Europe has Zootierliste and US and Australian zoos are also well documented, but most zoo collections outside these areas go under the radar. Here's a start of an attempt to change that, at least for Pakistan. The following is a non-comprehensive list of mammals species, both current and former, part of Lahore Zoo's collection. Species previously part of the collection will be marked with (*). Dates are added wherever known. Marsupials Red-necked wallaby (no ssp. status) Primates Colombian brown spider monkey * - before 2012 Red-faced spider monkey * Tufted capuchin White-faced capuchin * (?) Vervet monkey ssp.? Patas monkey ssp.? * - before 2012 Mandrill * - ~1999-2005 Hamadryas baboon * - before 2012 Olive baboon Guinea baboon * (?) Rhesus macaque Angola colobus ssp.? Black-footed gray langur * - before 2012 Lar gibbon ssp.? * Chimpanzee (ssp. troglodytes?) Rodents Indian crested porcupine Carnivores Indian palm civet Small Indian civet Indian grey mongoose Striped hyeana ssp? * ~2008 Jungle cat Fishing cat * 2005 Lynx ssp? * 1913 Puma (no ssp. status) Caracal * 1913 Lion (no ssp. status) Tiger (ssp. tigris) Tiger (no ssp. status) Leopard (ssp. fusca) Leopard (ssp. pardus) Snow leopard * 1913 Wolf (ssp. pallipes) Golden jackal (ssp. aureus) Asiatic black bear (ssp. laniger) Brown bear (ssp. isabellinus) Smooth-coated otter (ssp. sindica) Proboscidae African elephant * - 1987/1988 -2017 Odd-toed ungulates White rhinoceros (ssp. simum) Plains zebra (ssp. chapmani?/burchelli?) Even-toed ungulates Wild boar (ssp. davidi) Hippopotamus ssp.? Guanaco Llama Dromedary * ??-2017 Bactrian camel * ??-~2017 Giraffe (ssp. angolensis) Giraffe ssp.? * 1970's-1994? Axis deer ssp.? Red deer ssp.? Sambar deer (ssp. unicolor) Sika deer ssp.? Indian hog deer Common fallow deer Domestic yak * ~1991 Nilgai Addax * ~1991-~2006 Arabian oryx * Chinkara (ssp. salinarum?/christii?) Blackbuck (ssp. rajputanae) Himalayan goral * Urial (ssp. punjabiensis) Mouflon (no ssp. status) Himalayan tahr * 1913 Ibex (species?) * 1913 I'll be adding to this list as I gather info, and will be attempting to make such lists for other zoos in the country.
@JINX, thanks for your elaborate collection plan for Lahore Zoo. Quite a list, including subspecies where applicable!
Nothing special, at least when it comes to more prolific species, compared to European institutions, but I figured a bit of perspective won't hurt since the whole Islamabad zoo debacle.
No, but the list of species for the region is quite good. I agree, where I put the latter down to administrative lapses, bureaucracy and dereliction of duty of officers both in zoo and municipality. Miffed: no one got persecuted fo it, which is a darn shame.
No Asian elephants were ever kept there? Thanks for the list, it´s always interesting to find out what zoos keep in less notorious parts of the world. If you have time and interest, would you also list species / domestic breeds kept at other collections in and around Lahore? According to wiki, that city has over 11 mio people so it should have more places with animals, maybe an aquarium, petting zoo, botanical garden with few birds I guess. EDIT: and if you have any recent info on breeding wild flamingos from Pakistan, that would be great.
I'll do birds in a while. Reptiles, especially snakes, would be much harder to find for multiple reasons, so that'll take a while. None that have been recorded, maybe a few would've been part of the collection back when it was still India, but far as I know, Suzi was the first and only elephant kept at Lahore. Karachi and Islamabad, on the other both have previously had Asian elephants. Yea there's a few notable collections in and around the city; Jallo Park with a captive breeding program with wild caught sambar deer, Lahore Zoo Safari where the Zoo's addaxes and probably the oryxes were transferred, Changa Manga Reserve Forest with a captive breeding and re-introduction program for white-rumped vultures, to name a few. I'll get to them eventually. As for flamingos; I'll look around for papers, but greater flamingoes are pretty common this time of the year in the mangroves of Port Qasim in Karachi and in smaller numbers elsewhere, all the way north to saline lakes in the Potohar plateau and they've been known to breed at Miani Hor on the coast of Balochistan as recentley as 2015.
