Zoo Tours: Tropics Trails | Minnesota Zoo

EPISODE 106

Attention Tour Group! We have added another zoo to the list! I am proud to introduce you to the Minnesota Zoo - a park that needs to go on your bucket list as soon as possible. A lot could be said about what's featured in the zoo's 485 acres, but I want the tours to speak for themselves. Just as it would as you go through those gates, the first of the zoo's major sections on your path is the Tropics Trail - One of America's First Indoor Rainforests! A winding track invites you to escape the cold, and venture into the lush, and humid environments of Africa's, Asia's, South America's, and even the Ocean's biodiversity hotspots. On this episode, a tapir lifts its trunk and shows us their smile, a Gibbon teaches the crowd how most apes ACTUALLY drink, you won't believe where the zoo used to have their Dolphins, and we get to finally learn what a Urial is. Please enjoy our first look at this very underrated facility.


FULL SPECIES LIST:

1. Radiated Tortoise
2. Ring-tailed Lemur
3. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
4. Tomato Frog, Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko
5. Straw-colored Fruit Bat, Egyptian Fruit Bat, Long Haired Fruit Bat
6. Dwarf Crocodile
7. Bali Mynah, Indian Star Tortoise
8. De Brazza Monkey, Black and White Colobus, Red River Hog
9. Komodo Dragon
10. Northern White-cheeked Gibbon
11. Giant Gourami, Rose Line Shark, Archerfish, Rosy Barb, Tiger Loach, Tinfoil barb
12. Rhinoceros Hornbill
13. [Free Flight throughout African and Asian sections] Lesser Flamingo, Baikal Teal, Silver Teal, Red Crested Pochard, Baer's Pochard, White-faced Whistling Duck, Falcated Duck, Maccoa Duck, Indian Spot-billed Duck, Spotted Whistling Duck, West Indian Whistling Duck, Freckled Duck, Garganey, New Zealand Shoveler, Common Shelduck, Lesser Scaup, Marbled Teal, Madagascar Teal, Mandarin Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Ringed Teal, White cheeked Turaco, House Sparrow, Pied Imperial Pigeon
14. Silvered Leaf Langur
15. Malayan Tapir, Demoiselle Crane
16. Asian Forest Tortoise
17. Pennant Coralfish, King Angelfish, Semicircle Angelfish, Orbiculate Batfish, Emperor Angelfish, Yellow Tang, Bluering Angelfish, Regal Angelfish, Flame Angelfish, Bluegirdled Angelfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Redtail Butterflyfish, Blackback Butterflyfish, Bluecheek Butterflyfish, Saddle Butterflyfish, Atoll Butterflyfish, Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Sunset Butterflyfish, Teardrop Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Spotband Butterflyfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Pearlscale Butterflyfish, Silver Moony, Blackstriped Angelfish, Longnose Butterflyfish, Barred Spinefish, Twospined Angelfish, Copperband Butterflyfish, Foxface Rabbitfish, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Brown-and-white Butterflyfish, Twotone Tang, Russet Angelfish, Yellowface Angelfish, Millet Butterflyfish, Latticed Butterflyfish, Whitetail Dascyllus, Yellowtail Angelfish, Bicolor Angelfish, Powderblue Surgeonfish, spotted Unicornfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Orangespot Surgeonfish, Orangespot Unicornfish, Sohal Surgeonfish, Bluespot Unicornfish, Clown Triggerfish, Spotted Surgeonfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Black Triggerfish, Blackbelly Triggerfish, Yellowtail Tang, Picasso Triggerfish, Convict Surgeonfish, Wedge-tail Triggerfish, Achilles Tang, Japan Surgeonfish, Orange-lined Triggerfish, Lined Surgeonfish, White-spotted Puffer, Longspine Pufferfish, Spotted Sharpnose Puffer, Guineafowl Puffer, Whitespotted Boxfish, Longhorn Cowfish, Blackspotted Puffer, Yellow Boxfish, Milkfish, Pinecone Soldierfish, Bird Wrasse, Crown Squirrelfish, Ornamental Wrasse, Sea Goldie, Harlequin Tuskfish, Brick Soldierfish, Clown Fairy Wrasse, Bluntheaded Wrasse, Saddle Wrasse, Fivestriped Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Yellow-Brown Wrasse, Yellowtail Clownfish, Clown Anemonefish, Orange Clownfish, Black-axil Chromis, Comet, Green Chromis, Barlette’s Anthias, White-spotted Bamboo Shark, Port Jackson Shark, Zebra Shark, Coral Catshark, Brown-banded Bamboo Shark, Epaulette Shark, Zebra Moray, Hawksbill Sea Turtle
18. Transcaspian Urial*
19. Linne's Two-toed Sloth
20. Burmese Python
21. Black-naped Oriole, White Rumped Shama, Blue-crowned Laughing Thrush, Chinese Hwamei, Red-vented Bulbol, Black-naped Fruit Dove, Grosbeak Starling, Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Grey Capped Emerald Dove, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Golden-crested Mynah, Nicobar Pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, White-crested Laughing Thrush, Metallic Starling, Luzon Bleeding Heart, Temminck's Tragopan, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Mountain Bamboo Partridge, Crested Partridge, Great Malay Argus, Spur-winged Lapwing
22. American Avocet, Scarlet Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, Sunbittern, Crested Oropendola, Blue-crowned Mot-Mot, Sunbittern
23. Amazon Milk Frog
24. Bolivian Titi Monkey, Red-rumped Agouti
25. Golden Lion Tamarin, Southern Three Banded Armadillo


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