Are there any Pampas Foxes in captivity? There are probably a few in some unknown South American institutions, but I haven't heard much of them.
Just checked my hasty copies of the canid records from ISIS to give you a full picture of canids held in the USA. DISCLAIMER - bear in mind that these may not be fully accurate due to ISIS not always being updated, and these records having been copied 9 months ago now, before the site went down for the public. Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, Arizona keeps 5.9 Canis latrans x lupus 29 collections in the USA keep Canis latrans, with a total of 73.48.5 individuals. Wolf Park, Indiana and Dickerson, Montana hold 0.1 Canis latrans frustror each. Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, Arizona holds 0.1 Canis latrans latrans Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona hold 1.1 Canis latrans mearnsi Moonridge Animal Park, California holds 0.1 Canis latrans ochropus Texas Zoo, Texas hold 0.1 Canis latrans texensis 38 collections hold a total of 54.64.1 Canis lupus 4 collections hold a total of 5.2 Canis lupus arctos 22 collections hold a total of 61.59.4 Canis lupus baileyi 5 collections hold a total of 4.6 Canis lupus dingo 14 collections hold a total of 15.15 Canis lupus hallstromi 6 collections hold a total of 7.14 Canis lupus hudsonicus 5 collections hold a total of 21.19 Canis lupus lycaon Wolf Park, Indiana and San Diego Zoo, California each hold 1.0 Canis lupus occidentalis San Diego Zoo, California holds 1.0 Canis mesomelas mesomelas 28 collections hold a total of 41.73.1.7 Canis rufus 7 collections hold a total of 3.8 Canis rufus gregoryi Wolf Park, Indiana holds 1.0 Canis rufus rufus 28 collections hold a total of 33.38.3 Chrysocyon brachyurus 3 collections hold a total of 2.3 Cuon alpinus 3 collections hold a total of 6.6.1 Cuon alpinus lepturus 28 collections hold a total of 29.33.1 Lycaon pictus 30 collections hold a total of 50.41.1 Lycaon pictus pictus Red River Zoo, North Dakota holds 2.2 Nyctereutes procyonoides 17 collections hold a total of 19.19.5.5 Otocyon megalotis 7 collections hold a total of 11.8.2 Otocyon megalotis megalotis 5 collections hold a total of 12.9.1.5 Speothos venaticus Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, Arizona holds 2.1 Urocyon cinereoargenteus x littoralis 10 collections hold a total of 7.10 Urocyon cineroargenteus Moonridge Animal Park, California and Project Wildlife, California hold 0.2 and 1.1.1 Urocyon cinereoargenteus californicus respectively 3 collections hold a total of 3.2 Urocyon cinereoargenteus cinereoargenteus Audabon Zoo, Louisiana and Birmingham Zoo, Alabama hold 1.1 and 2.0 Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus respectively Red River Zoo, North Dakota holds 0.1 Urocyon cinereoargenteus ocythous Amarillo Zoo and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona hold 0.2 and 0.1 Urocyon cinereoargenteus scottii respectively 6 collections hold a total of 7.0 Urocyon littoralis clementae Santa Barbara Zoo, California holds 1.0 Urocyon littoralis santarosae San Diego Zoo, California holds 0.0.1 Vulpes corsac corsac 18 collections hold a total of 18.22.13 Vulpes lagopus 4 collections hold a total of 3.6 Vulpes macrotis 18 collections hold a total of 13.19.4 Vulpes velox 10 collections hold a total of 7.16.1 Vulpes velox velox 26 collections hold a total of 23.26.2.2 Vulpes vulpes 9 collections hold a total of 8.7 Vulpes vulpes fulvus 34 collections hold a total of 38.44.3.6 Vulpes zerda Interestingly enough, unless I neglected to copy their records, it appears there are no Pampas foxes or Tibetan sand foxes in captivity in any ISIS institutions worldwide.
I guess Santa Cruz zoo (Bolivia) isn't an ISIS member: http://www.zoochat.com/1426/pampas-fox-248369/ I believe I've also seen pampas fox in an Argentine zoo but I´m strugling to remember the exact zoo
Or, of course, I accidentally missed those records after all, I copied them all over the course of an afternoon hurrying to get as much as possible before it all went offline.
Having not much time to visit zoos, I've only seen Gray Wolves, Red Wolves, African Wild Dogs, Gray Foxes, Red Foxes, Coyotes, Fennecs, Bat Eared Foxes, and Dholes. The more generic stuff, to say the least. I'd like to see Maned Wolves, more Dholes, Tibetan Foxes, and, probably number 1 on my dog wish list, Bush Dogs.
Don't you dare complain about having grey foxes there are none outside of the USA according to my information!
Well excuuuuse me, Dave! That's a shame, then. We see them in the wild over here, so it's not exactly a rare sight anyhow.
The only canid species that to my knowledge haven't been kept in any zoo in the last decade are Ethiopian wolf, Tibetan fox, pale fox, Darwin's fox and short-eared dog. I don't think there are any crab-eating fox*, culpeo, South American gray fox, pampas fox, Sechuran fox, hoary fox, Indian fox, Ruppell's fox, Blanford's fox and side-striped jackal in North American or European zoos, but they are kept in zoos in their native ranges. * a three-legged specimen lives in Shy Wolf Sanctuary in Florida, but it isn't really a "zoo" unless using the broadest possible definition of the word.
Ha! Yes, you say 'generic' but there's two species there I've never seen and would very much like to! (and a third - the Coyote - that I've only seen on three occasions in the space of a little over a week fourteen years ago!)
In terms of ISIS collections.... Crab-eating fox Cerdocyon thous is held by 5 South American collections, which hold a total of 16.11.5 individuals Cerdocyon thous aquilus is held by Barranquilla Zoo, Columbia, which holds 1.1 individuals. Culpeo Lycalopex culpaeus is held by 3 collections in South America, with a total of 3.3.2 individuals held. South American gray fox Lycalopex griseus is held by Zool.Nacional Parque Metro De Santiago, Chile and Jardin Zoologico de Cdad.Buenos Aires , Argentina, with a total of 3.2 individuals held. Pampas fox As mentioned before, no ISIS collections seem to hold this species. Sechuran fox Lycalopex sechurae is held by Parque Zoologico Huachipa, Peru, with 1.3 individuals. Hoary fox Lycalopex vetulus is held by Fundacao Zoo-Botan. de Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with 2.1 individuals. Indian fox Vulpes bengalensis is held by 3 Indian collections, with a total of 3.3 individuals held. Ruppell's fox Vulpes rueppellii is held at 3 collections, one in Spain, Israel and UAE respectively, with a total of 8.4 individuals held. Vulpes rueppellii sabaea is held at Maktoum Wildlife Centre and Sharjah Breeding Centre, both in UAE, with a total of 16.14 individuals held. Blanford's fox Vulpes cana is held in 4 collections, 3 of which are in the UAE and the final one in Spain, with a total of 20.10.0.3 individuals held. Side-striped jackal Canis adustus is held by Johannesberg Zoo, South Africa, which holds 0.2 individuals.
I echo this fact - even in Europe, jackals are pretty few and far between, but they are common as muck compared to coyotes! As alluded to before, there are no red wolves or grey foxes whatsoever over here. In fact, only two non-USA collections hold the grey fox, even though they range into Central and South America.
Thanks for all the data. If the Spanish zoo is Madrid I'm afraid they don't have it anymore. It is kept in non-ISIS Israeli zoos. The culpeo, Lycalopex culpaeus, which you didn't mention, may not be in any ISIS zoos, but are kept in Quito (Ecuador), La Paz (Bolivia--not sure they still have it, but they did in 2008), Buin (Chile), Santiago (Chile) and probably elsewhere. IUCN says it is common in Argentine zoos, but I don't remember seeing it there. Perhaps I've just forgotten or it is one of the Argentine zoos I haven't visited. Unfortunately there are many zoos in South America and Asia that aren't ISIS members.
I can recall seeing crab-eating fox at London Zoo in the 1960s; they were housed in the old Deer and Cattle sheds. The species bred there too in three consecutive years (67, 68 & 69) but sadly the young did not survive. (In the early 1960s, after the Cotton Terraces were opened, the deer were moved there from the old Deer & Cattle Sheds; the wild dogs were then moved from the old North Mammal House to vacated deer accommodation.)
According to ISIS, Oasys Parque del Desierto de Tabernas holds 1.1.0 Blanford's fox. Yeah, ISIS lists a fair few culpeo holders - just forgot to mention them have edited my original post with a summary, but here are the full details: Culpeo Parque Zoologico Huachipa, Peru holds 1.1.2 Fundacion Zoológica del Ecuador, Ecuador holds 1.1.0 Zool.Nacional Parque Metro De Santiago, Chile holds 1.1.0
For me I have seen Red Wolves, African Wild Dogs and Mexican Grey Wolves the most. I have only seen coyotes in one zoo (Cosley) but I see them in my backyard very often.
Thanks for all the info TeaLovingDave! My list is (only captive animals, so wild foxes and coyotes don't count for me): Gray Wolves- Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo Red Wolves- Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, Roger Williams Park Zoo Maned Wolves- Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo Red Fox- Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo African Wild Dogs- Bronx Zoo, Roger Williams Park Zoo Fennec Foxes- Bronx Zoo, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Coyotes- Naples Zoo Gray Foxes- Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo New Guinea Singing Dog- Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
Generic! I'd love to see even half of these species. The only canids we have in Australian zoos, apart from dingoes, are African wild dogs, maned wolves and fennec foxes. Australia zoo did have red fox, but unfortunately I see them all too commonly in the wild; they're up there with cane toads and rabbits as the worst introduced species. I'd really love to see as many canine species as possible, particularly bush dogs, raccoon dogs, Ethiopian wolves, grey wolves and Tibetan sand foxes.
