I visited the Henry Vilas Zoo the morning of May 4, 2025. These are all of the signed species on exhibit.
Note 1: "Outdoor Yards" is mostly the Africa section, but due to the remodel it's currently unnamed on the map. The giraffe is still signed despite having moved to Green Bay and the Edge of Africa project being delayed quite a bit. I've omitted the giraffe on the list since he's not actually in Madison.
Note 2: Signed, but unseen, animals are noted in italics. Seen, but unsigned, animals have an asterisk.
Discovering Primates
Note 1: "Outdoor Yards" is mostly the Africa section, but due to the remodel it's currently unnamed on the map. The giraffe is still signed despite having moved to Green Bay and the Edge of Africa project being delayed quite a bit. I've omitted the giraffe on the list since he's not actually in Madison.
Note 2: Signed, but unseen, animals are noted in italics. Seen, but unsigned, animals have an asterisk.
Discovering Primates
- Bornean orangutan
- Black and white ruffed lemur
- Rock hyrax
- Eastern black and white colobus
- Ring tailed lemur
- Amur tiger
- North American porcupine
- African lion
- Southern white rhino
- Bactrian camel
- Somali wild ass
- Wild Turkey
- Guinea fowl
- American bison
- American badger
- Chilean flamingo (temporary quarantine, former sandhill crane exhibit)
- Harbor seal
- Grizzly bear
- Polar bear
- Alpaca
- Chickens
- Nigerian dwarf goats (signed simply as "goats")
- American flamingo
- Chilean flamingo
- Koi
- White handed gibbon
- Northern greater galago
- Aardvark
- Slender tailed meerkat
- Cape porcupine
- Van der Decken's hornbill
- Red panda
- Barn owl
- American alligator
- Western diamondback rattlesnake
- Massassauga
- Gila monster
- Chuckwalla
- Desert tortoise
- Blue spiny lizard
- Aldabra tortoise
- Largemouth bass
- Bluegill
- Henkel's leaf tailed gecko
- Standing's day gecko
- Painted turtle
- Common map turtle
- Blanding's turtle
- Boa constrictor
- Emerald tree boa
- Rhinoceros iguana (misspelled as "Rhinocerous iguana")
- Western rat snake
- Ball python
- Green anaconda
- Green and black poison frog
- Dyeing poison frog
- Yellow banded poison frog
- Kaiser's mountain newt (misspelled as "Kiser's mountain newt")
- North American river otter
- Capybara
- Peppered cockroach
- Smooth sided toad
- Fruit chafer beetles (exhibit under maintenance)
- Land snails
- Two spotted assassin bug
- Emperor scorpion
- Red tailed catfish
- Pacu
- Plecostomus
- Spotted pimelodus catfish
- Tiger shovelnose catfish
- Yellow spotted Amazon river turtle (off exhibit)
- Toad headed turtle (off exhibit)
- Geoffroy's marmoset
- Northern helmeted curassow
- Silver beaked tanager
- Red and yellow barbet
- Yellow rumped cacique
- Blue crowned motmot
- Black crowned night heron
- Yellow crowned night heron
- Red footed tortoise
- Chestnut teal
- Blue and gold macaw
- Seba's short tailed bat
- White faced whistling duck*
