Favourite animals at Chester and top 5 you want them to get

I'm interested in what you guys think of this.
My favourites are
Komodo Dragons
False gharial
Reticulated pythons
Gaboon vipers
White lipped tree vipers
Jaguars
Sudan cheetah
Sumatran tigers
Eastern black rhinos
Cassowary
Spectacled caiman
Asian elephant
Okapi

Top 5 I wish Chester had
Clouded leopard
African,Sri Lankan or Persian leopard
Puma
Saltwater crocodile or Gharial
Black Caiman

 

Favourites:

Both species of orang
Sun bears
Jaguars
Babirusa
Okapi
Tentacled snakes
Writhed hornbill
Ploughshare tortoises
(though they're offshow) Philippine cockatoos
Yellow-faced myna
(though they're offshow) Lowland streaked tenrec
Montserrat tarantula
Mountain horned dragon
Crocodile monitor
Blue-crowned hanging parrot
Painted batagur
Asian elephant
Mountain chicken
Tuatara
Philippine scops owl
Eastern black rhino
Wattled crane
Pied tamarin
Mandrill
Aye-aye
Hyacinth macaw
(though they're offshow) Javan green magpie
*whispers* and the chimps

Top 5 I would want at Chester:

Pesquet's parrot
Western lowland gorilla
Indochinese clouded leopard
Electric blue day gecko
Lemur leaf frog

 

It would be really interesting if Chester got a pair of clouded leopards.I think they would end up in Islands.

 

Will probably only happen if they build a huge nocturnal exhibit!

 

Would Bornean bay cats make a good exhibit?

 

I suggest you look at what Chester works with in the wild,as if they aren't working with a species in the wild,or with an in situ conservation program the chances,of a species arriving are slim to none!

 

I'll have a look when I get the chance.

 

Favourites: blue-crowned hanging parrot, Boelen's python, bushdog, butterfly barb, golden mantella, Indian rhino, painted batagur, ploughshare tortoise, Sumatran orang, tuatara.
Wishlist: bear cuscus, Darwin's frog, lamena (Paretroplus nourissati), Madagascar dwarf chameleon (Brookesia minima), solitary lory.
I have tried to choose species of all types of vertebrate and my wishlist only includes species that have not been kept at Chester (as far as I am aware).

 

eastern bongo
western sitatunga, hope they will get a pond soon
Congo buffalo
Javan banteng
lesser kudu

wish list

kagu
lammergeier
dusky pademelon
Indian gharial
black wildebeest
mountain nyala
Spix macaw

 

Favourites: Asian elephant
Cassowary
Bali starling
Eastern Black Rhino
Andean bear
Tuatara
Sumatran tiger
And so many more I think I would be here all day if it tried to name them all hehe.

Five I want to see at the zoo:
Shoebill
Pangolin (very unlikely I know)
Gernuk
Tamandua
Another large predator species (bear, canid or cat any would do though I would like to see asiatic black bear in my dreams)

 

Favourites: Tuataras
Forest Dragons
Tentacled Snakes
Ploughshare Tortoises
Painted Batagur
Caiman Lizard
Bell's Anglehead
Montserrat Tarantulas
Mountain Chicken
Balabac chevrotain
Aye-aye
Sterlets in the sunken pool
Zhou's Box Turtle (offshow)
Bermuda skink (offshow)
Javan Green Magpie (offshow)
Wishlist:
Black-winged Starling
Javan Warty Pig
return of the Black Lion Tamarin
a few different small cats would be nice
& a cheeky giant armadillo on the end

 

False Gharials
Spectacled Caimans
Rothschild's Giraffes
Rodrigues Fruit Bats
Southern Cassowary
Sumatran Tiger
Sumatran Rhinoceros Hornbill
Sand Lizard
Bornean Orangutan
Okapi
Komodo Dragons
Leaf-Cutter Ants
Two-Toed Sloths
Giant Anteaters
Eastern Black Rhinoceros
Indian Rhinoceros
Chinese Water Dragon
Caribbean Hermit Crab
Smew
Red River Hog
Tanzanian Striped Tailless Whip Scorpion
Aye-Aye
Tuatara
Cardinal Tetra
Buffalo Leech
Golden Orb-Weaving Spider
Scottish Wild Cat
Cabot's Tragopan
Monarch Butterfly
Reticulated Python
Mandrills
Gaboon Vipers
Mountain Chicken Frogs
Sterlet
Arapaima
All Phasmid Species

The ones I would like to see at Chester:
Epaulette Shark (BRING THEM BACK!!!)
Andean Condor (BRING THEM BACK TOO!!!)
King Cobra
Hippopotamus
Pangolin (though unlikely)

 

I thought the Chinese Water Dragon would be at the top of your list Water Dragon?

 

My list was in no particular order but they aren't my absolute favourite species to see at Chester, since I see them almost every day.

 

Like what? As soon as you mentioned small cats I thought oncilla, rusty-spotted cat and black-footed cat....

 

I started off thinking Eurasian Lynx and Fishing cat. and that lead to increasingly unlikely thoughts of Oncillas and black-footed cats, and iberian lynx and marbled cats, flat-headed cats and bay cats....
In all seriousness, it is disappointing that a zoo as large as Chester has no proper small cats on display. (I say proper because cheetahs don't count.)

 

It's a shame they don't have the serval anymore.

 

They've got the wildcats

 

They're off show though.

 

Wishlist

Ratel
Brown Hyena
Tasmanian Devil
Wombat
Common Hippo

Or replace one of those with a small cat from Swampy's list earlier