Minnesota Zoological Gardens

The Minnesota Zoological Gardens is a Wildlife Park in Apple Valley, Minnesota. It is a member of the Greene Foundation. It is home to 847 species including Columbian Mammoths, Bottlenose Dolphins, Japanese Macaques, Grizzly Bears and.

## History

The Minnesota Zoo opened May 22, 1978 in Apple Valley, MN.

On July 24, 2019, the Minnesota Zoo was bought and incorporated within the Greene Foundation. It went through extensive repairs and refurbishing, before re-opening on June 18th to an attendance of 300,000

## Habitats

### South Entry

#### 3M Penguins of the African Coast

* African Penguin
* South African Pilchard

### Savannah's Edge

A completely new zone built using the unused IMAX Theater and the surrounding hill. Designed so that animals can be seen from the parking lots.

* Meerkat, Klipspringer
* Reticulated Giraffe

#### Shark Reef

**Shark Reef** was completely redesigned to house a pair of **West Indian Manatees**.

* Atlantic Goliath Grouper, Atlantic Tarpon, French Angelfish, Florida Pompano, Green Sea Turtle, Horse-eye Jack, Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Lookdown, Permit, Sand Tiger Shark, Sergeant-Major, Southern Stingray, West Indian Manatee

After the Zoo's pod of Bottlenose Dolphins left, Greene acquired a pair of **Antarctic Leopard Seals** from the Zoland Park Zoo to reside in the Lagoon.

* Leopard Seal

#### Estuary

* Leopard Shark, Horn Shark, Swell Shark, Bat Ray

#### Tide Pool

* Shiner Surfperch, White-spotted Rose Anemone, Bat Star, Short-spined Sea Star, Green Anemone, Red Sea Urchin, Purple Sea Urchin, Giant Green Anemone, Ochre Star, Sunflower Sea Star

#### Clubhouse Cove

* Leafy Sea Dragon, Weedy Sea Dragon
* Lined Seahorse
* Ivell's Sea Anemone

### Tropics Trail

The Tropics Trail is an indoor trail that gives the impression of being in a tropical rainforest.

#### Ghosts of Madagascar

* Radiated Tortoise
* Henkel's Leaf-tailed Gecko, Sambava Tomato Frog
* Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
* Ring-tailed Lemur

#### Faces of the African Forest

* Straw-colored Fruit Bat, Long-haired Fruit Bat
* West African Dwarf Crocodile, African Cichlids
* Mantled Guereza, DeBrazza’s Monkey, Red River Hog

#### Asia

* Komodo Dragon
* Bali Mynah, Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove, Gray-Capped Emerald Dove, Indian Star Tortoise
* Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon, Lesser Flamingo
* Giant Gourami, Rose-Lined Shark, Archerfish, Rosy Barb, Tinfoil Barb, Tiger Loach
* Platypus
* Rhinoceros Hornbill
* Malayan Great Argus, Victoria-Crowned Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Sri Lankan Junglefowl, Dodo, ‘Akiapōlā’au, ‘Akikiki, ‘Ākohekohe, ‘Āmaui, ‘Anianiau, ‘Apapane, Bishop’s ‘Ō’ō, Black Mamo, Greater ‘Amakihi, Greater Koa Finch, Hawaii ‘Akepa, Hawaii Creeper, Hawai’i Mamo, Hawai’i ‘Ō’ō, Hawaiian Duck, Hawaiian Rail, Hawaiian Thrush, ‘I’iwi, Kākāwahie, Kāma’o, Kauai ‘Akialoa, Kauai ‘amakihi, Kaua’i ‘Ō’ō, Kioea, Kona Grosbeak, Lāna’i Hookbill, Laysan ‘Apapane, Laysan Duck, Laysan Rail, Lesser ‘Akialoa, Lesser Koa Finch, Maui ‘alauahio, Maui Nui ‘Akialoa, Maui Parrotbill, Millerbird, ‘O’ahu ‘Akepa, ‘O’ahu ‘Akialoa, O’ahu ‘Elepaio, O’ahu Nukupu’u, O’ahu ‘Ō’ō, Palila, Po’o-uli, Puaiohi, ‘Ula-‘ai-hāwane
* Binturong
* Malayan Tapir
* Asian Forest Tortoise

#### Tropical Reef

* Black-spotted Puffer, Brown-banded Bamboo Shark, Clown Triggerfish, Epaulette Shark, Hawksbill Sea Turtle, Fiddler Ray, Guineafowl Puffer, Longhorn Cowfish, Longspine Porcupine Puffer, Milkfish, Port Jackson's Shark, Spotted Sharpnose Puffer, White-spotted Bamboo Shark, White-spotted Puffer, Yellow Boxfish, Zebra Moray, Zebra Shark

#### Creatures Beneath the Canopy

* Matschie’s Tree-Kangaroo
* Blueshank, Forest Jenny, Plateau Pricklebacks, Armored Pricklebacks, Ferndozer, Great Ridgeback Iguana, Three Horned Iguana

##### Nocturnal Hallway

* Anaho Island Erratics, Antarctic Caverns Erratics, Antarctic Craters Erratics, Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Islands Erratics, Atlantean Islands Erratics, Barbarus Islands Erratics, Desian Islands Erratics, Diego Fernandez Archipelagos Erratics, Hollow Earth Erratics, Lemuria Erratics, Lost World Plateaus Erratics, Monster Islands Erratics, Muan Islands Erratics, Mycelia Isles Erratics, Skull Island Erratics, Weepria and Moshkho Erratics
* Muertes Lagoon Angelfish, Muertes Lagoon Salamanders, Muertes Lagoon Monotremes, Muertes Lagoon Cynodonts, Muertes Lagoon Metatheres, Muertes Lagoon Mammaliaformes, Muertes Lagoon Caecilians, Muertes Lagoon Lizards, Muertes Lagoon Ichthyosaurs, Muertes Lagoon Dolphins, Muertes Lagoon Plesiosaurs, Lake Devil,  Micropterygius, Fawcett’s Lake Catfish, Arapaima, Speculichthys, Lake Bass, Herring Cichlid, Bullseye Cichlid, Midas Cichlid, Quetzal Cichlid, Tambaqui, Pirapitinga, Lake Ray, Gilded Catfish, Piraiba, Red-tailed Catfish, Bull Shark, Challenger’s Amazon River Shark, Muertes Lagoon Sharks, Altopterygius, Payara, River Xiphactinus
* Burmese Python
* Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
* Asian Forest Scorpion
* Cameroon Flashlight Frog
* Kuhl’s Flying Gecko
* Volia athollandersoni
* Linne’s Two-toed Sloth, Seba’s Short-tailed Bat, Saber-toothed Anteater, Fold-faced Anteater, Fantastical Pantherapod
* Delcourt’s Sticky-toed Gecko
* Green Tree Python
* Eyelash Viper
* Pygmy Slow Loris
* Abepadde, Butterfly Poison Frogs, Cephalopodanurans, Fae Beasts, Flatekkos, Frogbats, Frogflies, Guppikeets, Invertebranurans, Jawed Geckos, Jellyphrogs, Liquid Toads, Microdragons, Post-Humans, Pterocrocs, Pterovaranids, Retrosaurs, Slurpasaurs, Snouters, Terracetes, ViperBats, Hybrid-Erratics
* Golden Toad

##### South America

* Roseate Spoonbill, Scarlet Ibis, Crested Oropendola, Venezuelan Troupial, Blue Crowned Motmot, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Green Aracari, Keel-billed Toucan, Black-Necked Stilt, American Avocet, Sunbittern, Puna Teal, Bahama Teal, Laysan Teal
* Amazon Milk Frog
* Bolivian Gray Titi, Golden-Lion Tamarin, Red-Rumped Agouti
* Southern Three-Banded Armadillo

### Medtronic Minnesota Trail

#### Lobby Terrariums

##### Turtles

* Blanding’s Turtle, Western Painted Turtle

##### Other

* American Bullfrog
* Common Garter Snake
* American Toad, Common Mudpuppy, Northern Leopard Frog

##### New

* Deep Lake Snouters
* Rocky Mountain Locust

#### Nocturnal Exhibition

* Thorny Pig-rat, Aberrant Unmen, Balloon-sinused Caver, Bear Cave Homunculus, Big Root Cave Homunculus, Cave Dweller, Bear Cave Viperbat, Big Root Cave Viperbat, Deer Cave Viperbat, North American Gibbonbat, Big Root Cave Blind Terracete, Big Root Cave Blind Zeuglodon, Bear Cave Fae Beasts, Bear Cave Microdragons, Big Root Cave Fae Beasts, Big Root Cave Microdragons, Deer Cave Fae Beasts, Deer Cave Microdragons, Big Root Cave Pterogator, Bear Cave Flatekko, Big Root Cave Jawed Gekko, Big Root Cave Retroceratops, Big Root Cave Retrotyrannid, Big Root Cave Sailed Slurpa, Blind Cave Snapper, Barking Frogfly, Bear Cave Invertebranurans (450), Bear Cave Jellyphrogs (68), Bear Cave Liquid Toads (213), Big Root Cave Frogfly, Big Root Cave Giant Cephalopodanuran, Big Root Cave Invertebranurans (731), Big Root Cave Jellyphrogs (157), Big Root Cave Liquid Toads (313), Black Frogbat, Blind Frogfly, Blue-legged Butterfly Poison Frog, Blue-spotted Butterfly Poison Frog, Crayfish-eating Frogfly, Croaking Frogbat, Deer Cave Invertebranurans (578), Deer Cave Jellyphrogs (614), Deer Cave Liquid Toads (533), Dwarf Yellow Frogfly, Eight-spotted Frogfly, Giant Frogfly, Golden Frogfly, Great Lakes Frogbat, Green Frogbat, Green Frogfly, Green-and-Gold Butterfly Poison Frog, Nine-spotted Frogfly, Red-and-Blue Butterfly Poison Frog, Red-backed Butterfly Poison Frog, Red-striped Frogfly, Screaming Frogfly, Silver Butterfly Poison Frog, Slimy Frogbat, Spotted Frogbat, Stinking Frogfly, Twelve-spotted Frogbat, Twin-striped Frogbat, Big Root Cave Blind Salamander, Big Root Cave Monster, Deer Cave Blind Salamander

#### Trail

* North American Beaver
* Lake Sturgeon, Longnose Gar, Walleye, Bluegill, Black Crappie,
* North American River Otter
* Great Horned Owl, North American Porcupine
* Fisher
* Coyote
* Gray Wolf
* ———Empty———
* Wolverine
* Bald Eagle
* Cougar
* Canada Lynx
* American Black Bear

### Northern Trail

#### Russia’s Grizzly Coast

* Northern Sea Otter
* Steller’s Sea Eagle
* Siberian Sturgeon
* Brown Bear
* Siberian Musk Deer
* Amur Leopard

#### Asian Highlands

* Sichuan Takin
* Domestic Bactrian Camel, Persian Onager, Saiga Antelope, Woolly Rhinoceros
* Goitered Gazelle
* Przewalski’s Wild Horse
* Steppe Hyena

#### North American Biodiversity Center

* Aztlan Rabbit
* Imperfect Mouse
* Variable Lake Monsters
* Trinity Alps Giant Salamander
* Carolina Treehugger, Flatwoods Giant Salamander
* Ozark Giant Salamander
* Ozark Blind Salamander
* Giant Cave Salamanders
* Post-Humans, Viperbats, Terracetes, Microdragons, Fae Beasts, Pterocrocs, Flatekkos, Jawed Gekkos, Pterovaranids, Retrosaurs, Slurpasaurs, Butterfly Poison Frogs, Cephalopodanurans, Frogbats, Frogflies, Invertebranurans, Jellyphrogs, Liquid Toads, Guppikeets
* Lake Zeuglodonts, Lake Ammondosaurs, Western Back-Paddler, Lake Dragons, Lake Ichthyosaurs, Lake Mosasaurs, Lake Serpents, Lake Plesiosaurs, Lake Pliosaurs

#### North America

* Giant Beaver
* Ozark Howler
* Dire Wolf
* Black-tailed Prairie Dog
* American Bison, American Mastodon, Ancient Bison, Plains Pronghorn, Barbour’s Pronghorn, Four-horned Pronghorn, Dwarf Pronghorn, Columbian Mammoth, Hagerman Horse, Elasmotherium, Western Camel, Shrub-Ox, Woodland Musk Ox, Jefferson’s Ground Sloth, North American Pampathere, Northern Glyptodont, Page’s Crane
* La Brea Woodpeckers, La Brea Blackbird, La Brea Lapwing, La Brea Towhee, Graceful Pygmy Geese, Convex-billed Cowbird, Passenger Pigeon, Imperial Woodpecker, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Greater Prairie-Chicken
* American Lion
* North American Saber-toothed Cat
* Scimitar-toothed Cat
* Titanis
* Stag-Moose
* Giant Short-faced Bear

#### Prairie Butterfly Tent

* Poweshiek Skipperling
* Dakota Skipper

#### Moose Landing

* Moose
* Reindeer

#### Wing’s Financial World of Birds Amphitheater

* African Grey Parrot
* Common Raven
* East African Crowned Crane
* Eurasian Eagle Owl
* Great Horned Owl
* Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
* Harpy Eagle
* Hyacinth Macaw

#### Mussel Cabin

* Mucket, Fatmucket, Higgin’s Pearly Eye, Plains Pocketbook

### Treetop Trail

* Raccoon
* Virginia Opossum, Striped Skunk
* Red Fox
* Red-tailed Hawk
* Boreal Owl
* Common Barn Owl
* Southern Tamandua
* Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
* Red Panda

### Family Farm

* Domestic Horse
* Domestic Sheep
* Domestic Goat
* Domestic Cattle
* Domestic Pig
* Domestic Chicken
* Domestic Rabbit
* Domestic Guinea Pig
* Llama