A few days ago, I got the opportunity to visit Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. There were no updated species list for this zoo, so I decided to make one. This zoo is absolutely huge, and it took me seven hours to walk through the whole thing, and I didn't even have time to visit every single area. For that reason, there are some exhibits or areas of the zoo that I have excluded on this list.
Bay Family Children's Adventure Trails: This area was mostly just a part of the zoo that was made for little kids, with playgrounds and things like that. There are some animals in there such as domestic goats, budgerigars, and I'm pretty sure black-tailed prairie dogs, but I think that's it. I decided to skip it, since there were much more interesting parts of the zoo to see.
Hubbard Gorilla Valley & Hubbard Orangutan Forest: These areas of the zoo are currently closed for construction. Other than gorillas and orangutans, I don't know what else was in this area of the zoo.
Simmon's Aviary: This part of the zoo was also closed due to construction. I know there were once various species of flamingos, storks, ibises, egrets, and waterfowl exhibited here prior to its closure. I was planning to wait for this exhibit to open before I came to the zoo, but that was before I found out it was opening after I had to move.
Stingray Beach: I had to skip this area due to time restraints. I don't know what species of stingrays are exhibited here.
Hubbard Expedition Madagascar: Probably the one I'm most disappointed about missing, this building was still closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. I would've seen it, if I would've waited until it opened on June 3, which I didn't know until I was already at the zoo.
Excluding the listed exhibits above, every other exhibit that was currently open during my visit will be included on this list. On another note, I'm sorry if I miss any species. I try to write down every single species I see, but some animals have unspecific/no signage.
Red Text: Animal Off-Exhibit/No-Show
Blue Text: Present, but missing signage
Regular Text: Animal present on my visit
Species sharing an exhibit will be written on the same line.
These animals are listed in order from when you first enter the exhibit, from when you exit.
This list is accurate as of 5/29/21.
Desert Dome:
Free-Flight Species: Hooded Oriole, White-Winged Dove, Scott's Oriole, Gambel's Quail, Star Finch, Speckled Mousebird, Yellow-Crowned Bishop, Northern Red Bishop, Southern Red Bishop, Chestnut Weaver, Salvadori's Weaver
Bat-Eared Fox
White-Headed Buffalo Weaver
Blacksmith Plover
Klipspringer, Nile Softshell Turtle, African Helmeted Turtle, Various cichlids
African Wildcat
Common Dwarf Mongoose, Various cichlids
Hottentot Teal, Chestnut Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Yellow-Billed Duck, Cape Teal, Maned Duck, Various cichlids
Puff Adder
Zebra Spitting Cobra
Namibian Sand Gecko
Cape Coral Cobra
Cape Cobra
Black Mamba
Rough-Scaled Python
Lace Monitor
King Brown Snake
Inland Taipan
Coastal Taipan
Brown Tree Snake
Rough-Scaled Death Adder
Collett’s Snake
Kimberly Rock Monitor
Perentie
Laughing Kookaburra, Tawny Frogmouth, Masked Lapwing
Cunningham's Skink
Eastern Pilbara Spiny-Tailed Skink
Collared Peccary
Ocelot
Burrowing Owl
Burrowing Owl (again), Greater Roadrunner
Bobcat
Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana
Giant Horned Lizard, Common Chuckwalla, Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Common Collared Lizard
Western Diamondback Rattlensnake
Gambel's Quail (off-exhibit)
Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana (again), Sonoran Box Turtle
Turkey Vulture
Swift Fox
Arizona Black RattlesnakeCantil Viper
Mexican Beaded Lizard
Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
Mottled Rock Rattlesnake
Sidewinder
Redtail Splitfin
White-Nosed Coati
Mahoney Kingdoms Of The Night
Naked Mole Rat
Fossa
Garnett's Galago, South African Springhare, African Brushtail Porcupine
Amazon Milky Tree Frog
Green Tree Python, Magnificent Tree Frog
Woma Python
Jamaican Boa
Mexican Leaf Frog
Hispaniola Boa
Yellow Anaconda
Aardvark, South African Springhaas, Potto, African Brushtail Porcupine, Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth
Seba's Short-Tailed Bat
Mexican Blind Cave Fish
Lake Titicaca Frog
Common Vampire Bat
Banded Knob-Tailed Gecko
Gray-Bellied Night Monkey, St. Vincent Agouti, Southern Three-Banded Armadillo, Nine Banded Armadillo, Screaming Hairy Armadillo
Johnson's Crocodile, Fly River Turtle, Krefft's River Turtle, Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle, Pink-bellied Side-necked Turtle
Tammar Wallaby, Short-Beaked Echidna
Common Vampire Bat (again)
Greater Spear-Nosed Bat, Greater Bulldog Bat
Indian Flying Fox, Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox, Egyptian Fruit Bat
Tiger Salamander
American Toad
Corn Snake
American Beaver, Florida Softshell Turtle, Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar
American Alligator
Nutria (off-exhibit)
Yellow-Blotched Map Turtle, Western Painted Turtle, American Bullfrog
Eastern Indigo Snake
Spectacled Caiman
American Crocodile, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Common Snapping Turtle
Upper Level of Lied Jungle (Lower level is currently closed):
Free Flight Species: Indian Flying Fox, Egyptian Fruit Bat, Western Crowned Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Imperial Pigeon sp., Great Argus, Sunbittern, Crested Oropendola, Radjah Shelduck, Baer's Pochard, White-Winged Duck, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Hadada Ibis, Black Crake, Hammerkop
White-Crested Laughing Thrush, Luzon Bleeding-Heart
White-Handed Gibbon, Asian Small-Clawed Otter
White-Handed Gibbon (again), Indian Crested Porcupine, Painted Terrapin, Various species of fish
Solomon Island Eyelash Frog, Splendid Tree Frog
Boyd's Forest Dragon, Magnificent Tree Frog
Blood Python
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Malayan Tapir, François' Langur
Pygmy Hippopotamus, Diana Monkey, Debrazza's Monkey, Wolf's Guenon, Nile Softshell Turtle, Various cichlids
Violet Turaco, Black-And-Rufous Elephant Shrew
Spotted-Necked Otter
Black Howler, Malayan Tapir (again)
Green-And-Black Poison Dart Frog, Hourglass Frog
Collared Tree Lizard, Smooth-Sided Toad
Smokey Jungle Frog
Yellow Anaconda
Plumed Basilisk
Scarlet Macaw, Blue-And-Gold Macaw
Black-Headed Spider Monkey, Red-Backed Bearded Saki, Common Squirrel Monkey, Lowland Paca, Pirarucu, Tambaqui, Ocellate River Stingray
Suzanne And Walter Scott Aquarium
Atlantic Puffin, Tufted Puffin, Common Murre
King Penguin, Gentoo Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin
For the rest of the animals exhibited here, I have decided to just provide an alphabetical list of the animas found here. I really don't remember what animals are exhibited with what other animals, in what order. For that reason, sorry if I miss anything on this list. I'm pretty sure I missed at least a couple, but I can't remember what they are. I will still however, list species that had no signage (thanks to @GreatArgus and @JoKuyken for helping me identify some of those!)
African Moony
Atlantic Stingray
Atlantic Tarpon
Banded Pipefish
Barred Flagtail
Bat Star
Bee Shrimp
Bicolored Foxface
Big-Belly Sea Horse
Blue Chromis
Blue Girdled Angelfish
Blue-Green Chromis
Blue-Spotted Maskray
Blue-Striped Grunt
Bluespine Unicornfish
Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
Bluestripe Snapper
Bonnethead Shark
Bristletail Filefish
California Sheephead
Cardinal Tetra
Chain Dogfish
Convict Tang
Coral Catshark
Coral Cleaner Shrimp
Cownose Ray
Diana’s Hogfish
Dragon Moray
Emperor Angelfish
Emperor Red Snapper
Emperor Tetra
Forcepsfish
Foxfish
Garibaldi
Golden Trevally
Goliath Grouper
Green Moray Eel
Greenbloch Parrotfish
Green Surf Anemone
Halloween Hermit Crab
Harlequin Rasbora
Harlequin Tuskfish
Japanese Spider Crab
Jointed Razorfish
Kelp Rockfish
Long-Spine Porcupinefish
Longhorn Cowfish
Masked Angelfish
Midnight Parrotfish
Midnight Snapper
Mimic Surgeonfish
Moon Jellyfish
Moorish Idol
Nurse Shark
Old Wife
Orangebar Surgeonfish
Oriental Sweetlips
Ornate Boxfish
Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish
Pacific Giant Octopus
Pacific Sailfin Tang
Pacific Sea Nettle
Pajama Cardinalfish
Paletail Unicornfish
Palometta
Percula Clownfish
Pink Skunk Clownfish
Porkfish
Powder Blue Tang
Purple Queen Anthias
Pyramid Butterflyfish
Queen Angelfish
Quillback Rockfish
Raccoon Butterflyfish
Red Sea Sailfin Tang
Red-Bellied Piranha
Redtail Catfish
Reticulate Boxfish
Royal Angelfish
Royal Blue Tang
Sandbar Shark
Schooling Bannerfish
Scribbled Angelfish
Scribbled Rabbitfish
Sea Goldie
Silver Arowana
Smallmouth Grunt
Snowflake Moray
Sohal Surgeonfish
South American Sea Nettle
Southern Stingray
Spiny Chromis
Spotted Garden Eel
Spotted Parrotfish
Stocky Anthias
Striped Blenny
Striped Surfperch
Sunburst Anthias
Sunflower Seastar
Swell Shark
West Africa Sea Nettle
Whitecheek Surgeonfish
Whitespotted Surgeonfish
Yellow Tang
Yellowbar Angelfish
Yellowtail Coris
Zebra Shark
Berniece Grewcock Butterfly and Insect Pavilion
Note: Animals listed as their scientific name have no official English name to differentiate it from the other members of its genus, or at least none that I'm aware of.
Red Postman Butterfly (the only species I was able to identify on my own, since there was no signage for any of the butterflies)
Multiple Heliconius species/variants
Crested Partridge
Golden Silk Orb-Weaver
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Common Carrion Beetle
Salmon Pink Bird-Eating Tarantula
Cameroon Red Baboon Tarantula
Mecopoda elongata
Giant Water Bug
Spiny Stick Insect
Seven-Spotted Cockroach
Black Soldier Fly
Orange-Spotted Roach
Common Pill-Bug
Garden Fruit Chafer
Saffron Finch
Black Beauty Walking Stick
Lesina blanchardi
Jungle Nymph
Jade-Headed Buffalo Beetle
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
Mexican Golden Red Rump Tarantula
Emperor Scorpion
Giant African Millipede
Blue Death-Feigning Beetle
African Grasslands & Lagoon Exhibits:
Okapi, Yellow-Backed Duiker, Northern Ground Hornbill
Klipspringer, Meerkat, Leopard Tortoise
White-Throated Monitor
Rock Hyrax, Crested Guineafowl, Superb Starling, Golden-Breasted Starling
Reticulated Giraffe, Southern White Rhinoceros, Lesser Kudu, Impala, Common Ostrich, White Stork
African Bush Elephant, Grant's Zebra, Impala
Pink-Backed Pelican, Blue-Winged Goose
Black-Handed Spider Monkey, Koi (lagoon island)
Cheetah
African Lion
Sable Antelope
African Spurred Tortoise
Bongo, Blue Crane
Asian Highlands:
Red Panda, Reeve's Muntjac
White-Naped Crane
Tufted Deer
Indian Rhinoceros, Père David's Deer
Sloth Bear
Amur Tiger
Snow Leopard
Sichuan Takin, Chinese Goral
Owen Sea Lion Shores:
California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal
And that is a full list of the animals that were in the areas that were open during my visit. Hope I helped anyone who needed an updated list
Bay Family Children's Adventure Trails: This area was mostly just a part of the zoo that was made for little kids, with playgrounds and things like that. There are some animals in there such as domestic goats, budgerigars, and I'm pretty sure black-tailed prairie dogs, but I think that's it. I decided to skip it, since there were much more interesting parts of the zoo to see.
Hubbard Gorilla Valley & Hubbard Orangutan Forest: These areas of the zoo are currently closed for construction. Other than gorillas and orangutans, I don't know what else was in this area of the zoo.
Simmon's Aviary: This part of the zoo was also closed due to construction. I know there were once various species of flamingos, storks, ibises, egrets, and waterfowl exhibited here prior to its closure. I was planning to wait for this exhibit to open before I came to the zoo, but that was before I found out it was opening after I had to move.
Stingray Beach: I had to skip this area due to time restraints. I don't know what species of stingrays are exhibited here.
Hubbard Expedition Madagascar: Probably the one I'm most disappointed about missing, this building was still closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. I would've seen it, if I would've waited until it opened on June 3, which I didn't know until I was already at the zoo.
Excluding the listed exhibits above, every other exhibit that was currently open during my visit will be included on this list. On another note, I'm sorry if I miss any species. I try to write down every single species I see, but some animals have unspecific/no signage.
Red Text: Animal Off-Exhibit/No-Show
Blue Text: Present, but missing signage
Regular Text: Animal present on my visit
Species sharing an exhibit will be written on the same line.
These animals are listed in order from when you first enter the exhibit, from when you exit.
This list is accurate as of 5/29/21.
Desert Dome:
Free-Flight Species: Hooded Oriole, White-Winged Dove, Scott's Oriole, Gambel's Quail, Star Finch, Speckled Mousebird, Yellow-Crowned Bishop, Northern Red Bishop, Southern Red Bishop, Chestnut Weaver, Salvadori's Weaver
Bat-Eared Fox
White-Headed Buffalo Weaver
Blacksmith Plover
Klipspringer, Nile Softshell Turtle, African Helmeted Turtle, Various cichlids
African Wildcat
Common Dwarf Mongoose, Various cichlids
Hottentot Teal, Chestnut Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Yellow-Billed Duck, Cape Teal, Maned Duck, Various cichlids
Puff Adder
Zebra Spitting Cobra
Namibian Sand Gecko
Cape Coral Cobra
Cape Cobra
Black Mamba
Rough-Scaled Python
Lace Monitor
King Brown Snake
Inland Taipan
Coastal Taipan
Brown Tree Snake
Rough-Scaled Death Adder
Collett’s Snake
Kimberly Rock Monitor
Perentie
Laughing Kookaburra, Tawny Frogmouth, Masked Lapwing
Cunningham's Skink
Eastern Pilbara Spiny-Tailed Skink
Collared Peccary
Ocelot
Burrowing Owl
Burrowing Owl (again), Greater Roadrunner
Bobcat
Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana
Giant Horned Lizard, Common Chuckwalla, Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Common Collared Lizard
Western Diamondback Rattlensnake
Gambel's Quail (off-exhibit)
Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana (again), Sonoran Box Turtle
Turkey Vulture
Swift Fox
Arizona Black RattlesnakeCantil Viper
Mexican Beaded Lizard
Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
Mottled Rock Rattlesnake
Sidewinder
Redtail Splitfin
White-Nosed Coati
Mahoney Kingdoms Of The Night
Naked Mole Rat
Fossa
Garnett's Galago, South African Springhare, African Brushtail Porcupine
Amazon Milky Tree Frog
Green Tree Python, Magnificent Tree Frog
Woma Python
Jamaican Boa
Mexican Leaf Frog
Hispaniola Boa
Yellow Anaconda
Aardvark, South African Springhaas, Potto, African Brushtail Porcupine, Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth
Seba's Short-Tailed Bat
Mexican Blind Cave Fish
Lake Titicaca Frog
Common Vampire Bat
Banded Knob-Tailed Gecko
Gray-Bellied Night Monkey, St. Vincent Agouti, Southern Three-Banded Armadillo, Nine Banded Armadillo, Screaming Hairy Armadillo
Johnson's Crocodile, Fly River Turtle, Krefft's River Turtle, Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle, Pink-bellied Side-necked Turtle
Tammar Wallaby, Short-Beaked Echidna
Common Vampire Bat (again)
Greater Spear-Nosed Bat, Greater Bulldog Bat
Indian Flying Fox, Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox, Egyptian Fruit Bat
Tiger Salamander
American Toad
Corn Snake
American Beaver, Florida Softshell Turtle, Alligator Gar, Longnose Gar
American Alligator
Nutria (off-exhibit)
Yellow-Blotched Map Turtle, Western Painted Turtle, American Bullfrog
Eastern Indigo Snake
Spectacled Caiman
American Crocodile, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Common Snapping Turtle
Upper Level of Lied Jungle (Lower level is currently closed):
Free Flight Species: Indian Flying Fox, Egyptian Fruit Bat, Western Crowned Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Imperial Pigeon sp., Great Argus, Sunbittern, Crested Oropendola, Radjah Shelduck, Baer's Pochard, White-Winged Duck, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Hadada Ibis, Black Crake, Hammerkop
White-Crested Laughing Thrush, Luzon Bleeding-Heart
White-Handed Gibbon, Asian Small-Clawed Otter
White-Handed Gibbon (again), Indian Crested Porcupine, Painted Terrapin, Various species of fish
Solomon Island Eyelash Frog, Splendid Tree Frog
Boyd's Forest Dragon, Magnificent Tree Frog
Blood Python
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Malayan Tapir, François' Langur
Pygmy Hippopotamus, Diana Monkey, Debrazza's Monkey, Wolf's Guenon, Nile Softshell Turtle, Various cichlids
Violet Turaco, Black-And-Rufous Elephant Shrew
Spotted-Necked Otter
Black Howler, Malayan Tapir (again)
Green-And-Black Poison Dart Frog, Hourglass Frog
Collared Tree Lizard, Smooth-Sided Toad
Smokey Jungle Frog
Yellow Anaconda
Plumed Basilisk
Scarlet Macaw, Blue-And-Gold Macaw
Black-Headed Spider Monkey, Red-Backed Bearded Saki, Common Squirrel Monkey, Lowland Paca, Pirarucu, Tambaqui, Ocellate River Stingray
Suzanne And Walter Scott Aquarium
Atlantic Puffin, Tufted Puffin, Common Murre
King Penguin, Gentoo Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin
For the rest of the animals exhibited here, I have decided to just provide an alphabetical list of the animas found here. I really don't remember what animals are exhibited with what other animals, in what order. For that reason, sorry if I miss anything on this list. I'm pretty sure I missed at least a couple, but I can't remember what they are. I will still however, list species that had no signage (thanks to @GreatArgus and @JoKuyken for helping me identify some of those!)
African Moony
Atlantic Stingray
Atlantic Tarpon
Banded Pipefish
Barred Flagtail
Bat Star
Bee Shrimp
Bicolored Foxface
Big-Belly Sea Horse
Blue Chromis
Blue Girdled Angelfish
Blue-Green Chromis
Blue-Spotted Maskray
Blue-Striped Grunt
Bluespine Unicornfish
Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
Bluestripe Snapper
Bonnethead Shark
Bristletail Filefish
California Sheephead
Cardinal Tetra
Chain Dogfish
Convict Tang
Coral Catshark
Coral Cleaner Shrimp
Cownose Ray
Diana’s Hogfish
Dragon Moray
Emperor Angelfish
Emperor Red Snapper
Emperor Tetra
Forcepsfish
Foxfish
Garibaldi
Golden Trevally
Goliath Grouper
Green Moray Eel
Greenbloch Parrotfish
Green Surf Anemone
Halloween Hermit Crab
Harlequin Rasbora
Harlequin Tuskfish
Japanese Spider Crab
Jointed Razorfish
Kelp Rockfish
Long-Spine Porcupinefish
Longhorn Cowfish
Masked Angelfish
Midnight Parrotfish
Midnight Snapper
Mimic Surgeonfish
Moon Jellyfish
Moorish Idol
Nurse Shark
Old Wife
Orangebar Surgeonfish
Oriental Sweetlips
Ornate Boxfish
Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish
Pacific Giant Octopus
Pacific Sailfin Tang
Pacific Sea Nettle
Pajama Cardinalfish
Paletail Unicornfish
Palometta
Percula Clownfish
Pink Skunk Clownfish
Porkfish
Powder Blue Tang
Purple Queen Anthias
Pyramid Butterflyfish
Queen Angelfish
Quillback Rockfish
Raccoon Butterflyfish
Red Sea Sailfin Tang
Red-Bellied Piranha
Redtail Catfish
Reticulate Boxfish
Royal Angelfish
Royal Blue Tang
Sandbar Shark
Schooling Bannerfish
Scribbled Angelfish
Scribbled Rabbitfish
Sea Goldie
Silver Arowana
Smallmouth Grunt
Snowflake Moray
Sohal Surgeonfish
South American Sea Nettle
Southern Stingray
Spiny Chromis
Spotted Garden Eel
Spotted Parrotfish
Stocky Anthias
Striped Blenny
Striped Surfperch
Sunburst Anthias
Sunflower Seastar
Swell Shark
West Africa Sea Nettle
Whitecheek Surgeonfish
Whitespotted Surgeonfish
Yellow Tang
Yellowbar Angelfish
Yellowtail Coris
Zebra Shark
Berniece Grewcock Butterfly and Insect Pavilion
Note: Animals listed as their scientific name have no official English name to differentiate it from the other members of its genus, or at least none that I'm aware of.
Red Postman Butterfly (the only species I was able to identify on my own, since there was no signage for any of the butterflies)
Multiple Heliconius species/variants
Crested Partridge
Golden Silk Orb-Weaver
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Common Carrion Beetle
Salmon Pink Bird-Eating Tarantula
Cameroon Red Baboon Tarantula
Mecopoda elongata
Giant Water Bug
Spiny Stick Insect
Seven-Spotted Cockroach
Black Soldier Fly
Orange-Spotted Roach
Common Pill-Bug
Garden Fruit Chafer
Saffron Finch
Black Beauty Walking Stick
Lesina blanchardi
Jungle Nymph
Jade-Headed Buffalo Beetle
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
Mexican Golden Red Rump Tarantula
Emperor Scorpion
Giant African Millipede
Blue Death-Feigning Beetle
African Grasslands & Lagoon Exhibits:
Okapi, Yellow-Backed Duiker, Northern Ground Hornbill
Klipspringer, Meerkat, Leopard Tortoise
White-Throated Monitor
Rock Hyrax, Crested Guineafowl, Superb Starling, Golden-Breasted Starling
Reticulated Giraffe, Southern White Rhinoceros, Lesser Kudu, Impala, Common Ostrich, White Stork
African Bush Elephant, Grant's Zebra, Impala
Pink-Backed Pelican, Blue-Winged Goose
Black-Handed Spider Monkey, Koi (lagoon island)
Cheetah
African Lion
Sable Antelope
African Spurred Tortoise
Bongo, Blue Crane
Asian Highlands:
Red Panda, Reeve's Muntjac
White-Naped Crane
Tufted Deer
Indian Rhinoceros, Père David's Deer
Sloth Bear
Amur Tiger
Snow Leopard
Sichuan Takin, Chinese Goral
Owen Sea Lion Shores:
California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal
And that is a full list of the animals that were in the areas that were open during my visit. Hope I helped anyone who needed an updated list
