Animal Names
Mochi is the name of our only _______
Mountain Tapir
These small ARV animals enjoy foods like bugs, meat and fish
Meerkats
How many Cape Griffon Vultures do we have?
Two (Godric and Hedwig)
Meerkats are eusocial, which means they have advanced social organization. Name 2 of the jobs meerkats have within their groups.
Lookout (Sentry), Babysitters, Gatherers, Burrowers, Teachers.
Waffles only has one ___
Eye (She had an infection at a previous facility and lost it)
Which ARV animals are named after Harry Potter characters?
Cape Griffon Vultures (Hedwig and Godric)
Which ARV animal can eat toxic plants?
Colobus Monkeys have complex stomachs that allow them to digest mature or toxic foliage that other monkeys cannot.
How many African Cape Porcupines do we have?
Two (Waffles and Thistle)
African Cape Porcupines will ____ their quills to look twice as large as they are.
Raise
True or False: The Colobus Monkeys burp in eachothers face to say "hello"
True! Burping is a friendly social gesture among leaf-eating colobus monkeys. They have chambered stomachs that digest leaves by bacterial fermentation, producing a lot of gas.
Gus Gus (Augustus), Tumbo, Finn and Rey are the names of our...
Red River Hogs
This ARV animal enjoys eating grasses, flowers, weeds and cacti but they can also go weeks without food or water
African Spurred Tortoise
How many groups of Meerkats do we have at the zoo?
Three (Two up by Elephants and One by Giraffes)
You can tell male Red River Hogs apart from females because of the ____ on their face
Warts/Bumps
This animal is only 1 of 4 in human care in the US
Mountain Tapir
Layla and Peatrie are the names of our...
Abyssinian Ground Hornbills
Which ARV animal has a casque that is thought to support them while trying to open tougher items like tortoise shells?
Abyssinian Ground Hornbills
How many Red River Hogs do we have?
Four (Augustus, Tumbo, Finn & Rey)
Colobus monkeys don't have ____
Thumbs (They are the only Old World Monkey without thumbs)
This animal is not native to Colorado and were introduced here by hunters in 1948
Rocky Mountain Goats
What is the name of our African Spurred Tortoise?
Chobe
Name 2 carnivorous animals in ARV
Cape Griffon Vultures, Meerkats, Abyssinian Hornbills.
How many Colobus Monkeys do we have?
Four (Rudy, Sudi, Dezi and Tisa)
African Spurred Tortoises can live up to _____ years
80, although average is 30-50 years
What is the Abyssinian Ground Hornbills' enclosure designed to look like?
It is designed to look like a storefront at Tsavo Trust (one of our conservation partners in Kenya). Represents the human wildlife interaction that other places in the world might encounter.