Kopje exhibits

[wild boar]

There are a few zoos that have sections of their Africa areas themed around kopjes. Brookfield, San Diego, and Omaha come to mind. It had occurred to me that two of these exhibits have enclosures for white-throated monitors, which are not from East Africa, where kopjes have formed. This got me wondering about which species are a part of kopje exhibits and which ones actually live in these mini ecosystems. Rock hyraxes, klipspringers, dwarf mongooses, trumpeter hornbills, meerkats, and Kenyan crested guineafowl are all fairly common in these exhibits from what I can tell. Are there any other exhibits like this that I am forgetting? Or animals that seem to be present in several of these exhibits. One species that I think does live in kopjes is the yellow-spotted rock hyrax, which the San Diego did have, but I'm not sure if they do anymore. Are there any birds or reptiles that reside primarily in kopjes?

 

[Persephone]

Fort Wayne built a complex about a decade ago. Roster’s shifted since opening, but originally they had (iirc)

Hyena
Lion
Dik-Dik
Black Stork
Bat-Eared Fox
Ratel
Serval
Striped (?) Mongoose

Maybe something else I’m forgetting. Now tortoises (can’t remember species, but from Madagascar) have replaced the Dik-Dik enclosure and ratel has been replaced with crested (?) porcupine. No klipspringer or rock hyrax oddly enough.

 

[wild boar]

Kansas City has something like this but their exhibit does not reflect a natural kopje very well in terms of species, with a similar line up to Fort Wayne's. I had not thought of either of these zoos, but I will say that some of the species that are included at these two zoos do not make sense.

 

[CleZooMan]

Toward the end of its life, Monkey Island at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo had colobus monkeys, rock hyrax and klipspringer. There was a plan to take the colobus off and add meerkats to it, but that never came to fruition...