Viewing Area and Displays. Photo © Aaron Bono

Education Animals and Displays

Exciting displays of our native Missouri wildlife include large aquariums with fish and turtles, a bald eagle exhibit, a weathering area with owls and hawks, and numerous mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish displays.

Our education displays include the species below.

Eastern American Toad
Anaxyrus americanus americanus

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Green Treefrog
Hyla cinerea (syn. Dryophytes cinereus)

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Eastern Musk (Stinkpot) Turtle
Sternotherus odoratus

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Eastern Snapping Turtle
Chelydra serpentina

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Northern False Map Turtle
Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Ornate Box Turtle
Terrapene ornata
Go to “Wilma’s” page here.

Photo © Juanita Bach

Western Painted Turtle
Chrysemys picta bellii

Photo © Joy Viola, Northeastern University, Bugwood.org

Eastern Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma tigrinum

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Spotted Salamander
Ambystoma maculatum

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Common Five-Lined Skink
Plestiodon fasciatus

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Eastern Collard Lizard
Crotaphytus collaris

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Calico Crayfish
Faxonius immunis (formerly Orconectes immunis)

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Blue Channel Catfish
Ictalurus furcatus

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Coyote
Canis latrans
Go to “Cody’s” page here.

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Eastern Gray Squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis

Eastern Gray Squirrel. Photo © Juanita Bach

Eastern Mole
Scalopus aquaticus

Photo © Jim Rathert

Southern Flying Squirrel
Glaucomys volans

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Virginia Opossum
Didelphis virginiana

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Plains Hog-nosed Snake
Heterodon nasicus

Photo © Tom R. Johnson

Eastern Milksnake
Lampropeltis triangulum

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Western Cottonmouth
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma

Speckled Kingsnake
Lampropeltis holbrooki

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Western Ratsnake
Pantherophis obsoletus

Photo © Jim Rathert

Texas Brown Tarantula
Aphonopelma hentzi

Photo © Missouri Dept. of Conservation