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birdsandbats

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Date of Visit: December 30 2021

Species not seen in italics

South Entry
1. Japanese Macaque
2. African Penguin
3. Southern Tamandua (off-exhibit for the season)

Tropics Trail
Madagascar
1. Radiated Tortoise
2. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
3. Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko, Sambava Tomato Frog
4. Ring-tailed Lemur

Faces of the African Forest
1. Egyptian Fruit Bat, Straw-colored Fruit Bat, Long-haired Rousette
2. West African Dwarf Crocodile, assorted African cichlids
3. Eastern Black-and-white Colobus, DeBrazza's Monkey, Red River Hog

Asia
1. Komodo Dragon
2. Star Tortoise, Bali Myna, Mountain Bamboo-Partridge, Beautiful Fruit Dove
3. Northern White-cheeked Gibbon, Lesser Flamingo, Ringed Teal
4. Giant Gourami, Roseline Shark, Rosy Barb, Banded Archerfish, Tiger Loach, Tinfoil Barb, T-Barb
5. Asian Forest Tortoise
6. Rhinoceros Hornbill
7. Silvered Leaf Langur
8. Malayan Tapir, Demoiselle Crane
9. Asian Forest Tortoise
10. Tropical Reef: Green Turtle, Picasso Triggerfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Brick Soldierfish, Pennant Coralfish, White-spotted Puffer, Emperor Angelfish, Zebra Shark, Orbicular Batfish, White-spotted Bamboo Shark, Port Jackson Shark, Powder Blue Surgeonfish, Bird Wrasse, Harlequin Tuskfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Convict Tang, Foxface Rabbitfish, Spotted Unicornfish, Coral Catshark, Brown-banded Bamboo Shark, Epaulette Shark, Zebra Moray, King Angelfish, Semicircle Angelfish, Yellow Tang, Bluering Angelfish, Regal Angelfish, Flame Angelfish, Bluegirdled Angelfish, Redtail Butterflyfish, Blackback Butterflyfish, Bluecheek Butterflyfish, Pacific Double-saddle Butterflyfish, Atoll Butterflyfish, Saddle Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Sunset Butterflyfish, Teardrop Butterflyfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Spotband Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Pearlscale Butterflyfish, Silver Moony, Blackstriped Angelfish, Twospined Angelfish, Barred Spinefoot, Longnose Butterflyfish, Copper-banded Butterflyfish, Foxface Rabbitfish, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Russet Angelfish, Twotone Tang, Brown-and-white Butterflyfish, Yellowface Angelfish, Millet Butterflyfish, Latticed Butterflyfish, Whitetail Dascyllus, Bicolor Angelfish, Orangespot Surgeonfish, Sohal Surgeonfish, Spotted Surgeonfish, Bluespine Unicornfish, Clown Triggerfish, Achillies Tang, Japan Surgeonfish, Orange-lined Triggerfish, Lined Surgeonfish, White-spotted Puffer, Long-spined Porcupinefish, Spotted Sharpnose Puffer, Longhorn Cowfish, White-spotted Boxfish, Guineafowl Puffer, Black-spotted Puffer, Yellow Boxfish, Milkfish, Pinecone Soldierfish, Ornamental Wrasse, Crown Squirrelfish, Sea Goldie, Blunt-headed Wrasse, Clown Fairy Wrasse, Brick Soldierfish, Saddle Wrasse, Five-striped Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Yellow Brown Wrasse, Yellowtail Clownfish, Orange Clownfish, Clown Anemonefish, Black-axil Chromis, Comet, Bartlette's Anthias, Blue-green Chromi
11. African Crested Porcupine
12. Transcaspian Urial
13. Linnie's Two-toed Sloth
14. Burmese Python
15. Asian Aviary (free-flight): Oriental Magpie-Robin, Crested Wood-Partridge, Mountain Bamboo-Partridge, Asian Fairy-Bluebird, Metallic Starling, Luzon Bleeding-Heart, Temminck's Tragopan, Nicobar Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, White-crested Laughingthrush, Black-necked Stilt, Pied Imperial-Pigeon, Gray-capped Emerald Dove, Grosbeak Starling, Black-naped Fruit Dove, Black-naped Oriole, Red-vented Bulbul, Chinese Hwamei, Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, White-rumped Shama, Sri Lanka Junglefowl, Madagascar Partridge, Great Argus, Golden-crested Myna, Spur-winged Lapwing, Domestic Pigeon
16. Spotted Whistling-Duck, Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (technically off-exhibit but can be seen from the aviary, probably more species present too)

The Americas
1. Roseate Spoonbill, Scarlet Ibis, Venezuelan Troupial, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Crested Oropendola, "Blue-crowned Motmot", Green Aracari, American Avocet, Sunbittern
2. Mission Golden-eyed Tree Frog
3. Bolivian Gray Titi, Red-rumped Agouti
4. Golden Lion Tamarin, Southern Three-banded Armadillo

Free-roaming Tropics Trail: House Sparrow, Baikal Teal, Silver Teal, Red-crested Pochard, Baer's Pochard, White-faced Whistling-Duck, Falcated Duck, Maccoa Duck, Indian Spot-billed Duck, Spotted Whistling-Duck, West Indian Whistling-Duck, Freckled Duck, Garganey, New Zealand Shoveler, White-cheeked Pintail, Hooded Merganser, Common Shelduck, unidentified corvid (I was once told these were treepies but they don't look like any of the treepie species - they have a long tail and white on top of and underneath their wings)

Minnesota Trail
1. American Bullfrog
2. American Toad
3. Northern Leopard Frog, Common Mudpuppy, American Toad
4. Striped Skunk, Virginia Opossum (rotated)
5. American Beaver
6. Lake Sturgeon, Longnose Gar, Walleye, Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bowfin, Bluegill, Black Crappie, Brook Trout, Channel Catfish
7. North American River Otter
8. Coyote
9. North American Porcupine, Great Horned Owl
10. Fisher
11. Gray Wolf
12. Great Horned Owl, Red Fox
13. Wolverine
14. Cougar
15. Bald Eagle (temporarily off-exhibit)
16. Canada Lynx
17. American Black Bear

Russia's Grizzly Coast
1. Sea Otter
2. Grizzly Bear
3. Wild Boar
4. Amur Leopard
5. Amur Leopard
6. Amur Leopard
7. Amur Tiger

Northern Trail
1. Takin
2. American Bison (pure)
3. Black-tailed Prairie Dog
4. Pronghorn
5. Domestic Bactrian Camel
6. Przewalski's Wild Horse
7. Dhole
8. Przewalski's Wild Horse
9. Moose
10. Woodland Caribou
11. Amur Tiger

Mussel Cabin
1. Mucket, Fatmucket, Higgin's Eye Pearly Mussel

Discovery Bay
1. Shark Reef: Sand Tiger Shark, Southern Stingray, Whitetip Reef Shark, Blacktip Reef Shark, Green Turtle, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, Queen Angelfish, Sergeant-Major, Bicolor Damselfish, Beaugregory, Yellowtail Damselfish, French Angelfish, Horse-eye Jack, Lookdown, Permit, Yellow-fin Mojarra, Florida Pompano, Bar Jack, Squirrelfish, Tarpon, Creole Wrasse, Queen Triggerfsh, Longspine Squirrelfish, Green Moray, Coney, Royal Gramma, Atlantic Spadefish, Atlantic Goliath Grouper, Graysby, Neon Goby, French Grunt, Blue-striped Grunt, Crevalle Jack, White Grunt, Porkfish
2. Hawaiian Monk Seal
3. Touch Pool: Horn Shark, Leopard Shark, Bat Ray, Swell Shark
4. Tide Pool: Shiner Surfperch, White-spotted Rose Anemone, Bat Star, Short-spined Sea Star, Green Anemone, Red Sea Urchin, Purple Sea Urchin, Club-tipped Anemone, Fish-eating Anemone, Giant Green Anemone, Ochre Star, Painted Anemone, Painted Greenling
5. Blue Dot Jawfish, unidentified tang, Copper-banded Butterflyfish, Foxface, Purple Tang, Longnose Hawkfish, unidentified snail, Lawnmower Blenny, Mandarin Dragonet, assorted corals and anemones
6. unidentified clownfish, assorted corals
7. Zebra Shark, Blue-green Chromis
8. Leafy Sea Dragon, Weedy Sea Dragon, unidentified crab
9. Lined Seahorse, unidentified clownfish, unidentified hermit crab
10. Spotted Garden Eel, Banded Coral Shrimp, Splendid Garden Eel, Sea Goldie, Purple Firefish, Pajama Cardinalfish, Red-leg Hermit Crab, Blue-leg Hermit Crab, unidentified pufferfish, Copper-banded Butterflyfish
11. unidentified shrimp

The following exhibits were closed for the season, therefore I cannot provide a species list for them:
-Wells Fargo Family Farm
-Butterflies
-Llama Trek
 
birdsandbats said:
unidentified shrimp
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These are a pinaeid prawn of some sort, don't know much more than that.
birdsandbats said:
Sand Tiger Shark, Southern Stingray, Whitetip Reef Shark, Blacktip Reef Shark, Green Turtle, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, Queen Angelfish, Sergeant-Major, Bicolor Damselfish, Beaugregory, Yellowtail Damselfish, French Angelfish, Horse-eye Jack, Lookdown, Permit, Yellow-fin Mojarra, Florida Pompano, Bar Jack, Squirrelfish, Tarpon, Creole Wrasse, Queen Triggerfsh, Longspine Squirrelfish, Green Moray, Coney, Royal Gramma, Atlantic Spadefish, Atlantic Goliath Grouper, Graysby, Neon Goby, French Grunt, Blue-striped Grunt, Crevalle Jack, White Grunt, Porkfish
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Willing to bet that there are some more unlabeled species here. Could be wrong though.
birdsandbats said:
Mucket, Fatmucket, Higgin's Eye Pearly Mussel
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Same question as the old thread, do these have signage claiming the species of these, Because my memory is failing me!
birdsandbats said:
Bald Eagle (temporarily off-exhibit)
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Does anyone know why?
 
Glad the Bat Rays are back! they were off exhibit for the whole pandemic, so it's great to see them return! Here are some small updates

. There Should be a pair of Gray-Capped Emerald Doves in the Aviary Across from the Komodo Dragons
. There Might still be a Gaudy Red-Throated Barbet in the Asian Aviary.
. Puna & Bahama Teals were seen in the Americas Aviary in November.
. Grey-Winged Trumpeter were seen Early last year but haven't been seen since.
. The Sea Turtle in the Tropics Trail is a Hawksbill, not Green
. The unidentified Puffer is Green-Spotted.
. Eastern Hulafish were Signed in the Sea Dragon Tank in July of last year
Spottail Goby, Link’s Goby, Yellow Prawn-Goby, Neon Goby, & Horseshoe Crab were all signed in the Seahorse exhibit last July.
 
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birdsandbats said:
unidentified corvid (I was once told these were treepies but they don't look like any of the treepie species - they have a long tail and white on top of and underneath their wings)
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These are Magpie Shrike. Should also be White-cheeked Turaco free-ranging in Tropics.

There are also some additional fish species on exhibit, but the only notable one is Fiddler Ray in the Tropical Reef.
 
CheeseChameleon1945 said:
These are a pinaeid prawn of some sort, don't know much more than that.

Willing to bet that there are some more unlabeled species here. Could be wrong though.

Same question as the old thread, do these have signage claiming the species of these, Because my memory is failing me!

Does anyone know why?
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These's no signage for the mussels (although there used to be), the species list came from the zoo's website.
Dhole dude said:
Glad the Bat Rays are back! they were off exhibit for the whole pandemic, so it's great to see them return! Here are some small updates

. There Should be a pair of Gray-Capped Emerald Doves in the Aviary Across from the Komodo Dragons
. There Might still be a Gaudy Red-Throated Barbet in the Asian Aviary.
. Puna & Bahama Teals were seen in the Americas Aviary in November.
. Grey-Winged Trumpeter were seen Early last year but haven't been seen since.
. The Sea Turtle in the Tropics Trail is a Hawksbill, not Green
. The unidentified Puffer is Green-Spotted.
. Eastern Hulafish were Signed in the Sea Dragon Tank in July of last year
Spottail Goby, Link’s Goby, Yellow Prawn-Goby, Neon Goby, & Horseshoe Crab were all signed in the Seahorse exhibit last July.
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Thanks for the turtle correction and puffer ID. As for all of the other animals you mention, I don't think any of them were present, except for perhaps the barbet.
EsserWarrior said:
Do you recall how many individual dholes were on exhibit?
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I saw two or three, it was hard to tell since they were curled up.
Gondwana said:
These are Magpie Shrike. Should also be White-cheeked Turaco free-ranging in Tropics.

There are also some additional fish species on exhibit, but the only notable one is Fiddler Ray in the Tropical Reef.
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Thanks!
 
birdsandbats said:
Thanks for the turtle correction and puffer ID. As for all of the other animals you mention, I don't think any of them were present, except for perhaps the barbet
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The Teals (From personal experience) Spend most of their time off-exhibit. I hadn't seen them in a while until my last visit. I suspect they are still at the zoo, just not on-exhibit when you visited. Not sure about the fish, but I suspect they are also either rotated or off-exhibit some of the time.
 
Gondwana said:
These are Magpie Shrike. Should also be White-cheeked Turaco free-ranging in Tropics.

There are also some additional fish species on exhibit, but the only notable one is Fiddler Ray in the Tropical Reef.
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Minnesota Zoo history questions for you.

Did the Minnesota Zoo have a colony of some kind of weasel species on the original Minnesota Trail? I vaguely remember reading that somewhere.
 
Dhole dude said:
They had Ermine and Long-Tailed Weasel at different points in time depending on availability.
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Just to expand a little, the weasel exhibit itself was a smallish glass-fronted exhibit with a rocky backdrop in the diurnal indoor portion of the pre-renovation Minnesota Trail. The usual species held was ermine, typically with several individuals that were rotated. Overall the exhibit was a bit of a mixed bag. The ermine on exhibit was usually active and entertaining, and seasonal color change was cool, but it took probably two seconds for an animal to traverse the entire enclosure.
 
I can imagine why the zoo would have phased them out, weasels have an estremely short lifespan and are not always the most attractive things for the common zoo visitors, also the exhibit doesn't seem that great according to @Gondwana's post.
 
birdsandbats said:
I saw two or three, it was hard to tell since they were curled up.
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Three individuals correlate well with my list. I doubt that Minnesota will bring in more dholes after their current three are gone. There isn't much genetic diversity left in the population. Bronx, Minnesota, and San Diego all have related individuals. All of Miami's dholes are elderly. The Wilds has several individuals but they're all related to each other.
 
EsserWarrior said:
Three individuals correlate well with my list. I doubt that Minnesota will bring in more dholes after their current three are gone. There isn't much genetic diversity left in the population. Bronx, Minnesota, and San Diego all have related individuals. All of Miami's dholes are elderly. The Wilds has several individuals but they're all related to each other.
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I wouldn’t count on it. San Diego has plenty of Dholes to spare, and I can’t think of anything that could replace them. Bit of a waist seeing as they’ve only been here 10 years, but the zoo seems to have Dholes in their long-term plans, so I think it’ll be awhile before Minnesota goes out of Dholes (but it’s hard to say at this time)
 
Dhole dude said:
I wouldn’t count on it. San Diego has plenty of Dholes to spare, and I can’t think of anything that could replace them. Bit of a waist seeing as they’ve only been here 10 years, but the zoo seems to have Dholes in their long-term plans, so I think it’ll be awhile before Minnesota goes out of Dholes (but it’s hard to say at this time)
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It is one thing to keep housing them, but they don't have an extremely long lifespan and the United States' gene-pool is running dry. Do you think that they could import individuals from Europe/Asia?
 
CheeseChameleon1945 said:
These are a pinaeid prawn of some sort, don't know much more than that.

Willing to bet that there are some more unlabeled species here. Could be wrong though.

Same question as the old thread, do these have signage claiming the species of these, Because my memory is failing me!

Does anyone know why?
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A sign said the eagle was off-exhibit due to the cold weather. They can usually handle cold weather pretty well though, and it wasn't that cold while I was there (around 10 degrees Fahrenheit) so I don't know, perhaps there was a different reason.
 
EsserWarrior said:
It is one thing to keep housing them, but they don't have an extremely long lifespan and the United States' gene-pool is running dry. Do you think that they could import individuals from Europe/Asia?
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The Population is in desperate need of new blood, so any imports from Europe/Asia would be necessary to keep the population going.
 
Dhole dude said:
The Population is in desperate need of new blood, so any imports from Europe/Asia would be necessary to keep the population going.
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It'll have to be The Wilds or San Diego importing new individuals, as they have the most room and would - most likely - have more financial resources to import.
 
EsserWarrior said:
It'll have to be The Wilds or San Diego importing new individuals, as they have the most room and would - most likely - have more financial resources to import.
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Minnesota doesn’t even have the money to bring in new animals in general, let alone bring in anything from outside the country! I doubt Minnesota will directly import any new Dholes, but San Diego & The Wilds could likely import new blood (if they so please) but I don’t think Minnesota will be importing anything for a long time.
 
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