Animals No Longer At Your Zoo You'd Like To See There Again

Magellanic penguins (hopefully coming back someday), California sea lions, spotted hyenas, wolves, sloth bears, clouded leopard, leopard, mountain lions, black-footed cats, jungle cat, caracal, pallas cats, Geoffery's cats, margay, ocelots, servals, North American lynx, Persian gazelles, ring-tailed lemurs (recently departed), red-ruffed lemurs, colobus, Francois langurs, golden-bellied mangabeys (soon to or recently departed), rock hyrax, green anaconda, reticulated pythons, black mamba, red-spitting cobra, king vultures, common eland, greater currasow, nene geese, saurus cranes, Aldabra tortoise (across the street at Fairytale Town), llamas, Aleutian Canadian geese, Emerald toucanets, elegant-crested tinamous, squirrel monkeys, Egyptian spiny mice, DeBrazza's guenons, spider monkeys, horses, American alligators, kusimanse, bat-eared foxes.

There was a visiting koala from San Diego Zoo in summer 1987.

 

@Ituri: do you remember when the Phoenix Zoo had African elephants? I first visited there in 1992 and have what I think was a memory of an African elephant there - is that possible?

@Blackduiker: When did the LA Zoo have beavers? Were they in the former aquatic section where the LAIR is now?

 

Phoenix had two African elephants (along with a single Asian, the late, famous painting elephant, "Ruby"). The Africans were sent to Disney's Animal Kingdom around 1997 to make room for Ruby's upcoming delivery which sadly ended in tragedy.

 

Cincy (or at least not on display)

San Lucan Speckled Rattlesnake
Sulawesi Ground Dove
Rhinoceros viper
Asian Vine snake
American eel
Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula
Galah
Standing day gecko
Eastern Rosella
Red-crested Pochard
Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
Himalayan Monal
Coatimundi
Collett's Snake
Coastal Taipan
African Pied Hornbill
Australian King Parrot
Oustalet's Chameleon
Emperor Goose

 

Woodland Park zoo
All the Nocturnal animals that were formerly there (Springhaa,Galagao,Tawny Frogmouth etc)
Chimpanzee
Polar Bear
Bison
Pronghorn
Reindeer
Rhea
Llama
Camel
Cougar
Sichuan Takin
Fennec Fox
Serval
Pallas wild cat
Secretary bird
Crowned crane
(Note I have not seen all of these animals at Woodland park zoo.)

 

From a combination of memory, old pictures, and looking at some public studbooks, here is a list of some animals that used to be exhibited at a few Texas zoos. Some of these date back to the 1950s, and it's mammals only for now.

Fort Worth:
Aardvark
Polar Bear
African Wild Dog
Common Eland
Spotted Hyena
Clouded Leopard
Snow Leopard
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Rock Hyrax
Koala
Silvered Leaf Monkey
California Sea Lion
Giant Otter
Giant Anteater
Springbok
White-Bearded Gnu
African Elephant
Sun Bear
Leopard
Amazon River Dolphin

San Antonio:
Red Panda
Aardvark
Tasmanian Devil
Polar Bear
Sable Antelope
Chimpanzee
Markhor
Gorilla
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Orangutan
Siamang
Snow Leopard
Gemsbok
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Coquerel's Sifaka
Asian Black Bear
Bush Dog
Koala
Harbor Seal
Klipspringer
Slow Loris
Mandrill
Japanese Macaque
Maned Wolf
California Sea Lion

 

*From previous post

Gladys Porter Zoo:
Polar Bear
Sloth Bear
Cheetah
Markhor
Jaguar
Clouded Leopard
Gerenuk
Japanese Macaque
Harbor Seal
Red Panda
Giant Anteater
Indian Rhinoceros
Malayan Tapir
Leopard
Striped Hyena
African Elephant
Mountain Tapir

Dallas:
Sable Antelope
Hamadryas Baboon
Polar Bear
Sloth Bear
African Wild Dog
Onager
Markhor
Spotted Hyena
Mexican Gray Wolf
Orangutan
Snow Leopard
Siamang
Jaguar
Clouded Leopard
Hippopotamus
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Red Panda
Malayan Tapir
White-Bearded Gnu
Wolverine
Leopard
Pronghorn
Drill
Asian Elephant

 

Blackduiker

Sorry I never answered this one David, but yes, I believe they were in the aquatics section's old Chinese Alligator pool. But I'm sure our former Curator Michael can give us a more accurate answer though.

 

The beaver were in the aquatics section. There were 2 exhibits where the front of the LAIR is now. Beaver in the first pool. Magellelanic penguins were there but sent out in the early ninties. and North American river otters in the second. When the otters left, baby grey seals were exhibited there until they were old enough to go into the much larger pool next door. The last animals in the second pool were the old alligators which bred and the female guarded the nest and offspring hatched. The last two pools had a variety of species, the smaller one was mainly for white pelicans and other sea birds and river otters were there for several years. At one time it also held an adult snapping turtle and several red-eared sliders. The former sea lion pool originally had young elephant seals in it . At one time, capybara were in both end pools and a group were in with the sea lions.

 

I wish London had many species but of those which I think could be viable if not quite realistic, I would say Asian greater one horned rhino in the Casson with an extended enclosure where the lawns are and spectacled bears either in the woods by the canal or in an extended enclosure where the anteaters and parrot aviaries are now.

 

Fresno Zoo:

Common chimpanzee
White rhino
River hippo
Western lowland gorilla
American bison
Tule elk
Polar bear
African lion
Alpaca ( not exactly sure, maybe they are still there but off exhibit)

Thats all i can think of at the moment, does anybody else know what fresno zoo used to have but no longer has ???

 

Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden:

Asian elephant
African bush elephant
Wild Turkey
Black Swan
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Kangaroo rat
Black Crowned Crane
Bear (can't remember if it was black or brown)
Dromedary
Zebu

Glad to have the Canadian river otters back!

 

@ david brown, when did oakland zoo last have river hippos and what now occupies there enclosure ?

 

Zoo Miami

European brown bear
European bison
Przewalskis horse
Sambar
Fallow deer
Blackbcuk
Cape buffalo
African forest buffalo
Bay duiker
Brindled gnu
Nile lechwe
Barbary sheep
Chamois

 

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo used to have Secretary Birds on its African Savannah.We recall seeing one recently we believe in the Atlanta Zoo.Does not seem like many zoos exhibit them anymore.Would like them to make a return to Cleveland.

Team Tapir

 

Find Chital, Follow Deer and Red Deer Here.

Fossil Rim in Texas have beautiful deer, including Whitetail. I too miss the deer in most zoos, but I believe most hoofstock do better on larger tracts of land found in the mega zoos. One of my favorite memories of Fossil Rim is watching a herd of wilderbeest (I'd say 20 plus animals) move together through a stand of trees.
The one animal I would enjoy seeing again in the US is the saiga. I saw them only once in the San Diego Zoo in 1988. I believe I read it on this site that there were no more saiga in any zoo, any where. I wonder why. They are so unique, not really pretty, with their big sad eyes and floppy snouts. I find them very cute. The species is also endangered, with a recent bad population drop in Russia.

 

I'd like Andean Bears to come back in one of the phases of South American Adventure at Beardsley Zoo, and hopefully they'll be in a nice exhibit, not the cage the bears were in for years.

 

Colchester Zoo:

Waldrapp Ibis
Marsh, Banded and Dwarf Mongooses
Dhole
Iberian Wolf
Mongoose Lemur
Cuban Hutia
Common Seal
Fossa
Snow Leopard
Jaguar
Fishing, Geoffroy's and Sand Cats
Diana Monkey
White-nosed Coati (I don't think they have these anymore)
Maned Wolf
Saddlebilled Stork
Wallaroo
Kea

 

Brookfield Zoo:
Indian Rhino
Asian Elephant
African Elephant
Hippo
Lynx
Pallas cats
Sand cats
Margay
Jaguar
Kudu
Sable Antelope
Wildebeest
Sitatunga
Dall sheep
Mountain Goat (They were on the original plan for great bear wilderness but they ended up being left out)
Forest Buffalo
Black Bear
Spectacled Bear
Spectacled langur
Walrus
Northern fur seal
And the one I want to see the most... Giant Pandas

 

I think I read on here that the Geoffroy's have made a come back, sure it's in the Summer 2012 thread!