Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

Geladas are meh, I see two troops quite regularly!

 

Worst regret, miss or gut punch in the history of Zoochat!

 

I saw this species for the first time recently and while I thought they were pretty, I didn't find them any more interesting than any other baboon (and yes I know they aren't "true" baboons)

 

But it wasn't so long ago there were none in the UK at all. and hadn't been for about forty years. Now present at Edinburgh, Colchester, Howletts, Dudley and Wild Place(Bristol).

 

That's a very enticing list, a quick skim for fun gave me only five species that I've seen.

I'm guessing my best bet regarding mammals is probably White-thighed Colobus (Colobus vellerosus).

 

Just realized how few people have actually seen the Tuxuci (Sotalia dolphin) in Munster and the Nilgiri langurs in Erfurt. The rarest taxon Erfurt kept at that time was the last Adolf Friedrich's colobus, a subspecies of Angolan black-and-white colobus, a species seen by many zoochatters.

I have seen about 20 of @Giant Eland 's list, but most of those were seen in the wild and in a few months I should have seen a few more of his list...

 

I saw the Sotalia dolphins several times in Munster and, prior to that, saw the same individuals several times when they were at Nuremberg Zoo.

 

This is an interesting topic as "few zoochatters" is such a specific but cleverly chosen term; many of you have seen dozens of species I likely never will, for example, because of the differences between the American and European collections. There's also the point about 'destination zoos' such as San Diego and how any zoochater that travels has seen those species likely; so the topic somewhat favors obscure species from odd collections. This is clever!

I guess Brookfield's pangolion is the only one I have worth mentioning for sure, and I've barely seen that.

 

Different continent means a lot. You would have never seen a platypus before if you aren't travelling in Australia

 

The most spectacular of all the black-and-white colobus races, in my opinion. I must scan my photo from Basle in 1973
I reckon I have seen 19 species from Giant Eland's list and have photos of about a dozen (most of which are in the Gallery). I think I have an image of a wild oribi somewhere, which would be worth adding if it's as good as I remember.

 

You are right, I didn't see it at Münster . However..... I saw it at 3 other collections : Duisburg, Ouwehands and Antwerp !!!

 

Ooo where are you planning to go in a few months??

 

For those of us that have visited Hamerton - The Southern Aardwolf (Proteles cristata cristatus)

Putting a slight twist on it all - Wild Coqurrels Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), Mongoose Lemur (Eulemur mongoz), Brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus) and various Mouse lemur species.

Oh and a single wild Malagasy Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus madagascariensis) - There aren't many left where I was based.

 

I've seen wild Cuban crocodiles if that counts.

 

3 taxa of bee-eaters seen by only very few ZooChatters ( at least I think so ) :
-Red-breasted bee-eater - saw it at Vogelpark Metelener Heide ( don't know how common this species is in the wild, otherwhile some more ZooChatters could have seen it in its South East Asian home-range )
- Black bee-eater - found in the much less visited West Africa and I took care for it at Walsrode in the 1980s.
- Cinnamon-chested bee-eater - quite small home-range in Africa and I took care for it ( and had the world-first-breeding with it in 1986 ) at Walsrode.

 

So did you work at a zoo or something along those lines?

 

Yes.

 

Cool

 

Vogelcommando is famous in Zoochat community for have been worked at Walsrode Weltvögelpark when this park have even much more zillion times of the rarest and most dreamed amazing birds of the planet, many of them now completely absent from captivity in the world. What makes much of us jealous