Rarest animals seen in a zoo or aquarium

Kagu in Berlin, Okapi in London

 

Here are some of mine:

Bald uakari, mountain tapir, perentie - Los Angeles Zoo
Chinese pangolin - Taipei Zoo
Risso’s dolphin, African manatee, smooth hammerhead shark - Farglory Ocean Park
Amazonian manatee - Atagawa Tropical and Alligator Farm
Spectral tarsier, Japanese rock ptarmigan, highland streaked tenrec, great slaty woodpecker - Ueno Zoo
Ezo least shrew, Japanese mole, Japanese water shrew, Japanese weasel, Ezo mountain hare, Australian glow worm - Tama Zoo
Bornean earless monitor, psychedelic rock gecko - IZoo
Goliath frog, Anderson’s salamander, Andean marsupial frog - KawaZoo
Harbor porpoise, Okhotsk ringed seal, flying fish, Mandarin dogfish - Kamogawa Sea World
Copper shark, bearded seal - Otaru Aquarium
Knifetooth sawfish, Kaluga sturgeon - Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe
Baikal seal, Australian ghost shark - Sunshine Aquarium
Pygmy killer whale, rough-toothed dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin, salamander shark, dusky shark, silky shark, tiger shark, porcupine ray, bentfin devil ray, threetooth puffer, and a lot more - Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

 

Why?

 

all i know is that there is a picture of one on there plan for a Madagascar exhibit.

 

Great.

Well, That doesn't guarantee that their is gonna be Yellow mongooses. They don't even live in Madagascar!

 

I feel like that's the story in the U.S. We seem to have a lot of similar species like meerkats, and ringtail lemurs, (And yes I do know that European zoos have a lot of those as well), But It's interesting since Asia seems to have a lot of Leopard cats in their collection, and the U.S. has none.

 

there are a few

 

Of what?

 

Omaha and Philly keep Black-and-Rufous Giant Sengi, not Golden-Rumped. Also Arizona-Sonora keeps Ocelot and Ringtail, not Margay and cacomistle.

There are Leopard Cats left in the US, just not many (if any?) in AZA zoos.

Unfortunately I highly doubt that import will go through, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for them because Yellow Mongoose are very cool. Are there any cusimanse left in the US?

I wonder whether the outdated taxonomic classification of many Euplerids as mongoose would make it difficult for zoos to import further vontsira or boky from European zoos?

~Thylo

 

Are you sure? I believe their cacomsticles are off-exhibit.

 

When I visited they kept Ocelot and Ringtail, of which they had many wild-rescues bts. I believe the last cacomistle died at Memphis earlier this year/end of last year.

~Thylo

 

Do you know of any Non-AZA facilities that holds leopard cats in the U.S.?

 

Thanks for the Information. On a Zoochat species list their was cacomstile listed as a behind the scenes animal, but I don't know how acuurate that species list is.

 

I don't know if any public institutions do tbh, I just know they're about privately. The Exotic Feline Breeding Compound might still have one, though.

~Thylo

 

I believe you're referring to my thread. I called Ringtails "Ring-Tailed Cacomistle" because that's a more appropriate and descriptive name for them imo. Sorry for any confusion!

~Thylo

 

Arizona Ring-Tailed Cacomistle Bassariscus astutus arizonensis
Chihuahuan Ring-Tailed Cacomistle
Are these posts subspecies? Most likely.

 

Yes as the thread says they hold two subspecies as well as non-specific animals.

~Thylo

 

@ThylacineAlive I was wondering. Is their any way I could see Cacomsticles or Margays in the U.S?

 

Well if Memphis did indeed keep the last animal then no on the cacomistle (would love to find out otherwise, though!). As for Margay I think Santa Ana Zoo in California has the last one on public display in the US.

I think I've asked this before but does anyone know the origins of the US Margay population? I always thought they were the same as the European population (Yucatan subspecies) but I've also been told they're different.

~Thylo

 

I am not sure what the origin is, but the Cincy zoo used to have a margay? Does anyone know what origin that was? It was In the old Cat house.