Prospect Park Zoo Prospect Park Zoo Species List 7/18/2024

thejbird

thejbird

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Hello all! I stopped by the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, N.Y. today and in preparation for my trip decided to prepare a species list. This is based on (in order of importance) my visit, Youtube tour videos made since its recent re-opening and the zoo's Instagram account posts since its re-opening as well as tagged photos. I also made a list of past species just because it's something I'm personally interested in and if anyone else is interested I may start a new thread and post it. Thank you and enjoy!

() = Breed, subspecies or other designation
* = Unspecified species
' = Repeated species
^ = Free-roaming species

Prospect Park Zoo (formerly Prospect Park Wildlife Center/The Menagerie) Species List​

Sea Lion Court-​
-California Sea Lions

Northside-​
-Hinalayan Monal & Swinhoe’s Pheasant
-Himalayan Monals' & Swinhoe’s Pheasants'
-Pallas’s Cats
-Silver Pheasants & White-Crested Laughingthrushes

Barn & Garden-​
-Pond Sliders (Red-Eared) & Trumpeter Swans
-Zebus (Miniature)
-Domestic Sheep (Jacob, Shetland)
-Domestic Goats (Nigerian Dwarf)
-Domestic Pigs (Miniature)

Hall of Animals-​
Amazing Amphibians-
-Fire Salamanders
-Cane Toad
-Red-Eyed Tree Frogs
-Curlyhair Tarantula
-Anderson’s Crocodile Newts
-Tiger Salamander

Right Side & Life in the Dark-
-White-Faced Sakis & White-Headed Marmosets
-Fennec Foxes
-Roti Island Snake-Necked Turtle
-Henkel’s Leaf-Tailed Geckos
-Rainbow Boa
-Black-Footed Cat
-Straw-Coloured Fruit Bats
-Mohol Bushbabies

Left Side-
-Kaiser’s Spotted Newts & Vietnamese Mossy Frog
-Chinese Big-Headed Turtle
-Dyeing Poison Dart Frogs, Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frogs, Golfodulcean Poison Frogs, La Palma Glass Frogs & Yellow-Banded Poison Dart Frogs
-Bali Myna & Victoria Crowned Pigeons
-Common Dwarf Mongooses & Von der Decken’s Hornbills
-Solomon Islands Skink
-Eurasian Harvest Mice
-Striped Grass Mice
-Pig-Nosed Turtle & Melanotaenia Rainbowfish*
-Emerald Tree Boa & Mata Mata
-Laughing Kookaburras

Discovery Trail-​
-Southern Pudu
-Black Swans, Common Shelducks, Domestic Geese (Sebastopol), Hooded Mergansers, Mallards, Mandarin Ducks, Pond Sliders (Red-Eared)' & Smew
-Dingoes
-Carpenter Bees*, Honey Bees*, Leafcutter Bees* & Mason Bees*
-Emus
-Red Pandas
-North American Porcupines
-North American River Otters
-Tufted Deer

Aviary-
-Common Shelducks'
-Demoiselle Crane
-Helmeted Guineafowl
-Indian Peafowl^
-Marbled Ducks
-Red-Knobbed Imperial Pigeons
-Rock Partridges
-Reeves’s Muntjacs
-Red-Breasted Goose
-Scarlet Ibises

Animal Lifestyles-​
-White-Headed Marmosets'
-Wreathed Hornbills
-Sand Cats
-Golden Lion Tamarins
-White-Eared Titi Monkeys & White-Headed Marmosets'
-Hamadryas Baboons
-Green Iguana
-Chinese Crocodile Lizard
-Red-Crested Turacos & Red-Footed Tortoise

Amazonian Flooded Forest-
-Ancistrus Bushynose Catfish*
-Banded Leporinus
-Barred Catfish
-Big-Headed Amazon River Turtle
-Caquetaia Spectabilis
-Common Pleco
-Geophagus Megasema Cichlids
-Gold Nugget Pleco
-Hemiancistrus Blue Phantom Pleco*
-Heros Severum Cichlids*
-Hilaire’s Toadhead Turtle
-Kissing Prochilodus
-Mango Pleco
-Mesonauta Festivus Flag Cichlids
-Metynnis Hypsauchen Silver Dollars
-Payara
-Pictus Catfish
-Pterophyllum Scalare Freshwater Angelfish
-Pterygoplichthys Gibbiceps Pleco
-Redhook Myleus
-Redtail Catfish
-Ripsaw Catfish
-Royal Pleco
-Silver Arowana
-Sunshine Pleco
-Tambaqui
-Xingu River Ray

Behind-the-Scenes Species-​
-Ball Python
-Diamondback Terrapins
-Domestic Rabbit
-Eastern Kingsnake
-Long-Tailed Chinchilla
-Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
-Texas Tortoise

Total Species - 117
 
A few follow-up notes from my visit:
-Pig-Nosed Turtle was definitively off-exhibit but still signed, so I'm assuming they're still there
-I was not able to find the Anderson's Crocodile Newts, Solomon Islands Skink, any of the Pleco species, Bushynose Catfish, Barred Catfish, Hillaire's Toadhead Turtle, Pictus Catfish or Freshwater Angelfish but all were still signed and I imagine they can also hide relatively easily, so I'm assuming they're still there
-The fish housed with the Pig-Nosed Turtle is my best guess as to what they are, as they were not signed
-Demoiselle Crane is still signed with the Tufted Deer despite now being in the aviary
-The first instance of Swinhoe's Pheasant, Vietnamese Mossy Frog, La Palma Glass Frogs, second instance of Common Shelducks, Rock Partridges and Red-Breasted Goose were unsigned
-The behind-the-scenes species are based on relatively recent pictures from the zoos' social media, tagged photos and their website
 
thejbird said:
A few follow-up notes from my visit:
-Pig-Nosed Turtle was definitively off-exhibit but still signed, so I'm assuming they're still there
-I was not able to find the Anderson's Crocodile Newts, Solomon Islands Skink, any of the Pleco species, Bushynose Catfish, Barred Catfish, Hillaire's Toadhead Turtle, Pictus Catfish or Freshwater Angelfish but all were still signed and I imagine they can also hide relatively easily, so I'm assuming they're still there
-The fish housed with the Pig-Nosed Turtle is my best guess as to what they are, as they were not signed
-Demoiselle Crane is still signed with the Tufted Deer despite now being in the aviary
-The first instance of Swinhoe's Pheasant, Vietnamese Mossy Frog, La Palma Glass Frogs, second instance of Common Shelducks, Rock Partridges and Red-Breasted Goose were unsigned
-The behind-the-scenes species are based on relatively recent pictures from the zoos' social media, tagged photos and their website
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Does the facility still hold black-tailed prairie dogs, Central American agoutis or domestic guinea pigs anymore?
 
Smaggledagle said:
Does the facility still hold black-tailed prairie dogs, Central American agoutis or domestic guinea pigs anymore?
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Thank you so much for the question! No they do not hold any of those species anymore to my knowledge. The Southern Pudu are now where the Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs used to be housed. The prairie dogs and the agouti are both on my former species list I posted in Zoo History, I was not aware they held domestic guinea pigs. Do you know where they were in the zoo?
 
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