that's a nice list, thanks. For me (solely because I have been to a lot of Asian zoos) there's nothing particularly noteworthy there - except for the Taiwanese birds of course, and black-faced spoonbill I suppose - but for Europeans or Americans it is probably much more exciting!
Is there really Melursus ursinus?That's a sloth bear and judging from the order,in the formosan area.I believe what you see is asiatic black bear(taiwan subspecies) as the website don't mention there is sloth bear.
Oh, I was wrong. According to the zoo map (I save a map or a visitor sheet of each zoo/botanical garden/natural history museum that I visited in my life), Reptile House was just in the opposite border of the zoo than Insectarium and Insect Valley.
I know,but the zoo website list 118 species(both on and off show),I don't believe there is only forty species onshow.(BTW,where is the pangolin,ferret badger,leopard cat,palm civet...?)
And this is the list of the species that the own 2006 map said to be holded in the zoo (excluding reptile house, insect house, penguin house, waterfowl area, Bird World and other building units). Names are in English and Chinese so I don't will put the scientific names here: African Elephant Ring-tailed Lemur Olive Baboon Barbary Sheep Gorilla Chimpanzee White Rhinoceros Giraffe Lion Hippopotamus Common Eland Zebra Addax Bactrian Camel Dromedary Camel Eastern Grey Kangaroo Emu Southern Cassowary Przewalski's Horse Puma Gray Fox Brown Bear Gray Wolf Eurasian River Otter North American Wood-chuck American Bison American Beaver Tawny Fish Owl Hedgehog Slow Loris Dwarf Lemur Jungle Cat Porcupine Two-fingered Sloth Paradise Fish Asian Arowana Salt-water Crocodile Great Indian Hornbill Bengal Tiger Asian Elephant Malayan Sun Bear Leopard Malayan Tapir Orangutan Siamang Pig-tailed Macaque Ostrich Formosan Reeve's Muntiac Formosan Sika Deer Formosan Wild Boar Formosan Macaque Eurasian River-Otter Clouded Leopard Formosan Serow Formosan Black Bear
I believe the black-faced spoonbill is not there anymore.I read something about them being send to Tama,tokyo.(And I've seen them too)
About sloth bear. I wrote in my diary clearly "Melursus ursinus", but probably it's an error: in my diary I can't see Ursus thibetanus and I've photographed it at Taipei and don't photographed M. ursinus, so probably when I wrote that page of my diary, I've just mistook Asian black bear with Sloth bear. Appart of Asian Black, I've also photographed here Sun bear.
Must be a more recent addition then. In my diary I wrote specifically that red-crowned crane is one of the species that they lack.
yes, my point was more that you said that the list would be no use to you because you are a mammal person - but you also said that you didn't know what the scientific names on the list meant - so I was letting you know that a full forty of them were mammals. And even without kakapo's later post of species listed from the zoo map, do bear in mind that this is from ten years ago so what is on the zoo website now is not necessarily what was there then.
Found that just now. List with scientific names and Spanish common names only. But from 2012 so probably more accurate and updated than my own 2006 visit list. lista de especies por zoo: Taipei Zoo (Taiwan)
that's a good list. Hog-nosed skunk, Siberian weasel, short-tailed and crab-eating mongooses, American badger, Ryukyu flying fox....
I think a few things on that list must be guesswork. The nocturnal house is no longer open, so many of the species which were there are no longer around/visible to the public (inc. both giant flying squirrel species, Siberian weasels...) Of those you mention, @Chlidonias , I only saw the crab-eating mongoose last year.
To try to help I've made a list of the species I saw displayed last year. As you will see I quickly abandoned including scientific names for every species, and marking those which I hadn't seen with an asterisk. Feel free to question any on the list. Formosan animal area: Formosan Reeves’ muntjac – Muntiacus reevesi micrurus Formosan ferret-badger – Melogale moschata subaurantiaca Formosan pangolin – Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla Swinhoe’s pheasant – Lophura swinhoii Yellow-margined box turtle – Cistoclemmys flavomarginata Chinese leopard cat – Prionailurus bengalensis chinensis Formosan grass owl – Tyto longimembris pithecops Formosan rock macaque – Macaca cyclotis Formosan serow – Capricornis swinhoei Eurasian otter – Lutra lutra chinensis Formosan black bear – Ursus thibetanus formosanus Masked palm civet – Paguma larvata taivana Crested serpent eagle – Spilornis cheela hoya Clouded leopard – Neofelis nebulosa nebulosa Taiwan bamboo-partridge – Bambusicola sonorivox Formosan collared scops owl – Otus lettia glabripes Small Indian civet - Viverricula indica pallida Formosan wild boar – Sus taivanus Formosan sika – Cervus nippon taiouanus Formosan sambar – Rusa unicolor swinhoei Insectarium: Tsuda phasmid – Megacrania tsudai Lanyu giant katydid – Phyllophorina kotoshoensis Formosan stag beetle – Dorcus schenkingi Lanyu giant walking stick – Phasmotaenia lanyuhensis Free flight butterflies/caterpillar area: Chocolate albatross – Appias lyncida eleonora Great orange tip – Hebomoia glaucippe formosana Lime – Papilio demoleus demoleus Large tree nymph – Idea leuconoe clara Orange oakleaf – Kallima inachis formosana Blue admiral – Kaniska canace drilon Chinese peacock – Papilio bianor takasago Paris peacock – Papilio paris nakaharai Great Mormon – Papilio memnon heronus Common rose – Packliopta aristolochiae interpositus Liuchiu blue-spotted milkweed – Radena similis similis Purple emperor – Dravira chrysolora Plain tiger – Danaus chrysippus chrysippus Yellow coaster – Acrania issoria formosana Staff sergeant – Athyma selenophora laeta Common tiger – Danaus gerentia Blue tiger - Tirumala limniace limniace Formosan Kaiser – Penthema formosanum Common mormon – Papilio polytes pasikrates Common bluebottle – Graphium sarpedon connectens Sipyloidea sipylus Entoria taihokuensis Phobaeticus serratipes Lemyra imparillis Nocturnal insects: Black beauty stick insect – Peruphasma schultei Field cricket - Gryllus bimaculatus Mecopada elongata Blaber craniifer Praying mantis sp. Water and soil insects: Diving beetle – Cybister rugosus Water bug – Diplonychus rusticus Formosan water scorpion – Laccotrephes grossus Giant water bug – Kirkaldyia deyrolli Firefly – Aquatica ficta Polyrhachis wolfi Grasshopper sp. Phyllium siccifolium Diapherodes gigantea Hierodula formosana Actias selene ningpoana Allomyrina dichotomus Bird world: Japanese mountain hawk-eagle – Spizaetus nipalensis orientalis Brahminy kite – Haliastur indus Marabou stork – Leptoptilos crumeniferus White stork – Ciconia ciconia Eurasian eagle owl – Bubo bubo Brown wood owl – Strix leptogrammica caligata Formosan crested serpent eagle Free-flight aviary: Nicobar pigeon Indian peafowl Oriental turtle dove Black-crowned crane Pied imperial-pigeon Blue crowned pigeon Muller’s barbet Green turaco Jungle myna Silver pheasant Lady Amherst’s pheasant Great curassow Taiwan bamboo partridge* Black-winged starling* Pied myna Crested pigeon* Emerald dove Ashy wood pigeon Green pigeon Red turtle dove Spot-necked dove Scarlet ibis Wood duck Mandarin duck Striated heron Blue crane Moorhen White-breasted waterhen Great argus Guinea turaco Violet turaco Grey-crowned crane Egyptian goose Greater flamingo Lesser flamingo Chilean flamingo Common kingfisher Sacred ibis Black swan Mandarin duck White-breasted waterhen Great white pelican Mallard Drongo – Dicrurus sp. Taiwan whistling-thrush Aviaries: Formosan blue magpie Silver pheasant Victoria crowned pigeon Nicobar pigeon Rusty laughingthrush Red junglefowl Tawny fish owl Red-crowned crane Hooded crane Sarus crane Green-winged macaw Blue-and-gold macaw Rose-ringed parakeet Palm cockatoo White cockatoo Eclectus parrot Congo grey parrot Blue-fronted amazon White-naped crane Eurasian (common) crane Demoiselle crane Grey-crowned crane Great curassow Violet turaco Great argus Red BoP* Grey junglefowl Toco toucan Crested pigeon Jungle crow Formosan ring-necked pheasant Green junglefowl Guinea turaco King penguin African penguin* Reptile and Amphibian house: Alligator snapping turtle Red-footed tortoise Pacu – Colossoma macropomum Chinese water dragon Common boa constrictor Taiwan beauty snake Golden poison dart frog Axolotl Siebenrock’s side-necked turtle Mangrove snake Ornate horned frog Phelsuma sp. Burmese python Veiled chameleon Monkey-tailed skink Green tree python Rainbow boa Plumed basilisk Pancake tortoise Black tegu Budgett’s frog Burmese star tortoise Indian star tortoise Yellow-margined box turtle Spur-thighed tortoise Horsefield’s tortoise Rat snake - Elaphe obsolete Pueblan milk snake Ball python Carpet python Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (no live snake visible) Leopard tortoise Hundred-pace pitviper Common box turtle – Terrapene carolina Eastern blue-tongued skink Chinese alligator European glass lizard (Scheltopusik) Gila monster California kingsnake Bearded dragon Rhinoceros iguana Leopard gecko Tartar sand boa Ocellated skink Radiated tortoise Savannah monitor Rough-scaled plated lizard Western hognose snake Brown-spotted pitviper Brown-headed centipede Tokay gecko Asian common toad Formosan japalure Mexican red-knee tarantula Emperor Scorpion Chinese crocodile lizard Moltrecht’s flying frog Taipei grass frog Emerald green tree frog – Rhacophorus prasinatus Yellow-footed tortoise Outdoor enclosures: Chinese softshell turtle Red-eared slider Asian yellow pond turtle Chinese stripe-neck turtle African spurred tortoise Green iguana Elongated tortoise Asian brown tortoise Temperate zone animal area: Grey wolf Brown bear Red panda Asiatic Black bear Puma Eurasian lynx American beaver Raccoon Black-tailed prairie dog Woodchuck Tomistoma (deformed animal) American bison Children’s Zoo: Bactrian camel Alpaca Rose-ringed parakeet* Woodchuck* Guinea pig Ring-tailed coati Chinchilla Rabbit Water buffalo Domestic cattle, donkey, pig, chickens, ducks and geese Common squirrel monkey White-fronted capuchin Black-and-white colobus Spider monkey – Ateles sp. White-handed gibbon Koala Giant panda Asian Tropical rainforest area: Tomistoma Pygmy hippo Formosan crab-eating mongoose Siamang Reeves’ muntjac Nicobar pigeon Malayan tapir White-handed gibbon Reticulated python Leopard Sun bear Common hippo Great Indian hornbill Asian elephant Bengal tiger Green-winged teal Black swan Desert Animal Area: Addax African wild ass Bactrian camel Dromedary camel Africa animal area: Chapman’s zebra Giraffe Beisa oryx Common eland Pygmy hippo Common hippo African spurred tortoise Lion Southern white rhino Patas monkey Bongo Chimpanzee Barbary sheep Ostrich Olive baboon Ring-tailed lemur Black-and-white ruffed lemur Brown lemur Grevy’s zebra Spotted hyena Sacred ibis Przewalski’s horse Australia animal area: Koala Emu Eastern grey kangaroo Dusky pademelon As you can see - the zones aren't as strictly geographical as they could be! Hope that's useful.
I had wondered if the lists on that blogpsot were from personal experience or if he was collecting them in some other way. For June he has Mt. Bruce amongst several European and American zoos - but no other NZ collections, which is really weird if they were from actual visits. That aside, is the nocturnal house closed permanently or temporarily?
Permanently, I'm afraid. Judging from some of the online articles it sounds like many of its rarer inhabitants died before its closure.
The site of the nocturnal house is transforming into a "Indoor rainforest house" which will be open later this year,I don't know what animal they will have,but maybe they will have some species in the nocturnal house.
