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CHILDREN'S TRAIL

Siamang Gibbon

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  • Boyd (M) 4/8/1992

  • Hadiah "Haddie" (F) 1/26/2000

  • Bodie (M) 11/22/2021

Identifying Features:

  • Boyd has a sleeker coat, lighter face 

  • Haddie is shorter with a darker face

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Location:

Island on Children's Trail lake

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Bennets Wallaby

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  • Tyrion (M) ~2013

  • Sausage (M) ~2019

  • Meatball (M) ~2018

Identifying Features:

Tyrion has the red and green tags (one in each ear), Sausage has a red/orange tag, and Meatball has a red/red tag.

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Location:

Children's Trail - near emus

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Reticulated Python

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Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - large reptile house

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Prehensile-tailed Porcupine

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  • Gigi (M)

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - Large reptile building with reticulated python

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Emu

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  • Edna “Edner” (M) 6/15/1993 +/- 2 years

  • Sneetch (F)3/24/2008

Identifying Features:

  • Edna has brighter orange eyes, blue neck, smaller legs 

  • Sneetch is larger with brown eyes and grey neck

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Location:

Children's Trail - near wallabies

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Cotton-Top Tamarin

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  • Stripe (M) 3/24/2014

  • Marimonda (F) 10/26/2017

Identifying Features:

  • Stripe - smaller build, blunter crest 

  • Marimonda - narrow crest 

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Location:

Children's Trail - tamarin exhibits across from emus

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Emperor Tamarin

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  • Marquis (M) 6/9/2007

  • Pierre (M) 2/24/2017

  • Jacques (M) 7/16/2018

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - tamarin exhibits across from emus

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Geoffroy's Marmoset

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  • Tyson (M) 4/13/2010

  • Coral (F) age 8 (as of Nov 2024)



Identifying Features:

  • Tyson has full tail 

  • See below or click 'Read More' for pictures.

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Location:

Children's Trail - tamarin exhibits across from emus

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Mexican Red Brocket Deer

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  • Noah (M) 9/7/2017

  • Priya (F) 4/16/2001

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - next to Calamian deer

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Calamian Deer

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  • Luke (M) 10/22/2013

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - next to red brocket deer

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Small Wonders - Reptiles & Insects

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**Animals in Small Wonders may change frequently. Last updated: 5/10/2025


Moving counterclockwise (to the right) around building:

  • Boyd's Forest Dragon

  • Giant Cave Cockroach 

  • Madagascar Hissing Cockroach 

  • Two-Spotted Assasin Bug

  • Emperor Scorpion 

  • Blue Death Feigning Beetles

  • Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-Eating Tarantula 

  • Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula 

  • Black Tree Monitor 

  • Galapagos Tortoise (Iguana Cove)

  • Radiated Tortoise Hatchling*

  • Giant Horned Lizard

  • California Kingsnake

  • Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake

  • Collared Lizard

  • Comon Chuckwalla

  • West African Gaboon Viper*

  • Henkel's Leaf-Tailed Gecko 

  • Standing's Day Gecko

  • Malagasy Leaf-Tailed Gecko

*Click READ MORE or scoll down for picture

Identifying Features:

  • Galapagos tortoise often flips over. It will flip itself back over given time.

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Location:

Children's Trail - Small Wonders building

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Black Swan

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  • (M) 3/9/2003

  • (F) 4/11/2013

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - across from spectacled owl

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Madagascar Crested Ibis

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  • (M) 5/27/2016 

Identifying Features:

(M) R. metal SDZ 16-942, R. blue (wrap) 

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Location:

Children's Trail - bird exhibit near king vulture

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Radiated Tortoise

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  • Squirtoise (M) 3/26/2001

  • More adults currently located in future Meerkat exhibit in Predator Passage

  • Hatching on exhibit in Small Wonders building

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - bird exhibit with Madagascar crested ibis, near King Vultures

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Von der Decken's Hornbill

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Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - mixed bird exhibit across from King Vultures

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King Vulture

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  • Queenie (F) b. before 1962

  • Aragorn (M) b. ~1969

Identifying Features:

Queenie is missing toenails, has cataracts, slightly smaller

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Location:

Children's Trail - near sloth, marmosets, spectacled owl

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Bali Mynah (Rothschild's Mynah)

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  • Dynah (F) 6/14/2012

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's trail between Sloth/Tamandua and King Vultures

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Linne’s Two-Toed Sloth

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  • Fernando (M) 4/25/2016

Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail -next to Geoffroy's Marmoset

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Tamandua

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  • Ernest Johnson, a.k.a. "Ernie" (M) 11/11/2022

Identifying Features:

Pronunciation:  tuh MAN doo wah

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Location:

Children's Trail - with Frenando, the sloth

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Spectacled Owl

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  • Elvis (M) 1/12/1992

  • Pricilla (F) 9/22/1993

*Note: names had been listed as Parker & Audra, but most current Bird inventory indicates these names. Perhaps, Parker & Audra were previous?

Identifying Features:

  • Elvis is tagged on his left leg. 

  • Pricilla is tagged on her right leg.

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Location:

Children's Trail - near sloth

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Squirrel Monkey

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  • Picard (M) 10/13/2006

  • T’pau (F)

  • Rand (F)

  • Miri (F)

  • Chapel (F)

  • Piper (F) 11/14/2005

  • Laren (F) 8/31/2007

  • K'ehleyr (F) 9/24/2007

Identifying Features:

  • Picard - dark blue bead

  • T’pau - orange bead

  • Rand - R cube bead

  • Miri - soccer ball bead

  • Chapel - white bead

  • Piper - P cube bead

  • Laren - red bead

  • K'ehleyr - yellow bead


*At their annual exam, each monkey gets a necklace with a colored bead. Over time they tend to pull off the beads.

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Location:

Across from Rhinoserus Horn Bill, next to Fernando, the sloth.

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Rhinoceros Hornbill

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  • Sylvester (M) 4/28/1998

  • Minnie (F) 2/20/2018

Identifying Features:

Diego - R. metal WAP24-382

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Location:

Children's Trail - near sloth (more located in Tropical Flights)

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Shingleback Skink

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Identifying Features:

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Location:

Children's Trail - small tunnel with low ceiling new red barn; used to be the 'mouse house'

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