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San Diego Zoo Safari Park San Diego Wild Animal Park Species List 2002

Discussion in 'United States' started by UngulateNerd92, 31 Oct 2015.

  1. UngulateNerd92

    UngulateNerd92 Well-Known Member Premium Member 5+ year member

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    Inspired by these two threads, listed below

    http://www.zoochat.com/22/sdwap-c-1990-a-148464/

    http://www.zoochat.com/22/field-exhibits-ca-1985-a-63075/#post139185

    I thought I would share with everyone that in my library of zoo guide books, I have a San Diego Wild Animal Park photo caravan guide from 2002. Like the threads listed above, the purpose of this thread was to share a list of species from this guide book in their respective areas, you can read through these threads to see how the SDWAP (I refuse to call it Safari Park) and its collection has changed over the years. I hope you find this interesting. See species list below

    EAST AFRICA

    Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer)
    Lake victoria defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymus)
    East african sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei spekei)
    Eastern white bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus albojubatus)
    Fringe eared oryx (Oryx beisa callotis)
    Jimela topi (Damaliscus korrigum jimela)
    Kenyan impala (Aepyceros melumpus rendillis)
    Nile lechwe (Kobus megaceros)
    Roosevelts gazelle (Nanger granti roosevelti)
    Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum)
    Thomsons gazelle (Eudorcas thomsoni thomsoni)
    Baringo giraffe (Giraffa cameleopardalis rothschildi)
    Uganda kob (Kobus kob thomasi)
    Blue crane (Anthropoides paradisea)
    East african crowned crane (Balearica regulorum gibbericeps)
    Goliath heron (Ardea goliath)
    Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crummenifrons)

    ASIAN PLAINS

    Altai wapiti (Cervus canadensis sibiricus)
    Armenian mouflon (Ovis orientalis gmelini)
    Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)
    Indian axis deer (Axis axis axis)
    Western barasingha (Rucervus duvauceli duvauceli)
    Indian gaur (Bos gaurus gaurus)
    Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
    Indochinese sika deer (Cervus nippon pseudaxis)
    Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis russa)
    Malayan sambar (Rusa unicolor equina)
    Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus)
    Persian goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa subgutturosa)
    White naped crane (Grus vipio)

    SOUTH AFRICA

    Blesbok (Damaliscus dorcas philippsi)
    Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer)
    Ellipsen waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymmus ellipsiprymmus)
    Gemsbok (Oryx gazella gazella)
    Hartmanns mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae)
    Northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)
    Pattersons eland (Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus)
    Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa cameleopardalis reticulata)
    South african sable antelope (Hippotragus niger niger)
    South african springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis marsupialis)
    Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum)
    Dalmation pelican (Pelacanus crispus)
    Eastern white pelican (Pelacanus onocrotalus)
    Ostrich (Struthio camelus)
    Pink backed pelican (Pelecanus rufescens)
    Saddle billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis)
    Spur winged goose (Pelectropterus gambensis)
    Wattled crane (Burgeranus carunculatus)
    Western ruppells vulture (Gryps ruppelli ruppelli)
    White backed vulture (Gryps africanus)

    EURASIAN WATERHOLE

    European fallow deer (Dama dama)
    Indian hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus porcinus)
    Indian sambar (Rusa unicolor unicolor)
    Javan banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus)
    Lowland wisent (Bison bonsasus bonasus)
    Mandarin sika deer (Cervus nippon mandarinus)
    North indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak vaginalis)
    Pere davids deer (Elaphurus davidianus)
    Transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal)
    Turkomen markhor (Capra falconeri heptneri)
    White lipped deer (Cervus albirostris)
    Indian sarus crane (Grus antigone antigone)

    As you may have noticed in the lists above, geographic errors in exhibits where inter-specific mixing occurs is a common trend
     
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