Zoo animals you want to see but haven't yet

Yes, I saw that one their last year. On an interesting note, doing some browsing for another reason and came across one at this place in Florida:

Bears

Doesn't seem to be the greatest place as they have Ligers and describe them as very rare and mythical.

 

I'll have to make a trip up there. They're the only remaining bear species that I haven't seen yet.

I'm assuming they're just saying that to attract tourists. They need funds to help keep their "math-doing" chimpanzee fed.

 

Eh, maybe. Some "sanctuaries" aren't really sanctuaries and they just use that name to dupe the general public into thinking its a good cause. Most actual sanctuaries I've seen that keep Ligers, very much talk about their breeding and the fact it is unnatural. That is what leads me to believe that this isn't quite so much an actual sanctuary. Would be perfectly pleased to find out I am wrong though.

 

Does anyone know if they even have these in captivity.

 

They have been kept in the past at least - not sure about currently but if there are any aquariums keeping I'm willing to bet they are in Japan.

 

Giant Panda
Tamandua
Emperor Penguin
Jaguar
Snow Leopard (Only seen exhibits)
Dingo
Bongo
Pangolin
Platypus
Indian Rhino
Tapir (any)
Whale Shark
Gharial (any)
Cassowary
Clouded Leopard
Hyena (any)
Nyala

I'm going the Bronx Zoo over spring break so I'll cut a fair amount off this list

 

Black pika
Arabian leopard
Blandford's fox
Saola'
Chinese pangolin
Vaquita
Yangtze finless porpoise.
(Just to name a few).

 

This would be a very long list if I put everything (basically any carnivore or ungulate I haven't seen, plus a bunch of rodents and lagomorphs), but some of my goal species for the next couple of years are tayra, wolverine, any civet, dingo, aardwolf, bush dog, any badger, chital... also a different marine mammal (I've seen orca, bottlenose, beluga, and then the usual pinnipeds - harbor and grey seals, california and stellers sea lions, northern fur seal).

I've crossed two off so far this year - lowland anoa and male nilgai - and last year saw a fisher, ringtails, pronghorn, and american marten (among others). And I finally spotted an aye-aye in an exhibit.

 

I keep reading people's list's thinking I have seen most of what they want ,to see then I remember I am getting old now so seeing something new doesn't happen often now for me.

 

If I haven't seen it, then I would like to........

No need for a list....

If I had to choose one animal only, it would be Javan Rhino, but hey-ho.....

 

Most of what's on my list are fairly common in zoos, just not ones in my area or that I've traveled to I might have seen them when I was younger and don't remember. If my Ohio trip had happened last October, I would have seen all but the chital and a marine mammal.

Forgot koala, tasmanian devil, and platypus. I would have seen the first two in ohio, as well.

 

- Polar bear
- White cheeked turaco
- ornate birchir
- Short tailed pipefish
- Alligator snapping turtle
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Angler
- Puffin
- Harbour Porpoise
- Orca ( most pref. wild <3

 

Jentinks Duiker
Snub-nosed monkeys
Long-nosed Echidna (any species)
Kakapo
Black-spotted cuscus
Perriers Sifaka

Off the top of my head.

 

This is a list of the animals I immediately think of that I want to see:

- Greater Kudu
- Cape Buffalo
- Manatee
- Przewalski's Horse
- Nubian Ibex
- Markhor
- Aardwolf
- Common Vampire Bat
- Gambian Pouched Rat
- Black & Rufous Elephant Shrew
- Black-Footed Ferret
- Ring-Tailed Vontsira
- Greater Rhea
- Northern Cassowary
- Rockhopper Penguin
- Resplendent Quetzal
- Greater Flamingo
- Jabiru
- Painted Stork
- Laysan Albatross
- Peruvian Pelican
- Coscoroba Swan
- King Eider
- Pink Pigeon
- Namaqua Dove
- Hyacinth Macaw
- Inca Tern
- Black Crake
- Blue-Faced Honeyeater
- African Jacana
- Green Junglefowl
- Green Peafowl
- Congo Peafowl
- Red Avadat
- False Gharial
- Cuban Crocodile
- Tuatara
- Kihansi Spray Toad
- King Cobra
- Sea Snake
- Black Mamba
- Plumed Basilisk
- Great Barracuda
- Emperor Angelfish
- Lungfish

 

Thank you for reminding me, that is actually a species that I dearly want to see, the tuatara.

 

Many of these are common in zoos, so they shouldn't be too hard.

 

My list:
Any cave amphipod
Javan rhino
Any peacock spider
Socotra buzzard
Any Olingo
Pink pigeon
Olm
Margarita island Kangaroo rat
African black-bellied pangolin
Boodie
Sir david attenboroughs long-beaked echidna
Golden-necked cassowary
Otter civet
Venus's girdle
Oarfish
Olive sea snake
Ghost bat
Eastern falanouc
Pale mountains tree frog
Super VC-10 hap.

 

Really?? I rarely see a zoo that doesn't have them...

 

I think most of them wasn't ever kept anytime in a zoo. Some like oarfish are probably impossible to keep alive indeed.

 

Presumably we are splitting American Flamingo here, which makes true Greater Flamingos much rarer (from an American standpoint).