ZooMontana
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| ZooMontana | |
| Location | Billings, Montana, U.S. |
| Land area | 70 acres (0.28 km²) |
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ZooMontana is a 70 acre wildlife park located in Billings, Montana, U.S. and is Montana's only zoo and botanical park. First planned in the early 1980s, ZooMontana hosts wildlife native to the Rockies and exotic animals from around the world. The zoo gets about 70,000 visitors annually and is one of the region's most popular tourist attractions.
ZooMontana is an Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited wildlife park & zoo. Among the animals featured are a Siberian Tiger, Eastern Gray Wolves, North American River Otters, Bighorn Sheep, Red Pandas, Great Horned Owls, Bald Eagles, Sika Deer, Wyoming Toads, Wolverine, and Waterfowl. The animals live in state-of-the-art enclosures designed to imitate their natural habitats.
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ZooMontana is divided in 'habitats.'
Asia Habitat The Asia Habitat starts at the porcupine inclosure and is a path made of wood chips that goes threw a cottonwood forest, the path splits at one point and one half goes around a hill to where a scheduled Snow Monkey exhibit is to be. As you head down the main path, you see a brightly colored barn, which will later be a pheasant house, as you continue the path splits again, one going to Asia's largest feline, and the other going to deer and red panda.
- Siberian Tiger
- Red Panda
- Manchurian Sika Deer
North American Loop Habitat
- Eastern Gray Wolf
- North American River Otter
- Bighorn Sheep
- Turkey Vulture
- Bald Eagle
- Wolverine
- Waterfowl
- Waterfowl including Chinese or Swan Geese, Emperor Geese, Arctic Geese, and Domestic Geese
- Porcupine
- Raven
- Brown Bear
Living Wall and Inside Exhibits
Inside Exhibits are divided into two main sections: South American Rain Forest and Montanan Wildlife
South American Rain Forest The South American Rain Forest is made up of two different exhibits, one being large housing the pygmy marmosets, cane toads, and on occasion a green iguana, the other being smaller and housing a tree boa.
Montanan Wildlife The Montana Wildlife exhibits is located around the South American Rain Forest and around the Blackfooted Ferrets. Wyoming toads are near the South American exhibit, while the others are across the room from the Blackfooted Ferrets.
Blackfooted Ferret
- blackfooted ferrets
stuffed sage grouse, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, grizzly bears, and bighorn sheep are set up on an artificial cliff that the ferrets live inside of.
Living Wall
- Pink toed Tarantula
- Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
- Tiger Salamander
- Ball Python
- Great Plains Toad
- Wood House's Toad
- Green Tree Frog
- Box Turtle
- Snapping Turtle
Barn
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