So I was right about the age part? That makes me a feel a little better, I know very little about reptiles In that case, I'm not sure, then. I don't remember exactly how many were in the yard and won't have my film photos back for a while. There was one they kept out in the yard even after they moved the others inside, but that could be for a number of reasons. Oh no!! I guess that explains why I didn't spot her. I've never gotten a good look at her, but could always spot an arm or tail or something in the behind the exhibit area. A Francois was in the main douc exhibit, with the one labeled francois/douc being empty.
I'm blessed to have seen Toi throughout the times I visited the Philadelphia Zoo. A moment of silence for a beautiful animal.
Species list and locations. Wings of Asia is closed for the season so those species aren't included. I also didn't go in KidZooU, which has rare breeds of goat and sheep, ponies, pigeons, some waterfowl, chickens and rats, along with insects and fish. Sorry for any typos, there's probably a few. RACC – Rare Animal Conservation Center SMH – Small Mammal House Mammals Aardvark (SMH) African Crested Porcupine (Southwest corner) African Lion (Big Cat Falls) African Pygmy Hedgehog (SMH) Amur Leopard (Big Cat Falls) Amur Tiger (Big Cat Falls) Aye-Aye (Primate Reserve) Black & Rufous Giant Elephant Shrew (RACC) Black & White Colobus (Southwest corner) Black & White Ruffed Lemur (Primate Reserve) Black-headed Spider Monkey (Monkey Junction) Blue-eyed Black Lemur (RACC) Bolivian Gray Titi Monkey (RACC) Brown Spider Monkey (Monkey Junction) Canada Lynx (Water is Life) Cheetah (Southwest corner) Common Squirrel Monkey (Primate Reserve) Degu (SMH) Domestic Rat (KidZooU) Eurasian Harvest Mouse (SMH) Fossa (RACC, behind the scenes/360 trail) Francois Langus (RACC) Geoffroy’s Marmoset (RACC) Giant Otter (Water is Life) Giraffe (African Plains) Golden Lion Tamarin (RACC) Hippopotamus (African Plains) Hoffman’s Two-toed Sloth (RACC, SMH) Jaguar (Big Cat Falls) Madagascar Giant Jumping Rat (Primate Reserve) Maned Wolf (Southwest corner) Meerkat (SMH) Mhorr Gazelle (African Plains) Mongoose Lemur (RACC, Primate Reserve) Naked Mole-Rat (RACC) Pied Tamarin (RACC) Plains Zebra (African Plains) Prehensile-tailed Porcupine (RACC) Pygmy Marmoset (SMH) Red Kangaroo (Outback Outpost) Red Panda (Water is Life) Red River Hog (African Plains) Red-capped Mangabey (RACC) Rodrigues Fruit Bat (RACC) Sloth Bear (Bear Country) Snow Leopard (Big Cat Falls) Southern White Rhinoceros (African Plains) Sumatran Orangutan (Primate Reserve) Vampire Bat (SMH) Western Lowland Gorilla (Primate Reserve) White-faced Saki (RACC) White-handed Gibbon (Primate Reserve) Birds (in Avian Center unless noted) Allen’s Gallinule Andean Condor (outside Aviary) Bald Eagle (Raptor Ridge) Bali Mynah Black-necked Swan (Primate Reserve) Blue Dacnis Blue-bellied Roller Blue-grey Tanager Caribbean Flamingo (Bird Valley) Common Barn Owl (Raptor Ridge) Common Bulbul Crimson-rumped Toucanet Domestic Chicken (Raptor Ridge, KidZooU) Emu (Outback Outpost) Golden Pheasant Golden-breasted Starling Great Argus Guam Kingfisher Guam Rail Guira Cuckoo Hamerkop Hottentot Teal Humboldt Penguin (Penguin Point) Inca Tern Ivory-billed Aracari Mariana Fruit Dove Metallic Starling Nicobar Pigeon Northern Oriole Olive-headed Lorikeet Orange-bellied Leafbird Oriental White-Eye Palawan Peacock-Pheasant Peacock (roam free) Red-whiskered Bulbul Rhinoceros Hornbill Roul Roul Royal Palm Turkey (before KidZooU) Saddle-billed Stork (African Plains) Saffron Finch Southern Screamer (Bird Valley) Sunbittern Taveta Golden Weaver Trumpeter Swan (Bird Valley) Turkey Vulture (Southwest corner) various local ducks (Bird Valley) Victoria Crowned Pigeon Violaceous Turaco Vulturine Guineafowl White-crested Laughingthrush White-rumped Shama White-throated Ground-Dove White-winged Wood Duck Reptiles & Amphibians (in Reptile House unless noted) Aldabra Tortoise American Alligator Anderson’s Salamander Beaded Lizard Blue Poison Dart Frog Brown Newt Bumblebee Poison Dart Frog Chinese Alligator Cornsnake Cottonmouth Crocodile Lizard Desert Tortoise Dwarf Caiman Dwarf Crocodile East African Gaboon Viper Eastern Massasauga Emerald Tree Boa Emperor Spotted Newt Eyelash Gecko Eyelash Viper Fire Salamander (exhibit was blacked off) Flat-tailed Spider Tortoise Forest Cobra Galapagos Tortoise (also Bird Valley) Green Anaconda Green Tree Python Haitian Galliwasp Haitian Giant Anole Hellbender King Cobra Madagascan Tree Boa Matamata Mertens’ Water Monitor Nile Crocodile Oriental Firebelly Toad Panamanian Golden Frog Pancake Tortoise (RACC) Pig-nosed Turtle Prehensile-tailed Skink Reticulated Python Splendid Tree Frog Spotted Turtle Standing’s Day Gecko Timber Rattlesnake West African Gaboon Viper Yellow Rat Snake Animals on website but have no signage, didn’t see, etc: African Bullfrog (kept off exhibit) Black Forest Cobra Brazilian Agouti (signage has been removed from SMH) Coquerel’s Sifaka Dyeing Poison Dart Frog Gila Monster (website says 5 off exhibit, one used to be with western diamondback) Puma Pygmy Loris (off exhibit, previously SMH) Southern Ground Hornbill Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Confirmation that Toi has died. He was the last of his kind in the US An endangered monkey at Philadelphia Zoo, Toi was euthanized following declining health
Click on the link to see the fossa in the trail. Apparently he tends to be in the area near the turkeys and he had become much more comfortable in the Trail in the past several days
I'm glad he's becoming more comfortable, whatever they did to make him less scared must have worked well.
I thought they were nicer and fancier than I remembered them being in the past They're really big, and they have tons of them in several spots. I don't know if they've done this in the past, but they're currently rotating birds and keeping 8-10 in at a time. The Golden Pheasant from the wings of asia was also in there, but I don't know if the other asia birds are in the winter rotation.
I believe all they did was be patient and let him adjust to the new surroundings and experiences. The Trails were challenging the animal exactly as was intended.
Does anyone know what scientific name including subspecies the zoo uses for the Oriental/Japanese White-eye? Thanks.
The zoo members newsletter has confirmed the male Andean bear from the Good zoo will arrive later in the fall. Down the line, they may get a female Andean bear from Cali zoo in Columbia.
