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.
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
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.
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
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
Thought I would edit the above lists down in order to remark on which species I have not seen 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.
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
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.
Bristol Zoo 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....
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.