Toronto Zoo List of species at Toronto

Meaghan Edwards

Meaghan Edwards

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Not a complete list, I don't think, as I believe several insect species are excluded. I added a few that aren't on the list and took off a few that are no longer here. Lemme know if something's not there anymore or something is there and it's not listed. Taken from their website:

African Rainforest

African bonytongue
African spoonbill
Bearded barbet
Bichirs
Crested barbet
Crested Hoopoe
Egyptian Fruit Bat
Electric catfish
Elephantnose mormyrid
Giant baboon spider
Goliath baboon spider
Green crested touraco
Hammerkop
Home's hingeback tortoise
Lake Malawi cichlids
Leopard climbing perch
Madagascar buttonquail
Mandrill
Naked mole-rat
Ngege
Ornate Nile monitor
Pygmy hippopotamus
Red river hog
Red-breasted bluebill
Rock Scorpion
Sacred ibis
Slender-tailed meerkat
Speckled mousebird
Spotted-necked Otter
Straw coloured fruit bat
Synodontid catfish
Target squeaker catfish
Violaceous plantain eater
West African dwarf crocodile
Western lowland gorilla
White-cheeked touraco
Yellow-vented bulbul

African Savanna

African elephant
African Lion
Caracal Lynx (to be phased out and replaced with African Crested Porcupine in their exhibit)
Cheetah
Egyptian goose
Greater kudu
Grevy's Zebra
Grey necked crowned crane
Impala
Marabou stork
Masai giraffe
Olive baboon
Ostrich
River hippopotamus
Sable antelope
Secretary bird
South African Fur Seal (only one left, it is planned that Rosi is going to be sent to another zoo)
Southern Ground hornbill
Spotted hyena
Warthog
Wattled crane
White Rhinoceros
White-headed vulture

Americas

Aggregate anemone
Alligator snapping turtle
American alligator
American chuckwalla
Arrow poison frog
Axolotl
Bat star
Beaver
Black-footed ferret
Black-tailed prairie dog
Black-widow spider
Blind cave characin
Blue Dacnis
Blue poison dart frog
Blue-crowned motmot
Blue-grey tanager
Blue-winged grasshopper
Boa constrictor
Brazilian agouti
Brazilian Giant cockroach
Brown bullhead
Butterfly goodeid
Colorado River toad
Common Marmoset or White-eared marmoset
Crested tinamou
Cuvier's smooth-fronted caiman
Desert grassland whiptail
Desert hairy scorpion
Double-striped thicknee
Dyeing poison dart frog
Eastern bluebird
Eastern massasauga rattlesnake
Eastern Newt
Electric eel
Eyelash viper
Florida gar
Florida lubber
Fresh water grass shrimp
Giant Pacific octopus
Golden Lion Tamarin
Granite spiny lizard
Great Horned Owl
Green and black poison dart frog
Green frog
Green honeycreeper
Green surf anemone
Greenbottle blue tarantula
Grey-winged Trumpeter
Hyacinth Macaw
Land hermit crab
Largemouth bass
Leather sea star
Mata mata turtle
Mexican beaded lizard
Midland painted turtle
North American River Otter
Northern oriole
Northern Pacific rattlesnake
Painted anemone
Panamanian tiger rump spider
Piping Guan
Plush crested jay
Pumpkinseed sunfish
Purple gallinule
Pygmy marmoset
Red sea urchin
Red-breasted piranha
Red-crested finch
Red-legged honeycreeper
Redside dace
Reticulate gila monster
Rufous-banded owl
Scarlet-headed blackbird
Sea anemones
Silver beak tanager
Snapping turtle
South American giant bird-eating spider
Spiny softshelled turtle
Spotted gar
Spotted turtle
Strawberry anemone
Sunbittern
Surinam toad
Tiger / Common Desert Centipede
Tiger rat snake
Two-toed sloth
Vinegaroon
Water scorpion
White-faced saki monkey
Yellow-banded poison dart frog

Australasia

Australian magpie
Bennett's wallaby
Black triggerfish
Brownbanded bamboo shark
Brush-tailed bettong
Central bearded dragon
Dusky anemonefish
Emerald tree boa
Fly River turtle
Frilled Lizard
Green tree python
Komodo dragon
Kookaburra
Live Reef Corals
MacLeay's spectres
Marine toad
Matschie's tree kangaroo
Moon jellyfish
New Guinea tree frog
New Zealand shoveler
Pennant coral fish
Red-tailed black cockatoo
Seahorse
Short beaked echidna
Six-barred angelfish
Solomon Island monkey-tailed skink
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Sugar glider
Tawny frogmouth
Thorny Devil stick insect
Threadfin butterflyfish
Turquoisine grass parakeet
Victoria crowned pigeon
White-lipped python

Behind the Scenes

Eastern loggerhead shrike
Harris' Hawk
Laggar falcon
Lanner Falcon
Puerto Rican Crested toad
Vancouver Island marmot

Eurasia

Bactrian camel
Barbary ape
Barbary sheep (also known as: Aoudad)
Chamois
Demoiselle crane
Dhole, Asiatic wild dog
Domestic yak
Mouflon
Przewalski's horse
Red Panda
Scimitar-horned oryx
Siberian Tiger
Snow Leopard
West Caucasian tur

Indomalaya Outdoor Exhibit

Cattle egret
Great Indian rhinoceros
Himalayan tahr
Indian peafowl
Lion-tailed Macaque
Malayan tapir
Mandarin duck
Red-billed blue magpie

Malayan Woods

Black-breasted leaf turtle
Blue wing siva
Butterflies
Clouded Leopard
Clown loach
Crested wood partridge
Dead leaf mantis
Hooded Pitta
Indian or Javan Whistling Duck
Japanese white-eye
Jumbo gourami
Pekin robins
Red-tailed green ratsnake

Americas Outdoor Exhibit

American flamingo
Black-handed Spider Monkey
Blue and yellow macaw
Jaguar
Llama
Scarlet macaw

Australasia Outdoor Exhibit

Emu
Western grey kangaroo

Canadian Domain

American Moose
Canada lynx
Cougar
Grizzly bear
Musk ox
Northern bald eagle
Raccoon
Trumpeter swan
Wapiti, American elk
Wood bison

Indomalaya

Asian brown tortoise
Black-throated laughing thrush
Burmese star tortoise
Chinese soft-shelled turtle
Clown barb
Concave casqued hornbill
Crocodile lizard
Crocodile newt
Fairy bluebird
Gaur
Green water dragon
Himalayan monal
Malayan bonytongue
Malayan giant stick insect
Malaysian painted turtle
Nicobar pigeon
Pied imperial pigeon
Prevost's squirrel
Red-tailed black shark
Renauld's ground cuckoo
Reticulated Python
Siamese catfish
Spectacled cobra
Spiny Turtle
Sumatran orangutan
Sumatran Tiger
T-barb
Temminck's tragopan
Tentacled snake
Tinfoil barb
Tri-colour shark
Vietnamese box turtle
White-handed gibbon
Wrinkled hornbill
Zebra dove
Tree Shrew

Indomalaya Outdoor Exhibit

Cattle egret
Great Indian rhinoceros
Himalayan tahr
Indian peafowl (free ranging)
Lion-tailed Macaque
Malayan tapir
Mandarin duck
Red-billed blue magpie

Kids Zoo

Abyssinian ground hornbill
Barn Owl
Bateleur eagle
Black-billed magpie
Crested seriema
Miniature donkey
New Guinea Singing Dog
Serval
Striped Skunk
Turkey Vulture
Wild turkey (didn't see them yesterday; Guinea Fowl were in their exhibit)
Woodchuck

Tundra Trek

Arctic fox
Arctic wolf
European reindeer
Lesser snow goose
Polar bear
Snowy owl
 
My contribution

Everywhere

Canadian Geese

For the wild turkeys, I believe they might have been moved to the Americas pavilion at least temporarily. They replaced the one group of owl's near the entrance in the outside cage that they have there about a month back when I was visiting the Zoo (I think it had some white owls in it before). (I remember them distinctly because the male was trying to impress the female and was puffing itself up. It was quite funny seeing him try to make himself look so large (EDIT: The turkeys, not the owls))
 
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The Turkeys have been in the old Great Horned/snowy Owl exhibit for a while so I'm assuming it is a permanent or semi-permanent move.
 
An unfortunate number of errors and omissions ... although I think the visitor guide is more up-to-date. Here's an updated list for Australasia (without a full list of the fish)

Australasia Pavilion
Bennett's wallaby
Black tree monitor
(Black-billed magpie ... in the outside aviary, used to live in Marco Polo)
Blue-faced honeyeater
Brown-banded bamboo shark
Central bearded dragon
Emerald tree boa
Eyelash leaf frog
Fly River turtle
Frilled Lizard
Green-winged dove
Green tree python
Komodo dragon
Kookaburra
Little pied cormorant
Lionfish
Live Reef Corals
MacLeay's spectres
Marine toad
Matschie's tree kangaroo
Moon jellyfish
New Zealand shoveler
Pot-bellied seahorse
Red-bellied short-necked turtle
Red-clawed blue yabby
Red-tailed black cockatoo
Short beaked echidna
Snowflake eel
Solomon Island monkey-tailed skink
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Sugar glider
Swamp wallaby
Tawny frogmouth
Thorny Devil stick insect
Victoria crowned pigeon
White-lipped python
White's tree frog
Yellow tiger yabby

GBR tank (those species that I can remember off the top of my head)
Six-barred angelfish
Bicolor anglefish
Scribbled angelfish
Batfish
Harlequin tuskfish
Coral beauty
Humbug damselfish
Yellow & blue fusilier
Pennant coral fish
Clown triggerfish
Convict surgeonfish
Regal surgeonfish
Threadfin Butterflyfish
Longnose Butterflyfish
Black-back butterflyfish
Orange lyre-tailed anthias

Australasia Outdoor Exhibit
Bennett's wallaby
Western grey kangaroo
 
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Does anyone know which subspecies of Sable Antelope Toronto Zoo (or any other North American zoos) have? The animals in New Zealand came from Toronto Zoo, and I'm trying to establish which subspecies they are. All Sable Antelope in European zoos are the nominate, southern subspecies, so if Toronto's came from a European zoo they are likely that subspecies also. Thanks.
 
I was going to say check ISIS but it seems they tok down the old cataloge. There now appears no quick way to get that information.
 
zooboy28 said:
Does anyone know which subspecies of Sable Antelope Toronto Zoo (or any other North American zoos) have? QUOTE]

The wilds has sable antelopes. it says there from southern & eastern africa. my guess is that toronto zoos would be the same cause this institution seems to be linked to the toronto zoo cause thats were the dholes came from and some of there indian rhinos.
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With the exception of a small population of Zambian sable antelope in San Diego, all North American sable antelope are managed as a generic population (no subspecies designation) due to very hazy information about where the founders came from. (If an institution assigns a subspecies, it is typically H. n. niger)
 
Does the zoo have these animals? (cape buffalo,Barasingha,Siberian Roe Deer,Giant Salamander(if they do what species),Topi,Thompson's gazelle,Chinese Water Deer,Baird's Tapir) thks matt
 
jusko88 said:
Does the zoo have these animals? (cape buffalo,Barasingha,Siberian Roe Deer,Giant Salamander(if they do what species),Topi,Thompson's gazelle,Chinese Water Deer,Baird's Tapir) thks matt
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We currently do not have any of these species, but I'm fairly sure we have exhibited most/will be exhibiting atleast some of these in the future (The only ones I cannot verify with confidence are Cape Buffalo, Chinese Water Deer and Siberian Roe Deer).

Barashinga lived along our ex-Monorail route until the early 90's (phased out through attrition, I believe).

Giant Salamander (not sure which type, although Chinese would fit the theme more) have been mentioned as a species to be exhibited in our upcoming giant panda habitat (In the interpretive center that will serve as the entrance).

A single male topi (Either named Dopi or Toby, can't remember exactly which one) lived at the zoo during the early 2000's, in what is now the summer paddock for our male Grevy's zebra (Who has since left, this was our old white-tailed gnu exhibit).

Thomson's gazelle were maintained in Toronto until the early 2000's, in our large renovated Savannah exhibit at the end.

We have never had baird's tapir, although a brazilian (lowland) tapir lived in the Maya Temple Ruins building for awhile. I don't know when, or whether he/she was on exhibit, though.

If anyone can help with these final three which I could not verify (Ungulate?), that would be great!
 
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Back in the early days, we had Chinese Water deer on exhibit in the Eurasian Paddocks and we had a male Siberian Roe deer that I looked after in Outdoor Holding back in '74/'75. There were plans for Cape Buffalo, their exhibit was to share the African elephant exhibit. Yes there was a male South American Lowland tapir in holding in the Mayan Temple, we crated him and sent him to Portugal. There were at least 2 or 3 others that came up from Riverdale that never made it on exhibit, because we didn't have an area for them. The only other tapir to have been kept in the South American/America's outside area was a female Malayan tapir that I picked up at the airport and with help from one of our Vet Techs., placed her in the Flamingo/Waterfowl House for her quarentine. She then went over to the Main Barn, before being sold to another zoo!

Happy Days
Wayne
 
Lfantman, was Toronto's old breeding male sable antelope (and father of our current females) "Tor" from the first or second import?
 
I believe it was Tor who was the second import, the first group consisted of 2.4 animals, the same as the Greater Kudu. The origional group arrived in '76 and Tor came up in '83.
 
I forgot to mention that we had a single Japanese giant Salamander that was on display in the Eurasian Pavilion in '74 and '75 and then was sent to join the Amphibian collection at the Cincinatti Zoo.
 
Way back in '74 and possibly '75, we had African Crested Porcupines in the Eurasian Pavilion, they tried to dig their way out!
 
LFANTMAN said:
Back in the early days, we had Chinese Water deer on exhibit in the Eurasian Paddocks and we had a male Siberian Roe deer that I looked after in Outdoor Holding back in '74/'75. There were plans for Cape Buffalo, their exhibit was to share the African elephant exhibit. Yes there was a male South American Lowland tapir in holding in the Mayan Temple, we crated him and sent him to Portugal. There were at least 2 or 3 others that came up from Riverdale that never made it on exhibit, because we didn't have an area for them. The only other tapir to have been kept in the South American/America's outside area was a female Malayan tapir that I picked up at the airport and with help from one of our Vet Techs., placed her in the Flamingo/Waterfowl House for her quarentine. She then went over to the Main Barn, before being sold to another zoo!

Happy Days
Wayne
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Thanks for all of this information! I love learning about the zoo's past. Do you know if the zoo ever thought of putting the lowland tapirs on exhibit with the capybaras? I know that many zoos keep these species together. Also, I know this might not be the best thread for asking these questions, but do you know what species were held in the americas pavilion around the time that the zoo was open? I think I read somewhere that it used to be a North American pavilion. Is this true?

Thanks in advance. :D:D:D
 
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