Speculative Zoo Species List Help

MOG2012 said:
What are some animals that are found in AZA collections and are found in the East billabongs of Australia? Also, what are some possible ambassador animals that are found in central Outback and east billabongs , still being found in the AZA?
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I was also looking for terrestrial inverts as the Billabong only has yabbies right now. Would narrow-toed feather-tailed gliders being animal ambassadors be okay (temperament, and stress levels mainly)?
 
So for my Las Vegas spec zoo, I couldn’t really find any good entrance animals. This entrance would lead to my islands and Australia zones so I’m trying to find a climate-adapted (ideally outdoors), charismatic, and active animal that’s an island endemic from Southeast Asia and/or Oceania
 
What are some cave dwelling animals from the following places? This is for an indoors exhibit that I plan to draw my first Zoo map on. The animals should ideally be found in American captivity (including the legal pet trade if they are common). There is a reversed light setting for the entire exhibit;
  • "Mexican" caves (It's really just cave animals from Mexico with the exception for some from Texas [Texas blind salamander] and Cuba [Western cliff anole])
  • Caves of the Amazon (including Rainforest and River)
  • Caves of East Africa (and Horn of Africa)
  • Indochinese Caves
  • Caves of the Deep (underwater caves of the pacific ocean)
 
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MOG2012 said:
Mexican caves
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- Blind cave tetra
- Giant cave cockroach
- Tailless whip scorpion (Paraphrynus mexicanus)
- Giant vinegaroon (Mastigoproctus giganteus)
- Various bats

MOG2012 said:
Caves of East Africa and Horn of Africa
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- Tailless whip scorpion (Damon variegatus)
- Naked mole rat (not caves, but underground)
- East African cave cricket

And all regions (except underwater) have tarantulas.

In general, there aren't a lot of animals that purposely inhabit caves, but any animal can wander into a cave if they want to, some more often than others. That especially goes for underwater caves, since almost all fish will seek a place to hide and if you go deep enough underwater there isn't all that much difference between what's cave and what's not
 
Mr Gharial said:
- Blind cave tetra
- Giant cave cockroach
- Tailless whip scorpion (Paraphrynus mexicanus)
- Giant vinegaroon (Mastigoproctus giganteus)
- Various bats



- Tailless whip scorpion (Damon variegatus)
- Naked mole rat (not caves, but underground)
- East African cave cricket

And all regions (except underwater) have tarantulas.

In general, there aren't a lot of animals that purposely inhabit caves, but any animal can wander into a cave if they want to, some more often than others. That especially goes for underwater caves, since almost all fish will seek a place to hide and if you go deep enough underwater there isn't all that much difference between what's cave and what's not
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Right now, I have the following (some of the animals aren't from caves but they were the best I could find), are there any more species (mammals in particular other than bats) that are applicable? What would be some headliner animals/ABC animals that would make this Zoo exhibit interesting?;
  • Zone 1
Giant Cave Cockroach Blaberus giganteus
Giant Vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus
Mexican Tetra Astyanax mexicanus, West Cuban Anole Anolis bartschi
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata
Texas Blind Salamander Eurycea rathbuni
  • Zone 2
Amazonian Giant Centipede Scolopendra gigantea
Black Ghost Knifefish Apteronotus albifrons
Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus
Goliath Birdeater Theraphosa blondi
Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates auratus
Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
  • Zone 3
African Cave Cricket Phaeophilacris bredoides
Ethiopia Viper Bitis parviocula
Naked Molerat Heterocephalus glaber
Tanzanian Whipspider Damon diadema
  • Zone 4
Beauty Ratsnake Elaphe taeniura
Chinese Cave Gecko Goniurosaurus hainanensis
Vietnamese Mossy Frog Theloderma corticale
  • Zone 5
Giant Isopod Bathynomus giganteus
Japanese Spider Crab Macrocheira kaempferi
 
MOG2012 said:
Right now, I have the following (some of the animals aren't from caves but they were the best I could find), are there any more species (mammals in particular other than bats) that are applicable? What would be some headliner animals/ABC animals that would make this Zoo exhibit interesting?;
  • Zone 1
Giant Cave Cockroach Blaberus giganteus
Giant Vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus
Mexican Tetra Astyanax mexicanus
West Cuban Anole Anolis bartschi
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata
Texas Blind Salamander Eurycea rathbuni
  • Zone 2
Amazonian Giant Centipede Scolopendra gigantea
Black Ghost Knifefish Apteronotus albifrons
Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus
Goliath Birdeater Theraphosa blondi
Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates auratus
Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
  • Zone 3
African Cave Cricket Phaeophilacris bredoides
Ethiopia Viper Bitis parviocula
Naked Molerat Heterocephalus glaber
Tanzanian Whipspider Damon diadema
  • Zone 4
Beauty Ratsnake Elaphe taeniura
Chinese Cave Gecko Goniurosaurus hainanensis
Vietnamese Mossy Frog Theloderma corticale
  • Zone 5
Giant Isopod Bathynomus giganteus
Japanese Spider Crab Macrocheira kaempferi
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In the Asian one you can add Asian house gecko, which absolutely love cave-like structures. In the deep sea one there's quite a few deep sea fish species that dwell caves, Longspine snipefish comes to mind
 
I have an idea for an animal for your Mexican caves section, an animal for your caves of the deep section and an animal for the caves of east Africa but the only problem is that the idea for your Mexican caves section isn’t from Mexico and the animal is the devil’s hole pupfish and the animal for caves of the deep is the wolf eel and the animal for the caves of east Africa section is the rock hyrax.
 
Tigeanderson said:
I have an idea for an animal for your Mexican caves section, an animal for your caves of the deep section and an animal for the caves of east Africa but the only problem is that the idea for your Mexican caves section isn’t from Mexico and the animal is the devil’s hole pupfish and the animal for caves of the deep is the wolf eel and the animal for the caves of east Africa section is the rock hyrax.
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Thanks. Rock hyraxes aren't that nocturnal with these zones being in mostly darkness. I edited what I had before so I now have;
  • "Mexico"
Giant Cave Cockroach Blaberus giganteus
Giant Vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus
Mexican Blindcat Prietella phreatophila, Mexican Tetra Astyanax mexicanus
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata
Texas Blind Salamander Eurycea rathbuni
  • the Amazon
Amazon Milk Frog Trachycephalus resinifictrix
Amazonian Giant Centipede Scolopendra gigantea
Boa Constrictor Boa constrictor
Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus
Goliath Birdeater Theraphosa blondi
Whiptail Catfish Farlowella acus
  • East Africa
African Cave Cricket Phaeophilacris bredoides
Egyptian Rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus
Naked Molerat Heterocephalus glaber
Tanzanian Whipspider Damon diadema
  • Indochina
Beauty Ratsnake Elaphe taeniura
Chinese Cave Gecko Goniurosaurus hainanensis
Vietnamese Mossy Frog Theloderma corticale
  • Polynesia (Basically just the Pacific Ocean animals surrounded them)
Hawaiian Red Shrimp Halocaridina rubra
Hawaiian Squirrelfish Sargocentron xantherythrum
Whitetip Reef Shark Triaenodon obesus
 
Devil's hole is not a cave at all. It does have a very deep underground section, but the
hole is open to the surface and that's a shelf where the fish spend pretty much all of their existence.

bats would be a good addition to any of those cave zones
 
MOG2012 said:
Thanks. Rock hyraxes aren't that nocturnal with these zones being in mostly darkness. I edited what I had before so I now have;
  • "Mexico"
Giant Cave Cockroach Blaberus giganteus
Giant Vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus
Mexican Blindcat Prietella phreatophila, Mexican Tetra Astyanax mexicanus
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata
Texas Blind Salamander Eurycea rathbuni
  • the Amazon
Amazon Milk Frog Trachycephalus resinifictrix
Amazonian Giant Centipede Scolopendra gigantea
Boa Constrictor Boa constrictor
Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus
Goliath Birdeater Theraphosa blondi
Whiptail Catfish Farlowella acus
  • East Africa
African Cave Cricket Phaeophilacris bredoides
Egyptian Rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus
Naked Molerat Heterocephalus glaber
Tanzanian Whipspider Damon diadema
  • Indochina
Beauty Ratsnake Elaphe taeniura
Chinese Cave Gecko Goniurosaurus hainanensis
Vietnamese Mossy Frog Theloderma corticale
  • Polynesia (Basically just the Pacific Ocean animals surrounded them)
Hawaiian Red Shrimp Halocaridina rubra
Hawaiian Squirrelfish Sargocentron xantherythrum
Whitetip Reef Shark Triaenodon obesus
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Oh okay for indochina you could also add flying fox.
 
Daktari JG said:
Devil's hole is not a cave at all. It does have a very deep underground section, but the
hole is open to the surface and that's a shelf where the fish spend pretty much all of their existence.

bats would be a good addition to any of those cave zones
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Tigeanderson said:
Oh okay for indochina you could also add flying fox.
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I couldn’t really find any flying foxes for the indochina area as Indian flying foxes, island flying foxes, Malayan flying foxes and large flying foxes don’t really live mostly there (I mean they are more widespread). I have bats in 3 areas out of the four possible ones so that’s good enough in my opinion (3 different bat types in terms of diet; blood-drinking bat, fruit bat and insect-eating bat). Are there any other animals I should add?
 
MOG2012 said:
I couldn’t really find any flying foxes for the indochina area as Indian flying foxes, island flying foxes, Malayan flying foxes and large flying foxes don’t really live mostly there (I mean they are more widespread). I have bats in 3 areas out of the four possible ones so that’s good enough in my opinion (3 different bat types in terms of diet; blood-drinking bat, fruit bat and insect-eating bat). Are there any other animals I should add?
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I have two ideas for your Amazon section and one idea for your indochinese section and one of the ideas for the Amazon section is the bushmaster and the other idea is the oilbird and both the oilbird and the idea i have for your indochinese section are nocturnal and use echolocation and the oilbird spends their entire lives in caves and the idea that I have for your indochinese section is swiftlets and swiftlets are found in Southern Asia and the Malay Peninsula and they roost in caves and other similar habitats like craters and behind waterfalls and these birds often form large colonies and sometimes live with bats and say if the bat is a fruit bat like those are the kind of bats that swiftlets are okay with as they wouldn’t compete over their food as swiftlets eat dipterians which are insects.
 
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What birds (they won't breed) are suitable for a huge Sibirian Crane aviary and a huge Oriental Stork aviary.
 
Paul.Haerle said:
What birds (they won't breed) are suitable for a huge Sibirian Crane aviary and a huge Oriental Stork aviary.
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Siberian Crane Aviary:
  • Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
  • Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)
  • Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa)
  • Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Oriental Stork Aviary:
  • Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)
  • Falcated Duck (Mareca falcata)
  • Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
  • Great Egret (Ardea alba modesta)
  • Eurasian Wigeon (Mareca penelope)
 
Paul.Haerle said:
What birds (they won't breed) are suitable for a huge Sibirian Crane aviary and a huge Oriental Stork aviary.
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Additional to MOG's suggestions:
- Emperor goose
- Black stork
- Asian Azure-winged magpie
- Northern lapwing
- Baer’s pochard
- Black-crowned night heron
- Scaly-sided merganser

Both large cranes and storks have been held with a huge number of waterfowl and wading birds, so you can essentially add any larger bird safely
 
Paul.Haerle said:
I hoped the name of this bird wasn't mentioned here:( (I hate this bird, because if I make an aviary list I have to to use this bird)
Thank you very much
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It has a global distribution, it's stocky and won't get attacked easily, and it's relatively docile. So it fits into nearly any aviary ;)
 
So here are my lists for the aviaries
Oriental Stork Aviary :
• Oriental Stork
• Mandarin Duck
• Baer's Porchard
• Falcated Duck
• Scaly-sided Merganser
• Elliot's Pheasant
• Black-faced Spoonbill
• Great Egret
• Azur-winged Magpie

Sibirian Crane Aviary :
• Sibirian Crane
• Common Shelduck
• Emperor Goose
• Baikal Teal
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Nothern Shoveler
• Grey Partridge
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Nothern Lapwing
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Pied Avocet
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Mistle Thrush
 
What are some arid-adapted (ish) Oceanian animals from the island areas of Polynesian, Micronesia, Melanesia, Tasmania, etc. I’m looking for animals that are in American captivity
 
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