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  1. pipaluk

    pipaluk Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Shepreth 22nd January

    25 Pygmy Slow Loris
    26. Crab-eating Macaque
    27. Grivet monkey
    28. Red-bellied Tamarin
    29. Black & white Ruffed Lemur
     
  2. vogelcommando

    vogelcommando Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    At least I also can join the Europe Zoochat Challenge :) ! Visited Zoo Antwerp yesterday and saw the following species :
    1) Hamlyn's monkey ( see Hamlyn's monkeys | ZooChat )
    2) Javan langur ( see Javan langur | ZooChat )
    3) Geoffroy's marmoset ( see Geoffroy's marmoset | ZooChat )
    4) Golden-headed lion tamarin
    5) Red-ruffed lemur ( see Red ruffed lemur | ZooChat )
    6) Ring-tailed lemur
    7) Black and white colobus ( see Black and white colobus | ZooChat )
    8) Brown-headed spider monkey ( see Brown-headed spider monkey with young | ZooChat )
    9) Goeldi's monkey ( see Goeldi's monkey | ZooChat )
    10) Pygmy marmoset
    11) Chimpanzee ( see Chimpanzee | ZooChat )
    12) Western lowland gorilla
    13) Eastern lowland gorilla ( see Eastern lowland gorilla | ZooChat )
    14) Humboldt's night monkey ( see Humboldt's night monkey | ZooChat )
    15) Northern dry zone slender loris ( see Slender Lori | ZooChat )
    16) Bolivian squirrel monkey ( see Bolivian squirrel monkey | ZooChat )
    17) Mandrill ( see Mandrill | ZooChat )

    By checking Zootierliste and the sign I saw on the enclosure of the Aardvark-Spring hare enclosure I missed only one species, the Senegal galago but I hope to see this one later this year - at Antwerp or at another collection :).
     
  3. zoogiraffe

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    Okay time for a little update as i managed a little trip to out the other weekend and visited 3 places namely Twycross,Bristol and Wildplace,so here goes the update.

    18) Agile Gibbon
    19) White-cheeked Gibbon
    20) Pileated Gibbon
    21) Siamang
    22) Western Lowland Gorilla
    23) Bonoboo
    24) Javan Brown Langur
    25) Francois Langur
    26) Spectacled Langur
    27) De Brazza Guenon
    28) Diana Monkey
    29) Crowned Guenon
    30) L'Hoests Guenon
    31) Brown Spider Monkey
    32) Red Titi
    33) Ring-tailed Lemur
    34) Crowned Lemur
    35) Red-bellied Lemur
    36) Red Ruffed lemur
    37) Black and White Ruffed Lemur
    38) Geoffroys Marmoset
    39) Silvery Marmoset
    40) Common Marmoset
    41) Western Colobus
    42) Drill
    43) Pygmy Slow Loris
    44) Grey Mouse Lemur
    45) Aloatran Gentle Lemur
    46) Blue-eyed Black Lemur
    47) Common Squirrel Monkey
    48) Goeldis Monkey
    49) Golden Lion Tamarin
    50) Gelada
    51) Mongoose Lemur
    52) Belted Ruffed Lemur

    Thats it although you never know might add one tomorrow!!
     
  4. MagpieGoose

    MagpieGoose Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    9) Red-Faced Spider Monkey (Ateles paniscus)
    10) Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)
    11) Red Fronted Lemur (Eulemur rufifrons)
     
  5. zoogiraffe

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    Right a little run out and another 2 picked up,

    53) Hamadryas baboon
    54) White-naped Mangabey
     
  6. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    @zoogiraffe, I saw you listed Black and White Ruffed Lemur (37) and Belted Ruffed Lemur (52). Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those still seen as subspecies of the same species, Varecia variegata?
    If the first post wasn't clear, to avoid confusion and debates over whether or not subspecies are valid or not, I believe it's best if we keep it to species-level only.

    Either way, I visited 3 zoos this weekend - Apenheul, Burgers' Zoo and Blijdorp, and was able to add another few species to my list. Won't be counting the species seen in Apenheul as this was during a special winter tour, only accessible to subscription-holders who booked a special ticket in advance.

    Burgers' Zoo:
    19) Black lemur, Eulemur macaco
    20) Dusky langur, Trachypithecus obscurus
    21) Siamang, Symphalangus syndactylus
    22) Golden-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus gabriellae
    23) Southern pig-tailed macaque, Macaca nemestrina

    Blijdorp:
    24) Cottontop tamarin, Saguinus oedipus
    25) Gelada, Theropithecus gelada*
    26) (White-naped) Sooty mangabey, Cercocebus atys (lunulatus)
    27) Francois' langur, Trachypithecus francoisi
    28) Lion-tailed macaque, Macaca silenus
    29) Crested black macaque, Macaca nigra

    *Behind the scenes, but seen behind the vet building from the visitor path by the hyena pen.
     
  7. zoogiraffe

    zoogiraffe Well-Known Member

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    @Vision I believe I did I was having a senior moment it happens every now and again just means I am on 53,but I should be able to alter that by the end of the month as I should pick enough up by then for that not to be a problem!
     
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    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    No problem there at all, we all make mistakes. ;)
     
  9. TeaLovingDave

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    Who knows, maybe the long-awaited research demonstrating those two are distinct at species level - along with Southern Ruffed, which isn't around in captivity - will be published before the year is out....
     
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    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    If that does happen I'd very much like to hear it, as I should be seeing both of those subspecies tomorrow! :D
     
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    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    A week-long visit to the wonderful, but very cold, Czech Republic, gave me following species:

    ZOO Plzeň:
    30) Garnett's bushbaby, Otolemur garnetti
    31) Grey mouse lemur, Microcebus murinus
    32) Collared lemur, Eulemur collaris
    33) Red-bellied lemur, Eulemur rubiventer
    34) Black-and-white ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata (both captive subspecies)
    35) Fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus medius
    36) White-headed lemur, Eulemur albifrons
    37) Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur, Hapalemur alaotrensis
    38) Red-fronted brown lemur, Eulemur rufus s.l. (actually pure rufifrons, but I'll follow my own rules :p)
    39) Brown lemur, Eulemur fulvus
    40) Golden-handed tamarin, Saguinus midas
    41) Angolan colobus, Colobus angolensis
    42) De Brazza's monkey, Cercopithecus neglectus
    43) Northern white-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus leucogenys
    44) Bolivian night monkey, Aotus azarae
    45) White-lipped tamarin, Saguinus labiatus
    46) Silvery marmoset, Mico argentatus
    47) Red-mantled saddleback tamarin, Leontocebus lagonotus
    48) White-tufted ear marmoset, Callithrix jacchus
    49) White-headed saki, Pithecia pithecia
    50) Emperor tamarin, Saguinus imperator

    Zoo Praha:
    51) Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus
    52) Silver gibbon, Hylobates moloch
    53) Geoffroy's spider monkey, Ateles geoffroyi
    54) Sunda slow loris, Nycticebus coucang
    55) Sumatran orangutan, Pongo abelii
    56) Northern talapoin, Miopithecus ogouensis
    57) Common squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus
    58) Spix's moustached tamarin, Saguinus mystax
     
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  13. pipaluk

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    30. Bolivian Squirrel Monkey
    31. Alaotran Gentle Lemur
    32. Western Lowland Gorilla
    33. White naped mangabey
    34 Sulawesi Crested macaque
    35 Diana monkey
    36 Potto
    37 Grey Slender Loris
    38 Emperor Tamarin
    39 Goeldis monkey
    40 Moholi bushbaby
    41 Kikuyu black & white Colobus
    42 Aye Aye
    43 Hanuman Grey Langur
     
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    As we should take the rules seriously, we can stop this Challenge ( see rule 6 ) :( ! ( ;) )
     
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    @vogelcommando, oops haha, that's quite an obvious mistake indeed! :p
     
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    12) Javan Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)
    13) Sulawesi Crested Macaque (Macaca nigra)
     
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    Can you tell us which zoos you are seeing the species at? I think it provides more of a sense of narrative for those of us following.
     
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    A visit to Burgers Zoo - Arnhem - the Netherlands gave me 4 more species :
    18) Spectacled or Dusky langur ( see Spectacled - Dusky - langur | ZooChat )
    19) Siamang
    20) Sunda pig-tailed macaque ( see Sunda pig-tailed macaque | ZooChat )
    21) Black lemur ( see : Black lemurs | ZooChat )

    Saw also the other primates : nice group of Gorillas with one very pregnant female, Chimps and Ring-tailed lemurs but missed the Golden-bellied mangabeys and the Golden-cheeked gibbons :( .It was quite cold that day and all monkeys were indoors and I couldn't find the indoor-enclosures of those both species, even don't know if they are visuable for the public.
     
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    The mangabeys don't have a visible indoor enclosure. The gibbons are in the same building as the siamang, langur and macaque and are normally visible in the back row of cages. But there is also more space behind the visible area...
     
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    For the Golden-bellied mangabey's I already was affraid this would be the case and we ( devilfish and I ) already thought the Golden-cheeked gibbons would be in that building, but I guess they used the none-visible-area very well !
     
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