ZooChat Challenge Europe 2017

Just returned from a last minute zoo trip:

Tiergarten Nuremberg

54. White-handed gibbon
55. Barabary macaque
56. Guinea baboon

Zoo Plzen

57. Collared lemur
58. Common brown lemur
59. De Brazza monkey
60. Garnett's bushbaby
61. Gray mouse lemur
62. Red-bellied lemur
63. Red-fronted lemur
64. Red-mantled saddleback tamarin
65. Southern Bolivian night monkey
66. Tanzanian black-and-white colobus
67. Western fat-tailed dwarf lemur
68. Red-bellied tamarin
69. White tufted-ear marmoset
70. White-fronted lemur

Zoo Praha

71. Mantled colobus
72. Northern talapoin
73. Spix mustached tamarin
74. Southern pig-tailed macaque

 

Question, I'm due to visit AAP soon, which has select species on view for the public. Am I allowed to include species from there? I'm guessing not since it's a rescue centre...

 

I don't think we could really allow those, as it is a zoo challenge and Stichting AAP isn't a zoo, as you mentioned.

I would, however, be very interested in the things they have on-show though!

 

It would have allowed me to add bonnet macaque, talapoin and northern pig-tailed macaque but ok fair enough!!

 

At Tierpark, Berlin 5/6/17

75 Southern Pig-tailed Macaque
76 Barbary Macaque
77 Japanese Macaque
78 Golden-handed Tamarin
79 Collared Lemur
80 Red Howler Monkey

At Zoo Berlin 6/6/17

81 Hamadryas Baboon
82 Sumatran Orangutan
83 Toque Macaque
84 Sumptail Macaque
85 Hamlyn's Owl-faced Monkey
86 Southern Bolivian Night Monkey
87 Weeder Capuchin
88 Greater Slow Loris
89 Grey Mouse Lemur
90 White-fronted Lemur

 

Damn I need to catch up now!!

 

Stichting AAP does however have a Dutch zoo licence, so technically it is a zoo and the animals that are on public view thus countable.

 

Oh, I wasn't aware of that! In that case, I suppose the ones on-show are countable!

 

Past challenges have required 'zoos ' to be regularly open to the public, not just on selected days, so Heythrop, the Kent Big Cat Sanctuary etc have been excluded in the past.

If it's open year round to the general public it should probably be included, if not no.

 

They are open daily.

 

I would suggest that any species viewable to the general public ( not for paying an extra charge or with a keeper taking you behind the scenes) should qualify then

 

55. Barbary macaque Macaca sylvanus Ouwehands Dierenpark
56. Common squirrel monkey Saimiri sciureus Ouwehands Dierenpark

 

I thought it interesting to note, but the maximum score (if we're going by ZTL) anyone can get in this game is, as of the time of writing, 156. This is including the difficult to spot (and technically offshow) Heck's macaques at Howletts and the even more difficult to spot Goodman's mouse lemurs and greater dwarf lemur at Zurich....I doubt anyone will get even close to that number as that would include a lot of travelling, but was interested to see that

Side note, there are four species that according to the challenge rules will not be able to be added if we're going by ZTL, and that's the Andean saddleback tamarin and Assam macaque (Russia only), southern talapoin (Gran Canaria only, annoying as I have seen it) and Guianan red howler monkey (French Guiana only).

EDIT: If people have seen the recently deceased Sumatran surilis (like myself ), then the maximum score is 157

 

Stichting AAP Almere

90) Olive baboon (Papio anubis)
91) Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
92) Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

 

Blackpool Zoo
1) King Colobus
2) De Brazza's Monkey
3) Bornean Orangutan
4) Common Squirrel Monkey
5) Pileated Gibbon
6) Ring-Tailed Lemur (They had LOTS of these)
7) Colombian Black Spider Monkey
8) Cotton-Topped Tamarin
9) Bearded Emperor Tamarin
10) Red Fronted Lemur
11) Goeldi's Monkey
12) Geoffroy's Marmoset
13) Western Lowland Gorilla
14) Pygmy Marmoset

I think that this is everything that I saw on my day out. Unfortunately I couldn't see the L'Hoest's Monkeys which was gutting but at least I saw most of everything else.

 

Stichting AAP Almere

93) Northern talapoin (Miopithecus ogouensis)
94) Northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina)
95) Yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus)
96) Tantalus monkey (Chlorocebus tantalus)
97) Bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata)

 

A visit to Rotterdam Zoo last weekend gave me 3 new species for the list. I had hoped for a fourth species ( the Gelada ) but their enclosure was still under construction and I didn't see the animals themselfs .

48) Francois langur ( see Francois langur | ZooChat )
49) White-naped mangabey ( see White-naped mangabey | ZooChat )
50) Lion-tailed macaque ( see Lion-tailed macaque | ZooChat )

 

Since we're just about halfway through the year, here's another update! Pleased to see a few more people join!
It would seem as if I have to get working on my score if I still want a chance at competing...

2017 Europe Zoochat Challenge:
97 - ShonenJake13
90 - pipaluk
76 - CGSwans
74 - lintworm
71 - zoogiraffe
70 - MagpieGoose
65 - Vision
60 - TeaLovingDave
56 - Joshua
54 - Joker1706
50 - vogelcommando
41 - LaughingDove
36 - ArboLowe
35 - Dylan
23 - GerbenElzinga
18 - KevinVar
14 - Water Dragon

 

Apenheul

98) Crowned sifaka (Propithecus coronatus)
99) Collared mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)
100) Grey-legged night monkey (Aotus griseimembra)
101) Venezuelan red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus)