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We are home to more than 130 different species, most of which are endangered or extinct in the wild. We are one of many zoos around the world working to protect animals from extinction. Find out more about the animals that we care for. 

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
African pygmy goat
Andean bear
Asian elephant
Bali starling
Barbary lion
Beaded lizard
Bearded dragon
Black-tailed prairie dog
Blesbok
Blue spiny lizard
Blue-crowned laughing thrush
Blue-eared glossy starling
Brahminy starling
California sea lion
Cape porcupine
Capybara
Chestnut-backed thrush
Chilean flamingo
Chimpanzee
Citron-crested cockatoo
Colombian spider monkey
Common box turtle
Common peafowl
Coscoroba swan
Cotton top tamarin
Crowned lemur
Crowned sifaka
Cuban tree boa
Darwin’s rhea
Duméril’s ground boa
Eastern black and white colobus monkey
Eastern bongo
Ecuador Amazon parrot
Emerald dove
Emperor tamarin
Fiji banded iguana
Fossa
François langur
Frilled lizard
Gentoo penguin
Giant African snail
Giant anteater
Giant wood rail
Golden lion tamarin
Golden mantilla
Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo
Grant’s zebra
Green-naped pheasant pigeon
Irish black honeybee
Jamaican boa
Java sparrow
Laughing kookaburra
Lemur leaf frog
Lilac-breasted roller
Linne’s two toed sloth
Luzon bleeding heart dove
Madagascar tree boa
Malayan sun bear
Malayan tapir
Maned wolf
Mangrove snake
Mediterranean tortoise
Meerkat
Miniature donkey
Moloch Gibbon
Moluccan cockatoo
Mossy frog
Nicobar pigeon
Norfolk grey chicken
Orange-headed ground thrush
Ostrich
Palm cockatoo
Pancake tortoise
Pied imperial pigeon
Pied tamarin
Purple-crested turaco
Red panda
Red squirrel
Red titi monkey
Red-backed bearded saki
Red-bellied lemur
Red-billed blue magpie
Red-crested turaco
Red-eyed tree frog
Red-footed tortoise
Red-tailed black cockatoo
Ring-tailed lemur
Rockhopper penguin
Rodrigues fruit bat
Rothschild’s giraffe
Royal python
Scheepmaker’s crowned pigeon
Shetland pony
Socorro dove
Southern pudu
Southern screamer
Spot-necked otter
Striped hyaena
Sumatran tiger
Sunbittern
Superb starling
Tamworth pig
Tawny frogmouth
Temminck’s golden cat
Temminck’s tragopan
Turquoise dwarf gecko
Utila iguana
Venezuelan red howler monkey
Vicuña
Violaceous turaco
Violet-backed starling
Visayan warty pig
Von der Decken’s hornbill
Wattled jacana
Western lowland gorilla
White-bellied pygmy marmoset
White-belted ruffed lemurs
White-breasted barn owl
White-browed coucal
White-crested turaco
White-nosed coati
White-tailed black cockatoo
White-tailed sea eagle
Yellow mongoose
Yellow-headed day gecko