Here is the list of species that I saw when I was at the Minnesota Zoo in early November. As for my thoughts on the Minnesota zoo, I think this might be one of my favorites! It doesn't have the largest collection out there, but it does have a lot of interesting species that I haven't seen anywhere else! I will be going again around New Years, so I'll probably update it as needed.
Entrance Exhibits
Entrance Exhibits
- Japanese macaque
- African penguin
- Horned shark, leopard shark, bat ray, swell shark
- Sand tiger shark, crevalle jack, goliath grouper, lookdown, Florida pompano, ber jack, permit, yellow fin mojarra, longspine squirrelfish, tarpon, queen triggerfish, creole wrasse, green moray, graysby, coney, atlantic spadefish, royal gamma, queen angelfish, spot-fin porcupinefish, southern stingray, green sea turtle, Kemp's ridley sea turtle, blacktip reef shark
- Hawaiian monk seal (according to some staff there this is the only place outside of Hawaii you can see them!!)
- Smaller touch tank: Purple urchin, shiner surfperch, white-spotted anemone, bat star, short-spined sea star
- Coral reef tank (The rest of the enclosures here won't have in-depth lists. I will be sure to update them the next time I go)
- Moon jellyfish
- Weedy seadragon
- Lined seahorse, horseshoe crab
- Splendid garden eel
- Unknown shrimp species
- Radiated tortoise
- Tomato frog, Henkel's leaf-tail gecko
- Madagascar hissing cockroach
- Ring-tail lemur
- Egyptian fruit bat, straw-colored fruit bat, long-haired rousette
- West African dwarf crocodile, African cichlids
- Black and white colobus monkey, De Brazza's monkey, red river hog
- Komodo dragon
- Star tortoise, bali myna, bamboo partridge
- Giant gourami and other asian fish
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon
- Baikal teal, layson teal, silver teal, red-crested pochard, Baer's pochard, spotted whistling duck, West Indian whistling duck, Indian spot-billed duck, freckled duck, maccoa duck, garganey, falcated duck, New Zealand shoveler, white-faced whistling duck, common shelduck, lesser flamingo
- Rhinoceros hornbill
- Silver leaf-eating monkey
- Asian forest tortoise
- Malayan tapir
- Pennant Coralfish, King Angelfish, Semicircle Angelfish, Orbiculate Batfish, Emperor Angelfish, Yellow Tang, Bluering Angelfish, Regal Angelfish, Flame Angelfish, Bluegirdled Angelfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Redtail Butterflyfish, Blackback Butterflyfish, Bluecheek Butterflyfish, Saddle Butterflyfish, Atoll Butterflyfish, Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Sunset Butterflyfish, Teardrop Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Spotband Butterflyfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Pearlscale Butterflyfish, Silver Moony, Blackstriped Angelfish, Longnose Butterflyfish, Barred Spinefish, Twospined Angelfish, Copperband Butterflyfish, Foxface Rabbitfish, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Brown-and-white Butterflyfish, Twotone Tang, Russet Angelfish, Yellowface Angelfish, Millet Butterflyfish, Latticed Butterflyfish, Whitetail Dascyllus, Yellowtail Angelfish, Bicolor Angelfish, Powderblue Surgeonfish, spotted Unicornfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Orangespot Surgeonfish, Orangespot Unicornfish, Sohal Surgeonfish, Bluespot Unicornfish, Clown Triggerfish, Spotted Surgeonfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Black Triggerfish, Blackbelly Triggerfish, Yellowtail Tang, Picasso Triggerfish, Convict Surgeonfish, Wedge-tail Triggerfish, Achilles Tang, Japan Surgeonfish, Orange-lined Triggerfish, Lined Surgeonfish, White-spotted Puffer, Longspine Pufferfish, Spotted Sharpnose Puffer, Guineafowl Puffer, Whitespotted Boxfish, Longhorn Cowfish, Blackspotted Puffer, Yellow Boxfish, Milkfish, Pinecone Soldierfish, Bird Wrasse, Crown Squirrelfish, Ornamental Wrasse, Sea Goldie, Harlequin Tuskfish, Brick Soldierfish, Clown Fairy Wrasse, Bluntheaded Wrasse, Saddle Wrasse, Fivestriped Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Yellow-Brown Wrasse, Yellowtail Clownfish, Clown Anemonefish, Orange Clownfish, Black-axil Chromis, Comet, Green Chromis, Barlette’s Anthias, Whitespotted Bamboo Shark, Port Jackson Shark, Zebra Shark, Coral Catshark, Brownbanded Bamboo Shark, Epaulette Shark, Zebra Moray
- Visayan warty pig
- Red panda, Transcaspian urial
- Chinchilla
- Burmese python
- Golden-Crested Myna, Fairy Bluebird, Yellow-Throated Laughingthrush, White-Crested Laughingthrush, Grosbeak Starling, Dhyal Thrush, Malay Great Argus, Temminck’s Tragopan, Bleeding Heart Dove, Green-Winged Dove, Nicobar Pigeon, Victorian Crowned Pigeon, Black-Naped Oriole, Black-Naped Fruit Dove, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Metallic Starling, Blue-Bellied Roller, Fawn-Breasted Bowerbird
- Black-necked stilt, scarlet ibis, spur-winged plover, roseate spoonbill, sunbittern, crested oropendula, Amazonian motmot, grey-winged trumpeter, green aracari, Andean cock-of-the-rock
- Amazonian milk frog
- Red-rumped agouti, Bolivian gray titi, cotton-top tamarin
- Golden lion tamarin, Southern three-banded armadillo
- Blanding's turtle, false map turtle, northern map turtle, painted turtle, smooth softshell turtle, common snapping turtle, spiny softshell turtle, wood turtle
- Northern leopard frog, American toad, mudpuppy, painted turtle
- Western hognose snake
- American bullfrog
- Raccoon, red fox
- American beaver
- Lake sturgeon, long-nose gar, walleye, muskie, largemouth bass, northern pike, bowfin, bluegill, black crappie, brook trout, channel catfish
- American river otter
- Coyote
- Great horned owl, American porcupine (interesting mix)
- Fisher
- Pileated woodpecker, Northern cardinal, American robin, downy woodpecker, song sparrow, cedar waxwing, ruffed grouse, Baltimore oriole, rose-breasted grosbeak
- Gray wolf (not sure of the exact subspecies. Some staff members had told me they were orphaned cubs from Alaska)
- Wolverine
- Puma
- Bald eagle
- American black bear
- Canadian lynx
- Northern sea otter
- Grizzly bear
- Unknown species of trout
- Wild boar
- Amur leopard
- Amur tiger
- Sichuan takin
- American bison (website also says pronghorn, but I didn't see any)
- Prairie dog
- Asian wild horse (website says goitered gazelle, but I didn't see any)
- Bactrian camel
- Dhole
- Musk ox
- Moose
- Caribou
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