question about Taipei

that's a nice list, thanks.

For me (solely because I have been to a lot of Asian zoos) there's nothing particularly noteworthy there - except for the Taiwanese birds of course, and black-faced spoonbill I suppose - but for Europeans or Americans it is probably much more exciting!
 
Is there really Melursus ursinus?That's a sloth bear and judging from the order,in the formosan area.I believe what you see is asiatic black bear(taiwan subspecies) as the website don't mention there is sloth bear.
 
Oh, I was wrong. According to the zoo map (I save a map or a visitor sheet of each zoo/botanical garden/natural history museum that I visited in my life), Reptile House was just in the opposite border of the zoo than Insectarium and Insect Valley.
 
aardvark250 said:
Great list,kakapo,although I am not familiar with scientific name.It seems like you didn't visit the reptile/amphibian house and the so-called temperate zone area.As I am a more mammal person,you list probably wouldn't help much,but still,very great list!
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forty of the species on the list are mammals.
 
Chlidonias said:
forty of the species on the list are mammals.
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I know,but the zoo website list 118 species(both on and off show),I don't believe there is only forty species onshow.(BTW,where is the pangolin,ferret badger,leopard cat,palm civet...?)
 
And this is the list of the species that the own 2006 map said to be holded in the zoo (excluding reptile house, insect house, penguin house, waterfowl area, Bird World and other building units). Names are in English and Chinese so I don't will put the scientific names here:

African Elephant
Ring-tailed Lemur
Olive Baboon
Barbary Sheep
Gorilla
Chimpanzee
White Rhinoceros
Giraffe
Lion
Hippopotamus
Common Eland
Zebra

Addax
Bactrian Camel
Dromedary Camel

Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Emu
Southern Cassowary

Przewalski's Horse
Puma
Gray Fox
Brown Bear
Gray Wolf
Eurasian River Otter
North American Wood-chuck
American Bison
American Beaver

Tawny Fish Owl
Hedgehog
Slow Loris
Dwarf Lemur
Jungle Cat
Porcupine
Two-fingered Sloth
Paradise Fish
Asian Arowana

Salt-water Crocodile
Great Indian Hornbill
Bengal Tiger
Asian Elephant
Malayan Sun Bear
Leopard
Malayan Tapir
Orangutan
Siamang
Pig-tailed Macaque
Ostrich

Formosan Reeve's Muntiac
Formosan Sika Deer
Formosan Wild Boar
Formosan Macaque
Eurasian River-Otter
Clouded Leopard
Formosan Serow
Formosan Black Bear
 
Chlidonias said:
that's a nice list, thanks.

For me (solely because I have been to a lot of Asian zoos) there's nothing particularly noteworthy there - except for the Taiwanese birds of course, and black-faced spoonbill I suppose - but for Europeans or Americans it is probably much more exciting!
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I believe the black-faced spoonbill is not there anymore.I read something about them being send to Tama,tokyo.(And I've seen them too)
 
About sloth bear. I wrote in my diary clearly "Melursus ursinus", but probably it's an error: in my diary I can't see Ursus thibetanus and I've photographed it at Taipei and don't photographed M. ursinus, so probably when I wrote that page of my diary, I've just mistook Asian black bear with Sloth bear. Appart of Asian Black, I've also photographed here Sun bear.
 
aardvark250 said:
I know,but the zoo website list 118 species(both on and off show),I don't believe there is only forty species onshow.(BTW,where is the pangolin,ferret badger,leopard cat,palm civet...?)
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yes, my point was more that you said that the list would be no use to you because you are a mammal person - but you also said that you didn't know what the scientific names on the list meant - so I was letting you know that a full forty of them were mammals.

And even without kakapo's later post of species listed from the zoo map, do bear in mind that this is from ten years ago so what is on the zoo website now is not necessarily what was there then.
 
that's a good list. Hog-nosed skunk, Siberian weasel, short-tailed and crab-eating mongooses, American badger, Ryukyu flying fox....
 
I think a few things on that list must be guesswork. The nocturnal house is no longer open, so many of the species which were there are no longer around/visible to the public (inc. both giant flying squirrel species, Siberian weasels...)

Of those you mention, @Chlidonias , I only saw the crab-eating mongoose last year.
 
devilfish said:
I think a few things on that list must be guesswork. The nocturnal house is no longer open, so many of the species which were there are no longer around/visible to the public (inc. both giant flying squirrel species, Siberian weasels...)

Of those you mention, @Chlidonias , I only saw the crab-eating mongoose last year.
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Yes,that really is a not-so-good news for me.The species in nocturnal house seems awesome,
 
To try to help I've made a list of the species I saw displayed last year. As you will see I quickly abandoned including scientific names for every species, and marking those which I hadn't seen with an asterisk. Feel free to question any on the list.

Formosan animal area:

Formosan Reeves’ muntjac – Muntiacus reevesi micrurus

Formosan ferret-badger – Melogale moschata subaurantiaca

Formosan pangolin – Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla

Swinhoe’s pheasant – Lophura swinhoii

Yellow-margined box turtle – Cistoclemmys flavomarginata

Chinese leopard cat – Prionailurus bengalensis chinensis

Formosan grass owl – Tyto longimembris pithecops

Formosan rock macaque – Macaca cyclotis

Formosan serow – Capricornis swinhoei

Eurasian otter – Lutra lutra chinensis

Formosan black bear – Ursus thibetanus formosanus

Masked palm civet – Paguma larvata taivana

Crested serpent eagle – Spilornis cheela hoya

Clouded leopard – Neofelis nebulosa nebulosa

Taiwan bamboo-partridge – Bambusicola sonorivox

Formosan collared scops owl – Otus lettia glabripes

Small Indian civet - Viverricula indica pallida

Formosan wild boar – Sus taivanus

Formosan sika – Cervus nippon taiouanus

Formosan sambar – Rusa unicolor swinhoei


Insectarium:

Tsuda phasmid – Megacrania tsudai

Lanyu giant katydid – Phyllophorina kotoshoensis

Formosan stag beetle – Dorcus schenkingi

Lanyu giant walking stick – Phasmotaenia lanyuhensis


Free flight butterflies/caterpillar area:

Chocolate albatross – Appias lyncida eleonora

Great orange tip – Hebomoia glaucippe formosana

Lime – Papilio demoleus demoleus

Large tree nymph – Idea leuconoe clara

Orange oakleaf – Kallima inachis formosana

Blue admiral – Kaniska canace drilon

Chinese peacock – Papilio bianor takasago

Paris peacock – Papilio paris nakaharai

Great Mormon – Papilio memnon heronus

Common rose – Packliopta aristolochiae interpositus

Liuchiu blue-spotted milkweed – Radena similis similis

Purple emperor – Dravira chrysolora

Plain tiger – Danaus chrysippus chrysippus

Yellow coaster – Acrania issoria formosana

Staff sergeant – Athyma selenophora laeta

Common tiger – Danaus gerentia

Blue tiger - Tirumala limniace limniace

Formosan Kaiser – Penthema formosanum

Common mormon – Papilio polytes pasikrates

Common bluebottle – Graphium sarpedon connectens

Sipyloidea sipylus

Entoria taihokuensis

Phobaeticus serratipes

Lemyra imparillis


Nocturnal insects:

Black beauty stick insect – Peruphasma schultei

Field cricket - Gryllus bimaculatus

Mecopada elongata

Blaber craniifer

Praying mantis sp.


Water and soil insects:

Diving beetle – Cybister rugosus

Water bug – Diplonychus rusticus

Formosan water scorpion – Laccotrephes grossus

Giant water bug – Kirkaldyia deyrolli

Firefly – Aquatica ficta

Polyrhachis wolfi

Grasshopper sp.

Phyllium siccifolium

Diapherodes gigantea

Hierodula formosana

Actias selene ningpoana

Allomyrina dichotomus


Bird world:

Japanese mountain hawk-eagle – Spizaetus nipalensis orientalis

Brahminy kite – Haliastur indus

Marabou stork – Leptoptilos crumeniferus

White stork – Ciconia ciconia

Eurasian eagle owl – Bubo bubo

Brown wood owl – Strix leptogrammica caligata

Formosan crested serpent eagle


Free-flight aviary:

Nicobar pigeon

Indian peafowl

Oriental turtle dove

Black-crowned crane

Pied imperial-pigeon

Blue crowned pigeon

Muller’s barbet

Green turaco

Jungle myna

Silver pheasant

Lady Amherst’s pheasant

Great curassow

Taiwan bamboo partridge*

Black-winged starling*

Pied myna

Crested pigeon*

Emerald dove

Ashy wood pigeon

Green pigeon

Red turtle dove

Spot-necked dove

Scarlet ibis

Wood duck

Mandarin duck

Striated heron

Blue crane

Moorhen

White-breasted waterhen

Great argus

Guinea turaco

Violet turaco




Grey-crowned crane

Egyptian goose

Greater flamingo

Lesser flamingo

Chilean flamingo

Common kingfisher

Sacred ibis

Black swan

Mandarin duck

White-breasted waterhen

Great white pelican

Mallard

Drongo – Dicrurus sp.

Taiwan whistling-thrush



Aviaries:

Formosan blue magpie

Silver pheasant

Victoria crowned pigeon

Nicobar pigeon

Rusty laughingthrush

Red junglefowl

Tawny fish owl

Red-crowned crane

Hooded crane

Sarus crane

Green-winged macaw

Blue-and-gold macaw

Rose-ringed parakeet

Palm cockatoo

White cockatoo

Eclectus parrot

Congo grey parrot

Blue-fronted amazon

White-naped crane

Eurasian (common) crane

Demoiselle crane

Grey-crowned crane

Great curassow

Violet turaco

Great argus

Red BoP*

Grey junglefowl

Toco toucan

Crested pigeon

Jungle crow

Formosan ring-necked pheasant

Green junglefowl

Guinea turaco

King penguin

African penguin*


Reptile and Amphibian house:

Alligator snapping turtle

Red-footed tortoise

Pacu – Colossoma macropomum

Chinese water dragon

Common boa constrictor

Taiwan beauty snake

Golden poison dart frog

Axolotl

Siebenrock’s side-necked turtle

Mangrove snake

Ornate horned frog

Phelsuma sp.

Burmese python

Veiled chameleon

Monkey-tailed skink

Green tree python

Rainbow boa

Plumed basilisk

Pancake tortoise

Black tegu

Budgett’s frog

Burmese star tortoise

Indian star tortoise

Yellow-margined box turtle

Spur-thighed tortoise

Horsefield’s tortoise

Rat snake - Elaphe obsolete

Pueblan milk snake

Ball python

Carpet python

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (no live snake visible)

Leopard tortoise

Hundred-pace pitviper

Common box turtle – Terrapene carolina

Eastern blue-tongued skink

Chinese alligator

European glass lizard (Scheltopusik)

Gila monster

California kingsnake

Bearded dragon

Rhinoceros iguana

Leopard gecko

Tartar sand boa

Ocellated skink

Radiated tortoise

Savannah monitor

Rough-scaled plated lizard

Western hognose snake

Brown-spotted pitviper

Brown-headed centipede

Tokay gecko

Asian common toad

Formosan japalure

Mexican red-knee tarantula

Emperor Scorpion

Chinese crocodile lizard

Moltrecht’s flying frog

Taipei grass frog

Emerald green tree frog – Rhacophorus prasinatus

Yellow-footed tortoise


Outdoor enclosures:

Chinese softshell turtle

Red-eared slider

Asian yellow pond turtle

Chinese stripe-neck turtle

African spurred tortoise

Green iguana

Elongated tortoise

Asian brown tortoise



Temperate zone animal area:

Grey wolf

Brown bear

Red panda

Asiatic Black bear

Puma

Eurasian lynx

American beaver

Raccoon

Black-tailed prairie dog

Woodchuck

Tomistoma (deformed animal)

American bison


Children’s Zoo:

Bactrian camel

Alpaca

Rose-ringed parakeet*

Woodchuck*

Guinea pig

Ring-tailed coati

Chinchilla

Rabbit

Water buffalo

Domestic cattle, donkey, pig, chickens, ducks and geese

Common squirrel monkey

White-fronted capuchin

Black-and-white colobus

Spider monkey – Ateles sp.



White-handed gibbon

Koala

Giant panda



Asian Tropical rainforest area:

Tomistoma

Pygmy hippo

Formosan crab-eating mongoose

Siamang

Reeves’ muntjac

Nicobar pigeon

Malayan tapir

White-handed gibbon

Reticulated python

Leopard

Sun bear

Common hippo

Great Indian hornbill

Asian elephant

Bengal tiger

Green-winged teal

Black swan



Desert Animal Area:

Addax

African wild ass

Bactrian camel

Dromedary camel


Africa animal area:

Chapman’s zebra

Giraffe

Beisa oryx

Common eland

Pygmy hippo

Common hippo

African spurred tortoise

Lion

Southern white rhino

Patas monkey

Bongo

Chimpanzee

Barbary sheep

Ostrich

Olive baboon

Ring-tailed lemur

Black-and-white ruffed lemur

Brown lemur

Grevy’s zebra

Spotted hyena

Sacred ibis

Przewalski’s horse


Australia animal area:

Koala

Emu

Eastern grey kangaroo

Dusky pademelon


As you can see - the zones aren't as strictly geographical as they could be!
Hope that's useful.
 
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devilfish said:
I think a few things on that list must be guesswork. The nocturnal house is no longer open, so many of the species which were there are no longer around/visible to the public (inc. both giant flying squirrel species, Siberian weasels...)

Of those you mention, @Chlidonias , I only saw the crab-eating mongoose last year.
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I had wondered if the lists on that blogpsot were from personal experience or if he was collecting them in some other way. For June he has Mt. Bruce amongst several European and American zoos - but no other NZ collections, which is really weird if they were from actual visits.

That aside, is the nocturnal house closed permanently or temporarily?
 
The site of the nocturnal house is transforming into a "Indoor rainforest house" which will be open later this year,I don't know what animal they will have,but maybe they will have some species in the nocturnal house.
 
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