Full Species List at the Indianapolis Zoo

Moebelle

Moebelle

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Oceans
1. Grey Seal, Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion
2. Cownose Ray, Smoooth Dogfish, Wobbegong Shark, Emperor Snapper
3. Raccoon Butterflyfish, Bird Wrasse, Coral Hogfish, Orange Should Tang, Bannerfish, Spotted Unicornfish, Atlantic Trumpetfish, Green Moray Eel, Saddleback Butterflyfish, Asfur Angelfish, Maculosus Angelfish, Clown Tang, Black Triggerfish, Vlaming's Unicornfish, Long-horned Cowfish, Powerblue Tang, Purple Mouth Moray Eel, Regal Tang
4. Moon Jelly
5. Smooth Dogfish
6. Yellow Prawn Goby, Pistol Shrimp
7. Bat Star, Blood Star
8. Coral Hogfish
9. Grunt Sculpin
10. Flame Angelfish, Coral Hogfish, Cleaner Shrimp
11. Keyhole Limpet, Green Sea Urchin
12. Percula Clownfish
13. Candy Cleaner Shrimp, Crimson Anemone
14. Longsnout Seahorse
15. Percula Clownfish
16. King Penguin, Gentoo Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin

Marine Mammals
1. Polar Bear
2. Pacific Walrus
3. Bottlenose Dolphin

Forests
1. Red Panda, Reeve's Muntjac
2. Amur Tiger
3. White-handed Gibbon, Asian Small-clawed Otter
4. Bats: Straw-colored Fruit Bat, Island Flying Fox
5. Brown Bear
6. Bald Eagle

Commons
1. Ring-tailed Lemur

Deserts
1. Great Plated Lizard, Rhinoceros Iguana, Radiated Tortoise
2. Great Plated Lizard, Radiated Tortoise, Grand Cayman Blue Iguana, Stellio Agama, Chuchwalla
3. Desert Tortoise, Great Plated Lizard
4. Slender-tailed Meerkat
5. Stellio Agama, Chuckwalla, Grand Cayman Blue Iguana, Baja Blue Rock Lizard
a. (Free Flying) Gambel's Quail, Shaft Tail Finch, Gouldian Finch
Drop Dead Gorgeous Snakes
6. Honduran Milk Snake
7. Malaysian Blood Python
8. Ball Python
9. Black-headed Python
10. Gray-banded Kingsnake
11. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
12. Florida Pine Snake
13. Red Spitting Cobra
14. Cornsnake
15. Brazilian Rainbow Boa
16. Emerald Tree Boa
17. Eastern Indigo Snake
18. West African Gaboon Viper
19. Eyelash Viper
20. Tentacled Snake
21. Sinaloan Milksnake
22. Grey-banded Kingsnake
23. Kenyan Sand Boa
24. Spotted Python
25. Mexican Rosy Boa
26. Green Tree Python (Off Exhibit Temporarily)
27. Taylor's Cantil
28. Everglades Rat Snake
29. Western Cottonmouth
30. Desert Rosy Boa
31. Western Massasauga Rattlesnake
32. Calabar Burrowing Boa
Dome Continue
33. Australian Snake-necked Turtle

International Orangutan Center
1. See Rocky, Charly, Lucy, Nicky, Katy, Knobi, Azy, Basan

Flights of Fancy: A Brilliance of Birds
1. Caribbean Flamingo, Chilean Flamingo
2. Budgie, Cockatiel
3. Crested Wood Partridge, Crested Coua, Helmeted Guineafowl, Superb Starling, White-cheeked Turaco, Taveta Golden Weaver
4. Black-capped Lory, Rainbow Lorikeet, Red Lory
5. African Ground Hornbill

Plains
1. Greater Kudu, Grant's Zebra, Blue Wildebeest, Ruppell's Griffon Vulture, Marabou Stork
2. Reticulated Giraffe, Dama Gazelle, Spekes Gazelle
3. Southern White Rhinoceros
4. Southeast African Lion
5. African Wild Dog
6. Guinea Baboon
7. Cheetah
8. East African Crowned Crane, Helmeted Guineafowl, Yellow-billed Hornbill
9. African Bush Elephant
10. Warthog, African Crested Porcupine
 
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Moebelle said:
Forests
1. Red Panda, Reeve's Muntjac
2. Amur Tiger
3. White-handed Gibbon, Asian Small-clawed Gibbon
4. Bats: Straw-colored Fruit Bat, Island Flying Fox
5. Brown Bear
6. Bald Eagle

Commons
1. Ring-tailed Lemur
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typo in "small-clawed otter", but what does Commons mean?
 
Chlidonias said:
typo in "small-clawed otter", but what does Commons mean?
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Wow... just wow. Thanks:) I'm not sure of the origin of the name but Commons is a small area that is known to be the center of the zoo. It includes of course the lemur exhibit, the zoo's main cafe (Cafe on the Commons), a small water park, and a playground. The now orangutan area used to be a massive lake with ring-tailed lemurs, Chilean flamingos, an Aldabra Tortoise, and Black Swans on an island and was part of it.
 
oh right, I'm familiar with the term Commons as used in England, but I didn't think it was used in America so was wondering what the zoo meant by it (given that it doesn't have anything to do with lemurs so I thought they were using it in some different context).
 
protege said:
I'd like to know the names of the animals, myself.
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Which name? The species or the actually individual animal names. If it's the first one, then visit and don't read the thread. If the second, I'll see what I can do.
 
Individual animal names. I'd love to know as many names of the animals from all the zoos if possible.
 
protege said:
Individual animal names. I'd love to know as many names of the animals from all the zoos if possible.
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Here's what I have so far. It's a small list, but they don't have very many species. I can't find the dolphin names for some reason...

1. Amur Tiger - Cila, Petya, Andrea
2. White-handed Gibbon
3. Polar Bear - Tundra
4. African Elephants - Zahara, Ivory, Kubwa, Kedar, Tombi, Sohpie, Nyah, Kalina
5. California Sea Lion - Ray, Diego, Hide, Marcy, Holy Joy
6. Harbor Seal - Tac, Lucy
7. Grey Seal Pepper
8. Bald Eagle - Buddy
9. Brown Bear - Kiak, Mi-Kal
10. White Rhinos - Gloria, Spike, Mambo
11. Reticulated Giraffe - Takasa, Ajabusana, Majani
12. White-handed Gibbons - Elliot,
13. Greater Kudu - Bomani, Khatit, Taraja, Unamed Calf
14. Cheetah and Kangal Dog - Jira, Chiku, Kago, Kuzo/ Ayla
 
Chlidonias said:
oh right, I'm familiar with the term Commons as used in England, but I didn't think it was used in America so was wondering what the zoo meant by it (given that it doesn't have anything to do with lemurs so I thought they were using it in some different context).
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The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo used to refer to its different areas within the zoo as commons.These consisted of Zoo Gate Commons,Big Creek Commons and Upland Commons.These names were used from around the late 60s to the early 90s

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TeamTapir223 said:
The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo used to refer to its different areas within the zoo as commons.These consisted of Zoo Gate Commons,Big Creek Commons and Upland Commons.These names were used from around the late 60s to the early 90s

Team Tapir223
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does anyone know if the word has a common usage in America, or is it more of a historical hold-over.
 
Chlidonias said:
does anyone know if the word has a common usage in America, or is it more of a historical hold-over.
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Most definitely the latter, although occasionally used to describe large lawn spaces in collegiate settings. Perhaps the most well-known usage of the terms is the 'Boston Commons', which originated in colonial times.
 
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