Common Zoo Species You Haven't Seen

I've never seen a Giant Pacific Octopus. I'm in Australia, so we have a lot of animals that are rare elsewhere and few that are common elsewhere. For example, with octopuses, almost all aquariums here that keep octopuses have the Gloomy Octopus, but never the Common or Giant Pacific.

 

Common animals I never seen before?

Wildebeest
Hyenas
Kudus
Bongos
Takins
Indian and White rhinos
Giant panda
Asiatic black bear
Elephant seal
Any hartebeest
Dalls sheep

 

I don't think anyone would call Giant Panda, elephant seal, Asian Black Bear, or hartebeest common.

 

Those two are far for common. There are no Elephant seals in captivity in the Western World and there is one place with Hartebeest in USA and one in Europe.

 

Pittsburgh Zoo and a few places on the West Coast of North America keep them.

 

Interesting, thank you.

 

Thanks for the correction.

In general, I’d like to see more of these animals.

 

I wouldn't call Dall's Sheep common either.

~Thylo

 

Saw that Pittsburgh have two rescued animals. Do you know how old the male is ?

 

One of them (Coolio) died last December. Unless another male came in there’s only a female around.

 

Sad...I was talking exactly about Coolio. They don't have a long lifespan, afaik. Thank you for the answer.

 

I have mentioned this before I think but I have terrible luck with armadillos, every time they have been a no-show for me no matter what. I will win the lottery before I see one

 

I have never seen a bison in a zoo only in the wild

 

Asian black bears are pretty common in Asian zoos. I don't think they are rare in Europe either.

 

They are very rare in North American zoos, at least.

 

Now that I think about it, I've never seen an asian rhino species, grizzly bears, giant anteaters, or koalas.

 

I have never seen koalas either.

 

I don’t think I ever saw a wolverine before. And while they are uncommon in the west they I never saw a wombat as well.

 

About 20 european zoos have this species. Quite uncommon. Never seen one

I've seen indian rhino, koala, giant anteater, 3 armadillo species (including babies of 2 species) and wolverine

 

You can add me to the list of people that have never seen koalas before. I've technically seen giant anteaters, but I was too young to remember it, so I don't count it as something I've seen.