Gomphothere's Zoo Design Thread

Also, one final things will Madagascar malachite kingfishers, Madagascar day crested ibises, Madagascar sacred ibises, Milne-Edward’s sifakas, rice tenrecs, streaked tenrecs, Uroplatus sp., fish scaled geckos, verreaux’s sifakas, brown mesites, Madagascar serpent eagles, Madagascar red owls, sakalava rails, cryptic warblers, red shouldered vangas, desert brush warbler, amber mountain rock thrush, torotoroka scops owls, Furcifer and Brookesia sp., collared iguanids, Stenophis citrinus, Zonosaurus laticaudatus, fandrefiala snake, Langaha sp., Madagascar tree boas, Mantidactylus sp., white lipped tree frog and other Boophis frogs, Heterixalus sp., Scaphiophryne gottlebei, all three tomato frog species, girrafe necked weevils, and other endemic insects going to be featured. Sorry if I’ve made myself a bother, I’m just bursting with curiosity.
 
Bengal Tiger said:
Also, one final things will Madagascar malachite kingfishers, Madagascar day crested ibises, Madagascar sacred ibises, Milne-Edward’s sifakas, rice tenrecs, streaked tenrecs, Uroplatus sp., fish scaled geckos, verreaux’s sifakas, brown mesites, Madagascar serpent eagles, Madagascar red owls, sakalava rails, cryptic warblers, red shouldered vangas, desert brush warbler, amber mountain rock thrush, torotoroka scops owls, Furcifer and Brookesia sp., collared iguanids, Stenophis citrinus, Zonosaurus laticaudatus, fandrefiala snake, Langaha sp., Madagascar tree boas, Mantidactylus sp., white lipped tree frog and other Boophis frogs, Heterixalus sp., Scaphiophryne gottlebei, all three tomato frog species, girrafe necked weevils, and other endemic insects going to be featured. Sorry if I’ve made myself a bother, I’m just bursting with curiosity.
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I guess you'll just have to wait and see :P
 
I saw jeinimeni frogs and michaelsen’s long-clawed mole mice mentioned, but I could not find anything about the when I looked them up. I tried checking by scientific and common names, but neither yielded results.

P.S I found out about his really cool little ecoregion with a couple of endemics: Trait search - Encyclopedia of Life
 
Quick question about the maps, I can’t seem to find the one where it shows where the nearctic tundra is on the map.
 
- There are a lot of animals in Temperate South America about which science has only limited information. But there is some available for both of the species about which you asked, although much of it is in Spanish.
- Jeinimeni Frog: AmphibiaWeb - Atelognathus jeinimenensis
https://publicaciones.mnhn.gob.cl/668/articles-64509_archivo_01.pdf (original species description, in Spanish, but google translate should work well enough)
https://clasificacionespecies.mma.g...ds/2019/10/Atelognathus_jeinimenensis_P07.pdf (in Spanish)
- Michaelsen's Long-Clawed Mouse: Geoxus michaelseni - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (also in Spanish)
Geoxus michaelseni | Categorización de los mamíferos de Argentina (ditto)
http://www.biodiversidad.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2019/08/Patton_2015.pdf (pp. 134-35, treated here as a subspecies of G. valdivianus)
Several subspecies were raised to species, including michaelseni, and I believe this is the abstract of the paper that did it: (PDF) Taxonomical notes on the long-clawed mole mice of the genus Geoxus (Cricetidae), with the description of a new species from an oceanic island of southern Chile
- Peruvian Pelicans: I don't have the rest of the Neotropic worked out yet, but I would guess a seabird aviary in the area between the Atacama Desert and the Galapagos.
- King Eiders: They should have been included in both the Nearctic and Palearctic Tundras but for some reason I can't currently fathom didn't make it into either. You have a sharp eye. I keep revised versions of all the posted sections and will add them to both of those.
- Master is attached. Nearctic Tundra is #101
- Ecoregions are from: Ecoregions 2017 © I then combine some to form the bioregions in the zoo. The concept document always lists the ecoregions.
- Walrus will be exhibited in both the North Atlantic and North Pacific Aquaria, one subspecies in each.
 

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- There are a lot of animals in Temperate South America about which science has only limited information. But there is some available for both of the species about which you asked, although much of it is in Spanish.
- Jeinimeni Frog: AmphibiaWeb - Atelognathus jeinimenensis
https://publicaciones.mnhn.gob.cl/668/articles-64509_archivo_01.pdf (original species description, in Spanish, but google translate should work well enough)
https://clasificacionespecies.mma.g...ds/2019/10/Atelognathus_jeinimenensis_P07.pdf (in Spanish)
- Michaelsen's Long-Clawed Mouse: Geoxus michaelseni - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (also in Spanish)
Geoxus michaelseni | Categorización de los mamíferos de Argentina (ditto)
http://www.biodiversidad.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2019/08/Patton_2015.pdf (pp. 134-35, treated here as a subspecies of G. valdivianus)
Several subspecies were raised to species, including michaelseni, and I believe this is the abstract of the paper that did it: (PDF) Taxonomical notes on the long-clawed mole mice of the genus Geoxus (Cricetidae), with the description of a new species from an oceanic island of southern Chile
- Peruvian Pelicans: I don't have the rest of the Neotropic worked out yet, but I would guess a seabird aviary in the area between the Atacama Desert and the Galapagos.
- King Eiders: They should have been included in both the Nearctic and Palearctic Tundras but for some reason I can't currently fathom didn't make it into either. You have a sharp eye. I keep revised versions of all the posted sections and will add them to both of those.
- Master is attached. Nearctic Tundra is #101
- Ecoregions are from: Ecoregions 2017 © I then combine some to form the bioregions in the zoo. The concept document always lists the ecoregions.
- Walrus will be exhibited in both the North Atlantic and North Pacific Aquaria, one subspecies in each.
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Much appreciated, I also saw that king riders wee in the Arctic holarctic, I knew I had seen them, but couldn’t find them, and hence asked. I was the reason the Arctic holarctic vis experience and saw them. Also, I didn’t see Galápagos great blue herons in the Galápagos area.
 
Bengal Tiger said:
Much appreciated, I also saw that king riders wee in the Arctic holarctic, I knew I had seen them, but couldn’t find them, and hence asked. I was the reason the Arctic holarctic vis experience and saw them. Also, I didn’t see Galápagos great blue herons in the Galápagos area.
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Yeah, I realized after my post that I had put them in the Arctic Holarctic because they are a truly Holarctic species. Not sure why the Galapagos Blue Herons didn't make it in. They are a challenge because they'll eat almost anything smaller than they are so have to be housed separately, as you'll see in the Alaska Coast & Islands region.
 
Gomphothere said:
Yeah, I realized after my post that I had put them in the Arctic Holarctic because they are a truly Holarctic species. Not sure why the Galapagos Blue Herons didn't make it in. They are a challenge because they'll eat almost anything smaller than they are so have to be housed separately, as you'll see in the Alaska Coast & Islands region.
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Thanks, by the way, I thought of a couple of ideas you might like to add in the zoo:
1. Paludariums: They are a great way to exhibit aquatic and terrestrial life together. Small reptiles and amphibians could be displayed with small fish in certain parts of the zoo. Personally, I’d enjoy this very much.
2. Free Flight Birds & Open-Topped Tanks: Some aquariums have made areas with open topped tanks and free flight birds. The Tennessee Aquarium is good example of this, they have an exhibit with large open topped tanks, which also housed a few birds that fly around.
3. A Little More Invertebrate Space: As you move into more biodiverse areas, more invertebrate species will be options for exhibition, more space for more invertebrates would certainly be a cool thing. On a related note, butterflies will soon be popping up in upcoming areas. To exhibit them, you would need some space for a large enough area for them to fly around. One idea is that you could make butterfly walkthroughs, as well as housing then with hummingbirds.
4. A Question About Subterranean Mammals: Will you be exhibiting moles, golden moles, and marsupial moles. I do know it has been done with moles and golden moles (though not for as log as moles), I will assume that there is some way you could keep these, especially considering the fact that you are keeping tuco-tucos.
 
Bengal Tiger said:
Thanks, by the way, I thought of a couple of ideas you might like to add in the zoo:
1. Paludariums: They are a great way to exhibit aquatic and terrestrial life together. Small reptiles and amphibians could be displayed with small fish in certain parts of the zoo. Personally, I’d enjoy this very much.
2. Free Flight Birds & Open-Topped Tanks: Some aquariums have made areas with open topped tanks and free flight birds. The Tennessee Aquarium is good example of this, they have an exhibit with large open topped tanks, which also housed a few birds that fly around.
3. A Little More Invertebrate Space: As you move into more biodiverse areas, more invertebrate species will be options for exhibition, more space for more invertebrates would certainly be a cool thing. On a related note, butterflies will soon be popping up in upcoming areas. To exhibit them, you would need some space for a large enough area for them to fly around. One idea is that you could make butterfly walkthroughs, as well as housing then with hummingbirds.
4. A Question About Subterranean Mammals: Will you be exhibiting moles, golden moles, and marsupial moles. I do know it has been done with moles and golden moles (though not for as log as moles), I will assume that there is some way you could keep these, especially considering the fact that you are keeping tuco-tucos.
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One more thing, are any of the Comoros endemic birds going to be left out, and also, are you going to include both of the Comoros endemic bat species as well as the endemic subspecies?
 
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