Need Help: Nocturnal Animals

[FlameWizard492]

Once the Twilight Pack comes out, I'm planning on building a zoo for nocturnal animals. Could any of you please help me figure out some good animals to place OTHER THAN the Twilight Pack animals? It would be a big help. I'm thinking along the lines of lions, hyenas, hippos, aardvarks, badgers, binturongs, wolves, leopards, etc. Any input would be nice.

It would be either this idea or a zoo featuring animals that are carnivores or often perceived as scary.

 

[Cocolori]

So this is tricky because it matters a bit how much you care about their behaviour in captivity versus the wild. Most of the big carnivores like lions etc. are most active at night but can be active at any time in the wild but in captivity for safety reasons they are always confined at night so I wouldn't class them as nocturnal zoo animals. aardvarks are definitely often kept in nocturnal houses, badgers would defo be on that list, koalas I would put as a possible, pangolins. Of the big cats I think the leopards make the most sense.

 

[NZFanatic]

Aardvarks, Chinese pangolins, giant anteaters, European badgers, clouded leopards, pygmy hippos, binturongs. Off the top of my head.

 

[Colehunter35]

binturongs, aardvarks, and pangolins, and pygmy hippos are all FOR SURE nocturnal

 

[Aramar]

The fennec fox fits perfectly in a night house

 

[NZFanatic]

The fennec fox fits perfectly in a night house

Knew I was forgetting an obvious one!

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

So, these are the species kept in the Night Safari in Singapore (which is only open after dark):

Binturong
Giant anteater
Asian small-clawed otter
Greater flamingo - quite interestingly, research has shown that flamingos in zoos are more active and do more foraging during the night than the day: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-reveals-night-time-habits-captive-flamingos.html
Lion (Southern African and Asiatic instead of West African)
Clouded leopard
Pangolin (Sunda instead of Chinese, but they are both equally nocturnal)
Badger (hog instead of European, but they are both equally nocturnal)
Indian rhinoceros
Aardvark
African buffalo
Spotted hyena
Hippopotamus
Bongo
Babirusa
Tiger (Malayan instead of Bengal)
Asiatic black bear
Malayan tapir
Dhole
Asian elephant

 

[Firestar97]

So this is tricky because it matters a bit how much you care about their behaviour in captivity versus the wild. Most of the big carnivores like lions etc. are most active at night but can be active at any time in the wild but in captivity for safety reasons they are always confined at night so I wouldn't class them as nocturnal zoo animals. aardvarks are definitely often kept in nocturnal houses, badgers would defo be on that list, koalas I would put as a possible, pangolins. Of the big cats I think the leopards make the most sense.

It could be done like with Singapore Night Safari. Just have the Park closed during the Day and open at Night

Greater flamingo - quite interestingly, research has shown that flamingos in zoos are more active and do more foraging during the night than the day: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-reveals-night-time-habits-captive-flamingos.html

Really cool. Didn't know about that

-Giant burrowing Cockroach (at least I've had them in my last Nocturnal House. They mostly seem to stay in their Burrows in the Wild and come out when it rains)
-Amazonian Giant Centipede
-Giant Forest Scorpion
-Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion
-Boa constrictor
-Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect
-Redknee Tarantula
-Goliath Birdeater
-Brazilian Wandering Spider

I might research the other Exhibit Animals later too

The Dingo also wasn't listed yet. They tend to be more nocturnal in warmer Regions