Zoo Taiping
The Zoo Taiping (English: 'Taiping Zoo') is a zoological park located at Bukit Larut, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. Established in 1961, is the only zoo in northern Malaysia.
It is one of the major zoological parks in Malaysia. It covers 36 acres (15 ha) and exhibits 1300 animals representing 180 species of fishes, birds, mammals, and reptiles. The zoo . In 2003, the zoo established a night safari, opening again at nighttime hours.
Animals
The zoo has a collection of 1500 animals from 140 species. It also houses the largest number of stump-tailed macaques in Malaysia, which is thirteen, compared to six at Zoo Negara and five at Malacca Zoo.
Some of the animals in the zoo include:
- Mammals
- African lion
- Agile gibbon
- Agile wallaby
- Asian elephant
- Asian golden cat
- Asian palm civet
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine
- Axis deer
- Banded linsang
- Banded palm civet
- Bawean deer
- Binturong
- Black panther
- Bornean bearded pig
- Bornean orangutan
- Brown lemur
- Chimpanzee
- Clouded leopard
- Common eland
- Common hippopotamus
- Common marmoset
- Dhole
- Dromedary camel
- Flat headed cat
- Gaur
- Gemsbok
- Indian muntjac
- Island flying fox
- Javan mongoose
- Large flying fox
- Large Indian civet
- Large spotted genet
- Lechwe
- Leopard cat
- Lesser mouse-deer
- Mainland serow
- Malayan porcupine
- Malayan tapir
- Malayan tiger
- Marbled cat
- Masked palm civet
- Nilgai
- Nyala
- Plains zebra
- Proboscis monkey
- Red-handed tamarin
- Red hartebeest
- Sambar deer
- Serval
- Short-nosed fruit bat
- Siamang
- Smooth-coated otter
- Southern giraffe
- Southern white rhinoceros
- Spectral tarsier
- Spotted hyena
- Springbok
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Sun bear
- Sunda slow loris
- Western lowland gorilla
- White-handed gibbon
- Wild boar
- Birds
- African spoonbill
- American flamingo
- Barred eagle-owl
- Baya weaver
- Black-naped oriole
- Black swan
- Blue-and-yellow macaw
- Blue-crowned hanging parrot
- Budgerigar
- Buffy fish owl
- Cattle egret
- Common hill myna
- Common ostrich
- Demoiselle crane
- Emu
- Eurasian griffon vulture
- Greater flamingo
- Great hornbill
- Green peafowl
- Grey crowned crane
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Lesser whistling duck
- Lovebirds
- Milky stork
- Mute swan
- Nicobar pigeon
- Night heron
- Pink-backed pelican
- Red junglefowl
- Rhinoceros hornbill
- Roseate spoonbill
- Scarlet ibis
- Southern cassowary
- Southern ground hornbill
- Spotted wood owl
- Striated heron
- Trumpeter swan
- White-backed vulture
- White-headed munia
- Whooper swan
- Reptiles
- African spurred tortoise
- Burmese python
- Dwarf crocodile
- Emerald tree boa
- False gharial
- Gaboon viper
- Green iguana
- Reticulated python
- Rhinoceros iguana
- Saltwater crocodile
- Fish
References
- ^ "SEAZA Membership List". seaza.org. SEAZA. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ^ Seong, Mak Yim (15 December 2004). "Consolidate Taiping Zoo with Zoo Negara". The Star: Kuala Lumpur.
- ^ "Sister Zoo for Taiping Zoo Planned". (27 October 2004). Sarawak Tribune. Bernama News Services.
- ^ The Department of Veterinary Services, Perak, Jabatan Perkhidmatan Haiwan, Perak.
- ^ About the Zoo --About Us
- ^ Night Safari --Night Safari Main
- ^ Stump-Tailed Macaque --The Star
- ^ "Zoo Taiping".
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