Brookfield Zoo Full Species List at the Brookfield Zoo

Moebelle

Moebelle

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Excluding the Family Play Zoo - Although I am aware it has exhibits for Ladybugs, American Kestrel, Ring-tailed Lemurs, and Ravens. It costs extra to enter and I do not believe it is worth passing through.

Here's what I saw in order starting with the North Entrance:

The Fragile Forest
Big Cats:
1. Amur Leopard
2. African Lion
3. Sloth Bear
4. Amur Tiger
5. Snow Leopard
The Fragile Desert:
1. Meerkat
2. African Crested Porcupine
3. Damaraland Mole Rat, Naked Mole Rat
4. Rock Hyrax
5. Caracal
6. Bat-eared Fox
7. Large-spotted Genet
8. Black-footed Cat
The Fragile Rain Forest:
1. Giant Millipede, Giant Prickly Leaf Insect
2. Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad
3. Binturong, Prevost's Squirrel, Asian Small-clawed Otter
4. Chinese Newt
5. Burmese Python
6. Clouded Leopard
7. Fishing Cat
8. Redtail Shark Minnow, Tiger Barb, Rosy Barb, Flower Shrimp, Dwarf Gourami, Yo-Yo Botia
9. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
10. Timor Python

Seven Seas
1. Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

Pinniped Point
1. Harbor Seal
2. Grey Seal
3. California Sea Lion

Stingray Bay
1. Cownose Ray, Southern Stingray

Tropic World
South America: Hoffmann's Two Toed Sloth, Red-capped Cardinal, Blue Grey Tanager, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Black-handed Spider Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Cotton-top Tamarin, Goeldi's Monkey, Giant Anteater
Asia: White-cheeked Gibbon, Asian Small-clawed Otter, Magpie Robin, Red-vented Bulbul, Bornean Orangutans, Northern Tree Shrew
Africa: Schmidt's Guenon, Angolan Colobus, Allen's Swamp Monkey,Common Bulbul, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Violet Turaco, Superb Starling, Western Lowland Gorilla

The Swamp
1. Boat-billed Heron, Sunbittern, Snowy Egret
2. Mata-Mata Turtle, Amazon Milk Frog
3. Southern Copperhead
4. Cottonmouth
5. Eyelash Viper
6. Double-crested Cormorant, Fulvous Whistling Duck, White Ibis
7. Orinoco Crocodile
8. Amazon Tree Boa, Serpae Tetra, Silver Hatchetfish, Black Neon Tetra, Apistro Gramma, Blue Ram Cichlid, Green Fire Tetra, Turqouise Discus
9. Bucktooth Tetra, Red-bellied Piranha
10.Galliwasp, Cope's False Chameleon
11. Argentine Black-and-white Tegu
12. False Water Cobra
13. Pink Millipede
14. Vinegaroon
15. Giant Red-headed Centipede
16. Black Widow
17. Bull Snake
18. Blue-winged Teal, Green Heron, Redhead Duck, Great Egret, Wood Duck
19. North American River Otter
20. Largemouth Bass, Chicken Turtle
21. Alligator Snapping Turtle

Formal Pool
1. American White Pelican

Birds and Reptiles
1. Peach-throated Monitor
2. Reticulated Python
3. Australian Water Dragon
4. Radiated Tortoise
5. Galapagos Tortoise
6. Argus Monitor
7. Radiated Tortoise
8. Sonoran Desert Toad
9. Red Bird of Paradise
10. Panamanian Golden Frog
11. Wattled Currasow, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Turquoise Tanager, Ringed Teal, White-crested Turaco, Blue Grey Tanager, Bay-headed Tanager, Paradise Tanager, Elephant Crested Tinamou, Green-winged Macaw

Feathers and Scales
1. Fox Snake
2. Arizona Mountain Snake
3. Western Hognose Snake
4. Spotted Turtle
5. Grey-banded Kingsnake
6. Chicago Garter Snake
7. Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Bali Mynah
8. Egyptian Tortoise
9. Bavay's Giant Gecko
10. Blue-legged Mantella, Black-eared Mantella
11. D'Albert's Python
12. Jamaican Boa
13. San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
14. Texas Tortoise
15. Rosy Boa
16. Desert Horned Lizard
17. Cape Thick Knee, Roadrunner, Gila Woodpecker, White-winged Dove, Gambel's Quail, Curve-billed Thrasher
18. Madagascar Spider Tortoise
19. Gila Monster
20. Amazon Horned Frog
21. Kenyan Sand Boa
22. Flame-bellied Armadillo Lizard
23. Halmahero Giant Gecko
24. Giant Mossy Tree Frog
25. Eastern Indigo Snake
26. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
27. Congo Peafowl
28. Blue-faced Honeyeater
29. Tawny Frogmouth, Crested Wood Partridge, Jambu Fruit Dove
30. Yellow and Blue Poison Frog, Green and Black Poison Frog, Blue Poison Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Frog
31. Black Tree Monitor

The Living Coast
1. Flame Scallop, Star Coral
2. Black Percula Clownfish, Orange Skunk Clownfish, Poison Goby, Bubble-tip Anemone, Carpet Anemone, Cleaner Shrimp
3. Banded Coral Shrimp, Porcelain Crab, Sea Apple
4. Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
5. African Cichlids
6. Blue Rnner, Spadefish, Cownose Ray
7. Upside Down Jellyfish
8. Picasso Triggerfish, Harlequin Tuskfish, Dogface Puffer
9. Kelp Bass, Gariboldifish, Leopard Shark, Half Moon, Popeye Catalufa Soldierfish, Pacific Moray Eel
10. Bat Star, Strawberry Anemone, Plumose Anemone, Green Anemone
11. Sailfin Tang, Naso Tang, Percula Clownfish, Cleaner Shrimp, Long Tentacle Anemone, Blue Tang, Twospined Angelfish, Royal Empress Angelfish, Allen Damselfish, Domino Damselfish, Rainfordi Goby
12. Humboldt Penguin, Grey Gull, Inca Tern
13. Rainbow Boa
14. Puerto Rican Boa
15. Puerto Rican Tarantula
16. Common Vampire Bat

Great Bear Wilderness
1. Bald Eagle
2. Mexican Grey Wolf
3. Alaskan Brown Bear
4. Polar Bear
5. American Bison

Habitat Africa! The Savanna
1. African Painted Dog
2. Reticulated Giraffe, Egyptian Tortoise, African Spur-Thigh Tortoise
3. Elipsen Waterbuck, Ostrich, Warthog
4. Gerenuk
5. Aardvark
Kopjie:
1. Dwarf Mongoose
2. Pancake Tortoise
3. Leopard Tortoise
4. Plated Lizard
5. Blue-bellied Roller, Golden-breasted Starling, Taveta Golden Weaver, Speckled Mousebird, Violet-backed Starling, Emerald Starling
6. Klipspringer

Habitat Africa! The Forest
1. Okapi
2. Yellow-backed Duiker
3. African Dwarf Crocodile
4. Royal Antelope, Red-billed Hornbill
5. Hingleback Tortoise
6. Jackson's Chameleon
7. Dumeril's Ground Boa
8. Giant Elephant Shrew
9. Okapi (Indoor)
10. Okapi (Outdoor #2)
11. Red River Hog

Hoofed Animals
1. Okapi
2. Addax
3. Grant's Zebra, Grevy's Zebra
4. Przewalski's Horse
5. Bactrian Camel (X2)

Pachyderms
1. Pygmy Hippopotamus (X2)
2. Baird's Tapir
3. Lowland Tapir
4. Eastern Black Rhinoceros (X3)

Australia
1. Rainbowfish
2. White's Tree Frog
3. Shingleback Skink
4. Solomon's Island Skink
5. Woma Python
6. Tawny Frogmouth, Princess Parrot, Short-beaked Echidna
7. Jungle Carpet Python, Cane Toad
8. Green Tree Monitor
9. Green Tree Python
10. Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
11. Laughing Kookaburra
12. Rodriguez Flying Fox
13. Southern Cassowary
14. Western Grey Kangaroo, Bennett's Wallaby
15. Emu, Bennett's Wallaby

Free Ranging
1. Indian Peafowl
2. Helmeted Guineafowl
 
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Great list. Here are some you left out the Mexican Grey Wolves in Wolf Woods, Tamandua and lynx which are behind the scenes, Prezwalksi's Wild Horse in Hoofed Animals, Red Backed Duiker in Habitat Africa The Forest, and Allen's swamp monkey in the Africa part of Tropic World.
 
TropicWorld54 said:
Great list. Here are some you left out the Mexican Grey Wolves in Wolf Woods, Tamandua and lynx which are behind the scenes, Prezwalksi's Wild Horse in Hoofed Animals, Red Backed Duiker in Habitat Africa The Forest, and Allen's swamp monkey in the Africa part of Tropic World.
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Thank you that's the species I was looking for that lives in Tropic World. I have 3 photos of the species and spent 20 trying to figure out what it is.
 
Thank you - they used to have a good species list at the zoo website but it's declined a bit. Been wondering what the wallaby, cassowary and African tortoise species were, so again, thanks!

I heard from a keeper a few years ago there are some Bonobo behind the scenes in Tropic World but have never had it substantiated elsewhere.

The Play Zoo also has a six-banded armadillo (if I remember the species correctly) another species of lemur, and some American species of porcupine IIRC
 
I happened to visit the Family Play Zoo last weekend. It is worth an extra fee if you are there with children (but perhaps not otherwise). I did not note all of the animals, but there were 12-15 species on display, plus a variety of household pets (rabbits, parakeets, guinea pigs, etc).

Animals on display included ring-tailed lemurs, mongoose lemurs, ravens, kookaburra, 1-2 types of armadillo, prehensile-tailed porcupine, blue-tounged skink and 2-3 other lizards, 2-3 turtle species and 2-3 snake species, including 2 large boa constrictors. There may be a couple others that I am forgetting.
 
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Moebelle said:
Excluding the Family Play Zoo - Although I am aware it has exhibits for Ladybugs, American Kestrel, Ring-tailed Lemurs, and Ravens. It costs extra to enter and I do not believe it is worth passing through.

Here's what I saw in order starting with the North Entrance:

The Fragile Forest
Big Cats:
1. Amur Leopard
2. African Lion
3. Sloth Bear
4. Amur Tiger
5. Snow Leopard
The Fragile Desert:
1. Meerkat
2. African Crested Porcupine
3. Damaraland Mole Rat, Naked Mole Rat
4. Rock Hyrax
5. Caracal
6. Bat-eared Fox
7. Large-spotted Genet
8. Black-footed Cat
The Fragile Rain Forest:
1. Giant Millipede, Giant Prickly Leaf Insect
2. Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad
3. Binturong, Prevost's Squirrel, Asian Small-clawed Otter
4. Chinese Newt
5. Burmese Python
6. Clouded Leopard
7. Fishing Cat
8. Redtail Shark Minnow, Tiger Barb, Rosy Barb, Flower Shrimp, Dwarf Gourami, Yo-Yo Botia
9. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
10. Timor Python

Seven Seas
1. Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

Pinniped Point
1. Harbor Seal
2. Grey Seal
3. California Sea Lion

Stingray Bay
1. Cownose Ray, Southern Stingray

Tropic World
South America: Hoffmann's Two Toed Sloth, Red-capped Cardinal, Blue Grey Tanager, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Black-handed Spider Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Cotton-top Tamarin, Goeldi's Monkey, Giant Anteater
Asia: White-cheeked Gibbon, Asian Small-clawed Otter, Magpie Robin, Red-vented Bulbul, Bornean Orangutans, Northern Tree Shrew
Africa: Schmidt's Guenon, Angolan Colobus, Allen's Swamp Monkey,Common Bulbul, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Violet Turaco, Superb Starling, Western Lowland Gorilla

The Swamp
1. Boat-billed Heron, Sunbittern, Snowy Egret
2. Mata-Mata Turtle, Amazon Milk Frog
3. Southern Copperhead
4. Cottonmouth
5. Eyelash Viper
6. Double-crested Cormorant, Fulvous Whistling Duck, White Ibis
7. Orinoco Crocodile
8. Amazon Tree Boa, Serpae Tetra, Silver Hatchetfish, Black Neon Tetra, Apistro Gramma, Blue Ram Cichlid, Green Fire Tetra, Turqouise Discus
9. Bucktooth Tetra, Red-bellied Piranha
10.Galliwasp, Cope's False Chameleon
11. Argentine Black-and-white Tegu
12. False Water Cobra
13. Pink Millipede
14. Vinegaroon
15. Giant Red-headed Centipede
16. Black Widow
17. Bull Snake
18. Blue-winged Teal, Green Heron, Redhead Duck, Great Egret, Wood Duck
19. North American River Otter
20. Largemouth Bass, Chicken Turtle
21. Alligator Snapping Turtle

Formal Pool
1. American White Pelican

Birds and Reptiles
1. Peach-throated Monitor
2. Reticulated Python
3. Australian Water Dragon
4. Radiated Tortoise
5. Galapagos Tortoise
6. Argus Monitor
7. Radiated Tortoise
8. Sonoran Desert Toad
9. Red Bird of Paradise
10. Panamanian Golden Frog
11. Wattled Currasow, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Turquoise Tanager, Ringed Teal, White-crested Turaco, Blue Grey Tanager, Bay-headed Tanager, Paradise Tanager, Elephant Crested Tinamou, Green-winged Macaw

Feathers and Scales
1. Fox Snake
2. Arizona Mountain Snake
3. Western Hognose Snake
4. Spotted Turtle
5. Grey-banded Kingsnake
6. Chicago Garter Snake
7. Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Bali Mynah
8. Egyptian Tortoise
9. Bavay's Giant Gecko
10. Blue-legged Mantella, Black-eared Mantella
11. D'Albert's Python
12. Jamaican Boa
13. San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
14. Texas Tortoise
15. Rosy Boa
16. Desert Horned Lizard
17. Cape Thick Knee, Roadrunner, Gila Woodpecker, White-winged Dove, Gambel's Quail, Curve-billed Thrasher
18. Madagascar Spider Tortoise
19. Gila Monster
20. Amazon Horned Frog
21. Kenyan Sand Boa
22. Flame-bellied Armadillo Lizard
23. Halmahero Giant Gecko
24. Giant Mossy Tree Frog
25. Eastern Indigo Snake
26. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
27. Congo Peafowl
28. Blue-faced Honeyeater
29. Tawny Frogmouth, Crested Wood Partridge, Jambu Fruit Dove
30. Yellow and Blue Poison Frog, Green and Black Poison Frog, Blue Poison Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Frog
31. Black Tree Monitor

The Living Coast
1. Flame Scallop, Star Coral
2. Black Percula Clownfish, Orange Skunk Clownfish, Poison Goby, Bubble-tip Anemone, Carpet Anemone, Cleaner Shrimp
3. Banded Coral Shrimp, Porcelain Crab, Sea Apple
4. Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
5. African Cichlids
6. Blue Rnner, Spadefish, Cownose Ray
7. Upside Down Jellyfish
8. Picasso Triggerfish, Harlequin Tuskfish, Dogface Puffer
9. Kelp Bass, Gariboldifish, Leopard Shark, Half Moon, Popeye Catalufa Soldierfish, Pacific Moray Eel
10. Bat Star, Strawberry Anemone, Plumose Anemone, Green Anemone
11. Sailfin Tang, Naso Tang, Percula Clownfish, Cleaner Shrimp, Long Tentacle Anemone, Blue Tang, Twospined Angelfish, Royal Empress Angelfish, Allen Damselfish, Domino Damselfish, Rainfordi Goby
12. Humboldt Penguin, Grey Gull, Inca Tern
13. Rainbow Boa
14. Puerto Rican Boa
15. Puerto Rican Tarantula
16. Common Vampire Bat

Great Bear Wilderness
1. Bald Eagle
2. Mexican Grey Wolf
3. Alaskan Brown Bear
4. Polar Bear
5. American Bison

Habitat Africa! The Savanna
1. African Painted Dog
2. Reticulated Giraffe, Egyptian Tortoise, African Spur-Thigh Tortoise
3. Elipsen Waterbuck, Ostrich, Warthog
4. Gerenuk
5. Aardvark
Kopjie:
1. Dwarf Mongoose
2. Pancake Tortoise
3. Leopard Tortoise
4. Plated Lizard
5. Blue-bellied Roller, Golden-breasted Starling, Taveta Golden Weaver, Speckled Mousebird, Violet-backed Starling, Emerald Starling
6. Klipspringer

Habitat Africa! The Forest
1. Okapi
2. Yellow-backed Duiker
3. African Dwarf Crocodile
4. Royal Antelope, Red-billed Hornbill
5. Hingleback Tortoise
6. Jackson's Chameleon
7. Dumeril's Ground Boa
8. Giant Elephant Shrew
9. Okapi (Indoor)
10. Okapi (Outdoor #2)
11. Red River Hog

Hoofed Animals
1. Okapi
2. Addax
3. Grant's Zebra, Grevy's Zebra
4. Przewalski's Horse
5. Bactrian Camel (X2)

Pachyderms
1. Pygmy Hippopotamus (X2)
2. Baird's Tapir
3. Lowland Tapir
4. Eastern Black Rhinoceros (X3)

Australia
1. Rainbowfish
2. White's Tree Frog
3. Shingleback Skink
4. Solomon's Island Skink
5. Woma Python
6. Tawny Frogmouth, Princess Parrot, Short-beaked Echidna
7. Jungle Carpet Python, Cane Toad
8. Green Tree Monitor
9. Green Tree Python
10. Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
11. Laughing Kookaburra
12. Rodriguez Flying Fox
13. Southern Cassowary
14. Western Grey Kangaroo, Bennett's Wallaby
15. Emu, Bennett's Wallaby

Free Ranging
1. Indian Peafowl
2. Helmeted Guineafowl
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Are the peafowl and guinea fowl the ones with the coloration found in nature or do they also have birds with other color mutations? For example white birds?
 
elefante said:
Are the peafowl and guinea fowl the ones with the coloration found in nature or do they also have birds with other color mutations? For example white birds?
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I've visited several times and never seen any white peafowl. I'm not expert on birds but I believe they seem to be natural coloration.
 
New Species List of Summer 2016

Brookfield Zoo

If you come in from the north entrance, to the very right there is a walk-through butterfly exhibit, in the top center of the path there is a large carousel, and as you pass to the left of it you are met with the zoo's first attraction:


The Fragile Forest

As you first approach the area, you are first met with a curved, medium sized meshed exhibit with a rocky backdrop
Amur Leopard

The main path that follows along the leopard exhibit leads to a tall building to the left. This is a nocturnal set themed building called:

The Fragile Desert

The first two exhibits, set in an immersive way adjacent to each other, are set in a very large room with a high dark blue ceiling, and a desert backdrop set far back from visitors

Semi large, open fronted, glass fenced exhibit that elevates into a small cliff at eye level
Meerkat

Semi large front, fully mesh fenced exhibit that inclines to the back wall
African Crested Porcupine

Small wall exhibit composed of connecting tubes
Damaraland Mole Rat
Naked Mole Rat

The path turns into a somewhat high elevated, covered boardwalk that takes you through the center of a canyon. There are animals on either side

Left side
Rock Hyrax

Right Side
Caracal

Somewhat large ditch habitat with a dark blue backdrop resembling the desert night. The viewing area appears built within a canyon and the window cut out is open fronted
Bat-eared Fox

Small corner exhibit built "naturally" within the wall
Mohili Bushbaby

Two small, adjacent waist high tanks
Black-footed Cats

The building exits you back to the entrance. The main path leads you back along the leopard exhibit and passed it to continue the Fragile Forest outdoor exhibits

Medium sized grotto with an upclose viewing window, and another open viewing area along the path. The animals are kept in with a moat
African Lion

Two adjacent, somewhat small sized open fronted grottoes with deep moats
1. Amur Tiger
2. Sloth Bear

Final grotto along the path. The exhibit has a moat, however, the main land exhibit before the moat is completely meshed. On the very right side there is a glass window for upclose viewing
Snow Leopard

Not too far from this exhibit is a connected building; the last attraction to the Fragile Forest:

Clouded Leopard Rain Forest

The building is in a nocturnal setting

Three smallish sized tanks placed at waist high
1. Mossy Frog
2. Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad
3. Chinese Newt

Medium sized, ground level floor enclosure (appears naturally built in the wall)
Empty - Future Monitor Exhibit

Across from these exhibits is a quite large mesh fronted habitat with the floor inclining somewhat high and far to the back wall. There is a waterfall on top with a stream that leads to a pool at the bottom
Clouded Leopard

Next room - Path leads to the right

Two large and tall (and deep) exhibits with a boardwalk viewing that appears elevated within rain forest trees
1. Bearcat
2. Fishing Cat

Next room leading to the right once more

Three small tanks placed at waist high
1. Tentacled Snake
2. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
3. Savu Island Python

Smallish meshed exhibit with a tall ceiling. Leading to and from this exhibit are meshed tubes that venture above the viewing area in the last room
Prevost's Squirrel

Exit from the building to the same place you entered


Venture to the left and are immediately met with loud barks at:


Pinniped Point

You follow up a ramp to a coastal shoreline themed area with four similar exhibits that are open topped but the tall front fence line is meshed. In order from left to the right.
1. Grey Seal
2. California Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
3. California Sea Lion
4. Harbor Seal

Another ramp curves you back to the main path area, however, there are steps that lead you down to an underwater viewing area with two, symmetrical (curved) viewing windows for the two middle exhibits above.

To the left there is a large building complex. There is a gift shop at the top with a declining ramp that leads to the connected building behind it. You are at the:


Seven Seas

Regardless of what path you take, you are lead to a large and long underwater viewing (only) that shows one side of a 1 million gallon tank (the viewing tank is 800,000 gallons with un-viewable med pools in the back)
Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

You must exit back the same way you came in and to the right to the complex is another path that leads inside the building once more. Instead, this is access to the Dolphin Arena, where there are scheduled show times each day.

Very far down the line of the many main paths that the zoo offers is a huge building with a length that appears hundreds of feet long. The entrance area is outdoors that starts with a small arch and follows it is a tight, windy path that leads into the building. This is:


Tropic World

Even though a path leads you into a building, there is still a small path within the building that is composed with upright squares that come off the wall cartoon animals in a rainforest setting

Finally doors lead you into a room where you are greeted with a roaring waterfall that comes from a very tall ceiling. After you get wet:) the path ventures you to the right side of the building along the full length of this exhibit, and you overlook an unimaginably large exhibit filled with many sized trees (up to 50 ft tall), and vines to go along with it; the high walls are made up of thick rock, and the rest of the untouched parts of the walls are painted as a mural. On the front side of the exhibit floor that goes far, far down from the viewing area, is a large but shallow pond. All three rooms are nearly identical to each other, but this first one is:

South America

There are free flying birds that have access to the whole exhibit
Red-capped Cardinal
Blue-grey Tanager
Silver-beaked Tanager
Saffron Finch
Troupial

Near and in front of the viewing area are actually two trees that's base are eye level with guests that contain connecting vines that can lead small animals over the heads of guests and to the back wall of the viewing area
Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth
Cotton-top Tamarin
Goeldi's Marmoset
Golden Lion Tamarin

These trees can only be accessed by certain animals while the other animals have access to the bottom exhibit.
Giant Anteater
Black-handed Spider Monkey
Common Squirrel Monkey

Two doors lead you to the next room. This room is, as described, nearly identical to South America, except as you enter you notice it is exceptionally quieter (no waterfall, less animals), the habitat flooring is nearly covered completely in shallow waters, on the right side there is an elevated cliff like exhibit that is at eye level with guests and can only be accessed by one species, and lastly there is a terrarium located on the right side of the viewing area. This is:

Asia

Free flying birds
Red-vented Bul-bul
Black-throated Laughing Thrush

Animals in the main exhibit
White-cheeked Gibbon
Asian Small-clawed Otter

Separate habitat placed at eye level, and is nearly 100% filled with short, fake trees. Only this mammal, and the birds, can access this exhibit
Bornean Orangutan

Medium sized terrarium at the end of the path
Quince Monitor

The next room is approximately the same size as the other two, however, it is slightly extended with the path in the shape of a "P" that guests can access to view the complex at many different angles. There are three total exhibits. This is the final area in the building, and it is:

Africa

Free flying birds
Blue-bellied Roller
Violet Turaco
White-headed Buffalo Weaver

Main exhibit that can be viewed from the front side, but there is also a boardwalk that takes guests along the entire right side of the area, giving a 180 degree view
Allen's Swamp Monkey
Red-tailed Guenon
Black-crested Mangabey
Angolan Colobus

The main exhibit can be viewed on the left side of the boardwalk while this next exhibit can be viewed on the right. The boardwalk again becomes a path that takes guests into a full 360 degree circle around this mountainous rock. The animals, at the top of this rock and trees, can be eye level with guests. To the very right wall of this entire exhibit is sort of hidden ditch habitat with two small, glass viewings these exhibits both hold:
Western Lowland Gorilla


Next to this giant complex is another old style building called:


The Swamp

Large meshed aviary along the whole length of the right wall
Boat-billed Heron
Brazilian Teal
Snow Egret

Medium sized cubed exhibit coming outside of the wall
Amazon Milk Frog
Mata Mata

Three connecting identical cubes placed off the wall
1. Rough Green Snake
2. Cottonmouth
3. Eyelash Viper

Large, see through aviary (looks into adjacent aviaries), with natural lighting, and mesh fencing
White Ibis
Rosybill Pochard
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Troupial

Connecting exhibit with mesh and window viewing
Orinoco Crocodile

Two medium sized tanks with above and underwater viewings
1. Emerald Tree Boa
Silver Hatchetfish
South American Lungfish
White-blotched River Stingray
Black Neon Tetra
Suckermouth Catfish
2. Green Crested Basilisk
Red-bellied Piranha

Three semi large and tall connecting terrariums (also coming off the wall)
1. Haitian Boa
2. Bornean Eared Frog
Indochinese Box Turtle
3. False Water Cobra

Doors lead you into a cabin like room

Five very small terrariums built into the wood of the "cabin"
1. African Giant Millipede
2. Red-clawed Emperor Scorpion
3. Vinegaroon
4. Giant Redheaded Centipede
5. Black Widow

Tall floor tank with 360 degree viewing located in the same room
Aquatic Caecilian

Open fronted viewing into a tall aviary
Blue-winged Teal
Green Heron
Redheaded Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Wood Duck

Semi large terrarium coming off the wall
Mangrove Snake
Tokay Gecko

Next room

Three small open topped exhibit with viewing for underwater and above water
1. North American River Otter
2. River Cooter Turtle
Largemouth Bass
Longnose Gar
Blanding's Turtle
Southern Painted Turtle
3. Alligator Snapping Turtle

As you exit and continue right on the main path there you will be met with a sort of small building:


Birds and Reptiles

This building is composed of a single hallway with a variety of terrariums placed on either side with a doorway placed in the middle. This doorway leads to a walkthrough aviary. The list will take perspective from how I encountered the building, meaning I entered in from the left entrance

Left side

Various sized terrariums built into the wall - Some are elevated to guest's waists and some are lowered to the ground
1. Caiman Lizard
2. Gila Monster
Blue Spiny Lizard
3. Spiny-tailed Monitor
4. New Caledonia Giant Gecko
5. Haitian Giant Galliswap
Western Bearded Anole
6. Puerto Rican Boa

Semi large exhibit with viewing on the front and the side, leading to a doorway
Argentine Black-and-White Tegu

Similar exhibit across the floor path
Radiated Tortoise

Various sized terrariums on the far end of the left side of the hallway
1. Oriente Knight Anole
2. Prehensile-tailed Skink
3. Colorado River Toad
4. Timor Python
5. Halmahera Gecko
6. Annulated Boa
Smoky Jungle Frog
7. Blue and Yellow Dart Frog
Yellow Banded Dart Frog
Green and Black Dart Frog

Right side starting at the entrance

Semi large elevated terrarium
Eastern Hellbender

Medium sized box exhibit, slightly elevated
Panamanian Golden Frog

Semi large, floor to ceiling glass fronted exhibit
Empty (Former bird of paradise exhibit)

Semi large exhibit that is also viewable from the outside from a window
Argus Monitor

Identical exhibit
Galapagos Tortoise

Large exhibit, floor to ceiling
Reticulated Python

Six similar medium sized terrariums elevated at the waist
1. Texas Tortoise
2. Utila Island Iguana
3. Peach-throated Monitor
4. San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
5. Fiji Island Banded Iguana
6. Papuan Olive Python

In the middle of hallway, as mentioned there is a doorway that leads to large walk-through aviary. There is no natural looking path that runs through the atrium, just a low elevated viewing area where birds can freely fly above your head.
Green-winged Macaw (Wings are clipped)
Bananaquit
Silver-beaked Tanager
Paradise Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Red-vented Bulbul
Turquoise Tanager
Ringed Teal
Green Aracari
Wattled Curassow
Blue-crowned Mot Mot


As soon as you exit there is a very large, perfectly rectangle shaped shallow pool. This is called the Formal Pool, where you can find native wildlife but most noticeably you can find the zoo's American White Pelicans. At one of the corners, there is a small yard containing:
Yellow-footed Tortoise
Galapagos Tortoise
Red-footed Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise


The side of the pool fence parallels straight with the main path and leads you to the very bottom left corner of the zoo. There you can find an oddly shaped building that gives you the hint that this is an aquarium attraction. This is the South American coastal shoreline exhibit:

The Living Coast

Tanks placed tightly along the first wall

Four small tanks
1. Mushroom Coral
Mini Carpet Anemone
2. Coral Banded Shrimp
Orange Skunk Clownfish
3. Black Percula Clownfish
4. Sexy Shrimp
5. Upside Down Jellyfish

First semi large tank
Largemouth Bass
Bluegill
Smallmouth Bass
Yellow Perch
Orangespotted Sunfish
Dollar Sunfish

Small isolated tank
African Cichlids

Second semi large tank made to look like an empty ocean
Cownose Ray
Blue Runner
Spadefish

Small isolated tank
Bangaii Cardinalfish

Large, tank with the glass touching the floor to the ceiling. There are two typical viewings windows and a bubble window on the side
Leopard Shark
Gariboldi
Half Moon
California Sheepshead
Kelp Bass
Striped Surfperch

Three adjacent medium sized tanks
1. Purple Firefish
Scissortail Goby
Tail-spot Blenny
2. Warty Frogfish
3. Dogface Pufferfish
Harlequin Tuskfish
Mombasa Frillfin Lionfish

Two non adjacent, medium sized isolated tank
1. Pot-bellied Seahorse
Purple Sea Urchin
2. Bat Star
Strawberry Anemone
Plumose Anemone
Green Anemone

Very bright, medium sized tropical reef exhibit
Longnose Hawkfish
Sailfin Tang
Ocellated Clownfish
Shining Puller
Blue Tang
Tomato Clownfish
Coral Beauty
Cleaner Shrimp
Naso Tang
Orange Fairy Basslet

A small hallway then leads you past a roaring waterfall (that flows off curved glass coming down from the ceiling, making the waterfall flow into a semi circle. Past this there is a light at the end of the tunnel as if it’s a doorway to the outdoors, walking into this you realize you are placed in a large dome that makes an attempt at a shoreline with high cliffs beyond it.

Three similar exhibits placed on the right side of the side. These exhibits are built within the rock walls
1. Solomon Islands Leaf Frog
2. Brazilian Rainbow Boa
3. Puerto Rican Tarantula

On the other side of the dome is a simulated coastline with a reachable pool, a small shoreline, and a massive cliff wall containing many, many holes fore nesting
Incan Tern
Grey Gull
Humboldt Penguin

Coming out of the building there is large building set in your sights. On the back side of the building there is a very large cage connected to the building. This is:


Feathers and Scales

The building is just one large room where you can venture to any exhibit you'd like… Let’s take a right though.

Four medium sized exhibits with a cage fronted fence. The first two exhibits are on the wall at the front of the building, the third exhibit is placed at the corner and is slightly smaller, and the fourth enclosure goes along the entire length of the right wall
1. Tawny Frogmouth
Crested Wood Partridge
2. Blue-faced Honeyeater
3. White-cheeked Turaco
Congo Peafowl
4. Greater Roadrunner
Gambel's Quail
White-winged Dove

Very, very large aviary taking up the entire length of the back wall. The fence is a cage wire however, in the middle part of the viewing there are two small windows that are open fronted
Red-capped Cardinal
Blue-crowned Mot-Mot
Blue-billed Curassow
Sunbittern
Saffron Finch
Golden-headed Manakin
Violaceous Euphonia
Bananaquit
Turqoise Tanager
Paradise Tanager
Blue-grey Tanager
Green Honeyeater
Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
Purple honeyeater
Silver-beaked Tanager
Curl-crested Aracari

In the center of the building there are two separate but symmetrical rectangle shaped structures that have several terrariums built within in them. These terrariums vary in size from large boxed exhibits to very small rectangle shaped enclosure
1. Baron's Green Racer
2. Black Tree Monitor
3. Halmahera Giant Gecko
4. Arizona Mountain Kingsnake
5. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
6. Egyptian Tortoise
Sahara Spiny-tailed Lizard
7. Turquoise Dwarf Gecko
8. Taylor's Agama
9. Mottled Rock Rattlesnake
10. Madagascar Spider Tortoise
11. Grey-banded Kingsnake
12. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
13. Jamaican Boa
14. Tunisian Tortoise
15. Leopard Tortoise
16. Mexican Redknee Tarantula
17. Rosy Boa
18. Quince Monitor
19. Spotted Turtle
20. Cope's Grey Tree Frog
21. Chicago Garter Snake
22. Ornate Box Turtle
23. Five-lined Skink

The final indoor exhibit is another caged aviary that takes up the entire length of the front building wall
Bali Mynah
Victoria Crowned Pigeon

As mentioned there is a massive flight cage located at the back of the building. The aviary appears to be almost the exact same size as the building itself
Andean Condor

Not too far down the line the area starts to noticeably become a North American themed area. Within the close distance you can see cabins and even a large prairie. This area is the:


Great Bear Wilderness

Semi small but tall aviary
Bald Eagle

Very large, immersive woodland habitat with two open viewings, mesh viewing, and observing from an indoor station
Mexican Grey Wolf

Two similar rocky exhibits with a grassy yard, and deep pools
Rotating yard for Grizzly Bear and Polar Bears

Between the two yards is an indoor area (no entrance door) that features two underwater viewing areas for each pool of either side of the building. Down the next hall is a den viewing for the next outdoor habitat

Second viewing for the second bear exhibit (very tall glass)

Open viewing of a medium sized yard similar to the first two. There is a pool but no underwater viewing. This is also a rotating yard for the two bear species

Very large prairie exhibit with thick metal fences, crossed with hotwire. The exhibit is very unique as it gives these animals access to walk above guests over a tunnel that you can walk through. You cannot see these animals above you however, you can get an eye level view of the animals' feet through a mesh window from underneath the tunnel.
American Bison

Not to far down the main path is the zoo's largest attraction:


Habitat Africa!

The path of the savanna area leads guests into a circle and from the other side of these African animals lie other exhibits from other attractions. However, I will not mention these. At the start of this area, I personally prefer to take a left, where I'm lead to:

Habitat Africa! Hidden Gems of the Forest

After a long windy path through a well simulated rainforest, filled with covering trees, colorful plants, and a long stream, you are met with your first gem

Medium sized yard with chain link fencing with an open viewing
Okapi

Similar sized yard connected to a building
Yellow-backed Duiker

Enter through doorways to a somewhat dark set building

Semi small glass fronted exhibit with underwater and above water viewing
West African Dwarf Crocodile

Semi large and very long mesh fronted aviary
Blue Duiker
Red-billed Hornbill

Small habitat connecting to this aviary
Black and Rofous Giant Elephant Shrew

Very small terrarium built within a tall tree located in the center of the floor
Red-clawed Scorpion

Three medium sized tall terrariums
1. West African Gaboon Viper
2. Panther Chameleon
Tomato Frog
Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
3. Madagascar Tree Boa

Small, dark exhibit in the corner fenced in with branches and fake vertical trees
Okapi

Medium sized yard connected to the building
Okapi

Smallish open topped cage fenced exhibit that can be viewed from nearly every angle
Red-flanked Duiker

Two similar sized yards at the end of the path
1. Yellow-backed Duiker
2. Red River Hog

Exit

The start of the circular path that takes you around:

Habitat Africa! The Savannah

Very large "waterhole" savannah that can be viewed in almost a 360 degree view
Reticulated Giraffe
African Spur-thighed Tortoise

Turn to the right and you'll head to a small rocky structured building:

Kopjie

You enter into a semi small room lit with natural lighting. There are free flying birds everywhere along with three very small rocky exhibits well above eye level located at each corner. These exhibits allow the animal to be in arms reach but the exhibit/rock floor declines below your feet. The animal that inhabits these exhibits have access to each one and can inhabit them by entering hidden windows and tunnels that go behind the scenes. This is the indoor Klipspringer exhibit.

Free flying birds:
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-bellied Roller
Violet-backed Starling
Emerald Starling
Golden-breasted Starling
Namaqua Dove
Paradise Whydah
Red-crested Turaco
Golden Weaver

Room number 2 is a very small semi circled path displaying three small glass fronted exhibits
1. Dwarf Mongoose
2. Pancake Tortoise
3. Plated Lizard
Leopard Tortoise

Room number 3 is a similar area except it gives an outdoor view from inside (the only view) of a medium sized yard with a low fence so that the giraffes next door are very visible
African Spur-thighed Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise

Room 4 is an indoor view of a semi small bedroom for their giraffes

Outdoors to continue The Savannah

Semi small front moated (but accessible to the animals) yard with indoor guest, glass viewing. The exhibit is made so that the animals have full view of their possible prey
African Painted Dog

Enter into a dead end path

One of the other main views of the giraffe exhibit

Semi small, fully chain link fenced yard
Klipspringer

Semi large circular yard with many views
Waterbuck
Warthog

Square shaped yard that's fully chain linked all around
Gerenuk
Kirk's Dik-Dik

Literally right across the path from the Savannah is the start of another large attraction of thick-skinned creatures. This is:


Pachyderms

The pachyderms area consists of a total of eight similar yards that shapes into a square path for guests to encircle. Each habitat is quite large in size, there are pools in almost all of them, the fence line is composed of blocky shaped rocks (except for one - bars and hotwire), and all of them are connected to a guest accessible building with indoor viewing opportunities of the animals
Eastern Black Rhinoceros - Three yards
Baird's Tapir - Two yards
Pygmy Hippopotamus - Two yards
Empty yard

Right next door is a similarly constructed attraction where you will hear screams of mistaken lines of "look a baby kangaroo". This is:

Australia

Three semi large yards connected to a building in the back down one path line
1. Bennett's Wallaby
Emu
2. Western Grey Kangaroo
Bennett's Wallaby
3. Western Grey Kangaroo
Bennett's Wallaby

One medium sized yard that's chain linked all around and down a second connected path
Cape Barren Goose

Entrance to the Australia building

First room with two small non adjacent tanks
1. Rainbowfish
2. White's Tree Frog

Room two

Three medium sized, waist high, and tall terrariums down one wall
1. Ridge-tailed Monitor
2. Australian Water Dragon
3. Woma Python

Semi small meshed habitat built within another wall. This is called the Pretty Birds exhibit
Gouldian Finch
Diamond Dove
Owl Finch
Star Finch
Long-tailed Finch

Three larger, waist high, terrariums along another wall
1. Carpet Python
Cane Toad
2. Green Tree Monitor
3. Green Tree Python

Room three that's in a nocturnal setting

Semi large open topped ditch habitat with the viewing path nearly fully circling it
Short-beaked Echidna

Semi small meshed exhibit
Laughing Kookaburra

Large habitat with a low elevated overlook view
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat

Room three is a walkthrough "aviary" that takes the guests down a straight line along a wall with an unobstructed view of a large habitat
Rodriguez Flying Fox

Exit with another view of the goose exhibit

The last free attraction at the zoo that you will come across are ten consecutive and nearly identical paddocks down a single line across the backside of the zoo. Some of the animals rotate between adjacent yards and some of them are also displayed in multiple exhibits. These are the:


Hoofed Animals

Bactrian Camel - Two yards
Przewalski's Horse - Two yards
Grevy's Zebra - One yard
Addax - Two yards
Grevy's Zebra - One yard
Okapi - One yard (with a non actual guest viewable yard behind it)


While I did not visit it because it is not free, I do know that the new exhibit, the Wild Encounters does contain: Alpaca, Red Pandas, Bennett's wallabies, caribou, an indoor formal room for budgies, and a petting yard for Nigerian Dwarf Goats.
 
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Wild encounters also has lamas and emus.

Here is a quick list of animals behind the scenes and ambassadors.

Southern Tamandua
Turkey Vulture
Lynx
Serval
Small Spotted Genet
Harris Hawk
Savannah Cat
Great horned owl
Pygmy Slow Loris
African Grey Parrot
White Bellied Tree Pangolin (!)
Cockatoo
 
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pachyderm pro said:
Wild encounters also has lamas and emus.

Here is a quick list of animals behind the scenes and ambassadors.

Southern Tamandua
Turkey Vulture
Lynx
Serval
Small Spotted Genet
Harris Hawk
Savannah Cat
Great horned owl
Pygmy Slow Loris
African Grey Parrot
White Bellied Tree Pangolin (!)
Cockatoo
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I wonder for awhile if they were rotating the caracal and the serval in the fragile desert exhibit
 
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New Species List of Summer 2016

Brookfield Zoo

If you come in from the north entrance, to the very right there is a walk-through butterfly exhibit, in the top center of the path there is a large carousel, and as you pass to the left of it you are met with the zoo's first attraction:


The Fragile Forest

As you first approach the area, you are first met with a curved, medium sized meshed exhibit with a rocky backdrop
Amur Leopard

The main path that follows along the leopard exhibit leads to a tall building to the left. This is a nocturnal set themed building called:

The Fragile Desert

The first two exhibits, set in an immersive way adjacent to each other, are set in a very large room with a high dark blue ceiling, and a desert backdrop set far back from visitors

Semi large, open fronted, glass fenced exhibit that elevates into a small cliff at eye level
Meerkat

Semi large front, fully mesh fenced exhibit that inclines to the back wall
African Crested Porcupine

Small wall exhibit composed of connecting tubes
Damaraland Mole Rat
Naked Mole Rat

The path turns into a somewhat high elevated, covered boardwalk that takes you through the center of a canyon. There are animals on either side

Left side
Rock Hyrax

Right Side
Caracal

Somewhat large ditch habitat with a dark blue backdrop resembling the desert night. The viewing area appears built within a canyon and the window cut out is open fronted
Bat-eared Fox

Small corner exhibit built "naturally" within the wall
Mohili Bushbaby

Two small, adjacent waist high tanks
Black-footed Cats

The building exits you back to the entrance. The main path leads you back along the leopard exhibit and passed it to continue the Fragile Forest outdoor exhibits

Medium sized grotto with an upclose viewing window, and another open viewing area along the path. The animals are kept in with a moat
African Lion

Two adjacent, somewhat small sized open fronted grottoes with deep moats
1. Amur Tiger
2. Sloth Bear

Final grotto along the path. The exhibit has a moat, however, the main land exhibit before the moat is completely meshed. On the very right side there is a glass window for upclose viewing
Snow Leopard

Not too far from this exhibit is a connected building; the last attraction to the Fragile Forest:

Clouded Leopard Rain Forest

The building is in a nocturnal setting

Three smallish sized tanks placed at waist high
1. Mossy Frog
2. Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad
3. Chinese Newt

Medium sized, ground level floor enclosure (appears naturally built in the wall)
Empty - Future Monitor Exhibit

Across from these exhibits is a quite large mesh fronted habitat with the floor inclining somewhat high and far to the back wall. There is a waterfall on top with a stream that leads to a pool at the bottom
Clouded Leopard

Next room - Path leads to the right

Two large and tall (and deep) exhibits with a boardwalk viewing that appears elevated within rain forest trees
1. Bearcat
2. Fishing Cat

Next room leading to the right once more

Three small tanks placed at waist high
1. Tentacled Snake
2. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
3. Savu Island Python

Smallish meshed exhibit with a tall ceiling. Leading to and from this exhibit are meshed tubes that venture above the viewing area in the last room
Prevost's Squirrel

Exit from the building to the same place you entered


Venture to the left and are immediately met with loud barks at:


Pinniped Point

You follow up a ramp to a coastal shoreline themed area with four similar exhibits that are open topped but the tall front fence line is meshed. In order from left to the right.
1. Grey Seal
2. California Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
3. California Sea Lion
4. Harbor Seal

Another ramp curves you back to the main path area, however, there are steps that lead you down to an underwater viewing area with two, symmetrical (curved) viewing windows for the two middle exhibits above.

To the left there is a large building complex. There is a gift shop at the top with a declining ramp that leads to the connected building behind it. You are at the:


Seven Seas

Regardless of what path you take, you are lead to a large and long underwater viewing (only) that shows one side of a 1 million gallon tank (the viewing tank is 800,000 gallons with un-viewable med pools in the back)
Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

You must exit back the same way you came in and to the right to the complex is another path that leads inside the building once more. Instead, this is access to the Dolphin Arena, where there are scheduled show times each day.

Very far down the line of the many main paths that the zoo offers is a huge building with a length that appears hundreds of feet long. The entrance area is outdoors that starts with a small arch and follows it is a tight, windy path that leads into the building. This is:


Tropic World

Even though a path leads you into a building, there is still a small path within the building that is composed with upright squares that come off the wall cartoon animals in a rainforest setting

Finally doors lead you into a room where you are greeted with a roaring waterfall that comes from a very tall ceiling. After you get wet:) the path ventures you to the right side of the building along the full length of this exhibit, and you overlook an unimaginably large exhibit filled with many sized trees (up to 50 ft tall), and vines to go along with it; the high walls are made up of thick rock, and the rest of the untouched parts of the walls are painted as a mural. On the front side of the exhibit floor that goes far, far down from the viewing area, is a large but shallow pond. All three rooms are nearly identical to each other, but this first one is:

South America

There are free flying birds that have access to the whole exhibit
Red-capped Cardinal
Blue-grey Tanager
Silver-beaked Tanager
Saffron Finch
Troupial

Near and in front of the viewing area are actually two trees that's base are eye level with guests that contain connecting vines that can lead small animals over the heads of guests and to the back wall of the viewing area
Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth
Cotton-top Tamarin
Goeldi's Marmoset
Golden Lion Tamarin

These trees can only be accessed by certain animals while the other animals have access to the bottom exhibit.
Giant Anteater
Black-handed Spider Monkey
Common Squirrel Monkey

Two doors lead you to the next room. This room is, as described, nearly identical to South America, except as you enter you notice it is exceptionally quieter (no waterfall, less animals), the habitat flooring is nearly covered completely in shallow waters, on the right side there is an elevated cliff like exhibit that is at eye level with guests and can only be accessed by one species, and lastly there is a terrarium located on the right side of the viewing area. This is:

Asia

Free flying birds
Red-vented Bul-bul
Black-throated Laughing Thrush

Animals in the main exhibit
White-cheeked Gibbon
Asian Small-clawed Otter

Separate habitat placed at eye level, and is nearly 100% filled with short, fake trees. Only this mammal, and the birds, can access this exhibit
Bornean Orangutan

Medium sized terrarium at the end of the path
Quince Monitor

The next room is approximately the same size as the other two, however, it is slightly extended with the path in the shape of a "P" that guests can access to view the complex at many different angles. There are three total exhibits. This is the final area in the building, and it is:

Africa

Free flying birds
Blue-bellied Roller
Violet Turaco
White-headed Buffalo Weaver

Main exhibit that can be viewed from the front side, but there is also a boardwalk that takes guests along the entire right side of the area, giving a 180 degree view
Allen's Swamp Monkey
Red-tailed Guenon
Black-crested Mangabey
Angolan Colobus

The main exhibit can be viewed on the left side of the boardwalk while this next exhibit can be viewed on the right. The boardwalk again becomes a path that takes guests into a full 360 degree circle around this mountainous rock. The animals, at the top of this rock and trees, can be eye level with guests. To the very right wall of this entire exhibit is sort of hidden ditch habitat with two small, glass viewings these exhibits both hold:
Western Lowland Gorilla


Next to this giant complex is another old style building called:


The Swamp

Large meshed aviary along the whole length of the right wall
Boat-billed Heron
Brazilian Teal
Snow Egret

Medium sized cubed exhibit coming outside of the wall
Amazon Milk Frog
Mata Mata

Three connecting identical cubes placed off the wall
1. Rough Green Snake
2. Cottonmouth
3. Eyelash Viper

Large, see through aviary (looks into adjacent aviaries), with natural lighting, and mesh fencing
White Ibis
Rosybill Pochard
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Troupial

Connecting exhibit with mesh and window viewing
Orinoco Crocodile

Two medium sized tanks with above and underwater viewings
1. Emerald Tree Boa
Silver Hatchetfish
South American Lungfish
White-blotched River Stingray
Black Neon Tetra
Suckermouth Catfish
2. Green Crested Basilisk
Red-bellied Piranha

Three semi large and tall connecting terrariums (also coming off the wall)
1. Haitian Boa
2. Bornean Eared Frog
Indochinese Box Turtle
3. False Water Cobra

Doors lead you into a cabin like room

Five very small terrariums built into the wood of the "cabin"
1. African Giant Millipede
2. Red-clawed Emperor Scorpion
3. Vinegaroon
4. Giant Redheaded Centipede
5. Black Widow

Tall floor tank with 360 degree viewing located in the same room
Aquatic Caecilian

Open fronted viewing into a tall aviary
Blue-winged Teal
Green Heron
Redheaded Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Wood Duck

Semi large terrarium coming off the wall
Mangrove Snake
Tokay Gecko

Next room

Three small open topped exhibit with viewing for underwater and above water
1. North American River Otter
2. River Cooter Turtle
Largemouth Bass
Longnose Gar
Blanding's Turtle
Southern Painted Turtle
3. Alligator Snapping Turtle

As you exit and continue right on the main path there you will be met with a sort of small building:


Birds and Reptiles

This building is composed of a single hallway with a variety of terrariums placed on either side with a doorway placed in the middle. This doorway leads to a walkthrough aviary. The list will take perspective from how I encountered the building, meaning I entered in from the left entrance

Left side

Various sized terrariums built into the wall - Some are elevated to guest's waists and some are lowered to the ground
1. Caiman Lizard
2. Gila Monster
Blue Spiny Lizard
3. Spiny-tailed Monitor
4. New Caledonia Giant Gecko
5. Haitian Giant Galliswap
Western Bearded Anole
6. Puerto Rican Boa

Semi large exhibit with viewing on the front and the side, leading to a doorway
Argentine Black-and-White Tegu

Similar exhibit across the floor path
Radiated Tortoise

Various sized terrariums on the far end of the left side of the hallway
1. Oriente Knight Anole
2. Prehensile-tailed Skink
3. Colorado River Toad
4. Timor Python
5. Halmahera Gecko
6. Annulated Boa
Smoky Jungle Frog
7. Blue and Yellow Dart Frog
Yellow Banded Dart Frog
Green and Black Dart Frog

Right side starting at the entrance

Semi large elevated terrarium
Eastern Hellbender

Medium sized box exhibit, slightly elevated
Panamanian Golden Frog

Semi large, floor to ceiling glass fronted exhibit
Empty (Former bird of paradise exhibit)

Semi large exhibit that is also viewable from the outside from a window
Argus Monitor

Identical exhibit
Galapagos Tortoise

Large exhibit, floor to ceiling
Reticulated Python

Six similar medium sized terrariums elevated at the waist
1. Texas Tortoise
2. Utila Island Iguana
3. Peach-throated Monitor
4. San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
5. Fiji Island Banded Iguana
6. Papuan Olive Python

In the middle of hallway, as mentioned there is a doorway that leads to large walk-through aviary. There is no natural looking path that runs through the atrium, just a low elevated viewing area where birds can freely fly above your head.
Green-winged Macaw (Wings are clipped)
Bananaquit
Silver-beaked Tanager
Paradise Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Red-vented Bulbul
Turquoise Tanager
Ringed Teal
Green Aracari
Wattled Curassow
Blue-crowned Mot Mot


As soon as you exit there is a very large, perfectly rectangle shaped shallow pool. This is called the Formal Pool, where you can find native wildlife but most noticeably you can find the zoo's American White Pelicans. At one of the corners, there is a small yard containing:
Yellow-footed Tortoise
Galapagos Tortoise
Red-footed Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise


The side of the pool fence parallels straight with the main path and leads you to the very bottom left corner of the zoo. There you can find an oddly shaped building that gives you the hint that this is an aquarium attraction. This is the South American coastal shoreline exhibit:

The Living Coast

Tanks placed tightly along the first wall

Four small tanks
1. Mushroom Coral
Mini Carpet Anemone
2. Coral Banded Shrimp
Orange Skunk Clownfish
3. Black Percula Clownfish
4. Sexy Shrimp
5. Upside Down Jellyfish

First semi large tank
Largemouth Bass
Bluegill
Smallmouth Bass
Yellow Perch
Orangespotted Sunfish
Dollar Sunfish

Small isolated tank
African Cichlids

Second semi large tank made to look like an empty ocean
Cownose Ray
Blue Runner
Spadefish

Small isolated tank
Bangaii Cardinalfish

Large, tank with the glass touching the floor to the ceiling. There are two typical viewings windows and a bubble window on the side
Leopard Shark
Gariboldi
Half Moon
California Sheepshead
Kelp Bass
Striped Surfperch

Three adjacent medium sized tanks
1. Purple Firefish
Scissortail Goby
Tail-spot Blenny
2. Warty Frogfish
3. Dogface Pufferfish
Harlequin Tuskfish
Mombasa Frillfin Lionfish

Two non adjacent, medium sized isolated tank
1. Pot-bellied Seahorse
Purple Sea Urchin
2. Bat Star
Strawberry Anemone
Plumose Anemone
Green Anemone

Very bright, medium sized tropical reef exhibit
Longnose Hawkfish
Sailfin Tang
Ocellated Clownfish
Shining Puller
Blue Tang
Tomato Clownfish
Coral Beauty
Cleaner Shrimp
Naso Tang
Orange Fairy Basslet

A small hallway then leads you past a roaring waterfall (that flows off curved glass coming down from the ceiling, making the waterfall flow into a semi circle. Past this there is a light at the end of the tunnel as if it’s a doorway to the outdoors, walking into this you realize you are placed in a large dome that makes an attempt at a shoreline with high cliffs beyond it.

Three similar exhibits placed on the right side of the side. These exhibits are built within the rock walls
1. Solomon Islands Leaf Frog
2. Brazilian Rainbow Boa
3. Puerto Rican Tarantula

On the other side of the dome is a simulated coastline with a reachable pool, a small shoreline, and a massive cliff wall containing many, many holes fore nesting
Incan Tern
Grey Gull
Humboldt Penguin

Coming out of the building there is large building set in your sights. On the back side of the building there is a very large cage connected to the building. This is:


Feathers and Scales

The building is just one large room where you can venture to any exhibit you'd like… Let’s take a right though.

Four medium sized exhibits with a cage fronted fence. The first two exhibits are on the wall at the front of the building, the third exhibit is placed at the corner and is slightly smaller, and the fourth enclosure goes along the entire length of the right wall
1. Tawny Frogmouth
Crested Wood Partridge
2. Blue-faced Honeyeater
3. White-cheeked Turaco
Congo Peafowl
4. Greater Roadrunner
Gambel's Quail
White-winged Dove

Very, very large aviary taking up the entire length of the back wall. The fence is a cage wire however, in the middle part of the viewing there are two small windows that are open fronted
Red-capped Cardinal
Blue-crowned Mot-Mot
Blue-billed Curassow
Sunbittern
Saffron Finch
Golden-headed Manakin
Violaceous Euphonia
Bananaquit
Turqoise Tanager
Paradise Tanager
Blue-grey Tanager
Green Honeyeater
Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
Purple honeyeater
Silver-beaked Tanager
Curl-crested Aracari

In the center of the building there are two separate but symmetrical rectangle shaped structures that have several terrariums built within in them. These terrariums vary in size from large boxed exhibits to very small rectangle shaped enclosure
1. Baron's Green Racer
2. Black Tree Monitor
3. Halmahera Giant Gecko
4. Arizona Mountain Kingsnake
5. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
6. Egyptian Tortoise
Sahara Spiny-tailed Lizard
7. Turquoise Dwarf Gecko
8. Taylor's Agama
9. Mottled Rock Rattlesnake
10. Madagascar Spider Tortoise
11. Grey-banded Kingsnake
12. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
13. Jamaican Boa
14. Tunisian Tortoise
15. Leopard Tortoise
16. Mexican Redknee Tarantula
17. Rosy Boa
18. Quince Monitor
19. Spotted Turtle
20. Cope's Grey Tree Frog
21. Chicago Garter Snake
22. Ornate Box Turtle
23. Five-lined Skink

The final indoor exhibit is another caged aviary that takes up the entire length of the front building wall
Bali Mynah
Victoria Crowned Pigeon

As mentioned there is a massive flight cage located at the back of the building. The aviary appears to be almost the exact same size as the building itself
Andean Condor

Not too far down the line the area starts to noticeably become a North American themed area. Within the close distance you can see cabins and even a large prairie. This area is the:


Great Bear Wilderness

Semi small but tall aviary
Bald Eagle

Very large, immersive woodland habitat with two open viewings, mesh viewing, and observing from an indoor station
Mexican Grey Wolf

Two similar rocky exhibits with a grassy yard, and deep pools
Rotating yard for Grizzly Bear and Polar Bears

Between the two yards is an indoor area (no entrance door) that features two underwater viewing areas for each pool of either side of the building. Down the next hall is a den viewing for the next outdoor habitat

Second viewing for the second bear exhibit (very tall glass)

Open viewing of a medium sized yard similar to the first two. There is a pool but no underwater viewing. This is also a rotating yard for the two bear species

Very large prairie exhibit with thick metal fences, crossed with hotwire. The exhibit is very unique as it gives these animals access to walk above guests over a tunnel that you can walk through. You cannot see these animals above you however, you can get an eye level view of the animals' feet through a mesh window from underneath the tunnel.
American Bison

Not to far down the main path is the zoo's largest attraction:


Habitat Africa!

The path of the savanna area leads guests into a circle and from the other side of these African animals lie other exhibits from other attractions. However, I will not mention these. At the start of this area, I personally prefer to take a left, where I'm lead to:

Habitat Africa! Hidden Gems of the Forest

After a long windy path through a well simulated rainforest, filled with covering trees, colorful plants, and a long stream, you are met with your first gem

Medium sized yard with chain link fencing with an open viewing
Okapi

Similar sized yard connected to a building
Yellow-backed Duiker

Enter through doorways to a somewhat dark set building

Semi small glass fronted exhibit with underwater and above water viewing
West African Dwarf Crocodile

Semi large and very long mesh fronted aviary
Blue Duiker
Red-billed Hornbill

Small habitat connecting to this aviary
Black and Rofous Giant Elephant Shrew

Very small terrarium built within a tall tree located in the center of the floor
Red-clawed Scorpion

Three medium sized tall terrariums
1. West African Gaboon Viper
2. Panther Chameleon
Tomato Frog
Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
3. Madagascar Tree Boa

Small, dark exhibit in the corner fenced in with branches and fake vertical trees
Okapi

Medium sized yard connected to the building
Okapi

Smallish open topped cage fenced exhibit that can be viewed from nearly every angle
Red-flanked Duiker

Two similar sized yards at the end of the path
1. Yellow-backed Duiker
2. Red River Hog

Exit

The start of the circular path that takes you around:

Habitat Africa! The Savannah

Very large "waterhole" savannah that can be viewed in almost a 360 degree view
Reticulated Giraffe
African Spur-thighed Tortoise

Turn to the right and you'll head to a small rocky structured building:

Kopjie

You enter into a semi small room lit with natural lighting. There are free flying birds everywhere along with three very small rocky exhibits well above eye level located at each corner. These exhibits allow the animal to be in arms reach but the exhibit/rock floor declines below your feet. The animal that inhabits these exhibits have access to each one and can inhabit them by entering hidden windows and tunnels that go behind the scenes. This is the indoor Klipspringer exhibit.

Free flying birds:
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-bellied Roller
Violet-backed Starling
Emerald Starling
Golden-breasted Starling
Namaqua Dove
Paradise Whydah
Red-crested Turaco
Golden Weaver

Room number 2 is a very small semi circled path displaying three small glass fronted exhibits
1. Dwarf Mongoose
2. Pancake Tortoise
3. Plated Lizard
Leopard Tortoise

Room number 3 is a similar area except it gives an outdoor view from inside (the only view) of a medium sized yard with a low fence so that the giraffes next door are very visible
African Spur-thighed Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise

Room 4 is an indoor view of a semi small bedroom for their giraffes

Outdoors to continue The Savannah

Semi small front moated (but accessible to the animals) yard with indoor guest, glass viewing. The exhibit is made so that the animals have full view of their possible prey
African Painted Dog

Enter into a dead end path

One of the other main views of the giraffe exhibit

Semi small, fully chain link fenced yard
Klipspringer

Semi large circular yard with many views
Waterbuck
Warthog

Square shaped yard that's fully chain linked all around
Gerenuk
Kirk's Dik-Dik

Literally right across the path from the Savannah is the start of another large attraction of thick-skinned creatures. This is:


Pachyderms

The pachyderms area consists of a total of eight similar yards that shapes into a square path for guests to encircle. Each habitat is quite large in size, there are pools in almost all of them, the fence line is composed of blocky shaped rocks (except for one - bars and hotwire), and all of them are connected to a guest accessible building with indoor viewing opportunities of the animals
Eastern Black Rhinoceros - Three yards
Baird's Tapir - Two yards
Pygmy Hippopotamus - Two yards
Empty yard

Right next door is a similarly constructed attraction where you will hear screams of mistaken lines of "look a baby kangaroo". This is:

Australia

Three semi large yards connected to a building in the back down one path line
1. Bennett's Wallaby
Emu
2. Western Grey Kangaroo
Bennett's Wallaby
3. Western Grey Kangaroo
Bennett's Wallaby

One medium sized yard that's chain linked all around and down a second connected path
Cape Barren Goose

Entrance to the Australia building

First room with two small non adjacent tanks
1. Rainbowfish
2. White's Tree Frog

Room two

Three medium sized, waist high, and tall terrariums down one wall
1. Ridge-tailed Monitor
2. Australian Water Dragon
3. Woma Python

Semi small meshed habitat built within another wall. This is called the Pretty Birds exhibit
Gouldian Finch
Diamond Dove
Owl Finch
Star Finch
Long-tailed Finch

Three larger, waist high, terrariums along another wall
1. Carpet Python
Cane Toad
2. Green Tree Monitor
3. Green Tree Python

Room three that's in a nocturnal setting

Semi large open topped ditch habitat with the viewing path nearly fully circling it
Short-beaked Echidna

Semi small meshed exhibit
Laughing Kookaburra

Large habitat with a low elevated overlook view
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat

Room three is a walkthrough "aviary" that takes the guests down a straight line along a wall with an unobstructed view of a large habitat
Rodriguez Flying Fox

Exit with another view of the goose exhibit

The last free attraction at the zoo that you will come across are ten consecutive and nearly identical paddocks down a single line across the backside of the zoo. Some of the animals rotate between adjacent yards and some of them are also displayed in multiple exhibits. These are the:


Hoofed Animals

Bactrian Camel - Two yards
Przewalski's Horse - Two yards
Grevy's Zebra - One yard
Addax - Two yards
Grevy's Zebra - One yard
Okapi - One yard (with a non actual guest viewable yard behind it)


While I did not visit it because it is not free, I do know that the new exhibit, the Wild Encounters does contain: Alpaca, Red Pandas, Bennett's wallabies, caribou, an indoor formal room for budgies, and a petting yard for Nigerian Dwarf Goats.
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Seems like they a thinin out alot of there species they have and maybe it's just me but the hoofstock has taken the biggest hit on that for the more generic and I do understand most zoos want to focus on a specific animal to bring back up but so much potential for what they have
 
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