EPISODE 126
We now have a new longest tour of the year! Does that automatically make it better though? In this case, yeah, a little. We've returned to Zoo Knoxville, a park that's made some improvements over the last couple of years. From creating award winning spaces for their tigers and gibbons, planning to send their elephants to a better home, to opening the ARC. The Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Campus made scales in 2021. Zoo Knoxville has always been a leader in herptile preservation, but now they have even more tools to show off and expand their care. The ARC is a 2.5 acre campus, featuring over 70 public species, almost half of which are endangered. In case you haven't heard, clearly this new development has lived up to the hype as the AZA just awarded Zoo Knoxville and their ARC the Top Honors for excellence in design.
FULL SPECIES LIST
1. River Otter
2. Malaysian Giant Turtle, Fly River Turtle, Spotted Pond Turtle,
3. Linne's Two-toed Sloth
4. West African Dwarf Crocodile, Madagascar Big-headed Turtle, Jewel Cichlid, Lyretail Cichlid
5. Cuban Crocodile, Cuban Cichlid
6. Banded Rock Rattlesnake
7. Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
8. Ethiopian Mountain Viper
9. Mangshan Viper
10. Puff Adder, Green Mamba
11. Timber Rattlesnake, Eastern Copperhead, Corn Snake
12. Red Spitting Cobra
13. King Cobra
14. Lake Titicaca Frog
15. Spotted-tail Salamander, Red Salamander, Ocoee Salamander, Four-toed Salamander, Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander
16. New Caledonian Gecko
17. Bog Turtle
18. Prehensile-tailed Skink, Solomon Islands Frog
19. Reticulated Python, Common Asian Toad
20. Golden Poison Dart Frog
21. Golden Mantella
22. Gila Monster, San Esteban Chuckwalla, Baja Blue Rock Lizard
23. Chinese Crocodile Lizard
24. Boelen's Python
25. Minor's Chameleon
26. Egyptian Tortoise, Ornate Uromastyx
27. Rio Cauca Caecilian
28. Fiji Banded Iguana
29. Shield-tailed Agama
30. Speckled Cape Tortoise
31. Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle, Spiny Turtle, Sulawesi Forest Turtle, Asian Brown Tortoise, Black-breasted Leaf Turtle, Indochinese Box Turtle, Three-lined Box Turtle, Home’s Hingeback Tortoise, Southern Vietnamese Box Turtle, Forsten’s Tortoise, Fly River Turtle
32. Asian Forest Tortoise (rotates)
33. Chinese Golden Headed Box Turtle (rotates)
34. Radiated Tortoise
35. Southern Spidet Tortoise, Common Spider Tortoise, Northern Spider Tortoise
36. Flat-tailed Tortoise
37. Forsten’s Tortoise
38. Pond [I assume home to wild animals - only saw Northern Green Frogs]
39. Bog Turtle, Spotted Turtle
40. Wood Turtle, Blanding's Turtle, Painted Turtle
41. Eastern Box Turtle
42. Ploughshare Tortoise
43. Aldaba Tortoise
44. Komodo Dragon
45. Emerald Tree Boa
46. Caiman Lizard, Side-necked Turtle, Royal Pleco (?)
47. Black-headed Python
48. Mexican Alligator Lizard
49. Angolan Python
50. Green Tree Monitor
51. Shield-tailed Agama
52. Madagascar Tree Boa
53. Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
54. Geoffroy's Marmoset Six-banded Armadillo
Links on the Caecilian:
1. www.nationalgeographic.com/an....
2. www.sciencenews.org/article/c...
3. www.sciencedirect.com/science...
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