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Best US Zoo Collection for this taxa

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  1. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    What are the best (most complete) collections in the United States for specific groups of animals? I mean, which zoo has the widest variety of species within a certain group? By group I mean things like parrots (not birds), vipers (not snakes), deer (not hoofstock or mammals), etc.
     
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    Rattlesnakes - American International Rattlesnake Museum

    Cats - Exotic Feline Breeding Compound

    Bears - San Diego Zoo

    Vipers - Dallas Zoo
     
  3. uszoo

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    Rodents- bronx zoo
     
  4. DavidBrown

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    Giraffids: San Diego Zoo/Safari Park. Between the zoo and the park they have the 3 kinds in North America (Masai, reticulated, Rothschild's) and okapis.

    Elephants: San Diego Zoo/Safari Park (Breeding African herd at the park, mixed Asian-African herd at the zoo)

    Rhinos: San Diego Zoo/Safari Park (Northern and southern white rhinos, black rhinos, Indian rhinos)
     
  5. JBZvolunteer

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    hyenas: deyoung family zoo. The zoo has a clan of spotted hyenas and a pair of striped hyenas that breed annually. The spotted hyenas have gotten to a point with their second litter were they raise their own. Also it is rumored that they have possibly gotten a aardwolf.
     
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    toucans, toucanets, aracaris - dallas world aquarium

    crocodilians - st augustine alligator farm
     
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    Rare lemurs and other prosimians (not counting the Duke Lemur Center since it is not a zoo)-Grey bamboo, black-and-white ruffed, ring-tailed, crowned, and ruffed lemurs (as the zoo stated; no specific species). Other lemurs like aye-ayes and Coquerel's sifakas. Other prosimians like pottos, Garnett's galagos, and pygmy slow lorises.: Cincinnati
     
  9. American_birds

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    Lemurs - Henry Doorly Zoo

    Apes - Gladys Porter Zoo

    Waterfowl - Saint Louis Zoo

    Bears - San Diego Zoo

    Cockatoos - Wildlife World Zoo

    Everything Else - San Diego Zoo
     
  10. siamang27

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    Cranes: San Antonio Zoo
    Hummingbirds: Dallas World Aquarium
    Rhinos: White Oak Plantation (aren't there black, white, Indian and Sumatran?)
    Gibbons: Gladys Porter Zoo
    Prosimians: Duke Primate Center (I would still consider this a zoo even if it's not generally open to the public)
    Tanagers, honeycreepers etc: Dallas World Aquarium
     
  11. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Harpan is at LA now, leaving only 3 species at White Oak.
     
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    Not exactly a zoo but I would put the Gibbon Conservation Center for Gibbons.
     
  13. siamang27

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    That's true. I had forgotten about the Gibbon Conservation Center. I never found a list of all species held there, but I knew that GPZ had 5.
     
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    Not a personal attack on you my friend, but the original poster puts hoofstock as too broad, wouldn't inverts fall under the same umbrella (99% of all known species)?
     
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    True, true. Didn't think of that. I'll try to narrow it down a bit.
     
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