Shanghai Zoo

China has awesome zoos, if you're human. If you're an animal, it's torture there.

Shanghai Zoological Park (simplified Chinese: 上海动物园; traditional Chinese: 上海動物園; pinyin: Shànghǎi Dòngwùyuán), or commonly Shanghai Zoo, in short, is the main zoological garden in Shanghai. It is located near the township of Hongqiao (formerly Hung-Jao) and is administratively in Changning District. Shanghai Zoo was formerly known as "Xijiao Park" (or "Western Suburbs Park") (simplified Chinese: 西郊公园; traditional Chinese: 西郊公園; pinyin: Xījiāo Gōngyuán), which is still a common name used locally for the zoo.

After half a century of development, the Shanghai Zoo has become one of the best ecological gardens in Shanghai. The zoo houses and exhibits more than 6,000 animals, among which are 600 Chinese animals that include giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, lions, South China tigers, hoopoe, black bulbuls, scimitar-horned oryx, great hornbills, and Bactrian camels. Animals from other parts of the world include chimpanzees, giraffes, zebras, kangaroos, gorillas, ring-tailed lemurs, common marmosets, spider monkeys, African wild dogs, olive baboons, mandrills, Canadian lynxes, and maned wolves. The zoo is constantly developing and improving the animal enclosures in order to provide better environments for the animals and pleasurable experience for visitors.

The original golf course design has been basically preserved. There are a total of 100,000 trees with nearly 600 species planted in the zoo. The green areas and lawns cover an area of 100,000 square meters. The zoo endeavors to create an ecologically-friendly environment for the animals - the 'Swan Lake' with its natural reed clumps and trees providing shade for pelicans, geese, black swans, night herons, and other birds, is a perfect example of this.

The Shanghai Zoo provides areas for amusement and leisure, opportunities for visitors to increase their knowledge of the various animals, and combines this with scientific and technical research to help people better understand and protect animals. Since the zoo was established it has been host to over 150,000,000 visitors.

The aim of the Shanghai Zoo is to have visitors leave with a better understanding of and appreciation for the animals and their environment.

## List of Animals

#### **Swan Lake**

* Dalmatian pelican
* Great white pelican
* Black swan
* Mute swan
* Bewick's swan
* Whooper swan
* Swan goose
* Mallard
* Common shelduck
* Green-winged teal
* Mandarin duck
* Bar-headed goose
* Greater white-fronted goose
* Bean goose
* Eurasian wigeon
* Ruddy shelduck
* Mandarin duck
* King eider

#### **Aviary**

* Orange-headed thrush
* Eurasian hoopoe
* White wagtail
* Pileated woodpecker
* Drongos
* Oriental greenfinches
* Black-collared starling
* Black-tailed prairie dog
* Meerkat
* White-necked rockfowl
* Grey-necked rockfowl

#### **Outdoor Bird Garden**

* Common ostrich
* Cassowary
* Indian peafowl
* Rhea
* Emu
* Golden pheasant
* Silver pheasant
* Common pheasant

#### **Pheasant Corridor**

* Temminck's tragopans
* Swinhoe's pheasant
* Lady Amherst's pheasant
* Brown-eared pheasant
* White-eared pheasant
* Great bustard
* Elliot's pheasant

#### **Big Cat Enclosures**

* Bengal tiger
* Jaguar
* Black panther

#### **Outdoor Carnivore Islands**

* Siberian tiger
* Lion
* South China tiger

#### **Carnivore Boardwalk**

* Sun bear
* Dhole
* Canadian lynx
* Red fox
* Cheetah
* Maned wolf
* Wolf
* African wild dog
* Leopard
* Cougar

#### **Panda House and Bear Pits**

* Moon bear
* Brown bear
* Red panda
* Giant panda

#### **Herbivore Paddocks**

* Yak
* Blue sheep
* American bison
* Blackbuck
* Red deer
* Sika deer
* Himalayan tahr
* Ibex
* Llama
* Common eland
* Mongolian wild ass
* Sambar
* Scimitar-horned oryx
* Wild horse
* Dromedary
* Bactrian camel
* Golden takin
* Black muntjac
* Reeve's muntjac
* Red goral
* Hog deer
* Blesbuck
* Giraffe
* Addax
* Zebra
* Asian elephant
* Lowland anoa
* Common warthog
* North Sulawesi babirusa

#### **Kangaroo Lawn**

* Eastern grey kangaroo
* Red kangaroo
* Swamp wallaby
* Red-necked wallaby

#### **Aquatic Mammals Boardwalk**

* Spotted seal
* California sea lion
* Leopard seal
* Harbor seal
* Walrus
* Hippo
* South American tapir
* Malayan tapir
* White fallow deer
* White rhino
* Black rhino

#### **Raptor Area**

* Golden eagle
* Monk vulture
* Griffon vulture
* Rüppell’s griffon vulture
* Lappet-faced vulture
* Secretary bird
* Turkey vulture
* White-rumped vulture
* Andean condor
* Indian flying fox
* Black-eared kite
* Shikra
* Oriental honey-buzzard
* Common kestrel
* American kestrel
* Common raven
* Red-tailed hawk
* Red-shouldered hawk
* Peregrine falcon
* Bald eagle

#### **Flamingo Pond**

* Greater flamingo
* Lesser flamingo
* American flamingo
* Chilean flamingo

#### **Waterbird Houses**

* Painted stork
* Yellow-billed stork
* Brown booby
* Masked gannet
* Northern gannet
* White-breasted waterhen
* Slaty-backed gull
* Black-headed gull
* American herring gull
* Great cormorant
* Scaly-sided merganser
* Grey heron
* Great blue heron
* Great egret
* White stork

#### **Parrot House**

* Cockatiels
* Amazon parrots
* Sulphur-crested cockatoos
* Green-winged macaws
* Scarlet macaws
* Blue-and-gold macaws
* Umbrella cockatoos
* Eclectus parrots
* Peach-faced lovebirds
* Salmon-crested cockatoo
* Long-billed corella
* Western corella
* Red-breasted parakeet
* Red-lored amazon

#### **Hornbill and Toucan Circle**

* Wreathed hornbill
* Knobbed hornbill
* Wrinkled hornbill
* Great hornbill
* Toco toucan
* Keel-billed toucan
* Red-billed toucan
* Western crowned pigeon
* Victoria crowned pigeon
* Oriental pied hornbills

#### **Wader Stream**

* Common crane
* Oriental stork
* Grey-crowned crane
* Red-crowned crane
* Little egret
* Black-crowned night heron
* Yellow-crowned night heron
* White-naped crane
* Chinese pond heron
* Demoiselle crane

#### **Indoor Bird House**

* Black-naped oriole
* Diamond dove
* Red-billed blue magpie
* Black-billed magpie
* Taiwan blue magpie
* Java finch
* Plumbeous water redstart
* Common myna
* Pileated woodpecker
* Oriental dollarbird
* Bulbuls
* Domestic canary
* Black-capped kingfisher
* Laughing kookaburra

#### **Penguin Pool**

* African penguin
* Emperor penguin
* King penguin

#### **Bailing Pet World and Small Animal Area**

* Dog
* Wildcat
* Binturong
* Masked palm civet
* Hog badger
* Arctic foxes
* Wild boar
* Cape porcupine
* Eurasian otter
* Coypu
* Raccoon-dog
* Banded mongoose
* Raccoon
* Striped skunk

#### **Monkey Houses**

* White-headed langur
* Golden snub-nosed monkey
* Stump-tailed macaque
* François' langur
* Olive baboon
* Hamadryas baboon
* Patas monkey
* De Brazza's monkey
* Ring-tailed lemur
* Weeper capuchin
* Common squirrel monkey
* Hoolock gibbons
* Ring-tailed lemur
* Spider monkey
* Vervet monkey
* Crab-eating macaque
* Mandrill
* Black howler
* L'Hoest's monkey
* Black-and-white colobus
* Lion-tailed macaque
* Black-and-white ruffed lemur

#### **Nocturnal Animal and Tamarin House**

* Cotton-topped tamarin
* Common marmoset
* Leschenault's rousette
* Slow loris
* Slender loris
* Sugar glider
* Leadbeater's possum
* Golden-headed lion tamarin

#### **Ape Islands and Gorilla Pavilion**

* Gorilla
* Chimpanzee
* Orangutan

#### **Indoor Reptile House**

* Asian water monitor
* Green iguana
* King cobra
* Leatherback turtle
* Indian cobra
* Indian python
* Screaming hairy armadillo
* Japanese giant salamander
* Bearded dragon
* Radiated tortoise
* Chinese softshell turtle
* Aldabra giant tortoise
* Spectacled caiman
* Chinese stripe-necked turtle
* Chinese pond turtle
* Red-eared slider

#### **Walk-in Reptile House**

* Chinese alligator
* Snapping turtle
* Painted batagur
* American alligator
* American crocodile
* Nile crocodile
* Saltwater crocodile

#### **Fresh-and Saltwater Aquarium**

* Whitefin sharksucker
* Spadefish
* Moorish idol
* Pennant coralfish
* Threadfin butterflyfish
* Pufferfishes
* Chinese sturgeon
* Bighead carp
* Common carp
* Freshwater angelfish
* Neon tetras
* X-ray tetra
* Common remora
* Blood parrot cichlid
* Giant gourami
* Surgeonfish
* Killer whale
* Bottlenose dolphin

#### **Goldfish Hall and Koi Pond**

* Comet goldfish
* Black moor
* Koi
* Lionhead
* Pompom
* Common goldfish
* Bubble eye
* Veiltail
* Shubunkin
* Pearlscale
* Fantail
* Oranda
* Ryukin
* Ranchu
* Celestial eye
* Lionchu

#### **Children's Zoo**

* British Saddleback (hog)
* Sheep
* Goat
* Urial