur, joined Ring Tails

• Allen’s Swamp and Red Tailed Monkeys, replaced old Lion Tailed Macaque habitat

• Cassowary replaced bush dogs then later moved to new habitat in the location of the old emu habitat

• Chinstrap, Rockhopper and Macaroni Penguins, joined new habitat

• Sea Otters, replaced Seals

• Tigers, got new renovated habitat
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I noticed the list of changes from 2019 to 2024 wasn't quite accurate. This should be better, except for changes in the aviary and the reptile and amphibian buildings.
LEFT SINCE 2019
  1. fallow deer
  2. Arctic fox
  3. guanco
  4. grey seal
  5. harbor seal
  6. American elk
  7. black-tailed prairie dog
  8. saddle-billed stork
  9. laughing kookaburra
  10. Linne's two-toed sloth
  11. pink-backed pelican
  12. gray crowned crane
  13. Rüppell's griffon vulture (on the 2019 list inaccurately as Eurasian griffon vulture)
  14. hooded vulture
LEFT AND GAINED SINCE 2019
  1. bush dog
GAINED AFTER 2019
  1. chinstrap penguin
  2. Allen's swamp monkey
  3. red-tailed monkey
  4. red ruffed lemur
  5. crowned lemur
  6. southern cassowary
  7. sea otter
  8. white-naped crane
  9. great white pelican
RENOVATIONS IN 2019
  1. Amur tiger
Southern rockhopper penguins and macaroni penguins have been at the Zoo since the penguin exhibit opened in 2016. Grizzly bears aren't on your list, either.

USZOOfan42 said:
After my next visit, I will post an updated species list for 2025. There has been minimal changes, probably 12 new species and 3 losses.
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What are the 12 new species and three losses?

Matschie's tree kangaroos and common squirrel monkeys are gone. The sloth bear and crimson-backed tanager are new. I can't think of any others.
 
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