Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden New Species List

Moebelle

Moebelle

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Cincinnati Zoo Full Species List as of November 11, 2015

Red represents a completely new species to the zoo. Some highlighted species may not be considered new in 2015, but if it came to the zoo after to October 2013, then it will be considered new for the list. If it is green, then this means it is an already displayed species that has been moved within the same attraction or completely moved to a different area in the zoo. Orange represents a returning species that the zoo once displayed. Species highlighted in blue were involved in having some sort of birth. Red and Blue represents a new species AND zoo baby. Orange and Blue represents a returning species and a zoo baby. "/" represents species that rotate. As you can see, I added a 'Rare' list in response to Harapan's newfound absence to show that he isn't the only rare animal in the park and some of the species can only be found at this zoo. The zoo is expecting two new species, however, they will not be on display until next year. The next species list will be in 2017.

Wildlife Canyon - 1989 - Once consisted of 11 exhibits that held bison, fallow deer, yaks, and more
1. Capybara, Southern Screamer
2. Visayan Warty Pig
3. Sichuan Takin
4. Przewalski's Horse
5. Bactrian Camel
6. Emu

Eagle Eyrie - 1970 - Opened as the country's largest aviary
1. Andean Condor
2. Steller's Sea Eagle

Reptile House - 1951 - North America's oldest zoo building
1. Gaboon Viper
2. Blue Tree Monitor
3. Green Tree Python
4. Tropical Racer
5. Dumeril's Ground Boa
6. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
7. Black-tailed Cribo
8. Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
9. Rhinoceros Viper
10. Puff Adder
11. Kwangtang River Turtle
12. Northern Copperhead
13. California King Snake
14. Black Rat Snake
15. Pueblan Milk Snake
16. Pancake Tortoise
17. King Cobra
18. Yucatan Neotropical Rattlesnake, Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard
19. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
20. Angolan Python
21. Beaded Lizard
22. Eyelash Viper
23. Timber Rattlesnake
24. Yellow-tailed Cribo
25. Everglades Rat Snake
26. Amazon Milk Frog
27. Eastern Newt, Long-tailed Salamander, Cave Salamander
28. Spotted Salamander
29. Ornate Monitor
30. Chinese Alligator, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Florida Snapping Turtle
31. Galapagaos Tortoise
32. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo/Salmon-crested Cockatoo

Monkey Island - 1930 - Formerly contained blue sheep along with a sea lion mixed in with the monkeys
1. Japanese Macaque

Cat Canyon - 2012 - This area once consisted of the country's largest big cat collection
1. Cougar
2. White Tiger/Malayan Tiger (2 Exhibits)
3. Snow Leopard

Night Hunters - 2011 - This is the zoo's former Cat House that once presented the world's largest collection of small cats
1. Spectacled Owl
2. Pallas' Cat
3. Fossa
4. Aardwolf
5. Clouded Leopard
6. Common Vampire Bat
7. Banded Palm Civet
8. Potto
9. Aardvark, Garnett's Galago, Indian Flying Fox
10. Ocelot
11. Burmese Python
12. Black-footed Cat
13. Arabian Sand Cat
14. Caracal
15. Bearcat
16. Large-spotted Genet
17. Bat-eared Fox
18. Fennec Fox
19. Fishing Cat
20. Bobcat
21. Eurasian Eagle Owl

Gorilla World - 1978 - Opened as the country's first barless gorilla exhibit
1. Western Lowland Gorilla
2. Eastern Black-and-white Colobus
3. Grey's Crowned Guenon

World of the Insect - 1978 - Received an AZA Best Exhibit Award along with four other awards for the breeding of rare invertebrates
1. Green Leaf Cockroach
2. Carolina Mantis
3. Brown Recluse Spider
4. Amazon Millipede
5. Blue Death Feigning Beetle
6. Togo Starburst Tarantula
7. Emerald Beetle
8. Zophabas Darkling Beetle
9. Giant Cockroach
10. Giant Jumping Stick
11. Cave Whip Spider
12. Red-eyed Assassin Bug
13. Magnificent Flower Beetle
14. Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
15. Emperor Scorpion
16. Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
17. Thorny Devil Stick Insect
18. Tin Foil Beetle
19. Mexican Red-knee Tarantula
20. Flat Rock Scorpion
21. Domino Beetle
22. Blue Spiny Lizard, Chuckwalla
23. Texas Bullet Ant
24. Giant African Millipede
25. Thorny Devil Stick Insect
26. Indian Ornamental Tarantula
27. Giant Spiny Leaf Insect
28. Sunburst Diving Beetle
29. Black Tree Monitor
30. Rough Green Snake
31. Golden Poison Dart Frog
32. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
33. Fire-bellied Newt
34. Micronesian Kingfisher
35. Crayfish
36. Giant Water Bug
37. Common Diving Beetle
38. Water Scorpion
39. Marbled Crayfish
39. Naked Mole Rat
40. White-eyed Assassin Bug
41. Yellow-bellied Beetle
42. Taxi-cab Beetle
43. Green Leaf Katydid
44. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
45. Giant Walking Stick
46. Salmon Brazilian Birdeater
47. Grey Bird Grasshopper
49. Leaf Cutter Ant
50. Big-headed Ant
51. African Helmeted Turtle, African Pygmy Goose, Jambu Fruit Dove, White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Spangled Cotinga, Passion Flower Butterfly

Lemur Lookout - C. 1999 - Once contained baboons and later ibexes
1. Ring-tailed Lemur

Dragons! - 2010 - This building once displayed the only giant panda the zoo ever had
1. Ackie Dwarf Monitor
2. Green Tree Monitor
3. Quince Monitor
4. Crocodile Monitor
5. Komodo Dragon

Manatee Springs - 1999 - Before Manatee Springs, this area was once home to the city's main, and only aquarium attraction
1. American Alligator
2. Mississippi Map Turtle, Mosquitofish, Western Pond Turtle, Florida Cooter, Barbour's Map Turtle
3. American Crocodile
4. Baltimore Oriole
5. Land Hermit Crab
6. Green Baskilisk, Knight Anole
7. Green Tree Frog, Brown Anole
8. Florida Manatee, Spotted Gar, Redear Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Alligator Gar, Channel Catfish, Longnose Gar, Florida Gar
9. Azuerus Cichlid, Red-bellied Piranha, Nile Tilapia
10. Florida Pine Snake
11. Two-toed Amphiuma
12. Grey Rat Snake (Not new to Manatee Springs/Previously held in diamondback exhibit)
13. Cane Toad
14. Greater Siren
15. Loggerhead Musk Turtle, Western Mosquitofish
16. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Yellow Rat Snake, Corn Snake

White Lions of Timbavati - 1998 - Two males from the original pride passed away at the end of 2014 and in April of 2015. The zoo is left with two females.
1. Southeast African Lion

Rhino Reserve - 1997 - Once exhibited Nikki, the first Indian Rhinoceros to be conceived by artificial insemination
1. Eastern Black Rhinoceros
2. Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker
3. Eastern Bongo
4. Greater Flamingo
5. Grevy's Zebra
6. Indian Rhinoceros
7. Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Jungle Trails - 1993 - Received an AZA Best Exhibit Award
1. Mueller's Gibbon
2. Red-tailed Cockatoo, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
3. Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed Gibbon
4. Pygmy Slow Loris
5. Large Spotted Genet
6. Feather Tail Glider
7. Gibbon/Orangutan Indoor
8. Lion-tailed Macaque
9. Saddle-billed Stork
10. Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
11. Bonobo
12. Helmeted Currasow, Scarlet Macaw
13. Coquerel's Sifaka (Angolan Colobus for Colder Weather)
14. Potto
15. Garnett's Galago
16. Grey Bamboo Lemur, Potto
17. Crested Coua, Spur-winged Lapwing, Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Congo Peafowl, Hammerkop
18. Emperor Scorpion
19. Bonobo
20. Aye-Aye
21. Dumeril's Ground Boa

Lords of the Arctic - 2000 and Bear Hill - 1937 - The bear exhibits were designed so that direct heat from the sunlight cannot hit the exhibits
1. Arctic Fox
2. Polar Bear
3. American Black Bear
4. Spectacled Bear

Wings of the World - 1996 - Originally opened as the zoo's first Reptile House from 1937 to 1950
1. Scarlet Macaw
2. Northern Yellow-billed Hornbill
3. South America: Southern Lapwing, Blue-grey Tanager, Cattle Egret, Peruvian Pigeon, Sunbittern, Boat-billed Heron, Red-capped Cardinal, Saffron Finch, Scarlet Ibis, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Golden Conure, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Guira Cuckoo, Mata-Mata, Tri-colored Heron, Laysan Teal
4. Pesquett's Parrot
5. Bali Mynah
6. Australasia: Rhinoceros Hornbill, Black-collared Fruit Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Masked Lapwing, Collared Finch-billed Bulbul, White-cheeked Bulbul, White-breasted Woodswallow, Nicobar Pigeon, White-rumped Shama, Red-flanked Lorikeet, Guam Rail, Indian Flying Fox, Chestnut Teal, White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Olive-headed Lorikeet, Bourke's Parakeet
7. Montane: Thick-billed Parrot, Masked Bobwhite
8. Grasslands: Lady Ross's Turaco, Violet-backed Starling, Magpie Shrike, Buff-crested Bustard
9. Chick Nursery: Spur-winged Lapwing, Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, Northern Red-bellied Cooter
10. Yellow-fronted Canary, Southern Red Bishop
11. Red-chested Finch, Gouldian Finch
12. White-breasted Ground Dove
13. Arctic Islands: Smew, Spectacled Eider, Pigeon Guillemot
14. Arctic Sea Cliffs: Horned Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Harlequin Duck, Common Murre
15. Sub-Antarctic Coast: King Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Magellanic Penugin, Chiloe Wigeon, Black-faced Ibis, Incan Tern

Kea Encounter - 1962 - Displayed the largest flock of keas outside of New Zealand
1. Kea, Magpie Goose, Cape Barren Goose

Wolf Woods - 2005 - In close proximity to the current sea lion exhibit is where the first ever captive sea lion birth took place
1. California Sea Lion
2. Grey Fox
3. North American River Otter
4. Mexican Wolf
5. Barred Owl

Children's Zoo - 1985 - 2008 Renovation - The zoo's original Children's Zoo dates back to 1938 and has been continued ever since
1. African Penguin
2. Little Penguin
3. Aardvark (Temporarily taken off display/Same species also held in Night Hunters)
4. Bearcat
5. Gopher Tortoise, Red-footed Tortoise, Radiated Tortoise
6. Southern Brazilian Armadillo/Eastern Box Turtle
7. Nigerian Dwarf Goat
8. Domestic Chicken
9. Miniature Julian Pig (Show only)
10. Miniature Donkey (Walks on zoo grounds only)
11. Alpaca, Llama (Walks on zoo grounds only)

Gibbon Islands - 1974 and Red Pandas - 1985 - The manmade lake the gibbon islands are settled on was once the site of the zoo's former Cincinnati Zoo Summer Opera that was continued for over 50 years
1. Siamang
2. Buff-cheeked Gibbon
3. Red Panda

Africa - 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2016 - This is the zoo's single largest attraction of all time, just overtopping at 8 acres large. The last phase for the exhibit will be finalized in 2016 where hippos will once again call the zoo their home.
1. Masai Giraffe
2. Greater Flamingo
3. Cheetah
4. Southeast African Lion
5. Cheetah, Red River Hog, Serval
6. Lesser Kudu, Thomson's Gazelle, Ostrich, Saddle-billed Stork, Ruppell's Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, Kenya Crested Guineafowl, Ruddy Shelduck, Impala, Pink-backed Pelican, East African Crowned Crane
7. Meerkat
8. African Painted Dog

Elephant Reserve - 2001 - Despite the zoo's high success rate in breeding endangered species, there has only been one elephant birth at the zoo in its history
1. Indian Elephant/Sumatran Elephant
2. Sumatran Elephant Bull

Discovery Forest - 2006 - When this atrium was added to the Frisch's Discovery Center, it originally contained a free flying Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
1. Blue-and-gold Macaw X Green-winged Macaw Hybrid
2. Boa Constrictor
3. Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth

Taken Off Display, Transferred, or Passed Since 2013
1. Sumatran Rhinoceros
2. Francois' Langur
3. Homing Pigeon
4. Bennett's Wallaby, Parma Wallaby
5. Alligator Snapping Turtle
6. Black-casqued Hornbill (Transferred because they were never comfortable in their habitat)
7. Lesser Adjutant Stork
8. Laughing Kookaburra
9. Florida Sandhill Crane
10. Jameson's Mamba
11. Cat-eyed Snake
12. Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake
13. African Fat-tailed Gecko
14. Thai Red Mountain Rat Snake
15. Southern Copperhead
16. Yellow-bellied Slider
17. Hyacinth Macaw (Can still be seen in bird show)
18. Opal-rumped Tanager
19. Elegant Crested Tinamou
20. Paradise Tanager
21. Red Shoveler
22. Ornate Fruit Dove
23. Black-winged Red Bishop
24. Blue-naped Mousebird
25. Golden-breasted Starling
26. Hawk-headed Parrot
27. Northern Carmine Bee-eater
28. Double-crested Cormorant
29. Blue-breasted Kingfisher
30. Ruddy Duck (Can still be seen in Swan Lake)
31. Vinegaroon
32. Goliath Birdeater
33. Vietnamese Centipede
34. Desert Hairy Scirpion
35. Honey Ant
36. Water Strider
37. Blue Ground Dove
38. Scarlet-chested Parrot
39. American Burring Beetle
40. Parrot Snake
41. Terciopelo

Rare or Semi-Rare Species that Remain at the Zoo
1. Yucatan Neotropical Rattlesnake
2. Red-tailed Contia
3. Eastern Newt
4. Malayan Tiger
5. Aardwolf
6. Banded Palm Civet
7. Grey's Crowned Guenon
8. Blue Tree Monitor
9. Garnett's Greater Bushbaby
10. Micronesian Kingfisher
11. Jambu Fruit Dove
12. Spangled Cotinga
13. Quince Monitor
14. American Crocodile
15. Florida Manatee
16. Two-toed Amphiuma
17. Greater Siren
18. Yellow Rat Snake
19. Mueller's Grey Gibbon
20. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
21. Large-spotted Genet
22. Bonobo
23. Potto
24. Grey Bamboo Lemur
25. Crested Coua
26. Spur-winged Lapwing
27. Congo Peafowl
28. Aye-Aye
29. Southern Lapwing
30. Sumatran Elephant
31. Steller's Sea Eagle
 
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Thanks so much for this, Moebelle. Always love to see your comprehensive species lists.

Just a few questions:

1) You list Andean Cock-of-the-Rock as a new species. I remember that cock-of-the-rock used to be exhibited in the butterfly aviary of World of the Insect (within the last ten years or so), so that species might be better listed as orange.

2) I thought the tayra was removed from exhibit and replaced with the large-spotted genet in Night Hunters. While you don't list tayra elsewhere, they are included in the rare listing.

3) What ever happened to the zoo's once great collection of alcids? The arctic islands exhibit used to be a favorite but is now sadly underpopulated with the loss of the auklets that used to reside there.

While the list of rare (in zoos) species is still impressive, I can remember well when that list included cacomistle, bharal, zebra duiker, the aforementioned auklets, rusty-spotted and marbled cats, and more (sadly the sumatran rhino has of course joined that list).
 
jibster said:
Thanks so much for this, Moebelle. Always love to see your comprehensive species lists.

Just a few questions:

1) You list Andean Cock-of-the-Rock as a new species. I remember that cock-of-the-rock used to be exhibited in the butterfly aviary of World of the Insect (within the last ten years or so), so that species might be better listed as orange.

2) I thought the tayra was removed from exhibit and replaced with the large-spotted genet in Night Hunters. While you don't list tayra elsewhere, they are included in the rare listing.

3) What ever happened to the zoo's once great collection of alcids? The arctic islands exhibit used to be a favorite but is now sadly underpopulated with the loss of the auklets that used to reside there.

While the list of rare (in zoos) species is still impressive, I can remember well when that list included cacomistle, bharal, zebra duiker, the aforementioned auklets, rusty-spotted and marbled cats, and more (sadly the sumatran rhino has of course joined that list).
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Thank you for the corrections:) The reason why the tayra is still on the list is only because I made changes to the animal listing and the rare species list back and forth for two months and it must've easily slipped past my mind. As for the auklets, I am just as upset as anyone who enjoys seeing them because of their rarity, especially because two of them could only be found in Cincinnati. I don't know what happened to them but all I can say is that Arctic Islands exhibit no longer appears "diverse and colorful". It only contains 5 total birds.
 
Great job Moebelle ! A very impressive list and it must be a lot of work to make it !
Of the animals not any longer on display I would ask you about 2 in special :
What happened with the Francois' Langur(s) ?
What happened with the Lesser Adjutant stork(s) ?
 
vogelcommando said:
Great job Moebelle ! A very impressive list and it must be a lot of work to make it !
Of the animals not any longer on display I would ask you about 2 in special :
What happened with the Francois' Langur(s) ?
What happened with the Lesser Adjutant stork(s) ?
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I honestly couldn't tell you other than the fact that I know that they were transferred to other institutions. However, I do know the real reason why some species are now being replaced in jungle trails. The new head bird ambassador for the zoo, when she started, she saw many small birds ranging from common to rare that where left off exhibit and wanted them to be seen by the public. The Langurs are being replaced by a species that the zoo wanted to exhibit for over a year now and the exhibit is perfectly adequate for them. As for the storks however, well... that's one of the two only outdoor aviaries where other birds could've been kept.
 
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Cincinnati Zoo Full Species List 2017

Reminder
New Species since November 2015 = Red
Returning Species that was Taken Off Display = Orange
Already displayed Animal new to the Attraction = Green
Animal involved with Offspring = Blue


Wildlife Canyon

Two medium sized paddocks shaded with very large canopy structures originally built for Sumatran Rhinos.
1. Warthog
2. Capybara , Crested Screamer

Small slightly narrow paddock fenced in with rock, thick mesh, and heavy vegetation
Visayan Warty Pig

Medium sized square shaped paddocks fenced with chainlinks and concrete.
Sichuan Takin

Three identical yards recently combined to become one
Przewalski's Horse, Bactrian Camel

Small sized shaded habitat located at the end of the path
Emu

If you enter Wildlife Canyon from the left side, you are lead down a slope, if you continue down the path at the bottom of the canyon to the emu exhibit, there lies steps that take you up to the next exhibit:


Eagle Eyrie

Two large combined 100ft long, 25 wide, and approx 50 ft tall aviaries with full unobstructed viewing below the canyon that it sits on, and also includes viewing within a hut in each cage that overlooks the entire canyon.
1. Steller's Sea Eagle
2. Andean Condor

Once you exit the condor cage and take a left you'll immediately see the country's oldest in-use zoo building:


Reptile House

Small outdoor island place in front of the building surrounded by water and with a well organized bed of colorful plants
Salmon-crested Cockatoo

Entering into the building from the left* Almost all of the animal exhibits are placed along the wall that creates one uninterrupted circle. Starting to the right:

Tall exhibit, first of four corner exhibits that appears to be naturally built into the wall
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Newly constructed, larger terrarium
Lace Monitor

One small exhibit above with a larger boxed terrarium below
1. California Kingsnake
2. Gaboon Viper

Three small exhibits on top with two boxed exhibits below, all connected in one space
Top:
1. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
2. Yellow Pond Turtle
3. Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog
Bottom:
1. Black Ratsnake
2. Yellow-tailed Cribo

One small terrarium above with boxed exhibit below
1. Everglades Rat Snake
2. Northern Copperhead

Four rectangle shaped terrariums placed on the wall to make a square
1. Florida Pine Snake
2. Corn Snake
3. Black Kingsnake
4. Pancake Tortoise

Second tall corner - temple themed exhibit
King Cobra

Similar across the next corner
Empty - under construction

Three terrariums, two on top, and one on the bottom. The bottom exhibit is longer
1. Black-tailed Cribo
2. Angolan Python
3. Indian Star Tortoise

One small terrarium on the top, box on the bottom
1. Eyelash Viper
2. Timber Rattlesnake

Natural looking exhibit, the largest wall exhibit in the building
Terciopelo

Medium sized box exhibit - recently constructed to look more natural
Green Tree Python

Semi large aquatic tank
Eastern Hellbender

Tall corner exhibit by the first entrance, completing the loop
Ornate Monitor

Small ditch exhibit located at the very center of the building
Chinese Alligator

Small outdoor yard located at the back of the building. It is also a walkthrough exhibit at scheduled times
Galapagos Tortoise


Monkey Island
One medium sized rocky exhibit fenced in completely with water
Japanese Macaque

If you continue down the main path you'll be met with a sign that says "Cat Canyon", however, guests are first met with the nocturnal building called:

Night Hunters

One small floor to ceiling exhibit
Spectacled Owl

Two semi small rocky habitats down the first hall
1. Pallas' Cat
2. Fossa

Next Hallway

First large exhibit (two viewings)
Aardwolf

Second large exhibit (three viewings)
Clouded Leopard

Two small adjacent, triangle shaped exhibits with glass as the back wall. Giving a look into the next exhibit
1. Screaming Hairy Armadillo (Looks into clouded leopard exhibit)
2. Potto (looks into aardvark exhibit)

Semi large, narrow exhibit with two parts, a cave, and a forest habitat
Common Vampire Bat

Third large exhibit (three viewings, including a den)
Aardvark
Indian Flying Fox
Garnett's Galago

Fourth and final large exhibit (also three viewings)
Southern Brazilian Ocelot

Small triangle shaped exhibit located in a corner
Everglades Rat Snake

Two medium sized habitats at the end of the second hall
1. Black-footed Cat
2. Arabian Sand Cat

Start of the rotunda and the final section of the building. In order:
1. Caracal
2. Bearcat
3. Large-spotted Genet
4. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
5. Fennec Fox
6. Fishing Cat
7. Bobcat

After you go into a circle in the rotunda you are then led outside to the same place you entered - you have the option of taking a left to go through:


Cat Canyon

Medium sized meshed exhibit with up-close glass viewing
Cougar

After viewing the cougars, there is a small trail behind you that leads down into a decline and eventually under a rocky arch that starts the main section of Cat Canyon

Semi large exhibit with two viewings that completely overlooks the habitat
White Tiger

After the second viewing of the white tigers you are lead down to the bottom of the canyon

Semi large exhibit with up-close glass viewing
Malayan Tiger

You must go up the same path you came down but continue to go as straight as possible to a new one

Semi large, narrow, mesh topped exhibit with up-close fence and glass viewings
Snow Leopard

You exit on boardwalk and are led back to the main path. At that point, continue down and you'll look to your left and notice people entering and coming out from underneath an arch. This is:


Gorilla World

Two some what small but tall cages, that combines as one through a small door. The first exhibit is small and square based. The second is larger and is shaped like a semi circle - the ground is visible and goes a few feet beneath the guest path.
Eastern Black-and-white Colobus (Two births)

Medium sized rainforest exhibit completed with a waterfall, a running stream, and a very deep and wide moat fenced in with mock rock. Guests can view the animals from the entire front length of the exhibit
Western Lowland Gorilla

Down to the right is a brand new indoor gorilla habitat. The guest viewing is located outside but it still shaded by a low canopy. The viewing windows extends the entire length of the habitat.

Guests are exited near the entrance of Night Hunters and Cat Canyon

Continuing down the path, the grounds noticeably at this point become a decline. Almost immediately after exiting Gorilla World, you can see to your right a:

Small angled cage that is connected to the Night Hunters building
Eurasian Eagle Owl

Across from this is a small but unusual looking building that represents one of the six bird original bird houses that settled at the zoo many years ago. This is the Passenger Memorial Building, a small museum commemorating the last living passenger pigeon, and the last Carolina parakeet that both died at the zoo.

Continue down the path again and not too far down you'll notice a small building with an entrance parallel with the path (so it's somewhat hidden). This building is the award winning:


World of the Insect

First Room: What is an Insect?

Seven very small cubed tanks coming out of the wall
1. Green Leaf Cockroach
2. Chinese Mantis
3. Brown Recluse Spider
4. Desert Rainworm
5. Blue Death Feigning Beetle
6. Antilles Tree Spider
7. Zebra Bug
8. Green June Beetle

Three medium sized, rectangle shaped terrariums located across the next wall. The second is quite large
1. Giant African Millipede
2. Taxicab Beetle, Magnificent Flower Beetle, Emerald Beetle, Yellow-bellied Beetle, Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
3. Cave Whip Spider

Second Room/Hallway: Success of the Insect

Two rectangle shaped terrariums coming out of the wall
1. Mexican Redknee Taranutla
2. Red-eyed Assassin Bug

Next wall

Medium sized, and taller square shaped exhibit
Thorny Devil

Small rectangle shaped exhibit that's see through from the other side
Magnificent Flower Beetle

Same Hallway/Opposite Wall/Third Section: What Insects Eat

Rectangle terrarium
Emperor Scorpion

Medium sized, square shaped exhibit
Yellow-bellied Beetle

Four small cubed exhibits coming out of the wall
1. Domino Roach
2. Zophobas Darkling Beetle
3. Carolina Mantis
4. Tin Foil Beetle

Two semi large terrariums completely settled out of the wall (placed on a pedestal) interconnected with a traveling tube
Texas Bullet Ant

Second Room/New Wall/ Fourth Section: Insects as Food

Semi large exhibit that looks naturally built into the wall
Chuckwalla

Medium sized, very narrow built in wall exhibit
Black Tree Monitor

Elevated box shaped exhibit coming out of the wall
Madagascar Giant Day Decko

Small rectangle based tank
Ornate Horned Frog

Medium sized, square shaped exhibit
Rough Green Snake

Small rectangle based tank
Fire-bellied Newt

Medium sized exhibit built deep in the wall. Just recently it was renovated and the space was filled up with two box terrariums
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

Same Room/Opposite Wall/Fifth section: Defense and Escape

Second half of the see through exhibit
Taxi-cab Beetle

Tall, skinny but small terrarium coming out of the wall
Indian Ornamental Tarantula

Semi large rectangle exhibit
Giant Spiny Leaf Insect

Tall, 360 degree view floor exhibit placed in the center of the room
Giant Jumping Stick

Third Room/Hallway/Sixth Section: Insects in Water

Five small tanks that come out of the wall
1. Marbled Crayfish
2. Giant Water Bug
3. Common Diving Beetle, Sunburst Diving Beetle
4. Water Scorpion
5. Water Strider

Large wall exhibit filled with tubes and dozens of dens
Naked Mole Rat

Same Room/Opposite Wall/Seventh Section: From Egg to Adult

Two identical rectangular tanks
1. White-eyed Assassin Bug
2. Emerald Beetle

Fourth Room/Eighth Section: Insect Lifestyles

Three medium sized, square tanks on one wall
1. Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
2. Giant Cockroach
3. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

Opposite Wall

Small rectangular tank
Salmon Brazilian Bird-eater

Two medium sized square tanks
1. Grey Bird Grasshopper
2. Rhinoceros Katydid

Tall, large, 360 degree viewable tank in the center of the room
Giant Walking Stick

Two, very large tanks interconnected by a 25ft tube that travels through a long hallway
Leaf-cutter Ant

Large wall tank with viewable underground burrows
Big-headed Ant

Separate walk-through atrium: Butterfly Aviary
It is very humid and feels like a rainforest environment. The room is on the smaller side and is lit through natural light.

Separate tank: African Helmeted Turtle
Free flying: Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Temporary), White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Passion Flower Butterfly

Exit the atrium and come along the second large leaf cutter ant exhibit

You are exited right back where you started. Continue back down the hill one more time and you'll pass a noticeable habitat hidden by brush and mist. A path then opens up a little further down and immediately takes you to:


Lemur Lookout

Quite large mountainous rock built within a deep ditch and made to appear like an island
Ring-tailed Lemur (Three Babies in Three Days)

To the left of this island, there is a large 3D sign of a Komodo Dragon on the nearby wall. A path ventures you to the right and are taken to a tight, closed doorway. This leads you into the building of the:

Dragons!

Small natural looking rectangle shaped terrarium built into the wall
Ackie Dwarf Monitor

Two medium sized tall exhibits
1. Green Tree Monitor
2. Empty

Semi large floor to ceiling (glass) exhibit
Quince Monitor

Large, lengthy, shrubland themed habitat. The flooring of the exhibit's height is lined with an adult's waist.
Komodo Dragon

Exit the building and you are immediately met with a semi small grassy yard, sloped from front to back.
Komodo Dragon

Move along and you are officially at the bottom of the hill. You are met with the carousel, 4D theater/gift shop, and café options. During the Festival of Lights, this is where the pens are placed for Santa's Reindeer. Continue on the main path and to the left of the 4D theater is a path to the restrooms. Before the doors to the restrooms is an old, small squared exhibit. The windows are barred. This was once an old gibbon exhibit over 30 years ago but today it contains Sam, the rescued Bald Eagle. It also occasionally displays a Black Vulture, named Borris.

This little exhibit, and the 4D theater are connected to another theater, the Wings of Wonder Amphitheater. This is the zoo's seasonal bird show. It changes in some way every single summer, but in 2017, it featured species such as:
Coatimudni (Pre-show)
Roller Pigeon
Blue-and-gold Macaw
Green-winged Macaw
Hyacinth Macaw
Khaki Duck
Sulpher-crested Cockatoo
Yellow-naped Amazon
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Brown Rat
Black Vulture
Barred Owl
Striped Skunk
Emu
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
Bald Eagle

Continuing on the path, you are located at the top of the zoo (based on the map, but you are actually at the bottom in reality). You are met with two signs that combines as one. They are angled in different directions. The left depicts a Black Rhino, and the right, an Indian Rhino. You are now at:


Rhino Reserve

Start your journey to the right

Medium sized paddock
Indian Rhinoceros

Two medium sized grassy paddocks
1. Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker
2. Eastern Bongo

Smallish wetlands themed habitat at the top corner of the attraction. The back fencing acts as a bridge for the zoo's main train.
Greater Flamingo

Semi large sand covered paddock
Plains Zebra

Small and very narrow, sandy paddock for a male:
Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Grass paddock - largest in the attraction - backtracks you nearly to the Indian rhino exhibit like a circle
Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Backtrack to the left of the main path and blatantly in your view is a glass composed building:


Manatee Springs

Enter the building into a very small room that acts as a divider to the next

Enter through sliding doors into a medium sized but very hot and humid greenhouse

Medium, open topped exhibit with 50/50% above and underwater viewing
American Alligator

Small pond settled underneath a short lengthened bridge for guests
Western Pond Turtle

Medium, open topped, glass fronted exhibit with very little underwater viewing
American Crocodile

Enter into the next section - normal room environment

Large sized fish tank
Red Piranha, Azureus Cichlid

Two semi-small box shaped tanks
1. Green Basilisk
2. Amazon Milk Frog

Large tank with three viewing windows - one being a bubble window
Florida Manatee (Three rescues), Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar, Redear Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Spotted Gar, Bluegill, Channel Catfish

Semi large tank with even above and underwater viewing
Florida Cotter, Common Cooter

Seven small, differently elevated tanks built along two adjacent walls
1. Apalachicola Kingsnake
2. Two-toed Aphiuma
3. Dollar Sunfish
4. Grey Rat Snake
5. Cane Toad
6. Greater Siren
7. Loggerhead Musk Turtle, Western Mosquitofish

This part of the building is an education area where you can learn the environment and behavior of a manatee - learn about their rescue program and the multiple steps it takes - View a full sized manatee skeleton; along with a display case of many skeletal Florida animals

Large floor to ceiling exhibit titled the 'Palmetto Scrub'
Burmese Python

Exit the building to as you walk to the left, you are led to a separate trail with an overlook view of

White Lions of Timabavati

Semi large grassy meadow settled along a sloping hill. The viewing area amongst the main path is glass fronted however, a boardwalk both to the left and right side of the yard can give guests an eye level view of the lions. After the gorilla incident, the zoo renovated its fencing - they have yet to complete this job, cutting off half of the boardwalk

Pass the Black rhinos to the hill continues to form an incline. You are then met with:


Lords of the Arctic

Medium sized, glass fronted, sloped meshed exhibit
Arctic Fox

Two connecting small, narrow but long concrete formed exhibits. There are three viewings, underwater, glass, and open view
Polar Bear

Across the main path is a noticeably large forested section with the loud calls of primates. This is the beginning of the award winning:


Jungle Trails

Enter into a quite convincing tropical forest environment - the trail passes through a jungle filled with little sunlight with many placed fallen trees and thousands of bamboo shoots

Small island completely surrounded by water - complete with trees for climbing
Mueller's Gibbon

Medium sized aviary with glass viewing
Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Quite large, slanted, open meadow with two viewings area. It is heavily filled with many natural looking climbing structures
Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed Gibbon (Gibbon are not out often)

Enter into a nocturnal set building called 'Asian Animals'

Three identical medium sized exhibits along one wall
1. Pygmy Slow Loris
2. Pygmy Slow Loris
3. Empty

Next section is a narrow but long hallway that's disguised to look like a canopy viewing out into a jungle. The pathway acts as a slightly shaky wooden "bridge". To the right of this is a glass fronted (three viewings) exhibit:

Large indoor habitat nearly completely filled with trees and vines
Sumatran Orangutan (in here during cold months), White-handed Gibbon (almost always in here)

Semi large glass fronted exhibit - there is no substrate but it is (along with the viewing area) fully temple themed. Currently and temporarily within the exhibit is a separate cage.
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
White-faced Saki (Cage)

Exit to continue a new path

Medium sized mesh exhibit with glass viewing
Black Howler Monkey

Venture about 40 ft to the start of the (formerly referred to) Africa path

Smallish, open topped, wetlands yard
Crested Screamer

Semi large meshed cage with glass viewing
White-faced Saki

Quite large meadow with both open and window viewing. It is complete with natural vegetation, and a very large, mock tree used for climbing
Bonobo

Two medium sized meshed exhibits with glass viewing
1. Helmeted Currasow
2. Coquerel's Sifaka (Warmer months) - Angolan Colobus (Colder months)

Enter into another low lit building labelled 'African Animals'

Three smallish, identical nocturnal themed floor to ceiling exhibits
1. Potto
2. Garnett's Galago
3. Grey Bamboo Lemur, Potto

Next section - The entire building actually has a tall ceiling, however, it is disguised by continuous mock vegetation - serving as a canopy. The flooring is composed of concrete pebbles, and the walls, and other parts of the flooring are made up of mock rock and more vegetation.

Large glass-fronted exhibit - the exhibit goes higher than the what the viewing shows - This is the indoor quarters for:
Coquerel's Sifaka

Large, naturally lit aviary - the viewing fence is harp wired
Lady Ross's Turaco, Congo Peafowl, Hammerkop, Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Spur-winged Lapwing, African Pygmy Goose

Small terrarium built within a log, elevated on a a rock wall
Zophobas Darkling Beetle

Large, naturally lit exhibit with three glass viewings
Bonobo

Very large, tall, and nearly pitch black (red lighting actually) habitat
Aye-Aye

Small floor exhibit appeared to be naturally built in the wall
Dumeril's Ground Boa

Exit the building and continue through more forest as you exit the attraction as well

Head back up a steep hill and directly left to the Polar Bear exhibit is:


Bear Hill

Two very small, identical grottoes with open viewing
1. American Black Bear
2. Spectacled Bear

Continue up the main path and reach the top of the hill to:


Wings of the World (Closed until Spring of 2018)

Description of the building between Summer-December 2017

To the right of the building is small, open topped island habitat
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Head towards the entrance - to the left of the main doors is a small outdoor cage
Northern Helmeted Curassow

Enter building - On the left, the first thing to see are hundreds of diagrams and identification signs explaining how dinosaurs evolved into birds

To the right are sliding doors that enter you into an atrium labelled:

South America
Large walk-in atrium/greenhouse - viewing overlooks the exhibit on a simulated canopy boardwalk. The animals are free ranging but there is an open topped tank for one species:
Mata Mata (in the tank), Blue-grey Tanager, Southern Lapwing , Cattle Egret, Guira Cuckoo, Peruvian Pigeon, Yellow-crowned Cacique, Red-capped Cardinal, Golden Conure, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Sunbittern, Scarlet Ibis, Tri-colored Heron, Yellow-billed Pintail

Exit
Two tall, adjacent cages - they can connect to the next aviary
1. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
2. Asian Fairy Bluebird (Male)

Australasia
Double sliding doors lead you into another semi large, walk-in atrium:
Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Asian Fairy Blue Bird (female), Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise, Black-collared Fruit Pigeon, White-breasted Woodswallow, Nicobar Pigeon, White-rumped Shama, Indian Flying Fox, White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Bali Mynah, Collared Finch-billed Bulbul, Masked Lapwing

Exit

Montane
Medium sized, rocky/mountainous themed habitat - viewing is open fronted
Thick-billed Parrot, Masked Bobwhite Quail

Grasslands
Medium sized, floor to ceiling aviary - fencing is harp wire
Magpie Shrike, Buff-crested Bustard, Golden-breasted Starling, Crested Coua, Red-and-Yellow Barbet

Chick Nursery (Formerly known as The Wetlands)
Floor to ceiling wetlands themed exhibit - viewing is glass fronted but in a form of a short fence, making it open fronted
Hooded Merganser, Northern Red-bellied Cooter

The next section is a small, low lit room with three small glass fronted habitats
1. Yellow-fronted Canary, Southern Red Bishop
2. African Pygmy Falcon
3. Empty

Arctic Islands
Medium sized rocky coast themed exhibit with both above and underwater viewing - exhibit features timed simulated waves
Atlantic Puffin, Crested Auklet, Whiskered Auklet, Smew

Arctic Sea Cliffs
Medium sized, tall rocky shores habitat with underwater viewing - the walls are complete with nesting opportunities
Horned Puffin, Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot

Sub-Antarctic Coast
Larger, similar tank with above and underwater views
King Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Megallanic Penguin, Incan Tern, Chiloe Wigeon, Black-faced Ibis

Exit outside onto a small boardwalk and head towards a large aviary in sight. Since the 60's, this has been walkthrough flight cage. Because of it's inhabitants, it is only open to guests (as a walkthrough) on the weekend summer months. In three years, I have only ever seen this open once. Recently, to fix this issue, one of the bottom of the walls was converted into a large viewing window. This contains:
Kea, Magpie Goose, Cape Barren Goose

Opposite to this flight is the train station, along with a newly revived gift shop. As you pass over the tracks, pass the gift shop, you are met with two hidden attractions.

Your first stop presents two elevated overlooks, that gives you the view of a shore themed habitat. Half of it is a large pool while the other half is a rocky outcropped beach. To the left, is an underwater viewing.
California Sea Lion

Continuing into this lesser known area, you meet the tracks once more, and above it is a sign that reads:

Wolf Woods

This is the heart of the zoo, and is the least popular attraction. The theming of course is woodlands, but the area is quite small.

Medium sized, all around meshed habitat
Grey Fox

Medium sized exhibit with glass viewing - further down the path is an underwater viewing
North American River Otter

A boardwalk begins and in it's short distance you are met with a large open view of woodlands. Immediately following, is a cabin. Inside features a glass, and den viewing of this wooded space. There is also a third open view after exiting the cabin.
Mexican Wolf

Next to that viewing is a small wooden hut with a waistline glass window. It looks into a small sloped aviary
Barred Owl

Although you don't have to, it is custom to backtrack towards the train station and back onto the main path. At this point, you have a choice to follow three paths to the left, ahead, and right. I'll take you to the left. On the left side of the main path is the large and newer Base Camp Café. There's quality food with indoor and outdoor seating. The deck outdoors gives a very nice view of:


Africa

There are two entrances to this complex, one that enters to the right side and the other that goes into the center. The Base Camp Café trail is best known as the main entrance. In a short distance, you are met with your first habitat.


Medium sized yard enclosed by mesh, a waterfall, and a small body of water between the animals and the viewing
Cheetah

The stream from that waterfall flows underneath the path and into two other exhibits. After the cheetahs, there are paths to the right and the left. Looking ahead (and continuing to the left), this is the:

Plains
Very large, grassland yard with a waterhole and a predator and prey theme on its right side. This exhibit can be viewed from nearly every angle other than its backside.
Impala, Ruppell's Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, Pink-backed Pelican, Thomson's Gazelle, Ostrich, East African Crowned Crane, Ruddy Shelduck, Lesser Kudu, White-bearded Wildebeest, Kenyan Crested Guineafowl

As you continue to the left, as you follow and view the Plains exhibit, you are met with another section - the final two phases of Africa. The first that you see:

Painted Dog Valley
Large, 10,000 yard with two pools on either side connected by a single stream. It has a large up-close window viewing shelter at one end, and open viewing at the other
African Painted Dog

In the center of the path is an open, medium sized habitat with a crawl through bubble, fenced with ground floor windows, and offers nearly 360° viewing. There is a window allowing guests to see them indoors as well.
Meerkat

The last phase of Africa is also located at the very end of the path, creating a dead end. This is:

Hippo Cove
Smaller, 3,500 sq. ft. sized exhibit with viewing mainly designed for underwater viewing. This area can be viewed from the right, the center, and the left (open view)
Common Hippopotamus, Nile Tilapia

Because this is a dead end, you must backtrack to the cheetah area, and you continue on. At this point there is a new path. There are three exhibits in view.

Medium sized yard, moated in with the stream flowing (waterfall) from the cheetah exhibit. On this wall it makes it appear that this habitat is barrier-less. This gives an open view of the Plains.
Southeast African Lion

The path continues towards a more hidden section but within view is a sign that states:

Cheetah Encounter
Very large, 150 ft long savanna with upclose mesh viewing
Cheetah (At least one gets the yard to themselves pre and post shows)
Features: Red River Hog, Ocelot, Serval, and Cheetah runs

Backtrack on the same path and go beyond the lions. You are met with:

Smaller wetlands exhibit placed in front of the larger animals behind them in an immersive fashion
Greater Flamingo

Semi large savanna fenced with low mounds. It can be viewed at ground level, but most famously viewed from the boardwalk. Connected to the right of this boardwalk is the indoor quarters, which has windows at the boardwalk level - of which you can view the animals inside.
Masai Giraffe

Exit Africa from it's other side and you are met with Swan Lake. Head back towards the right and you are met with another path. The first thing in view is the:


Children's Zoo

Enter immediately onto a boardwalk with exhibits on either side. The two are somewhat connected by a pool that goes underneath the path
1. African Penguin
2. Little Penguin

Nursery
From outside, you can peer into four indoor habitats. Each year, the exhibits contain random young animals that are typically in need of assistant growth. However, most of the animals are just here for public display as their permanent home. The main attraction were the Malayan tiger cubs. As of December 2017, you would find:
1. Bat-eared Fox
2. Blue Runner Duck
3. Southern Tamandua
4. Bearcat

Over to the right side is the play area along with the back entrance to the gift shot. There you would also find two small, low (rock) fenced exhibits.
1. Radiated Tortoise
2. Southern Three-banded Armadillo

Backtrack to the remaining of the Children's Zoo

Petting Zoo - a typical paddock where guests may enter into the exhibit to interact with the animals
Nigerian Dwarf Goat

Children's Zoo Show
Most atypical animal is Miniature Julian Pigs

The path comes to an end but at this dead end, is a barn. It is no longer accessibly to guests however, it still features animals that are frequently walked around zoo grounds at random times.
1. Miniature Donkey
2. Llama, Alpaca

Backtrack all the way and exit from where you entered and immediately in short distance is the next attraction


Gibbon Islands

Two small sized islands set on a lake. They can viewed from the outside of the lake barrier or guests may venture on a boardwalk through the lake, coming within feet of the animals
1. Siamang
2. Buff-cheeked Gibbon

Going down the same path is a noticeable forested area. Here is a small attraction on its own. Two similar medium sized temperate themed yard filled with many real trees for climbing
Red Pandas

Depending on how you reach the red pandas, the path to them from the other side is surrounded by an abundance of bamboo. From the point of which I am leading you, you are taken back to Monkey Island. However, we will backtrack the path that leads to Africa, and continue down the path of Swan Lake. Going as far as you can to the other corner of the zoo, is a tall atrium in view:


Discovery Forest
This attraction is a smaller sized, multi leveled 30,000 Sq ft atrium that's main use is to display very rare plants from the tropical forest along with its many educational programs for children. There are two levels but the animals are placed on the bottom half.

Very small and up-close island
Miligold Macaw

Small, windowed hut
Boa Constrictor

Medium sized barrier-less trees connected together to form a canopy like exhibit. Can be viewed from both floors.
Linnaeus's Two toed Sloth

As you exit the building, and head straight, you are given the first look at the next attraction. However, the main entrance is located at the opposite side of this viewing.


Elephant Reserve

As you enter into a slightly well vegetated area, in a short distance you are met with very small amphitheater seating looking into a medium sized exhibit. It is fenced with with a 60,000 gallon pool, wooded fencing, and low brick. The exhibit is approximately 21,000 sq. ft. and is well surrounded by trees.
Indian Elephant
Sumatran Elephant

Within the middle of the complex is a large doorway to the Taj Mahal inspired Elephant House. You can enter it at any time of day but chances are you won't see any animals. It is one small pen that goes along the length of nearly the entire building. It also only displays the female elephants.

As you exit, take a right down a dead end path. There you'll meet the city's largest animal in a small, heavy barred/wired exhibit. This is the male:
Sumatran Elephant


Swan Lake
As you exit, you are back at the Historic Vine Street Entrance Plaza. In view however, is Swan Lake. 95% of the animals you see are actually wild, however, a couple of the species are displayed by the zoo. The swans are exhibited in the main lake, and the cranes have their own island.
1. Red-crowned Crane
2. Trumpeter Swan

List of Animals Taken Off Display/Passed Away Since November 2015
1. Rhinoceros Viper
2. Kwangtang River Turtle
3. Pueblan Milk Snake
4. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
5. Beaded Lizard
6. Eastern Newt
7. Long-tailed Salamander
8. Cave Salamander
9. Spotted Salamander
10. Alligator Snapping Turtle
11. Banded Palm Civet
12. Micronesian Kingfisher
13. Golden Poison Dart Frog
14. Green Leaf Katydid
15. Goliath Birdeater
16. Jambu Fruit Dove
17. Spangled Cotinga
18. Crocodile Monitor
19. Baltimore Oriole
20. Hermit Crab
21. Green Tree Frog
22. Brown Anole
23. Yellow Rat Snake
24. Red-tailed Cockatoo
25. Scarlet Macaw
26. Saddle-billed Stork
27. Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
28. Lion-tailed Macaque
29. Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
30. Capuchinbird
31. Bufflehead
32. Guam Rail
33. Red-flanked Lorikeet
34. Gouldian Finch
35. White-breasted Ground Dove
36. Violet-backed Starling
37. Chestnut Teal
38. Harlequin Duck
39. Gopher Tortoise
40. Red-footed Tortoise
41. Eastern Box Turtle
42. Blue Tree Monitor
43. Flat Rock Scorpion

List of Returning Animals and Their Former Homes
1. Yellow Pond Turtle - Original: Reptile House - Today: Reptile House - was taken off display for a year
2. Indian Star Tortoise - Original: Reptile House - Today: Reptile House - hasn't been at the zoo for many, many years
3. Antilles Tree Spider - Original: World of the Insect - Today: World of the Insect - taken off display for a year
4. Giant African Millipede - Original: World of the Insect - Today: World of the Insect - taken off display for a year
5. Rhinoceros Katydid - Original: World of the Insect - Today: World of the Insect - taken off display for three years
6. Amazon Milk Frog - Original: Reptile House - Today: Manatee Springs, and off display for three years
7. Golden-headed Lion Tamarin - Original: World of the Insect - Today: Jungle Trails, species gone from the zoo for nearly 10 years
8. Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise - Original: Wings of the World - Today: Wings of the World, taken off display for two years for breeding purposes. They succeeded.
9. Golden-breasted Starling - Original: Wings of the World - Today: Wings of the World, off display for a couple of years
10. Bat-eared Fox - Original: Night Hunters and Africa - Today: Children's Zoo, off display for two years

List of Animals Displayed in a New Attraction and Their Last Home
1. Warthog - Original: Came to the zoo in 2014 as an ambassador and could only be seen if he was talked around the zoo - Today: Wildlife Canyon, replaced Harapan
2. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake - Original: Manatee Springs - Today: Reptile House
3. Corn Snake - Original: Manatee Springs - Today: Reptile House
4. Victoria Crowned Pigeon - Original: Wings of the World - Today: World of the Insect, here during WotW renovation
5. Burmese Python - Original: Night Hunters - Today: Manatee Springs
6. Crested Screamer (Second exhibit) - Original: Wildlife Canyon (Still there), and Wings of the World - Today: Jungle Trails
7. Lady Ross's Turaco - Original: Wings of the World - Today: Jungle Trails
8. African Pygmy Goose - Original: World of the Insect - Today: Jungle Trails
9. Chestnut Breasted Malkoha - Original: Jungle Trails - Today: Wings of the World (closed for renovation)
10. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo - Original: Reptile House - Today: Wings of the World (closed)
11. Helmeted Currasow (Second exhibit) - Original: Jungle Trails (still there) - Today: Wings of the World

The next species list will be ready in December of 2019
 
where was Sam the bald eagle rescued from?

also, does the zoo specify what type of plains zebra it has? Chapmans, Burchells, grants?
 
2019 Full Species List of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Red = A New Species to the Zoo
Orange = Animals Once Absent to the Zoo/Off Display
Green = An Already Displayed Species New to That Area
Reminder, these are differences between December 2019 to November 2017

Wildlife Canyon [Closed]
Currently being constructed into Roo Valley, set to open in the spring of 2020. Species known so far are Red Kangaroos and Little Penguins

Eagle Eyrie [Closed Temporarily for Roo Valley Construction]

1. Andean Condor
2. Steller's Sea Eagle

Reptile House

1. Outdoor Island (Former Cockatoo Exhibit): Northern Red-bellied Cooter, Mississippi Map Turtle, River Cooter
Start of the Indoor Exhibits
2. Chinese Alligator
3. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Yellow Rat Snake
4. Lace Monitor
5. Jamaican Boa
6. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
7. [Empty]
8. Turquoise Dwarf Gecko
9. Black Rat Snake
10. Northern Copperhead
11. Timber Rattlesnake
12. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
13. Florida Pine Snake
14. Yellow-tailed Cribo
15. Corn Snake
16. [Empty]
17. King Cobra
18. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
19. Angolan Python, Pancake Tortoise
20. Indian Star Tortoise
21. Pascagoula Map Turtle
22. Indochinese Spitting Cobra
23. Emerald Tree Boa, Boa Constrictor, Dyeing Poison Dart Frog, Golden Dart Frog, Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog
24. Green Tree Python
25. Eastern Hellbender
26. Ornate Monitor
Outdoor Exhibits Continued (Former Monkey Island):
27. Bald Eagle
28. Galapagos Tortoise

Gorilla World

1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Western Lowland Gorilla

Night Hunters

1. Tawny Frogmouth
2. Pallas' Cat
3. Pallas' Cat (Replaced Fossa)
4. Aardwolf
5. Bearcat (Switched Exhibits With Clouded Leopard)
6. Potto
7. Potto
8. Common Vampire Bat
9. Aardvark, Greater Bushbaby, Indian Flying Fox
10. Ocelot
11. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
12. Black-footed Cat
13. Arabian Sand Cat
14. Caracal
15. Clouded Leopard
16. Large-spotted Genet
17. Fennec Fox
18. [Empty/Fennec Fox]
19. Fishing Cat
20. Ring-tailed Cat
One Outdoor Exhibit
21. Bobcat

Cat Canyon

1. Cougar
2. Malayan Tiger
3. Malayan Tiger
4. Eurasian Eagle Owl
5. Snow Leopard

World of the Insect

Section 1: What Is an Insect?
1. Green-leaf Cockroach
2. Blue Death Feigning Beetle
3. Brown Recluse Spider
4. Black Widow
5. Desert Rainworm
6. Antilles Treespider
7. Zebra Bug
8. Emperor Scorpion
9. Hissing Cockroach
10. Taxicab Beetle, Magnificent Flower Beetle, Emerald Beetle, Yellow-bellied Beetle, Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
11. Cave Whip Spider

Section 2: Success of the Insect
12. Giant African Millipede
13. Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
14. Thorny Devil Stick Insect
15. Magnificent Flower Beetle

Section 3: What Insects Eat
16. Taxicab Beetle
17. Red-eyed Assassin Bug
18. Bat Cave Cockroach
19. Zophabos Darkling Beetle
20. Dead Leaf Mantis
21. Red-knee Tarantula

Section 4: Insects as Food
22. Texas Bullet Ant
23. Chuckwalla
24. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
25. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
26. Ornate Horned Frog
27. Rough Green snake
28. Fire-bellied Newt
29. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

Section 5: Defense & Escape
30. Indian Ornamental Tarantula
31. Giant Spiny Leaf Insect
32. Giant Jumping Stick

Section 6: Insects in Water
33. Marbled Crayfish
34. Giant Water bug
35. Common Diving Beetle, Sunburst Diving Beetle
36. Water Scorpion
37. Water Strider

Section 7: Naked Mole Rats

Section 8: Egg to Adult
39. White-eyed Assassin Bug
40. Emerald Beetle

Section 9: Insect Lifestyles
41. Yellow-bellied Beetle
42. Rhinoceos Katydid
43. Giant Cockroach
44. Giant Walking Stick
45. Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater
46. Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
47. Tin Foil Beetle
48. Leaf-cutter Ant

Section 10: Butterfly Aviary
49. Blue Tilapia (Tank), White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Zebra Longwing Butterfly

Lemur Lookout & Dragons!

1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Ackie Dwarf Monitor
3. Blue Tree Monitor
4. Green Tree Monitor
5. Quince Monitor
6. Komodo Dragon (Indoor)
7. Komodo Dragon (Outdoor - Was a Temporary Bald Eagle Home)

Rhino Reserve

1. Indian Rhinoceros
2. Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker
3. Eastern Bongo
4. Greater Flamingo
5. Plains Zebra
6. Eastern Black Rhinoceros
7. Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Manatee Springs

Greenhouse
1. American Alligator
2. [Pond - Empty]
3. American Crocodile

Normal Room Displays
4. Alligator Snapping Turtle
5. Green Basilisk
6. Amazon Milk Frog
7. Florida Manatee, Emperor Cichlid, Channel Catfish, Lake Malawi Cichlid, Largemouth Bass, Bluegill Sunfish, Florida Gar, Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar
8. Channel Catfish, River Cooter, Azuerus Cichlid, Red-bellied Cooter
9. Apalachicola Kingsnake
10. Two-toed Amphiuma
11. Dollar Sunfish
12. Grey Ratsnake
13. Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake
14. Greater Siren
15. Loggerhead Musk Turtle, Western Mosquitofish
16. Burmese Python

White Lions of Timbavati (Southeast African Lions)

Lords of the Arctic

1. Arctic Fox
2. Polar Bear
3. Andean Bear
4. Andean Bear

Jungle Trails

1. Mueller's Grey Gibbon
2. Scarlet Macaw, Helmeted Curassow
3. Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed gibbon (Outdoor)

Building #1
4. Pygmy Slow Loris
5. Pygmy Slow Loris
6. [Empty... Still]
7. Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed gibbon (Indoor)
8. Indoor Exhibit For: Black Howler Monkey rotates with White-faced Saki/Golden-headed Lion Tamarin

Outdoor Continue
9. Black Howler Monkey (Outdoor)
10. Asian Forest Tortoise
11. Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Laughing Kookaburra
12. Bonobo (Outdoor)
13. Coquerel's Sifaka rotates outdoors with Angolan Colobus

Building #2
14. Potto
15. Potto
16. [Empty/Grey Bamboo Lemur - Taken Off Display Often]
17. Coquerel's Sifaka (Indoor)
18. Lady Ross's Turaco, Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Spur-winged Plover, Hammerkop, Congo Peafowl. Marbled Teal
19. Zophobas Darkling Beetle
20. Bonobo (Indoor)
21. Aye-Aye
22. Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko, Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko

Wings of the World

Outdoor
1. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Indoor
2. South America: Scarlet Ibis, Sunbittern, Boat-billed Heron, Southern Lapwing, Peruvian Pigeon, Red-crested Finch, Cattle Egret, Blue-grey Tanager, Red-capped Cardinal, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Inca Tern, Guira Cuckoo, Mata Mata Turtle (Tank)
3. Blue-faced Honeyeater, Asian Fairy Bluebird
4. Australasia: Bali Mynah, White-breasted Woodswallow, Guam Rail, White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Masked Lapwing, Shama Trush, Collared Finch-bulbil, Blue-crowned Laughing Thrush
5. Mexico: Thick-billed Parrot
6. African Savannah: Buff-crested Bustard, Golden-breasted Starling, Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Yellow-fronted Canary, Crested Coua, Yellow-backed Starling
7. Southeast Asia: Rhinoceros Hornbill
8. Northern Oceans #1: Atlantic Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Common Murre, Smew, Common Eider
9. Northern Oceans #2: Horned Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Common Murre
10. Southern Oceans: King Penguin, Magellanic Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Chiloe Wigeon, Black-faced Ibis

Free Flight Aviary

(Winter) Kea
(Spring/Summer - Over 2018 to '19 - List changed over time) Red-legged Seriema, Ring-billed Gull, White Ibis, Laughing Kookaburra, Lady Ross's Turaco, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Scarlet Ibis, Inca Tern, Nicobar Pigeon, Magpie Goose, Ruddy Shelduck

Sea Lion Falls (Closed) & Wolf Woods
The Zoo's last Sea Lion passed away, and they're converting the habitat to be one big complex for African Penguins

1. Grey Fox
2. North American River Otter
3. Mexican Wolf
4. Barred Owl

Spaulding Children's Zoo

1. African Penguin [Will be moved to replace their sea lion, unsure if some will stay here]
2. Little Penguin [Will be moved to Roo Valley in 2020, also unsure if some will stay]

Animal Ambassador Center (Formerly known as the Nursery, though it still acts as such)
3. Bat-eared Fox
4. Tawny Frogmouth
5. Southern Tamandua
6. Bearcat

Continue outdoor exhibits

7. Radiated Tortoise
8. Southern Three-banded Armadillo [May have been moved to Discovery Forest]
9. Domestic Duck
10. Petting Zoo: Nigerian Dwarf Goat
11. Barnyard (This area has been closed off for years but still has animals in the back who get frequent walks - only guessing what's back there): Miniature Donkey, Llama, Alpaca

Gibbon Islands & Red Pandas

1. Siamang
2. Buff-cheeked gibbon

1. Red Panda
2. Red Panda

Africa

1. Masai Giraffe
2. Greater Flamingo
3. Southeast African Lion
4. Cheetah Encounter (Haven't seen the show in a couple years, only guessing): Cheetah, Red River Hog, Serval
5. Cheetah
6. African Plains: Lesser Kudu, Thomson's Gazelle, White-bearded Wildebeest, Lappet-faced Vulture, Impala, Ostrich, Pink-backed Pelican, Kenyan Crested Guineafowl, Grey Crowned Crane, Ruppell's Vulture, Saddle-billed Stork, Warthog
7. Slender-tailed Meerkat
8. African Painted Dog
9. Common Hippopotamos, Nile Tilapia

Swan Lake

Trumpeter Swan, Red-crowned Crane, various wildlife

Elephant Reserve

1, 2. Indian Elephant, Sumatran Elephant (need reconfirmation on whether or not this is true)

Discovery Forest

1. Blue-and-Gold/Military Macaw (hybrid)
2. Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth (newly expanded habitat), Southern Three-banded Armadillo (rotates), Six-banded Armadillo (rotates), Screaming Hairy Armadillo (rotates)

List of Animals Taken Off Display/Transferred/Passed Away Since 2017/18

1. Capybara (exhibit closed for Roo Valley)
2. Crested Screamer (exhibit closed)
3. Visayan Warty Pig (exhibit closed)
4. Sichuan Takin (exhibit closed)
5. Przewalsk'is Horse (exhibit closed)
6. Bactrian Camel (exhibit closed)
7. Salmon-crested Cockatoo (exhibit renovated for turtles)
8. Yellow Pond Turtle (exhibit empty)
9. California Kingsnake (exhibit combined with another)
10. Gaboon Viper (replaced)
11. Everglades Ratsnake (replaced)
12. Black Kingsnake (replaced)
13. Terciopelo (replaced)
14. Japanese Macaque (exhibit renovated for bald eagles, and Galapagos tortoises)
15. Spectacled Owl (replaced with tawny frogmouth)
16. Fossa (replaced/may have passed)
17. Eastern Black-and-White Colobus (replaced with lemurs/may be temporary?)
18. Chinese Mantis (replaced by feigning beetles)
19. Green June Beetle (replaced by emperor scorpions)
20. Carolina Mantis (replaced)
21. Big-headed Ant (temporarily off)
22. Black Tree Monitor (replaced with crocodile lizard)
23. Grey Bird Grasshopper (replaced with lubber grasshoppers)
24. African Helmeted Turtle (replaced with tilapia/may have passed)
25. Passion Flower Butterfly (replaced with another species of butterfly)
26. Western Pond Turtle (exhibit remains empty)
27. Cane Toad (replaced with pygmy rattlesnake)
28. American Black Bear (transferred to make room for polar bear expansion)
29. African Pygmy Goose
30. Dumeril's Ground Boa (replaced with geckos in Jungle Trails)
31. Blue-crowned Mot-Mot
32. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (replaced with fairy bluebird)
33. Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise (wasn't on display for long/may be breeding behind the scenes)
34. Black-collared Fruit Pigeon
35. Magpie Shrike
36. Hooded Merganser (replaced with Rhinoceros hornbills)
37. Southern Red Bishop (exhibit closed permanently)
38. African Pygmy Falcon (exhibit closed permanently)
39. Crested Auklet
40. Whiskered Auklet
41. California Sea Lion (remaining male Duke, passed away)
42. Cape Barren Goose
43. Tri-colored Heron

Compared Species Lost Between 2015-2017: 43
Species Gained Between 2018-19: 15
New Individuals Exhibits Built Between 2018-19: 4

Notable Species Moved to Other Attraction/Came Back on Display
1. Northern Red-bellied Cooter (example - Today: Reptile House/From: Wings of the World)
2. Mississippi Map Turtle (Reptile House - Manatee Springs)
3. Boa Constrictor (Reptile House - Discovery Forest)
4. Dying Poison Dart Frog (Reptile House - World of the Insect)
5. Golden Poison Dart Frog (Reptile House - World of the Insect)
6. Bald Eagle (New specimens but has been presented in the Bird Show for decades prior)
7. Eurasian Eagle Owl (Cat Canyon - Night Hunters/Animal Ambassador)
8. Blue Tree Monitor (Dragons! to Reptile House to Dragons! once more)
9. Laughing Kookaburra (Jungle Trails - Wings of Wonder Bird Show)
10. Saddle-billed Stork (Africa - Jungle Trails)
11. Warthog (Africa - Wildlife Canyon)

Next Species List Will Be Up in December 2021
 
Moebelle said:
2019 Full Species List of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Red = A New Species to the Zoo
Orange = Animals Once Absent to the Zoo/Off Display
Green = An Already Displayed Species New to That Area
Reminder, these are differences between December 2019 to November 2017

Wildlife Canyon [Closed]
Currently being constructed into Roo Valley, set to open in the spring of 2020. Species known so far are Red Kangaroos and Little Penguins

Eagle Eyrie [Closed Temporarily for Roo Valley Construction]

1. Andean Condor
2. Steller's Sea Eagle

Reptile House

1. Outdoor Island (Former Cockatoo Exhibit): Northern Red-bellied Cooter, Mississippi Map Turtle, River Cooter
Start of the Indoor Exhibits
2. Chinese Alligator
3. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Yellow Rat Snake
4. Lace Monitor
5. Jamaican Boa
6. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
7. [Empty]
8. Turquoise Dwarf Gecko
9. Black Rat Snake
10. Northern Copperhead
11. Timber Rattlesnake
12. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
13. Florida Pine Snake
14. Yellow-tailed Cribo
15. Corn Snake
16. [Empty]
17. King Cobra
18. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
19. Angolan Python, Pancake Tortoise
20. Indian Star Tortoise
21. Pascagoula Map Turtle
22. Indochinese Spitting Cobra
23. Emerald Tree Boa, Boa Constrictor, Dyeing Poison Dart Frog, Golden Dart Frog, Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog
24. Green Tree Python
25. Eastern Hellbender
26. Ornate Monitor
Outdoor Exhibits Continued (Former Monkey Island):
27. Bald Eagle
28. Galapagos Tortoise

Gorilla World

1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Western Lowland Gorilla

Night Hunters

1. Tawny Frogmouth
2. Pallas' Cat
3. Pallas' Cat (Replaced Fossa)
4. Aardwolf
5. Bearcat (Switched Exhibits With Clouded Leopard)
6. Potto
7. Potto
8. Common Vampire Bat
9. Aardvark, Greater Bushbaby, Indian Flying Fox
10. Ocelot
11. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
12. Black-footed Cat
13. Arabian Sand Cat
14. Caracal
15. Clouded Leopard
16. Large-spotted Genet
17. Fennec Fox
18. [Empty/Fennec Fox]
19. Fishing Cat
20. Ring-tailed Cat
One Outdoor Exhibit
21. Bobcat

Cat Canyon

1. Cougar
2. Malayan Tiger
3. Malayan Tiger
4. Eurasian Eagle Owl
5. Snow Leopard

World of the Insect

Section 1: What Is an Insect?
1. Green-leaf Cockroach
2. Blue Death Feigning Beetle
3. Brown Recluse Spider
4. Black Widow
5. Desert Rainworm
6. Antilles Treespider
7. Zebra Bug
8. Emperor Scorpion
9. Hissing Cockroach
10. Taxicab Beetle, Magnificent Flower Beetle, Emerald Beetle, Yellow-bellied Beetle, Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
11. Cave Whip Spider

Section 2: Success of the Insect
12. Giant African Millipede
13. Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
14. Thorny Devil Stick Insect
15. Magnificent Flower Beetle

Section 3: What Insects Eat
16. Taxicab Beetle
17. Red-eyed Assassin Bug
18. Bat Cave Cockroach
19. Zophabos Darkling Beetle
20. Dead Leaf Mantis
21. Red-knee Tarantula

Section 4: Insects as Food
22. Texas Bullet Ant
23. Chuckwalla
24. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
25. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
26. Ornate Horned Frog
27. Rough Green snake
28. Fire-bellied Newt
29. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

Section 5: Defense & Escape
30. Indian Ornamental Tarantula
31. Giant Spiny Leaf Insect
32. Giant Jumping Stick

Section 6: Insects in Water
33. Marbled Crayfish
34. Giant Water bug
35. Common Diving Beetle, Sunburst Diving Beetle
36. Water Scorpion
37. Water Strider

Section 7: Naked Mole Rats

Section 8: Egg to Adult
39. White-eyed Assassin Bug
40. Emerald Beetle

Section 9: Insect Lifestyles
41. Yellow-bellied Beetle
42. Rhinoceos Katydid
43. Giant Cockroach
44. Giant Walking Stick
45. Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater
46. Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
47. Tin Foil Beetle
48. Leaf-cutter Ant

Section 10: Butterfly Aviary
49. Blue Tilapia (Tank), White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Zebra Longwing Butterfly

Lemur Lookout & Dragons!

1. Ring-tailed Lemur
2. Ackie Dwarf Monitor
3. Blue Tree Monitor
4. Green Tree Monitor
5. Quince Monitor
6. Komodo Dragon (Indoor)
7. Komodo Dragon (Outdoor - Was a Temporary Bald Eagle Home)

Rhino Reserve

1. Indian Rhinoceros
2. Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker
3. Eastern Bongo
4. Greater Flamingo
5. Plains Zebra
6. Eastern Black Rhinoceros
7. Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Manatee Springs

Greenhouse
1. American Alligator
2. [Pond - Empty]
3. American Crocodile

Normal Room Displays
4. Alligator Snapping Turtle
5. Green Basilisk
6. Amazon Milk Frog
7. Florida Manatee, Emperor Cichlid, Channel Catfish, Lake Malawi Cichlid, Largemouth Bass, Bluegill Sunfish, Florida Gar, Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar
8. Channel Catfish, River Cooter, Azuerus Cichlid, Red-bellied Cooter
9. Apalachicola Kingsnake
10. Two-toed Amphiuma
11. Dollar Sunfish
12. Grey Ratsnake
13. Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake
14. Greater Siren
15. Loggerhead Musk Turtle, Western Mosquitofish
16. Burmese Python

White Lions of Timbavati (Southeast African Lions)

Lords of the Arctic

1. Arctic Fox
2. Polar Bear
3. Andean Bear
4. Andean Bear

Jungle Trails

1. Mueller's Grey Gibbon
2. Scarlet Macaw, Helmeted Curassow
3. Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed gibbon (Outdoor)

Building #1
4. Pygmy Slow Loris
5. Pygmy Slow Loris
6. [Empty... Still]
7. Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed gibbon (Indoor)
8. Indoor Exhibit For: Black Howler Monkey rotates with White-faced Saki/Golden-headed Lion Tamarin

Outdoor Continue
9. Black Howler Monkey (Outdoor)
10. Asian Forest Tortoise
11. Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Laughing Kookaburra
12. Bonobo (Outdoor)
13. Coquerel's Sifaka rotates outdoors with Angolan Colobus

Building #2
14. Potto
15. Potto
16. [Empty/Grey Bamboo Lemur - Taken Off Display Often]
17. Coquerel's Sifaka (Indoor)
18. Lady Ross's Turaco, Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Spur-winged Plover, Hammerkop, Congo Peafowl. Marbled Teal
19. Zophobas Darkling Beetle
20. Bonobo (Indoor)
21. Aye-Aye
22. Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko, Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko

Wings of the World

Outdoor
1. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Indoor
2. South America: Scarlet Ibis, Sunbittern, Boat-billed Heron, Southern Lapwing, Peruvian Pigeon, Red-crested Finch, Cattle Egret, Blue-grey Tanager, Red-capped Cardinal, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Inca Tern, Guira Cuckoo, Mata Mata Turtle (Tank)
3. Blue-faced Honeyeater, Asian Fairy Bluebird
4. Australasia: Bali Mynah, White-breasted Woodswallow, Guam Rail, White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Masked Lapwing, Shama Trush, Collared Finch-bulbil, Blue-crowned Laughing Thrush
5. Mexico: Thick-billed Parrot
6. African Savannah: Buff-crested Bustard, Golden-breasted Starling, Red-and-Yellow Barbet, Yellow-fronted Canary, Crested Coua, Yellow-backed Starling
7. Southeast Asia: Rhinoceros Hornbill
8. Northern Oceans #1: Atlantic Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Common Murre, Smew, Common Eider
9. Northern Oceans #2: Horned Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Common Murre
10. Southern Oceans: King Penguin, Magellanic Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Chiloe Wigeon, Black-faced Ibis

Free Flight Aviary

(Winter) Kea
(Spring/Summer - Over 2018 to '19 - List changed over time) Red-legged Seriema, Ring-billed Gull, White Ibis, Laughing Kookaburra, Lady Ross's Turaco, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Scarlet Ibis, Inca Tern, Nicobar Pigeon, Magpie Goose, Ruddy Shelduck

Sea Lion Falls (Closed) & Wolf Woods
The Zoo's last Sea Lion passed away, and they're converting the habitat to be one big complex for African Penguins

1. Grey Fox
2. North American River Otter
3. Mexican Wolf
4. Barred Owl

Spaulding Children's Zoo

1. African Penguin [Will be moved to replace their sea lion, unsure if some will stay here]
2. Little Penguin [Will be moved to Roo Valley in 2020, also unsure if some will stay]

Animal Ambassador Center (Formerly known as the Nursery, though it still acts as such)
3. Bat-eared Fox
4. Tawny Frogmouth
5. Southern Tamandua
6. Bearcat

Continue outdoor exhibits

7. Radiated Tortoise
8. Southern Three-banded Armadillo [May have been moved to Discovery Forest]
9. Domestic Duck
10. Petting Zoo: Nigerian Dwarf Goat
11. Barnyard (This area has been closed off for years but still has animals in the back who get frequent walks - only guessing what's back there): Miniature Donkey, Llama, Alpaca

Gibbon Islands & Red Pandas

1. Siamang
2. Buff-cheeked gibbon

1. Red Panda
2. Red Panda

Africa

1. Masai Giraffe
2. Greater Flamingo
3. Southeast African Lion
4. Cheetah Encounter (Haven't seen the show in a couple years, only guessing): Cheetah, Red River Hog, Serval
5. Cheetah
6. African Plains: Lesser Kudu, Thomson's Gazelle, White-bearded Wildebeest, Lappet-faced Vulture, Impala, Ostrich, Pink-backed Pelican, Kenyan Crested Guineafowl, Grey Crowned Crane, Ruppell's Vulture, Saddle-billed Stork, Warthog
7. Slender-tailed Meerkat
8. African Painted Dog
9. Common Hippopotamos, Nile Tilapia

Swan Lake

Trumpeter Swan, Red-crowned Crane, various wildlife

Elephant Reserve

1, 2. Indian Elephant, Sumatran Elephant (need reconfirmation on whether or not this is true)

Discovery Forest

1. Blue-and-Gold/Military Macaw (hybrid)
2. Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth (newly expanded habitat), Southern Three-banded Armadillo (rotates), Six-banded Armadillo (rotates), Screaming Hairy Armadillo (rotates)

List of Animals Taken Off Display/Transferred/Passed Away Since 2017/18

1. Capybara (exhibit closed for Roo Valley)
2. Crested Screamer (exhibit closed)
3. Visayan Warty Pig (exhibit closed)
4. Sichuan Takin (exhibit closed)
5. Przewalsk'is Horse (exhibit closed)
6. Bactrian Camel (exhibit closed)
7. Salmon-crested Cockatoo (exhibit renovated for turtles)
8. Yellow Pond Turtle (exhibit empty)
9. California Kingsnake (exhibit combined with another)
10. Gaboon Viper (replaced)
11. Everglades Ratsnake (replaced)
12. Black Kingsnake (replaced)
13. Terciopelo (replaced)
14. Japanese Macaque (exhibit renovated for bald eagles, and Galapagos tortoises)
15. Spectacled Owl (replaced with tawny frogmouth)
16. Fossa (replaced/may have passed)
17. Eastern Black-and-White Colobus (replaced with lemurs/may be temporary?)
18. Chinese Mantis (replaced by feigning beetles)
19. Green June Beetle (replaced by emperor scorpions)
20. Carolina Mantis (replaced)
21. Big-headed Ant (temporarily off)
22. Black Tree Monitor (replaced with crocodile lizard)
23. Grey Bird Grasshopper (replaced with lubber grasshoppers)
24. African Helmeted Turtle (replaced with tilapia/may have passed)
25. Passion Flower Butterfly (replaced with another species of butterfly)
26. Western Pond Turtle (exhibit remains empty)
27. Cane Toad (replaced with pygmy rattlesnake)
28. American Black Bear (transferred to make room for polar bear expansion)
29. African Pygmy Goose
30. Dumeril's Ground Boa (replaced with geckos in Jungle Trails)
31. Blue-crowned Mot-Mot
32. Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (replaced with fairy bluebird)
33. Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise (wasn't on display for long/may be breeding behind the scenes)
34. Black-collared Fruit Pigeon
35. Magpie Shrike
36. Hooded Merganser (replaced with Rhinoceros hornbills)
37. Southern Red Bishop (exhibit closed permanently)
38. African Pygmy Falcon (exhibit closed permanently)
39. Crested Auklet
40. Whiskered Auklet
41. California Sea Lion (remaining male Duke, passed away)
42. Cape Barren Goose
43. Tri-colored Heron

Compared Species Lost Between 2015-2017: 43
Species Gained Between 2018-19: 15
New Individuals Exhibits Built Between 2018-19: 4

Notable Species Moved to Other Attraction/Came Back on Display
1. Northern Red-bellied Cooter (example - Today: Reptile House/From: Wings of the World)
2. Mississippi Map Turtle (Reptile House - Manatee Springs)
3. Boa Constrictor (Reptile House - Discovery Forest)
4. Dying Poison Dart Frog (Reptile House - World of the Insect)
5. Golden Poison Dart Frog (Reptile House - World of the Insect)
6. Bald Eagle (New specimens but has been presented in the Bird Show for decades prior)
7. Eurasian Eagle Owl (Cat Canyon - Night Hunters/Animal Ambassador)
8. Blue Tree Monitor (Dragons! to Reptile House to Dragons! once more)
9. Laughing Kookaburra (Jungle Trails - Wings of Wonder Bird Show)
10. Saddle-billed Stork (Africa - Jungle Trails)
11. Warthog (Africa - Wildlife Canyon)

Next Species List Will Be Up in December 2021
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Ring-Tailed Lemurs are only in the Colobus exhibit for the winter months in holding. That is not a permanent exhibit change.
The Zoo's last Fossa "Willy" died in 2018
Miniature Donkeys are no longer at the zoo
 
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The species list I put out every two years is finally here!

November 26, 2021 Full Species List of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Red = A New Species to the Zoo (To my knowledge)
Orange = Animals Once Absent to the Zoo, Now Back on Display in the Same Area
Green = An Already Displayed Species New to That Area
Blue = Animals Once Absent, Now in Another Part of the Zoo
These are the differences between December 2019 to November 2021

Roo Valley (New in 2020!)
  1. Red Kangaroo, Western Grey Kangaroo
  2. Little Blue Penguin, New Zealand Scaup, Australian Wood Ducks, Freckled Ducks (Walk-thru)

Eagle Eyrie
  1. Andean Condor
  2. Steller’s Sea Eagle

Reptile House
Outdoor
  1. Northern Red-bellied Cooter, Mississippi Map Turtle, River Cooter
Indoor
  1. Chinese Alligator
  2. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Florida Pine Snake, Yellow Rat Snake
  3. Black Rat Snake, Northern Copperhead, Timber Rattlesnake
  4. Green Tree Monitor
  5. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
  6. Armadillo Lizard
  7. Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog
  8. Corn Snake
  9. Gaboon Viper
  10. Emerald Tree Boa (Juvenile)
  11. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
  12. Empty
  13. Sheltopusik, Northern Spider Tortoise
  14. King Cobra
  15. Gila Monster
  16. Angolan Python, Pancake Tortoise
  17. Indian Star Tortoise
  18. Pascagoula Map Turtle
  19. Indochinese Spitting Cobra
  20. Emerald Tree Boa, Boa Constrictor, Dyeing Dart Frog, Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog
  21. Lake Titicaca Water Frog
  22. Eastern Hellbender
  23. Quince Monitor
Outdoor Behind the Building
  1. Asian Forest Tortoise
  2. Galapagos Tortoise
  3. Bald Eagle

Gorilla World
  1. Eastern-black-and-white Colobus
  2. Western Lowland Gorilla

Cat Canyon
  1. Cougar
  2. Malayan Tiger
  3. Malayan Tiger
  4. Eurasian Eagle Owl
  5. Snow Leopard

Night Hunters
  1. Tawny Frogmouth
  2. Pallas’ Cat
  3. Pallas’ Cat
  4. Aardwolf
  5. Bearcat
  6. Potto
  7. Potto
  8. Common Vampire Bat
  9. Aardvark, Greater Bushbaby, Indian Flying Fox
  10. Ocelot
  11. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
  12. Black-footed Cat
  13. Arabian Sand Cat
  14. Ringtail
  15. Ocelot
  16. Large-spotted Genet
  17. Fennec Fox
  18. Large-spotted Genet
  19. Southern Brazilian Ocelot (Allegedly now contains the Clouded Leopard, yet they were not signed. The clouded leopard is quite old, but I'm not confirming any bad news...)
  20. Ringtail
  21. Canada Lynx (Outdoor, but they were not signed on last visit)

World of the Insect

What is an Insect?
  1. Green-leaf Cockroach
  2. Dead Leaf Mantid
  3. Desert Rainworm
  4. Zophobas Darkling Beetle
  5. Brown Recluse Spider
  6. Antilles Tree Spider
  7. Zebra Bug
  8. Emperor Scorpion
  9. White-eyed Assassin Bug
  10. Magnificent Flower Beetle, Taxicab Beetle, Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle, Emerald Beetle, Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
  11. Cave Whip Spider
Success of the Insect
  1. Giant African Millipede
  2. Rhinoceros Beetle
  3. Thorny Spiny Devil Stick Insect
  4. Derby's Flower Beetle (Double-sided Exhibit)
  5. Red-eyed Assassin Bug
  6. Taxicab Beetle
What Insects Eat
  1. Redknee Tarantula
  2. Striped Love Beetle
  3. Domino Roach
  4. Brazilian White-knee Tarantula
Insects as Food
  1. Texas Bullet Ant
  2. Chuckwalla
  3. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
  4. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
  5. Ornate Horned Frog
  6. Rough Green Snake
  7. Fire-bellied Newt
  8. Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
Defense & Escape
  1. Derby's Flower Beetle (Other side of Double-sided Exhibit)
  2. Bat Cave Cockroach
  3. Dragon Headed Katydid
  4. Hercules Beetle, Giant Jumping Stick, Giant Cockroach
Insects in Water
  1. Marbled Crayfish
  2. Giant Water Bug
  3. Sunburst Diving Beetle
  4. Water Scorpion
  5. Water Strider
Naked Mole Rats

Egg to Adult
  1. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
  2. Emerald Beetle
Insect Lifestyles
  1. Florida Orb Weaver
  2. Salmon-pink Birdeater
  3. Grey Bird Grasshopper, Blue Death Feigning Beetle
  4. Yellowbellied Beetle
  5. Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
  6. Peruvian Firestick
  7. Peppered Roach
  8. Giant Walking Stick
  9. Leaf-cutter Ant
Butterfly Aviary
  1. Blue Tilapia (Tank), White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Zebra Longwing Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly, Julia Butterfly, Spicebush Swallowtail

Lemur Lookout and Dragons
  1. Ring-tailed Lemur
  2. Armadillo Lizard
  3. Blue Tree Monitor
  4. Solomons Island Skink, Solomons Island Leaf Frog
  5. Nile Monitor (May be the formerly labelled Ornate Monitor... When the Ornate monitor was first exhibited, it was first labelled as a 'Nile')
  6. Komodo Dragon, Timor Zebra Finch
  7. Komodo Dragon (Outdoor)

Rhino Reserve
  1. Visayan Warty Pig
  2. Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker
  3. Eastern Bongo
  4. Greater Flamingo
  5. Plains Zebra
  6. Eastern Black Rhinoceros
  7. Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Manatee Springs
  1. American Alligator
  2. Pond is still empty…
  3. American Crocodile
  4. Alligator Snapping Turtle, Bluegill
  5. Green Basilisk
  6. Amazon Milk Frog
  7. Florida Manatee, Alligator Gar, Florida Gar, Longnose Gar, Spotted Gar
  8. Channel Catfish, Azuerus Cichlid, Red-belied Cooter, River Cooter
  9. Apalachicola Kingsnake
  10. Greater siren
  11. Two-toed Amphiuma
  12. Grey Ratsnake
  13. Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake
  14. Everglades Pygmy Sunfish
  15. Loggerhead Musk Turtle
  16. Burmese Python

White Lions of Timbavati

Bear Hill (There are no longer signs labeled ‘Lords of the Arctic’)
  1. Arctic Fox
  2. Great White Pelican (Meant to be displayed with the African penguins but they kept escaping)
  3. Andean Bear
  4. Andean Bear
  5. Empty

Jungle Trails
  1. Salmon-crested Cockatoo
  2. Blue-throated Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Helmeted Curassow
  3. Sumatran Orangutan, White-handed Gibbon, Mueller’s Gibbon (The gibbons rotate)
Building #1
  1. Pygmy Slow Loris
  2. Pygmy Slow Loris
  3. Empty… still
  4. Orangutan and Gibbon Indoor Exhibit
  5. Golden-headed Lion Tamarin, White-faced Saki (Rotates with Black Howlers)
Continues Outdoors
  1. Black Howler
  2. Asian Forest Tortoise
  3. Angolan Colobus (May rotate with the Saki)
  4. Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Laughing, Kookaburra
  5. Bonobo
  6. Coquerel’s Sifaka
Building #2
  1. Moholi Bushbaby
  2. Moholi Bushbaby
  3. Potto
  4. Coquerel’s Sifaka Indoor Exhibit (Had Grey Crowned Guenon’s over the summer)
  5. Lady Ross’s Turaco, Congo Peafowl, Spur-winged Plover, Red-and-yellow Barbet, Marbled Teal
  6. Zophobos Darkling Beetle
  7. Bonobo Indoor Exhibit
  8. Aye-Aye
  9. Henkel’s Leaf-tailed Gecko, Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko

Wings of the World

Separate Free Flight Aviary: Kea (Winter), Red-legged Seriema, Ruddy Shelduck, Hammerkop, Ring-billed Gull, Pied Imperial Pigeon (Warmer Weather)

Outdoor Island
  1. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Main Building
  1. South America: Boat-billed Heron, Sunbittern, Southern Lapwing, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Scarlet Ibis, Peruvian Pigeon, Blue-grey Tanager, Red-crested Cardinal, Inca Tern, Saffron Finch, Mata-Mata (Separate Tank)
  2. Australasia: Nicobar Pigeon, Masked Lapwing, Shama Thrush, Colored Finch-billed Bulbul, Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, White-cheeked Bulbul, White-naped Pheasant Pigeon, Guam Rail, White-breasted Wood Swallow, Bali Mynah, Asian Fairy Bluebird
  3. Mexico: Thick-billed Parrot
  4. African Savannah: Buff-crested Bustard, Golden-breasted Starling, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, Speckled Mousebird, Violet-backed Starling
  5. Southeast Asia: Rhinoceros Hornbill
  6. Northern Oceans #1: Atlantic Puffin, Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Common Eider
  7. Northern Oceans #2: Horned Puffin, Common Murre
  8. Sub-Antarctic Coast: King Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Magellanic penguin, Chiloe Wigeon

African Penguin Point (New!) & Wolf Woods
  1. African Penguin, White-breasted Cormorant, Yellow-billed Duck
  2. Grey Fox
  3. North American River Otter
  4. Mexican Wolf
  5. Barred Owl

Children’s Zoo
  1. Southern Tamandua (Only visible behind the second exhibit)
  2. Brazilian Porcupine
  3. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
  4. Linne’s Two-toed Sloth
  5. Bearcat
  6. Radiated Tortoise
  7. Southern Three-banded Armadillo
  8. Domestic Duck
  9. Nigerian Dwarf Goat
  10. Barnyard (Has been closed to the public for years, but you can still see some species from the Red Pandas. They also get walks around the zoo. Last I saw, there was a Llama and an Alpaca but I can no longer say they're there now)

Red Pandas & Gibbon Islands
  1. Red Panda
  2. Siamang
  3. Buff-cheeked Gibbon

Swan Lake
  1. Trumpeter Swan (and various wildlife and waterfowl the zoo cares for such as Ruddy Ducks, Northern Pintails, Mallards, Redheads, and a lot more)
  2. Red-crowned Crane

Africa
  1. Masai Giraffe
  2. Greater Flamingo
  3. Cheetah Encounter Show (I haven't attended in years, but I do know they show off these species are at least did in recent past): Cheetah (on display even after the show), Red River Hog, Serval, Domestic Cat, African Crested Porcupine
  4. Cheetah (Separate exhibit)
  5. White-bearded Wildebeest, Lesser Kudu, Impala, Thomson’s Gazelle, Common Ostrich, Pink-backed Pelican, Grey Crowned Crane, Saddle-billed Stork, Lappet-faced Vulture, Ruppell’s Vulture, Kenyan Crested Guineafowl
  6. African Painted Dog
  7. Meerkat
  8. Common Hippopotamus

Discovery Forest
(Opened only on the weekends, I never went in this year, but I assume it still contains these species)
  1. Blue-and-gold Macaw
  2. Linne’s Two Toed Sloth, Southern Three-banded Armadillo, Six-banded Armadillo, Screaming Hairy Armadillo (armadillos rotates)

Elephant Reserve
  1. Sumatran Elephant, Indian Elephant (Two exhibits)

List of Animals No Longer Displayed to the Public/at the Zoo as of November 2021
  1. Polar Bear
  2. Caracal
  3. California Sea Lion
  4. Bobcat
  5. Bat-eared Fox (Still an ambassador animal)
  6. Warthog
  7. Lace Monitor
  8. Jamaican Boa
  9. Turquoise Dwarf Gecko
  10. Yellow-tailed Cribo
  11. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
  12. Green Tree Python
  13. Golden Dart Frog
  14. Black Widow
  15. Magnificent Flower Beetle
  16. Indian Ornamental Tarantula
  17. Giant Spiny Leaf Insect
  18. Common Diving Beetle
  19. Tin Foil Beetle
  20. Ackie Dwarf Monitor
  21. Dollar Sunfish
  22. Cattle Egret
  23. Crested Coua
  24. Yellow-fronted Canary
  25. Smew
  26. Black-faced Ibis
List of Returned Species Moved to Other Attractions
  1. Red and Grey Kangaroos (example: Were once displayed in the Children’s Zoo and at other points in the zoo’s history)
  2. Green Tree Monitor (Came from Dragons!)
  3. Quince Monitor (Dragons!)
  4. Little Penguin (Children's Zoo)
  5. Solomon Island Skink (Possibly once displayed in the Reptile House)
  6. Visayan Warty Pig (One of two species from the now closed Wildlife Canyon that is still at the zoo)
  7. Hammerkop (Jungle Trails)
  8. Yellow-billed Duck (Wings of the World)
  9. Brazilian Porcupine (Wasn’t displayed, but is and was one of the zoo’s most known ambassador animals)
Confirmed Species Gained Since 2019: 23

This list will be updated at the end of 2023
 
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