What is the current species holding for the habitat yards on the Monorail Safari? And does anyone else have a list from years past?
Since one of the ZooChat moderators actually runs this monorail, I am sure a full list will be forthcoming.
Of course, I know all concerning the monorail. Current 2011 Forest - Okapi Mountain - Nubian Ibex Woodlands - Grevy's Zebra Predator/Prey - Red-Flanked Duiker, Caracal River - Waterbuck, North American White Pelicans, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, White Breasted COrmorant, Blue Crane, White Stork, Hybrid African Yellow-Billed Duck, Goliath Heron Arid Desert - Scimitar-Horned Oryx, Addra Gazelle Semi-Arid Desert - Addax, Gemsbok Scrub - Kori Bustard, Lappet-Faced Vulture, Hooded Vulture, Egyptian Vulture Bush (part 1) - East African Bongo Bush (proper) - Greater Kudu, Patterson's Eland, Gerenuk, Thomson's Gazelle, East and West African Crowned Cranes, Marabou Stork, Southern Ground Hornbill, Lappet-Faced Vulture, Ostrich Forest - Chimpanzees Original 1990 Forest - Okapi Mountain - Nubian Ibex, White-Backed Vulture (also Egyptian Vulture later) Woodlands - Eland, Sable Antelope, Egyptian Goose Predator/Prey - Gunther's Dik-Dik, Caracal/Black Leopard River - Sitatunga, Nile lechwe, Eastern White Pelican, Pink Backed Pelican, Goliath Heron, Saddle Billed Stork, African Spoonbill, up to 10 species of ducks and geese, Sacred and Hadada Ibis (also at later dates Blue Crane, White Stork, Abdim's Stork, Yellow-Billed Stork, Guineafowl) Arid Desert - Scimitar-Horned Oryx, Slender Horned Gazelle Semi Arid Desert - Addax, Addra gazelle, Egyptian Vulture (also at times Grevy's Zebra, and until recently ostrich) Scrub - Kori Bustard, Secretary Bird Bush (part 1) - Gerenuk Bush - Greater Kudu, Impala, Ostrich, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Crowned Crane, Marabou Stork, Lappet-Faced Vulture, Grevy's Zebra Forest - East African Bongo, West African Crowned Crane, Yellow-Backed Duiker Proposed species in the original design, but never added Mountain - some species of Eagle (exhibit originally designed as an aviary) River - Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Lechwe, Sitatunga, Fish Eagle Bush - Speke's Gazelle, Beisa Oryx
Thanks also @jbnbsn99. Beside the fact, that American white pelicans not really fit geografically to Wilds of Africa I wonder, why they are transfered to this place? (If I remember correctly, they were once living in a flamingo exhibit in front of the building which is now Bug U!)
@Gerenuk, the species list has fluctuated some in the past few years. The Grevy's Zebra have been in the woodlands a little more than a year or so now. The eland that is in the bush is the last original hoofstock animal on display at a grand old age of at least 23 or 24. The gemsbok and waterbuck were both brought in about 2002 or 2003. @zoomaniac From my understanding the lack of African pelicans has to do with disease regulations restricting their importation. The zoo however wanted to keep pelicans in the exhibit, and they have turned out to be the most popular animal in that exhibit. They may have been in the ZN flamingo pond which currently does have brown pelicans.
