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Fresno Zoo animal collection 1962

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  1. ungulate nerd

    ungulate nerd Well-Known Member

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    In my collection of zoo and natural history books, I have a guide book from the Fresno Zoo that was written in 1962, during that time Fresno Zoo was the 3rd largest animal collection in California, so I thought you guys would be interested in a list of their collection from that time, here it is

    MAMMALS:

    Common chimpanzee
    Western lowland gorilla
    Orangutan
    White handed gibbon
    Hamadryas baboon
    Chacma baboon
    Mandrill
    Patas monkey
    Red uakari
    Black handed spider monkey
    Bengal tiger
    African lion
    Cheetah
    Jaguar
    Leopard
    Canada lynx
    Bobcat
    Mountain lion
    Sun bear
    Grizzly bear
    European brown bear
    Polar bear
    Gray fox
    Spotted hyena
    Indian golden jackal
    African wild dog
    Gray fox
    Wolverine
    White nosed coatimundi
    Capybara
    Malabar giant squirrel
    Prehensile tailed porcupine
    Crested porcupine
    River hippopotumas
    Pygmy hippopotumas
    Giraffe
    Axis deer
    Tule elk
    Reeves muntjac
    Aoudad
    Siberian ibex
    Wildebeest
    Beisa oryx
    Blackbuck
    American bison
    Common eland
    Pronghorn
    Llama
    Dromedary camel
    Brazilian tapir
    Damara zebra
    Black rhinoceros
    Asian elephant
    African elephant
    Common wallaroo
    Red kangaroo
    Tree kangaroo
    Koala
    Otter (book didnt say which species)
    California sea lion

    BIRDS:

    Double wattled cassowary
    Emu
    Greater rhea
    Ostrich
    Suffer crested cockatoo
    Blue and gold macaw
    Turkey vulture
    King vulture
    Golden eagle
    Great horned owl
    Red tailed hawk
    Red billed indian magpie
    Montezuma oropendola
    Bleeding heart dove
    Victoria crowned pigeon
    Nicobar pigeon
    Northern nutmeg fruit pigeon
    Indian blue roller
    White throated magpie jay
    Long tailed glossy starling
    Wood duck
    Mandarin duck
    Great blue heron
    Snowy egret
    Scarlet ibis
    Roseate spoonbill
    Black swan
    Greater snow goose
    Emperor goose
    Andean goose
    Canada goose
    Siberian red breasted goose
    Ross goose
    American flamingo
    Humboldt penguin
    American white pelican
    Demoiselle crane
    Black crowned crane
    Stanley crane
    Indian blue peafowl

    Reptiles:

    American alligator
    American crocodile
    Alligator snapping turtle
    Red eared slider
    Aldabra and Galapagos giant tortoises
    Species not mentioned in the book that lived in the reptile house