ZooChat Challenge (Global) 2016

The Texas Zoo (Victoria, TX) 2/13/16:
42. Collared peccary
Big update tomorrow

 

Make sure you know which species of collared peccary.

~Thylo

 

Oh, that is a very good point. Any clues, anybody? The zoo used to be AZA, so if there is a SSP then that'd be the species that it is.

 

Funny, I was in Victoria today.

 

Small world. I didn't see the Baird's Tapir or Baboon, perhaps they aren't there anymore?

 

Everyone take a big breath, because I went to the Gladys Porter Zoo today (2/14/16 for future reference)
Also, I am not going to count collared peccary until someone knows what kind it is.
42. West African Bushbuck
43. Bornean Bearded Pig
44. Bontebok
45. Nilgai
46. Mountain Bongo
47. Southern Great Kudu
48. Red Flanked Duiker
49. Gaur
50. Addax
51. Western Pygmy Hippopotamus
52. Southern Sable Antelope
I was sad because Beisa and brocket deer are no longer at the zoo. However, I saw the only bush bucks, potoroo, and mantled howler monkey on public display in North America (for the howlers, it's the world!)

 

All the Pygmy Hippos in captivity are the nominate and the Sable Antelope will either be nominate or non-ssp.

~Thylo

 

Thanks.

 

How numerous are the Bushbuck? Are they breeding?

PS- Due to going to the American Museum of Natural History today can I count all the ungulates for the challenge? They seemed life like enough today

 

1.3 in one habitat and 1.1 in the other. The GPZ is working with at least one private breeder to keep them around. There was I think one birth at the zoo, jbnbsn99 talked to the keeper a few times and there is info on some of their pictures in the gallery. I'll post mine, eventually (don't look for any from me any one soon. I'm still sorting through my eight facility trip in December.

Also, for anyone wondering, that Bornean Bearded Pig is the last one in an AZA Zoo. He looked pretty old, but at least some private zoos have younger (breeding) individuals.

 

Is there any info of them spreading to other zoos throughout the country?

 

1) Onager (Equus hemionuis onager) Chester Zoo
2) Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi) Chester Zoo
3) Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) Chester Zoo
4) South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) Chester Zoo
5) Eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) Chester Zoo
6) Indian rhinoceross (Rhinocers unicornis) Chester Zoo
7) Rothschild's giraffe Giraffa rothschildi) Chester Zoo
8) Red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) Chester Zoo
9) northern babirusa (Babyrousa celebensis) Chester Zoo

10) Philippines chevrotain (Tragulus nigripes) Chester Zoo
11) Western sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei gratus) Chester Zoo
12) Eastern Bongo (Tragelaphus eyrucerus isaaci) Chester Zoo
13) Lowland anoa (Bubalis depressicornis) Chester Zoo
14) Congo buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus) Chester Zoo
15) Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) Chester Zoo
16) Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) Chester Zoo
17) Natal red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis natalensis) Chester Zoo
18) Chilean pudu (Pudu puda) Chester Zoo
19) Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) Twycross Zoo
20) Michie's tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus michianus) Twycross Zoo
21) Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) Twycross Zoo
22) Grant's zebra (Equus quagga boehmi) Twycross Zoo
23) Common nyala (Nyala angasii) Twycross Zoo
24) Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) Twycross Zoo

update for 24th January

25) Prince Alfred's deer (Rucervus alfredi) Chester Zoo
26) Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Chester Zoo
27) Negros warty pig (Sus cebifrons negrinus) Chester Zoo
28) Javan banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus) Chester Zoo
29) Roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) Chester Zoo
30) Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) South Lakes
31) Kordofan giraffe (Giraffa antiquorum) South Lakes

update 14th February

32) Axis deer (Axis axis) West Midlands
33) Commn fallow deer (Dama dama) West Midlands
34) Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) West Midlands
35) Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus) West Midlands
36) Northern swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii) West Midlands
37) Formosan sika (Cervus nippon taiouanus) West Midlands
38) Common eland (Taurotragus oryx) West Midlands
39) Common waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) West Midlands
40) Kafue lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis) West Midlands
41) Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) West Midlands
42) East African hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius bioko) West Midlands
43) Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) West Midlands

 

I didn't talk to any keepers about the bushbuck, there weren't any around. I only talked to keepers about the brocket deer (replaced by red flanked duikers) and called the zoo to confirm Beisa was gone. I would guess that for the bushbuck to go to another zoo, said zoo would need an interest and the bushbuck would need to be bred (again, don't have info on that). We can only hope

 

I saw the deer today (19/2/2016) on my second visit of the year to Lotherton Hall.

15. Red Deer Cervus elaphus

 

Chester Zoo

19)Chilean Pudu (Pudu puda)
20)Kirk’s Dik Dik (Mardoqua kirkii)
21)Visayan Warty Pigs (Sus cebifrons)
22)Javan Banteng (Bos javanicus)
23)Eastern Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci)

 

Are Europe's dik-dik a known (sub)species? As I believe they've been split.

~Thylo

 

Can farm animals please count as long as there in public collections. Other wise I am stuffed because I live in Australia.

 

At Paradise Wildlife Park 21st Feb
41. Red Deer

At Colchester 22nd Feb
42. Warthog ( after failures at London & Colchester previously!)
43. Rothschild Giraffe (at London Zoo 2nd January) according to the 2016 inventory one of their giraffe is a Rothschild. I had thought that they were all hybrids.

 

At Vinpearl Safari, 1st February 2016:

13) Common Eland, Taurotragus oryx
14) Bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus
15) Nyala, Tragelaphus angasii
16) Arabian Oryx, Oryx leucoryx
17) Klipspringer, (sp. unknown but not zoomix as import)
18) Blue Duiker, Philantomba monticola
19) Wild Boar, Sus scrofa (maybe doesn't count because of splits)


At Dusit Zoo, 8th February 2016:

20) Axis Deer, Axis axis
21) Sumatran Serow, Capricornis sumatraensis
22) Malayan Tapir, Tapirus indicus
23) Fea's Muntjac, Muntiacus faea
24) Eld's Deer, Rucervus eldii siamensis
25) Lesser Mouse-deer, Trgalus kanchil

At Singapore Zoo, 13th February 2016:

26) Black Wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou
27) Desert Warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus
28) Nubian Ibex, Capra nubiana
29) Rothschild's Giraffe, Giraffa rothschildi
30) Angola Giraffe, Giraffa angolensis
31) Red river Hog, Potamochoerus porcus
32) North Sulawesi Babirusa, Babyrousa celebensis
33) Greater Mouse-Deer, Tragelus napu

At SEA Aquarium, 15th February 2016:

34) Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops aduncus

At Singapore River Safari, 17th February 2016:

35) Collared Peccary, Peccari tejacu
36) Guanaco, Lama guanicoe
37) Brazilian Tapir, Tapirus terrestris

At Singapore Night Safari, 15th February 2016:

38) Bharal, Pseudois nayeur
39) Markhor, Capra falconeri
40) Mouflon, Ovis orientalis orientalis
41) Barasingha, Rucervus duvaucelli
42) Cape Buffalo, Syncerus caffer
43) Bearded Pig, Sus barbatus
44) Indian Rhino, Rhinoceros unicornis
45) Hog Deer, Hyelaphus porcinus
46) Javan Banteng, Bos javanicus
47) Gaur, Bos gaurus

 

You certainly caught up fast.