Date of Visit: April 26 2024
Species not seen in italics
Entrance
1. Domestic Mallard, Domestic Muscovy Duck, Domestic Graylag Goose, Domestic Swan Goose, Domestic Graylag x Swan Goose
Small Mammals
1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Binturong
3. unidentified owl monkey (signed as A. trivirgatus)
4. South American Coati
5. Tammar Wallaby
6. Patagonian Cavy
Aviary
1. Bald Eagle
2. Pied Crow
3. Red-tailed Hawk
Petting Zoo
(temporarily closed, unable to provide a list)
Carnivores
1. Spotted Hyena
2. Generic Tiger
3. American Black Bear
Ungulates
1. American Bison
2. Domestic Yak
3. unidentified zebra (prob. Plains)
4. Bighorn Sheep
5. American Elk
Free-roaming: Domestic Guineafowl
Irvine Park Zoo is a small, non-AZA, municipally-owned zoo in Chippewa Falls, WI. The layout is highly confusing and to be honest I'm not 100% sure I saw it all, the map shows several exhibits that I could not for the life of me find. This is a perfectly average zoo that I honestly don't have much more to say about.
The small mammals unfortunately have it tough here, in tiny concrete and bars cages, but all of the other animals are fairly well off. The carnivores are in concrete grottos but they're pretty large, with places to hide, climbing structures, and other stuff that makes them far better off than their conspecifics at other zoos in the state. The ungulates (and domestic waterfowl
) all have massive yards with rolling grassy fields, some woods, and large natural ponds. The Bighorn Sheep have an entire large wooded gorge all to themselves that replicates the environments of the Rocky Mountains about as well as a zoo in the Midwest can do.
One problem that seems to plague this zoo is that the animals are very difficult to locate. I don't know, maybe it was the day I visited, but the ungulates were all hiding in their spacious enclosures (understandable, they have so much room to roam), but the small mammals were almost all out of view. I know they were on-exhibit because there was food and water in all of the enclosures and the area reeked of Binturong. They must have all been huddled up in their hides or something.
Species not seen in italics
Entrance
1. Domestic Mallard, Domestic Muscovy Duck, Domestic Graylag Goose, Domestic Swan Goose, Domestic Graylag x Swan Goose
Small Mammals
1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Binturong
3. unidentified owl monkey (signed as A. trivirgatus)
4. South American Coati
5. Tammar Wallaby
6. Patagonian Cavy
Aviary
1. Bald Eagle
2. Pied Crow
3. Red-tailed Hawk
Petting Zoo
(temporarily closed, unable to provide a list)
Carnivores
1. Spotted Hyena
2. Generic Tiger
3. American Black Bear
Ungulates
1. American Bison
2. Domestic Yak
3. unidentified zebra (prob. Plains)
4. Bighorn Sheep
5. American Elk
Free-roaming: Domestic Guineafowl
Irvine Park Zoo is a small, non-AZA, municipally-owned zoo in Chippewa Falls, WI. The layout is highly confusing and to be honest I'm not 100% sure I saw it all, the map shows several exhibits that I could not for the life of me find. This is a perfectly average zoo that I honestly don't have much more to say about.
The small mammals unfortunately have it tough here, in tiny concrete and bars cages, but all of the other animals are fairly well off. The carnivores are in concrete grottos but they're pretty large, with places to hide, climbing structures, and other stuff that makes them far better off than their conspecifics at other zoos in the state. The ungulates (and domestic waterfowl
) all have massive yards with rolling grassy fields, some woods, and large natural ponds. The Bighorn Sheep have an entire large wooded gorge all to themselves that replicates the environments of the Rocky Mountains about as well as a zoo in the Midwest can do.One problem that seems to plague this zoo is that the animals are very difficult to locate. I don't know, maybe it was the day I visited, but the ungulates were all hiding in their spacious enclosures (understandable, they have so much room to roam), but the small mammals were almost all out of view. I know they were on-exhibit because there was food and water in all of the enclosures and the area reeked of Binturong. They must have all been huddled up in their hides or something.
