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I'm planning on visiting this zoo rather soon, but I couldn't find a proper animal list, does anyone know the list or know of a place to find the list?

 

Entrance:
Greater Flamingo

Islands:
Galapagos Tortoise, Asian Brown Tortoise, Radiated tortoise
New Guinea Singing Dog
Swan Goose, Bar-Headed Goose, Koi

Wallaby Walkabout
Tammar Wallaby
Hill Wallaroo
White cockatoo
Galah
Laughing Kookaburra

Children's Zoo
San Clemente Island Goat
African Pygmy Goat
Domestic Chicken
Reindeer
Randall Lineback
Prehensile-tailed porcupine
Eurasian Eagle Owl

North America
Eastern Box Turtle
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed hawk
Red wolf
Ringtail

ZooLab
Various small reptile/amphibians
Meerkat
Spiny Mouse
Green Aracari
Budgie

Pools
North American River Otter
Harbor Seal

Asia
Pallas' Cat
Red Panda

Tropical Rainforest
Big-Eyed Tree frog
White-faced saki
Brazilian Agouti
Cotton top tamarin
Two-toed sloth
red-handed tamarin
Green-winged macaw
Poison dart frogs
Utila Spiny Iguana
Various SA birds

The Animal Building
Seba's fruit bat
tawny frogmouth
3-banded armadillo
green woodhoopoe
madagascar buttonquail
eastern box turtle
reticulated python
indochinese box turtle
northern tree shrew
pygmy slow loris
crested wood partridge
fairy bluebird
mueller's grey gibbon
snow leopard
sumatran tiger

 

Of course with the weather, some of the animals outside will not be on exhibit

 

Seals leaving Miller Park Zoo; alligators moving in | Entertainment | pantagraph.com

The zoo is moving its three harbor seals to Louisville. The zoo claims that next year at this time they will be receiving American alligators.

 

According to the zoo's Instagram page, the zoo has received greater rheas and guanacos.

 

The zoo has 2 new tamanduas.

Miller Park Zoo welcomes tamanduas

 

@Grant Are the Seba's bats still there? I thought they had left the collection for some reason.

 

As of my last visit in 2017, they were still there. However, the Rusty-spotted genets were not.

 

The zoo's only Rusty-Spotted Genet "Mean Jean" died in 2016 I believe. That area is now Reticulated Python/Pygmy Slow Loris, Tree Shrew, Indochinese Box Turtle, and Crested Wood Partridge. The Seba's Bats are still there and are mixed with Jamaican Fruit Bats!

 

5 Pallas' cat kittens were born at the zoo.

Miller Park Zoo welcomes 5 Pallas’ cat kittens

 

Great news! For me even more exciting when reading that a male is from Czech Republic . I suppose he could be from Brno, couldn't he?

 

He is!

 

It's MAKALU, born 2016-04-18 at Brno Zoo , son of MANU and ROSA, with 1 brother and 2 sisters.
Transfered to Miller Park in dec. 2018.
Does anyone have infos about the female (name, origin, parents...) ?

 

The female is a 2 year old from Red River Zoo

 

The zoo opened an alligator exhibit.

'Something different:' Alligator exhibit opens at Miller Park Zoo

 

Disgusting incident at the Miller Park Zoo this past weekend: a flamingo had to be euthanized after a juvenile threw rocks into the enclosure, breaking the animal's leg beyond repair, so the animal sadly had to be euthanized.

And yet according to the articles the zoo is calling this an "unfortunate accident" and are "working with the juvenile's family to move forward". I'm sorry, but skipping or throwing rocks into an animal enclosure is not what I would call an unfortunate accident - that is deliberate and intended animal cruelty, pure and simple.

The zoo really should be pressing charges against these people for animal cruelty. The juvenile ought to be sent to some kind of detention and re-education facility for juvenile delinquents or in a few years time he might very well be hurting humans. And the parents should be sent to jail for not raising their child to have values and for not watching their child's behavior well enough.

Some days you really just want to send for Thanos to thin the human horde...

Illinois zoo forced to euthanize flamingo after child throws rock into enclosure
Miller Park Zoo euthanizes flamingo struck by rock

 

While it is very unfortunate that this incident resulted in the death of an animal, we do not know all the information. This very well might have been an accident and the child might not have meant to hit the bird. I’m so glad the zoo is taking the time to talk with the family and turn it into a learning opportunity instead of straight away suing or pressing charges. That would give the family a chance to appear as the victims or make the zoo appear as overly tough. If this was an adult, I’d agree full heatedly with you though. We just don’t have the information and it’s best to give benefit of the doubt in this situation.

 

The zoo welcomed its first baby tamandua.

Miller Park Zoo staff raising tamandua baby for mom

 

A trio of red panda cubs was born - a first for Miller Park!

Miller Park Zoo introduces new red panda cubs

 

While looking at the zoo's Instagram, I found that the Katthoefer Animal Building has been home to two Francois' langurs since August 2018.