Nashville Zoo List of Species On Exhibit 10/1/18

[geomorph]

NASHVILLE ZOO AT GRASSMERE: 10-1-18
This is an attempt to list every species on exhibit at the Nashville Zoo in Nashville, Tennessee during my visit on 10-1-18. I am including species for which there is a sign on each exhibit, and organizing the route on the map by starting with the entry area's 'Zoo Central', then going counter-clockwise around the 'Savannah Loop' visitor path and then counter-clockwise around the 'Jungle Loop' visitor path. This list may be of more interest to those already familiar with the zoo since I am not arranging the species by animal type. I will post several of the areas separately for clarity.

ZOO CENTRAL: (7 Exhibits)
This zone is adjacent to the entrance to the zoo, before the two major loop paths branch off from this area.

Medium-sized wall terrarium, only viewed in men's restroom!:
Boelen's Python

Medium-sized yard with small pond surrounding island:
Hyancinth Macaw

Medium-sized fenced yard with pond:
Common Shelduck
Stanley Crane
White-faced Whistling Duck

2 medium-sized island yards surrounded by waterway, containing 1 species in each:
Siamang
White-cheeked Gibbon

Medium-sized yard with glass railings and simulated rock walls:
Meerkat

Large-sized yard with shallow waterway inside:
Saddle-billed Stork

 

[Brum]

Medium-sized wall terrarium, only viewed in men's restroom!:
Boelen's Python

Apparently the Ladies has cotton-top tamarins........

 

[Ituri]

Apparently the Ladies has cotton-top tamarins........

Yes, but this is in a different set of restrooms.

 

[geomorph]

Apparently the Ladies has cotton-top tamarins........

Yes, in the restroom of the new 'Expedition Peru' exhibit complex that I will be listing later.

 

[geomorph]

UNSEEN NEW WORLD: (62 Exhibits)
This building is near Zoo Central and reached just before the Jungle Loop pathway begins. It is the zoo's concentrated reptile, amphibian, fish, and invertebrate center and has a specific focus on animals from the Americas.

Small room-sized exhibit adjacent to aviary, viewed through large glass panel:
Black & White Tegu
Red-footed Tortoise

Medium-sized walk-through aviary in half-round glass atrium:
African Pygmy Goose
Black-spotted Barbet
Blue-crowned Motmot
Blue-necked Tanager
Bruce's Green Pigeon
Croaking Ground Dove
Green Woodhoopoe
Linne's Two-toed Sloth
Peruvian Meadowlark
Red-capped Cardinal
Silver-beaked Tanager
Spotted Tanager
Yellow-rumped Cacique

Small room-sized exhibit adjacent to aviary, viewed through large glass panel:
Bumble Bee Walking Toad
Dyeing Poison Dart Frog
South American Bushmaster
Yellow-headed Gecko

Medium-sized rolling pedestal terrarium in stairway lobby:
Red-tailed Boa Constrictor

9 small-sized wall terrariums containing 1 species in each:
African Clawed Frog
American Bullfrog
Golden Frog
Marine Toad
Poison Arrow Frog (4 exhibits, unspecified species)
Puerto Rican Crested Toad

3 small-sized wall terrariums titled 'Tropical Toxins', containing 1 species in each:
Eyelash Viper
Jumping Pitviper
Slender Hognose Pitviper

The next 5 exhibits are titled 'Tropical Rivers'. The terrarium parts connect together so that the climbing inhabitants actually have a larger exhibit area than the aquatic-contained inhabitants.
Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination:
Abramite Headstander
Banded Leporinus
Blue Poison Dart Frog
Flagtail Prochilodus
Harlequin Race Runner
Marbled Hatchetfish
Pink Tailed Chalceus
Plecostomus Algae Eater
Red-bellied Piranha
Royal Panaque Plecostomus
Spotcheek Cichlid

Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination:
Black Arowana
Convict Cichlid
Jack Dempsey
Jaguar Cichlid
Pink Tailed Chalceus
Red Shoulder Severum
Royal Acara Cichlid
Plecostomus Algae Eater
Twist-necked Turtle
Yellow Fin Chalceus

Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination:
Armoured Catfish
Central American Spotted Gar
Caiman Lizard
Green Basilisk
Mata Mata
Ocellate River Stingray
Pike Cichlid
Plecostomus Algae Eater
Red Hook Silver Dollar
Silver Arowana
White Spot River Stingray
Wolf Cichlid
Yellow Spotted Amazon River Turtle

Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination:
Chocolate Cichlid
Firemouth Cichlid
Flagtail Prochilodus
Green Severum
Green Terror
Jack Dempsey
Mexican Leaf Frog
Peacock Bass
Plecostomus Algae Eater
Red Head Eartheater
Red Striped Earth Eater
Red Terror Cichlid
Spotcheek Cichlid
Threadfin Acara
Triangle Cichlid

Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination:
Banded Leporinus
Black Arowana
Chocolate Cichlid
Green Basilisk
Spiny Necked Turtle
White Spot River Stingray

The next 13 exhibits are titled 'South America'.
Medium-sized half-round column wall aquarium/terrarium combination:
Angelfish
Cave Frog
Monkey Anole
Surinam Toad

3 small-sized wall terrariums containing 1 species in each:
Horned Frog
Strawberry Poison Frog
Waxing Monkey Frog

Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination:
Dwarf Caiman
Fish (unspecified)
Spot-bellied Side-necked Turtle

Large-sized wall terrarium:
Green Anaconda
Red-tailed Boa Constrictor

The next 3 exhibits are subtitled 'Unseen By Day'.
Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Blue Poison Arrow Frog
Rainbow Boa

Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Casque-head Iguana
Elegant Helmeted Iguana
Panamanian Golden Frog

Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Central American Ratsnake
Harlequin Racerunner
Mexican Leaf Frog

The next 3 exhibits are subtitled 'The Night Shift'.
Small-sized wall terrarium:
Red-eyed Tree Frog
Spiny-headed Tree Frog

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Annulated Boa
Central American Banded Gecko

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Sabana Surinam Toad
Splendid Leaf Frog

Small room-sized cave terrarium:
Short-tailed Leaf-nosed Bat

The next 18 exhibits are titled 'North America'.
Small-sized wall terrarium:
Spiny Softshell Turtle
Yellow-blotched Map Turtle

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Razor-back Musk Turtle
Spotted Turtle

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Axolotl
Dragoncito

The next 3 exhibits are subtitled 'Seldom Seen'.
Small-sized wall terrarium:
Red Knee Tarantula

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Desert Hairy Scorpion
Giant Whip Scorpion

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Paintedhand Mudbug

Large-sized wall aquarium/terrarium combination:
Alligator Snapping Turtle

3 small-sized wall terrariums containing 1 species in each:
Blanchard's Milksnake
Indigo Snake
Tiger Salamander

Large-sized wall aquarium/terrarium combination:
Hellbender
Water Snake

The next 6 exhibits are subtitled 'Temperate Toxins'.
Small-sized wall terrarium:
Eastern Diamond-back Rattlesnake

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Banded Rock Rattlesnake

Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Gila Monster

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Black Widow Spider

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Brown Recluse Spider

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Copperhead

Small room-sized terrarium:
Beaded Lizard
Chuckwalla
Desert Tortoise
Spiny-tailed Iguana

The next 10 exhibits are titled 'West Indies'.
Small room-sized terrarium with glass railing:
Rhinoceros Iguana

Small-sized wall aquarium:
Dusky Pipefish
Lined Seahorse

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Trinidad Giant Cock Roach

Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Cuban False Chameleon
Giant Cuban Anole

Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Haitian Giant Anole
Haitian Giant Galliwasp
Hispaniolan Tree Frog

Small-sized wall aquarium/terrarium combination:
Fiddler Crab
Upside-down Jellyfish

Small-sized wall terrarium:
Trinidad Chevron Tarantula

Large-sized wall aquarium:
Blue Chromis
Blueheaded Wrasse
Blue Tang
Butter Hamlet
Clown Wrasse
Creole Fish
French Angelfish
Green Chromis
Harlequin Bass
Hawkfish
Queen Angelfish
Porcupine Puffer
Pudding Wife Wrasse
Redlip Blenny
Red Tail Triggerfish
Royal Gramma
Slippery Dick Wrasse
Yellowheaded Wrasse

Small-sized wall aquarium:
Indo-Pacific Lionfish

Small-sized wall aquarium:
Empty

 

[Brum]

Yes, in the restroom of the new 'Expedition Peru' exhibit complex that I will be listing later.

Ah, my bad, I assumed you were male and had managed to skip them, never realised they were in a different place. Can you see the tamarins without visiting the toilet?

 

[geomorph]

Ah, my bad, I assumed you were male and had managed to skip them, never realised they were in a different place. Can you see the tamarins without visiting the toilet?

I am male and I did not see the exhibit with my own eyes, the only viewing is from the restroom. The Boelen's Python wall terrarium in the men's restroom is just above two urinals, I wonder if the cotton-top tamarins are viewed through a panel above the toilets?!

 

[nczoofan]

I am male and I did not see the exhibit with my own eyes, the only viewing is from the restroom. The Boelen's Python wall terrarium in the men's restroom is just above two urinals, I wonder if the cotton-top tamarins are viewed through a panel above the toilets?!

Heres a pic I was able to find. It appears to be outside of the stalls.

Source: https://www.tennessean.com/story/li...04/zoo-nashville-tips-things-know/1424430002/

 

[Ituri]

While I find the concept fun, I'm disturbed by there being species that are only viewable to one gender or the other. Also, why is the one in the men's room a "scary" species and the one in the women's a "cute" one?

Now that I've opened THAT can of worms...

 

[BigNate]

While I find the concept fun, I'm disturbed by there being species that are only viewable to one gender or the other. Also, why is the one in the men's room a "scary" species and the one in the women's a "cute" one?

Now that I've opened THAT can of worms...

Abort, abort

 

[geomorph]

SAVANNAH LOOP: (9 Exhibits)
This visitor path is the smaller of the two main walkway routes and has several varied attractions on it in addition to the Savannah in its name.

The next 5 exhibits are located within the 'Grassmere Historic Home and Farm':
Small wood-and-wire aviary in barn:
Barn Owl

Medium-sized fenced yard:
Cotswold Sheep

Large-sized fenced yard:
Miniature Horse
Sicilian Donkey

Large-sized fenced yard:
American Milking Devons

Large-sized fenced yard:
Belted Galloway

Medium-sized netted walk-through aviary with feeding available, called 'Lorikeet Landing':
Lorikeet (8 species unsigned, according to keeper)
Mandarin Duck (unsigned)
Western Grey Plantain Eater (unsigned)

Medium-sized dry-moated and fenced yard:
Red River Hog

Large-sized simulated rocky-walled yard:
Southern White Rhinoceros

Large-sized simulated rocky-walled yard with small dry moat in front:
Masai Giraffe

 

[geomorph]

JUNGLE LOOP: (29 Exhibits)
This visitor path is the larger of the two main walkway routes and has several varied attractions along its route.

2 large-sized fenced wooded yards:
Double-wattled Cassowary

Large-sized fenced walk-though yard for animal contact, called 'Kangaroo Kickabout':
Red Kangaroo

Very large-sized fenced yard:
Bontebok
Eland
Grey Crowned Crane
Ostrich
Plains Zebra
Springbok

Small-sized low-fenced walk-though yard for animal contact, called 'Shell Station':
Sulcata Tortoise

Medium-sized simulated rocky-walled yard with pond, underwater viewing panel, and viewing shelter, called 'Alligator Cove':
American Alligator

The next 5 exhibits are located in the new exhibit complex called 'Expedition Peru: Trek of the Andean Bear':
Small-sized simulated rocky-walled yard:
Red-footed Tortoise
Southern Pudu

Large-sized simulated rocky-walled yard with several waterfalls and viewing lodge:
Andean Bear

Small room-sized aquarium/terrarium combination inside viewing lodge:
Banded Leporinus
Blotched River Stingray
Caiman Lizard
Red Head Cichlid
Silver Arowana
Yellow Spotted Turtle

Small room-sized indoor exhibit viewed only from women's restroom (I did not see)!:
Cotton-top Tamarin

Small-sized yard with low rocky walls:
Guinea Pig

Medium-sized netted aviary:
Rhinoceros Hornbill

Small-sized pond:
Koi

2 medium-sized netted yards that share a viewing shelter, containing 1 species in each:
Clouded Leopard
Red Panda

2 medium-sized netted yards, containing 1 species in each:
Ring-tailed Lemur
Red-ruffed Lemur

Medium-sized fenced yard:
Yellow-backed Duiker

Medium-sized steep fenced yard:
Cougar

Medium-sized netted yard with simulated tree trunks and viewing shelter:
Mexican Spider Monkey

Small-sized rocky-walled yard with waterfall:
African Crested Porcupine

Large-sized fenced yard with small pool:
Baird's Tapir
Crested Screamer

Medium-sized low-fenced yard with shallow waterway, called 'Flamingo Lagoon':
Caribbean Flamingo

The next 6 exhibits are located in the fenced area called 'Critter Encounters':
Large-sized fenced walk-through yard for animal contact:
Goats (6 breeds according to website)

Small-sized fenced yard:
Alpaca

3 small-sized wood-and-wire aviaries containing 1 species in each:
Black Throated Magpie Jay (unsigned)
Blue-billed Curassow
Snowy Owl

Small-sized fenced yard:
Aldabra Tortoise
Galapagos Tortoise

 

[geomorph]

SUMMARY:

By my count, the total number of exhibits currently at the Nashville Zoo is: 107

By my count, the total number of species in permanent exhibits with identification signs is: 206
The number of species I counted can be broken down into the following categories:
Mammals: 31
Birds: 37
Reptiles: 53
Amphibians: 25
Fish: 59
Invertebrates: 10

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I have to say, your species lists are proving to be invaluable in my planning process for upcoming trips. Thank you for the time you've taken to create them!

~Thylo

 

[geomorph]

I have to say, your species lists are proving to be invaluable in my planning process for upcoming trips. Thank you for the time you've taken to create them!

~Thylo

You’re welcome, I generally enjoy doing it! Although I wasn’t in the mood to do it for ABQ Biopark Zoo or Cleveland or Memphis, which were zoos I attended last year (however I did Memphis’ nocturnal house since it has such a stellar collection). I used to write detailed reviews but found that they were becoming a chore instead of a joy .

 

[ThylacineAlive]

You’re welcome, I generally enjoy doing it! Although I wasn’t in the mood to do it for ABQ Biopark Zoo or Cleveland or Memphis, which were zoos I attended last year (however I did Memphis’ nocturnal house since it has such a stellar collection). I used to write detailed reviews but found that they were becoming a chore instead of a joy .

Yeah I find detailed reviews to be a chore as well despite how useful they are. Memphis is one I was actually hoping you'd done but no matter, the nocturnal house is probably the most interesting exhibit there for a zoo nerd anyhow!

~Thylo