Chester Zoo Project - Help Wanted

Jantan (male, indoor) and Mezcal (female, outdoor) are on-show, I'm not sure how many are held off-show or what their names are.

 

The female Dragons from Colchester are called Sahti, Lara and Mia

 

Magpie was not labelled when I last visited on April 12.

 

Bell's forest dragon
Collared grosbeak
Emei Shan liocichla
European harvest mouse NO LONGER KEPT were in the tiger house
Malabar danio
Mindanao lorikeet offshow parrot breeding centre
Mount Omei liocichla is the same species as Emei Shan Liocichla, now labelled as grey-cheeked liocichla
Ornate ctenopoma
Pikehead
Poll's synodontis in the pin-tailed damba tank
Rainbow shiner aquarium
Red arc pencilfish
Redeye Tetra
Red-tailed laughingthrush
Red-winged starling
Reticulated corydoras
Rhinoceros snake NO LONGER KEPT last in Tropical Realm
Rummy-nose tetra
Salvadori's pheasant
Sarasins minnow
Siberian sturgeon
Snakehead betta
Snowflake moray
Socorro dove
Spotfin betta
Sterba's corydoras Aquarium
Temminck's Bristlenosed catfish now labelled as Baryancistrus dolichopterus again
Temminck's tragopan
Three-lined rasbora
Toba betta
Tonkin bug-eyed frog NO LONGER KEPT offashow in Tropical Realm
Tramlap flying frog
Tufted pochard
Two spot barb
Violet turaco Tropical Realm
Whitemargin betta
Zhou's box turtle offshow in Tropical Realm

Also, are there really water voles in the reed bed or have I just misread that sign?
Does anyone have a species list for the aquarium in SoJ?
And finally, are the Denison barbs still at the zoo because they are still on the website but I have not seen or heard of them for a while?

wild water voles are living in the zoo.

 

Thanks Bongorob.

The tiger house??? I didn't know that you could go into the tiger house. How long ago was this?

 

You have never been able to go in the Tiger House,Bongorob was referring to where they were housed when they were in the zoo

 

Yes, sorry for the confusion, there is an offshow room there. harvest mice were neve ron show at chester, they were also kept in some of the offices.

 

Would I be right in thinking that the hornbill in Elephants of the Asian Forest is a Sudan wrinkled hornbill?

 

No, its a Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill

 

Ah, thanks MagpieGoose! I had better keep an eye on my spelling in the future

 

I have been studying through the 2015 stocklists and found a few species that are no longer kept at Chester. Would anyone be willing to tell me where they originally where?
The list is here:

White-Tailed Jay
Starlings & Oxpeckers (could someone please expand on this?)
Red-Cowled Cardinal
Asian Pied Starling
Java Dove
Spotted Pond Turtle
Eastern Bearded Dragon
Corn Snake
Common Black Ratsnake
Golden Tree Snake
Cook's Tree Boa
Ebenau's Golden Frog
Javan Flying Frog
File-Eared Tree Frog
Common Indian Toad
Dwarf Rasbora
Horseface Loach
Halfbeak

 

White-tailed Jays exported, some died. were kept in the aviary with the #Lilacine Amazons, until moved offshow when they showedsigns of breeding. they did hatch chicks but one of the pair died and the other left the zoo.

starling/oxpecker may be hybrids, or undentified species

Cooks' Tree Boa was never in the zoo, they were Amazon Tree boas (ZIMS will not accept this name, I think was the reason I was told). They have been exported. Kept in the smaller of the frog vivs in Tropical Realm

Java dove is a domestic used for fostering the pink pigeon chicks.

Eastern Bearded Dragon, Corn Snake,Common Black Ratsnake were Education department species, they have left the zoo.

Halfbeak on show in the aquarium, saw one on my last visit.

Red-Cowled Cardinal in (or was) Tropical Realm.

Asian Pied Starling not kept since 1975, do you mean African Pied Starling? An elderly specimen is in Tropical Realm.

Forgs and fish probably never been on show, although more amphibians seem to be making their way into Monsoon forest.

Spotted Pond turtle has never been on show as far as I know.

I can't find Golden Tree Snake in the 2015 inventory.

 

It is referred to as a Flying Snake on the list. Sorry for any confusion.

Oh sorry, I was meant to put African instead of Asian. My mistake.

Overall, thank you very much for your help Rob!

 

I am aware that Monsoon Forest has changed a lot since my last visit. Please could I have a full species list of the place? I understand that this is a big ask, but it will be very helpful to my project that I am currently undertaking.

 

I am not sure whether the halfbeak currently (or recently) on show is the same species as listed for 2015. Likewise the term 'dwarf rasbora' covers quite few species in the genus Microrasbora and some others too - I think that there were 3 species in the big aquarium in the Monsoon Forest and another in the Aquarium when I last visited. I'm afraid you need to use scientific names here.
A full list of the species in the Monsoon Forest will be harder to assemble than you might think. The new invertebrate displays can be changed very easily and the labels for the fishes, reptiles and amphibians are incomplete, and possibly misleading too

 

Don't worry about it, Gentle Lemur. Thanks for updating me about it anyway .

 

African pied starling died last year

 

Must have been quite old.

 

I've tried to make a list of all the species with updates from my visit yesterday.

Mammals
Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii)
Javan Moloch Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)
Sulawesi Crested Macaque (Macaca nigra)

Birds
Chestnut-backed Thrush (Zoothera dohertyi)
Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)
Grosbeak Starling (Scissirostrum dubium)
White-Rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
Superb Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus superbus)
Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps indica)
Golden-Heart Dove (Gallicolumba rufigula)
White-naped Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps aruensis)
Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria)
Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros silvestris)

Reptiles
Painted Batagur (Batagur borneoensis)
Bornean River Turtle (Orlitia borneensis)
Giant Asian Pond Turtle (Heosemys grandis)
Asian Brown Tortoise (Manouria emys)
Mountain Horned Lizard (Acanthosaura capra)
Green-Crested Lizard (Bronchocela cristatella)
Forest Dragon (Hypsilurus magnus)
Six-Lined Grass Lizard (Takydromus sexlineatus)
Sun Skink (Eutropis multifasciata)
Emerald Skink (Lamprolepis smaragdina)
Tentacled Snake (Erpeton tentaculatum)
Tomistoma (Tomistoma schlegelii)

Amphinians
Bornean Eared Frog (Polypedates otilophus)
Asian Stream Frog (Sylvirana maosonensis)
Painted Indonesian Tree frog (Nyctixalus pictus)
There was another vivarium similar to the one that had the Painted Tree frogs in which had another frog species but I didn’t see and it wasn’t signed.

Fish
Pallfina betta (Betta pallfina)
Liquorice Gourami (Parosphromenus linkei)
Scissortail Rasbora (Rasbora trilineata)
Six-banded Tiger Barb (Desmopuntius hexazona)
Clown Loach (Chromobotia macracanthus)
Neon Green Rasbora (Sundadanio axelrodi)
Eight-Banded Barb (Eirmotus octozona)
Chilli Rasbora (Boraras brigittae)
Blue-line Goumari (Parosphromenus sp.)


Invertebrates
Emerald Cockroach Wasp (Ampulex compressa)
Golden Orb Weaver (Nephalia .ssp)
‘Red Devil’ Vampire Crab (Geosesarma .ssp)
Buffalo Leech (Hirudinaria manillensis)
Malaysian Jungle Nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata)
Bloody Mary Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi)
Giant Walking Leaf (Phyllium giganteum)
Walking Stick Insect (Myronides .ssp peleng)
Sulawesi Stick Insect (Pamulus .ssp Sulawesi)
Touch Me Not Stick Insect (Epidares nolimemtangere)
Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus)
Sumatran Rhino Beetle (Xylotrupes gideon sumatrensis)
Yellow-Rabbit Snail (Tylomelania zemis)

 

Thank you very much @MagpieGoose