130 different monkey-species ???? : Lima-based zoo features 130 monkey species from different countries
You have to read it differently. This is clearly English as lost in transliteration / translation. I would say they meant to inform us that they have 130 primates of various species, most notably local species in their collection. Just look at the photographic material they include: howlers and spider monkeys and several tamarin species et cetera. I think I also saw woolly monkey amongst these, but not sure yet.
I was at Las Leyendas last year and I apologize that my review is still in the making but stranded halve-way and never got posted (sofar). It's a very nice Zoo, with quite a lot of good, some bad and a handfull of terrible enclosures. Out of the top of my head, i count around 12 monkey species. Most notable the red Uakari and the black-faced spiders. Huachipa holds a few more local rarities, most notably two species of titi (see pictures in the gallery). I really need to finish and post those reviews
A first for captive breeding mono tocon Callicebus discolor at Parque de las Leyendas in Lima. LINK: PARQUE DE LAS LEYENDAS: CONOCE A LA PRIMERA CRÍA DE MONO TOCÓN NACIDA EN CAUTIVERIO | Parque de las leyendas
The zoo really has a very nice website with regular news items. It should have been picked up before here really! An example from 2017 about their American crocodiles 2.1: Link: Cocodrilos de Leyendas: Conócelos y visítalos en la zona Costa | Parque de las leyendas
Indian Rhinos coming to South America: According to the EAZA Tag Report 2020, Parque de las Leyendas (along with Cotia Zoo in Brazil) will be acquiring Indian Rhinos from the European region. It is hoped that following these transfers to South America, the breeding ban on the species in Europe can be carefully lifted thanks to these new holders: https://www.eaza.net/assets/Uploads/Annual-report/2020-TAG-AR-final-WEB.pdf
Figured I should probably post this here - I kind of forgot about this earlier but on my visit to Parque Las Leyendas on the 14th of this month I saw a Salvin's Albatross in the seabird aviary (with also Peruvian pelicans, Belcher's gull, Inca tern, Guanay cormorant and a Peruvian booby - most of which seemed local rescues). Don't have much time to post more info about my visit now, but the rest seemed mainly species that were already known for the zoo, that of course include nice rarities like 2 South American fox species, still the pampas cats, the uakaris, monk sakis and many spider/capuchin monkeys etc. The cock-of-the-rock males on-display seemed to me like the aequitorialis subspecies.
Checked a few recent videos of this little known zoo and some real rareties could be seen among them : - White-winged trumpeter - Southern sea-elephant - Pampas cat - Culpeo ( aka Andean fox ) - Sechuran fox ( aka Peruvian desert fox ) - Giant otter - Red uakari - Red-crowned titi
Most of these were still there, yeah, except for the sea elephant (a shame!). Other rarities mammal-wise included Viscacha sp. (common name listed as Southern, scientific name listed as Northern), Large-headed capuchin (loads), White-fronted capuchin, White-bellied spider monkey, Black-faced spider monkey, Red howler monkey sp. (scientific name listed as Colombian, range map included is that of Purus...), Red uakari, Common woolly monkey, Monk saki, Saddleback tamarin sp., Pacarana, Taruca, and I'm sure I missed a few. Help with the Viscacha and Red howler identification is welcome, not sure if there are already pictures online but I can upload some later if necessary. Don't have any good pictures of the Saddleback tamarin unfortunately. Bird-wise, when it comes to rare species they had Spix's guan, Speckled chachalaca, indeed White-winged trumpeter, Jabiru, Roadside hawk, Savanna hawk, Variable hawk, Band-bellied owl, Brown-mandibled aracari, Curl-crested aracari, Crimson-rumped toucanet, Golden-collared toucanet, Plate-billed mountain toucan, Cuvier's white-throated toucan, Versicolored barbet, Mountain caracara, Painted parakeet, Bronze-winged parrot, White-eyed parakeet, aequitorialis Andean cock-of-the-rock, House wren, Grass-green tanager (turned completely blue, similar to how green magpies etc do in captivity!), Blue-winged mountain tanager, Blue-necked tanager, White-lored euphonia, and the seabirds mentioned above. @Kifaru Bwana with the exception of the Jabiru outdoor pen and a few series of aviaries (a medium-sized area for parrots, a few aviaries/cages for raptors and a set of larger waterbird aviaries for the seabirds, penguins, flamingoes), almost all of the other bird exhibits are glass-fronted, indoors or semi-indoors. Surprisingly I don't think I saw any reptiles besides American crocodiles (in aviaries!), but it looked like they were building/restoring a smallish reptile house with glass-fronted large terraria.
Zoológico atiende a aves marinas rescatadas de derrame de petróleo en Perú | Ecología | La Revista | El Universo Parque de las Leyendas zoo in Lima helps birds affected by the terrible oíl spill on the coast of Perú.
