Note: country not continent... Which country has the most zoo animals or high status zoo animals from it..? My money is on Indonesia: Orangutan Gibbon Tiger BoPs Tree Kangaroo Wallaby Komodo Dragon Elephant Two species of Rhino Hornbills The list goes on and on and over 100 million humans...
Thats a hard one to call Jeremy, so many countrys have many species of wonderful wildlife like China, Australia ect, hmm
You think its hard now I has going to say all time, i.e.: Haast Eagle and Moa's in NZ Tasmanian Tiger and Marsupial Lion in Aust Mastadon and sabre tooth tiger in US
Close call between South-Africa (mega-fauna, and all other) and Indonesia (orang's, dragons, birdlife).
I think maybe Brazil would be up there. It has two species of freshwater dolphin, boto and riverine tacuxi, three tapirs heaps of monkeys, alot of macaws and other parrots, hummingbirds, manatees, jaguars and loads of small cats and thousands of invertabrate species. It probabley helps that its so big and takes up most of the amazon.
I'd also "bet my money" on East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania) and parts of West Africa, like Cameroon. Category:Mammals of Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of mammals in Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yep, I'll go with Indonesia too. It's probably the only country on earth that straddles two zoogeographic regions (Oriental and Australasian.)
@docend24, NZ Jeremy: Interesting. So which zoos exactly keep Bornean Clouded Leopards-or Javan Rhinos...?
Every country with small islands or other homes of endemits would be havily favourited in this poll. Indonesia is a good pick, Eastern/Southern African countries obvious pick, Australia has an unique collection (but with a lack of big mammals/carnivores), Brasil has an unique ecosystem too (and more countries have interesting collections but their animals are not exotic enough for us; eg. US, western countries). I ommited China on purpose.
Well, I mixed wildlife and zoo animals. To be honest I wasn't sure about clouded leopard range Indonesian-borders-wise at first knowing there is former sub specie of this amazing cat but not remembering the exact ranges so I checked and tehn started thinking about wildlife not 'zoo animals'.
Gabon: Forest elephant hippo gorilla chimp red-capped mangabey grey mangabey spot-nosed monkey putty-nosed monkey crowned monkey Debrazza Monkey mandrill black and white colobus Slender-snouted crocodile/dwarf crocodile/Nile crocodile Gaboon Viper Rhinoceros Viper Green mamba Rock python red river hog giant forest hog potto angwantibo leopard spot-necked otter crowned eagle white-necked picathartes bongo sitatunga yellow-backed duiker bay duiker black-fronted duiker forest buffalo west african manatee giant pangolin cusimanse leatherback turtle
Kenya and Tanzania - for lion, cheetah, african elephants, rhino, giraffe, zebra, antelopes etc which are core of savannah exhibits in zoos. Also chimps. Congo has these and gorillas, okapis and other African rainforest fauna. But due to political situation, hardly any animals ever were exported from that country. Close behind: South Africa and Namibia for meerkats (of course ) India - for elephant, indian rhino, tiger, deer, macaques, peacock and snow leopard and red panda, Indonesia - for orangutans, gibbons etc. Brazil for staples like squirrel and spider monkeys, tapirs, guanaco, macaws and toco toucan. Or Peru (also Andes with condor and shores for Humboldts penguin) and Argentina (rhea, mara, etc etc).
In terms of interesting species per hectare, I would nominate Rwanda - mountain gorillas and some other interesting terrestrial animals and a share of the fantastic ichthyofauna of Lake Tanganyika. Otherwise, how about Ecuador? A nice little corner of South America and all the species of the Galapagos too. Alan
Canada and the US for bears (Black, Grizzly and Polar), wolves, Moose, Musk Ox (the two being underrepresented, IMO, but I understand they are hard to exhibit), deer, elk, Bison, Bald Eagle, Cougar, Bobcat, Lynx, seals and sea lions, Alligator, prairie dogs, foxes, and various birds, reptiles, fish. There's some zoos which house the really rare species, like the Swift Fox, Vancouver Island Marmot and Black-footed Ferret, either on display or off display. I will definately second Kenya, South Africa and other African countries, Indonesia.
A Javan Rhino was exhibited at Adelaide Zoo and Borneans will be exhibited eventually, they were only discovered a couple of years ago... It hasn't taken you long to get back to your pedantic, know it all best...
I think that Singapore had a Bornean clouded leopard until recently when it got sent to a zoo in Indonesia (I'm sure I read a post by Zooish about it).
