Minnesota Zoo Minnesota Zoo Species List

Then I feel fortunate to have seen them!

 

Alright here are some updates
.cotton topped tamarins have been phased out and chinchillas are now animal ambassadors
.tamanduas are in an exhibit by the monorail
.the Minnesota aviary is now home to the red fox and a Virginia opossum now shares the raccoon exhibit
.The hog nose snake didn’t do well on exhibit, so now an American toad took its place
.the kemp’s Ridley turtle is now in the tropical reef in the tropics trail
.demoiselle cranes are now mixed with the tapirs
. and 3 more unknown species of bird share the Bali myah/bamboo partridge/star tortoise aviary.

 

Do you have any photos of the new birds?

The hognose was one of my favorites too, a shame it had to go.

 

I do but the quality is bad so I can’t post it here on zoochat , but the hognose is still at the zoo, it was to scared and wouldn’t eat or drink on exhibit.EDIT: the new bird species in the small aviary is Sri Lankan jungle fowl and common emerald dove.

 

Both of those species used to be in the big free-flight aviary. Has that reopened?

 

I have decided to make a new up-to-date species list so here we go

Main building & lake:
.snow monkey(Japanese macaque)
.black footed penguin
.southern tamandua
.trumpeter swan(listed on website, haven’t seen it in years)
.common snapping turtle
.unknown mussel species

Discovery bay:
.horned shark, leopard shark, swell shark
.sand tiger shark, crevalle jack, Goliath grouper, lookdown, Florida pompano, ber jack, permit, yellow fin mojarra, longspine squirrelfish, tarpon, queen triggerfish, creole wrasse, green moray eel, graysby, coney, Atlantic spadefish, royal gamma, queen angelfish, spot-fin porcupine fish, southern stingray, green sea turtle, blacktip reef shark, Whitetip reef shark
.Hawaiian monk seal
.purple urchin, shiner surfperch, White-spotted anemone, bat stars, short spined sea stars
.coral reef(species unlisted, saw naso tang, common clownfish, & unspecific angelfish)
.moon jellyfish
.weedy sea dragon, leafy sea dragon
.lined seahorse, horseshoe crabs, pipefish, banggai cardinalfish
.splendid garden eel
.shrimp

Tropics trail:
.radiated tortoise
.Henkel’s leaf tailed gecko, tomato frog
.Madagascar hissing cockroach
.ring-tailed lemur
.straw-colored fruit bat, Egyptian fruit bat, long haired rousette
.west African dwarf crocodile, African cichlids
.black & White colobus, Debrazas guenon, red river hog
.Komodo dragon
.Bali mynah, mountain bamboo partridge, rose crowned fruit dove, green winged dove, Indian star tortoise
.giant gourami, rose line shark, archerfish, rosy barb, tiger loach, tinfoil barb
.asian small clawed otter
.northern white cheeked gibbons
Free flying birds: lesser scaup, marbled teal, mandarin duck, Madagascar teal, ferruginous duck, ringed teal, falcated duck, red crested pochard, baer’s pochard, White faced whistling duck, New Zealand shoveler, common shelduck, baikal teal, silver teal, Indian spot-billed duck, Maccoa duck, freckled buck, garganey, spotted whistling duck, West Indian whistling duck, lesser flamingo, White cheeked turacos, house sparrows, tailed treepies, pied imperial pigeons
.rhinoceros hornbill
.golden crested mynahs, fairy bluebirds, yellow throated laughingthrush, White crested laughingthrush, grosbeak starling, dhyal thrush, Malay great Argus, temminks tragopan, Luzon bleeding heart dove, Nicobar pigeons, Victoria crowned pigeons, black naped oriole, crested wood partridge, Sri Lankan jungle fowl, wompoo fruit dove, cotton Pygmy goose, black naped fruit dove, metallic starling, blue bellied roller, fawn breasted bowerbird
.silver leaf langur
.Malayan tapir, demoiselle crane
.asian brown tortoise
.pennant coralfish, king angelfish, semicircle angelfish, orbiculate batfish, emperor angelfish, yellow tang, bluering angelfish, regal angelfish, flame angelfish, bluegridled angelfish, threadfin butterflyfish, bluecheek butterflyfish, saddle butterflyfish, atoll butterflyfish pacific double saddle butterflyfish, sunburst butterflyfish, sunset butterflyfish, teardrop butterflyfish, raccoon butterflyfish, spotband butterflyfish, vagabond butterflyfish, pearlscale butterflyfish, silver moony, blackstriped angelfish, longnose butterflyfish, barred spinefish, twospined angelfish, copperband butterflyfish, foxface rabbitfish, lemonpeel angelfish,Brown & White butterflyfish, twotoe tang, russet angelfish, yellowface angelfish, millet butterflyfish, latticed butterflyfish, Whitetail dascyllus, yellowtail angelfish, bicolor angelfish, powderblue surgeonfish, spotted unicornfish, palette surgeonfish, orangespot surgeonfish, orangespot unicornfish, sohal surgeonfish, bluespot unicornfish, clown triggerfish, spotted surgeonfish, bignose unicornfish, black triggerfish, blackberry triggerfish, yellowtail tang, Picasso triggerfish, convict surgeonfish, wedge-tail triggerfish, Achilles tang, Japan surgeonfish, orange-lined triggerfish, lined surgeonfish, White-spotted puffer, longspine pufferfish, spotted sharpnose puffer, guineafowl puffer, whitespotted boxfish, longhorn cowfish, blackspotted puffer, yellow boxfish, milkfish, pinecone soldierfish, bird wrasse, crown squirrelfish, ornamental wrasse, sea goldie, harlequin tuskfish, brick soldierfish, clown fairy wrasse, bluntheaded wrasse, saddle wrasse, fivestriped wrasse, moon wrasse, yellow-brown wrasse, yellowtail clownfish, clown anemonefish, orange clownfish, black-axil chromis, comet, green chromis, barlette’s anthias, Whitespotted bamboo shark, port Jackson’s shark, zebra shark, coral catshark, brownbanded bamboo shark, epaulette shark, zebra moray eel, kemp’s ridley sea turtle, cownose ray
.Visayan warty pig
.red panda, transcaspian urial
.linneous two toed sloth
.Burmese python
.crested oropendola, green aracaris, blue crowned motmot, Venezuelan troupials, Andean cock of the rock, grey winged trumpeter, American avocet, Black necked stilt, sunbittern, puna teal, Bahama teal, scarlet ibis, roseate spoonbill
.mission gold eyes tree frog
.Bolivian grey titi, red rumpled agouti
.golden lion tamarin, southern 3 banded armadillo

Minnesota trail:
.blanding’s turtle, false map turtle, northern map turtle, ouachita map turtle, painted turtle, wood turtle, snapping turtle, smooth softshell turtle, spiny softshell turtle
.American bullfrog
.hognose snake(of exhibit)
.American toad, northern leopard frog, mudpuppy
.virginia opossum
.American beaver
.lake sturgeon, long-nose gar, walleye, Muskie, largemouth bass, northern pike, bowfin, bluegill, Black crappie, brook trout, channel catfish
.north American river otter
.great horned owl, North American porcupine
.fisher
.coyote
.red fox
.grey wolf
.wolverine
.bald eagle
.cougar
.Canadian lynx
American black bear

Russia’s grizzly coast:
.northern sea otter
.rainbow trout
.alaskan brown bear
.European wild boar
.Amur leopard

Northern trail:
.Sichuan takin
.American plains bison
.prairie dog
.pronghorn
.przewalskis horse
.Nigerian dwarf goat
.llama
.bactrian camel
.dhole
.musk oxen
.American moose
.woodland caribou
.Amur tiger

Wells Fargo family farm:
.domestic horse
.domestic cattle
.domestic sheep
.domestic goat
.domestic pig
.domestic chicken
.domestic rabbit

I will be able to post updates as they are needed, as I usually go every two months

 

I just saw this species last month on the pond, along with wild geese, mallard ducks, And I think a wild Ring-necked duck, might be the first time I've seen this species.

 

The Trumpeter Swans are not zoo animals, they are wild.

 

They list them on the website when I first viewed it a long time ago, and I was under the impression they were kept by the zoo. No matter, I still saw them anyways.

 

I always thought they were kept by the zoo. Probably explains why I haven’t seen them in almost 2 years.Some other updates include the replacement of moon jellyfish with Atlantic sea nettles, the removal of Nigerian dwarf goats from the northern trail, and that trumpeter swans can be removed since they are wild.

 

Same here.

 

The zoo has participated in the trumpeter swan reintroduction program through the DNR program. See the conservation tab:
Trumpeter Swan - Minnesota Zoo

 

I'm not sure that they were ever kept on exhibit though, at the very least not recently.

 

The zoo kept swans for several decades, both on the main lake and at some times other places along the Northern Trail. As noted by @MidwestFan they were kept as breeding stock for reintroduction. The reintroductions stopped in the early 2010s, so that's about when swans stopped being part of the captive collection.

 

The Atlantic sea nettles are gone, & in there place is a new nursery tank, with young animals from the nearby coral reef tank. Most of the fish are existing species, with the exception of the green-spotted puffer.

 

The Minnesota Zoo exhibits more sea life than I realized between the coral reef exhibit on the Tropics Trail and the Discovery Bay complex. How does the zoo compare to the Sea Life aquarium at the Mall of America in terms of species diversity and exhibit quality?

 

I recall both facilities exhibits being of reasonably high quality. I'm inclined to say the Zoo has better species diversity, but that is quite hard to determine because, at least when I last went (2018), the Sea Life aquarium did an atrocious job signing its species.

 

Sea Life Minnesota is clearly the superior facility for marine life in terms of exhibitry. Species diversity is about the same.

 

Here is an updated species list as of 10/7/21 domestics (other than the camels & reindeer) don’t count for this list.

Main Building/Lake
.Japanese Macaque
.Black-Footed Penguin
.Southern Tamandua
.Common Snapping Turtle (wild)
.Mucket Mussel, Fatmucket Mussel, Higgin's Pearly-Eye Mussel

Discovery bay
.Hawaiian Monk Seal
.Horn Shark, Leopard Shark, Swell Shark
.Sand Tiger Shark, Crevalle Jack, Goliath Grouper, Lookdown, Florida Pompano, Ber jack, Permit, Yellow-Tun Mojarra, Longspine Squirrelfish, Atlantic Tarpon, Queen Triggerfish, Creole Wrasse, Green Moray Eel, Graysby, Coney, Atlantic Spadefish, Royal Gamma, Queen Angelfish, Spot-Fin Porcupinefish, Southern Stingray, Green Sea Turtle, Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Blacktip Reef Shark, Whitetip Reef Shark
.Purple Urchin, Shiner Surfperch, White-Spotted Anemone, Bat Star, Short-Spined Sea Stars
.Purple Tang, Copperband's Butterflyfish, Common Clownfish, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Cherub Pygmy Angelfish, Unidentified Coral
. Zebra Shark (Pups)
.Weedy Sea Dragon, Leafy Sea Dragon, Eastern Hulafish
.Lined Seahorse, Spottail Goby, Link’s Goby, Yellow Prawn-Goby, Neon Goby, Pipefish, Bangai Cardinalfish, Horseshoe Crab, Hermit Crab
.Splendid Garden Eel, Spotted Garden Eel, Red Leg Hermit Crab, Banded Coral Shrimp, Sea Goldie, Purple Firefish, Pajama Cardinalfish Gold-Specs Jawfish, Green-Spotted Puffer, Copperband's Butterflyfish
.Common Shrimp

Tropics trail
.Radiated Tortoise
.Henkel’s Leaf-Tailed Gecko, Tomato Frog
.Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
.Ring-Tailed Lemur
.Straw-Colored Fruit Bat, Egyptian Fruit Bat, Long Haired Fruit Bat
.West African Dwarf Crocodile, African Cichlids
.Mantled Guereza, Debraza’s Guenon, Red River Hog
.Komodo Dragon
.Bali Mynah, Mountain Bamboo Partridge, Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove, Gren-Winged Dove, Indian Star Tortoise
.Giant Gourami, Rose Line Shark, Archerfish, Rosy Barb, Tiger Loach, Tinfoil Barb
.Empty (former ASCO)
.Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo
.Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
Free flying birds: Lesser Scaup, Marbled Teal, Mandarin Duck, Madagascar Teal, Ferrungious Duck, Ringed Teal, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard, Baer’s Pochard, White-Faced Whistling Duck, New Zealand Shoveler, Common Shelduck, Baikal Teal, Silver Teal, Indian Spot-Billed Duck, Maccoa Duck, Freckled Duck, Garganery, Spotted Whistling Duck, West Indian Whistling Duck, Lesser Flamingo, White-Cheeked Turaco, House Sparrow, Tailed Treepie, Blue-Bellied Roller
.Rhinoceros Hornbill
. Golden Crested Mynah, Fairy Bluebird, Yellow-Throated Laughingthrush, White-Crested Laughingthrush, Grosbeak Starling, Dhyal Thrush, Malay Great Argus, Temmink's Tragopan, Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove, Nicobar Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Black-Napped Oriole, Crested Wood Partridge, Sri Lankan Junglfowl, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Black-Napped Fruit Dove, Metallic Starling, Madagascar Partridge, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove, Grey-Capped Emerald Dove, Black-Necked Stilt, Fawn-Breasted Bowerbird, White-Rumped Shama, Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush, Spur Winged Lapwing, Red Vented Bulbul, Chinese Hwamei
.Silvery Langur
.Malayan Tapir, Demoiselle Crane
.Burmese Brown Tortoise
.Pennant Coralfish, King Angelfish, Semicircle Angelfish, Orbiculate Batfish Emperor Angelfish, Yellow Tang, Bluering Angelfish, Regal Angelfish, Flame Angelfish, Bluegirdled Angelfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Bluecheek Butterflyfish, Saddle Butterfly, Atoll Butterflyfish, Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Sunset Butterflyfish, Teardrop Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Spottband Butterflyfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Pearlscale Butterflyfish, Silver Moony, Blackstriped Angelfish, Longnose Butterflyfish, Barred Spinefish, Twospined Angelfish, Copperband’s Butterflyfish, Foxface Rabbitfish, Leamonpeal Angelfish, Brown & White Butterflyfish, Twotoe Tang, Russet Angelfish, Yellowface Angelfish, Millet Butterflyfish, Latticed Butteryflyfish, Whitetail Dascyllus, Yellowtail Angelfish, Bicolor Angelfish, Powderblue surgeonfish, Spotted Surgeonfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Orangespot Surgeonfish, Orangspot Unicornfish, Sohal Surgeonfish, Bluespot Unicornfish, Clown Triggerfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Black Triggerfish, BlackBerry Triggerfish, Yellowtail Tang, Picasso Triggerfish, Convict Surgeonfish, Wedge-Tail Triggerfish, Achilles Tang, Japan Surgeonfish, Orange-Lined Triggerfish, Lined Surgeonfish, White-Spotted Puffer, Longspine Pufferfish, Spotted Sharpnos Pufferfish, Guineafowl Puffer, Whitespotted Boxfish, Longhorn Cowfish, Blackspotted Puffer, Yellow Boxfish, Milkfish, Pinecone Soldierfish, Bird Wrasse, Crown Squirrelfish, Ornamental Wrasse, Sea Goldie, Harlequin Tuskfish, Brick Soldierfish, Clown Fairy Wrasse, Bluntheaded Wrasse, Saddle Wrasse, Fivestriped Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Yellow-Brown Wrasse, Yellowtail Clownfish, Clown Anemonefish, Orange Clownfish, Black-Axil Chromis, Comet, Green Chromis, Barlette’s Anthias, Whitespotted Bamboo Shark, Port Jackson’s Shark, Zebra Shark Coral Catshark, Brownbanded Bamboo Shark, Epaulette Shark, Zebra Moray Eel, Hawksbill Sea Turtle, Bat Ray
.Empty (former Visayan Warty pig)
. Transcaspian Urial
.Linnaeus Two-Toed Sloth
.Burmese Python
.Crested Oropendola, Green Aracari, Blue-Crowned Motmot, Venezuelan Troupial, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Grey-Winged Trumpeter, American Avocet, Black-Necked Stilt, Sunbittern, Puna Teal, Bahama Teal, Scarlet Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill
.Mission Gold-Eyed Treefrog
.Bolivian Grey Titi, Red Rumped Agouti
.Golden Lion Tamarin, Southern Three-Banded Armadillo
Prairie Butterfly Tent
.Dakota Skipper
.Poweshiek’s Skipperling


Minnesota trail
.Blanding’s Turtle, False Map Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Ouchita Map Turtle, Painted Turtle, Wood Turtle, Common Snapping Turtle, Smooth Softshell Turtle, Spiny Softshell Turtle (Off exhibit Due to Maintnance)
.American Bullfrog
.American Toad
.American toad, Northern Leopard Frog, Mudpuppy
.Grey Treefrog (off exhibit?)
.Eastern Tiger Salamander (off exhibit?)
.Western Hognose Snake (off exhibit)
.Bullsnake (off exhibit)
.Virginia Opossum, Striped Skunk
.American Beaver
.Lake Sturgon, Long-Nose Gar, Walleye, Muskie, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bowfin, Bluefin, Black Crappie, Brook Trout, Channel Catfish
.North American River Otter
.Great Horned Owl, North American Porcupine
.Fisher
.Coyote
.Red Fox
.Grey Wolf
.Wolverine
.Bald Eagle
.Cougar
.Canadian Lynx
.American Black Bear

Russia’s grizzly coast
.Northern Sea Otter
.Rainbow Trout (off exhibit)
.Alaskan Brown Bear
.Eurasian Wild Boar
.Amur Leopard

Northern trail
.Sichuan Takin
.American Plains Bison
.Prairie Dog
.Pronghorn
.Przewalski’s Horse
.Bactrian Camel
.Chinese Dhole
.Przewalski’s Hose (Former Musk Oxen)
.American Moose
.Woodland Caribou, Reindeer
.Amur Tiger
.Persian Goitered Gazelle (Off Exhibit?)

 

I thought they had died?