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  1. Meaghan Edwards

    Meaghan Edwards Well-Known Member

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    Not a complete list, I don't think, as I believe several insect species are excluded. I added a few that aren't on the list and took off a few that are no longer here. Lemme know if something's not there anymore or something is there and it's not listed. Taken from their website:

    African Rainforest

    African bonytongue
    African spoonbill
    Bearded barbet
    Bichirs
    Crested barbet
    Crested Hoopoe
    Egyptian Fruit Bat
    Electric catfish
    Elephantnose mormyrid
    Giant baboon spider
    Goliath baboon spider
    Green crested touraco
    Hammerkop
    Home's hingeback tortoise
    Lake Malawi cichlids
    Leopard climbing perch
    Madagascar buttonquail
    Mandrill
    Naked mole-rat
    Ngege
    Ornate Nile monitor
    Pygmy hippopotamus
    Red river hog
    Red-breasted bluebill
    Rock Scorpion
    Sacred ibis
    Slender-tailed meerkat
    Speckled mousebird
    Spotted-necked Otter
    Straw coloured fruit bat
    Synodontid catfish
    Target squeaker catfish
    Violaceous plantain eater
    West African dwarf crocodile
    Western lowland gorilla
    White-cheeked touraco
    Yellow-vented bulbul

    African Savanna

    African elephant
    African Lion
    Caracal Lynx (to be phased out and replaced with African Crested Porcupine in their exhibit)
    Cheetah
    Egyptian goose
    Greater kudu
    Grevy's Zebra
    Grey necked crowned crane
    Impala
    Marabou stork
    Masai giraffe
    Olive baboon
    Ostrich
    River hippopotamus
    Sable antelope
    Secretary bird
    South African Fur Seal (only one left, it is planned that Rosi is going to be sent to another zoo)
    Southern Ground hornbill
    Spotted hyena
    Warthog
    Wattled crane
    White Rhinoceros
    White-headed vulture

    Americas

    Aggregate anemone
    Alligator snapping turtle
    American alligator
    American chuckwalla
    Arrow poison frog
    Axolotl
    Bat star
    Beaver
    Black-footed ferret
    Black-tailed prairie dog
    Black-widow spider
    Blind cave characin
    Blue Dacnis
    Blue poison dart frog
    Blue-crowned motmot
    Blue-grey tanager
    Blue-winged grasshopper
    Boa constrictor
    Brazilian agouti
    Brazilian Giant cockroach
    Brown bullhead
    Butterfly goodeid
    Colorado River toad
    Common Marmoset or White-eared marmoset
    Crested tinamou
    Cuvier's smooth-fronted caiman
    Desert grassland whiptail
    Desert hairy scorpion
    Double-striped thicknee
    Dyeing poison dart frog
    Eastern bluebird
    Eastern massasauga rattlesnake
    Eastern Newt
    Electric eel
    Eyelash viper
    Florida gar
    Florida lubber
    Fresh water grass shrimp
    Giant Pacific octopus
    Golden Lion Tamarin
    Granite spiny lizard
    Great Horned Owl
    Green and black poison dart frog
    Green frog
    Green honeycreeper
    Green surf anemone
    Greenbottle blue tarantula
    Grey-winged Trumpeter
    Hyacinth Macaw
    Land hermit crab
    Largemouth bass
    Leather sea star
    Mata mata turtle
    Mexican beaded lizard
    Midland painted turtle
    North American River Otter
    Northern oriole
    Northern Pacific rattlesnake
    Painted anemone
    Panamanian tiger rump spider
    Piping Guan
    Plush crested jay
    Pumpkinseed sunfish
    Purple gallinule
    Pygmy marmoset
    Red sea urchin
    Red-breasted piranha
    Red-crested finch
    Red-legged honeycreeper
    Redside dace
    Reticulate gila monster
    Rufous-banded owl
    Scarlet-headed blackbird
    Sea anemones
    Silver beak tanager
    Snapping turtle
    South American giant bird-eating spider
    Spiny softshelled turtle
    Spotted gar
    Spotted turtle
    Strawberry anemone
    Sunbittern
    Surinam toad
    Tiger / Common Desert Centipede
    Tiger rat snake
    Two-toed sloth
    Vinegaroon
    Water scorpion
    White-faced saki monkey
    Yellow-banded poison dart frog

    Australasia

    Australian magpie
    Bennett's wallaby
    Black triggerfish
    Brownbanded bamboo shark
    Brush-tailed bettong
    Central bearded dragon
    Dusky anemonefish
    Emerald tree boa
    Fly River turtle
    Frilled Lizard
    Green tree python
    Komodo dragon
    Kookaburra
    Live Reef Corals
    MacLeay's spectres
    Marine toad
    Matschie's tree kangaroo
    Moon jellyfish
    New Guinea tree frog
    New Zealand shoveler
    Pennant coral fish
    Red-tailed black cockatoo
    Seahorse
    Short beaked echidna
    Six-barred angelfish
    Solomon Island monkey-tailed skink
    Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
    Sugar glider
    Tawny frogmouth
    Thorny Devil stick insect
    Threadfin butterflyfish
    Turquoisine grass parakeet
    Victoria crowned pigeon
    White-lipped python

    Behind the Scenes

    Eastern loggerhead shrike
    Harris' Hawk
    Laggar falcon
    Lanner Falcon
    Puerto Rican Crested toad
    Vancouver Island marmot

    Eurasia

    Bactrian camel
    Barbary ape
    Barbary sheep (also known as: Aoudad)
    Chamois
    Demoiselle crane
    Dhole, Asiatic wild dog
    Domestic yak
    Mouflon
    Przewalski's horse
    Red Panda
    Scimitar-horned oryx
    Siberian Tiger
    Snow Leopard
    West Caucasian tur

    Indomalaya Outdoor Exhibit

    Cattle egret
    Great Indian rhinoceros
    Himalayan tahr
    Indian peafowl
    Lion-tailed Macaque
    Malayan tapir
    Mandarin duck
    Red-billed blue magpie

    Malayan Woods

    Black-breasted leaf turtle
    Blue wing siva
    Butterflies
    Clouded Leopard
    Clown loach
    Crested wood partridge
    Dead leaf mantis
    Hooded Pitta
    Indian or Javan Whistling Duck
    Japanese white-eye
    Jumbo gourami
    Pekin robins
    Red-tailed green ratsnake

    Americas Outdoor Exhibit

    American flamingo
    Black-handed Spider Monkey
    Blue and yellow macaw
    Jaguar
    Llama
    Scarlet macaw

    Australasia Outdoor Exhibit

    Emu
    Western grey kangaroo

    Canadian Domain

    American Moose
    Canada lynx
    Cougar
    Grizzly bear
    Musk ox
    Northern bald eagle
    Raccoon
    Trumpeter swan
    Wapiti, American elk
    Wood bison

    Indomalaya

    Asian brown tortoise
    Black-throated laughing thrush
    Burmese star tortoise
    Chinese soft-shelled turtle
    Clown barb
    Concave casqued hornbill
    Crocodile lizard
    Crocodile newt
    Fairy bluebird
    Gaur
    Green water dragon
    Himalayan monal
    Malayan bonytongue
    Malayan giant stick insect
    Malaysian painted turtle
    Nicobar pigeon
    Pied imperial pigeon
    Prevost's squirrel
    Red-tailed black shark
    Renauld's ground cuckoo
    Reticulated Python
    Siamese catfish
    Spectacled cobra
    Spiny Turtle
    Sumatran orangutan
    Sumatran Tiger
    T-barb
    Temminck's tragopan
    Tentacled snake
    Tinfoil barb
    Tri-colour shark
    Vietnamese box turtle
    White-handed gibbon
    Wrinkled hornbill
    Zebra dove
    Tree Shrew

    Indomalaya Outdoor Exhibit

    Cattle egret
    Great Indian rhinoceros
    Himalayan tahr
    Indian peafowl (free ranging)
    Lion-tailed Macaque
    Malayan tapir
    Mandarin duck
    Red-billed blue magpie

    Kids Zoo

    Abyssinian ground hornbill
    Barn Owl
    Bateleur eagle
    Black-billed magpie
    Crested seriema
    Miniature donkey
    New Guinea Singing Dog
    Serval
    Striped Skunk
    Turkey Vulture
    Wild turkey (didn't see them yesterday; Guinea Fowl were in their exhibit)
    Woodchuck

    Tundra Trek

    Arctic fox
    Arctic wolf
    European reindeer
    Lesser snow goose
    Polar bear
    Snowy owl
     
  2. Aglemar

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    My contribution

    Everywhere

    Canadian Geese

    For the wild turkeys, I believe they might have been moved to the Americas pavilion at least temporarily. They replaced the one group of owl's near the entrance in the outside cage that they have there about a month back when I was visiting the Zoo (I think it had some white owls in it before). (I remember them distinctly because the male was trying to impress the female and was puffing itself up. It was quite funny seeing him try to make himself look so large (EDIT: The turkeys, not the owls))
     
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  3. JMANPROJECT88

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    The Turkeys have been in the old Great Horned/snowy Owl exhibit for a while so I'm assuming it is a permanent or semi-permanent move.
     
  4. groundskeeper24

    groundskeeper24 Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    This list takes me back to my wonderful visit in 04. What a lovely collection! One of my favorite zoos
     
  5. Ungulate

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    An unfortunate number of errors and omissions ... although I think the visitor guide is more up-to-date. Here's an updated list for Australasia (without a full list of the fish)

    Australasia Pavilion
    Bennett's wallaby
    Black tree monitor
    (Black-billed magpie ... in the outside aviary, used to live in Marco Polo)
    Blue-faced honeyeater
    Brown-banded bamboo shark
    Central bearded dragon
    Emerald tree boa
    Eyelash leaf frog
    Fly River turtle
    Frilled Lizard
    Green-winged dove
    Green tree python
    Komodo dragon
    Kookaburra
    Little pied cormorant
    Lionfish
    Live Reef Corals
    MacLeay's spectres
    Marine toad
    Matschie's tree kangaroo
    Moon jellyfish
    New Zealand shoveler
    Pot-bellied seahorse
    Red-bellied short-necked turtle
    Red-clawed blue yabby
    Red-tailed black cockatoo
    Short beaked echidna
    Snowflake eel
    Solomon Island monkey-tailed skink
    Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
    Sugar glider
    Swamp wallaby
    Tawny frogmouth
    Thorny Devil stick insect
    Victoria crowned pigeon
    White-lipped python
    White's tree frog
    Yellow tiger yabby

    GBR tank
    (those species that I can remember off the top of my head)
    Six-barred angelfish
    Bicolor anglefish
    Scribbled angelfish
    Batfish
    Harlequin tuskfish
    Coral beauty
    Humbug damselfish
    Yellow & blue fusilier
    Pennant coral fish
    Clown triggerfish
    Convict surgeonfish
    Regal surgeonfish
    Threadfin Butterflyfish
    Longnose Butterflyfish
    Black-back butterflyfish
    Orange lyre-tailed anthias

    Australasia Outdoor Exhibit
    Bennett's wallaby
    Western grey kangaroo
     
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  6. Meaghan Edwards

    Meaghan Edwards Well-Known Member

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    Thank you so much for the corrections and head's up, guys :) I can't seem to edit my original post though :(
     
  7. zooboy28

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    Does anyone know which subspecies of Sable Antelope Toronto Zoo (or any other North American zoos) have? The animals in New Zealand came from Toronto Zoo, and I'm trying to establish which subspecies they are. All Sable Antelope in European zoos are the nominate, southern subspecies, so if Toronto's came from a European zoo they are likely that subspecies also. Thanks.
     
  8. Sealife357

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    I was going to say check ISIS but it seems they tok down the old cataloge. There now appears no quick way to get that information.
     
  9. jusko88

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  10. Ungulate

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    With the exception of a small population of Zambian sable antelope in San Diego, all North American sable antelope are managed as a generic population (no subspecies designation) due to very hazy information about where the founders came from. (If an institution assigns a subspecies, it is typically H. n. niger)
     
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    Thanks Jusko88 & Ungulate, I will assume the NZ sables are a mix.
     
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    Does the zoo have these animals? (cape buffalo,Barasingha,Siberian Roe Deer,Giant Salamander(if they do what species),Topi,Thompson's gazelle,Chinese Water Deer,Baird's Tapir) thks matt
     
  13. Zoogoer2000

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    We currently do not have any of these species, but I'm fairly sure we have exhibited most/will be exhibiting atleast some of these in the future (The only ones I cannot verify with confidence are Cape Buffalo, Chinese Water Deer and Siberian Roe Deer).

    Barashinga lived along our ex-Monorail route until the early 90's (phased out through attrition, I believe).

    Giant Salamander (not sure which type, although Chinese would fit the theme more) have been mentioned as a species to be exhibited in our upcoming giant panda habitat (In the interpretive center that will serve as the entrance).

    A single male topi (Either named Dopi or Toby, can't remember exactly which one) lived at the zoo during the early 2000's, in what is now the summer paddock for our male Grevy's zebra (Who has since left, this was our old white-tailed gnu exhibit).

    Thomson's gazelle were maintained in Toronto until the early 2000's, in our large renovated Savannah exhibit at the end.

    We have never had baird's tapir, although a brazilian (lowland) tapir lived in the Maya Temple Ruins building for awhile. I don't know when, or whether he/she was on exhibit, though.

    If anyone can help with these final three which I could not verify (Ungulate?), that would be great!
     
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  14. LFANTMAN

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    Back in the early days, we had Chinese Water deer on exhibit in the Eurasian Paddocks and we had a male Siberian Roe deer that I looked after in Outdoor Holding back in '74/'75. There were plans for Cape Buffalo, their exhibit was to share the African elephant exhibit. Yes there was a male South American Lowland tapir in holding in the Mayan Temple, we crated him and sent him to Portugal. There were at least 2 or 3 others that came up from Riverdale that never made it on exhibit, because we didn't have an area for them. The only other tapir to have been kept in the South American/America's outside area was a female Malayan tapir that I picked up at the airport and with help from one of our Vet Techs., placed her in the Flamingo/Waterfowl House for her quarentine. She then went over to the Main Barn, before being sold to another zoo!

    Happy Days
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    Our origional Sable antelope came from Europe and the next import came from Front Royal, Virginia.

    Happy Days
    Wayne
     
  16. Zoogoer2000

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    Lfantman, was Toronto's old breeding male sable antelope (and father of our current females) "Tor" from the first or second import?
     
  17. LFANTMAN

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    I believe it was Tor who was the second import, the first group consisted of 2.4 animals, the same as the Greater Kudu. The origional group arrived in '76 and Tor came up in '83.
     
  18. LFANTMAN

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    I forgot to mention that we had a single Japanese giant Salamander that was on display in the Eurasian Pavilion in '74 and '75 and then was sent to join the Amphibian collection at the Cincinatti Zoo.
     
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    Way back in '74 and possibly '75, we had African Crested Porcupines in the Eurasian Pavilion, they tried to dig their way out!
     
  20. arcticwolf

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    Thanks for all of this information! I love learning about the zoo's past. Do you know if the zoo ever thought of putting the lowland tapirs on exhibit with the capybaras? I know that many zoos keep these species together. Also, I know this might not be the best thread for asking these questions, but do you know what species were held in the americas pavilion around the time that the zoo was open? I think I read somewhere that it used to be a North American pavilion. Is this true?

    Thanks in advance. :D:D:D