Nocturnal Houses Species Lists

lintworm said:
Even in the final years I still remember seeing nine-banded armadillo + big hairy armadillo. I don't remember ever seeing elephant shrew in there, but I have memories of a tree boa. If I remember correctly the turtle was some kind of softshell turtle, but I am not sure about that...
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If I remember it correctly, at the end the nine-banded were gone, but for some time both species were indeed kept; the nine-banded armadillo in the second main enclosure with the night monkeys and the hairy armadillo in the third main enclosure with potto, cuscus and sugar glider.

Elephants shrews were kept at one of the first enclosures at the right hand side, but only in the very end of the times of the Jungle by Night.

I'm not sure about the turtle too, so I listed it as a "freshwater turtle", but I think you are right.
 
Nine-banded is a bit of a loss; the species is now all-but extinct in Europe and I missed it at two UK collections :P
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Nine-banded is a bit of a loss; the species is now all-but extinct in Europe
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At least in the zoos I visited, it was the most common species of armadillo around 2000. I saw nine-banded armadillos in the aforementioned collections of Artis and Rotterdam, Arnhem, Emmen, Dortmund, Berlin and Antwerp in that period. All are gone now.
 
Even in the US, where nine-banded is native, this species is uncommon in zoos. I only saw it in 1 major zoo (Omaha) and 2 zoos specializing in native species. I don’t have any numbers to back this up, by my impression is that three-banded armadillo is much more common
 
Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1989:

Tawny Frogmouth
Short-beaked Echidna
Kowari
Ground Cuscus
Brushtail Possum
Suger Glider
Common Wombat
Rufous Bettong
Dwarf Armadillo
Screaming Hairy Armadillo
Aardvark
Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
Egyptian Fruit Bat
Fennec Fox
Zorilla
Striped Skunk
Leopard Cat
Aardwolf
Common Genet
Pardine Genet
Masked Palm Civet
Springhare
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
Degu
Brazilian Guinea Pig
Yellow-toothed Cavy
Rock Cavy
Darwin's Leaf-eared Mouse
Cotton Rat
Reed Vole
Roborovski Hamster
Djungarian Hamster
Syrian Hamster
Eurasian Harvest Mouse
African Pygmy Mouse
Eastern Spiny Mouse
Cairo Spiny Mouse
Crete Spiny Mouse
Asian Garden Dormouse
Greater Cane Rat
Egyptian Gerbil
Mongolian Gerbil
Striped Field Mouse
Wood Mouse
Multimammate Mouse
House Mouse
Black Rat
Giant Pouched Rat
Gray Mouse Lemur
Gray Slender Loris
Sunda Slow Loris
Potto
Senegal Galago
Dwarf Galago
Greater Galago
Night Monkey

Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1999:

Corn Snake
Tawny Frogmouth
Ground Cuscus
Gray Short-tailed Opossum
Brushtail Possum
Striped Possum
Suger Glider
Common Wombat
Woylie
Rufous Bettong
Nine-banded Armadillo
Large Hairy Armadillo
Aardvark
Common Tenrec
Lowland Streaked Tenrec
Greater Hedgehog Tenrec
Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
Short-eared Elephant Shrew
Ethiopian Hedgehog
Egyptian Fruit Bat
Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bat
Fennec Fox
Lesser Grison
Zorilla
Kinkajou
Common Genet
Springhare
Merriam's Kangaroo Rat
Roborovski Hamster
Djungarian Hamster
Northern Mole Vole
Tundra Vole
Cotton Rat
Lesser Egyptian Jerboa
Mongolian Gerbil
Fat-tailed Gerbil
Least Gerbil
Pale Gerbil
Persian Jird
Bushy-tailed Jird
Tristram's Jird
Shaw's Jird
Gray Spiny Mouse
Cairo Spiny Mouse
Crete Spiny Mouse
Spinifex Hopping Mouse
African Pygmy Mouse
Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
African Grass Rat
Gambian Pouched Rat
Emin's Pouched Rat
Ansell's Mole-rat
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
Long-tailed Chinchilla
Degu
Cururo
Rock Cavy
Southern Mountain Cavy
Common Yellow-toothed Cavy
Gundi
Gray Mouse Lemur
Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur
Gray Slender Loris
Sunda Slow Loris
Pygmy Slow Loris
Potto
Senegal Galago
Three-striped Night Monkey
 
Thought I would edit the above lists down in order to remark on which species I have not seen :p

Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1989:

Rufous Bettong
Masked Palm Civet
Darwin's Leaf-eared Mouse
Greater Cane Rat
Dwarf Galago

Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1999:

Gray Short-tailed Opossum
Rufous Bettong
Nine-banded Armadillo
Lowland Streaked Tenrec
Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bat
Lesser Grison
Northern Mole Vole
Tundra Vole
Spinifex Hopping Mouse
Southern Mountain Cavy
Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur

Rather a lot of the above are entirely absent from Europe now.
 
These are all of the AZA USA zoos with buildings formally called "nocturnal" in some form, according to zoo maps/exhibit lists on websites. A lot of zoos now keep a few nocturnal animals in a section of a small animal house (Philly being an example).

Bronx Zoo – Mouse House (not all species on website)
--Chinchilla
--Fennec Fox
--Short-eared Elephant Shrew

Cincinnati Zoo – “Night Hunters”
--Aardvark
--Aardwolf (only ones in USA)
--Bat-eared Fox
--Bearcat
--Black-footed Cat
--Bobcat
--Burmese Python
--Caracal
--Civet
--Clouded Leopard
--Fennec Fox
--Fishing Cat
--Fossa
--Garnett’s Galago
--Giant Fruit Bat
--Pallas’ Cat
--Potto
--Pygmy Slow Loris
--Sand Cat
--Southern Brazilian Ocelot
--Tayra
--Vampire Bat

Lake Superior Zoo – “Nocturnal Building”
--African Straw-colored Fruit Bat
--Burrowing Owl
--European Glass Lizard
--Gopher Tortoise
--Kinkajou
--Large-spotted Genet
--Linne’s Two-toed Sloth
--Pallas’ Cat
--Seba’s Shorttailed Fruit Bat
--Six-banded Armadillo
--Southern Flying Squirrel
--Speckled Mousebird
--Spectacled Owl
--Swift Fox

Maryland Zoo – Has a cave, but no species listed

Memphis Zoo – “Animals of the Night”
--Aardvark
--African Crested Porcupine
--Agouti
--Binturong
--Blind Cave Fish
--Bulldog Bat
--Chinchilla
--Egyptian Rousettus Bat
--Fossa
--Greater Bushbaby
--Kinkajou
--Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
--Mongoose Lemure
--Naked Mole Rat
--Owl Monkey
--Prehensile Tailed Porcupine
--Pygmy Loris
--Seba’s Short-tailed Bat
--Short-tailed Opossum
--Six-banded Armadillo
--Slender Loris
--Spotted Genet
--Tamandua
--Three-banded Armadillo
--Two-Toed Sloth
--Vampire Bat
--Wombat

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo – “Kingdoms of the Night” World’s largest nocturnal exhibit, located under the Desert Dome. Includes a canyon, eucalyptus forest, wet cave, dry cave, and swamp. These are the species I could find in articles, since their website doesn’t mention any; there’s about 75 species in total.
--Aardvark
--American Alligator
--Bats (8 species totaling over 1,000 animals)
--Beaver
--Blind cave fish
--Bushy-tailed jird
--Fossa
--Greater bushbaby
--Muskrat
--Prehensile-tailed porcupine
--Wallaby
--Three-banded armadillo

Rosamond Gifford Zoo – “Adaptation of Animals: Nocturnal Animals”
--Clouded Leopard
--Egyptian Fruit Bat
--Fennec Fox
--Hoffman’s Two-toed Sloth
--Naked Mole Rat
--North American River Otters
--White-Winged Vampire Bat
 
TinoPup said:
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo – “Kingdoms of the Night” World’s largest nocturnal exhibit, located under the Desert Dome. Includes a canyon, eucalyptus forest, wet cave, dry cave, and swamp. These are the species I could find in articles, since their website doesn’t mention any; there’s about 75 species in total.
--Aardvark
--American Alligator
--Bats (8 species totaling over 1,000 animals)
--Beaver
--Blind cave fish
--Bushy-tailed jird
--Fossa
--Greater bushbaby
--Muskrat
--Prehensile-tailed porcupine
--Wallaby
--Three-banded armadillo
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Exhibit-by-exhibit list, from my visit last year:
1. Naked mole rat
2-3. Fossa
4. Garnett’s galago, springhaas
5. Emerald tree boa, Amazon milk frog
6. Green tree python, magnificent tree frog
7. Bushy-tailed jird
8. Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
9. Puerto Rican crested toad
10. Mexican leaf frog
11. Mountain chicken
12. Haitian boa
13. Garnett’s galago, springhaas, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
14. Garnett’s galago, aardvark, brush-tailed porcupine
15. Blind cavefish
16. Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat
17. Blind cavefish
Note: in this same room stands an empty exhibit that formerly housed Japanese giant salamander
18. Blind cavefish
19. Amethystine python
20. Giant monkey leaf frog, smooth-sided toad
21. Red-rumped agouti, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth, lemurine night monkey, hybrid night monkey, prehensile tailed porcupine, southern three-banded armadillo, screaming hairy armadillo, nine-banded armadillo
22. Tammar wallaby, short-beaked echidna
23. Northern Australian snake-necked turtle, Fly River turtle, pink-bellied side-necked turtle, Krefft’s river turtle, Australian freshwater crocodile
24. Vampire bat
25. Ruwenzori long-haired fruit bat
26. Egyptian fruit bat
27. Greater spear-nosed bat, greater bulldog bat
28. Little golden mantled flying fox, Indian flying fox
29. Cope’s grey tree frog, green tree frog
30. Black pine snake
31. Corn snake
32. American toad
33. American alligator
34. American beaver, spotted gar, cooters, snapping turtles, softshell turtles (unspecified)
35. Alligator snapping turtle
36. American alligator (leucistic)
37. Nutria
38. American bullfrog, yellow-blotched map turtle, western painted turtle
39. Eastern indigo snake
40. Spectacled caiman
41. American crocodile, American alligator, common snapping turtle

Around 60 species if I counted correctly.
 
Bristol Zoo

Yellow mongoose

Aruba Island rattlesnake

Eastern quoll

Kowari

Gila monster

Turkish spiny mouse

Pygmy slow loris, Java mouse deer

New Guinea ground cuscus, western woylie

Aye-aye

Aye-aye

Grey mouse lemur, Malagasy jumping rat

Linnaeus’ two-toed sloth

Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko

Bullhorn cockroach

Naked mole rat

Mexican blind cave fish

Giant tailless whip scorpion

Emperor scorpion (if I remember rightly)

Black rat

Western house mouse

Siamese fighting fish (in a small fish tank as part of the theming inside the ‘kitchen area’ where the rat and mouse enclosures are)

Livingstone’s flying fox (admittedly in an outdoor walkthrough enclosure, but counted as part of the nocturnal house team’s charges)



The mongoose and rattlesnake live in faint daylight conditions, so similar to dusk....
 
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The current list of "De Nacht" in Amersfoort:

Mammals
Woylie
Long-nosed Potoroo
Feather-tailed Glider
Two-toed Sloth
Votsotsa
Azara's Agouti
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
Senegal Galago
Northern Night Monkey

Other
Kaiser's Spotted Newt
Colombian Aquatic Caecilian
Mexican Blind Cave Fish
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
Black Emperor Scorpion
 
I can provide a list from the night room of Riga Zoo's tropical house as of my visit today:

Mammals:
- Asia Minor spiny mouse
- Belanger's tree shrew
- Brush-tailed bettong
- Bushy-tailed gerbil
- Dourouculi
- Eastern quoll
- Kinkajou
- Malagasy giant rat
- New Guinea ground cuscus
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat
- Rock cavy
- Seba's short-tailed bat
- Senegal bushbaby
- Sugar glider

Herps:
- Cuban boa
- Reinwardt's flying frog

Invertebrates:
- African cave cricket
- Asian wood scorpion
- Bell cricket
- Emperor scorpion
- Giant millipede
 
AWP said:
Mammals
Woylie
Long-nosed Potoroo
Feather-tailed Glider
Two-toed Sloth
Votsotsa
Azara's Agouti
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
Senegal Galago
Northern Night Monkey
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Are you sure about that? The Night Monkey group present are supposed to be Grey-handed, not Northern - although when I visited I strongly suspected they actually held a mixed group of Grey-handed and Bolivian.
 
zoo_enthusiast said:
Even in the US, where nine-banded is native, this species is uncommon in zoos. I only saw it in 1 major zoo (Omaha) and 2 zoos specializing in native species. I don’t have any numbers to back this up, by my impression is that three-banded armadillo is much more common
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Yes, I would agree three-banded is much more common. I have neither seen nor am I aware of any zoo I've been to housing nine-banded. Wondering if maybe this is partly because it tends to be considered a nuisance species across much of its range? I have seen three-banded, six-banded, and southern hairy armadillos at different zoos along the West coast though.
 
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Species at the nocturnal house at Zoomat, Zoologico Miguel Álvarez del Toro, Chiapas,México
Mexican pacas, nine banded armadillo, Cacomixtle or ringtail,kinkajou, philander opossum,wooly opossum, mexican tree porcupine, spotted skunk, striped skunk, hooded skunk, also a colony of mexican fruit bats not identified by species.
 
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TeaLovingDave said:
Are you sure about that? The Night Monkey group present are supposed to be Grey-handed, not Northern - although when I visited I strongly suspected they actually held a mixed group of Grey-handed and Bolivian.
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I translated it wrong. The species of Amersfoort is Aotus lemurinus. I though this species was named "northern" in English, but apparently and strangely it is uses for the more southern living A. trivirgatus.
 
AWP said:
The species of Amersfoort is Aotus lemurinus.
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To be specific they claim to hold Aotus grisemembra, which was split from A. lemurinus some years ago.... though as I already stated I strongly suspect they actually hold a mixture of grisemembra and A. azarae, given how different the two species look and how noticeable the presence of individuals resembling the latter was when I visited with @ShonenJake13
 
I recieved the booklet "Nachttierhäuser in Zoologischen Gärten" today. It's a great overview of nocturnal houses worldwide. As a German book, the largest sections are about Berlin en Frankfurt (including a full species list with holding years and year of first breeding success), but with substantial sections on other major nocturnal houses in Europe, Australia, USA and Japan.

The booklet even contains a little map of the old nocturnal house of Artis and some notes on the holding of nocturnal animals in the zoo until the opening of the nocturnal house (Stinkhuis and Vossegang are mentioned)!

If someone has a special request about a nocturnal house, I can look it up.
 
The original setup for "Wereld der Duisternis" (1963) of Artis, Amsterdam:

1. Kinkajou (daylight enclosure)
2. Kinkajou
3. Senegal galago, potto
4. Dwarf galago, slow loris, southern flying squirrel
5. Flying-fox
6. Angwantibo
7. Lesser hedgehog tenrec
8. Gerbil
9. Malayan pangolin, sugar glider
10. Prehensile-tailed porcupine, Eurasian hedgehog
11. Two-toed sloth, sugar glider
12. Douroucouli
13. Grey cuscus, armadillo
14. Spotted cuscus
15. Malayan pangolin
16. Aardvark, greater galago
 
What makes a great nocturnal display?

Research by Fuller indicates red light is far superior than blue (at least in the limited number of species studied). I think further research is indicated as well as testing moonlight levels of white light. At the time of the study (early 2010ish) in America red and blue were used about equally.

Many species are way underrepresented in zoos that would fit well in nocturnal displays -bats, rodents prosimians and night monkeys especially.

I think endangered rodents are especially under served by captive breeding efforts.

One thing that I think would be fascinating would be to take two identical side by side exhibits- with reverse light cycles to each other to show how animals use a particular space day and night.
 
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