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  1. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Hi everyone. This is now my fifth thread!:D
    I've seen other threads similar to this but never asking this exact question. So, what are your favorite animals in your zoo. Feel free to mention more then one zoo/auqarium if you feel like it.:D

    Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo-
    Brazilian Ocelot
    Maned Wolf
    Chacoan Peccary
    Andean Condor
    Red Wolf
    American Rhea
    Yacare Caiman

    Mystic Aquariuma and Institute for Exploration-
    Steller Sea Lion
    Beluga Whale
    African Penguin
    Bonnethead Hammerhead Shark
    Great Barracuda

    Maritime Aquarium-
    American Eel
    Meerkat
    Sand Tiger Shark

    Bronx Zoo-
    Malayan Tiger
    Transvaal Lion
    Polar Bear
    Baringo Giraffe
    Ring-Tailed Mongoose
    False Gharial
    Volcan Darwin Giant Tortoise (subspecies of Galapagos Giant Tortoise. Infants)
    Indian Rhinoceros
    Pere David's Deer
    Malayan Tapir
    Western Lowland Gorilla
    Okapi
    Magellanic Penguin
    Lesser Mouse Lemur
    Rodrigues Flying Fox
    Giant Gourami
    Fly River Turtle
    Guam Kingfisher

    Smithsonian National Zoo-
    Bornean Orangutan
    Giant Panda (of course)
    Komodo Dragon
    Fishing Cat
    Clouded Leopard
    Sumatran Tiger
    North Island Brown Kiwi
    Japanese Giant Salamander
    Gharial
    Florida Softshell Turtle
    Double-Wattled Cassowary
    South African Cheetah
    Indian Sloth Bear
    Sri Lankan Elephant (probably not pure. The zoo told me they had 0.1 Indian Elephant and 0.2 Sri Lankan)
    Arapaima
    Red-Tailed Catfish
    Caracal

    Cincinnati Zoo (only zoo on the list I haevn't been to yet)-
    Western Sumatran Rhinoceros (of course)
    Eastern Black Rhinoceros
    Florida Manatee
    Bonobo
    Aye-Aye
    Cougar
    King Penguin
    Southern Rockhopper Penguin
    Little Blue Penguin
    Mexican Wolf
    Sand Cat
    Black-Footed Cat
    Bobcat
    Bongo
    Aardwolf
    Binturong
    American Crocodile

    So what are your favorites at your zoos?:D:D
     
  2. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    ZooAmerica-
    Snowy Owl
    Mackenzie Valley Wolf
    Rocky Mountain Elk
    North American Mountain Lion
    American Mink
    Ringtail
    White-Nosed Coati
    Florida Gar
    Texas Ocelot

    Roger Williams Park Zoo-
    African Bush Elephant
    Masai Giraffe
    Jamaican Fruit Bat
    Sichuan Takin
    Styan's Red Panda
     
  3. BeardsleyZooFan

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    Moebelle Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    The animals that I enjoy(ed) seeing the most.

    Louisville:
    -Babirusa
    -Malayan tapir
    -Amur tiger
    -Pygmy hippo
    -Ocelot
    -Rock hyrax
    -Southern white rhinoceros
    -Brown woolly monkey
    -Patas monkey

    St. Louis:
    -California sea lion/Harbor seals
    -Orangutan
    -Meerkat
    -Okapi
    -Jaguar
    -Penguin & Puffin Coast (Humboldt, king, southern rockhopper, Gentoo, horned puffin, king eider)
    -Caiman lizard
    -Cownose stingray

    Cincinnati:
    -Suci
    -Malayan tiger
    -Gorillas
    -Fennec fox
    -Aardwolf
    -Aye-aye
    -Leaf cutter ant
    -Cougar
    -Bearcat
    -Tayra
    -Bat-eared fox
    -Florida manatee
    -Indian rhinoceros
    -Now Arctic fox
    -All gibbons (buff-cheeked, Mueller's grey, white-handed, and siamang)
    -Sumatran orangutan
    -Red panda
    -Masai giraffe
    -Bonobo
    -Coquerel's sifaka
    -Polar bear
    -Mexican wolf
    -North American river otter

    Indy Zoo:
    -Asian small-clawed otter
    -African elephant
    -Cheetah
    -Reticulated giraffe
    -Amur tiger
    -Pacific walrus
    -Guinea baboon

    Columbus Zoo:
    -American bison/Pronghorn
    -Silvery langur
    -Giant Flying fox/Golden-mantled flying fox
    -Markhor
    -Angolan colobus
    -Polar bear
    -Bobcat
    -Wolverine (ironic)
    -Bald eagle
    -Mandrill
    -Tiger quoll
    -Green sea turtle
    -Woylie
    -Brown kiwi
     
  5. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    What!!:eek: I didn't know they had those!! Must take a trip.:D

    Also for the Bronx Zoo: North Sulawesi Babirusa and Gelada Baboon
     
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    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    It's okay, it hasn't been commented on for months so it's understandable.
     
  8. azcheetah2

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    Phoenix Zoo:
    Cheetah
    Lion
    Tiger
    Jaguar

    Reid Park:
    Lion
    Leopard

    SD Zoo:
    Jaguar
    Lion
    Grizzly Bear
    Koala
    Panda

    SD WAP:
    Cheetah
    Lion
    Ring-tailed Lemur

    I've been to other zoos, but those are my favorites.
     
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    Good Zoo:
    Grevy's Zebra
    Spectacled Bear
    Brazilian Three Banded Armadillo
    Red Panda
    Chinese Goral
    Desert Tortoise
    Komodo Dragon

    Pittsburgh Zoo:
    Amur Tiger
    Chinese Muntjac
    African Dwarf Crocodile
    Springbok
    African Elephant
    Eastern Gorilla
    African Wild Dog
    Gentoo Penguin
    Red Bellied Piranha
    Polar Bear
    Sea Otter
    Sand Tiger Shark
    California Sea Lion
    Striped Skunk
    American Beaver
    Phillipine Crocodile

    Columbus Zoo:
    Kodiak Brown Bear
    Woodland Caribou
    Alaskan Moose
    American Wolverine
    Bald Eagle
    Baltimore Oriole
    Sun Bear
    Asian Elephant
    Markhor
    Caribbean Manatee
    Brown Kiwi
    Huon Tree Kangaroo
    Koala
    Red River Hog
    Okapi
    Blue Duiker

    Cincinnati Zoo:
    Masai Giraffe
    Indian Rhino
    Sumatran Rhino
    Bactrian Camel
    Bongo
    Caribbean Manatee
    Little Blue Penguin
    Gray Fox
    Mexican Wolf
    Fennec Fox
    Caracal
    African Cheetah

    Philadelphia Zoo:
    Galapagos Giant Tortoise
    Aldabra Giant Tortoise
    Aardvark
    Short Beaked Echidna
    Rhinoceros Hornbill
    Cougar
    Hammerkop
    Addax
    Nile Hippo
    Nile Crocodile
    Green Anaconda
    King Cobra
    Cape Barren Goose
    Pygmy Marmoset
    Giant Otter
    Southern Ground Hornbill
    White Nosed Coati
    Brown Pelican

    Baltimore Zoo (Maryland Zoo):
    Arctic Raven
    Arctic Fox
    American Red Fox
    Sitatunga
    Lappet Faced Vulture
    Lesser Kudu
    Spur Thighed Tortoise
    Common Warthog
    Kirk's Dikdik
    Rock Hyrax
    Slender Snouted Crocodile
    African Black Footed Penguin
    Some kind of Cormorant

    I'll post some others later.
     
  10. BeardsleyZooFan

    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    azcheetah2- Reid Park does not have Leopards. Perhaps you are thinking of Jaguars?
     
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    Dassie rat Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I have been visiting London Zoo since 1965 and have seen various animals over the years. I enjoyed seeing the hoolock gibbons, velvet worms, markhors, gharial, douc langur and angwantibos, as well as Goldie the golden eagle and Bruce the Australian lungfish. My favourite individual animal was a hand-reared plumbeous redstart that used to come to the front of its enclosure and bounce about when I visited the Bird House. It was one of the friendliest zoo animals I have ever seen. I would like to see the aye-ayes again and I regret not seeing the Haitian solenodon in 1967.
    At the moment I like seeing the beaver rats, Panay cloud rats, coppery titis, naked mole-rats, caecilians and green wood hoopoes.
     
  12. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    MrOkapi- I believe the Cincinnati Zoo has Florida Manatees, not the Caribbean subspecies (then again, it changes all the time so I don't know what they have now). And where's the Okapi on your list?:p

    I would like to add Aldabra Giant Tortoise and Naked Mole Rat for Smithsonian National Zoo and Fennec Fox for Bronx Zoo (I just find the little guys irresistable:D)
     
  13. Moebelle

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    The zoo still has now one Florida manatee, Betsy, after Wooten was just recently freed back into the wild.
     
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    What do they do when all their manatees are released?
     
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    Just a note, but he has not been released yet. He has merely been shipped to Florida as of yet. He will live for a period at the Miami Seaquarium before being released.
     
  16. epickoala123

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    trotter's world of animals
    brazilian tapir
    meerkat
    asian palm civet
    ring tailed lemur
    eurasian lynx
    fishing cat

    basel zoo
    hippo
    tuatara
    great apes in general
    elephants
    lions
    rhinos
    snow leopards

    of course these aren't all of the zoos i've been to but these are just two of my favourites
    the animals i most want to see are manatees and jaguarundis
     
  17. ThylacineAlive

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    I swam with wild Caribbean Manatees in Puerto Rico once.
     
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    So he's going to live in a hell hole for his final times in captivity?
     
  19. Moebelle

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    They receive new injured manatees for rehabilitation each time they send other ones free. Some of them may come from the wild (Wooten), Homosassa Springs (Betsy), or other zoos (Illusion, Wooten-Miami Seaquarium). Wooten will be the 11th manatee the zoo has set free. The last manatee was Illusion who was sent free in November 2011. The last group together at the zoo was Lil Jo and Slip that left in 2010.
     
  20. Smokeycat3

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    Favorite Animal at my Zoo

    It's the tigers, no doubt. I love tigers but my zoo, the Pittsburgh Zoo, had a rhino birth in September I have to give props for that animal too. Rhinos are such great animals.