Thread Of The Year: 2017 Submissions

Never Ending Story by @Zoofan15
Milwaukee County Zoo news 2017 by @pachyderm pro
Most exotic animals seen in the pet trade by @animalszoos

 

Does 2017 Big Year really count? It was officially posted December 30 2016.

 

I'll vote for cgsswans flies north
Funkygibbon - rhinestone cowboy
Marwell news 2017 ( not coz it's good, just because it's entertainment & the zoo is *****, whatever anyone wants to argue with me!)

 

I’ll allow it since it was made for use in 2017.

 

Pretty sure he’s referring to the most recent one in California this year.

 

Ok then.

 

Let the record show that the one private message vote was Chester Zoo News 1, 2 and 3.

 

I was counting last years thread as it carried on until this year, with some pretty great entries too!

Now if that isn't allowed then Sooty Mangabey gets it for his (I Wish I Was In) California thread.

And @TheWalrus I was counting snowleopard's thread from this year, I just always prefix his road trips with the word Epic nowadays!

 

That is not very original is it or should we say that great minds think alike

 

That would be me. Because the news on that site has been very important including the first successful birth of a Andean bear in the U.K, six tuatara, and the first ever breeding of Montsey brook salamanders outside of Spain. So in terms of news those threads have been full to the brim of it.

 

Belfast have bred Andean Bear in the past too.

 

You are of course correct.

The TV programme on Wednesday claimed it to be the first 'mainland' UK birth, which may have caused the confusion!

 

That is what I meant, apologises for confusion.

 

How to found a zoo by @Batto
Like A Rhinestone Cowboy: FunkyGibbon in Europe by @FunkyGibbon
2017 Europe Zoochat Challenge by @Vision

 

Friendly reminder to those who have not yet submitted: just over a week left to make your voice heard.

 

Here are the current vote tally’s; we have had 14 submissions and 42 votes cast.

7 Votes: How to Found a Zoo (Batto)
6 Votes: CGSwans Flies North for the Winter (CGSwans)
5 Votes: Like A Rhinestone Cowboy: FunkyGibbon in Europe (FunkyGibbon)
4 Votes: The Never Ending Story (Zoofan15)
3 Votes: None
2 Votes: Ungulate Taxonomy Revised: The Reasons of splits of G&G (lintworm), 2017 Big Year (Jbnbsn99), California Dreaming - July Road Trip (snowleopard), Marwell News 2017 (MagpieGoose),
1 Vote: ShonenJake13 and MagpieGoose Build a Zoo (ShonenJake13), Dream Exotic Pet Species (ThomasNotTom), Most exotic animals in the pet trade (animalszoos), 2017 Europe Zoochat Challenge (Vision), Hix Does Brunei (Hix), San Diego Zoo- San Diego Zoo News 2017 (Coelacanth18), Pittsburgh Zoo News 2017 (pachyderm pro), Milwaukee County Zoo news 2017 (pachyderm pro), (I Wish I Was In) California (Scooty Mangabey, Chester Zoo News #1 (Nisha), Chester Zoo News #2 (Water Dragon), Chester Zoo News #3 (Ag999),

 

The voting closes tomorrow at midnight. Please, get your final votes in.

 

Kipunji Quest: Lintworm Goes to Tanzania (Lintworm)
14 Years of ZooChat: A retrospective (pachyderm pro)
Surgeonfish, Tangs and Unicornfish in captivity (vogelcommando)



Hix

 

Very, very difficult. I tried to make it as diverse as possible.

- How to Found a Zoo (Batto)
- Ungulate Taxonomy Revised: The Reasons of splits of G&G (lintworm)
- Hix does brunei (Hix)

Honorable mentions go to "another thread about a new zoo" by nicholas, "Kipunji Quest: Lintworm goes to Tanzania" (by lintworm), "Why do we love zoos: a summary in stereotypes" (also by lintworm), and all the "Butterflyfishes/Bird-of-Paradise/Starlings/dwarf angelfishes/Bowerbirds etc. in captivity" (by various members like Vision and Zoovolunteer but mostly by Vogelcommando).