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Memphis Zoo
The Memphis Zoo, located in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee, is home to more than 3,500 animals representing over 500 different species. Created in April 1906, the zoo has been a major tenant of Overton Park for more than 100 years. The land currently designated to the Memphis Zoo was defined by the...

 has 19 exhibits that are located in three zones—Central, East and West. The animals on exhibit are listed here by zone and exhibit. Some listings are restricted to the more notable animals.

Animals of the Night

  • Aardvark
    Aardvark
    The aardvark is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa...

  • Armadillo
    Armadillo
    Armadillos are New World placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. Dasypodidae is the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one"...

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    • Three-banded Armadillo
    • Six-banded Armadillo
      Six-banded Armadillo
      The Six-banded Armadillo , also known as the Yellow Armadillo, is a species of armadillo from South America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and isolated populations in Suriname . Its body is usually yellowish in color, sometimes tan or light reddish-brown...

  • Bat
    Bat
    Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...

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    • Bulldog Bat
      Bulldog bat
      The Noctilionidae family of bats, commonly known as bulldog bats orfisherman bats, are represented by two species, the Greater Bulldog Bat and the Lesser Bulldog Bat. They are found near water, from Mexico to Argentina...

    • Jamaican Fruit Bat
      Jamaican fruit bat
      The Jamaican, Common or Mexican fruit bat is a fruit bat native to Central and South America, as well as the Greater and many of the Lesser Antilles. It is also an uncommon resident of the Southern Bahamas...

    • Sebae’s Short-tailed Bat
    • Rousetta Bat
    • Vampire Bat
      Vampire bat
      Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy. There are three bat species that feed solely on blood: the Common Vampire Bat , the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat , and the White-winged Vampire Bat .All three species are native to the Americas, ranging from Mexico to...

  • Binturong
    Binturong
    The Binturong , also known as the Asian Bearcat, the Palawan Bearcat, or simply the Bearcat, is a species of the family Viverridae, which includes the civets and genets. It is the only member of its genus...

  • Cacomistle
    Cacomistle
    The cacomistle is a nocturnal, arboreal and omnivorous member of the carnivoran family Procyonidae. Its preferred habitats are wet, tropical, evergreen woodlands and mountain forests, though seasonally it will range into drier deciduous forests.Nowhere in its range is B. sumichrasti common...

  • Coati
    Coati
    Coatis, genera Nasua and Nasuella, also known as the Brazilian aardvark, Mexican tejón, hog-nosed coon, pizotes, crackoons and snookum bears, are members of the raccoon family . They are diurnal mammals native to South America, Central America, and south-western North America...

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  • Cuscus
    Cuscus
    Cuscus is the common name generally given to the species within the four genera of Australasian possum:* Ailurops* Phalanger* Spilocuscus* Strigocuscus...

  • Golden-rumped Agouti
    Brazilian Agouti
    The Brazilian Agouti, Dasyprocta leporina, is a South American agouti species from the family Dasyproctidae.It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad & Tobago and Brazil.It has also been introduced to the Lesser Antilles...

  • Kinkajou
    Kinkajou
    The kinkajou , also known as the honey bear , is a rainforest mammal of the family Procyonidae related to olingos, coatis, raccoons, and the ringtail and cacomistle. It is the only member of the genus Potos. Kinkajous may be mistaken for ferrets or monkeys, but are not closely related...

  • Loris
    Loris
    Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorisinae in family Lorisidae. Loris is one genus in this subfamily and includes the slender lorises, while Nycticebus is the genus for the slow lorises....

    • Slender Loris
      Slender loris
      The slender lorises are two species of loris native to India and Sri Lanka, the only members of the genus Loris:* the red slender loris, Loris tardigradus* the gray slender loris, Loris lydekkerianus...

    • Slow Loris
      Slow loris
      Slow lorises are a group of five species of strepsirrhine primates which make up the genus Nycticebus. Found in South and Southeast Asia, they range from Northeast India in the west to the Philippines in the east, and from the Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south...

  • Naked Mole Rat
    Naked Mole Rat
    The naked mole rat , also known as the sand puppy or desert mole rat, is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in the genus Heterocephalus...

  • Porcupine
    Porcupine
    Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that defend or camouflage them from predators. They are indigenous to the Americas, southern Asia, and Africa. Porcupines are the third largest of the rodents, behind the capybara and the beaver. Most porcupines are about long, with...

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    • African Crested Porcupine
      Crested Porcupine
      The crested porcupine is a species of rodent in the Hystricidae family.It is extant in mainland Italy, Sicily, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.-Physical Attributes:...

    • Brush-tailed porcupine
      Brush-tailed porcupine
      The brush-tailed porcupines are a group of Old World porcupines in the genus Atherurus.-Characteristics:The brush-tailed porcupines have bodies covered in quills just like their new world relatives. These quills are shorter and not as visually prominent as those seen in the genus Hystrix, but...

    • Prehensile-tailed porcupine
      Prehensile-tailed porcupine
      The prehensile-tailed porcupines or Coendous are a group of arboreal porcupine found in Central and South America. They are closely related to the other Neotropical tree porcupines and these three are sometimes treated as subgenera of Coendou instead of distinct genera.-Characteristics:Among the...

  • Springhaas
  • Striped Possum
    Striped Possum
    The Striped Possum is a member of the Petauridae family, one of the marsupial families. The species is black with three white stripes running head to tail, and its head has white stripes that form a 'Y' shape...

  • Sugar Glider
    Sugar Glider
    The sugar glider is a small gliding possum originating from the marsupial family.The sugar glider is native to eastern and northern mainland Australia and is also native to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.- Habitat :Sugar gliders can be found all throughout the northern and eastern parts of...

  • Tamandua
    Tamandua
    Tamandua is a genus of anteaters. It has two members: the Southern Tamandua and the Northern Tamandua . They live in forests and grasslands, are semi-arboreal, and possess partially prehensile tails. They mainly eat ants and termites, but they occasionally eat bees, beetles, and insect larvae...

  • Two-toed Sloth
    Two-toed sloth
    Choloepus is a genus of mammals of Central and South America, within the family Megalonychidae consisting of two-toed sloths. There are only two species of Choloepus : Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth and Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth...

  • Wombat
    Wombat
    Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a short, stubby tail. They are adaptable in their habitat tolerances, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as...


China

  • Asian Small-clawed Otter
  • Birds
    • Falcated Duck
      Falcated Duck
      The Falcated Duck or Falcated Teal is a Gadwall-sized dabbling duck.-Distribution and habitat:The Falcated duck breeds in eastern Asia...

    • Golden Pheasant
      Golden Pheasant
      The Golden Pheasant or "Chinese Pheasant", is a gamebird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae...

    • Hooded Crane
      Hooded Crane
      The Hooded Crane, Grus monacha is a small, dark crane. It has a grey body. The top of the neck and head is white, except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye...

    • Lady Amherst Pheasant
    • Mandarin Duck
      Mandarin Duck
      The Mandarin Duck , or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck. It is 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan.-Description:...

    • Reeves's Pheasant
      Reeves's Pheasant
      The Reeves's Pheasant, Syrmaticus reevesii, is a large pheasant within the genus Syrmaticus. It is endemic to China....

    • Smew
      Smew
      The Smew is a small duck, which is somewhat intermediate between the typical mergansers and the goldeneyes . It is the only member of the genus Mergellus; sometimes included in Mergus, this genus is distinct and might actually be a bit closer to the goldeneyes...

    • Temminck's Tragopan
      Temminck's Tragopan
      The Temminck's Tragopan, Tragopan temminckii is a medium-sized, approximately 64cm long, pheasant in the genus Tragopan. The male is a stocky red-and-orange bird with white-spotted plumage, black bill and pink legs. It has a bare blue facial skin, inflatable dark-blue lappet and horns...

    • White-naped Crane
      White-naped Crane
      The White-naped Crane is a bird of the crane family. It is a large bird, 112–125 cm long, approximately 130 cm tall and weighing about 5.6 kg with pinkish legs, grey and white striped neck, and a red face patch.The White-naped Crane breeds in northeastern Mongolia, northeastern...

  • Francois' Langur
    Francois' Langur
    Francois' langur or Francois' leaf monkey is a species of lutung and the type species of its species group. Francois' langur belongs to the Colobinae subfamily, Cercopithecidae family, in the Primates order...

  • Giant Panda
    Giant Panda
    The giant panda, or panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo...

  • Goldfish
    Goldfish
    The goldfish is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It was one of the earliest fish to be domesticated, and is one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish....

  • Hog Deer
    Hog Deer
    The Hog Deer is a small deer whose habitat ranges from Pakistan, through northern India, to mainland southeast Asia...

  • Koi
    Koi
    or more specifically , are ornamental varieties of domesticated common carp that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens....

  • Père David's Deer
    Père David's Deer
    Père David's Deer, Elaphurus davidianus, also known as the Milu , is a species of deer known only in captivity. It prefers marshland, and is believed to be native to the subtropics of China. It grazes on a mixture of grass and water plants. It is the only extant member of the genus Elaphurus...

  • White-Cheeked Gibbon

Commercial Appeal Cat Country

  • Capybara
    Capybara
    The capybara , also known as capivara in Portuguese, and capibara, chigüire in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador ronsoco in Peru, chigüiro, and carpincho in Spanish, is the largest living rodent in the world. Its closest relatives are agouti, chinchillas, coyphillas, and guinea pigs...

  • Caracal
    Caracal
    The caracal is a fiercely territorial medium-sized cat ranging over Western Asia, South Asia and Africa.The word caracal comes from the Turkish word "karakulak", meaning "black ear". In North India and Pakistan, the caracal is locally known as syahgosh or shyahgosh, which is a Persian term...

  • Cheetah
    Cheetah
    The cheetah is a large-sized feline inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws...

  • Cougar
  • Crested Screamer
  • Great cats
    • African Lion
    • Bengal Tiger
      Bengal Tiger
      The Bengal tiger is a tiger subspecies native to the Indian subcontinent that in 2010 has been classified as endangered by IUCN...

    • Jaguar
      Jaguar
      The jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...

    • Leopard
      Leopard
      The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its...

    • Sumatran Tiger
      Sumatran Tiger
      The Sumatran tiger is a tiger subspecies that inhabits the Indonesian island of Sumatra and has been classified as critically endangered by IUCN in 2008 as the population is projected at 176 to 271 mature individuals, with no subpopulation having an effective population size larger than 50...

  • Klipspringer
    Klipspringer
    The Klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus, is a small species of African antelope.-Name:The word klipspringer literally means "rock jumper" in Afrikaans/Dutch...

  • Meerkat
    Meerkat
    The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan"...

  • Ocelot
    Ocelot
    The ocelot , pronounced /ˈɒsəˌlɒt/, also known as the dwarf leopard or McKenney's wildcat is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico, but has been reported as far north as Texas and in Trinidad, in the Caribbean...

  • Red Panda
    Red Panda
    The red panda , is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It is the only species of the genus Ailurus. Slightly larger than a domestic cat, it has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs...

  • Reeve's Muntjac
  • Snow Leopard
    Snow Leopard
    The snow leopard is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of South Asia and Central Asia...


Primate Canyon

  • Eastern Black-and-white Colobus
  • Macaque
    Macaque
    The macaques constitute a genus of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. - Description :Aside from humans , the macaques are the most widespread primate genus, ranging from Japan to Afghanistan and, in the case of the barbary macaque, to North Africa...

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    • Lion-tailed Macaque
      Lion-tailed Macaque
      The lion-tailed macaque is an Old World monkey that is endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.-Physical Characteristics:...

    • Sulawesi Macaque
  • Mona Monkey
    Mona Monkey
    The mona monkey is an Old World monkey that lives throughout western Africa. The mona monkey can also be found on the island of Grenada as it was transported to the island aboard slave ships headed to the New World during the 18th century. This guenon lives in groups of up to 35 in arboreal regions...

  • Savanna Baboon
    Yellow Baboon
    The yellow baboon is a baboon from the Old World monkey family.Cynocephalus literally means "dog-head" in Greek due to the shape of its muzzle and head. It has a slim body with long arms and legs and a yellowish-brown hair. It resembles the Chacma baboon but is smaller and its muzzle is not as...

  • Siamang
    Siamang
    The siamang is a tailless, arboreal, black-furred gibbon native to the forests of Malaysia, Thailand, and Sumatra. The largest of the lesser apes, the siamang can be twice the size of other gibbons, reaching 1 m in height, and weighing up to 14 kg...

  • Sumatran Orangutan
    Sumatran Orangutan
    The Sumatran orangutan is one of the two species of orangutans. Found only on the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia, it is rarer and smaller than the Bornean orangutan. The Sumatran orangutan grows to about tall and in males...

  • Western Lowland Gorilla
    Western Lowland Gorilla
    The western lowland gorilla is a subspecies of the western gorilla that lives in montane, primary, and secondary forests and lowland swamps in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It is the gorilla usually found in zoos...


African Veldt

  • African Elephant
  • Antelope
    Antelope
    Antelope is a term referring to many even-toed ungulate species indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelopes comprise a miscellaneous group within the family Bovidae, encompassing those old-world species that are neither cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, nor goats...

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    • Bongo
      Bongo (antelope)
      The western or lowland bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus, is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate and among the largest of the African forest antelope species....

    • Bontebok
      Bontebok
      The Bontebok is an antelope found in South Africa and Lesotho. The Bontebok has two subspecies; the endangered Bontebok , occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the Blesbok occurring in the highveld.The Bontebok stands 80 to 100 cm at the shoulder and...

    • Lechwe
      Lechwe
      The Lechwe, or Southern Lechwe, is an antelope found in Botswana, Zambia, south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-eastern Namibia, and eastern Angola, especially in the Okavango Delta, Kafue Flats and Bangweulu Swamps....

    • Scimitar Oryx
      Scimitar Oryx
      The Scimitar Oryx, or Scimitar-Horned Oryx, is a species of oryx which formerly inhabited the whole of North Africa. It has been classified as extinct in the wild by the IUCN.-Etymology and taxonomy:...

    • Grant's gazelle
      Grant's Gazelle
      The Grant's gazelle is a species of gazelle. Its populations are distributed from northern Tanzania to southern Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is Swala Granti.-Taxonomy and genetics:...

  • Grant's Zebra
    Grant's Zebra
    The Grant's Zebra is the smallest of six subspecies of the Plains Zebra.-Distribution:The distribution of this subspecies is in Zambia west of the Luangwa river and west to Kariba, Shaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, north to the Kibanzao Plateau. In Tanzania north from...

  • Grey Crowned Crane
    Grey Crowned Crane
    The Grey Crowned Crane is a bird in the crane family Gruidae. It occurs in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although it nests in somewhat wetter habitats. This animal does not migrate....

  • Ostrich
    Ostrich
    The Ostrich is one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member of the genus Struthio. Some analyses indicate that the Somali Ostrich may be better considered a full species apart from the Common Ostrich, but most taxonomists consider it to be a...

  • Reticulated Giraffe
  • White Rhinoceros
    White Rhinoceros
    The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species...


Northwest Passage

  • American Black Bear
    American black bear
    The American black bear is a medium-sized bear native to North America. It is the continent's smallest and most common bear species. Black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying greatly depending on season and location. They typically live in largely forested areas, but do leave forests in...

  • Bald Eagle
    Bald Eagle
    The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. It is the national bird and symbol of the United States of America. This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the White-tailed Eagle...

  • California Sea Lion
    California Sea Lion
    The California sea lion is a coastal sea lion of western North America. Their numbers are abundant , and the population continues to expand about 5% annually. They are quite intelligent and can adapt to man-made environments...

  • Polar Bear
    Polar Bear
    The polar bear is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size...

  • White-necked Raven
    White-necked Raven
    The White-necked Raven, Corvus albicollis, is somewhat smaller than the Common Raven or indeed its nearest relative, the Thick-billed Raven C. crassirostris.-Description:...


Teton Trek

  • Elk
    Elk
    The Elk is the large deer, also called Cervus canadensis or wapiti, of North America and eastern Asia.Elk may also refer to:Other antlered mammals:...

  • Gray Wolf
    Gray Wolf
    The gray wolf , also known as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family...

  • Grizzly Bear
    Grizzly Bear
    The grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...

  • Sandhill Crane
    Sandhill Crane
    The Sandhill Crane is a large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird references habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills in the American Midwest...

  • Trumpeter Swan
    Trumpeter Swan
    The Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator, is the largest native North American bird, if measured in terms of weight and length, and is the largest living waterfowl species on earth. It is the North American counterpart of the European Whooper Swan.-Description:Males typically measure from and weigh...

  • Canvasback duck
  • Ruddy duck
    Ruddy Duck
    The Ruddy Duck is a small stiff-tailed duck.Their breeding habitat is marshy lakes and ponds throughout much of North America, and in South America in the Andes. They nest in dense marsh vegetation near water. The female builds her nest out of grass, locating it in tall vegetation to hide it from...


Aquarium

(Note: a more complete species list is provided on the Memphis Zoo's web site.)
  • Alligator gar
    Alligator gar
    The Alligator Gar , Atractosteus spatula, is a primitive ray-finned fish. Unlike other Gars, the mature Alligator Gar possesses a dual row of large teeth in the upper jaw. Its name derives from the alligator-like appearance of these teeth along with the fish's elongated snout...

  • Archer fish
  • Australian lungfish
  • Banded bichir
    Polypterus delhezi
    The armoured bichir or banded bichir is a snake-like fish that ranges from the Congo River, specifically in the upper and middle portions. This species is one of the more commonly available in commercial pet stores.....

  • Electric eel
    Electric eel
    The electric eel , is an electric fish, and the only species of the genus Electrophorus. It is capable of generating powerful electric shocks, of up to six hundred volts, which it uses for both hunting and self-defense. It is an apex predator in its South American range...

  • Giant gourami
    Giant gourami
    The Giant Gourami is a gourami, a freshwater fish belonging to the sub-family Osphroneminae in the family Osphronemidae. Some other larger members of this family are also occasionally or regionally referred to as "giant gouramis", including the banded gourami, Trichogaster fasciatus, and the three...

  • Giant Severum
    Severum
    The ', , is a freshwater tropical cichlid native to the Amazon region in South America. It is rarely found in the aquarium trade, The Fish commonly found in the Aquarium trade is not the , but the more common Heros efasciatus, Hybrids between the two are possible but unlikely because of different...

  • Mud skipper
  • Northern snakehead
    Northern snakehead
    The Northern snakehead is a type of snakehead fish native to China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea. In the United States, the fish is considered to be a highly invasive species...

  • Pearl gourami
    Pearl gourami
    Trichopodus leerii, the pearl gourami or lace gourami, sometimes also known as the "leerii" and formally Trichogaster leerii, is a tropical labyrinth fish that is often kept in aquaria.-Distribution and habitat:...

  • Red bellied piranha
  • Redfin Giant gourami
    Osphronemus
    Osphronemus is the only genus within the subfamily Osphroneminae . These fish are known as the giant gouramis.The genus Osphronemus contains four species.* Elephant ear gourami, Osphronemus exodon...

  • Redtail catfish
    Redtail catfish
    The redtail catfish, Phractocephalus hemioliopterus, is a pimelodid catfish named for its red or orange caudal fin. In Venezuela it is known as cajaro and in Brazil and even in a few parts of Bay of Bengal it is known as pirarara. It is the only extant species of the genus Phractocephalus. This...

  • Tessellated Moray Eel
    Laced moray
    The laced moray, Gymnothorax favagineus, also known as the tesselate moray or honeycomb moray, is a species of moray eel....

  • Tigerfish
    Tigerfish
    Tigerfish is the common name for a variety of species from several different families of fish, usually on account of their colouration or otherwise fearsome appearance and teeth.- Alestiidae :...

  • Yellow tang
    Yellow tang
    The yellow tang is a saltwater fish species of the family Acanthuridae. It is one of the most popular aquarium fish.-Appearance:...

  • Turtles
    • Fly River turtle
    • Mata mata
      Mata mata
      The mata mata or matamata is a freshwater turtle found in South America, primarily in the Amazon and Orinoco basins.-Taxonomy:...

    • Spotted pond turtle
      Geoclemys hamiltonii
      The black pond turtle , also known as the spotted pond turtle, is a species of turtle found in South Asia. It is also known as the Indian spotted turtle. It belongs to the monotypic genus Geoclemys.-Description:...

    • Nile softshell turtle
      Reptiles of Lebanon
      This is a list of reptiles found in Lebanon.Emydid Turtles*Caspian Terrapin Mauremys caspicaLand Tortoises*Antakyan Tortoise Testudo antakyensis*Flower's Tortoise Testudo floweri*Greek Tortoise Testudo graecaMarine Turtles...


Herpetarium

(Note: a more complete species list is provided on the Memphis Zoo's web site.)
  • Amphibians
    • Colorado River Toad
      Colorado River Toad
      The Colorado River toad, Bufo alvarius, also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, is a psychoactive toad found in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States...

    • Mississippi Gopher Frog
    • Three-toed Amphiuma
    • Tiger Salamander
      Tiger Salamander
      The Tiger Salamander is a species of Mole Salamander. The proper common name is the Eastern Tiger Salamander, to differentiate from other closely related species.-Description:...

  • Crocodilians
    • American alligator
      American Alligator
      The American alligator , sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator, is a reptile endemic only to the Southeastern United States. It is one of the two living species of alligator, in the genus Alligator, within the family Alligatoridae...

    • Dwarf crocodile
      Dwarf Crocodile
      The dwarf crocodile is an African species of crocodile. It is also the smallest extant crocodile species in the world. Recent sampling has identified three genetically distinct populations...

  • Lizards
    • Beaded lizard
      Beaded lizard
      The Beaded lizard is a species of venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala. Along with its congener, the Gila monster , it is the only lizard to have evolved an overt venom delivery system, and has long been considered the only venomous lizard...

    • Chuckwalla
      Chuckwalla
      Chuckwallas are large lizards found primarily in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Some are found on coastal islands...

    • Eastern glass lizard
      Ophisaurus ventralis
      Ophisaurus ventralis is a legless lizard species found in the southeastern United States. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Description:...

    • Panther chameleon
      Panther chameleon
      The Panther Chameleon is a species of chameleon. It lives in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar in a tropical forest biome. Additionally, it has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius.- Taxonomy :...

    • Spiny-tailed lizard
    • Gila monster
      Gila monster
      The Gila monster is a species of venomous lizard native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexican state of Sonora...

  • Non-venomous Snake
    Snake
    Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...

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    • Apalachicola King Snake
      Lampropeltis getula meansi
      The Apalachicola Kingsnake is a non-venomous species of kingsnake found in a small area of the Florida panhandle known as the Apalachicola Lowlands. Long argued as to whether or not it is a sub-species, the Apalachicola Kingsnake was formerly named Lampropeltis getula goini...

    • Arizona Mountain King Snake
    • Boa constrictor
      Boa constrictor
      The Boa constrictor is a large, heavy-bodied species of snake. It is a member of the family Boidae found in North, Central, and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean. A staple of private collections and public displays, its color pattern is highly variable yet distinctive...

    • Brazilian Rainbow boa
    • Cave Dwelling Rat Snake
      Beauty rat snake
      The Beauty Rat Snake is a species of long, slender, semi-arboreal snakes that are native to Asia. Their average length is about 5-7 feet, with an unofficial record of slightly under 10 ft...

    • Diamond Backed Water Snake
      Nerodia rhombifer
      Nerodia rhombifer, commonly known as the diamondback water snake, is a species of water snake found throughout much of the central United States and northern Mexico. It is nonvenomous and a member of the colubrid family. There are three recognized subspecies of N. rhombifer...

    • Emerald Boa
    • Gray Rat Snake
      Grey Rat Snake
      The gray rat snake , currently known as the Central ratsnake , is a member of the genus Elaphe in the subfamily Colubrinae. Within the genus Elaphe, which includes rat snakes, corn snakes, and fox snakes, the gray rat snake is one of five subspecies, or races, of the black rat snake...

    • Hognose Snake
      Heterodon simus
      Heterodon simus is a harmless snake species found in the southeastern United States. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Description:Adults are 35.5-61 cm in length. Stout with a wide neck and a sharply upturned snout...

    • Louisiana Pine Snake
    • Mexican Rosy Boa
      Rosy boa
      The Rosy Boa is a snake of the Boidae family, one of only two members of that family native to the United States. The other is the Rubber Boa...

    • Speckled King Snake
      Lampropeltis getula holbrooki
      Lampropeltis getula holbrooki is a nonvenomous subspecies of kingsnake.-Geographic range:It is found in the central to southern United States from southern Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico...

    • Yellow Bellied Water Snake
      Nerodia erythrogaster
      The plain-bellied water snake or plainbelly water snake is a common species of mostly aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake found in the United States.- Range and habitat:...

  • Venomous snake
    Venomous snake
    "Poisonous snake" redirects here. For true poisonous snakes, see Rhabdophis.Venomous snakes are snakes which have venom glands and specialized teeth for the injection of venom...

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    • Bushmaster
      Lachesis (genus)
      Lachesis is a genus of venomous pitvipers found in remote forested areas of Central and South America. The generic name refers to one of the Three Fates in Greek mythology who determined the length of the thread of life...

    • Eastern Cottonmouth
      Agkistrodon piscivorus
      Agkistrodon piscivorus is a venomous snake, a species of pit viper, found in the southeastern United States. Adults are large and capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite. When antagonized they will stand their ground by coiling their bodies and displaying their fangs...

    • Eastern green mamba
      Eastern green mamba
      The Eastern green mamba is a medium to large arboreal highly venomous snake of the family Elapidae.-Description:...

    • Egyptian Banded Cobra
      Naja
      Naja is a genus of venomous elapid snakes. Although there are several other genera that share the common name, Naja are the most recognized and most widespread group of snakes commonly known as cobras. The genus Naja consists of 20 to 22 species, but has undergone several taxonomic revisions in...

    • Gaboon viper
      Bitis gabonica
      Bitis gabonica is a venomous viper species found in the rainforests and savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa. This is not only the largest member of the genus Bitis, but also the world's heaviest viperid and it has the longest fangs ,and the highest venom yield of any venomous snake...

    • Southern Copperhead
      Agkistrodon contortrix
      Agkistrodon contortrix is a species of venomous snake found in North America, a member of the Crotalinae subfamily. The more common name for the species is "copperhead". The behavior of Agkistrodon contortrix may lead to accidental encounters with humans...

    • Taylors Cantil
    • Timber Rattlesnake
      Crotalus horridus
      Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake, is a species of venomous pitviper found in the eastern United States. This is the only rattlesnake species in most of the populous northeastern United States. No subspecies are currently recognized....

    • Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
  • Turtles
    • Alligator snapping turtle
      Alligator Snapping Turtle
      The alligator snapping turtle is one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world. It is not closely related to, but is often associated with the common snapping turtle. They are the sole living member of the genus Macrochelys--while common snappers are in the genus Chelydra...

    • Eastern box turtle
      Terrapene carolina carolina
      The eastern box turtle is a subspecies within a group of hinge-shelled turtles, normally called box turtles. T. c. carolina is native to an eastern part of the United States....

    • Home's Hingeback Tortoise
      Home's Hinge-back Tortoise
      The Home's hinge-back tortoise is a species of turtle in the Testudinidae family.It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and possibly Togo....

    • Radiated tortoise
      Radiated Tortoise
      The radiated tortoise is a species in the family Testudinidae. Although this species is native to and most abundant in southern Madagascar, it can be also be found in the rest of this island, and has been introduced to the islands of Réunion and Mauritius...

    • Spider Tortoise
      Spider Tortoise
      The Spider Tortoise is a species of turtle in the Testudinidae family.It is endemic to Madagascar and is one of only two species in the genus Pyxis.- Reference :...

    • Three-toed box turtle
      Terrapene carolina triunguis
      The Three-toed box turtle is a subspecies within the genus of hinge-shelled turtles commonly referred to as box turtles...


Once Upon a Farm

  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog
    Black-tailed Prairie Dog
    The black-tailed prairie dog , is a rodent of the family Sciuridae found in the Great Plains of North America from about the USA-Canada border to the USA-Mexico border. Unlike some other prairie dogs, these animals do not truly hibernate. The black-tailed prairie dog can be seen aboveground in...

  • Call Duck
    Call Duck
    The Call Duck is a bantam breed of domesticated duck raised primarily for decoration or as pets. Call ducks look similar to Mallards, but are smaller in size.-Characteristics:...

  • Caspian Horse
  • Domestic Goat
    Goat
    The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...

  • Domestic Chicken
    Chicken
    The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...

  • Domestic Sheep
    Domestic sheep
    Sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries...

  • Guinea Hog
    Pig
    A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...

  • Miniature Cow
  • Miniature Donkey
    Donkey
    The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus, is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African Wild Ass, E...

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  • Pekin Duck
    Pekin duck
    Pekin duck, or Long Island duck , is a breed of domesticated duck used primarily for egg and meat production. It was bred from the Mallard in China. The ancestors of those ducks originated from the canals which linked waterways in Nanjing and originally had small bodies and black feathers...


Round Barn

  • Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
    Abyssinian Ground-hornbill
    The Abyssinian Ground Hornbill or Northern Ground Hornbill, Bucorvus abyssinicus, is one of two species of ground hornbill. The other is the Southern Ground Hornbill....

  • African Ground-hornbill
    Ground-hornbill
    The ground hornbills are a subfamily of the hornbill family Bucerotidae, with a single genus Bucorvus and two extant species....

  • Antelope
    Antelope
    Antelope is a term referring to many even-toed ungulate species indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelopes comprise a miscellaneous group within the family Bovidae, encompassing those old-world species that are neither cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, nor goats...

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    • Dama Gazelle
      Dama Gazelle
      The Dama Gazelle is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and migrates south in search of food during the dry season. Their habitat includes open steppes, bushy, grassy steppes, semi-desert, and deserts, while their diet includes grasses, leaves, shoots, fruit, and...

    • Dik Dik
      Dik Dik
      Dik Dik are an Italian beat-pop-rock band, established in the 1960s and still in activity. They were most popular in the late 1960s, when they released a string of hit singles with the contribution of renowned lyric-writer Mogol and songwriter Lucio Battisti, their greatest successes being Sognando...

    • Gerenuk
      Gerenuk
      The Gerenuk , also known as the Waller's Gazelle, is a long-necked species of antelope found in dry bushy scrub and steppe in East Africa, from Somalia and eastern Ethiopia through northern and eastern Kenya to northeastern Tanzania...

    • Yellow-backed Duiker
      Yellow-backed Duiker
      The Yellow-backed Duiker , is an antelope found in central and western Africa. They have the widest range of any duiker in the genus Cephalophus....

    • Klipspringer
      Klipspringer
      The Klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus, is a small species of African antelope.-Name:The word klipspringer literally means "rock jumper" in Afrikaans/Dutch...

    • Nyala
      Nyala
      The Nyala is a Southern African antelope. It is a spiral-horned dense-forest antelope that is uncomfortable in open spaces and is most often seen at water holes. Nyalas live alone or in small family groups of up to 10 individuals.The male stands up to 110 cm , the female is up to 90 cm ...

  • Red River Hog
    Red River Hog
    The red river hog , also known as the bush pig , is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa, with most of its distribution in the Guinean and Congolian forests...

  • Warthog
    Warthog
    The Warthog or Common Warthog is a wild member of the pig family that lives in grassland, savanna, and woodland in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P...


Tropical bird house

(Note: a more complete species list is provided on the Memphis Zoo's web site.)
  • African Pygmy-falcon
  • Azure-winged Magpie
    Azure-winged Magpie
    The Azure-winged Magpie is a bird in the crow family. It is 31–35 cm long and similar in overall shape to the European Magpie but is more slender with proportionately smaller legs and bill. It belongs to the monotypical genus Cyanopica.It has a glossy black top to the head and a white throat...

  • Bali Mynah
    Bali Starling
    The Bali Starling , also known as Rothschild’s Mynah, Bali Myna, or Bali Mynah, locally known as Jalak Bali, is a medium-sized , stocky myna, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail. The bird has blue bare skin around the eyes, greyish legs and a yellow...

  • Black-necked Stilt
    Black-necked Stilt
    The Black-necked Stilt is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean...

  • Collared Kingfisher
    Collared Kingfisher
    The Collared Kingfisher is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the family Halcyonidae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the White-collared Kingfisher or Mangrove Kingfisher. It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia and Australasia to Polynesia...

  • Crested Wood-partridge
  • Doves
    • Bartlett's Bleeding Heart Dove
    • Beautiful Fruit-dove
      Beautiful Fruit-dove
      The Beautiful Fruit Dove , also known as the Rose-fronted Pigeon or Crimson-capped Fruit Dove , is a small, approximately 19 cm long, mainly green fruit dove. It has a red crown, whitish throat, a greenish-yellow bill and purplish-red feet...

    • Green-winged dove
      Emerald Dove
      The Common Emerald Dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and east through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, to northern and eastern Australia. The dove is also known by the names of Green Dove and...

    • Mariana Fruit-dove
    • Nicobar Pigeon
      Nicobar Pigeon
      The Nicobar Pigeon, Caloenas nicobarica, is a pigeon found on small islands and in coastal regions from the Nicobar Islands, east through the Malay Archipelago, to the Solomons and Palau. It is the only living member of the genus Caloenas....

    • Pink-headed Fruit-dove
    • Pink Pigeon
      Pink Pigeon
      The Pink Pigeon, Columba mayeri, is a species of Columbidae endemic to Mauritius, and is now very rare. It was on the brink of extinction in 1991 when only 10 individuals remained, but its numbers have increased due to the efforts of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust since 1977...

    • White-throated Ground-dove
      White-throated Ground-dove
      The White Throated Ground Dove is a species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba. Their distribution is on the Northern Mariana Islands inhabiting the native forests. It has become extirpated from Guam by predation from the introduced brown tree snake Boiga irregularis...

    • Wompoo Fruit Dove
  • Golden Pheasant
    Golden Pheasant
    The Golden Pheasant or "Chinese Pheasant", is a gamebird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae...

  • Goldie's Lorikeet
    Goldie's Lorikeet
    The Goldie's Lorikeet is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in forest and woodland in New Guinea, primarily at altitudes of 1000-2200 m.a.s.l. It is mostly green with yellowish streaks in the chest area, and a red, blue and purple head. It is said to resemble a watermelon...

  • Hooded Pitta
    Hooded Pitta
    The Hooded Pitta, Pitta sordida, is a passerine bird. It is common in eastern and southeastern Asia and the Maritime Southeast Asia, where it lives in different types of forests as well as on plantations and other cultivated areas....

  • Laughing Kookaburra
    Laughing Kookaburra
    The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is a carnivorous bird in the kingfisher family Halcyonidae. Native to eastern Australia, it has also been introduced to parts of New Zealand, Tasmania and Western Australia. Male and female adults are similar in plumage, which is predominantly brown and...

  • Leadbeaters Cockatoo
    Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
    The Major Mitchell's Cockatoo also known as Leadbeater's Cockatoo or Pink Cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia...

  • White-crested Laughing Thrush
    Laughingthrush
    The Laughingthrushes are the genus Garrulax of the large Old World babbler family of passerine birds. They occur in tropical Asia, with the greatest number of species occurring in the Himalaya and southern China....

  • Red-billed Blue Magpie
    Red-billed Blue Magpie
    The Red-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha is a species of bird in the crow family Corvidae. It is about the same size as the European Magpie but has a much longer tail, the longest tail of any corvid. It is 65-68 cm long and weighs 196-232 grams .-Description:The head, neck and breast...

  • Ringed Teal
    Ringed Teal
    The Ringed Teal is a small duck of South American forests. It is the only species of the genus Callonetta...

  • Toco Toucan
    Toco Toucan
    The Toco Toucan is the largest and probably the best known species in the toucan family. It is found in semi-open habitats throughout a large part of central and eastern South America...

  • Violet-backed Starling
    Violet-backed Starling
    The Violet-backed Starling , also known as the Plum-coloured Starling or Amethyst Starling, is a relatively small species of starling in the Sturnidae family. This strongly sexually dimorphic species is found widely in woodland of mainland sub-Saharan Africa.-References:* BirdLife International 2004....

  • Von der Decken's Hornbill
    Von der Decken's Hornbill
    Von der Decken's Hornbill is a hornbill. Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in East Africa, especially to the east of the Rift Valley, from Ethiopia south to Tanzania. It is mainly found in thorn scrub and similar arid habitats. It often includes Jackson's Hornbill as...


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