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Moody Gardens Partial List Of Species On Exhibit in The Rainforest 3/31/21

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  1. geomorph

    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    Here is a partial species list for The Rainforest, grouped by exhibit as they are encountered along the one-way visitor path. The main walk-through exhibit space of the pyramid-shaped building houses many free-flight birds but they were unsigned, so I will only include species which I identified by sight. I will omit the free-flight butterfly species that were signed for three reasons: they were not on exhibit, this type of display has an ever-changing species variety, and I did not take a closeup photo of the signs!

    Borneo Eared Frog
    Skunk Gecko

    Meller's Chameleon
    Tomato Frog

    Green Tree Python

    Northern Tree Shrew
    Pygmy Slow Loris

    Giant River Otter (This is the only outdoor exhibit, but is only viewed from indoor viewing areas in the Rainforest as well as the Visitor Center)

    Free Roaming Species in Main Pyramid-shaped Exhibit Space:
    Bernier's Teal (unsigned)
    Blue-bellied Roller (unsigned)
    Cotton-top Tamarin
    Crested Oropendola (unsigned)
    Great Blue Turaco (unsigned)
    Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon (unsigned)
    Pied Imperial Pigeon (unsigned)
    Red-capped Cardinal (unsigned)
    Scarlet Ibis (unsigned)
    Sunbittern (unsigned)
    Two-toed Sloth
    Victoria Crowned Pigeon (unsigned)
    White-faced Saki

    Bruce's Green Pigeon (unsigned)
    Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (unsigned)
    Rodrigues Fruit Bat

    Poison Dart Frogs (unspecified species)

    Alligator Lizard
    Mantella

    Bush Viper
    Panamanian Golden Frog

    Mandarin Rat Snake

    Veiled Chameleon (signed as Jackson's Chameleon)

    Palm Viper

    Prehensile-tailed Porcupine

    Pygmy Slow Loris

    Leaftail Gecko

    Asian Forest Scorpion

    Trinidad Chevron Tarantula

    Crested Gecko
    Solomon Island Leaf Frog

    Empty

    Archerfish
    Mono
    Scat

    Asian Bonytongue
    Asian Clown Knifefish
    Fly River Turtle
    Giant Gourami
    Mandarin Duck
    Tiger River Stingray (unsigned)

    Komodo Dragon

    Caiman Lizard

    Ocelot

    Goliath Bird-eater Spider

    Empty

    Egyptian Fruit Bat

    Acara
    Arapaima
    Firewood Catfish
    Freshwater Stingray
    Pirapitinga
    Plecostomus
    Polka Dot Catfish
    Ripsaw Catfish
    Silver Arawana
    Tambaqui
    Tiger Shovelnose Catfish
    Yellow Spotted Amazon River Turtle (unsigned)
    Zamurito
    Zebra Catfish

    Blue and Gold Macaw

    Hyacinth Macaw

    Green Anaconda

    Angelfish
    Armored Catfish
    Banded Leporinus
    Cardinal Tetra
    Discus
    Eartheater
    Headstander
    Oscar
    Pencilfish
    Red-bellied Piranha
    Red-hook Silver Dollar Tetra
    Severum
    Silver Dollar Tetra
    Tetras
    Tucan

    Common Vampire Bat

    Jamaican Boa

    Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

    Empty

    Marbled Lungfish
    Nile Perch

    Lake Victoria Squeaker
    Mbiri
    Nile Tilapia
    Obliquidens Zebra
    Rock Kribensis

    Blue Duiker
    Red-billed Hornbill (unsigned)
    Wrinkled Hornbill (unsigned)

    Bichir
    Distichodus
    Giant Freshwater Puffer
    Upside-down Catfish

    White-bellied Caique (unsigned)

    Leaf-cutter Ant

    Spadefoot Toad

    Sailfin Lizard

    Bush Viper
    Gaboon Viper

    Bushmaster
    Poison Dart Frogs (unsigned, unidentified species)

    Brazilian Fer-de-lance

    Humphead Cichlid

    Lake Victoria Cichlids (located in hall after exiting Rainforest)
     
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  2. LycaonSekowei

    LycaonSekowei Well-Known Member

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    Will you make a full species list of this place? Your species lists are excellent.
     
  3. TinoPup

    TinoPup Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Did you read why it's partial?
     
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  4. LycaonSekowei

    LycaonSekowei Well-Known Member

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    Oh crap, I didn't read it. Sorry!