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.
Rattlesnakes - American International Rattlesnake Museum Cats - Exotic Feline Breeding Compound Bears - San Diego Zoo Vipers - Dallas Zoo
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)
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.
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
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
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
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.
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)?
Beetles: Cincinnati (American Burying, Blue Death Feigning, Red-lined Darkling, Emerald, Flamboyant flower, Hercules, Magnificent Flower, Jade-Headed Buffalo, Sunburst diving, Taxi-Cab, Tin-Foil, and Yellow bellied)
Cincy: Monitors: Ackies dwarf, green tree, quince, crocodile, Savannah, white-throated, blue tree, black tree, Komodo dragon, and ornate.