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Children's Zoo and Nearby Exhibits
  • Small Yard with Moat: Empty
  • Glass Enclosed Exhibit: Goliath Stick Insect
  • Petting Paddock: Santa Cruz Sheep, West African Pygmy Goat
  • Old Enclosure: North American Porcupine
  • Waterfowl Exhibit: Empty
  • Small Terrarium: African Pancake Tortoise
  • Mouse House: House Mouse
  • Two Small Enclosures: Coatimundi
  • Otter Exhibit: Spotted Necked Otter
  • Small Aviary: Mexican Yellow Headed Amazon
  • Small Enclosure: Ocelot
  • Small Enclosure: Fossa
  • Small Aviary: Paradise Tanager, Guianan Cock of the Rock, Black Striped Sparrow
  • Small Aviary: Guianan Cock of the Rock, Silver Beaked Tanager
  • Small Enclosure: Fennec Fox
  • Small Yard: Burmese Star Tortoise
  • Pond Next to Skyfari East: Black Necked Swan
Insect House
  • Emperor Scorpion
  • Bird Eating Spider
  • Ferocious Water Bug
  • Brazillian Whiteknee Tarantula
  • Leafcutter Ant
  • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
  • Giant Cave Roach
  • Puerto Rican Millipede
  • Leaf Insect
  • Peruvian Fire Stick
  • Assassin Bug
  • Derby's Flower Beetle
  • Jungle Nymph
  • Sunburst Diving Beetle
  • Hissing Cockroach
  • Dead Leaf Mantis
  • Blue Death Feigning Beetle
Hummingbird Aviary and Nearby Exhibits
  • Small Aviary: Plate Billed Mountain Toucan
  • Small Aviary: Guianan Toucanet
  • Hummingbird Aviary: Golden Collared Manakin, Swallow Tanager, Turquoise Tanager, Golden Fronted Leafbird, Costa's Hummingbird, Anna's Hummingbird, Paradise Tanager, Violaceous Euphonia, Rufous Crowned Tanager, Blue Necked Tanager, Spotted Tanager, Purple Honeycreeper
Reptile House and Nearby Exhibits
  • Boelen's Python
  • Northwest Neotropical Rattlesnake
  • Timor Python
  • Black Headed Python
  • West African Green Mamba
  • Empty
  • Woma
  • Gray's Monitor
  • Short Nosed Vine Snake
  • Banded Water Cobra
  • South American Green Snake
  • Burmese Python (No signage, but luckily, the snake was out so I could figure out what it was)
  • Green Tree Python
  • Gray's Monitor
  • Monocellate Cobra
  • Tentacled Snake
  • Caiman Lizard
  • Fijian Banded Iguana
  • Black Headed Bushmaster, Emerald Tree Boa
  • Indian Cobra
  • Red Cheeked Mud Turtle
  • Shingleback Skink
  • Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
  • Caatinga Lancehead
  • Green Anaconda, Green Crested Basilisk
  • Emerald Monitor
  • King Cobra
  • Angolan Python
  • Annulated Boa
  • Mexican Beaded Lizard
  • Madagascar Tree Boa
  • Black Tree Monitor
  • Blue Tree Monitor
  • Eyelash Palm Pit Viper
  • Catalina Island Rattlesnake
  • Philippine Sail Finned Lizard
  • Black Tailed Rattlesnake
  • Gila Monster
  • Chinese Mountain Viper
  • Mang Mountain Pit Viper
  • Flower Snake
  • Ethiopian Mountain Adder
  • Merten's Water Monitor
  • Chinese Crocodile Lizard
  • Rowley's Palm Pit Viper
  • Red Coachwip
  • Mexican Lance Headed Rattlesnake
  • Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
  • Side Striped Palm Pit Viper
  • Twin Spotted Rattlesnake, Banded Rock Rattlesnake
  • Komodo Dragon
  • Outdoor Yard: Western Great Plated Lizard, Yellow Throated Plated Lizard, Radiated Tortoise
  • Outdoor Yard: European Pond Turtle, Marginated Tortoise, Scheltopusik, Jeweled Lacerta
Reptile Walk and Nearby Exhibits
  • Colorado River Toad
  • Coastal Rosy Boa
  • Two Striped Gartersnake
  • San Diego Gopher Snake
  • San Diego Mountain Kingsnake
  • Giant Horned Lizard
  • Baja California Rat Snake
  • Panamanian Golden Frog
  • Bronze Backed Mantella, Golden Mantella
  • Kaiser Newt
  • Milky Tree Frog, Dyeing Poison Frog, Black Legged Poison Frog
  • Sambava Tomato Frog, Southern Leaf Tailed Gecko
  • Fire Salamander
  • Bornean Eared Frog
  • Mossy Frog, Black Breasted Leaf Turtle
  • Splendid Tree Frog
  • Splash Back Poison Frog, Green and Black Poison Frog, Bumble Bee Poison Frog
  • Small Yard: Chinese Alligator
  • Roti Island Snake Necked Turtle, Lizard (Unidentified)
  • Malayan Snail Eating Turtle
  • Chinese Three Striped Box Turtle (Juvenile)
  • West African Dwarf Crocodile (Juvenile)
  • Fly River Turtle
  • South American Snake Necked Turtle, Red Headed River Turtle, Mata Mata
  • Outdoor Yard: Cuban Iguana, Anegada Ground Iguana
  • Gharial Lagoon: Hamilton's Pond Turtle, Red Bellied Short Necked Turtle, Broad Shelled Snake Necked Turtle, Asian Leaf Turtle, Gharial, River Terrapin, Chinese Striper Necked Turtle, Fly River Turtle, Painted Terrapin, Narrow Headed Softshell Turtle, Malaysian Giant Turtle, Yellow Pond Turtle, Parker's Snake Necked Turtle, Indo Gangetic Flapshell Turtle
  • Small Yard: Brown Tortoise
  • Small Yard: African Spurred Tortoise
  • Outdoor Yard: Black Throated Monitor
  • Tortoise Yard: Galapagos Tortoise

Hummingbird Aviary also had a Sunbittern when I visited around 2013-2014.

Reptile house had a couple of Moazmbique Tilapia when I visited again in 2020. (not sure which tank it was in)
 
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ELEPHANT ODYSSEY

Elephant Odyssey Exhibits
  • Small Yard: Linne's Two Toed Sloth, Kirk's Dik Dik
  • Netted Enclosure: African Lion
  • Netted Enclosure: Jaguar
  • Yard with Pool: Baird's Tapir, Capybara, Guanaco
  • Small Yard: Llama, Guanaco, Baird's Tapir, Capybara
  • Small Enclosure Behind Bus Road: Rock Hyrax
  • Netted Enclosure: Secretary Bird, Black Billed Magpie
Small Insect Terrariums
  • Beetle (Unsigned)
  • Spiny Stick Insect
  • Mexican Fireleg Tarantula
  • Rhinoceros Beetle
More Elephant Odyssey Exhibits
  • Stream Habitat: Western Fence Lizard, Pacific Chorus Frog, Coast Range Newt, Side Blotched Lizard, California Toad, Pacific Pond Turtle, Western Skink
  • Elephant Habitat: African Bush Elephant, Asian Elephant
  • Large Yard: Pronghorn, Dromedary Camel
  • Small Paddock: Domestic Horse, Burro
  • Snake Exhibit: Red Diamond Rattlesnake, Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake, Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
  • Condor Exhibit: California Condor

California Condor exhibit had a Common Raven too.
 
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