The "Do You Travel" thread gave me this idea. How many species of animals have you seen both in the wild and in a captive setting, including but not limited to a zoo, a farm, as a pet, etc. My own list is painfully short, and probably incomplete because in all likelihood I have just forgotten about some of them. All of these are animals local to where I live. American Crow Red Fox North American Porcupine Bald Eagle Red Tailed Hawk Mouse (Does infesting my house count as wild? I tend to kill pests on sight. So yell at me, see if I care.) Rat Wood Turtle Eastern Painted Turtle Turkey Striped Skunk Garter Snake North American River Otter Mallard Duck Honey Bee Swallowtail Butterfly Monarch Butterfly (in egg, larval, pupae, and adult form.) Bobcat American Kestrel Turkey Vulture Blue Crab (I think. Put it in the maybe pile.) North Atlantic Sea Star Painted Lady Butterfly American Lobster Red Shouldered Hawk Blue Mussel (at Price Chopper.) Periwinkle Slipper Shell (at Fenway Park of all Places. NEAQ sent some people.) Cardinal Blue Jay Rat Snake Pheasant (it must have escaped from a game farm and lived wild for at several months before that dog got it.) And probably a number of other animals, I can't be bothered to remember. Update: And also the Common Carp. This one is interesting, and also a maybe. I see koi carp regularly. However I saw wild, invasive carp in the wetland area of the Roger Williams Park Zoo. They even had a sign about them. I wish the zoo would get rid of them really (though they do seem to have come with the pond.) I wish they would instead possibly introduce some kind of native fish to replace them. Maybe there is no replacement or they are too hard to get rid of. How about my fellow ZooChatters?
My list is mostly fish, but that is because every summer i go the bahamas Yellowtail Snapper Seargent Major Queen Angelfish Peacock Flounder Spanish Hogfish Porkfish Spotted Eagle Ray Atlantic Blue Tang White Tailed Deer Eastern Box Turtle Turkey Vulture Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Sea Turtle (Couldnt Tell What species it was, but im pretty sure it was a green) Eastern Garter Snake Sand Shrimp Blue Crab Groundhog (it lives under ny neighbor's porch) Spring Peeper Cabbage White Butterfly Monarch/Viceory Butterfly Blue Jay Southern Stingray Atlantic Whiptail Ray Rainbow Runner (fish) Spiny Lobster Red Lionfish Green Anole Brown Anole Mallard Duck Nassau Grouper Great Barracuda Ocean Triggerfish Palometa Bluehead Wrasse Green Heron French Grunt Princess Parrotfish Porcupinefish Horseshoe Crab (a dead one that washed up on the beach) Harlequin Basslet Moon Jellyfish West Indian Manatee
Since I don't keep records of species tht I have seen (working on changing that in my spare time) I can't give lists but just working through photographs of trips that I have taken in the last few years conservative estimates must be several hundred mammals and even more birds. I hope to have proper lists of species within 3 or 4 months.
I don't keep a list, but it would not be particularly not long as I have only seen wild animals in Western Europe and West Africa. I think it is interesting that animals in the wild always look bigger than conspecifics in captivity. Sometimes this is obvious, for example bottle-nosed dolphins in captivity are almost always from temperate or subtropical areas (or are descended from such animals) while the ones I have seen in cold Manx and Scottish waters really are much bigger. You can also see animals doing things in the wild that they cannot do in captivity: I know that the only wild elephant that I have ever seen was huge, although it was half a mile away and up to its belly in long grass, because I saw it casually walk up to a decent sized tree, nudge the trunk with its forehead and push it over. Likewise seeing a wild bird flying always makes it look bigger and more beautiful than it would in a zoo, which I think is true for little orange-cheeked waxbills, for medium sized carmine bee-eaters and for large palm nut vultures. I think this is partly due to the extra concentration that you need to watch genuinely wild animals. It is also quite possible to have difficulty recognising a species that you know well. I vividly remember riding pillion on a motorcycle through the forest near Kumasi at dawn: the sky was full of a large flock of birds, all flying in the same direction over the treetops. The noise they made was incredible, a mixture of beautiful whistles and shrill screams. The light was too poor to see any colour on them, but they were medium sized with rounded heads and pointed fast-beating wings. I was very puzzled for several minutes before the penny dropped and I suddenly realised that they were African grey parrots. Alan
I have a list of all animals I have seen, this is the (rather small!) list of 27 mammal species I have seen in captivity and the wild. The bird list is substantially longer, but again, many of the birds commonly seen in the wild are rarely seen in zoos. Short-beaked Echidna Koala Common Brushtail Possum Common Ringtail Possum Eastern Grey Kangaroo Euro Red Kangaroo Black-footed Rock Wallaby Southern Swamp Wallaby Australian Water Rat House Mouse Norway Rat Black Rat Plantain Squirrel European Rabbit Killer Whale Eurasian Moose Roe Deer Scottish Red Deer Horse Lesser Dog-faced Flying-fox Grey-headed Flying-fox Dingo Red Fox Ferret New Zealand Fur Seal Australian Fur Seal
I also don't make a list because a lot of species I've seen in the wild I've also seen in captivity !
I don't keep a list of animals I see in zoos, but going through my wild animal lists I count up 108 mammal species I have seen in both the wild and zoos. I can't be bothered totalling the birds because it would be too many.
(Off the top of my head, not complete): MAMMALS Iberian lynx bobcat pronghorn wapiti (American elk) White tailed deer mule deer European red deer fallow deer mouflon European otter American black bear bighorn sheep California sea lion BIRDS pyrrhuloxia black crowned night heron great blue heron red tailed hawk golden eagle harris hawk American kestrel mallard duck burrowing owl greater roadrunner sandhill crane Gambells quail wild turkey Annas hummingbird REPTILES western diamondback coachwhip gila monster horned lizard American alligator American crocodile desert tortoise
American Black Bear Mountain Lion Whitetail Deer Bison Elk/Wapiti Alligator Crocodile Feral Hog Jaguar Turkey Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Water Moccasin Coral Snake Indigo Viper Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Mallard Duck Wood Duck Merganser Duck Pelicans Barn Owl Bald Eagle Red tailed Hawk Pheasants (semi wild) Doves Opossum Coyote/Red Wolf (I maintain they are the same thing) Sandhill Cranes Whooping Cranes Largemouth Bass River Catfish Bream/Sunfish How could I forget Alligator Snapping Turtles/Mud Turtles my dad used to catch Mud turtles when there was a market for them. I left a bunch out like common rodents etc.
I'll see what I can remember! Mammals: White-Tailed Deer American Black Bear Bobcat Canada Lynx Eastern Grey Squirrel Florida Manatee Striped Skunk House Mouse Collared Peccary Birds: Bald Eagle Great Blue Egret Little Blue Egret Double-Crested Cormorant Red-Tailed Hawk Black-Crowned Night Heron Mallard Redhead Greater Black-Backed Gull Tri-Colored Heron Common Raven Turkey Vulture Red-Breasted Merganser Hooded Merganser Anhinga Sandhill Crane Laughing Gull Brown Pelican American White Pelcian American Wood Duck Wild Turkey Reptiles: Black Rat Snake American Alligator Gopher Tortoise Florida Cooter Green Anole Amphibians: Southern Leopard Frog American Bullfrog Eastern Grey Tree Frog Wood Frog American Toad Eastern Newt Fishes: Bluegill Large-Mouth Bass ~Thylo
Yes it was American Crocodile, the only place outside of the US I have been was the Yucatan Peninsula (high school senior trip to Cancun). Dr. Akisanya, my doctor, is from Nigeria. He wants me to go with him next summer after he found out how much I love Africa. I was all set and planned to do a Summer abroad in Ghana in college (Political science major and my research was on the stable Ghanan political system) but my dad's health worsened a plans changed.
Sumatran orangutan Lar gibbons Common marmoset Bolivian squirrel monkey Black-capped capuchins Long-tailed macaques They’re the coolest ones.
Limited list, even if I could figure out a complete one, it would still be pretty small, (most animals I've seen in the wild are birds, and most zoos I've been to mostly keep more exotic bird species) but: Bottlenose dolphin Nine-banded armadillo Gray fox American alligator Whooping crane Indigo snake Rat snake
North America: Grizzly Bear Black Bear Bison Elk Moose Bobcat Coyote Bighorn Sheep Mountain Goat River Otter Beaver Striped Skunk Gray Wolf Bald Eagle Great-Horned Owl California Sea Lion Prairie Dog Pronghorn Badger Trumpeter Swan Central America: White-Faced Capuchin Monkey Boa Constrictor Green Iguana Palm Viper Keel-Billed Toucan Squirrel Monkey Howler Monkey Three-Toed Sloth Caimen (not sure which species but have seen some in pet shops in the USA) Kinkajou I'm sure the list is much larger for North America but these are some I have seen recently in zoos that I have also seen in the wild.
Where did you see a jaguar in the wild? I would love to see one of those in the wild. I have seen whooping cranes in the wild but not in zoos.
Not accounting for subspecies (and by virtue of ignorance excluding some bats, rats, and such): Mammals Only: Canada Lynx Grey Wolf Coyote Golden Jackal Red Fox Grey Fox Swift Fox Arctic Fox Raccoon Dog Polar Bear Black Bear Brown Bear Sea Otter River Otter Fisher Ermine Siberian Weasel Mink Beech Martin American Badger Eurasian Badger Striped Skunk Spotted Skunk Raccoon Ringtail Small Asian Mongoose California Sea Lion Stellar Sea Sion Harbor Seal Orca Bottlenose Dolphin Dall Porpoise Harbor Porpoise Burro Pronghorn Aoudad Mouflon Dall Sheep Bison Mountain Goat Chamois Musk Ox Blackbuck Whitetail Deer Mule Deer Red Deer Wapiti Moose Axis Deer Roe Deer Sika Deer Fallow Deer Caribou Wild Boar Japanese Macaque Nutria Beaver Muskrat Brown Rat House Mouse Grey Squirrel Rock Squirrel Fox Squirrel Eurasian Red Squirrel Woodchuck Black tailed Prairie Dog Porcupine West European Hedgehog
I know I'm going to forget some, but hopefully I'll remember most. Horse (I'm counting domesticated as "in captivity" or you can count the Przewalski's horse in a zoo) Orca Dolphin (wild was pacific white-sided and captivity was atlantic and pacific bottlenose) Bald eagle Burrowing Owl Coyote California Sea Lion Harbor Seal Sea Otter Gila Monster Tarantula Jellyfish (not likely the same species, but I've seen both wild and in aquariums) Vulture I've also seen some animals that people have listed as seeing both wild and captive, but I've only wild since they don't generally keep them in zoo collections around here squirrel mallard Elk cottontail rabbit striped skunk heron egret various lizards