List of animals at Zoo Basel

The Zoo Basel is one of the leading zoos in the world. Among many comparisons, Anthony Sheridan's (Zoological Society of London) study in 2009 of 60 leading zoos, ranked the Zoo Basel as 7th best zoo in Europe.

By number of animals it is the largest zoo in Switzerland with about 75% of its animals living in the aquarium (or Vivarium called in Basel).

Mamals

  • African Bush Elephant
  • Eastern Grey Kangaroo
  • Short-eared Elephant Shrew
  • Rock Hyrax

Carnivores

  • African Wild Dog
  • California Sea Lion
  • Cheetah
  • European Otter
  • Gray Wolf
  • Lion
  • Meerkat
  • Oriental Small-clawed Otter
  • Snow Leopard
  • Spectacled Bear
  • Sun Bear

Even-toed ungulate

  • Guanaco (lama)
  • Hippopotamus
  • Kirk's Dik-dik
  • Lesser Kudu
  • Masai Giraffe
  • Miniature pig
  • Muntjac
  • Okapi
  • Ovis (sheep)
  • Peacock Goat
  • Plains Bison
  • Pygmy goat
  • Pygmy Hippopotamus
  • Reindeer
  • Sable Antelope
  • Wild boar
  • Zebu

Monkeys

UPDATE: Due to the renovation of the monkey house, all monkeys (except the Crab-eating Macaques and the Mona Monkeys) will leave the zoo - or have already left it, like the orangutans (February 2010).

  • Black-capped Squirrel Monkey
  • Brown Woolly Monkey
  • Crab-eating Macaque
  • Chimpanzee
  • Coppery Titi
  • Cottontop Tamarin
  • Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
  • Golden Lion Tamarin
  • Mona Monkey
  • Ring-tailed Lemur
  • Sumatran Orangutan
  • Western Lowland Gorilla
  • White-faced Saki
  • White-lipped Tamarin

Odd-toed ungulate

  • Grant's Zebra
  • Indian Rhinoceros
  • Shetland Pony
  • Somali Wild [...]
  • Welsh Pony

Rodents

  • Ansell's Mole Rat
  • Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
  • Cape Ground Squirrel
  • Cape Porcupine
  • Common agouti
  • Coypu

Birds

General

  • Australian Brush-turkey
  • Northern Bald Ibis
  • Northern Carmine Bee-eater
  • Ostrich
  • Sociable Weaver
  • Southern Ground-hornbill
  • Red-billed Hornbill

Owls

  • Eurasian Eagle-owl
  • Spectacled Owl
  • Snowy Owl

Parrots

  • Agapornis roseicollis
  • Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
  • Rainbow Lorikeet

Penguins

  • African Penguin
  • Gentoo Penguin
  • King Penguin

In the bird house

  • Blue-crowned Motmot
  • Cape Weaver
  • Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
  • Fischer's Turaco
  • Guira Cuckoo
  • Kookaburra
  • Long-tailed Finch
  • Mindanao Bleeding-heart
  • Montane White-eye
  • Purple Honeycreeper
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Sunbittern
  • Red-billed Leiothrix

On/around the lakes

  • Ciconia (stork)
  • Black Swan
  • Great Cormorant
  • Greater Flamingo
  • Great White Pelican
  • Grey Heron
  • Hawaiian Goose
  • Mallard ducks
  • Mandarin Duck

Amphians

  • Argentine horned frog
  • Australian Green Tree Frog
  • Cane toad
  • Poison dart frog

Fish

  • Devil firefish
  • Discus (fish)
  • European eel
  • Flashlight fish
  • Four-eyed fish
  • Freshwater hatchetfish (Carnegiella sp.)
  • Geophagus
  • Glass Catfish
  • Harlequin Tusk
  • Heteroconger (congrid eels)
  • Longnose gar
  • Moray eel
  • Mudskipper
  • Ocellaris clownfish
  • Piranha (Serrasalmus altus)
  • Polypterus
  • Queensland lungfish
  • Synanceia verrucosa (reef stonefish)
  • Tetrasomus gibbosus
  • Xingu River ray

Sharks

  • Leopard shark
  • Small-spotted catshark

Insects and Spiders

  • Eudicella gralli
  • European honey bee
  • Macrotermitinae
  • Migratory locust
  • Phasmatodea (stick insect)
  • Redback spider

Invertebrates

  • Balanomorpha
  • Common Cuttlefish
  • Common Jellyfish
  • Common Octopus
  • Fiddler crab
  • Giant African land snail
  • Giant Green Anemone
  • Hermit crab
  • Sea cucumber

Reptiles

  • Common Smooth-Scaled Gecko
  • Green tree python
  • Nile crocodile
  • Saharan horned viper

In the Vivarium

  • Common Egg-eater (snake)
  • Eastern bearded dragon
  • Epicrates cenchria (boa snake)
  • Freshwater Crocodile
  • Gila monster
  • Leopard tortoise
  • Python molurus
  • Water monitor (lizard)