This is a species list for the Los Angeles Zoo as of 28 May 2022.
Of note, several roundhouses are blocked off to protect their inhabitants from COVID-19 exposure (mostly primates and small carnivores); however, you can still see into the roundhouses and usually find the inhabitants so they’re not actually off-exhibit. I’ve marked these in italics; non-italics means that visitors can walk into the central viewing area, although some of the enclosures in them have a safety barrier to keep people at a distance. There are a few changes related to avian flu that are noted as well; fortunately, no birds appeared to be off-exhibit.
Entrance Exhibits
California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal
American Alligator
Meerkat
Greater Flamingo, Chilean Flamingo
empty pond (usually holds Trumpeter Swan)
Children’s Zoo
Caves: Axolotl
Outdoor Enclosures: African Pygmy Falcon / Greater Roadrunner / American Badger
Nursery Building: Southern Tamandua / Fennec Fox / Cape Porcupine / White-faced Saki / Prevost’s Squirrel / Southern Tamandua, Red-rumped Agouti / Linne’s Two-toed Sloth
Hoofstock Nursey Yard (changes lineup): Southern Gerenuk, Speke’s Gazelle, Black Duiker
The Children’s Zoo also used to have Black-tailed Prairie Dogs and a Desert Cave with a small number of species, but these are closed off currently as is the contact yard.
Walk-through Aviary 1 (African birds, waterfall)
Nicobar Pigeon, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, White-crowned Robin-chat, African Sacred Ibis, African Spoonbill, Superb Starling, Violet Turaco, White-faced Whistling Duck, Black Crowned Crane, (unsigned) Spotted Thick-knee, Trumpeter Swan*
*The trumpeter swans are normally in a pond exhibit across from the meerkats and Chilean Flamingos, but presumably due to avian flu they’ve been moved to the aviary pools where the Greater Flamingos once lived; these flamingos are now mixed in with the aforementioned Chileans.
Walk-through Aviary 2 (Asian/Australasian birds, no waterfall)
Black-collared Starling, Galah Cockatoo, Red-billed Blue Magpie, Chestnut Teal, Indochinese Green Magpie, Masked Lapwing (unsigned) White-crowned Robin-chat, Indian Peafowl*, Violet Turaco
*The peafowl are normally free-ranging at the zoo, but were placed in the aviary to minimize contact with avian flu.
Australian Loop
Pudu (formerly held Tasmanian Devil) (x2)
Western Gray Kangaroo
Koala, Short-beaked Echidna, Tammar Wallaby
Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Rhinoceros Hornbill
Southern Cassowary (x2)
Laughing Kookaburra
Roundhouse: Komodo Dragon, Perentie
Nocturnal House (closed due to COVID): usually holds Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat, in the past has also had Sugar and Feathertail Gliders, Brush-tailed Bettong and Short-beaked Echidna
South Loop (Painted Dogs and Hoofstock)
Grevy’s Zebra
Small African Aviaries: Black-headed Weaver, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Spotted Thick-knee, Golden-breasted Starling / Speckled Mousebird, Spur-winged Lapwing / White-cheeked Turaco
Roundhouse: Fossa / Bat-eared Fox / Cape Rock Hyrax
African Painted Dog
Addax
Chacoan Peccary
Speke’s Gazelle
Roundhouse: Sunbittern, Scarlet Ibis, Black-necked Stilt, Bufflehead / Greater Roadrunner, Masked Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi), (unsigned) Australian Wood Duck
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Peninsular Pronghorn (x2)
Campo Gorilla Reserve & Orangutan Area
Western Lowland Gorilla
Bornean Orangutan
Path from Campo Gorilla Reserve to Giraffes
Southern Gerenuk
Mountain Bongo, Yellow-backed Duiker
Roundhouse: Lady Ross’s Turaco (one side), Von der Decken’s Hornbill (one side), Black Duiker (both sides)
Giraffes, Chimps and African Jungle Area
Masai Giraffe
Okapi
Chimpanzee (includes open-topped lower yard and enclosed “treehouse” viewed from back perimeter road)
Roundhouse: Coquerel’s Sifaka / Blue-eyed Black Lemur
Roundhouse: Kikuyu Guereza Colobus
Roundhouse: Mandrill
Roundhouse: Red-capped Mangabey / Buff-cheeked Gibbon
Roundhouse: Serval
Roundhouse: Ring-tailed Lemur / Radiated Tortoise
Back Perimeter Road (from okapi to Neil Papiano Play Park and tiger)
Lesser Kudu, Yellow-backed Duiker, Ostrich (x3)
Red River Hog
Chinese Goral (x2)
Western Tufted Deer
Calamian Deer
Visayan Warty Pig
Tiger/Langur Area (Northwest Zone)
Sumatran Tiger
Francois’ Langur
Tadjik Markhor
American Black Bear recently deceased, exhibit plans unclear; last Hippopotamus just shipped out, hippo and former rhino yards temporarily empty
Roundhouse: Bornean Crested Fireback / Wrinkled Hornbill / Binturong / Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
This area once had several other species, but in the absence of rhino, hippo and bear it is now home to several empty enclosures.
Old South American Area
Aldabra Tortoise
Roundhouse: Crested Caracara, Pudu / Red-legged Seriema
Roundhouse: Blue-billed Curassow, Brazilian Ocelot (L.p. mitis)
Maned Wolf
Giant Anteater
Mountain Tapir
Roundhouse (split by path): Andean Condor / Red-fronted Macaw
Mesh Enclosure: Common Squirrel Monkey
Roundhouse: Spectacled Owl / King Vulture / White-faced Saki
Roundhouse: Black Howler Monkey / Crested Capuchin / Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey
Rainforest of the Americas
Harpy Eagle (viewed from above complex, by the first walkthrough aviary – viewing on upper giant otter pavilion currently closed due to COVID)
Jaguar
Green Aracari
Glass-fronted Herp Exhibits: Fringed Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla craspedopus) (temporarily off-exhibit) / Golden Poison Dart Frog, Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog, Blessed Poison Dart Frog (Ranitomeya benedicta), Variable Poison Dart Frog (Ranitomeya variabilis), Blue Dyeing Poison Dart Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog, (possibly seen and unsigned) Ranitomeya uakarii / Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman
Crested Oropendola, (unsigned) White-tailed Jay
Baird’s Tapir
Enclosure viewed from distance: White-faced Saki (formerly held Bald Uakari - RIP)
Black Howler Monkey, Lowland Paca
Giant Otter
Tanks at Main Otter Viewing Window (split across multiple):
Separate side tank: Caiman Lizard, Freshwater Angelfish (Pterophyllum spp), Cardinal Tetra
Tank(s) in front of otter viewing: Xingu River Stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi), Ocellate River Stingray (Potamotrygon motoro), Red-bellied Piranha, Armored Catfish (Hypostomus spp), Bucktooth Tetra, Dwarf Cichlid (Apistogramma spp), Cardinal Tetra
Asian path between tiger/langur area and Old South American area
Reeves’ Muntjac (temporarily closed)
Sarus Crane
Roundhouse: Snow Leopard
Elephants of Asia
Asian Elephant
Asian path between chimps and langurs
Sichuan Takin
Roundhouse: Steller’s Sea Eagle / Eurasian Eagle-owl (sibiricus ssp)
Roundhouse: Siamang
Roundhouse: Buff-cheeked Gibbon
LAIR
First Building
Hallway Terrariums: Boelen’s Python / Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (Phelsuma grandis) / Kaiser’s Newt (Neurergus kaiseri) / Wagler’s Pitviper / Tiger Salamander (signed as Eastern but says “California native” so maybe California) / Mexican Giant Horned Lizard / Chinese Giant Salamander (temporarily off-exhibit for routine maintenance) / Green Tree Python / Long-nosed Viper (Vipera ammodytes) / Armenian Viper / Green Vine Snake (Oxybelis fulgidus) / Mangrove Pitviper, Vampire Crab (Geosesarma tiomanicum) / Rough-scaled Python
Australasian Turtle/Fish Tank: Mary River Turtle, Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle, Fly River Turtle, Australian Lungfish, Banded Archerfish, Eastern Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida)
Tall Enclosures in Circular Room: Mertens’ Water Monitor / Ethiopian Mountain Viper / Mexican Beaded Lizard, Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake / South American Bushmaster / Mangshan Pitviper / Cape Cobra / Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica) / Magnificent Tree Frog (Litoria splendida), Boyd’s Forest Dragon / Gray’s Monitor / Western Green Mamba
Last Room: Radiated Tortoise, Common Spider Tortoise (indoor portion) / Gray’s Monitor / Banded Rock Rattlesnake, Southern Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
Breeding Lab: several young snakes that change regularly; only species not signed elsewhere was Arizona Mountain Kingsnake; other species present included Rock Rattlesnake, Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, Mangshan Pitviper, Black-tailed Horned Pitviper, and Armenian Viper
Outdoor area between buildings
Radiated Tortoise, Common Spider Tortoise (outdoor portion)
Mixed Open-topped Desert Enclosure: Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus spp), Desert Iguana, San Esteban Chuckwalla, Agassiz’s Desert Tortoise, Baja Blue Rock Lizard
Desert Building
Gray-banded Kingsnake / Red Diamond Rattlesnake, Desert Rosy Boa / California Kingsnake / Baja California Ratsnake (Bogertophis rosaliae) / San Diego Gopher Snake, Southern Pacific Rattlesnake / Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake / Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake / Sidewinder Rattlesnake / Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake / Sonoran Tarantula (Aphonopelma spp) / Black-tailed Horned Pitviper (Mixcoatlus melanurus) / Saharan Horned Viper (Cerastes cerastes) / Desert Hairy Scorpion (Hadrurus obscurus) / Baja Blue Rock Lizard / Sonoran Giant Centipede / Sunburst Diving Beetle, Toe Biter (Abedus herberti) / Gila Monster, Colorado River Toad
Outdoor Pools
Indian Gharial, Painted Terrapin
Sunda Gharial
Of note, several roundhouses are blocked off to protect their inhabitants from COVID-19 exposure (mostly primates and small carnivores); however, you can still see into the roundhouses and usually find the inhabitants so they’re not actually off-exhibit. I’ve marked these in italics; non-italics means that visitors can walk into the central viewing area, although some of the enclosures in them have a safety barrier to keep people at a distance. There are a few changes related to avian flu that are noted as well; fortunately, no birds appeared to be off-exhibit.
Entrance Exhibits
California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal
American Alligator
Meerkat
Greater Flamingo, Chilean Flamingo
empty pond (usually holds Trumpeter Swan)
Children’s Zoo
Caves: Axolotl
Outdoor Enclosures: African Pygmy Falcon / Greater Roadrunner / American Badger
Nursery Building: Southern Tamandua / Fennec Fox / Cape Porcupine / White-faced Saki / Prevost’s Squirrel / Southern Tamandua, Red-rumped Agouti / Linne’s Two-toed Sloth
Hoofstock Nursey Yard (changes lineup): Southern Gerenuk, Speke’s Gazelle, Black Duiker
The Children’s Zoo also used to have Black-tailed Prairie Dogs and a Desert Cave with a small number of species, but these are closed off currently as is the contact yard.
Walk-through Aviary 1 (African birds, waterfall)
Nicobar Pigeon, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, White-crowned Robin-chat, African Sacred Ibis, African Spoonbill, Superb Starling, Violet Turaco, White-faced Whistling Duck, Black Crowned Crane, (unsigned) Spotted Thick-knee, Trumpeter Swan*
*The trumpeter swans are normally in a pond exhibit across from the meerkats and Chilean Flamingos, but presumably due to avian flu they’ve been moved to the aviary pools where the Greater Flamingos once lived; these flamingos are now mixed in with the aforementioned Chileans.
Walk-through Aviary 2 (Asian/Australasian birds, no waterfall)
Black-collared Starling, Galah Cockatoo, Red-billed Blue Magpie, Chestnut Teal, Indochinese Green Magpie, Masked Lapwing (unsigned) White-crowned Robin-chat, Indian Peafowl*, Violet Turaco
*The peafowl are normally free-ranging at the zoo, but were placed in the aviary to minimize contact with avian flu.
Australian Loop
Pudu (formerly held Tasmanian Devil) (x2)
Western Gray Kangaroo
Koala, Short-beaked Echidna, Tammar Wallaby
Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Rhinoceros Hornbill
Southern Cassowary (x2)
Laughing Kookaburra
Roundhouse: Komodo Dragon, Perentie
Nocturnal House (closed due to COVID): usually holds Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat, in the past has also had Sugar and Feathertail Gliders, Brush-tailed Bettong and Short-beaked Echidna
South Loop (Painted Dogs and Hoofstock)
Grevy’s Zebra
Small African Aviaries: Black-headed Weaver, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Spotted Thick-knee, Golden-breasted Starling / Speckled Mousebird, Spur-winged Lapwing / White-cheeked Turaco
Roundhouse: Fossa / Bat-eared Fox / Cape Rock Hyrax
African Painted Dog
Addax
Chacoan Peccary
Speke’s Gazelle
Roundhouse: Sunbittern, Scarlet Ibis, Black-necked Stilt, Bufflehead / Greater Roadrunner, Masked Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi), (unsigned) Australian Wood Duck
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Peninsular Pronghorn (x2)
Campo Gorilla Reserve & Orangutan Area
Western Lowland Gorilla
Bornean Orangutan
Path from Campo Gorilla Reserve to Giraffes
Southern Gerenuk
Mountain Bongo, Yellow-backed Duiker
Roundhouse: Lady Ross’s Turaco (one side), Von der Decken’s Hornbill (one side), Black Duiker (both sides)
Giraffes, Chimps and African Jungle Area
Masai Giraffe
Okapi
Chimpanzee (includes open-topped lower yard and enclosed “treehouse” viewed from back perimeter road)
Roundhouse: Coquerel’s Sifaka / Blue-eyed Black Lemur
Roundhouse: Kikuyu Guereza Colobus
Roundhouse: Mandrill
Roundhouse: Red-capped Mangabey / Buff-cheeked Gibbon
Roundhouse: Serval
Roundhouse: Ring-tailed Lemur / Radiated Tortoise
Back Perimeter Road (from okapi to Neil Papiano Play Park and tiger)
Lesser Kudu, Yellow-backed Duiker, Ostrich (x3)
Red River Hog
Chinese Goral (x2)
Western Tufted Deer
Calamian Deer
Visayan Warty Pig
Tiger/Langur Area (Northwest Zone)
Sumatran Tiger
Francois’ Langur
Tadjik Markhor
American Black Bear recently deceased, exhibit plans unclear; last Hippopotamus just shipped out, hippo and former rhino yards temporarily empty
Roundhouse: Bornean Crested Fireback / Wrinkled Hornbill / Binturong / Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
This area once had several other species, but in the absence of rhino, hippo and bear it is now home to several empty enclosures.
Old South American Area
Aldabra Tortoise
Roundhouse: Crested Caracara, Pudu / Red-legged Seriema
Roundhouse: Blue-billed Curassow, Brazilian Ocelot (L.p. mitis)
Maned Wolf
Giant Anteater
Mountain Tapir
Roundhouse (split by path): Andean Condor / Red-fronted Macaw
Mesh Enclosure: Common Squirrel Monkey
Roundhouse: Spectacled Owl / King Vulture / White-faced Saki
Roundhouse: Black Howler Monkey / Crested Capuchin / Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey
Rainforest of the Americas
Harpy Eagle (viewed from above complex, by the first walkthrough aviary – viewing on upper giant otter pavilion currently closed due to COVID)
Jaguar
Green Aracari
Glass-fronted Herp Exhibits: Fringed Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla craspedopus) (temporarily off-exhibit) / Golden Poison Dart Frog, Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog, Blessed Poison Dart Frog (Ranitomeya benedicta), Variable Poison Dart Frog (Ranitomeya variabilis), Blue Dyeing Poison Dart Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog, (possibly seen and unsigned) Ranitomeya uakarii / Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman
Crested Oropendola, (unsigned) White-tailed Jay
Baird’s Tapir
Enclosure viewed from distance: White-faced Saki (formerly held Bald Uakari - RIP)
Black Howler Monkey, Lowland Paca
Giant Otter
Tanks at Main Otter Viewing Window (split across multiple):
Separate side tank: Caiman Lizard, Freshwater Angelfish (Pterophyllum spp), Cardinal Tetra
Tank(s) in front of otter viewing: Xingu River Stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi), Ocellate River Stingray (Potamotrygon motoro), Red-bellied Piranha, Armored Catfish (Hypostomus spp), Bucktooth Tetra, Dwarf Cichlid (Apistogramma spp), Cardinal Tetra
Asian path between tiger/langur area and Old South American area
Reeves’ Muntjac (temporarily closed)
Sarus Crane
Roundhouse: Snow Leopard
Elephants of Asia
Asian Elephant
Asian path between chimps and langurs
Sichuan Takin
Roundhouse: Steller’s Sea Eagle / Eurasian Eagle-owl (sibiricus ssp)
Roundhouse: Siamang
Roundhouse: Buff-cheeked Gibbon
LAIR
First Building
Hallway Terrariums: Boelen’s Python / Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (Phelsuma grandis) / Kaiser’s Newt (Neurergus kaiseri) / Wagler’s Pitviper / Tiger Salamander (signed as Eastern but says “California native” so maybe California) / Mexican Giant Horned Lizard / Chinese Giant Salamander (temporarily off-exhibit for routine maintenance) / Green Tree Python / Long-nosed Viper (Vipera ammodytes) / Armenian Viper / Green Vine Snake (Oxybelis fulgidus) / Mangrove Pitviper, Vampire Crab (Geosesarma tiomanicum) / Rough-scaled Python
Australasian Turtle/Fish Tank: Mary River Turtle, Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle, Fly River Turtle, Australian Lungfish, Banded Archerfish, Eastern Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida)
Tall Enclosures in Circular Room: Mertens’ Water Monitor / Ethiopian Mountain Viper / Mexican Beaded Lizard, Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake / South American Bushmaster / Mangshan Pitviper / Cape Cobra / Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica) / Magnificent Tree Frog (Litoria splendida), Boyd’s Forest Dragon / Gray’s Monitor / Western Green Mamba
Last Room: Radiated Tortoise, Common Spider Tortoise (indoor portion) / Gray’s Monitor / Banded Rock Rattlesnake, Southern Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
Breeding Lab: several young snakes that change regularly; only species not signed elsewhere was Arizona Mountain Kingsnake; other species present included Rock Rattlesnake, Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, Mangshan Pitviper, Black-tailed Horned Pitviper, and Armenian Viper
Outdoor area between buildings
Radiated Tortoise, Common Spider Tortoise (outdoor portion)
Mixed Open-topped Desert Enclosure: Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus spp), Desert Iguana, San Esteban Chuckwalla, Agassiz’s Desert Tortoise, Baja Blue Rock Lizard
Desert Building
Gray-banded Kingsnake / Red Diamond Rattlesnake, Desert Rosy Boa / California Kingsnake / Baja California Ratsnake (Bogertophis rosaliae) / San Diego Gopher Snake, Southern Pacific Rattlesnake / Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake / Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake / Sidewinder Rattlesnake / Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake / Sonoran Tarantula (Aphonopelma spp) / Black-tailed Horned Pitviper (Mixcoatlus melanurus) / Saharan Horned Viper (Cerastes cerastes) / Desert Hairy Scorpion (Hadrurus obscurus) / Baja Blue Rock Lizard / Sonoran Giant Centipede / Sunburst Diving Beetle, Toe Biter (Abedus herberti) / Gila Monster, Colorado River Toad
Outdoor Pools
Indian Gharial, Painted Terrapin
Sunda Gharial
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