Sofia Zoo marmoset, and macaques. The predator sector houses big cats, bears and small predators, including lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and brown bears. In January 2011 the zoo received eight Humboldt penguins on loan from Germany. The penguins are on loan for about 18 months, after which they will be returned, with any offspring to stay at the zoo. The zoo has some 1,400 individual birds representing 192 species. Waterbirds are housed in a lake, and Imperial eagles, Griffon vultures, Egyptian vultures and buzzards in a large walk-through aviary. Other species of birds at the zoo include ostriches, Silver pheasants, peacocks, flamingos,
Newquay Zoo animal species held at the zoo are listed as threatened or endangered species on the Red Data lists produced by the IUCN. The zoo has an immersive tropical house exhibit which houses rainforest plants and animals including a sloth, tropical birds, reptiles and insects. An additional paddock enclosure area of several acres (formerly a disused school playing field) was added to form the African Savanna area for mixed Hoofstock including Chapman's Zebra, Nyala and Black Wildebeest. This small 2009 expansion created the opportunity to reuse the old mixed African Plains exhibit, redeveloped into the Philippines area replaced the , now