Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Fort Wayne Children's Zoo - Full Species List - Summer 2016

Moebelle

Moebelle

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Here's a nearly complete (98%) list of the animals that are displayed at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. I liked geomorph's style of slightly explaining each and every habitat, and I hope they don't mind if I do the same from now on for my lists. Numbered animals implies the exhibits are separate, if the animals are in a list form and not numbered, it means they're mixed.



Central Zoo

Three semi-small cages located by the entrance
1. Canada Lynx
2. Black-throated Magpie Jay
White-eared Pheasant
3. Red-billed Blue Magpie
Cabot's Tragopan

If guests continue to the walk to the right side of the zoo they are met with the:


African Journey

Large grassland/wetland habitat
Sitatunga
Grey Crowned Crane

Tall, slightly narrow cage
Allen's Swamp Monkey

Low ceilinged, narrow meshed cage
Red-billed Hornbill
Buff-crested Bustard

First viewing of a multi-acre savanna
Plains Zebra
White-bearded Wildebeest
Ruppell's Vulture
Ostrich
Marabou Stork

Large, open topped wetlands exhibit
Great White Pelican

Second viewing of the savanna

Open topped glass fronted exhibit built within a kopjie
White Stork

Medium sized glass fronted habitat with an open immersive back side
Spotted Hyena

Small glass fronted exhibit within the kopjie
Bat-eared Fox

Large glass fronted habitat with open back side
African Lion

Small meshed cage with a view of the savanna in the back
Serval

Two small glass fronted exhibit (non adjacent)
1. Honey Badger
2. Banded Mongoose

Second viewing of the lion exhibit (glass)

Six various sized cages (non adjacent)
1. Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
2. Amur Leopard
3. De Brazza's Monkey
4. Black and White Colobus
5. Black-masked Lovebird
6. Verraux's Eagle Owl

Third savanna viewing

Very large savanna with boardwalk viewing
Reticulated Giraffe

Medium open topped wetlands exhibit with a boardwalk path
Black Stork

Fourth Savanna viewing

Medium open topped wetlands exhibit
Wattled Crane

This entire attraction is one circle and leads guests back to where they started at the:



Central Zoo (continued)

Medium sized low brick fenced sand filled exhibit
Black-tailed Prairie Dog

Medium sized island exhibit fenced with low brick fence and a water moat
White-fronted Capuchin

Path leads guests uphill

Five medium to small sized cages with path leading to a dead end
1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Turkey Vulture
3. Komodo Dragon (Summer exhibit)
4. Eurasian Eagle Owl
5. Red Panda


Guests must backtrack and are met with pony rides at the other end of the area. If they continue up the incline, they'll to be lead to the:



Indonesian Rain Forest

Tall outdoor caged exhibit connected to the main building
Spectacled Langur

Doors lead guests inside the indoor Dr. Diversity's Rain Forest Research Station

Seven small boxed wall exhibits:
1. Thorny Devil Stick Insect
2. Thorny Devil Stick Insect
3. Malaysian Walking Leaf Insect
4. Northern Tree Shrew
5. Oriental Fire-bellied Toad
6. Crocodile Skink, Bornean Eared Toad
7. Tentacled Snake

Large narrow terrarium coming out of the wall
Reticulated Python

Small and low ceilinged terrarium
Komodo Dragon (Winter only)

Tall floor exhibit
Red-tailed Rat Snake

Very small, "L shaped" path venturing guests into a look of a preview of the dome and leading them back into another indoor attraction

Large all indoor habitat atrium with a straight glass viewing
Sumatran Orangutan

8,000 sq ft Jungle Dome Aviary

Nothing that roams free in the exhibit is labelled (Based on observation) There are 16 total species
Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon
Crested Wood Partridge
Asian Fairy Bluebird
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Hooded Pitta
Oriental White-Eye
Silver-eared Mesia
Nicobar Pigeon
Cotton Teal
Javan Whistling Duck
Princess Parrot

In the middle of the dome guests are lead into a small cave and shortly come out on the other side. There are three small terrariums built into the cave walls
1. Bornean Eared Frog
2. Bornean Eared Frog
3. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

Guests are lead outside to a café area along with the zoo's carousel and into the start of the rainforest boardwalk trail. For the rest of the exhibits, guests are viewing the animals while being elevated approximately 10 ft in the air.

Semi large tropical habitat with two separate glass viewings
Sumatran Tiger

Five tall to small meshed cages settled along the boardwalk
1. Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
2. Javan Gibbon
3. Wrinkled Hornbill
4. Hunting Cissa
5. Prevost's Squirrel



Zoo Central (continued)

Guests are lead back down the path to the capuchin monkey island and are left to see the other half of the zoo

Medium sized, low fenced grassland exhibit
Bennett's Wallaby

Very narrow and shallow watered habitat with full underwater and above water viewing
California Sea Lion

Very small multi-leveled exhibit with a pool at the bottom
North American River Otter

Large multi biome habitat (water, rocky island, and beach)
African Penguin

Small, narrow and low cage with glass viewing
White-faced Saki Monkey

Medium sized grassland exhibit with separate areas for underwater and land viewing
American Alligator



Australian Adventure

The Reef (Indoor aquarium)

Two medium sized (almost) circular wall tanks
1. Moon Jellyfish
2. Red Lionfish

Semi large enclosed "L shaped" tank
Black-tip Reef Shark
Zebra Shark
Tasseled Wobbegong Shark
Pilchard

Large, narrow, nearly floor to ceiling tropical fish tank
Percula Clownfish, Ocellaris Clownfish, Red and Black Clownfish, Maroon Clownfish, Coral Beauty, Yellow-tipped Squrrielfish, Orange Fairy Basslet, Whitesaddle Goatfish, Blotched Foxface, Copperband Butterflyfish, Yellow Tang, Picasso Triggerfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Saddled Butterflyfish, Koran Angelfish, Threadfin Butterflyifish, Blue Green Chromis, Blue Tang, Black Triggerfish, Marine Betta, Longface Wrasse, Emperor Angelfish, Jewel Damselfish, Orange-shouldered Tang, Domino Angelfish, Stars and Stripes Puffer, Chocolate Tang, Orbicular Batfish, Sailfin Tang, Pennant Butterflyfish, Three Stripe Damselfish, Zebra Moray Eel, Clown Triggerfish


Stingray Bay

Semi large tank with above and underwater viewing. The animals are available to touch, however, the tank wall is elevated to that of an adult waist, and children need assistance. Guests can only view and touch the rays on one side of the tank.
Cownose Ray
Southern Stingray

Start of the main Australia exhibits

Two small, low ceilinged cages
1. Galah
Maned Goose
2. Australian Magpie

Five glass boxed exhibits built within the wall of a half built barn
1. Wheeler's Nob-tailed Gecko
2. Black-headed Monitor
3. Carpet Python
4. Woma Python
5. Blue-tounged Skink

Semi small, high glass fenced yard
Tasmanian Devil (Future)

Large walkthrough exhibit with free roaming animals
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Black Swan

Medium sized yard with low fenced viewing
Dingo

Large, walkthrough aviary (also viewable from every angle of the attraction)
Rainbow Lorikeet
Cockatiel
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Straw-necked Ibis
Cattle Egret
Masked Lapwing


Central Zoo (continued last time)

Semi large low fenced grassland habitat
Aldabra Tortoise

Very small, square based shaped cage
Red-tailed Hawk



Indiana Family Farm
Various fenced pens, petting yards, and coops filled with rabbits, cows, honeybees, rabbits, pigs, a miniature donkey, chickens, and Nigerian dwarf goats
 
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jayjds2 said:
I didn't know there were any in the US. Any ideas where it/they came from? Ages? Breeding?


Wattled crane or..?
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These are mistakes and thank you for pointing them out. I've seen both of these species only once (at the the same zoo in fact as well) before Fort Wayne and they aren't commonly recognized in my mind. When reading on the site about white storks, I've only seen people refer to them as Oriental White Storks, and I had no idea they were two different species.
 
Moebelle said:
These are mistakes and thank you for pointing them out. I've seen both of these species only once (at the the same zoo in fact as well) before Fort Wayne and they aren't commonly recognized in my mind. When reading on the site about white storks, I've only seen people refer to them as Oriental White Storks, and I had no idea they were two different species.
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No problem. If you'd actually seen Oriental then I'd have made Fort Wayne a priority, as storks are some of my favorite animals. There's a few species I haven't seen yet but I've seen quite a few. Thanks for the animal list.
 
Actually, I just realized that the Louisville Zoo had some/one Oriental White Storks, so I probably have seen them as I used to go to Louisville all the time. I don't remember too many details though, as I was younger. I'll be looking through old photos tomorrow. I also need to work on an excuse to drive through Columbus to Saint Louis (where we have family) and then through Louisville on the way back home! Thanks for making me come to these realizations, even if it was accidental on your part.
 
jayjds2 said:
Actually, I just realized that the Louisville Zoo had some/one Oriental White Storks, so I probably have seen them as I used to go to Louisville all the time. I don't remember too many details though, as I was younger. I'll be looking through old photos tomorrow. I also need to work on an excuse to drive through Columbus to Saint Louis (where we have family) and then through Louisville on the way back home! Thanks for making me come to these realizations, even if it was accidental on your part.
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Haha actually Louisville was the zoo I was referring to. The exhibit has since been turned into part of the footprint of the new Blue Penguin exhibit
 
Moebelle,
Thank you for this well-organized list! We had some discussion about whether to make the exhibit descriptions bold or the species names bold, I think it works out well either way!

I had never heard of a hunting cissa, if I have ever seen one it was at a time before I was paying attention to bird species!
 
Moebelle said:
Haha actually Louisville was the zoo I was referring to. The exhibit has since been turned into part of the footprint of the new Blue Penguin exhibit
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Where is/are the stork(s) then, if you know? And my apologies for derailing your thread with talk of Louisville.
 
geomorph said:
I had never heard of a hunting cissa, if I have ever seen one it was at a time before I was paying attention to bird species!
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It's the same as a green magpie, which I assume you've heard of (though maybe not seen, they are rare in America). Cissa chinensis.
 
I'm missing my favorite exhibit from when I visited a few years ago.

Nocturnal exhibit with striped possum / echida mix. Is it still around?
 
Walkthrough videos of the zoo's top attractions are ready


Also some changes that I noticed

1. The bird exhibit at the entrance has been combined with another to double the room for their Canada lynx
2. Spot-nosed Guenons now live with the Swamp monkeys
3. The very tiny Lovebird cage has been removed however, a large and very long cage, similar to the leopard habitat, has taken up that space.
4. In the Central Zoo, the also very tiny Turkey Vulture cage has been removed. As with the Red-tailed hawk cage and the Wallaby yard.
5. The Hunting Cissa in the rainforest has been replaced with a single White crested laughing thrush
6. I could've missed it on my last visit in the Central Zoo, but I noticed that an Agouti now lives with the Sakis
7. In the Australian section, no sign of the Maned goose but the Mapgie and the Gallah do now live together in the first cage. The second one now contains a Blue-faced Honeyeater
8. I didn't fully checkout the herp exhibits in the same section but I noticed that green tree frogs replaced the skink.
9. As mentioned last year for future news, the Tasmanian devils are now on exhibit.
 
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I'm not extremely familiar with the other sections, but in the Africa section, there are a few new changes. :)
1. A new African Grey Parrot exhibit (narrow, meshed cage)
2. The spot noses are currently not on exhibit, and there is a second Allen's swamp monkey troop mixed with the colobus.
Hope it's okay that I'm updating this. :)
 
are the spot nosed guenons the greater (nictitans) or lesser (petaurista) species? The lesser seem more common in AZA zoos, but I think Baton Rouge has greater
 
Is this still accurate? :p
In all seriousness, should I make a species list for this wonderful facility?
 
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