There are certainly more than 10, just mainly in lesser known collections. At least Roger Williams, which is AZA, keeps two. ~Thylo
Unless roughly have of all Asiatic Black Bears in America are confined to the Northeast US, there are going to be more than 10. ~Thylo
I've seen pretty all common species in European zoos. But if I consider 'wildparks' (which is how we call small zoos that focus on mostly native fauna, usually consisting of animals like deer and wild boars) there's one species that comes to mind. The beech marten. 47 institutions keep them according to ZTL, yet I've never seen one.
China: - Beijing Pacific Underwater World (Taiping Yang Ocean Park): might no longer be present. - Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park - Nanjing Underwater World - Qingdao Haichang Polar Ocean World - Sunasia Ocean World and Polar World in Dalian (Shengya Ocean World): might no longer be present. - Tianjin Haichang Polar Ocean World - Wuhan Haichang Polar Ocean World - Zhuhai Chimelong Ocean Kingdom Japan: - Port of Nagoya Aquarium - Wakayama Adventure World United States of America: - SeaWorld San Diego
This was my nightmare species for years - I think I've still only seen them a tiny number of times (definitely at Chomutov and Pescheray - off the top of my head they may well be the only times).
Quite a few. Most that come to mind. Polar, brown, and Andean bears Moose Caribou Aardvark (dang it Miami for having the Cape porcupine out in the rotation exhibit at that time) Snow leopard (almost did at Chattanooga, but it was a hot day, so none were out) Bonobo Sifaka (are these considered common?) Takin Maned wolf Amur tiger and many more... unfortunately, but will eventually
Bears are common no-shows for me, but rarely do polar bears not show up. Sun and sloth bears normally evade me, but I've seen both at least once. Same here, always missing from my trips. But to answer your question, they aren't common as persay, Ring-Tailed Lemurs, but they're definitely around.
I've seen beech martens in 2 places in France : Refuge de l'Arche (no longer here) and Legendia Parc. In the wild too. One even visited my garden last summer, I didn't see it but I found paw prints and leftovers. I've seen most of the species mentionned in this thread, thanks to the many French zoos I visited, but I've never seen and would like to see bonobos, asian black bear and sun bears.
I know that there are two at Cheyenne Mountain currently, and up until about two years ago there was one at Denver.
A few but not very many. The species is barley present in the private trade (that was what I meant, sorry if it was unclear).
Oh, thanks, I was only aware of San Diego and Nagoya. Are the others relatively new? This is maybe an example of a species previously extremely rare in collections and that increased noticeanle recently, it is? Would be nice to start a thread about such kind of species (or already exist one?) Regarding the subject of this thread, I see many people talk not only about common animals they never seen in a zoo, but also common animals they saw very few times or long time ago. For me, this animal is the racoon dog or tanuki. Seen only at Oasys del Teide, a fairly small zoo in Canary Islands, in 2003. Never since then (I also failed to find their enclosure at Pairi Daiza). However, according to ZTL they're one of the most commonly kept canids in zoos.
I'm not sure how common they are in the grand scheme of things (a thread from 2 years back mentions about 30+ AZA facilities), but African wild dogs. Which kills me, as they're one of my faves. LA Zoo and Living Desert here in CA have them but I haven't managed to make the trip yet. Once the current state of things simmers down a bit, it might be time to make that happen!
Oh, I’m also missing American Badger. When I went to LA Zoo either it wasn’t on exhibit or I failed to find its exhibit.
So there are exactly 10 bears in US zoos listed on ZIMS (I requested the Ursus listings), and then I have personally seen at least a few more bears within roadside zoos in the Northeast US. So definitely more than 10, and at least a few zoos multiple animals. ~Thylo
Well, the species which comes to my mind while thinking about this thread is... Leopard cat and to be precise - rather subspecies - "Indochinese leopard cat" (or just nominate subspecies) as I only saw Amur leopard cat and, well, Palawan leopard cat which belongs now to Prionailurus javanensis. I saw on ZTL that only about 15 zoos in Europe hold nominate ssp so it's not very common but still...
