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From Wednesday 10/6, the sloths (Tallina & Annika) live together in the new enclosure on the top floor in the Rainforest ( next to the door between Aquarium hall and Rainforest).

The famous Toco toucan couple: Big George and Georgina have also began to build a nest. The plan was to move them to the enclosure with the sloths, but they will stay in their old enclosure if them get chicks.
 
With start from Monday this week, they have started to construct some new things in the Rainforest. A 25 meter high tree will be built, where people can discover the rainforest from different views and heights. It will also be a new lagoon exhibit for birds, frogs, butterflies.

Under the time of construct, only the 4th floor and the stairs down to 3th floor in the Rainforest will be open for public, and some of the animals will move to the; Water´s Way and Deadly Beauties for the moment until the construct is finish.

The construct of the Rainforest is complete and will be open on June 8 2016 (the same day, Universeum is celebrating 15 years). Below, you can find a picture how it will look in the future. :)

https://www.facebook.com/Universeum/photos/pcb.10153598788315700/10153598789500700/?type=3&theater
 
zooboy28 said:
Has the species on display changed at all? Could you provide a list of what is currently displayed in there?
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I visited Universeum for nearly 2 weeks ago, but I haven't had time to write until now (I have been in Germany/NRW at a zoo tour last week etc).

Here is a species list from Rainforest:

Free living animals:

Birds:
Flame-faced tanager
Spangled cotinga
Yellow cardinal
White-lined tanger
Blue-necked tanger
Brazilian tanger
Blue-crowned motmot
Saffron-crowned tanger
Black-spotted barbet
Yellow-hooded blackbird
Red-rumped cacique
Sunbittern
Grey-winged trumpeter
Scarlet ibis
Inca jay


Butterflys:
Blue Morpho

Level 4

The sloth mountain - New for 2015
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth

Red-billied piranha


Level 3

Rummy-nose tetra
Giant hatchetfish
Angelfish (2 different species, Pterophyllum scalare)
Otocinclus
Giant whiptail catfish
Black ghost
Apistogramma inka
Macmaster's dwarf ciklid
Sterba's corydoras
Peppered corydoras
Ancistrus
Gold nugget pleco
Bolivian ram
Dorsigerciklid
Golden dwarf cichlid
Ram cichlid

Guppy
Electric eel

Level 2

Kanjonen / The Canyon - New for 2016 - Walk through aviary

Red-legged honeycreeper
Bananquit
Blue dacnis
Blue-necked tanager
Brazilian tanager
Yellow cardinal
Paradise tanager
Yellow-legged honeycreeper
Thick-billed euphonia
Saffron-crowned tanager
Red siskin

Green basilisk

Owl butterfly
Monarck butterfly
Blue morpho
Malachite butterfly


Frog exhibit:
Golden poison dart frog
Dyeing poison dart frog
Yellow-banned poison dart frog
Green and black poison dart frog
Red-eyed treefrog
Splendid leaf frog
Phantasmal poison dart frog

Flodtemplet / The River Temple - New for 2016 - Walk through aviary
Common marmoset
Pied tamarin
Goeldi's marmoset

White-tailed jay
Scarlet ibis
Ringed teal

White-blotched river stingray
Suriname eartheater
Pantanal eartheater
Black adonis pleco

Brazilian salmon pink tarantula

Caiman exhibit:
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Red-footed tortoise

Sailfin pleco
Banded leporinus
Spotted metynnis
White-blotched river stingray
Silver arowana
Triangle cichlid
Chocolate cichlid
Severum
Lima shovelnose catfish
Striped anostomos


Level 1

The Indian leak:
Green iguana
Arapaima
Tambaqui
Ripsaw catfish
Ocellate river stingray
Redtail catfish
Barred sorubim

Also a pair of Toco toucan is living in the Rainforest, but the best way to see them are through the glass windows between RF and the entry hall.
 
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Thanks for the update! The River Temple exhibit sounds especially interesting - are all three primate species free-range within that walk-through?
 
Animal exchange with LA Zoo:
1.2 Caucasian viper for 0.2 black-tailed horned viper, 1.1 Catalina Island rattlesnake and 40 magnifcent tree frogs.

Welcome reptilian news and exchange Intercontinental!!!
(viz posted animal transaction news LA Zoo posted by @African Grey)
 
Vattnets väg / The Water's Way (the exhibit there the Swedish fauna is located) and the two incline elevators between the floor 1 and 7 will be closed between; Januari 9 and March 31 because of the roof will be replacing.

Renovering Vattnets väg
 
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Visited today and thought I would post some updates to what has been said here previously...

In the sloth enclosure I saw one sloth and one Toco Toucan, not sure what happened to their pairs. They are also now mixed with the Common Marmosets who mainly hid off-show, occasionally coming into the main enclosure.

These were the only species of Toucan I saw on display, although there may have been some in the ground floor aviary which is very hard to see into.

Generally very impressed by the place. I was wondering about the Water's Way exhibit, were any birds ever kept in that area? It seemed like it was designed to hold free flying birds too.
 
JamesB said:
Generally very impressed by the place. I was wondering about the Water's Way exhibit, were any birds ever kept in that area? It seemed like it was designed to hold free flying birds too.
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When I visited in 2012 there were birds free-flying in the area; I saw Blue and Willow Tits, and there were also Great Crested Grebe in the ponds. It would be a shame if there are no longer any present. There were numerous fishes displayed too, and terraria for Adders and Grass Snakes (and I think other species that were hibernating and couldn't be seen).
 
zooboy28 said:
When I visited in 2012 there were birds free-flying in the area; I saw Blue and Willow Tits, and there were also Great Crested Grebe in the ponds. It would be a shame if there are no longer any present. There were numerous fishes displayed too, and terraria for Adders and Grass Snakes (and I think other species that were hibernating and couldn't be seen).
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Yes there was the Great Crested Grebe but no free flying birds that I could see. The top area has a net up that has started to fall down, this made me wonder if it was to keep birds in previously? Shame there are no longer free flying birds in that area, such a big space for them.
 
aperetly the male has died
her is the link Tukanen Big George är död
it is swdish
altso wen i was ther in may the had green arcaris an one other species that i dont rember in the sloth areia but wen i was ther a weak ago i did not se them. the staf sad that they ma be just of show
 
New arrival of one 1.0 toco toucan and 2.0 Pied Tamarin in Universeum. The marmoset who were stolen is in good health and has returned to normal, according to staff.
 
New Pied tamarin has been born. Universeum's sawfish named Fröken Sågkrates has been moved to the spanish park named Océanografics.
New female sloth arrival.

They also have young stingrays in the back area according to my visit last saturday.
 
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