I visited the Virginia Zoo on my recent trip to Virginia Beach (I visited the aquarium on my May-June Trip, this was my August Trip). This is what I saw. ZooFarm African Crested Porcupine Patagonian Cavy Java Peafowl Screaming Hairy Armadillo Northern Tree Shrew Binturong Kenyan Crested Guineafowl Kunekune Pig Huacaya Alpaca Zebu Southdown Babydoll Sheep Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Nigerian Dwarf Goat Dexter Cattle ------------------------------------ A very nice farm area, with rustic enclosures, none of them were actually poor exhibits. The Patagonian Cavy and the three indoor small mammal exhibits weren't naturalistic, but they looked adequate, had a lot of enrichment, and were accommodated to fit the animal's needs, so I think they were overall very nice. But there was some confusion, on the website it states that there are Demoiselle Cranes and Crested Screamers, although I could not find them anywhere in the farm (not even any signage!) , are they switched on and off with some other animals? ----------------------------------- World of Reptiles King Cobra Fiji Banded Iguana Beaded Lizard Smallwoods Anole Green Tree Python Angolan Python Goliath Bird-Eater Splendid Tree Frog Giant Horned Lizard Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Red Bamboo Racer Jeweled Lacerta Hermann's Tortoise New Caledonian Giant Gecko Arboreal Alligator Lizard Frilled Lizard Monkey-Tailed Skink Plumed Basilisk Henkel's Leaf-Tailed Gecko Green and Black Dart Frog Annulated Boa Emerald Tree Boa Red-Eyed Tree Frog Utila Island Iguana Mangrove Snake Eastern Kingsnake African Bullfrog Tokay Gecko McCord's Box Turtle Eyelash Viper Unidentified Snake (no signage) Nursery-Solomon Island Leaf Frog, Bog Turtle, and Angolan Python Gila Monster Timor Python Canebrake Rattlesnake Cottonmouth Ethiopian Mountain Adder Rhino Viper Panamanian Golden Frog Guyana Caiman Lizard Mata Mata Roti Island Snake-Necked Turtle Siamese Crocodile Sailfin Dragon Bog Turtle Tentacled Snake Alligator Snapping Turtle Surinam Toad Iranian Newt Rio Cauca Caecilian Lined Seahorse Peruvian Boa Crocodile Monitor Baron's Green Racer Banded Rock Rattlesnake Red Pygmy Rattlesnake Cantil Viper Jamaican Iguana Aruba Island Rattlesnake Jamaican Boa Reticulated Python Chinese Water Dragon Chinese Crocodile Lizard Gray's Monitor Blue Tree Monitor Green Tree Monitor Black Tree Monitor Yellow Tree Monitor Two-Toed Sloth Bolivian Gray Titi White-Faced Saki Leopard Tortoise ------------------------------- The new World of Reptiles! opened on June 4th, 2018 (on my May/June trip but I wasn't able to make it to the zoo). Anyways, this species list is by no means a species list with all the species on exhibit, a majority of this list was on exhibit, but there were a few that weren't on exhibit but still had signage. A very modern and amazing building, the Crocodile Marsh was my absolute favorite (my little cousin had started calling me her pet crocodile a few days before that, so that made me more interested in the Siamese Crocodiles), though the Venomous Gallery and the Monitor Forest follow closely behind. In fact, I even saw two Red Pygmy Rattlesnakes that were mating right in front of the window!Os ----------------------------- North America American Bison Bald Eagle --------------------------- I really liked the yard for the bison, it was well landscaped! The Bald Eagle exhibit looked like a picnic shed that was overgrown with a yard around it, very well planted! -------------------------- Australia Walkabout Bennett's Wallaby Eastern Grey Kangaroo Emu Southern Cassowary ----------------------------------- A nice exhibit! So I actually thought that cassowaries were actually in the walkabout (what a relief that they were fenced off to one side (inaccessible to zoogoers) ). ---------------------------------- Africa-Okavango Delta Aldabra Tortoise Hartmann's Mountain Zebra Watusi Cattle Southern Ground Hornbill Red River Hog Ostrich Reticulated Giraffe Cheetah Eastern Bongo Egyptian Goose Stanley Crane Yellow-Backed Duiker White-Headed Buffalo Weaver Taveta Golden Weaver Southern White Rhino African Lion Pancake Tortoise Egyptian Uromastyx Painted Agama Fennec Fox Meller's Chameleon Radiated Tortoise White-Throated Monitor Rock Hyrax Meerkat ---------------------------------- An amazing precinct! Many beautiful and large exhibits! Just amazing! I also fell in love with the Stanley Crane, which is now my favorite crane species! --------------------------------- Asia-Trail of the Tiger Malayan Tiger White-Cheeked Gibbon Asian Small-Clawed Otter Asiatic Black Bear Malayan Tapir Southern Cassowary Binturong Rhinoceros Hornbill Red Panda Sarus Crane Bornean Orangutan Bleeding Heart Dove Azure-Winged Magpie Victoria Crowned Pigeon Chestnut-Breasted Malkoha Red Imperial Pigeon Finch-Billed Bulbul Crested Wood Partridge Fairy Blue Bird Nicobar Pigeon Siamang Malayan Sun Bear ------------------------------------ My favorite part of the zoo! Not only was everything spacious and beautiful, but there was a temple foot-washing basin that felt really good on a hot day (it also softened my feet and made the walking easier)! ------------------------------------ ZooLive! Show Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec African Pygmy Hedgehog Prehensile-Tailed Porcupine ---------------------------------------- A nice show, but there was this little annoying girl (8-9ish) that kept talking up about her little pet hedgehog, and she also talked trash about the European Hedgehog (my favorite hedgehog, it really pissed me off)! ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A very good zoo, there were no bad exhibits, every exhibit was adequate or better for it's inhabitants. This was an amazing zoo, very beautiful planted paths (but not near as good as Cincinnati's plant aesthetics), the place was aesthetically pleasing! This has got to be one of my favorite zoos!
So does this zoo no longer hold owl monkeys? That is quite a shame, considering they are already uncommon around here...
No longer, they got rid of a lot of small animals in the old small animal/reptile house to make way for the new World of Reptiles.
