Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Columbus Zoo Former Species

With the lists of former species from other zoos, I decided it was time to make one about Columbus! I know this list is incomplete, so please chime in with species you know the Columbus Zoo used to have if you know some that I missed.

Pachyderms (old and new)- warthog, Nile hippo, Malayan tapir, African bush elephant, African forest elephant

Old Herbivore/Carnivore Bldg.- gerenuk, lesser kudu, yellow-backed duiker, bongo, nilgai, chital, lesser rhea, giant anteater, marabou stork, white-cheeked gibbon

Western part of zoo (including, but not limited to, the current Shores, Expedition Congo and Voyage to Australia and the Islands areas)- tiger quoll, banded palm civet, drill, emu, short-beaked echidna, giant panda (temporarily in 1992), golden monkey, insect building

 

Heart of Africa - Black-backed Jackal

North America - American Woodcock

 

Black rhinoceros in Pachyderm was quite recently replaced with Indian rhino

 

Asia Quest: Musk Deer, Bornean Sun Bear

 

Good catch! Thanks. I knew they were going to, but didn't know if they actually had yet. I usually don't go inside the Pachyderm Bldg. when I go to Columbus

 

When did they have woodcock? I assume it was in the migratory bird aviary

 

They had one several years ago in that aviary.

 

Tree Pangolin, right? Or do they still have some?

 

Where were they? Off exhibit? I don't think they have any

 

They were one of many US zoos to acquire them, but only Brookfield displays them publicly (although Memphis used to as well).

 

It looks like they still do, but behind the scenes only

 

These were fairly recent, weren't they? I think the sun bears were replaced with sloth bears and I remember seeing the musk deer there.

 

Yup. Sun Bears were gone by at least 2019, and the Musk Deer either this year or last year.

 

Gotcha... that sounds about right. I'll add scorpions (species unknown) and naked mole rats based on this map from 2000- Zoo Tails: Columbus Zoo Map from 2000

 

There were also Pygmy Hippos in the Pachyderm Building until about 1992.

 

Oh thanks!!! I didn't know that... I knew about Nile Hippo, but not Pygmy. Or maybe I did and I mixed it up with Cleveland (which had Pygmy until 2006).

 

Where were the clouded leopards?

 

Did the sun bears get transferred out or did they pass ? was Dibu from San Deigo at Columbus ?

 

The Old Johnson Aquatic Center had Electric Eels and a display of fish from Lake Victoria, both invasive and native, if I remember correctly.

Clouded Leopards were in the Night Hike.

 

Where was the old Johnson Aquatic Center? By the time I started going to the zoo it was long gone. And I think I remember clouded leopards... when were they there exactly? I want to say it was maybe 2010ish, 2012?