Zoo Tours: The ARC Campus | Zoo Knoxville
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- 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
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*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
You should visit Kamp Kenan and see his turtles!!
You should visit Toranga zoo in Sydney Australia.
The pleco was a watermelon pleco and the side neck to me looks like either a yellow headed river turtle or more likely the Magdalena river turtle both of which are critically endangered but it’s from the genus Podocnemis if that helps
im suprised there was a Malaysian Giant Turtle! is this in Malaysia? 🇲🇾 if it isn’t i would be suprised and if it is i would also be suprised!
And im a muslim so i believe in Allah. not Jesus 🕋❤️
When it comes to zoos, reptiles and amphibians are my favorite animals to see, especially turtles. This place looks like Heaven for all reptile and amphibian lovers!
I adore reptile houses (I'd like to see more on the channel if possible), and this is probably one of the coolest I've ever heard of.
I'm glad to see a zoo keeping lots of freshwater Turtle species! They're a group in need of a lot of conservation work and are underrepresented in zoos!
Tennessee is kind of a hub for AZA facilities that really specialize in work with freshwater turtles.
Zoo Knoxville has long been renowned for its success with reptile and especially freshwater turtle species and tortoises.
The old reptile house had a entire center made for breeding and propagating freshwater turtles, and bog plants.
One of the best exhibits at the old reptile house was a piece of a native bog that was entirely natural and exhibit native species.
Much of this is still somewhat intact and functional, and you can still see much of the work they have been doing with this work there when you go.
It was also home to a seasonally outdoor Gila monster habitat, and a habitat for burrowing owls, as well as a huge flight aviary for a condor.
And while the indoor section of the reptile house was a bit outdated it was unique and well laid out
And Tennessee aquarium is also a major hub for breeding with freshwater turtles especially
Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga zoos are all also great with their reptile programs as well
This was a pretty cool Reptile and Amphibian house! Most of the habitat were quite immersive, and there were many species of reptiles and amphibians that I hadn't known were there. I might to have to visit there some day
I went to the ARC this May. Unfortunately, I accidentally lost all footage of my Zoo Knoxville trip (aside from a few pictures). Thanks for helping me remember how great it is, Zoo Tours!
The tree with the sloth immediately puts me in the mood to revisit Chester Zoos Realm of the Jaguar, which has the exact same exhibit layout, with a huge tree for the sloth and a massive tank of fish.
Love Dwarf Crocodiles!
I've been to one zoo in my life, and that was the Miami, Florida zoo. My main memory was riding the monorail back in the 90's seeing all the animals as we went around. Way better view of the white tiger that wanted to hide towards the back when I tried to see it from the ground
The unidentified side-neck is Podocnemis vogli, the savanna side-neck turtle. The pleco is a Panaque species.
Right by the lily pads my son has a memorial bench. It’s one of the the most beautiful places to gather with family and others when we have our zoo trips. The ARC center was marvelously done ❤
The only reason I’m going back to the zoo to see the snapping turtle
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I love the bird interaction at the Dallas zoo it’s so fun to see so many birds in one place including cockatiels, that like to perch on your shoulder as well as learning about native bird species and conservation, it was the highlight of the entire zoo visit that enjoyed, that and the bugs display called bugging you.
8:47 holy smokes !!! That would be incredible to observe
You should go to albuquerque zoo in like 2 years there doing crazy amount of renovation on the entrance a new aisa expansion and Australia part with a new aviary and a load of new exibets
That's one big exhibit attraction! Plus, visit the Woodland Park Zoo soon! Also, 3 zoo trivia questions for you & your girlfriend, Zak....
1) What animal did the SF Zoo welcome when Bruce the hippopotamus moved away?
2) How many rescued cougars were euthanized at the Oakland Zoo so far?
3) What are the names of the 2 famous elephants that were star attractions at the Disney's Animal Kingdom Kilimanjaro Safari ride?
Leaping Archaeopteryx!
The ARC is amazing. It's the kind of place where I could spend hours in.
I love red pandas it’s just something about them
I love reptiles
So what are the putting on top of the hill where the old reptile house and the condors and otters where
Right now they are looking at a few plans for the old otter exhibit, and reptile house I’m not entirely aware of.
As of right now the old reptile house is still home to much of the rigor and tortoise breeding programs, and is still housing some species along with many of the in biom bogs and breeding habitats for turtles and wetland plants.
Right now the main thing that is different is that the segmented habitat area where they were running their outdoor breeding programs and habitats for tortoises is now a tortoise walk where you can go and feed multiple species of tortoise in the summer.
I have a theory it will end up being converted into a aquarium, small mammal house, invertebrate house (most likely), or be slowly taken apart and made as a space for a all new concept.
My favorite interactive part of a zoo is the cheetah encounter of the Cincinnati Zoo
Are you going to do everything like all of the animals? Plus I think that animals are the best!!
the bronx zoo was the coolest reptile house i have been to
As a Turtle lover , I really like this amazing place 👍👍👍
Zoo Knoxville is the place to go for turtles and tortoises!
Not only is the arc as you have seen full of them. But there is actually a lot of the species they have on the other side of the zoo where the old reptile house was.
They had multiple big boom breeding centers for turtles, amphibians, and plants, and they also have a tortoise walk where you can feel Aldabra tortoises in the summer, not to mention they old reptile and amphibian house still has some available habitats open, and is still home base for many of their turtle and tortoise breeding programs.
I was at the Knoxville zoo a couple years ago. They were just building the ARC building.
Looks like a fantastic reptile house! Did you like this or the Scaly, Slimy, Spectacular better?
Great video! 🐸
My favorite reptile house is probably St. Louis Zoo's Herpetarium for its variety unless the Desert Dome counts as one. Edit: Its now MOLA at fort worth
Giraffe feeding at Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek Michigan
14:54 (Looks to be a yellow spotted Amazon river turtle)
I saw radiated tortoises in your channel a lot
Just so you’re aware the Asian forest tortoise Manouria emys is actually very well adapted to cold temperatures and are known to handle temperatures down to the 40s just fine while all the others are less adaptive to cold temperatures at the Louisville zoo for example we take in our aldabras when it’s getting 60 or below at night due to their very low cold tolerance I would guess a similar story for all the little tortoises
Yeah, I own a emys and as long as it's in the 50s he is still pretty active, my Grandis tend to stay active as well as temps drop.
I've lived in Knoxville most of my life and the zoo has never been very impressive. Mostly just a place for moms and kids to go during the week.
That will by the first thing I do when I go to zoo atlanta because I like reptiles and its unice to the ather reptileims in zoos
went there today and by some sheer luck I had 0 no shows!
New intro not to shabby
I’m surprised you haven’t done a tour of the Bronx zoo yet. It has amazing habitats, and it’s reptile house is easily just as good, maybe even better than this one. But hey, that’s my opinion
Can you do the Jacksonville zoo in Florida? I don't see it on your channel.
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And there's more to come
I like feeding stations in zoos
Oh im sorry its zoo knoxvile I was thinking about slimy scaly and spetaculet
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7:40 i could have swore he said zoo porn
go to oakland zoo
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Those poor elephants will have tuberculosis not long after arriving at the pseudo -peta death camp.
0:39 uhhhh no. It is not as good as you think.
I think thats the current home, not the new one
Duurr that's why they're sending them away
I really recommend this zoo it's the wilderness trails zoo in Birch run Michigan it's also a rescue 🛟