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Woodland Park Zoo Tropical Rain Forest Building

Discussion in 'United States' started by snowleopard, 11 Apr 2011.

  1. snowleopard

    snowleopard Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle opened its award-winning Tropical Rain Forest building in 1992. The real gems of this zone are the outdoor habitats: two trend-setting gorilla exhibits, Jaguar Cove, a red ruffed lemur exhibit, a colobus monkey exhibit, and a red-flanked duiker/colobus monkey island. The outdoor areas were built from 1979 (gorillas) to 2003 (jaguars).

    The 19 exhibits (in order) plus walk-through aviary as of April 10th, 2011:

    Pinktoe tarantula
    Troupial/lesser kiskadee
    Ocelot
    Silver-beaked tanager
    Yellow-spotted sideneck turtle
    Blue-crowned motmot
    Yellow anaconda
    Neon tetra/Colombian tetra/bleeding heart tetra/glowlight tetra
    Bushmaster
    Poison dart frogs (assorted species)
    Silver-beaked tanager
    White-tailed trogon/blue-gray tanager
    Emerald tree boa
    Tiger rat snake
    Golden lion tamarin
    Green aracari
    Blue-gray tanager/troupial
    Spangled cotina/turquoise tanager/yellow-billed cardinal
    Keel-billed toucan

    Walk-through aviary (10 species):

    Blue-gray tanager
    Silver-beaked tanager
    Troupial
    Sunbittern
    White-tailed trogon
    Yellow-rumped cacique
    Crested oropendola
    Peruvian pigeon
    Bananaquit
    Red-crested cardinal
     
  2. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Thanks for the species list, snowleopard.