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 acre 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Lesser whistling duck
 * Lovebirds
 * Milky stork
 * Mute swan
 * Nicobar pigeon
 * Night heron
 * Red junglefowl
 * Rhinoceros hornbill
 * Roseate spoonbill
 * Scarlet ibis
 * Southern cassowary
 * Spotted wood owl
 * Striated heron
 * Trumpeter swan
 * White-headed munia
 * Whooper swan


 * Reptiles
 * African spurred tortoise
 * Dwarf crocodile
 * False gharial
 * Green iguana
 * Reticulated python
 * Rhinoceros iguana
 * Saltwater crocodile


 * Fish
 * African sharptooth catfish
 * Arapaima
 * Arawana
 * Giant snakehead
 * Mozambique tilapia
 * Tinfoil barb