Parque de Las Leyendas Parque de las Leyendas - Lima

You have to read it differently. This is clearly English as lost in transliteration / translation. I would say they meant to inform us that they have 130 primates of various species, most notably local species in their collection. Just look at the photographic material they include: howlers and spider monkeys and several tamarin species et cetera. I think I also saw woolly monkey amongst these, but not sure yet.
 
I was at Las Leyendas last year and I apologize that my review is still in the making but stranded halve-way and never got posted (sofar).

It's a very nice Zoo, with quite a lot of good, some bad and a handfull of terrible enclosures. Out of the top of my head, i count around 12 monkey species. Most notable the red Uakari and the black-faced spiders.

Huachipa holds a few more local rarities, most notably two species of titi (see pictures in the gallery).

I really need to finish and post those reviews :(
 
Figured I should probably post this here - I kind of forgot about this earlier but on my visit to Parque Las Leyendas on the 14th of this month I saw a Salvin's Albatross in the seabird aviary (with also Peruvian pelicans, Belcher's gull, Inca tern, Guanay cormorant and a Peruvian booby - most of which seemed local rescues).

Don't have much time to post more info about my visit now, but the rest seemed mainly species that were already known for the zoo, that of course include nice rarities like 2 South American fox species, still the pampas cats, the uakaris, monk sakis and many spider/capuchin monkeys etc. The cock-of-the-rock males on-display seemed to me like the aequitorialis subspecies.
 
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Checked a few recent videos of this little known zoo and some real rareties could be seen among them :
- White-winged trumpeter
- Southern sea-elephant
- Pampas cat
- Culpeo ( aka Andean fox )
- Sechuran fox ( aka Peruvian desert fox )
- Giant otter
- Red uakari
- Red-crowned titi
 
vogelcommando said:
Checked a few recent videos of this little known zoo and some real rareties could be seen among them :
- White-winged trumpeter
- Southern sea-elephant
- Pampas cat
- Culpeo ( aka Andean fox )
- Sechuran fox ( aka Peruvian desert fox )
- Giant otter
- Red uakari
- Red-crowned titi
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Most of these were still there, yeah, except for the sea elephant (a shame!).

Other rarities mammal-wise included Viscacha sp. (common name listed as Southern, scientific name listed as Northern), Large-headed capuchin (loads), White-fronted capuchin, White-bellied spider monkey, Black-faced spider monkey, Red howler monkey sp. (scientific name listed as Colombian, range map included is that of Purus...), Red uakari, Common woolly monkey, Monk saki, Saddleback tamarin sp., Pacarana, Taruca, and I'm sure I missed a few.
Help with the Viscacha and Red howler identification is welcome, not sure if there are already pictures online but I can upload some later if necessary. Don't have any good pictures of the Saddleback tamarin unfortunately.

Bird-wise, when it comes to rare species they had Spix's guan, Speckled chachalaca, indeed White-winged trumpeter, Jabiru, Roadside hawk, Savanna hawk, Variable hawk, Band-bellied owl, Brown-mandibled aracari, Curl-crested aracari, Crimson-rumped toucanet, Golden-collared toucanet, Plate-billed mountain toucan, Cuvier's white-throated toucan, Versicolored barbet, Mountain caracara, Painted parakeet, Bronze-winged parrot, White-eyed parakeet, aequitorialis Andean cock-of-the-rock, House wren, Grass-green tanager (turned completely blue, similar to how green magpies etc do in captivity!), Blue-winged mountain tanager, Blue-necked tanager, White-lored euphonia, and the seabirds mentioned above.

@Kifaru Bwana with the exception of the Jabiru outdoor pen and a few series of aviaries (a medium-sized area for parrots, a few aviaries/cages for raptors and a set of larger waterbird aviaries for the seabirds, penguins, flamingoes), almost all of the other bird exhibits are glass-fronted, indoors or semi-indoors. Surprisingly I don't think I saw any reptiles besides American crocodiles (in aviaries!), but it looked like they were building/restoring a smallish reptile house with glass-fronted large terraria.
 
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Vision said:
Most of these were still there, yeah, except for the sea elephant (a shame!).

Help with the Viscacha and Red howler identification is welcome, not sure if there are already pictures online but I can upload some later if necessary. Don't have any good pictures of the Saddleback tamarin unfortunately.
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Red howlers are probably Alouatta seniculus, but the identification on phenotype is difficult (or impossible). They usually have several types of saddleback tamarins, mostly Leontocebus leucogenys (with the black arms), depends on confiscations.
I added a picture of the viscachas, southern???
The sakis are not monk, but Pithecia inusta. They often have several subspecies of woolly monkeys, poeppigii and tschudii were visible the past few years. They had this year a yellow-tailed, but I think that it died.
 
20 year old female jaguar Lucia has passed away in the San Miguel establishment.
From their Instagram page.
 
Pepe said:
Red howlers are probably Alouatta seniculus, but the identification on phenotype is difficult (or impossible). They usually have several types of saddleback tamarins, mostly Leontocebus leucogenys (with the black arms), depends on confiscations.
I added a picture of the viscachas, southern???
The sakis are not monk, but Pithecia inusta. They often have several subspecies of woolly monkeys, poeppigii and tschudii were visible the past few years. They had this year a yellow-tailed, but I think that it died.
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The sakis of Parque de las Leyendas are Pithecia inusta and the sakis of Huachipa are monk? Are they two different species?
 
aramacao said:
The sakis of Parque de las Leyendas are Pithecia inusta and the sakis of Huachipa are monk? Are they two different species?
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Well, that depends, as there are often changes in the collection. At one time they had inusta (from Leyendas), but I have also seen animals that could have been hybrids. And to be honest, their taxonomy is complicated and disputed. I was a few months ago in Huachipa, will check the pictures of the only saki monkey they had and try to identify it (and post it on the gallery).
 
Pepe said:
Well, that depends, as there are often changes in the collection. At one time they had inusta (from Leyendas), but I have also seen animals that could have been hybrids. And to be honest, their taxonomy is complicated and disputed. I was a few months ago in Huachipa, will check the pictures of the only saki monkey they had and try to identify it (and post it on the gallery).
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If it helps, my visit was in June 2024.
 
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