San Diego Zoo Ituri Forest/Monkey Trails questions

I haven't made it out to San Diego yet but I'd love to get out there at some point. I'm interested to know in the mixed species exhibits in both the Ituri Forest and Monkey Trails exhibits out there, specifically which duiker species there are and which species of primates are housed together. Information about birds in the aviaries would be awesome! Maybe some of the more local people can help me out.

 

As for the primates: I dont remember who was housed with who but the primate species list for Monkey Trails is Lesser Spot Nosed Guenon, Mandrill, Black Mangabey, Golden Bellied Mangabey, and Wolf's Guenon. There are also Allen's Swamp Monkeys in Ituri Forest.

As for the Duikers: Only Red Flanked Duikers are housed with Wolf's Guenons and another primate species.

I can post a complete Avian Species List tomorrow for Monkey Trails and Ituri Forest.

 

As for the Duikers: Only Red Flanked Duikers are housed with Wolf's Guenons and another primate species.

Don't forget the pygmy hippos that share this interesting exhibit! I don't think there's another primate there though

 

I've heard the duikers are no longer in there.

I don't know the mixes for Monkey Trails but here is a species list (including Flamingo Lagoon)
lesser spot-nosed guenon
Wolf's guenon
L'Hoest's guenon
mandrill
black mangabey
golden-bellied mangabey
eastern Angolan colobus monkey
pygmy hippopotamus
Bornean bearded pig
Visayan warty pig
clouded leopard
White-faced Whistling Duck
Bronze-winged Duck
Crested Screamer
Mallard
Ringed Teal
Caribbean Flamingo
North American Wood Duck
Northern Bahama Pintail
Chiloe Wigeon
Scarlet Ibis
Variable Sunbird
Blue-naped Mousebird
Sociable Weaver
Amethyst Starling
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Egyptian plover
Paradise wydah
African Namaqua Dove
Green-winged Pytilia
Bronze Mannikin
Red-headed Finch
Bali Mynah
Palawan Peacock-pheasant
West African Dwarf Crocodile
East African Black Mud Turtle
Giant Leaf-tailed Gecko
Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
Puff Adder
Twig Snake
Gaboon Viper
Speckled Green Snake
African Tiger Snake
Big-eyed Tree Frog
Marbled Reed Frog
Madagascan Tree Boa
Angolan Python
African Leopard Tortoise
Armadillo Girdled Lizard
Parrot-beaked Tortoise
Schneider Skink
Boulengers Scrub Lizard
Red-headed Rock Agama
Yellow-throated Plated Lizard
Pancake Tortoise
Rainbow Skink
African Girdled Lizard
Gorongosa Girdled Lizard
African Slender-snouted Crocodile



Ituri Forest species list:


Okapi

Hippopotamus

(these next 5 share an exhibit)
Western Forest Hog
Forest Buffalo
African Spot-necked Otter
Red River Hog
Allen's Swamp Monkey
(One aviary for all birds)
Emerald Starling
Senegal Gonolek
Oriole Warbler

Schmidt's Spot-nosed Guenon and spot-necked otters

 

When I visited in 2006, shortly after Monkey Trails opened, there were both blue and red-flanked duikers in the pygmy hippo/Wolf's guenon exhibit. Not sure of the present status, but I know the guenons (specifically the youngsters) would pester the antelope a bit.

 

Thanks for all of the feedback! I like to design exhibits for fun and I'm currently working on an African Rainforest exhibit.

Does anyone know if any of the reptiles mentioned above are mixed together, or are they just all small jewel-box type exhibits?

If anybody knows other African mixed species exhibits at the zoo and/or wild animal park, any info would be appreciated. I'm most interested in unique mammal mixes (i.e. primates/duiker/hippo), birds, and reptiles.

 

The dwarf crocs and mud turtles share an exhibit I know for sure. I'm sure there are some lizard/tortoise mixes too but I'm not sure which ones. I think you will find your hobby to be quite a common one amongst this group.

 

The buffalo, swamp monkey, guenon, and otter exhibit is the most unique African Rainforest mixed exhibit. But you said "any other African mixed species exhibits." If you meant only Rainforest the combo above is about as crazy as zoos get. Bronx has River Hogs, Mandrills, and a third Primate species and some European zoos have tried Pygmy Hippo combos with Primates and Birds. However if you mean Africa in general there are hundreds of ungulate, bird, and reptile combinations from the Savannah and the Sahara.

 

Omaha combines Blue Monkeys, Talapoins, some duiker species and giant (and I mean GIANT) softshelled turtles in one exhibit. It is not nearly as successful as the San Diego or Bronx exhibits noted in these posts (i.e. it's ugly), but kind of interesting nevertheless.

 

Wild Animal Park has bat-eared foxes and warthogs together, on trail between okapis and cheetahs (or at least they did last year). If you ever make it to Tucson, Reid Park Zoo has crested porcupines and mandrills together.

 

Crested Porcupines and Mandrills is the weirdest combo I have ever heard of! You not only cross taxonomies but biomes as well!

 

Debrazza Monkeys, I believe.

 

Pretty much any habitat type goes for what I was talking about, just at the moment I'm working on an African Rainforest. I said "unique mammal mixes" because I'm aware of giraffe/zebra/ostrich or antelope/crane mixes, I'm just looking for different ones.

The third primate species in that exhibit is DeBrazza's Guenon. I was a little surprised that there was nothing mixed with the Colobus Monkeys at the Bronx. Has anyone heard of mixed exhibits with these guys?

 

For a brief time, Brush-tailed porcupines were exhibited with the Colobus at Bronx Congo. No longer the case--don't know why (maybe no one ever saw the nocturnal porkies)

At Lincoln Park, colobus are exhibited with Diana Monkeys, I believe.

 

Sedgwick County Zoo has the Debrazza's monkey and Black-and-white colobus monkey mix in the Gorilla Forest Exhibit. Chicago Brookfield's Tropic World has the Mandrill with the pygmy hippo exhibit. Omaha's new gorilla building has the Diana monkey mix with colobus monkeys. In terms of design of the rainforest with mixed species, I would say the Bronx zoo's congo forest's red river hog exhibit would be the best. Oh, I forgot, their gibbons in Jungleworld is free ranging between the tapir exhibit and formerly garial exhibit. Kind of cool. I have no seen their Madagascar yet, but I bet it would be very nice.

 

Some European zoos have experimented with Colobus and Gorillas. In Detroit, Gorillas are also housed with Mandrills, Drills, and a few other primates (DeBrazza's and Mona's)? Colobus are fairly compatible with anything as long as they are compatible with other members of their group.

 

Their Madagascar exhibit is really nice, although not many mixed species exhibits in there. I am a huge fan of island endemics, and this exhibit definitely fills that craving of mine. It is very well done and showcases the different environments on Madagascar.

Of the few mixed species exhibits there, the large Spiny Forest gallery supposedly contains Ring-tailed Lemurs, Collared Lemurs, Radiated Tortoise, Gray-headed Lovebird, Madagascar Red Fody, although when I went the birds were not in this exhibit and the tortoises were nowhere to be seen. I asked about the birds and they said they had been temporarily removed from the exhibit. Other mixed exhibits include Nile Crocs with various Cichlids, various Mantella frogs, Madagascar Day Geckos with Tomato Frogs, and smaller Radiated Tortoise, Spider Tortoise, Madagascar Plated Lizards, and I believe Madagascar Iguana (its another type of lizard, if not those).

 

In its early years, the central exhibit in Bronx Jungleworld contained tapirs, gibbons, gharials, batagurs, Fly River turtles, giant Indian squirrels, Prevost's squirrels, Great hornbills, Green peafowl, Indian fruit bats and numerous smaller bird species. It is greatly impoverished today in comparison. But still as good a piece of artificial rainforest as any in the world.

 

On my last visit to Detroit a few years back they had Lowland Gorillas, Diana Monkey, Mandrill, and Klipspringer mixed.

 

They phased out the klipspringers and have since added Drills.

Oh, and the chimps are in that exhibit as well.