Animals you'll never see in a zoo

06-02-2008

"Panzernashorn"-and they got that name even with Dürer's inaccurate portrait of it (reminds me of the Monty Python episode...).

06-02-2008

... I knew it was something like that....

06-02-2008

If I read Liepzig's 'Gondwana' plans correctly the entrance and exit exhibits are entitled 'Living Fossils'. This looks interesting and I think it's an appropriate theme to set the stage for the main display.
I immediately thought of horseshoe crabs and tuataras, but there must be others. Any suggestions as to what they might be? Or perhaps I ought to keep on topic for this thread by asking which of the animals that you'll never see in a zoo would you call living fossils?

Alan

06-02-2008

Alright lets stay of track guys,

Animals you'll never see in a zoo?
the list must continue.

06-02-2008

river dolphins - i don't think we will ever really see river dolphins in a zoo ever again.

this is both good and bad. on the good side i know of not a single zoo that ever houses them in anything other than a totally unsatisfactory glorified fishtank. i don't want that to continue, and it likely anyone attempting to acquire river dolphins (and there is a few) are proposing just this.

on the downside, river dolphins species represent one of those animal groups that, should be housed properly, are more suited to captivity than their ocean-dwelling counterparts AND could benefit greatly from a captive insurance population. particularly the indus and gangetic dolphins.

(they are also considered a "living fossil")

06-02-2008

the one animal that i dont think is in a zoo that i would like to see is a Long Tailed Dunnart, really really they have a massive tail around 6 times there body length.

Umm... Maybe i could get a collection permit.


(Note: thread split and continued here - Sim')