Chester Animals Onshow/Signed as of 16/17th August 2016

Ok I'll be doing lists for each of the six generalised taxonomic groups of animals (so those six that most people place animals in; mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates). This includes every animal species we saw or was signed for across the entire zoo and aquarium.


[EDIT] changed classes to generalised taxonomic groups

 

Which six? How about the other 102 or so?!

 

Ok so mammals first.

Asian elephant
Common warthog
Belanger's tree shrew *
Lion-tailed macaque
Eastern black rhino
Meerkat
South African porcupine
Kirk's dik-dik
African wild dog
Cape rock hyrax
Aardvark
Roan antelope
Lesser kudu
Western sitatunga
Grevy's zebra
Scimitar-horned oryx
Visayan warty pig
Sumatran tiger
Silvery gibbon
Sumatran orang-utan
Sulawesi crested macaque
Lowland anoa
Babirusa
Eastern bongo
Capybara
Spectacled bear
Brazilian tapir
Lesser hedgehog tenrec *
Seba's short-tailed bat
Rodrigues flying fox
Emperor tamarin
Golden-headed tamarin
Eastern pygmy marmoset *
Pied tamarin
Buffy-headed capuchin
Mandrill
Colombian black spider monkey
Indian rhino
Burmese brow-antlered deer
Philippine spotted deer
Northern cheetah
Black howler monkey
White-faced saki
Persian onager
Bactrian camel (domestic)
Southern pudu *
Linnaeus' two-toed sloth
Jaguar
Lar gibbon
Bornean orang-utan
Asian small-clawed otter
Giant otter
Common dwarf mongoose *
Sun bear
Nepalese red panda
Giant anteater *
Bush dog
Asian lion
Philippine mouse-deer
Congo buffalo
Malayan tapir
Okapi
Rothschild's giraffe
Gambian pouched rat
Short-eared elephant shrew
Red river hog
Aye-aye
Malagasy jumping rat
Common chimpanzee
Ring-tailed lemur
Red-fronted lemur

 

The general six groups people put animals into: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates.

 

Now for birds

Azure-winged magpie *
Red-billed blue magpie
Wrinkled hornbill
Baer's pochard
Cape teal
Comb duck
Hottentot teal *
Marbled teal
Ruddy shelduck
West African black crowned crane
African white-backed duck
Black stork
White-faced whistling duck
White-headed duck
Red-billed teal
Kenya crested guineafowl
Von der Decken's hornbill *
Lilac-breasted roller
Superb starling
Red-winged starling
Village weaver
Hamerkop
Snowy-crowned robin chat
Blacksmith plover *
Brown-breasted barbet
Schalow's turaco *
Wattled crane
Eastern grey crowned crane *
Southern cassowary
Bali starling
Java sparrow
Pied imperial pigeon
Yellow-backed chattering lory *
Javan rhinoceros hornbill
Scissor-billed starling
Victoria crowned pigeon
Yellow-faced myna
Superb fruit dove
Emerald dove
White-rumped shama
Asian fairy bluebird
White-naped pheasant pigeon
Nicobar pigeon
Roulroul
Himalayan monal
Grey-cheeked liocichla
Salvadori's pheasant
Red-tailed laughingthrush
Fischer's turaco *
Chestnut-backed thrush *
Blue-crowned hanging parrot
Black-naped fruit dove
Timor sparrow
Zebra finch
Caribbean flamingo
Chilean flamingo
Humboldt penguin
Little egret
Smew
Garganey *
Ferruginous duck
Red-crested pochard
Lesser white-fronted goose
Eurasian spoonbill
Northern bald ibis
Eurasian black vulture
Eurasian griffon vulture *
Rock dove *
Red-billed chough *
Red-breasted goose
Eurasian great grey owl
Northern hawk owl
Ural owl
White-faced scops owl
Brown wood owl *
Spectacled owl
Ecuadorian Amazon parrot *
Cabot tragopan
Montserrat oriole
Sumatran laughingthrush
Great argus pheasant
Palawan peacock-pheasant
Luzon bleeding-heart dove
Mindanao bleeding-heart dove
Visayan tarictic hornbill
Royal starling
Red-cowled cardinal
Sunbittern *
Black-necked weaver *
Asian glossy starling
Emerald starling
Orange-headed thrush *
African montane white-eye *
Red-whiskered bulbul *
Madagascar red fody
Brazilian tanager *
Pekin robin *
Blue-crowned laughingthrush *
Violet turaco *
Great hornbill
Congo peafowl
White-crested turaco
Pink-headed fruit dove
Golden heart dove *
Green aracari
Green-naped pheasant pigeon
Lowland Luzon scops owl
White-winged wood duck
Writhed hornbill
Hyacinth macaw *
Blue-throated macaw *
Green jay *
Red-billed curassow

 

Reptiles

Tentacled snake
Green crested lizard
Gariau forest dragon
False gharial
Bornean river turtle
Giant Asian pond turtle
Painted batagur
Asian brown tortoise
Panther chameleon
Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle
Green tree monitor
Red-tailed racer *
Bell's anglehead lizard
Reticulated python
Black-breasted leaf turtle *
White-lipped viper *
Thai water dragon
Salavdor's monitor
Boelen's python
Komodo dragon
Gaboon viper
Northern tuatara
Parson's chameleon
Galapagos tortoise
Radiated tortoise
Amazon tree boa *
Serrated casquehead iguana
Emerald tree boa
Indochinese box turtle *
Northern caiman lizard
Spectacled caiman
Sand lizard *

 

Amphibians will be a short one

Mountain chicken
Green and black poison dart frog
Blue poison dart frog
Golden mantella
Blue-legged mantella *
Rio Marañón poison frog
Rio Cauca caecilian
Sambava tomato frog
Morelet's tree frog

 

Fish is quite lengthy (despite there only being about 5 houses or so with them including the aquarium)

Giant danio
Clown loach *
Scissortail rasbora
Tiger barb
Neon green rasbora
Eight-banded barb
Kubota's rasbora
Six-banded barb
Chilli rasbora
Blueline gourami
Omani blind cave fish
Bristlenose catfish
Butterfly goodeid
Rainbow shiner
Killifish
Bleeding-heart Tetra
Green phantom pleco
Diamond tetra
Royal tetra
Emperor tetra
Flame-back bleeding-heart tetra
Phoenix rasbora
Halfbeak
Common clownfish
Banggai cardinalfish
Epaulette shark *
Keyhole angelfish
Tomato clownfish
Yellow tang
Bicolour angelfish
Vermiculite wrasse
Copperband butterflyfish
Blacksaddle filefish
Shrimpfish
Clown rasbora
Foersch's barb
Snakeskin barb
Bandula barb
Cherry barb
Dwarf chain loach
Cory catfish
Freshwater angelfish
Wapoga red laser rainbowfish
Ajamaru Lakes rainbowfish
Lake Kutubu rainbowfish
Big-belly seahorse
Tequila splitfin
Shanny
Sand goby
Rock goby
Short-nosed elephant trunk fish *
Elephantnose fish
Blunt jaw elephant trunk fish *

 

And finally invertebrates

Buffalo leech
Vampire crab
Orbweaver spider
Asian mantis
Jungle nymph
Dead leaf mantis
Stick insect sp.
Butterfly sp.***
Malaysian katydid
Madagascan blue stick insect
Sun beetle
Purple flower beetle
Tanzanian tailless whip scorpion
Leaf-cutter ant
Giant katydid
Asian giant mantis *
Sumatran rhino beetle
Giant ramshorn
Brittle star
Soft coral
White-banded cleaner shrimp
Sea anemone
Montserrat tarantula *
Caribbean hermit crab *

*** = unfortunately was so bottle necked couldn't see the signage, but did definitely see Blue morpho and Owl butterfly

 

Blacksmith Plover?

Chester no longer has European Griffon vulture

Great effort though.

 

Thanks Rob as the title says just going with what we either saw or what the signs said. We did notice a lot of signs were outdated.

And there are apparently blacksmith plovers in the Tsavo bird aviary, if the signs are to be believed. Spent hours looking for a Schalow's turaco and didn't see one in there though, so not too sure how valid they are

 

One major omission from the bird list.... No Cassowary?!

 

No plovers in Tsavo aviary, but the sign is still there.

 

I KNEW ID FORGOT SOMETHING :O

 

Two of them aren't classes though! (And then birds could be included as reptiles!)

 

Added in Cabot tragopan to birds as well

 

Are these on show now then?

 

Or Avicrocodilia as crocodiles seems that are closest related reptiles to birds than the rest divisions of reptiles (lizards&snakes, chelonians, tuatara) are to birds.

 

I will also, for people who are interested, place asterisks next to those animals that we DIDN'T see. Those without are animals that we saw whether they were signed or not.