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nczoofan

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I visited the Greensboro Science Center this week. This is a list of species that were signed or seen at the facility during my visit :) Gonna be posting this in several parts over the coming days.

Aquarium Building:
  1. Fishing Cat
  2. Asian Small-Clawed Otter
  3. African Penguin
  4. Upside-Down Jellyfish
  5. Spotted Scorpionfish
  6. Moon Jelly
  7. Moon Jelly
  8. Caribbean Reef: Jacknife fish, blackbar soldierfish, gray angelfish, yellowhead wrasse, highat, ocean surgeonfish, rock beauty, bluehead wrasse, dusky squirrelfish, blue tang, reef butterflyfish, tobaccofish, flame cardinalfish, blue chromis, hamlet, rainbow parrotfish
  9. Venomous: Red lionfish, orange-spotted foxface rabbitfish
  10. Redlip blenny, barred hamlet, flame cardinalfish, royal gramma, sharpnose puffer, redspotted hawkfish, tobaccofish, harlequin bass
  11. Potbelly seahorse
  12. Kelp Forest: Wolf eel, Fish-eating anemone, rockfish, purple urchin, giant California sea cucumber
  13. Pacific Jewels: Lemonpeel angelfish, blacktail angelfish, purplelined wrasse, bicolor angelfish, flame angelfish, tail-spot wrasse, chronixis surgeonfish, blackedged angelfish, lyretail anthais, Lubbock's wrasse
  14. Rainbow Reef: Bluering angelfish, batfish, orange anthais, purple tang, orange-spotted foxface rabbitfish, striped sweetlips, sailfin tang, raccoon butterflyfish, bird wrasse, bicolored foxface rabbitfish, sohal surgeonfish, harlequin tuskfish, threadfin butterflyfish, sunset wrasse, yellow and blueback fusiller, spotted surgeonfish, picasso triggerfish, bluspot unicornfish, red coris wrasse, epaulette shark
  15. Mangrove: Label was broken, but had about 5 species of fish.
  16. Living Coral: Scarlet skunk shrimp, staghorn coral, frogspawn coral, long-nose hawkfish, pajama cardinalfish, arrow crab, yellow clown goby, Indian gold-ring bristletooth, Banggai cardinalfish, orange clownfish, purple plate fungia, leather toadstool coral, green star coral, waving hand coral, pineapple brain coral, trumpet coral, palette surgeonfish, copperband butterflyfish, green chromis, convict blemmy
  17. Garden Eel: Spotted garden eel, splendid garden eel, chocolate chip sea star, royal sea star, purple urchin, slate urchin, razorfish
  18. Peacock mantis shrimp
  19. African Cichlids (several species that were not signed)
  20. Lined seahorse, potbelly seahorse
  21. Giant Pacific octopus
  22. Amazon Exhibit: Golden-lion tamarin, Bolivian gray titi monkey, northern-caiman lizard, yellow-spotted river turtle, Mata-Mata, silver hachetfish, Colombian red-finned tetra, black phantom tetra, cardinal tetra, Discus sp., rummynose tetra, striped headstander, masked corydoras, bronze corydoras, farlowella catfish, pink-tailed chalceus, red parrot chiclid, gold severum, threadfin geophagus, banded leporinus, eartheater, silver dollar, marbled catfish, Xingu river ray, Marbled catfish,
  23. Green anaconda
  24. Touch Tank: cow-nosed ray, whitespotted bamboo shark, unsigned species of skate
  25. Shark Reef: Spotted eagle ray, southern stingray, cownose ray, blacknose shark, sandbar shark, Spanish hogfish, green moray eel, coney, french grunt, blue-striped grunt, smallmouth grunt, longspine squirrelfish, longjawed squirrelfish, red drum, lookdown, bar jack, yellowtail snapper, ocean surgeon, blue tang surgeon, doctorfish, grey snapper, queen triggerfish, sergeant major
 
These are the rest of the animal exhibits in the main building.

Prehistoric Passages:
  1. Komodo Dragon
Herpetarium:
  1. Diamondback terrapin, mummichog
  2. Tentacled snake
  3. Alligator-snapping turtle
  4. Spotted turtle
  5. Diamondback terrapin
  6. Sinaloan milk snake
  7. Gila monster
  8. Sidewinder rattlesnake
  9. Emerald tree boa, Amazon milk frog, blue-poison dart frog, yellow & black poison dart frog, golden poison dart frog
  10. Carpet python
  11. Prehensile-tailed Skink
  12. Irian Jaya Blue Tongue Skink
  13. Tiger salamander
  14. Rhinoceros iguana
  15. Timber rattlesnake
  16. Sambava tomato frog, unknown gecko sp.
  17. Carolina Pygmy Rattlesnake
  18. Cottonmouth
  19. Eastern copperhead
  20. Eastern-diamondback rattlesnake
Amphibian Holding:
  1. White's tree frog
Herpetology Lab:
  1. Eastern-box turtle
  2. Corn snake
  3. Mali uromastyx
  4. Western hognose
  5. Eastern rat snake
  6. Rosy boa
  7. Madagascar-hissing cockroach
  8. Giant African millipede
  9. Curlyhair tarantula
  10. Mexican-redknee tarantula
 
Discovery House:
  1. Ball python
  2. Ferret
  3. Prehensile-tailed porcupine
  4. Eastern-box turtle
  5. Boa constrictor
  6. Bearded dragon
  7. Rabbit
  8. European legless lizard
  9. Chinchilla
  10. Chinchilla
  11. Screaming-hairy armadillo
  12. California king snake
  13. Burmese python
  14. Four-toed hedgehog
  15. Guinea pig
 
Outdoor Zoo:
  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Meerkat
  3. Nile crocodile
  4. Red and green macaw
  5. Chicken
  6. Red panda
  7. Javan Gibbon
  8. Red-ruffed lemur, ring-tailed lemur
  9. Fossa
  10. Maned wolf, giant anteater
  11. Sumatran tiger
  12. White-nosed coati
  13. Black howler monkey
  14. Burmese star tortoise
Friendly Farm:
  1. Alpaca, goat, pig
  2. Goat, sheep
  3. Miniature horse
  4. Donkey
  5. Chicken
  • Chicken and peafowl are free-ranged at the center.
 
nczoofan said:
Discovery House:
  1. Ball python
  2. Ferret
  3. Prehensile-tailed porcupine
  4. Eastern-box turtle
  5. Boa constrictor
  6. Bearded dragon
  7. Rabbit
  8. European legless lizard
  9. Chinchilla
  10. Chinchilla
  11. Screaming-hairy armadillo
  12. California king snake
  13. Burmese python
  14. Four-toed hedgehog
  15. Guinea pig
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Bluebird and Aracari gone?
 
nczoofan said:
I visited the Greensboro Science Center this week. This is a list of species that were signed or seen at the facility during my visit :) Gonna be posting this in several parts over the coming days.

Aquarium Building:
  1. Fishing Cat
  2. Asian Small-Clawed Otter
  3. African Penguin
  4. Upside-Down Jellyfish
  5. Spotted Scorpionfish
  6. Moon Jelly
  7. Moon Jelly
  8. Caribbean Reef: Jacknife fish, blackbar soldierfish, gray angelfish, yellowhead wrasse, highat, ocean surgeonfish, rock beauty, bluehead wrasse, dusky squirrelfish, blue tang, reef butterflyfish, tobaccofish, flame cardinalfish, blue chromis, hamlet, rainbow parrotfish
  9. Venomous: Red lionfish, orange-spotted foxface rabbitfish
  10. Redlip blenny, barred hamlet, flame cardinalfish, royal gramma, sharpnose puffer, redspotted hawkfish, tobaccofish, harlequin bass
  11. Potbelly seahorse
  12. Kelp Forest: Wolf eel, Fish-eating anemone, rockfish, purple urchin, giant California sea cucumber
  13. Pacific Jewels: Lemonpeel angelfish, blacktail angelfish, purplelined wrasse, bicolor angelfish, flame angelfish, tail-spot wrasse, chronixis surgeonfish, blackedged angelfish, lyretail anthais, Lubbock's wrasse
  14. Rainbow Reef: Bluering angelfish, batfish, orange anthais, purple tang, orange-spotted foxface rabbitfish, striped sweetlips, sailfin tang, raccoon butterflyfish, bird wrasse, bicolored foxface rabbitfish, sohal surgeonfish, harlequin tuskfish, threadfin butterflyfish, sunset wrasse, yellow and blueback fusiller, spotted surgeonfish, picasso triggerfish, bluspot unicornfish, red coris wrasse, epaulette shark
  15. Mangrove: Label was broken, but had about 5 species of fish.
  16. Living Coral: Scarlet skunk shrimp, staghorn coral, frogspawn coral, long-nose hawkfish, pajama cardinalfish, arrow crab, yellow clown goby, Indian gold-ring bristletooth, Banggai cardinalfish, orange clownfish, purple plate fungia, leather toadstool coral, green star coral, waving hand coral, pineapple brain coral, trumpet coral, palette surgeonfish, copperband butterflyfish, green chromis, convict blemmy
  17. Garden Eel: Spotted garden eel, splendid garden eel, chocolate chip sea star, royal sea star, purple urchin, slate urchin, razorfish
  18. Peacock mantis shrimp
  19. African Cichlids (several species that were not signed)
  20. Lined seahorse, potbelly seahorse
  21. Giant Pacific octopus
  22. Amazon Exhibit: Golden-lion tamarin, Bolivian gray titi monkey, northern-caiman lizard, yellow-spotted river turtle, Mata-Mata, silver hachetfish, Colombian red-finned tetra, black phantom tetra, cardinal tetra, Discus sp., rummynose tetra, striped headstander, masked corydoras, bronze corydoras, farlowella catfish, pink-tailed chalceus, red parrot chiclid, gold severum, threadfin geophagus, banded leporinus, eartheater, silver dollar, marbled catfish, Xingu river ray, Marbled catfish,
  23. Green anaconda
  24. Touch Tank: cow-nosed ray, whitespotted bamboo shark, unsigned species of skate
  25. Shark Reef: Spotted eagle ray, southern stingray, cownose ray, blacknose shark, sandbar shark, Spanish hogfish, green moray eel, coney, french grunt, blue-striped grunt, smallmouth grunt, longspine squirrelfish, longjawed squirrelfish, red drum, lookdown, bar jack, yellowtail snapper, ocean surgeon, blue tang surgeon, doctorfish, grey snapper, queen triggerfish, sergeant major
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The Living Coral exhibit sounds like a nice one with a selection of coral. The Amazon exhibit sounds like a great multi species showcase. I have not visited this facility but hope to soon!
 
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