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Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park - Species List (September 2025)
This is the first comprehensive species list for the Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park to be posted on ZooChat! The Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park, often referred to as the “Best Little Zoo in the West,” first opened in 1935 and is currently owned and operated by the City of Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation Department. I’ve put together a comprehensive species list for the collection, noting subspecies where appropriate to provide more taxonomic detail. I have followed the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species for all common and scientific names. For clarity, I have divided the collection based on the Zoo's major exhibitions. All mixed-species exhibits are grouped together as well.
Little Asia
Mammals in the Zoo's animal ambassador program include domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus), lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi), southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus), and long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera). These species are housed alongside other reptile and invertebrate animal ambassadors in the building labeled "Habitat" on the Zoo's map.
This is the first comprehensive species list for the Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park to be posted on ZooChat! The Idaho Falls Zoo at Tautphaus Park, often referred to as the “Best Little Zoo in the West,” first opened in 1935 and is currently owned and operated by the City of Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation Department. I’ve put together a comprehensive species list for the collection, noting subspecies where appropriate to provide more taxonomic detail. I have followed the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species for all common and scientific names. For clarity, I have divided the collection based on the Zoo's major exhibitions. All mixed-species exhibits are grouped together as well.
Little Asia
- Reeve's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)
- Demoiselle crane (Grus virgo)
- Temminck's tragopan (Tragopan temminckii)
- Asian azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)
- Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
- Collared brown lemur (Eulemur collaris)
- Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra)
- Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)
- Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis)
- White-crested laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus)
- Bornean gibbon (Hylobates muelleri)
- Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)
- De Brazza's monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus)
- Guereza (Colobus guereza)
- Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
- White-faced whistling-duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
- Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis)
- Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
- Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)
- Guanaco (Lama guanicoe)
- Domestic sheep (Ovis aries aries)
- Greater rhea (Rhea americana)
- New Guinea singing dog (Canis lupus hallstromi)
- Green-naped pheasant-pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis)
- Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
- Black-headed parrot (Pionites melanocephalus)
- Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius)
- Tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
- Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
- Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
- Red-necked wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus)
- Common emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
- Radjah shelduck (Radjah radjah)
- Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus)
- Silvery-cheeked hornbill (Bycanistes brevis)
- Southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)
- Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum)
- African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
- Lion (Panthera leo)
- Plains zebra (Equus quagga)
- Domestic helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
- Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Spur-winged lapwing (Vanellus spinosus)
- Spotted thick-knee (Burhinus capensis)
- Ross's turaco (Musophaga rossae)
- Blue-bellied roller (Coracias cyanogaster)
- Red-and-yellow barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus)
- Taveta golden weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps)
- Superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus)
- Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda)
- Serval (Leptailurus serval)
- Snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
- Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
- Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)
- Himalayan red panda (Ailurus fulgens fulgens)
- Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus)
- Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)
- Domestic goat (Capra hircus)
- Donkey (Equus asinus asinus)
- African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata)
- Domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica)
- Domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
- Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)
- Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
- Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
- Military macaw (Ara militaris)
- African penguin (Spheniscus demersus)
- Western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii)
- North American river otter (Lontra canadensis)
- Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
- Aldabra giant tortoise (Geochelone gigantea)
- Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)
- Trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator)
- American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
- Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
- Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
Mammals in the Zoo's animal ambassador program include domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus), lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi), southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus), and long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera). These species are housed alongside other reptile and invertebrate animal ambassadors in the building labeled "Habitat" on the Zoo's map.
Are you going to do a review of some kind? I visited this zoo in 2012, and I typed up a big review near the end of my Snowleopard's 2012 Road Trip thread. At that time, the zoo had 400 animals on 7 acres and the same general layout as it does now. Some of the species are on the slightly rarer side, such as Collared Brown Lemur, Bornean Gibbon (aka Southern Grey Gibbon), Red-flanked Duiker and even Sloth Bears aren't very common. A few of the exhibits were tight on space and I'm sure that hasn't changed, with the Asian zone being my favourite back then.