This is my first attempt at a species list. The Toledo Zoo is massive so I guess I have a go-big-or-go-home mindset. I expect many corrections will be in order.
I am going to do this in several posts.
There are a few things I missed: Venomous Snakes in the ProMedica Museum of Natural History had closed as well as the primate building, I ran out of time so was unable to get a species list for the last hallway in the aquarium, I did not enter the barnyard, and I forgot about the waterfowl aviary near the pheasantry and a display for poison dart frogs in the Reptile House (which I sorely regret).
labels:
not seen - signed but not seen
off-exhibit - signed but explicitly stated as off-exhibit
other enclosure - rotates with other animals between enclosures in the zone
no longer held - outdated signs
absent from my photographs - signed but absent from my photographs so possibly not seen
And with that,
Arctic Encounter
1. gray seal, harbor seal, California sea lion
2. polar bear
3. polar bear (might not be another enclosure)
Wolf Cabin
gray wolf
Africa!
1. plains zebra, nyala (unsigned, other enclosure)
2. nyala (unsigned), slender-horned gazelle (unsigned), Masai giraffe, generic giraffe, common ostrich, plains zebra (other enclosure), domestic cattle (Ankole group), helmeted guineafowl (possibly domestic, not seen), greater kudu (no longer held)
3. domestic Bactrian camel, domestic reindeer (not seen)
4. cheetah (not seen)
Cassowary Crossing
1. southern cassowary
Flamingo Key
1. Caribbean flamingo, roseate spoonbill, lesser white-fronted goose, red-breasted goose, emperor goose, Baer's pochard (not seen) great black-backed gull, European white stork (unsigned), demoiselle crane (unsigned)
aviary
1. southern pudu
2. Java sparrow, Luzon's bleeding heart
3. sunbittern, red-crested cardinal, Andean cock-of-the-rock, blue-crowned hanging parrot, Luzon's bleeding heart, crested wood-partridge
4. rhinoceros hornbill
5. golden white-eye, many-colored fruit dove, Palawan peacock-pheasant
6. Siamese fireback, red-crested finch, pink-necked fruit dove (off-exhibit), greater Malay chevrotain
7. spur-winged lapwing, crested pigeon, diamond firetail finch, Bourke's parrot, diamond dove, cockatiel, budgie
8. Raggiana bird-of-paradise, pink-necked fruit dove, Palawan peacock-pheasant, black-naped fruit dove (absent from my photographs)
9. holding enclosure: __some sort of dove___
10. golden-breasted starling, Nicobar pigeon, pink-necked fruit dove, jambu fruit dove, Goldie's lorikeet, Raggiana bird-of-paradise, Bornean crested fireback, greater Malay chevrotain
11. Swinhoe's pheasant (unsigned), white-headed buffalo weaver, red-crested widowbird (unsigned), spur-winged lapwing, crested coua, black crake, superb starling, oriole warbler, Fischer's lovebird, oriental magpie-robin (unsigned), common bulbul (unsigned), red bishop (not seen), pin-tailed whydah (absent from my photographs)
12. blue-bellied roller, violet-backed starling, emerald starling, kagu, African gray parrot, black crake (not seen)
13. emperor tamarin
14. lowland paca, Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
Tembo Trail
1. Tasmanian devil (not seen)
2. Nile hippopotamus
3. North American river otter
5. African bush elephant
6. Indian rhinoceros
6. Indian rhinoceros (indoor)
7. naked mole rat
8. African bush elephant (indoor)
9. meerkat (not seen)
10. domestic yak
I am going to do this in several posts.
There are a few things I missed: Venomous Snakes in the ProMedica Museum of Natural History had closed as well as the primate building, I ran out of time so was unable to get a species list for the last hallway in the aquarium, I did not enter the barnyard, and I forgot about the waterfowl aviary near the pheasantry and a display for poison dart frogs in the Reptile House (which I sorely regret).
labels:
not seen - signed but not seen
off-exhibit - signed but explicitly stated as off-exhibit
other enclosure - rotates with other animals between enclosures in the zone
no longer held - outdated signs
absent from my photographs - signed but absent from my photographs so possibly not seen
And with that,
Arctic Encounter
1. gray seal, harbor seal, California sea lion
2. polar bear
3. polar bear (might not be another enclosure)
Wolf Cabin
gray wolf
Africa!
1. plains zebra, nyala (unsigned, other enclosure)
2. nyala (unsigned), slender-horned gazelle (unsigned), Masai giraffe, generic giraffe, common ostrich, plains zebra (other enclosure), domestic cattle (Ankole group), helmeted guineafowl (possibly domestic, not seen), greater kudu (no longer held)
3. domestic Bactrian camel, domestic reindeer (not seen)
4. cheetah (not seen)
Cassowary Crossing
1. southern cassowary
Flamingo Key
1. Caribbean flamingo, roseate spoonbill, lesser white-fronted goose, red-breasted goose, emperor goose, Baer's pochard (not seen) great black-backed gull, European white stork (unsigned), demoiselle crane (unsigned)
aviary
1. southern pudu
2. Java sparrow, Luzon's bleeding heart
3. sunbittern, red-crested cardinal, Andean cock-of-the-rock, blue-crowned hanging parrot, Luzon's bleeding heart, crested wood-partridge
4. rhinoceros hornbill
5. golden white-eye, many-colored fruit dove, Palawan peacock-pheasant
6. Siamese fireback, red-crested finch, pink-necked fruit dove (off-exhibit), greater Malay chevrotain
7. spur-winged lapwing, crested pigeon, diamond firetail finch, Bourke's parrot, diamond dove, cockatiel, budgie
8. Raggiana bird-of-paradise, pink-necked fruit dove, Palawan peacock-pheasant, black-naped fruit dove (absent from my photographs)
9. holding enclosure: __some sort of dove___
10. golden-breasted starling, Nicobar pigeon, pink-necked fruit dove, jambu fruit dove, Goldie's lorikeet, Raggiana bird-of-paradise, Bornean crested fireback, greater Malay chevrotain
11. Swinhoe's pheasant (unsigned), white-headed buffalo weaver, red-crested widowbird (unsigned), spur-winged lapwing, crested coua, black crake, superb starling, oriole warbler, Fischer's lovebird, oriental magpie-robin (unsigned), common bulbul (unsigned), red bishop (not seen), pin-tailed whydah (absent from my photographs)
12. blue-bellied roller, violet-backed starling, emerald starling, kagu, African gray parrot, black crake (not seen)
13. emperor tamarin
14. lowland paca, Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
Tembo Trail
1. Tasmanian devil (not seen)
2. Nile hippopotamus
3. North American river otter
5. African bush elephant
6. Indian rhinoceros
6. Indian rhinoceros (indoor)
7. naked mole rat
8. African bush elephant (indoor)
9. meerkat (not seen)
10. domestic yak
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