The following is a list of species seen and/or signed on show on my visit to Khao Kheow Open Zoo on the 11th of April 2017. I will be uploading (or if you're reading this more than a day or two after posting, have uploaded) a number of pictures to the Khao Kheow Open Zoo Gallery and I have posted a brief review and my thoughts about the place in this post in my trip thread. Mammals: 1. Barbary Sheep 2. Asiatic Elephant 3. (domestic) Water Buffalo 4. Hog Deer 5. Bengal Slow Loris 6. Red Kangaroo 7. Bennett’s Wallaby 8. (domestic) Dromedary Camel 9. Wild Boar 10. Gaur 11. Banteng 12. Common Coati 13. Binturong 14. Sika Deer 15. Sambar Deer 16. Barasingha 17. Giant Anteater 18. Red-shanked Douc 19. Koala 20. Northern Raccoon 21. Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur 22. Pygmy Hippo 23. South American Fur Seal 24. Small-clawed Otter 25. Common Squirrel Monkey 26. Malayan Porcupine 27. Malayan Tapir 28. Common Chimpanzee 29. Orangutan 30. Lion 31. Indochinese Tiger (P. t. corbetti) 32. Black Jaguar 33. Puma 34. Leopard 35. ‘White Tiger’ 36. Flat-headed Cat 37. Caracal (nominate subspecies) 38. Asian Golden Cat 39. Fishing Cat 40. Siberian Tiger 41. Jungle Cat (subspecies fulvidina) 42. Leopard Cat 43. Canadian Lynx 44. Ocelot 45. Pileated Gibbon 46. White-handed Gibbon 47. Siamang 48. White-cheeked Gibbon (nominate) 49. Black-capped Capuchin (signed as Margarita Island Capuchin but with the name just Sapajus apella. I don’t know if it’s actually margaritae) 50. Patas Monkey 51. Stump-tailed Macaque 52. Pig-tailed Macaque 53. Eld’s Deer 54. Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine 55. Common Barking Deer (+Albino) 56. (domestic) Rabbit 57. (domestic) Goat 58. (domestic) Guinea Pig 59. Hedgehog (signed as Erinaceus europaeus with the common name ‘hedgehog’ but I think actually African Pygmy Hedgehog) 60. Common Hippo 61. Meerkat 62. Blackbuck 63. Gemsbok 64. Defassa Waterbuck 65. Blue Wildebeest 66. Giraffe 67. Thomson’s Gazelle 68. Eland 69. ‘White Lion’ 70. Burchell’s Zebra 71. Nyala 72. Ring-tailed Lemur 73. Southern White Rhino 74. Bat-eared Fox 75. Asiatic Black Bear 76. Malayan Sun Bear 77. Spotted Hyaena 78. Common Marmoset 79. Lyle’s Flying Fox 80. Mainland Serow 81. Lesser Mouse Deer Birds: 1. Greater Flamingo 2. Emu 3. Southern Cassowary 4. (Painted Stork semi-wild) 5. (Spot-billed Pelican semi-wild) 6. Red Junglefowl (nominate) 7. Crawfurd’s Kalij Pheasant 8. Humboldt Penguin 9. (domestic) Guineafowl 10. Common Ostrich 11. Demoiselle Crane 12. Grey Crowned-crane 13. Sun Conure 14. Blue-and-gold Macaw 15. Eclectus Parrot 16. Chattering Lory 17. Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 18. African Grey Parrot 19. Salmon-crested Cockatoo 20. Palm Cockatoo 21. Great Hornbill 22. White-crowned Hornbill 23. Wreathed Hornbill 24. Rhinoceros Hornbill 25. Tickell’s Brown Hornbill 26. Oriental Pied Hornbill 27. Bushy-crested Hornbill 28. Indian Peafowl 29. Victoria Crowned-pigeon 30. Mallard 31. White-cheeked Pintail 32. Black Swan 33. Zebra Dove 34. Spotted Dove 35. Thick-billed Green-pigeon 36. Nicobar Pigeon 37. Green Imperial-pigeon 38. Pied Imperial-pigeon 39. Blue-winged Leafbird 40. Asian Fairy-bluebird 41. Greater Green Leafbird 42. White-vented Myna 43. White-crested Laughingthrush 44. Lineated Barbet 45. Golden-crested Myna 46. Red-crowned Barbet 47. Red-breasted Parakeet 48. Red Junglefowl 49. Brown-capped Emerald-dove 50. Black-crested Bulbul 51. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 52. Black-hooded Oriole 53. Common Myna 54. Streak-eared Bulbul 55. Straw-headed Bulbul 56. Yellow-vented Bulbul 57. Black-naped Oriole 58. Siamese Fireback Pheasant 59. Lesser Whistling Duck 60. Lovebird (species unsigned) 61. Hill Myna 62. Blue-rumped Parrot 63. Lesser Bird-of-paradise 64. Red-whiskered Bulbul 65. Budgerigar Reptiles: 1. False Gharial 2. Pig-nosed Turtle 3. Green Iguana 4. African Spurred Tortoise 5. Bearded Dragon 6. Blue-tongued Skink 7. Chinese Water Dragon 8. Albino + Normal Monocled Cobra (nominate subspecies) 9. Corn Snake 10. White-lipped Pit-viper 11. Green Cat-eyed Snake 12. Copper-headed Racer 13. Brook’s King Snake 14. Red-tailed Racer 15. Green Basilisk 16. Malayan Pit Viper 17. Cave Dwelling Snake 18. Ball Python 19. Brown Kukri Snake (O. purpurascens) 20. Big-eyed Pit-viper 21. Sunbeam Snake 22. Golden Tree Snake (Ornate Flying Snake) 23. Banded Kukri Snake (O. fasciolatus) 24. Reticulated Python 25. Burmese Python 26. Siamese Crocodile 27. South-east Asian Box Turtle 28. Saltwater Crocodile Fish (signed fish only) : 1. Alligator Gar 2. Giant Gourami
That is a nice cat collection, especially flat headed cat. Too bad they no longer have marbled cat as I believe they once did?
No, and no. There were empty enclosures in the Cats Complex through where there would have been space for Clouded Leopards, and there were three separate enclosures of Doucs. Yeah, the cat collection was really quite impressive especially seeing all of that cat diversity in a small area around the Cats Complex. I don't know of Khao Kheow having Marbled Cat, though I think Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima) did at one point. Thanks for pointing that out! The error is due to the species being in two different parts of the collection, in a small aviary as well as in a big walkthrough aviary. Unfortunately I can't edit the original post anymore to fix it.
Yes, Khao Kheow did have a marbled cat once. The cat was part of a large shipment of wild animals which was being illegally transported from Laos. It was then confiscated in Bangkok airport by Thai authorities and then kept at Khao Kheow Zoo.
The information was not obtained through the internet. I emailed a photographer who had photographed Marbled cats in captivity and he said it was in Khao Kheow Zoo. I have also found other references which mention marbled cats in Khao Kheow. The cat was kept there in 2010 and I assume it has died (the photographer was not aware if it is still alive). The marbled cat was a single male, so I didn't breed and I do not think it has been sent elswhere.
I have now finished uploading pictures from Khao Kheow Open Zoo so have a look at those if you're interested. I've uploaded quite a few pictures of animals as well as enclosures.
that reminds me of a little zoo in New Zealand (Brooklands Zoo) which for a while was also calling its black-capped capuchins "Margarita Island capuchins". I have no idea why, I'm guessing either so they could claim them as being more endangered than in reality, or otherwise simply because they googled and chose the wrong one by mistake.
