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  1. AWP

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    If I remember it correctly, at the end the nine-banded were gone, but for some time both species were indeed kept; the nine-banded armadillo in the second main enclosure with the night monkeys and the hairy armadillo in the third main enclosure with potto, cuscus and sugar glider.

    Elephants shrews were kept at one of the first enclosures at the right hand side, but only in the very end of the times of the Jungle by Night.

    I'm not sure about the turtle too, so I listed it as a "freshwater turtle", but I think you are right.
     
  2. TeaLovingDave

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    Nine-banded is a bit of a loss; the species is now all-but extinct in Europe and I missed it at two UK collections :p
     
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    At least in the zoos I visited, it was the most common species of armadillo around 2000. I saw nine-banded armadillos in the aforementioned collections of Artis and Rotterdam, Arnhem, Emmen, Dortmund, Berlin and Antwerp in that period. All are gone now.
     
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    Even in the US, where nine-banded is native, this species is uncommon in zoos. I only saw it in 1 major zoo (Omaha) and 2 zoos specializing in native species. I don’t have any numbers to back this up, by my impression is that three-banded armadillo is much more common
     
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    Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1989:

    Tawny Frogmouth
    Short-beaked Echidna
    Kowari
    Ground Cuscus
    Brushtail Possum
    Suger Glider
    Common Wombat
    Rufous Bettong
    Dwarf Armadillo
    Screaming Hairy Armadillo
    Aardvark
    Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
    Egyptian Fruit Bat
    Fennec Fox
    Zorilla
    Striped Skunk
    Leopard Cat
    Aardwolf
    Common Genet
    Pardine Genet
    Masked Palm Civet
    Springhare
    African Brush-tailed Porcupine
    Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
    Degu
    Brazilian Guinea Pig
    Yellow-toothed Cavy
    Rock Cavy
    Darwin's Leaf-eared Mouse
    Cotton Rat
    Reed Vole
    Roborovski Hamster
    Djungarian Hamster
    Syrian Hamster
    Eurasian Harvest Mouse
    African Pygmy Mouse
    Eastern Spiny Mouse
    Cairo Spiny Mouse
    Crete Spiny Mouse
    Asian Garden Dormouse
    Greater Cane Rat
    Egyptian Gerbil
    Mongolian Gerbil
    Striped Field Mouse
    Wood Mouse
    Multimammate Mouse
    House Mouse
    Black Rat
    Giant Pouched Rat
    Gray Mouse Lemur
    Gray Slender Loris
    Sunda Slow Loris
    Potto
    Senegal Galago
    Dwarf Galago
    Greater Galago
    Night Monkey

    Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1999:

    Corn Snake
    Tawny Frogmouth
    Ground Cuscus
    Gray Short-tailed Opossum
    Brushtail Possum
    Striped Possum
    Suger Glider
    Common Wombat
    Woylie
    Rufous Bettong
    Nine-banded Armadillo
    Large Hairy Armadillo
    Aardvark
    Common Tenrec
    Lowland Streaked Tenrec
    Greater Hedgehog Tenrec
    Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
    Short-eared Elephant Shrew
    Ethiopian Hedgehog
    Egyptian Fruit Bat
    Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bat
    Fennec Fox
    Lesser Grison
    Zorilla
    Kinkajou
    Common Genet
    Springhare
    Merriam's Kangaroo Rat
    Roborovski Hamster
    Djungarian Hamster
    Northern Mole Vole
    Tundra Vole
    Cotton Rat
    Lesser Egyptian Jerboa
    Mongolian Gerbil
    Fat-tailed Gerbil
    Least Gerbil
    Pale Gerbil
    Persian Jird
    Bushy-tailed Jird
    Tristram's Jird
    Shaw's Jird
    Gray Spiny Mouse
    Cairo Spiny Mouse
    Crete Spiny Mouse
    Spinifex Hopping Mouse
    African Pygmy Mouse
    Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
    African Grass Rat
    Gambian Pouched Rat
    Emin's Pouched Rat
    Ansell's Mole-rat
    African Brush-tailed Porcupine
    Long-tailed Chinchilla
    Degu
    Cururo
    Rock Cavy
    Southern Mountain Cavy
    Common Yellow-toothed Cavy
    Gundi
    Gray Mouse Lemur
    Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur
    Gray Slender Loris
    Sunda Slow Loris
    Pygmy Slow Loris
    Potto
    Senegal Galago
    Three-striped Night Monkey
     
  6. TeaLovingDave

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    Thought I would edit the above lists down in order to remark on which species I have not seen :p

    Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1989:

    Rufous Bettong
    Masked Palm Civet
    Darwin's Leaf-eared Mouse
    Greater Cane Rat
    Dwarf Galago

    Species kept in the Nachttierhaus of Zoo Berlin in 1999:


    Gray Short-tailed Opossum
    Rufous Bettong
    Nine-banded Armadillo
    Lowland Streaked Tenrec
    Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bat
    Lesser Grison
    Northern Mole Vole
    Tundra Vole
    Spinifex Hopping Mouse
    Southern Mountain Cavy
    Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur

    Rather a lot of the above are entirely absent from Europe now.
     
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    These are all of the AZA USA zoos with buildings formally called "nocturnal" in some form, according to zoo maps/exhibit lists on websites. A lot of zoos now keep a few nocturnal animals in a section of a small animal house (Philly being an example).

    Bronx Zoo – Mouse House (not all species on website)
    --Chinchilla
    --Fennec Fox
    --Short-eared Elephant Shrew

    Cincinnati Zoo – “Night Hunters”
    --Aardvark
    --Aardwolf (only ones in USA)
    --Bat-eared Fox
    --Bearcat
    --Black-footed Cat
    --Bobcat
    --Burmese Python
    --Caracal
    --Civet
    --Clouded Leopard
    --Fennec Fox
    --Fishing Cat
    --Fossa
    --Garnett’s Galago
    --Giant Fruit Bat
    --Pallas’ Cat
    --Potto
    --Pygmy Slow Loris
    --Sand Cat
    --Southern Brazilian Ocelot
    --Tayra
    --Vampire Bat

    Lake Superior Zoo – “Nocturnal Building”
    --African Straw-colored Fruit Bat
    --Burrowing Owl
    --European Glass Lizard
    --Gopher Tortoise
    --Kinkajou
    --Large-spotted Genet
    --Linne’s Two-toed Sloth
    --Pallas’ Cat
    --Seba’s Shorttailed Fruit Bat
    --Six-banded Armadillo
    --Southern Flying Squirrel
    --Speckled Mousebird
    --Spectacled Owl
    --Swift Fox

    Maryland Zoo – Has a cave, but no species listed

    Memphis Zoo – “Animals of the Night”
    --Aardvark
    --African Crested Porcupine
    --Agouti
    --Binturong
    --Blind Cave Fish
    --Bulldog Bat
    --Chinchilla
    --Egyptian Rousettus Bat
    --Fossa
    --Greater Bushbaby
    --Kinkajou
    --Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
    --Mongoose Lemure
    --Naked Mole Rat
    --Owl Monkey
    --Prehensile Tailed Porcupine
    --Pygmy Loris
    --Seba’s Short-tailed Bat
    --Short-tailed Opossum
    --Six-banded Armadillo
    --Slender Loris
    --Spotted Genet
    --Tamandua
    --Three-banded Armadillo
    --Two-Toed Sloth
    --Vampire Bat
    --Wombat

    Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo – “Kingdoms of the Night” World’s largest nocturnal exhibit, located under the Desert Dome. Includes a canyon, eucalyptus forest, wet cave, dry cave, and swamp. These are the species I could find in articles, since their website doesn’t mention any; there’s about 75 species in total.
    --Aardvark
    --American Alligator
    --Bats (8 species totaling over 1,000 animals)
    --Beaver
    --Blind cave fish
    --Bushy-tailed jird
    --Fossa
    --Greater bushbaby
    --Muskrat
    --Prehensile-tailed porcupine
    --Wallaby
    --Three-banded armadillo

    Rosamond Gifford Zoo – “Adaptation of Animals: Nocturnal Animals”
    --Clouded Leopard
    --Egyptian Fruit Bat
    --Fennec Fox
    --Hoffman’s Two-toed Sloth
    --Naked Mole Rat
    --North American River Otters
    --White-Winged Vampire Bat
     
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  8. jayjds2

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    Exhibit-by-exhibit list, from my visit last year:
    1. Naked mole rat
    2-3. Fossa
    4. Garnett’s galago, springhaas
    5. Emerald tree boa, Amazon milk frog
    6. Green tree python, magnificent tree frog
    7. Bushy-tailed jird
    8. Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
    9. Puerto Rican crested toad
    10. Mexican leaf frog
    11. Mountain chicken
    12. Haitian boa
    13. Garnett’s galago, springhaas, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
    14. Garnett’s galago, aardvark, brush-tailed porcupine
    15. Blind cavefish
    16. Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat
    17. Blind cavefish
    Note: in this same room stands an empty exhibit that formerly housed Japanese giant salamander
    18. Blind cavefish
    19. Amethystine python
    20. Giant monkey leaf frog, smooth-sided toad
    21. Red-rumped agouti, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth, lemurine night monkey, hybrid night monkey, prehensile tailed porcupine, southern three-banded armadillo, screaming hairy armadillo, nine-banded armadillo
    22. Tammar wallaby, short-beaked echidna
    23. Northern Australian snake-necked turtle, Fly River turtle, pink-bellied side-necked turtle, Krefft’s river turtle, Australian freshwater crocodile
    24. Vampire bat
    25. Ruwenzori long-haired fruit bat
    26. Egyptian fruit bat
    27. Greater spear-nosed bat, greater bulldog bat
    28. Little golden mantled flying fox, Indian flying fox
    29. Cope’s grey tree frog, green tree frog
    30. Black pine snake
    31. Corn snake
    32. American toad
    33. American alligator
    34. American beaver, spotted gar, cooters, snapping turtles, softshell turtles (unspecified)
    35. Alligator snapping turtle
    36. American alligator (leucistic)
    37. Nutria
    38. American bullfrog, yellow-blotched map turtle, western painted turtle
    39. Eastern indigo snake
    40. Spectacled caiman
    41. American crocodile, American alligator, common snapping turtle

    Around 60 species if I counted correctly.
     
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  9. ShonenJake13

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    Yellow mongoose

    Aruba Island rattlesnake

    Eastern quoll

    Kowari

    Gila monster

    Turkish spiny mouse

    Pygmy slow loris, Java mouse deer

    New Guinea ground cuscus, western woylie

    Aye-aye

    Aye-aye

    Grey mouse lemur, Malagasy jumping rat

    Linnaeus’ two-toed sloth

    Henkel’s leaf-tailed gecko

    Bullhorn cockroach

    Naked mole rat

    Mexican blind cave fish

    Giant tailless whip scorpion

    Emperor scorpion (if I remember rightly)

    Black rat

    Western house mouse

    Siamese fighting fish (in a small fish tank as part of the theming inside the ‘kitchen area’ where the rat and mouse enclosures are)

    Livingstone’s flying fox (admittedly in an outdoor walkthrough enclosure, but counted as part of the nocturnal house team’s charges)



    The mongoose and rattlesnake live in faint daylight conditions, so similar to dusk....
     
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  10. AWP

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    The current list of "De Nacht" in Amersfoort:

    Mammals
    Woylie
    Long-nosed Potoroo
    Feather-tailed Glider
    Two-toed Sloth
    Votsotsa
    Azara's Agouti
    African Brush-tailed Porcupine
    Senegal Galago
    Northern Night Monkey

    Other
    Kaiser's Spotted Newt
    Colombian Aquatic Caecilian
    Mexican Blind Cave Fish
    Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
    Black Emperor Scorpion
     
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    I can provide a list from the night room of Riga Zoo's tropical house as of my visit today:

    Mammals:
    - Asia Minor spiny mouse
    - Belanger's tree shrew
    - Brush-tailed bettong
    - Bushy-tailed gerbil
    - Dourouculi
    - Eastern quoll
    - Kinkajou
    - Malagasy giant rat
    - New Guinea ground cuscus
    - Northern Luzon giant cloud rat
    - Rock cavy
    - Seba's short-tailed bat
    - Senegal bushbaby
    - Sugar glider

    Herps:
    - Cuban boa
    - Reinwardt's flying frog

    Invertebrates:
    - African cave cricket
    - Asian wood scorpion
    - Bell cricket
    - Emperor scorpion
    - Giant millipede
     
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    Are you sure about that? The Night Monkey group present are supposed to be Grey-handed, not Northern - although when I visited I strongly suspected they actually held a mixed group of Grey-handed and Bolivian.
     
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    Yes, I would agree three-banded is much more common. I have neither seen nor am I aware of any zoo I've been to housing nine-banded. Wondering if maybe this is partly because it tends to be considered a nuisance species across much of its range? I have seen three-banded, six-banded, and southern hairy armadillos at different zoos along the West coast though.
     
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    Species at the nocturnal house at Zoomat, Zoologico Miguel Álvarez del Toro, Chiapas,México
    Mexican pacas, nine banded armadillo, Cacomixtle or ringtail,kinkajou, philander opossum,wooly opossum, mexican tree porcupine, spotted skunk, striped skunk, hooded skunk, also a colony of mexican fruit bats not identified by species.
     
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    I translated it wrong. The species of Amersfoort is Aotus lemurinus. I though this species was named "northern" in English, but apparently and strangely it is uses for the more southern living A. trivirgatus.
     
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    To be specific they claim to hold Aotus grisemembra, which was split from A. lemurinus some years ago.... though as I already stated I strongly suspect they actually hold a mixture of grisemembra and A. azarae, given how different the two species look and how noticeable the presence of individuals resembling the latter was when I visited with @ShonenJake13
     
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    Leipzig:
    - Eastern quoll
    - Pygmy slow lori
    - Kowari
    - Eastern quoll
     
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    I recieved the booklet "Nachttierhäuser in Zoologischen Gärten" today. It's a great overview of nocturnal houses worldwide. As a German book, the largest sections are about Berlin en Frankfurt (including a full species list with holding years and year of first breeding success), but with substantial sections on other major nocturnal houses in Europe, Australia, USA and Japan.

    The booklet even contains a little map of the old nocturnal house of Artis and some notes on the holding of nocturnal animals in the zoo until the opening of the nocturnal house (Stinkhuis and Vossegang are mentioned)!

    If someone has a special request about a nocturnal house, I can look it up.
     
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    The original setup for "Wereld der Duisternis" (1963) of Artis, Amsterdam:

    1. Kinkajou (daylight enclosure)
    2. Kinkajou
    3. Senegal galago, potto
    4. Dwarf galago, slow loris, southern flying squirrel
    5. Flying-fox
    6. Angwantibo
    7. Lesser hedgehog tenrec
    8. Gerbil
    9. Malayan pangolin, sugar glider
    10. Prehensile-tailed porcupine, Eurasian hedgehog
    11. Two-toed sloth, sugar glider
    12. Douroucouli
    13. Grey cuscus, armadillo
    14. Spotted cuscus
    15. Malayan pangolin
    16. Aardvark, greater galago
     
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    What makes a great nocturnal display?

    Research by Fuller indicates red light is far superior than blue (at least in the limited number of species studied). I think further research is indicated as well as testing moonlight levels of white light. At the time of the study (early 2010ish) in America red and blue were used about equally.

    Many species are way underrepresented in zoos that would fit well in nocturnal displays -bats, rodents prosimians and night monkeys especially.

    I think endangered rodents are especially under served by captive breeding efforts.

    One thing that I think would be fascinating would be to take two identical side by side exhibits- with reverse light cycles to each other to show how animals use a particular space day and night.