List of animals at the North Carolina Zoo

This is a list of animals on display at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, North Carolina. The North Carolina Zoo has two primary zones representing the species and habitats of Africa, and North America, each with a number of exhibits. The zoo also features an aviary which is home to birds species from all over the world. The list is broken up by zone and exhibit. The Zoo is home to approximately 1,100 individual specimens representing more than 200 species. This is a partial list taken from the zoo's website.

North America

Cypress Swamp

Mammals

  • North American Woodchuck
  • Puma

Reptiles

  • American alligator
  • Chicken turtle
  • Eastern river cooter
  • Louisiana Pine snake
  • Scarlet Kingsnake
  • Spotted turtle
  • Striped mud turtle
  • Yellow-bellied slider
  • Yellow rat snake

Birds

  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Canvasback
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Northern Pintail
  • Wood Duck
  • Ruddy Duck

Kids Zone

Mammals

  • Southern red-sided opossum

Birds

  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Barred Owl

Reptiles

  • Ball python
  • Common box turtle
  • Macklot's Python
  • Yellow rat snake

Rocky Coast

Mammals

  • Arctic Fox
  • Harbor seal
  • Polar bear

Birds

  • Horned Puffin
  • Parakeet Auklet
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Thick-billed Murre

Streamside

Mammals

  • Bobcat
  • North American River Otter

Birds

  • Barred Owl

Reptiles

  • Banded Watersnake
  • Black rat snake
  • Brown Water Snake
  • Corn Snake
  • Cottonmouth
  • Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
  • Mole Kingsnake
  • Northern Water Snake
  • Scarlet Kingsnake
  • Southern Copperhead
  • Spotted turtle
  • Timber Rattlesnake
  • Yellow rat snake

Fish

  • Black Crappie
  • Bluegill
  • Bowfin
  • Brook trout
  • Cape Fear Shiner
  • Longnose gar
  • Redbreast sunfish
  • Shortnose sturgeon

Amphibians

  • American green tree frog
  • Barking tree frog
  • Cope's Gray Tree frog
  • Gray tree frog
  • Two-toed Amphiuma

Northwoods Prairie

Mammals

  • American bison
  • American black bear
  • American Elk
  • Grizzly bear
  • Red Wolf

Sonora Desert

Mammals

  • Common Vampire Bat
  • Merriam's Kangaroo Rat
  • Ocelot
  • White-nosed Coati
  • Ringtail Cat

Reptiles

  • Mexican Beaded lizard
  • Black-tailed Rattlesnake
  • Colorado River toad
  • Common collared lizard
  • Crevice Spiny lizard
  • Desert iguana
  • Desert Kingsnake
  • Desert tortoise
  • Hognose
  • Night snake
  • Ornate box turtle
  • Reticulated Gila monster
  • Rosy boa
  • Sidewinder
  • Sonoran Gopher snake
  • Speckled Snake
  • Western Banded lizard

Birds

  • Abert's Towhee
  • Anna's Hummingbird
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Gambel's Quail
  • Gila Woodpecker
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • House Finch
  • Inca Dove
  • Lesser Goldfinch
  • Pyrrhuloxia
  • Shore Lark
  • White-winged Dove

Fish

  • Desert Pupfish

Invertebrates

  • Desert Hairy Scorpion
  • Tarantula
  • Vinegaroon

Africa

Watani Grasslands

  • African Elephant

African Pavilion

Mammals

  • Hamadryas baboon
  • Western lowland gorilla

Reptiles

  • American alligator

Birds

  • Bateleur Eagle
  • Trumpeter Hornbill

African Plains

Mammals

  • Eastern Bongo
  • Fringe-eared Oryx
  • Greater Kudu
  • Nile Lechwe
  • Sitatunga
  • Thomson's Gazelle
  • Waterbuck
  • Southern White Rhinoceros

Birds

  • Ostrich
  • Spur-winged Goose

Forest Edge

Mammals

  • Grant's Zebra
  • Reticulated Giraffe

Birds

  • Ostrich

Lemur Island

  • Ring-tailed lemur
  • Red ruffed lemur

Kitera Forest

  • Chimpanzee

Bushlands

  • African Lion
  • Red River Hog

Aviary

Birds

  • African Pygmy Goose
  • Asian Fairy-bluebird
  • Bali Starling
  • Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
  • Blue-gray Tanager
  • Blue-naped Mousebird
  • Chilean Flamingo
  • Crested Wood-partridge
  • Eastern Rosella
  • Eclectus Parrot
  • Golden-crested MYNA
  • Golden-headed Manakin
  • Golden White-eye
  • Green Wood Hoopoe
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Hooded Pitta
  • Hottentot Teal
  • Iris Glossy-starling
  • Liocichla
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Nicobar Pigeon
  • Red-billed Leiothrix
  • Red-capped Cardinal
  • Ringed Teal
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Summer Tanager
  • Sunbittern
  • Turquoise Tanager
  • Victoria Crowned Pigeon
  • Violet-backed Starling
  • White-backed Duck
  • White-headed Mousebird
  • White-rumped Shama
  • Yellow-rumped Cacique

Reptiles

  • Red footed Tortoise
  • South American Yellow-footed Tortoise

Amphibians

  • Blue Poison Dart Frog
  • Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog
  • Yellow and Blue Poison Dart Frog
  • Panamanian Golden Frog