3 Palms is a small local zoo in Clayton Delaware, about 15 minutes south of Dover. All animals at 3 Palms are rescues - a combination of injured wildlife, owner surrenders, and other captives that found their way there via rescues, etc. The zoo has been around a couple of years now and is gradually getting bigger. I believe it started as a fancy gardens place. They started helping rescue local injured birds and then began adding reptiles and mammals when they could afford them and had people with enough experience to help with their care. They're primarily focused on local education, especially at the child level. Almost all of the domestic species can be fed and/or pet, and they do a lot of visits to schools. Most of the exhibits are stand-alone with basic fencing. Some of the birds and turtles are now arranged into small exhibits, like the Southeast Asia Aviary and Coastal North America. Mammals: Alpaca (1 male) African Pygmy Goats (4 males) Foxes (1 male silver, 1 female red) Groundhog (1 female) Guinea Pigs Llamas (1 male, 2 females) "Mini pigs" (2 males, 1 female) Mini Sicilian Donkey (1 male) Rabbits (2 dutch, 1 palomino, etc.) Raccoon (1 female) Sheep (2 Katahdin, 1 Romney) Skunk (1 male) Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pigs (1 male, 1 female) Virginia Opossum (1 female?) Reptiles & Amphibians: African Side-neck Turtle American Alligator (1 female) Cumberland Slider Diamondback Terrapins Dumpy Tree Frog Eastern Box Turtles Eastern Mud Turtle Florida Red-bellied Cooter Gray Tree Frog Green Iguana Green Tree Frog Gulf Coast Box Turtle Ornate Box Turtle Painted Turtles Red-eared Sliders (12) Red-footed Tortoise Rio-Grande Slider Russian Tortoise Snapping Turtle Spotted Turtle Sulcata Tortoise Three-Toed Box Turtle Yellow-bellied Sliders Yellow-footed Tortoise Birds: African White-faced Whistling Ducks Aleutian Cackling Goose Black Sumatra Burmese Red Junglefowl Canada Geese (14) Carolina Wood Ducks Chickens (many breeds) Chinese Golden Pheasants Crow Domestic Ducks (many breeds) Domestic Geese (11) Eastern Screech Owls Emu (1 female) Fish Crow Indian Peacock Pigeons Lady Amherst Pheasant Laughing Gulls Mallards Mandarin Ducks Military Macaw (1 female) Northern Pintails Northern Shovelers Peacocks (2 males, 2 females) Raven Ringneck Pheasant Silver Pheasants Snow Goose Turkey Vultures (2 males, 1 female) Wild Turkeys (1 male, 1 female)
Apparently one of their llamas is named Twin due to being born on September 11, 2001. How ballsy. Also, due to storm damage, the zoo moved to another location.
I completely missed that they were moving. Based on comments on their facebook, the new place has larger enclosures. It's supposed to be open soon.
