San Diego Zoo List of Species On Exhibit 11-26-13

betsy, did you see the coconut crab? I did not see the one at the Children's Aquarium in Fair Park, Dallas, when I was there in April; so now I have missed one twice?! I suppose the one in San Diego may be small in order to fit in that smallish exhibit.
 
I did see it. I will take a picture of it for you tomorrow.
 
WhiteTiger said:
Also, I was recently told that the royal antelope would probably be included in Africa Rocks or if not, moved to one of the smaller hoofstock exhibits next to the dik-dik or rhebok by the Skyfari station at some point (I’m assuming they may be wanting to beef up their population some first).
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The zoo hasn't had rhebok since Elephant Odyssey right? Wondering what you meant.


ALSO since when does San Diego have Yellow spotted bush hyrax (AKA Bruce's Hyrax)!? I checked the internet and found photos that were taken of them! So exciting! Any idea when/where from they got this species?? I wonder if it was a European Zoo, or wild caught. Also where exactly in the zoo are they again??
 
I believe he means steenbok. Those by Skyfari near the start of EO are being refurbished. Betsy stated that they would be for the mountain lions who are being moved for Africa Rocks.
 
There seems to be a mishmash of exhibits there with a lot of animals not fitting into a geographically themed area. Strange approach but I still want to see this zoo someday.
 
sandiegomaster, are the sakis in the diamond-shaped cage with the rocky waterfall, or the cylindrical cage that was empty when I was there?
 
geomorph said:
URBAN JUNGLE: (10 Exhibits)
This zone occupies what was once known as Elephant Mesa and is a sloppy mess located around a short loop road, composed entirely of older exhibit spaces. It feels like the dumping ground of animals the zoo did not know where to place. In reality, it is the area where many larger education animals are kept that are used in the zoo’s experential add-on tour called Backstage Pass.

6 older yards:
Indian Rhinoceros
Giraffe, Nubian Soemmerring’s Gazelle
Caribbean Flamingo
Red River Hog
Red Kangaroo, Grant’s Zebra, Sicilian Miniature Donkey (strange mix of education animals)
Cheetah, Arctic Wolf, Timber Wolf, New Guinea Singing Dog, Domestic Dog (rotational exhibit for hand-raised education animals and their domestic canine companions)

4 small cages:
Southern Ground Hornbill
Binturong
Clouded Leopard
Kookaburra
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they should really refurbish this area and make an africa/savanah themed area
 
WhiteTiger said:
Yeah, this thread is just about the species that are on exhibit, and only at the zoo. San Diego keeps an absolutely enormous amount of species off-display for various reasons and also has its total collection split between the zoo, animal park, SeaWorld, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, US Navy San Diego, and other institutions across the world that it owns or works with (which includes just about every zoological facility in the US and numerous private conservation centers). At the zoo itself, I am aware of over 85 species housed off-display from that list, from large ungulates to insects and amphibians, and that’s only from off the top of my head not knowing the complete extent of the total collection there or off-display at the Wild Animal/Safari Park as well. The off-display areas of San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal/Safari Park are gigantic and fun to check out when on Google Earth or in person on the Skyfari.

The Avian Propagation Center at the zoo has a couple dozen species of birds not on display. As for amphibians, the zoo maintains a gargantuan collection in breeding labs, though the biggest one is at the Wild Animal/Safari Park. As for invertebrates, the zoo has a very large yet little known entomology department that breeds many rare species, such as my favorite orchid mantis and a large variety of arachnids.

All told, the collection owned by San Diego, as well as the record for highest number of births, species bred, and conservation projects undertaken, is the largest in the world - larger than Berlin or Bronx/WCS NYC (I speak with extensive knowledge of the matter). It is the fact that not all the species are in one place or on display that is deceptive (of course, I wish more were put back on display...). Still, San Diego is universally regarded as the highest standard for zoological institutions by the overwhelming majority of the world and I encourage anyone on this forum who hasn’t been there yet to go to both main parks.

Also, I was recently told that the royal antelope would probably be included in Africa Rocks or if not, moved to one of the smaller hoofstock exhibits next to the dik-dik or rhebok by the Skyfari station at some point (I’m assuming they may be wanting to beef up their population some first).
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where are the off show exhibits ?
 
I took the original list made by geomorph to the zoo today and recorded all the changes.

Children’s zoo
the horned owl exhibit is empty
The insect house the giant katydid is now a coconut crab
The jumping stick is now an eastern lubber grasshopper
Macaw perch areas by the 4d theatre green-winged macaw is now a blue and yellow macaw

Retile house
The timor python is now an aruba island rattlesnake
Asian vine snake also has a soloman island boa
The empty cage has a samar cobra
The unsigned corbra is a king cobra ophiophagus hannah

Lost forest
Paker aviary no longer has a sunbitten but now has a plush-crested jay
Owen’s aviary no longer has a bala shark or a white-eared catbird but added a pink-necked green pigeon and a black bulbul

Australasia, lots of empty cages, is it bird breeding season?
Exhibit with pink-necked green pigeon also has white-eared bulbul and Malayan long-tailed parakeet (Malayan moved from the white throated ground-dove cage)
Coronated fruit dove, Micronesian kingfisher, blue-crowned lorry , wrinkled hornbill and horned parakeet all have there own exhibit that is currently empty
The red and blue lorry has a red-faced liocichla added to the cage

Gorilla tropics
Small bird aviary next to bonobo now has northern red bishop and yellow-romped tinkerbird

The net enclosure with Golden-breasted Starling, Snowy-crowned Robin-chat, Reichenow’s Weaver, Crested Coua, Racquet-tailed Roller, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Bearded Barbet, Oriole Warbler, Yellow-necked Francolin are all off exhibit and replaced with black-casqued hornbill and crested guineafowl

Scripps aviary
Off exhibit blue-bellied roller, racquet-tailed roller, purple roller, capuchin babbler, rueppell’s white-crowned shrike and the violet turaco.
Added, maccoa duck

Monkey trails

11 reptile terrariums
some name changes I believe
the African girdled lizard and the gorongosa girdled lizard have been replaced with a tropical girdled lizard (I think it’s the Africa girdled lizard), red-headed agama, sungazer and yellow-throated plated lizard in the first exhibit
Next one had a armadillo girdled lizard and a gorongosa girdled lizard prior and now has a golden armadillo lizard and a girdle-tailed lizard (I think there both name changes)
The next four were unsigned they have fish (unknown), emperor scorpion, green tree python and new river rust rump tarantula.
That is a twig snake with the puff adder
Henkel’s left-tailed gecko is now a green snake in a tree (unkown species), was the coconut crabs exhibit.
The last empty one is now an emerald tree boa and a fly river turtle

In the sociable weaver exhibit, the chestnut-bellied sandgrouse is off exhibit
In the mandrill exhibit they are called the wolf’s guenon a wolf’s monkey and the schmidt’s spot-nosed guenon a schmidt’s red tailed monkey. Anyone know about this change in name?
The yellow –backed duiker had red-flanked duiker in there as well.

Tiger river

The small indoor aviary no longer has blue-winged siva
The marsh aviary has scaly-sided merganser
The exhibit next to the tapir no longer has pale-headed mannakin

Asian passage

6 older exhibits near Africa rocks
empty round cage has white-faced saki monkey

Sun Bear Forest

Aviary with Chinese hwamei also has white-rumped shama

Former bear canyon
Francois’ langur now has ring-tailed lemurs and red-collared lemurs
Pacific otter is now a cape clawless otter

Australia outback
One tas devil exhibit empty, the dev is in the short-nosed echidna exhibit by himself. One male and female pair of devils is also together

Urban Jungle
no changes just two clarifications they are masai giraffe and southern laughing kookaburra

African kopje
White-crowned shrike added to the aviary with the golden-breasted starling

Northern frontier

The empty exhibits have bontebok, there building a mountain lion exhibit where the koala’s were kept temporary.
Zebra’s are off exhibit with the speke’s gazelle in there exhibit.

Older aviaries on the side of the road, the Chinese hwamei and the ross’ turaco are off exhibit

Elephant odyssey

The kirk’s dik dik are in the two-toed sloth exhibit

Done. I hope to do this every three months.
 
I was wondering where the coconut crab went. No one I asked knew the answer. I have to start asking different people. :)
 
geomorph said:
ASIAN PASSAGE: (25 Exhibits)

Former Bear Canyon:

2 older bear grottoes:
Bornean Sun Bear, Andean Bear (rotational exhibit)
Bornean Sun Bear, Andean Bear (rotational exhibit)

4 small monkey cages:
DeBrazza Guenon, Schmidt’s Spot-nosed Guenon
Tufted Capuchin, White-fronted Capuchin Monkey
Kikuyu Colobus
Francois’ Langur

2 more older bear grottoes:
Grizzly Bear (2 connected grottoes)

Former pinniped exhibit:
Pacific Otter

2 more older bear grottoes:
Spotted Hyena
Andean Bear
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This area would make a good american North and South themed exhibit
The Capuchins would have a refurbished exhibit the colobus and langur would move to Gorilla Tropics and Tiger River the Pygmy Marmosets from Tiger River would have a new exhibit here too.
Spectacled and Grizzly bears would get refurbushed exhibits and so would the otters. Also for this area i would put the binturongs back in with the macaques and the sun bears exhibit would be expanded:)
 
No chance of an update from me, at least not a complete one...I might go visit again later this year but will not have time to do this marathon effort! I will be completely photographing several specific areas that I haven't covered yet.
 
Atonishing and extremely useful! Thanks for posting that! I hope that not too much changes happened for 2016, as I will visit SDZ this July!
 
Finally! Someone else has noticed that there are echidnas in the indoor room near the camels! Thank you!:D
 
You forgot the small exhibit behind elephant odyssey, only viewable from the bus. It holds hyraxes.
 
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