Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

Unfortunately turns out all the Genets I saw in Zambia were likely Rusty-spotted. But as @Great Argus noted my Meller's photos are up!

 

Awesome! I used the search function and couldn't find them, but I'm glad you saw one. Brilliant!

 

For some reason you usually have to search the same thing twice before it brings up photos, for some bizarre reason. I didn't find it my first try, I had to search again and then found it. Odd ZC quirk.

 

And, I've also found searching zoochat media on google images actually works pretty nicely too, probably would have worked better. In fact, I'll try that right now.
Yep, worked like a charm!

 

Off the top of my head I've seen Mariana's fruit bats (Guam Zoo), Philippine Deer? (not sure if they are rare or not, Guam Zoo, Talofofo Falls Park, Valley of the Latte Park), Booted macaque (Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo), Galapagos Shark (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)

I've probably seen the douc langur at Philadelphia and the Australian turtle species at the National Aquarium, but I remember little about those trips and I'm sure many other people have seen them. (I will hopefully be returning to Baltimore this summer however!) I've also seen whale shark and Oceanic manta at Georgia Aquarium, but I have no doubt dozens upon dozens of people on this site have seen them

 

Not as many as you might think, as much as they're talked about.

 

Fortunately, the Pomerode zoo also houses some specimens.

Thanks for sharing these data.

 

Are ornate hawk eagles common at zoos? Because I have seen one. Also, I was looking at some pictures of my second visit to the Itatiba zoo and I discovered that I have seen Brazilian mergansers.

 

The Dallas World aquarium has them; I don’t know about other zoos though.

 

I saw the white-bellied tree pangolin at the Memphis Zoo while it was on display. Too bad it was asleep!

 

They're around but not very many of them.

 

I know they have at least one at the San Diego Zoo, since I saw it the last time I was there.

 

Verryyyyy Special list! As an Invert lover I can say that I would love to see Acanthogammarus victorii, but any Acanthogammaridae would be epic. Sea spiders I want to see, and the other Isopods are super cool.

 

Looking through my old San Diego Zoo pictures from 2013-2014, I realized that I managed to see a Tongan Scrubfowl! It's not that good of a picture, so I circled the bird in red.

 

Less is nothing! It's an unique animal in worldwide zoos, but SDZ is one of the most visited zoos of the world. However the aviary containing it is in a remote and sligthly hidden part of the zoo so I guess that most zoochatter visitors to SDZ have not seen the Tongan scrubfowl, overall taking in account that the enormous size of the zoo doensn't make easy to reach the far corners of it (such as this one) in a single day, unless one skip many other parts.

I have seen this critter too, but with so bad luck that was nearby closing time, so darkness didn't allowed me to take a photo of it.

 

I’ve heard about where this animal is held but I don’t have a good idea is it in the red, black, or blue. It sounds like the old pheasantry but I didn’t think you could go back there.

 

Well now you can't anyway, they moved the birds and closed it off.

 

The scrubfowl has been in a few places over the years. It used to be in Owen's Aviary for some time in the past. When I visited in early 2018, she was about where the black circle is on that map. The pathway indeed has always been marked as non-public but when I was there keepers paid no mind to us walking down to the aviaries for a peak (I think we were the only ones at that time on both days). Sadly, as @Great Argus has said, I've heard the path has been fenced off now and the animals either taken off-display or moved. I'm not sure where the scrubfowl ended up in the end.

~Thylo

 

-I'm one of if not the only Zoochatter that has seen Equus ferus caballus (Namib Wild Horse)

-Chacma Baboon

-Antarctic Fur Seal

-Indian yellow-nosed albatross

-Desert Elephant

 

Nice!!

where and when for the Antarctic Fur Seal?