Sedgwick County Zoo
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37°42′57″N 97°24′37″W / 37.7158°N 97.4104°W | |
Date opened | 1971[2] |
Location | Wichita, Kansas, US |
Land area | 247 acres (100 ha) [1] |
No. of animals | 2,500[3] |
No. of species | 500[3] |
Annual visitors | 654,494 (2009)[2] |
Memberships | AZA[4] |
Website | www |
The Sedgwick County Zoo is an AZA-accredited wildlife park and major attraction in Wichita, Kansas. Founded in 1971 with the help of the Sedgwick County Zoological Society, the zoo has quickly become recognized both nationally and internationally for its support of conservation programs and successful breeding of rare and endangered species. Having over 2,500 animals of nearly 500 different species, the zoo has slowly increased its visitors and now ranks as the number one outdoor tourist attraction in the state.
Exhibits
- Downing Gorilla Forest
Downing Gorilla Forest starts out in a recreation of a small Congo village with exhibits for De Brazza's monkey, colobus monkey, pink-backed pelican, and white pelican. Across a bridge is an exhibit for saddle-billed stork, as well as one for black crowned crane and okapi. The main attraction is a large gorilla exhibit. They can be viewed in their indoor home, outside through large viewing windows or across a moat.
- Pride of the Plains
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A path winds around exhibits of lions, red river hogs, and two exhibits of meerkats. Each exhibit has several different views from all side. The whole area has a kopje theme, with giant boulders. At the end is an exhibit for African painted dogs.
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- Penguin Cove
Opened in 2007, Penguin Cove is the zoos first marine exhibit, and home to a colony of Humboldt penguins. The $1.5 million exhibit features a 42,000-US-gallon (159,000 L) pool with rocky areas and coves on each side.[3]
- See Eye to Eye with Giraffes
This exhibit features bonteboks, reticulated giraffes, African bush elephants, hippos, and Eastern black rhinos. On March 11, 2016, six African elephants arrived at the zoo from Swaziland to escape a drought.[5]
- Tiger Trek
This $3 million Asian themed naturalistic exhibit was opened in 2009, and houses Amur tigers, Malayan tigers, red pandas, bar-headed geese, brow-antlered deer, and more.[citation needed]
- Journey through Africa
The Downing Gorilla Forest
- Western lowland gorilla
- Black-and-white colobus
- De Brazza's monkey
- Saddle-billed stork
- Eastern bongo
- Okapi
- Greater flamingo
- Black lemur
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Red ruffed lemur
- Ring-tailed lemur
Pride of the Plains
- Meerkat
- Warthog
- Slender-horned gazelle
- Arabian oryx
- Hamadryas baboon
- African lion
- African wild dog
- Red river hog
- Caracal
- Blue-winged goose
- Abyssinian ground hornbill
- Black crowned crane
- Great white pelican
- Egyptian goose
- Kori bustard
- Pink-backed pelican
- Saddle-billed stork
See Eye to Eye with Giraffes
- Asia
Asian forest
- Demoiselle crane
- White stork
- Hooded crane
- Mandarin duck
- Red-breasted goose
- Amur leopard
- Bar-headed goose
- Ruddy shelduck
- Red-crested pochard
- Smew
- Tufted duck
- Indian muntjac
- Malayan tapir
- Red panda
- Brow-antlered deer
Slawson Family Tiger Trek
- Australia
Mammals
Birds
- Australian brush-turkey
- Australian white-eyed duck
- Australian wood duck
- Beautiful fruit dove
- Black swan
- Blue-faced honeyeater
- Cape Barren goose
- Cotton pygmy goose
- Crested pigeon
- Double-wattled cassowary
- Eastern rosella
- Eclectus parrot
- Emu
- Galah
- Kea
- Laughing kookaburra
- Major Mitchell's cockatoo
- Masked lapwing
- New Zealand scaup
- Orange-bellied fruit dove
- Palm cockatoo
- Plumed whistling duck
- Puna ibis
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Scarlet ibis
- Tawny frogmouth
Reptiles
- South America
South American Walk Through
Mammals
- Baird's tapir
- Chacoan peccary
- Chilean pudu
- Common squirrel monkey
- Giant anteater
- Guanaco
- Jaguar
- Maned wolf
- Southern tamandua
- Tayra
Birds
- American avocet
- Andean goose
- Andean tinamou
- Blue-and-yellow macaw
- Blue-crowned motmot
- Blue-headed parrot
- Blue-winged teal
- Boat-billed heron
- Buffon's macaw
- Chiloe wigeon
- Common trumpeter
- Coscoroba swan
- Crested screamer
- Cuban amazon
- Golden conure
- Green-cheeked amazon
- Green-winged macaw
- Guira cuckoo
- Hyacinth macaw
- King vulture
- North American ruddy duck
- North black-bellied whistling duck
- Red-fronted macaw
- Red-legged seriema
- Red-lored amazon
- Ringed teal
- Roseate spoonbill
- Spectacled owl
- Sun conure
- Sunbittern
- Thick-billed parrot
- White-cheeked pintail
- White-faced whistling duck
- White-fronted amazon
- Yellow-collared macaw
- Yellow-headed amazon
- Yellow-knobbed curassow
- Yellow-naped amazon
- Yellow-shouldered amazon
Reptiles
- KOCH Orangutan & Chimpanzee Habitat
An Incredible Habitat for Incredible Creatures
- Children's Farm
- African goose
- American Cream Draft
- American Tunis sheep
- Angora goat
- Arapawa goat
- Asiatic buffalo
- Black turkey
- Brown Swiss cow
- Cayuga duck
- Crested duck
- Domestic sheep
- Domestic yak
- Domestic zebu
- Dominique chicken
- Dromedary camel
- Fayoumi chicken
- Guinea hog
- Hereford pig
- Highland cattle
- Indian Runner duck
- Jacob sheep
- Japanese silkie chicken
- Karakul sheep
- Khaki Campbell
- Mammoth jackstock
- American Milking Devon
- Miniature donkey
- Mule
- Mulefoot
- Narragansett Turkey
- Navajo-Churro sheep
- Nigerian Dwarf goat
- Pilgrim goose
- Pineywoods cattle
- Poitou donkey
- Randall cattle
- Royal Palm turkey
- San Clemente Island goat
- Shire horse
- Tamworth pig
- Texas Longhorn
- Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
- Watusi cattle
- Cessna Penguin Cove
- Amphibians and reptiles
- African pancake tortoise
- Aldabra giant tortoise
- Aquatic caecilian
- Arizona black rattlesnake
- Australian big-headed turtle
- Australian snake-necked turtle
- Barred tiger salamander
- Bearded pygmy chameleon
- Black-tail rattlesnake
- Chinese alligator
- Chinese stripe-necked turtle
- Colorado River toad
- Cottonmouth
- European fire salamander
- Fly River turtle
- Giant marine toad
- Golden mantella
- Great Plains toad
- Green tree python
- Honduran milk snake
- Jamaican iguana
- Jeweled lacerta
- King cobra
- Komodo dragon
- Madagascar tree boa
- Panamanian golden frog
- Plains leopard frog
- Puerto Rican crested toad
- Red-bellied short-necked turtle
- Rio Fuerte beaded lizard
- Rubber boa
- Russian cobra
- Saw-shelled turtle
- Sheltopusik
- Southern alligator lizard
- Standing's day gecko
- Tentaceled snake
- Timor python
- Water dragon
- Woodhouse's toad
- Yellow pond turtle
- Jungle
Take a Jungle Trek
Mammals
- Common vampire bat
- Golden lion tamarin
- Green acouchi
- Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
- Indian flying fox
- Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
- Prevost's squirrel
Birds
- Black crake
- Bleeding-heart dove
- Blue crowned pigeon
- Blue dacnis
- Blue-capped cordon-bleu
- Blue-gray tanager
- Blue-necked tanager
- Chestnut munia
- Collared finch-billed bulbul
- Crested quail-dove
- Crested wood partridge
- Elliot's laughingthrush
- Emerald starling
- Fairy-bluebird
- Fulvous-crested tanager
- Golden-headed quetzal
- Greater green leafbird
- Green acouchi
- Green-naped pheasant pigeon
- Green-winged pytilia
- Grosbeak starling
- Lavender waxbill
- Lesser green broadbill
- Madagascar buttonquail
- Nicobar pigeon
- Parrot-billed seedeater
- Pied avocet
- Pink-capped fruit dove
- Red-billed leiothrix
- Red-capped cardinal
- Scarlet macaw
- Schalow's turaco
- Southern yellow grosbeak
- Speckled mousebird
- Sunda wrinkled hornbill
- Turquoise tanager
- Variable seedeater
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Violet turaco
- Violet-backed starling
- White-bellied go-away-bird
- White-collared kingfisher
- White-vented bulbul
- Wonga pigeon
- Yellow-winged pytilia
Fish
- African knifefish
- African lungfish
- Apple snail
- Banded archerfish
- Bandit catfish
- Bluegill
- Clown knifefish
- Congo tetra
- Corydoras
- Dwarf gourami
- Featherfin squeaker
- Flying fox sharkminnow
- Giant gourami
- Glowlight tetra
- Gold barb
- Golden-breasted starling
- Green swordtail
- Green sunfish
- Harlequin rasbora
- Iridescent shark
- Largemouth bass
- Leopard bush fish
- Longnose gar
- Mollies
- Moonlight gourami
- Ornate bichir
- Pacu
- Plecostomus
- Red devil cichlid
- Red-bellied piranha
- Redtail catfish
- Rosy barb
- Samoan white-eye
- Silver arowana
- Spotted raphael catfish
- Tinfoil barb
- White Cloud Mountain minnow
Reptiles
Amphibians
- North America
Big Bear Watering Hole
Featured exhibits
- Nelson's elk
- North American porcupine
- Bald eagle
- Western turkey vulture
- Sandhill crane
- Eastern wild turkey
- Trumpeter swan
- Mexican wolf
- Pronghorn
- Cougar
- Prairie bison
- Black-tailed prairie dog
Reptile Building
Facilities
Tram tours are free and go throughout the zoo. Boat tours through the Africa and America sections are available for a fee.
The future
The zoo is currently planning a new zoo entrance and a new elephant management complex for the future, as well as some new additions to the Amphibians and Reptiles building.[2]
Incidents
- On May 6, 2011, a first-grade student on a class field trip climbed over a four-foot fence then crossed the eight-foot gap of the Amur leopard exhibit. The boy was attacked. He suffered lacerations and puncture wounds to his head and neck before a bystander kicked the leopard in the head. The injuries were not considered life-threatening, and the zoo did not euthanize the endangered animal.[6]
Notes
- ^ http://www.roomforrhinos.org/news-release/
- ^ a b c "A Zoo to be Proud Of". scz.org. Sedgwick County Zoo. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
- ^ a b c Stokes, Keith. "Sedgwick County Zoo". kansastravel.org. Kansas Travel and Tourism. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "Currently Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. AZA. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ http://ksnt.com/2016/03/11/elephants-arrive-at-sedgwick-county-zoo-in-wichita/
- ^ Finger, Stan. "Sedgwick County Zoo leopard attacks boy through cage". kansas.com. The Wichita Eagle. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
External links
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