Hemker Park & Zoo Hemker Park & Zoo Species List 9/5/21

Dhole dude

Dhole dude

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I visited this small, private zoo in rural Minnesota two days ago, and was requested to do a species list for it, so here it is. Species not seen will be in Italics.

Main Building
.Common Marmoset
.Standing’s Day Gecko
.Red-Tailed Boa
.Common Eider
.Burmese Python
.Meerkat, Taveta Golden Weaver
.Black-Footed Penguin

.White-Napped Crane
.Budgerigar
.Debraza’s Guenon
.African Spurred Tortoise
.Domestic Rabbit
.Southern Ground Hornbill
.Great Indian Hornbill
.Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill
.Nepalese Red Panda
.Vervet, African Crested Porcupine

Farmyard
.Domestic Goat, Alpaca, Pony, Domestic Chicken, Helmeted Guineafowl

Primates
.Buff-Cheeked Gibbon
.Manteled Guereza

Shipwreck Cove
.Green-Winged Macaw
.Scarlet Ibis, American White Ibis, Black-Necked Swan, Nicobar Pigeon, Green Junglefowl, Triangular-Spotted Pigeon, African Wattled Ibis
.Leopard Tortoise

.Emperor Geese, Red-Breasted Geese, Northern Shoveler, Ring-Necked Duck, Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Nene, Redhead, Greater Scaup, Common Eider, Tufted Duck
.Red-Legged Seriema
.Bar-Headed Geese, Barnacle Geese, Emperor Geese, Cackling Geese, Nene, Golden Phesant, Grey Gull, Rudy Duck, Baer’s Pochard, Common Eider, Helmeted Curassow, Greater Curassow
.North American River Otter
.Common Merganser, Mallard, Common Eider, Rudy Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Redhead, Gadwall
.Moluccan Cockatoo
.Black & White Ruffed Lemur
.Black-Throated Magpie Jay, Congo Peafowl, Lady Ross Turacco, White-Cheeked Turacco, White-Napped Crane, Green Junglefowl, Gray Junglefowl
.Rhinoceros Hornbill
.Black-Handed Spider Monkey
.Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove
.Bobcat
.Wolf’s Guenon
.White-Faced Capuchin, Tufted Capuchin
.African Spurred Tortoise
.Temmink’s Tragopan
.Victoria-Crowned Pigeon
.Red-Crowned Crane
.Rocky Mountain Goat
.West Caucasian Tur

Indian Rhino Building
.Indian Rhino (Indoors)
.Blue-Bellied Roller
.Bullsnake
.Koi
.Mexican Black Kingsnake

.Sichuan Takin
.Red-Crowned Crane
.Trumpeter Swan, Snow geese, Northern Shoveler
.White-Lipped Deer, Dromedary Camel, Alpaca
.Plains Pronghorn
.Alpine Ibex
.Indian Rhino (Outdoors)
.Great-Horned Owl
.Speke’s Sitatunga, Southern Gerenuk (couldn’t tell if there was one in the back of the exhibit or not).
.Dalls Sheep, Rocky Mountain Goat
.Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
.Transcaspian Urail
.Grant’s Zebra, Bactrian Camel, Domestic Yak
.Domestic Reindeer
.Lesser Kudu, Secretary Bird
.Generic Giraffe
.Addra Gazelle, Thompson’s Gazelle, Lowland Nyala, White-Napped Crane, Turkmenian Markhor

Species Listed in USDA Inspection Not Seen
.Red-flanked Duiker
.Striped Skunk
.Eastern Grey Kangaroo
.Black-Headed Night Monkey
.Greater Bushbaby
.Black Howler

Keep in mind that there may be a few more species I did not see, as there was barely any signage on the exhibits, and parts of the zoo were closed off for construction, so its next to impossible to get everything correct.
 
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Dhole dude said:
I believe this place is a dumping ground for unwanted ungulates the AZA has lying around, which explains the sporadic population numbers. Also, I forgot to mention there’s an exhibit for a European White Stork in between the Urial and Camel/Zebra exhibits.
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They breed, too; they have a ranch in texas.
 
The AZA is the origin or a lot of the rarer animals Hemker keeps. Their gibbons came from LA as did their Gerenuk and some of their Bighorn Sheep. I won't name which but I know a zoo in Florida has recently started shipping off their rarest birds to this zoo (because they're not AZA recommended :rolleyes::().

I would also be interested in information on their ranch.

@Dhole dude thank you for providing this list. This zoo has been a massive unknown for a lot of us for quite some time now.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
The AZA is the origin or a lot of the rarer animals Hemker keeps. Their gibbons came from LA as did their Gerenuk and some of their Bighorn Sheep. I won't name which but I know a zoo in Florida has recently started shipping off their rarest birds to this zoo (because they're not AZA recommended :rolleyes::().

I would also be interested in information on their ranch.

@Dhole dude thank you for providing this list. This zoo has been a massive unknown for a lot of us for quite some time now.

~Thylo
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My pleasure, I’m glad I was able to help you out with this species list. This zoo was quite a treat, and the Ibex & Tur we’re quite a treat, and I will hopefully be back soon.
 
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