Non-Avian Species in Aviaries

- Red duiker in Doué la Fontaine
- Pudu and Armadillos in Doué la Fontaine (although they have separate exhibits and can not access visitors paths)

And then if you consider the many tropical houses to be aviaries, which in a way they are, then many free-ranging or island living primates (lemurs in Zürich, Macaques in Prague (on an island but the birds are free-ranging)
 
Rayane said:
And then if you consider the many tropical houses to be aviaries, which in a way they are
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In that case, the NC Zoo's Desert Dome (formerly Sonora Desert) would also count. It displays or displayed the following in open air habitats with birds flying overhead.

-chuckwallas (common and San Esteban)
-desert tortoises
-desert box turtles
-collared lizards
-desert iguanas
-crevice spiny lizards
-pancake tortoises
-ornate mastigures
-plated lizards
-girdled lizards
-frilled lizards
-blue tongue skinks
-bearded dragons
 
Some pictures of the ones you were interested in from the Zoochat gallery (credit to @mhale and @carlos55 ) :

Volcano rabbit and painted bunting enclosure at Los Coyotes zoo: volcano rabbit exhibit - ZooChat

Rodrigues fruit bat now apparently mixed with turaco and Luzon bleeding heart doves at Drusillas zoo : Mixed enclosure at Drusillas Park, 20 March 2011 - ZooChat

Squirrel monkey / capybara / Patagonian conure / trumpeter mixed enclosure at Chapultepec zoo: mixed species tropical forest - ZooChat

Brocket deer / agouti / occelated turkey / currosaw (not depicted) mixed enclosure at Chapultepec zoo : mexican brocket deer chapultepec zoo - ZooChat

Iguana mix with midas tamarin / keel billed toucan (not depicted) and burrowing owl (not depicted) : Red-handed Tamarins and Iguana - ZooChat

Unfortunately no pictures available of the potoroo / lorikeet / cockatoo enclosure at Drusillas though.
 
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Royal Safari Garden and Lembang Park and Zoo have turtles in the pond of their bird aviary.
Taman Safari Bogor moved the large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) from the Nocturnal House to the Bird Aviary, some also moved to the Bali myna's aviary in the Baby Zoo.
 
Incidentally, does anyone know whether long nosed potoroos and Australasian birds are a common mix in aviaries in zoos?

Because I don't think I've seen this sort of mix at another zoo since but it strikes me as being a particularly good one and especially given how unaggressive potoroos are and that both come from the same biogeographic region.
 
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Here is a list of mammals I have seen exhibited inside exhibits that also have birds free-flying birds. I might do reptiles later:

-Rock Hyrax
-Giant Anteater
-Hoofmann's Two-toed Sloth
-Linnie's Two-toed Sloth
-Geoffroy's Tamarin
-Goldie's Marmoset
-Golden Lion Tamarin
-Cotton-top Tamarin
-Common Squirrel Monkey
-Yucatan Spider Monkey
-Allen's Swamp Monkey
-Angolan Colobus
-Schmidt's Red-tailed Guenon
-Northern White-cheeked Gibbon
-Bornean Orangutan
-Western Lowland Gorilla
-Domestic Rabbit
-Eastern Gray Squirrel
-North American Porcupine
-Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
-Red-rumped Agouti
-Large Flying Fox
-Little Golden-mantled Flying Fox
-Reeves' Muntjac
-Greater Malayan Chevrotain
-Royal Antelope
-Klipspringer
-Transcaspian Urial
-Visayan Warty Pig
-Asian Small-clawed Otter
-Red Panda
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I’m surprised there can be primates with small birds and a red panda
 
Noah Butas said:
I’m surprised there can be primates with small birds and a red panda
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Err...
This isn’t a list of a giant mixed species exhibit, just a list of animals that have been mixed with free flying birds in the past. Of course orangutans, gorillas, warty pigs, otters and red pandas have never been mixed...
 
At Vogelpark Avifauna - the Netherlands Javan mouse deer are kept together with a whole range of smaller and medium-sized birds in one of the sections of the Tropical House and in an out-door-aviary the same species is kept together with hornbills and wild fowl.
 
The National Aquarium (US) has a large rainforest pyramid at the top floor with free flying birds, sloths, tamarins, tortoises and turtles. They also have an Australian river exhibit with free flying birds, lots of turtles, flying foxes, and water dragons.
At other zoos I've seen Capybaras and tortoises in aviaries.
 
It must be noted that most larger birds don't have access to the caimans, the entire caiman section is netted off. Only the smaller songbirds and emerald pigeons are found there on the regular. However the ducks, pheasants and crested ibises are kept out of there quite efficiently.


Antwerp houses African buffaloes with birds b.t.w.. A very nice combination.
 
Fignewton said:
The National Aquarium (US) has a large rainforest pyramid at the top floor with free flying birds, sloths, tamarins, tortoises and turtles. They also have an Australian river exhibit with free flying birds, lots of turtles, flying foxes, and water dragons.
At other zoos I've seen Capybaras and tortoises in aviaries.
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As I said yesterday, the Australia area no longer has flying foxes.The monitors are in an exhibit with glass, closed off from the free-flying animals.
 
In Pairi Daiza Two-toed sloths are kept in the oldest Tropical House together with all kinds of birds - Crowned and Maned pigeons, weavers, birds of paradise, kingfisher and so on.
 
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