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Species you wish your local zoo(s) still have.

Discussion in 'General Zoo Discussion' started by Neil chace, 25 Jul 2020.

  1. red river hog

    red river hog Well-Known Member

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    I did this before, but I'm redoing it.
    Brandywine Zoo
    • North American River Otter
    • Cotton-top Tamarin
    • Red-handed Tamarin
    Cape May County Zoo
    • Tiger
    Elmwood Park Zoo
    • Black Howler Monkey
    • Guianan Squirrel Monkey
    • American Black Bear
    • Gray Wolf
    Naples Zoo
    • Red Wolf
    Philadelphia Zoo
    • Kea
    • Okapi
    • African Wild Dog
    • Aardvark
    • Klipspringer
    • Gerenuk
    • Bactrian Camel
    • Malayan Tapir
    • Polar Bear
    Smithsonian's National Zoological Park
    • Przewalski's Horse
    The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
    • Spotted Hyena
    • American Black Bear?
    • Chital
    • Tiger
    • Lar? Gibbon
    • Red Panda
    • Snow Leopard
    • Everything in the Reptile House
    • Emu
     
  2. Dhole dude

    Dhole dude Well-Known Member

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    They have had both species in the past.
     
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  3. MennoPebesma

    MennoPebesma Well-Known Member

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    AquaZoo Leeuwarden, The Netherlands:
    • Ocelot
    • Bearded emperor tamarin
    • Binturong
    • Bush dog
    • Crab-eating raccoon
    • Crowned lemur
    • Eurasian otter
    • Kirk's dik-dik
    • Laughing Kookaburra
    • Mangrove monitor
    • Marabou stork
    • Meerkat
    • Nile monitor
    • North American river otter
    • Poison frog species
    • Red duiker
    • Southern pudu
    • Trumpeter swan
    • Venezuelan red howler
    • Yellow anaconda
    Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen, The Netherlands:
    Species from the old zoo that I would have liked to see move to the new zoo, such as:
    • American wood bison
    • American moose
    • Chilean flamingo
    • Kodiak bear
    • Red kangaroo
    • Siberian tiger
    • Sri Lankan leopard
    Also, it's a shame that in the new zoo the combination of the Asian elephants and Axis deer didn't work.
     
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  4. Salt Merchant

    Salt Merchant Well-Known Member

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    Ragunan Zoo
    * Yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula)
    * Siberut macaque (Macaca siberu)
    * Muna-Buton macaque (Macaca ochreata brunnescens)
    * Kloss's gibbon (Hylobates klossii)
    * Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
    * Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)
    * Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)
    * Papuan eagle (Harpyopsis novaeguineae)
    * Green pygmy goose (Nettapus pulchellus)
    * Dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti)

    Taman Safari Bogor
    * Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus)
    * Black-spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus rufoniger)
    * Sulawesi palm civet (Macrogalidia musschenbroekii)
    * Pagai Island macaque (Macaca pagensis)
    * Bay cat (Catopuma badia)
    * Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi)
    * Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
    * Snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
    * Liger (Panthera leo × Panthera tigris)
    * Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
    * Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus)
    * Whistling kite (Haliastur sphenurus)
    * Blyth's hawk-eagle (Nisaetus alboniger)
    * Common crane (Grus grus)

    Surabaya Zoo
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    Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica)
    * Grizzled tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)
    * Olive baboon (Papio anubis)
    * Turkmenian kulan (Equus hemionus kulan)
    * Dhole (Cuon alpinus)
    * Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana)
    * Magnificent riflebird (Ptiloris magnificus)
    * Sulawesi masked owl (Tyto rosenbergii)
    * Von der Decken's hornbill (Tockus deckeni)

    Taman Safari Prigen
    * Southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)
    * Maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
    * Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
     
  5. Azamat Shackleford

    Azamat Shackleford Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    No way, when did they have them? :eek:
     
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  6. pendraig_milnerae

    pendraig_milnerae Well-Known Member

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    It would be nice if Port Lympne (Aspinall Foundation) still had:
    • Brown Hyena
    • Sumatran Rhinoceros
    • African Bush Elephant
    • American Bison
    • Pygmy Marmoset
    • Eastern Bongo
    • Any of the Discovery Zone reptiles and amphibians (in particular Red-Footed Tortoise and Rhinoceros Iguana)
     
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  7. LowlandGorilla4

    LowlandGorilla4 Well-Known Member

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    Detroit zoo

    Elephants
    Painted Dogs
    Snow leopards
    Mountain Lions
    Hippos

    Although the elephants would need a new exhibit seeing as the rhinos have taken their old one
     
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  8. Salt Merchant

    Salt Merchant Well-Known Member

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    I accidently wrote the black rhinoceros. When I wrote the list, I also think about the something else including the rhinos. So I didn't focused on the list and write the thing I think of, which is the black rhinoceros.
     
  9. DaLilFishie

    DaLilFishie Well-Known Member

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    Not my local zoo, but I wish the Osaka Aquarium still had sea otters and largehead hairtails. I would have loved to see them. They also used to have finless porpoises, but i'm kind of glad they're gone, their exhibit was pretty depressing. It was far too small.
     
  10. evilmonkey239

    evilmonkey239 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Detroit Zoo:
    • Meerkat
    • Common hippopotamus
    • Sichuan takin
    • Lion-tailed macaque
    • White-handed gibbon
    • Black-and-white ruffed lemur
    • African wild dog
    • Syrian brown bear
    • Bush dog
    • Capybara
      Brazilian tapir
    Toledo Zoo
    • Lion
    • Sloth bear
    • Chimpanzee
    • Slender-snouted crocodile
    • African wild dog
     
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  11. ralph

    ralph Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Some species I've 'lost' in Rotterdam Zoo in ~20 years of visits that I really miss

    - Agile wallaby
    - Potto
    - Greater spot-nosed monkey
    - Swift fox
    - Maned wolf
    - Sea otter
    - Asian golden cat
    - Rusty spotted cat
    - Babirussa
    - Lowland anoa
    - Thomsons gazelle
    - Roadrunner
    - The reptile/fish sections of the 'Riviera Hall
    - Bonnethead shark
     
  12. ralph

    ralph Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Cant edit my last post but I should really add the klipspringer to that list.
     
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  13. jwer

    jwer Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Many of these I remember arriving :( quite a few didn’t even last that long I believe...
     
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  14. CheeseChameleon1945

    CheeseChameleon1945 Well-Known Member

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    Swift foxes are very pretty foxes, and I think my favorite fox in North america.
     
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  15. Shellheart

    Shellheart Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    San Diego Zoo
    Kiwi
    African Forest Buffalo
    Caracal
    Dall's Sheep
    Striped Hyena
    Bharal
    Japanese Serow
    (So many more that I won't list for the sake of length... :()

    San Diego Zoo Safari Park
    Northern White Rhinoceros
    Saiga
    Wisent

    SeaWorld San Diego
    Commerson's dolphin
    Gray Whale
     
  16. imaginarius

    imaginarius Well-Known Member

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    I don’t think they’ll be getting Northern White Rhinoceros back :(
     
  17. JigerofLemuria

    JigerofLemuria Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I have a few examples myself;
    Barcelona Zoo;
    • Giant pangolin
    • Babirusa
    • Gold-headed quetzal
    • Cuban crocodile (currently off-exhibit)
    • Rhinoceros/great Indian hornbill
    • Southern tamandua
    • Eurasian lynx
    • Cougar
    • Snow leopard
    • Asiatic black bear
    • American black bear
     
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  18. GaryA

    GaryA Well-Known Member

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    Pretty much all of the species Marwell in the UK has gone out of since John Knowles left, so most of them, sadly.

    And London Zoo, to restore all the pachyderms, so I get to see Javan and Sumatran Rhinos as otherwise, no chance.

    Plus thylacine and quagga if we are going into the realms of fantasy!
     
  19. Westcoastperson

    Westcoastperson Well-Known Member

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    Los Angeles Zoo
    Guar
    Polar Bear
    Grey Seal
    Sloth Bear
    cheetah
    Red Panda
    Greater One-Horned Rhino

    San Diego Zoo
    Giant Panda
    African Wild Dog
    Sumatran Rhino
     
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  20. CheeseChameleon1945

    CheeseChameleon1945 Well-Known Member

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    What? :confused: