Maple Leaf Wildlife Park and Aquarium

Maple Leaf Wildlife Park and Aquarium is a Wildlife Park owned and operated by the Greene Foundation. It is located near the suburb of Maple Leaf Hills in Oregon and is home to around 300 different species.

Species Total: 190

* Mammals: 75
* Birds: 53
* Reptiles: 15
* Amphibians:
* Fish: 34
* Invertebrates: 13

## Habitats

### South Entry

The South Entry is where most visitors will enter the zoo and see their first exhibits, these being a few large well sculpted and planted terrariums and a large scenic Snow Monkey habitat with hot springs and cherry blossoms

* Green Iguana
* Lace Monitor
* Japanese Macaque

#### Madagascar

The South Entry received an expansion in 2003, titled Madagascar and featuring what else but the island’s iconic wildlife. The exhibit is comprised of a few terrariums, a small nighthouse for **Aye-Ayes** and a large walkthrough rainforest for a variety of lemurs.

* Dumeril’s Boa
* Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
* Aye-Aye, Ring-tailed Mongoose
* Ring-tailed Lemur, Red Ruffed Lemur, Collared Lemur, Crowned Lemur, Eastern Lesser Bamboo Lemur, Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur, Goodman's Mouse Lemur, Mongoose Lemur, Red-bellied Lemur, Coqueral’s Sifaka, Madagascan Pochard

### Africa

The most recent addition to the zoo, Africa was opened to the public in 2019, its somewhat unremarkable, composed of only three habitats and some terrariums, but they are all spacious and well decorated with plenty of good viewing opportunities for visitors and interactive educational signage.

* African Cichlids, Hippopotamus
* Spider-Man Agama
* Common Dwarf Mongoose, Klipspringer, Meerkat
* Giant Baboon Spider
* Blue Wildebeest, Common Ostrich, Helmeted Guineafowl, Leopard Tortoise, Reticulated Giraffe, Sable Antelope, Thomson’s Gazelle, Vulturine Guineafowl.

### Aquarium

Built in 1978, the Aquarium was opened in two phases, the 1st phase displaying creatures from the Arctic Ocean and Northern Pacific Coast was opened in 1978 when the building was completed. The second, phase recreating islands in the tropical South Pacific was opened three years later in 1981.

The largest tank in the aquarium is home to several cetacean species, it is huge and open to allow the species inside plenty of space to swim. It has drawn criticism though for its shallowness and general bland design.

* Beluga, Common Minke Whale, Cuvier's Beaked Whale, Narwhal, Pacific White-sided Dolphin, Short-finned Pilot Whale, Striped Dolphin

A variety of small tanks show off smaller fish and crustacean species

* Sargassum Fish
* Pacific Mole Crab
* Giant Pacific Octopus, Giant Plumose Anemone, White-spotted Rose Anemone

The final section of the Aquarium’s phase 1 is a row of five similar-looking and somewhat outdated looking pinniped pools and three large cluttered terrariums for Alaskan island shrews.

* Northern Elephant Seal
* California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Ringed Seal
* Sea Otter
* Walrus
* Guadalupe Fur Seal
* Glacier Bay Water Shrew
* Pribilof Island Shrew
* St. Lawrence Island Shrew

The second phase of the aquarium begins in a simulated lava tube, with a small terrarium for a **Kaua’i Cave Wolf Spider** ending with a large 22 foot high waterfall with a specialized aquarium **for Nopoli Rock-climbing Goby**

The lava tube then opens to reveal a small tropical island, that is split into three large exhibits, being two aviaries and a large reef aquarium. A habitat for **Coconut Crabs** is also present

* Pacific Reef-heron, Long-tailed Koel, Henderson Island Crake, Spotless Crake, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Wandering Tattler, Sanderling, Henderson Fruit Dove, Henderson Imperial Pigeon, Henderson Ground Dove, Henderson Archaic Pigeon, Stephen's Lorikeet, Pitcairn Reed Warbler, Henderson Reed Warbler, Tahiti rail, Tuamotu sandpiper, Polynesian ground-dove, Makatea fruit-dove, Atoll fruit-dove, Red-moustached fruit-dove, Polynesian imperial-pigeon, Blue lorikeet, Tuamotu kingfisher, Tuamotu reed-warbler, Iphis monarch, Marquesas monarch, Fatuhiva monarch, Mariana fruit dove, Guam flycatcher, Guam rail, Guam kingfisher, Mariana fruit bat, Guam flying fox, White-bellied Skink, Copper-tailed Skink, Oceania Gecko, Mourning Gecko

* Assorted Corals, Blacktip Reef Shark, Black Trevally, Yellow-edged Lyretail, Blacktip Grouper, Greasy Grouper, Red Snapper, Squirrelfish, Spiny Butterflyfish, Henderson Triplefin, Combtooth Blenny, Sand Lance, Yellow-crowned Butterflyfish, Spotted Eagle Ray, Galapagos Shark, Whitetip Reef Shark, Grey Reef Shark, Yellow Tang, Sailfin Tang, Dragon Moray, Clown Triggerfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish

* Masked Booby, Red-footed Booby, Brown Booby, Laughing Gull, Spectacled Tern, Sooty Tern, Black Noddy, Brown Noddy, Blue Noddy, Grey Noddy, White Tern

### Great American Safari

Toted as Maple Leaf Wildlife Park’s main attraction, it opened with the zoo in 1962. But it received a significant revamp and expansion in 2005

* Hesperotestudo
* Glyptotherium
* Gila Monster

* Cheetah
* Columbian Mammoth
* Jefferson’s Ground Sloth
* Black-tailed Prairie Dog
* Hagerman Horse, Western Camel, Ancient Bison, Long-horned Bison, Four-horned Pronghorn, Barbour’s Pronghorn, American Bison, Pronghorn

* Grizzly Bear
* Timber Wolf
* Wolverine
* American Mastodon
* Giant Beaver, North American Beaver
* North American River Otter
* Fisher
* Bald Eagle
* Freshwater Mussels, 3-spined Stickleback
* Western Painted Turtle, Smooth Softshell Turtle, Largemouth Bass, Muskellunge, Northern Pike
* Chuck-will's-widow, Common Nighthawk, Common Poorwill, Eastern Whip-poor-will, Ring-necked Pheasant
* Bobcat
* Jaguar
* American Black Bear
* Timber Rattlesnake

### Night Wonders

Night Wonders is the zoo’s Nocturnal house, which opened with the zoo and was renovated once in 1988 and again in 2009. It is somewhat small but features some really innovative habitats and interesting animals. Most notable of which is the Australasian experience which takes up half of the building but is well worth it with the amount of unique species living there.

* Aardvark, Egyptian Fruit Bat
* Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna, Bear Cuscus, Common Spotted Cuscus, Chinese Pangolin, Colugo, Duck-billed Platypus, Huon Tree Kangaroo, Tawny Frogmouth, Western Long-beaked Echidna
* Crossed Fork-back Golden-line Fish, Duck-billed Golden-line Fish, Eyeless Golden-line Fish, Widemouth Blindcat
* Common Vampire Bat
* Giant Forest Scorpion
* Yellow Anaconda, Neon Tetra, Julii Corydoras
* Amazonian Giant Centipede
* Goliath Bird-eater Tarantula