Zoo Tours: Toledo Zoo's Museum of Science
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- EPISODE 107
When you think of visiting a museum, just as you would expect to see animals at a zoo, chances are you're expecting to see artifacts, art, and a plethora of dioramas depicting prehistoric times... That's not exactly how things go at the Toledo Zoo's Museum of Science. The building's centerpiece paints a picture of Ohio's past - with mammoths, mastodons, American lions and other creatures that thrived 12,000 years ago. But that's not all! The seemingly never ending supply of rooms invites you to experience a WALK THROUGH POISON DART FROG rainforest, a touch tank full of sturgeons, a MASSIVE Coconut Crab, hundreds of invertebrates, not one but two SNAKES THAT SWIM, and several of those rooms take you face to face with some of the world's deadliest species - Stonefish, Rattlesnakes, and even the Komodo Dragon. I know you'll enjoy this one of a kind tour of this one of a attraction.
Full Species List
1. Golden Arrow Frog, Madagascar Day Gecko, White-throated Ground Dove, Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog, Dyeing Poison Dart Frog, Anthony's Poison Dart Frog*
Oak Forest
1. Striped Wolf Spider
2. American Toad
3. Pill Bug
4. Snail (Don't know the species)
5. Red-backed Salamander
6. Ring-necked Snake
Rivers & Streams
1. Long-tailed Salamander, Northern Dusky Salamander, Cave Salamander, Northern Slimy Salamander (Two Exhibits)
2. Unidentified Turtles and Frogs
3. Eastern Hellbender
4. Lake Sturgeon
Wetlands & Lakes
1. Lake Erie Watersnake, American Bullfrog, Pumpkinseed Sunfish, Minnows, Blanding's Turtle, Painted Turtle
Arthropods
1. Coconut Crab, Land Hermit Crab,, Turquoise Gecko
2. Dead Leaf Mantis
3. Giant Prickly Stick Insect
4. Touch Me Not Stick Insect
5. Darkling Ground Beetle
6. Giant Centipede
7. Velvet Ant*
8. Western Black Widow
9. Giant Walking Stick
10. Arizona Blond Tarantula
11. White-toed Tarantula
12. Brazilian Black Tarantula
13. Mexican Redknee Tarantula
14. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
15. Huntsman Spider
16. Tanzanian Whip Scorpion
17. Giant Cave Cockroach
18. Silk Orb Weaver, Water Strider, Sunburst Diving Beetle, Crayfish
19. Grass Spider
20. Chinese Mantis
21. Jungle Nympth
22. Rhinoceros Katydid
23. Red-legged Millipede
24. White-eyed Assassin Bug
25. Asian Forest Scorpion
26. Vinegaroon*
27. Giant African Millipede
28. Emperor Scorpion
29. Goliath Birdeater
30. Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
31. Giraffe Stag Beetle
32. Unicorn Beetle
33. Emerald Beetle
34. Garden Fruit Chafer
35. Magnificent Flower Beetle
36. Rhinoceros Beetle
37. Taxi Cab Beetle
38. Vampire Crab, Blackback Land Crab
Venom Hall
1. Komodo Dragon (Two Exhibits)
2. Golden Arrow Dart Frog, Amazon Tree Boa
3. Burmese Vine Snake
4. Gila Monster
5. Mangrove Snake
6. False Water Cobra
7. Western Hognose
8. Paradise Flying Snake
9. Blue-banded Sea Krate
10. Ribbed Newt
11. Geographic Cone Snail
12. Stonefish
13. Foxface Rabbitfish
14. Lionfish
15. Coral Catfish
16. Fire Urchin
17. Various Anemones
Venemous Snakes
1. Death Adder*
2. King Cobra
3. Mang Viper
4. Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Arizona Black Rattlesnake
5. Tiger Rattlesnake
6. Saw Scaled Viper
7. Sidewinder
8. Russell's Viper
9. Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake
10. European Long-nosed Viper
11. White-lipped Island Pitviper
12. Eastern Massasauga
13. Variable Bush Viper
14. Bushmaster, Green and Black Poison Dart Frog
15. Rhinoceros Viper
16. Eyelash Viper, Jumping Viper, Fer-de-Lance
17. Santa Catalina Rattlesnake
18. Puff Adder, Western Green Mamba
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I worked at the Toledo Zoo for three and a half years, and I got to see the museum the first day it opened. It was definitely an improvement over what was in there before. The lobby was empty most of the time, the only animals were small amphibians and arthropods, and the second floor had a bunch of offices. This renovation was a definite improvement.
I am so happy people enjoy this building. I'm a a volunteer at this zoo and I get to see all this almost everyday so I am always happy to hear other people enjoy it as much as I do. If enyone has any questions about the zoo I will be happy to answer.
I've spent almost a whole lifetime hear at this very zoo as a devoted member. Happy to see you covering our zoo on the channel once more. I've photographed just about all the species here at one time or another. Though I sadly didn't see the sea krait on my last visit to the zoo.
More zoos need museums!! Perfect alternative to a rainy day or a day that's too hot or cold! :D
What a great episode of zoo tours! I live very far away, if I am able to come here I WOULD BE THE HAPPIEST PERSON ALIVE ON THAT DAY! 2nd would be my brother LOL
This is SO COOL!!! I had no idea that there were so many rare and unique animals in this Toledo Zoo habitat!
Yea I work there and there are even more
This is the best museum/zoo ever!
I visited Toledo with my kids this past summer, and this zoo was a big reason why. We weren't disappointed: compared to the Buffalo Zoo, one of the oldest zoos in the world, Toledo's is easily a world-class attraction. Each of its houses are worth hours of exploration, but that Museum of Science blew us away. Much like yourself, we spent nearly four hours wandering through it, with a new wonder around every corner.
I've been going to this zoo since I was a child as it's my local zoo.
I'd love for you to go over their updated aquarium as well, it's truly stunning! Staying nearly the same on the outside but, if I recall correctly, approximately tripling the gallons of water on the inside, it's now truly a great sight. I only wish when I was younger I had had the ability like kids do know to take photos of the old one to compare.
What a great tour!
This is an amazing concept, I wish other zoos would emulate this. Also the contast between the historical building, the glass enclosures, the biotopes, the lighting, was just amazing!
I think this is one of my favourite exhibits you've shown 👏👏👏
What an extraordinary exhibition hall this is awesome
Super happy to have stumbled on this!!!!! I was born in Toledo Hospital and raised my family in Toledo, but moved to Florida 10 years ago. We were always members of Toledo Art Museum and the zoo. We've traveled the world and have found few equals to both fantastic institutions.
Now this is an awesome museum!
I’ll definitely have to see this for myself
What an AMAZING zoo!!
Your channel is very interesting and unique! Thanks for these videos
Wow! I haven’t been to the Toledo Zoo since I was very young but this makes me want to go back.
Having a blue banded sea Krait is amazing and a good testament to the skill of the herpetology care team on staff.
Also I must say this who facility branch they have built is downright inspirational.
I would love to see this kind of museum and indoor animal house hybrid facility more
In fact one facility that I’ve been to in the states that has a very similar feel to this was the Virginia living museum. While a admittedly smaller facility it had amazing habitats for their animals and similarly offered both the interactive educational experience of a museum and the first hand inspirational experience that seeing love animals at a zoo or aquarium offers.
I just found your channel and I love it!! You should try to visit Virginia Beach and see their aquarium sometime, they have a great selection of locally found animals. And I believe they're doing renovations on their second building that talks about the wetlands and marshes of the area. Plus the Virginia zoo is nearby in Norfolk, about 30 minutes away.
Wow, what an amazing exhibit! Definitely very unique looking, not quite like anything else in the US
There is so many unique animal across the world
The work you put into your videos is INSANE!! The videos are so good !
I want to go here for the Sea Krait alone! but I don't know when I'd ever get to Toledo.
Same with me! Although I want to go there just for the Oak Forest.
Wow that is cool 😎 I have never seen a zoo with a banded sea krate best meuseum ever
Thanks for spotlighting my zoo! I request the Reptile House please.
Wowsers! I had no idea the Toledo Zoo has Ice Age animal displays there! Also, which zoo are you going next for Episode 108 sooner or later? Cause' if you visit the Oakland Zoo, you should visit the new California Trail attraction, featuring a gondola system, along with some abundance of bison, gray wolves, black bears, grizzly bears, jaguars, cougars, & California Condors, too. Jumping Juravenator!🐺
Great video! Love it! Thanks for the tour video
So cool!!!! I love these longer episodes! Are u gonna do a vid on the Cincinnati Zoo's Lemur area and Dragón House?
I was worried more about tourist might stepped on the frog.
But this was a zoo I want to go.
As somebody who works there, don't worry! Theres not a huge risk of guests stepping on the frogs. Theres usually 2 teen volunteers near the area. One in the entrance room, and then one in the exit room. The first one usually gives out some rules about The Tropics. Mainly about just being careful of where you step and being careful as to not touch the plants. This also includes the frogs. And the one in the exit usually checks for any critters who may have wanted to become hitchhikers. But don't worry! The frogs there are safe for the most part!
@@Stardust_Speedway Thank you for information.
Wow this place is fantastic! Such an original and fun way of displaying all these herps and fish. The sculptures and dioramas look really good as well.
This is my favorite part of the zoo!
what is it like
nice!
@@hyena_fan it’s beautiful! I love Komodo dragons
@@Zoove1 I watch your content! Ur amazing!
Seeing that pterosaur makes me want a video about the reptile house
Also I’d recognize that Smilodon from the thumbnail, it’s a render from Jurassic World Alive
I spent 4 years as an invert keeper..great collection on here, taxonomic group that isneglected in zoos. And the robber crabs are cool..but not always easiest display species..our zoo had them.. problem is they moult underground for long periods of time..so empty enclosure. Do a lot with native reptile conservation too . including venomous..and venomous snakes neglected in UK zoos. Great list here especially death adder. We used interactive displays with themes..hats off to toledo zoo☺️
You should tour the St.Louis Zoo! It doesn't disappoint!
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I've gone to so many zoos but if you ever go to Sydney Australia they have the coolest nighthouse I've ever seen. All rare Australian nocturnal species that no US zoo really has.
I use to volunteer here and I love it
5th best zoo in america for my taste !!!!!!
So cool
OMG this is so amazing. The museum was going through the renovation back in 2018 which that was the last time I went to the Toledo Zoo
Hey! I am new to this channel but only 2 minutes in to the video and I already liked and subscribed! I am a former volunteer at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta and I can honestly say...I wish I was at the zoo in this video than there. Although it was fun, I was turned down for a job at the zoo 7 times and then resigned when the vaccine mandate came into play. Overall I had a wonderful time at the zoo and am always overly excited to view tropical, prehistoric, and other kinds of landscapes and wildlife. I am truly enjoying this video and I will be sure to watch more!
Amazing Amphibians and BUGS!
Hope you go back there soon! I hardly have time go but it’s one of my favorites. Hope to get the tour from you again xD
Amazing zoo
I like the Gilla monster
Video Question: The Crawlspace: A World of Bugs and Amazing Amphibians
I been their like a year ago and I love it I mean very beholden and amazing
it's so nice to see
the circle tank is kind of like the animal crossing tank where u put ur salmon, trout, and crucian carp… in!
This pLace is beautiful
I appreciate your videos it teaches me about animals I did not learn much about.
My mom was actually bitten by a Black Widow, but because they're so rare we thought it was a brown recluse bite. When she finally realized the pain in her arm wasn't going away and in fact getting worse, we went to the hospital and they were like "yep that's a black widow"
The best zoo I have ever since , I wish I could go there! But I won’t because I live in Italy and I will never go to Toledo…
Educational
It would be interesting if thier was a spin off channel called museum tours
I really want to go to the Toledo Zoo
I ❤this zoo. I want to go to this zoo
What do you use to edit your videos? Also, amazing video!!
Thank you! I use Final Cut Pro - though it looks like I need to switch after discovering a major audio error in the video.
Wow
Ooh was that a hint you’re gonna make your way back to San Diego eventually?
Just saying but if I was the director of this zoo I would add the Timber/Canebrake Rattlesnake, Ring Necked Spitting Cobra, common European Adder, Eastern Copperhead, Northern Cottonmouth and Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake.
They have timber rattlesnakes, red spitting cobras (naja pallida, idk if ring necked is same animal or not), Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, West African gaboon vipers, Northern Copperheads, and others.
As a volunteer of this zoo I will say we have most of those In Our reptile house
Just found out about your channel and am loving the content. Out of curiosity any plans to make your way up to Alaska's Sealife Center in Seward and/or The Alaska Zoo in Anchorage? The former is a dedicated cold-water aquarium/research facility dedicated to arctic aquatic animals, and the later got it's start in 1966 after a radio contest offered a man 3,000 dollars or a baby elephant and he chose the baby elephant (sadly we do not have elephants any more, turns out an Indian animal doesn't do well in a place that can reach -15 degrees in the winters).
They just added Victoria crowned pigeons into the aviary
Have you heard of the rocky mountain wild exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain zoo Colorado Springs Colorado?
You won't believe... As of late I have literally been wondering how such a species like the red backed salamander could ever be housed in a zoo due to it's tendency of being beneath logs and rocks most of the time, thus seldom seen otherwise.
Shy reptile and amphibian species like that especially amphibians that hide under foliage until rains can be kept fairly well in densely planted setups that have systems to imitate daily rains which encourage the animals to naturally come out and feed.
Many species of frog are the same way their driven to feed and come out and about by the sound and feeling of rain.
2:27 How do you prevent people stealing/stomping the frogs? That’s like 100 dollars hopping around.
Well, as somebody who works there, I can actually awnser this! Theres usually 2 ZooTeens ( teen volunteers ) near the area. One by or in the small entrance room, and then one in the small exit room with a huge mirror in it. As well as an educator sometimes. Theres also rules in place that the entrance teen usually gives out ( such as not touching the plants or animals ), plus theres usually staff within the mueseum or out and about, so stealing frogs from there is VERY unlikely. Also, fun fact! There are actually over 300 Dart Frogs in The Tropics! Thats the estimated number, because they have bred like rabbits in there.
As one of the ZooTeens that volunteer at this zoo I can also say we let everyone who gose though the tropics about the frogs and we know most of the times we're the frogs are on the path.
Reminds me of the museum from acnh. Wonderful place
Try Khao Kheow Open Zoo in thailand
Cool
8:14 : I’d rather be SHINY!
If u go on vacation in the Netherlands com3 to Wildlands that’s an cool big zoo in Emmen Netherlands 🇳🇱
Can you do Calgary zoo next?
Is it still there? I am going there In two days
I like the zoo to
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The banana doesn’t grow on a tree, it’s just one big herb
I was looking through the Zoo map after this episode, (which was fantastic by the way), and was wondering how you would divide this zoo into episodes, as much of it consists of single species exhibits which couldn't warrant a full episode off of them alone.
Thank you!:)
I've thought about this before.
1. The eagle, owl, and cassowary fits with the Aviary.
2. Penguins with the Aquarium
3. Random assortment of birds with the Primates.
@@ZooTours What would the Reindeers go with, and would the Pheasantry be part of the Aviary or Primate video?
The pheasantry is part of the random assortment of birds. There were no Reindeer on my last 3 visits (2 year span). Nothing lives in that valley by the Amphitheater anymore.
@@ZooTours Thanks for the response, sorry about my misinformation as I have never gone to the Toledo Zoo and am only getting my research from a quick google search, but I'm glad that your covering all the sections and I'm looking forwards to the videos whenever they may come out.
@@ZooTours If your wanting to see some Reindeer, they're in Africa! at the moment, but during Lights Before Christmas, they'll be heading to The Barnyard!
Pls do Zagrebs, Osijeks and Splits zoo
TOLEDOZOO❤❤
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Wait was that an Gaboon viper?
No
I heard coconut crabs can kill people oof I think Amelia Earhart died by the coconut crab biting her ugh 😫😩
Babe, you can’t do it right
Yep go to the gym
Be cool of zoo has dinosaurs 🦖 🦕
I mean, they have alot of birds. Including some Chickens, Rhinocerous Hornbills, as well as alot of other species of birds. Which, to be honrst, are living dinosaurs. :)
Wow that is so cool
Wow