I’ve worked with red-ruffed lemurs and they aren’t really sexually dimorphic apart from the genitals, which can be dificult to see under the fur....
Memphis Zoo Best: the new hippo enclosure at Zambezi River Hippo Camp Worst: African Veldt, specifically the elephant, rhino, and giraffe exhibits...
Most of the time I’ve seen larger New World monkeys such as capuchins and spider monkeys they’ve been active, so I’d say those. Smaller ones like...
While we’re on the subject of cats, people always seem to call any spotted cat they see in the zoo a cheetah. I can understand getting jaguars and...
Dolphins are a kind of toothed whale.
Home zoo: Memphis Zoo Keep: Zambezi River Hippo Camp Steal: Saint Louis Zoo’s herpetarium Demolish: African Veldt. The elephants and rhinos need...
I am not a fan of seeing hybrids such as ligers and zonkeys, or highly inbred color morphs such as white tigers and lions. Seeing domestic morphs...
This place is, without a doubt, the worst zoo I’ve personally ever been to. It was about 8-ish years ago, but I’ve recently been curious so I...
Memphis Zoo also has giant pandas.
If it weren’t for the 5-species limit, this list would be massive. Southern cassowary Tuatara Shoebill White-bellied tree pangolin Komodo dragon
I hope to work with birds and/or reptiles. The poll only let me pick one option though, so I put birds.
There’s definitely a fishy smell to it, but it’s much worse than just fish. I don’t really know how to describe it other than god-awful.
A few months ago I went to the Central Florida Zoo. I was at the cougar exhibit where the cougar was about to be trained, and was pacing back and...
Seconding the Saint Louis Zoo’s herpetarium. Both the building itself and the exhibits within are beautiful.
Any lawn grasses (e.g. Bermuda grass). The maintenance of a perfectly manicured lawn monoculture wastes massive amounts of water, pollutes the...
The main cause behind the public backlash against cetacean captivity is Blackfish, which is nothing more than animal rights propaganda full of...
IMO we should really be using the money to preserve and restore the pandas’ native habitat in China instead of focusing on captive breeding.
Are mimic octopus kept in any aquariums? Preferably ones located in the US. What about Australian giant cuttlefish?
The Florida Aquarium has a Florida mangrove ecosystem-based area in their aviary, so looking at the species housed there could help for...
Asian small-clawed otter poop
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