Micke Grove Zoo is home to over 170 individual animals representing over 51 different species including mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and invertebrates representing six of the world's seven continents.  Many of our species are classified as endangered or threatened in the wild.

With representatives from all five major continents the Zoo is a great place to experience the diverse world of animals.

Mammals

Fur-Ever Curious: Explore the Fascinating World of Mammals


Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

The Ruffed Lemurs (black and white, and red) are similar in size and behavior. Like the other Ruffed Lemurs, the Black and White Ruffed Lemurs are medium in size but have a fascinating color distribution.

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Bobcat

Bobcats are one of the largest species of small cats. They are light to dark brown in color with a creamish-white underbelly. They have black outlined, pointy ears, black marked faces, and their legs. Their whisker spots are also black.

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Coppery Titi

Coppery Titis have a thick coat of reddish-brown fur covering all their bodies except their faces. Unlike other neotropical primates, their tails are not prehensile, and are longer than their bodies.

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Fosa

The fossa is closely related to weasels and mongooses. They are carnivores and sport several attributes that are similar to wild dogs and wild cats.

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Golden Lion Tamarin

Golden Lion Tamarins are small-sized primates that are golden red in color. They sport manes like Lions which gives them their name.

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Prevost's Squirrel

The Prevost's squirrel is a strikingly colored animal with black, white, and reddish-brown bands along the entire length of its body. The coloring helps in camouflaging it from predators.

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Red Fox

The Red Fox is the largest of the foxes and it belongs to the dog family Canidae. The reddish-brown coloring of their thick fur gives them their name.

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Ringtail

Ringtails are closely related to raccoons and coatis. They are light to dark brown in color with a creamish-white underbelly.

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Trini laying on rocks.
Snow Leopard

Snow leopards live at high-altitude alpine and sub-alpine mountain ranges of the Himalayas including Nepal, China and Central Asia.

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Southern Pudu

The pudus are considered to be the smallest species of deer in the world and are found in South America - the Northern Pudu in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, and the Southern Pudu in Chile and Argentina.

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Birds

Winged Wonders: Exploring the Diversity of Bird Life


Black Parrot

Black parrots belong to the parrot family, the Psittacine. They are monomorphous with males and females being of the same color, size, shape, and form.

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Cape Thick-knee

Cape Thick-knees often live near water and are closely related to plovers, sandpipers, gulls, and skimmers.

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Golden Eagle

Golden Eagles are birds of prey and are closely related to hawks, vultures, falcons, and kites. Their plumage is mostly dark brown with creamish white wings and tails tipped with black light brown and creamish white legs.

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Marbled Teal Duck

The Marbled teal are a species of duck that has a dappled appearance. They have speckled brown r bodies with dusky eye patches. Their underbellies and the feathers around their beaks are cream-colored.

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Northern Bald Ibis

Northern bald ibises are large birds with glossy black feathers streaked with iridescent bronze, emerald, and violet visible when they are basking in the sunlight.

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Northern Pintail

The Northern Pintail ducks are elegant large-sized birds. With slender necks and long pin-pointed tails held high, giving them their name.

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Red Fan Parrot

Red Fan Parrots belong to the parrot family. They have emerald green wings, white heads, and black beaks. Their necks are dark brown feathers and their underbellies are interlaced with iridescent bright red and blue feathers.

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Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawks are birds of prey that are closely related to eagles, vultures, falcons, and kites. Their plumage is mostly dark brown with breasts of light brown or creamish white.

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Speckled Pigeon

Speckled Pigeons belong to the pigeon and dove family. Both males and females are of the same color, size, shape, and form (monomorphous).

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Western Turkey Vulture

Turkey Vultures are closely related to eagles with well-developed talons and hooked bills. Their plumage is mostly black with black, grey, and cream-colored undersides and dark brown wings. Their heads and legs are featherless and pink while their scaly feet are light brown.

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Reptiles

Turtles, Lizards, and Love: Discover Our Scaly Friends


Bearded Dragon

Inland Bearded Dragons are diversely variable in their coloration ranging between different shades of white, cream, yellow, and brown.

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Dumeril's Boa

Dumeril’s Boas are broad non-venomous snakes that are black in color with dark brown blotches on their backs and cream-colored underbellies.

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Florida Softshelled Turtle

The Florida Softshell Turtle is a large turtle that looks like a dark brown pancake. They have whitish-cream plastrons and long dark brown necks with a tapering, snorkel-shaped snout, and small protruding eyes placed high on top of their forehead.

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Giant Madagascar Day Gecko

Giant Madagascar Day Geckoes are considered to be one of the largest species of day Geckoes. They are iridescent green in color with a red marking on the head and red dots on their torso. They also sport a tapering red line that runs from their nostrils to their eyes.

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Leopard Tortoise

The Leopard Tortoise has a hard shell that protects it from predators. It is the fourth largest tortoise in the world and it has a yellow carapace with brownish-black blotches.

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Radiated Tortoise

Radiated Tortoises are a species of tortoise with a hard shell that protects them from predators. Like other tortoises, they have blunt heads and well-developed elephantine feet.

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Red-eared Slider Turtle

Red-eared Sliders have smooth shells with olive green to dark brown colored carapaces. Their plastrons are pale yellow in color. Distinctive brilliant red lines run from their eyes and taper toward their necks giving them their name.

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River Cooter Turtle

The River Cooter is a medium-sized turtle with a brightly colored carapace patterned in dark green, dark brown, pale yellow, and black. They have blunt heads that look like tapering handles and long sturdy legs.

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Standing's Day Gecko

Standings Day Geckoes are considered to be one of the larger species of day Geckoes. Their bodies are covered with scales and their color is a mottled bright green to turquoise and black. Their body sides and underbelly are pale brown in color. Their heads and bodies are bright green to turquoise in color.

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Western Pond Turtle

The Western Pond Turtle also called the Pacific Pond Turtle, lives along the Pacific Coast of North America. Like the tortoises, these turtles have smooth shells, but of a sleeker build, that protects them from predators.

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Yellow bellied Slider Turtle

Yellow-bellied Sliders are medium-sized turtles. Their carapaces, legs, and necks, are dark brown or black in color with yellow striations.

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Amphibians

Leap into Adventure: Discover the Secret Lives of Our Amphibian Friends


Golden Mantella Frogs

Golden Mantella Frogs are small frogs that are bright golden-orange in color. They use their bright color as an anti-predator strategy warning their predators that they are toxic.

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Insects

Get Crawling with Our Insect Friends


Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches also known as hissers are one of the largest species of cockroaches in the world reaching a length of three inches. They have a rust and black-colored segmented thorax and abdomen. They are wingless.

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Vietnamese Walking Stick Insects

These walking sticks are dark brown in color and they look like twigs. Their heads are oval-shaped with thread-like antennae.

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