ZooChat Challenge Global 2023 - 10th Anniversary Special!

OK, fairenoughsee, but you can't blame me for including it based on the information given. I shall remove it from the list.

 

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary - January 2 2023

We're Going to Need a Bigger Trap - 3/10
1. North American Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum
2. Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans
3. Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus

Check Your Feeders - 4/4 - NOW COMPLETE*
1. Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
2. American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
3. Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
4. Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus

Thylo's Top 20 - 1/8
1. American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

(@ThylacineAlive I also saw Common Raven, can I also count that for the challenge as well or is only one Corvus species per player?)

Small but Will Fight - 0/2 mongoose 0/5 small cat 1/2 fox 0/1 red panda
1. Red Fox Vulpes vulpes

Let's Give This Another Go - (1)
1. Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana

Don't You Forget About Me - 1/4 bat 0/1 treeshrew 0/2 armadillo 0/1 anteater 0/1 sloth 0/1 sea cow 0/2 elephant 0/1 hyrax
1. Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum

Don't Turn On The Lights - 7/10
1. Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum
2. Eastern Screech-Owl Megascops asio
3. Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans
4. Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus
5. Eastern Deer Mouse Peromyscus maniculatus
6. Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana
7. Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis

Embrace the ABCs Challenge - 3/18 started
Bald Eagle: 1/2
Pond Slider: 1/2
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach: 1/2

Second Chance Red List Challenge - 4/4 VU 2/4 EN 0/4 CR 0/2 EW
1. Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus (VU)
2. Wood Turtle Glyptemys insculpta (EN)
3. Common Box Turtle Terrapene carolina (VU)
4. Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata (VU)
5. African Spurred Tortoise Centrochelys sulcata (EN)
6. Salmon-crested Cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis (VU)

Island Hoppers Challenge - 0/5 mammals 1/6 birds 0/6 reptiles 0/3 amphibians 0/2 fish
1. Salmon-crested Cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) - 0/4 monitor 1/2 gecko 0/1 Agamidae 0/10 venomous snake 0/3 python 0/4 crocodile/gharial (8 chelonian)
1. Spiny Softshell Turtle Apalone spinifera
2. Wood Turtle Glyptemys insculpta
3. Common Box Turtle Terrapene carolina
4. Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata
5. Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta
6. Common Map Turtle Graptemys geographica
7. Pond Slider Trachemys scripta
8. African Spurred Tortoise Centrochelys sulcata
9. Common Leopard Gecko Eublepharis macularius

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - 1/15
1. Common/Northern Boa (B. constrictor/imperator)

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - 1/3 North America 0/1 global
1. Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris

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In-Progress:
We're Going to Need a Bigger Trap - 3/10
Thylo's Top 20 - 1/8
Small but Will Fight - 0/2 mongoose 0/5 small cat 1/2 fox 0/1 red panda
Let's Give This Another Go - (1)
Don't You Forget About Me - 1/4 bat 0/1 treeshrew 0/2 armadillo 0/1 anteater 0/1 sloth 0/1 sea cow 0/2 elephant 0/1 hyrax
Don't Turn On The Lights - 7/10
Second Chance Red List Challenge - 4/4 VU 2/4 EN 0/4 CR 0/2 EW
Island Hoppers Challenge - 0/5 mammals 1/6 birds 0/6 reptiles 0/3 amphibians 0/2 fish
I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) - 0/4 monitor 1/2 gecko 0/1 Agamidae 0/10 venomous snake 0/3 python 0/4 crocodile/gharial (8 chelonian)
Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - 1/15
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - 1/3 North America 0/1 global

Embrace the ABCs Challenge - 3/18 started
Bald Eagle: 1/2
Pond Slider: 1/2
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach: 1/2

Completed
-Check Your Feeders
-One-Zoo Wonder*

 

BANHAM ZOO (VISIT NUMBER 2) - 3/1/2023

--ISLAND HOPPERS--
1. Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)
2. Black & White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata)
3. Blue-Eyed Black Lemur (Eulemur flavifrons)
4. Red-Bellied Lemur (Eulemur rubriventer)
5. Northern Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur occidentalis)
6. DuCorp's Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii)
7. Bali Myna (Leucopsar rothschildi)
8. Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta)
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--USBORNE'S SCAVENGER HUNT CHALLENGE--
1. Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus)
2. Black-Tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)
3. Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata)
4. Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
5. Blue & Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
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In retrospect, maybe one of the rules for the Island Hoppers challenge should have been that one of the mammals had to be a non-lemur.

 

Here's my first post for this challenge. All species seen at Australia Zoo since that's the only zoo I've visited so far this year.

Penguimonium

Fly the Coop

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Trap

How Many Toes Am I Holding Up?

Spoiler: How Many Toes Am I Holding Up?

Equids
1. Plains Zebra
2.
3.
Rhinos
1. White Rhinoceros
2.
3.
Tapirs
1.
2.
3.

Let That Ruminate

Spoiler: Let That Ruminate

Pigs
1.
2.
3.
Hippos
1.
2.
Giraffids
1. Giraffe
2.
Deer
1.
2.
Other

Sea Shepherds

Check Your Feeders

Spoiler: Check Your Feeders

1. Red-Browed Finch
2.
3.
4

Asian Songbird Challenge

Thylo's Top 20

Small but Will Fight

Pinni-Party

Carnivore Carnival

Spoiler: Carnivore Carnival

1. Binturong
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

See, Don't Touch

Spoiler: See, Don't Touch

1. Blue Poison Dart-Frog
2. Dyeing Poison Dart-Frog

River Giants

Let's Give this Another Go

Spoiler: Let's Give this Another Go

1. Brush-Tailed Rock-Wallaby
2. Common Wombat
3. Eastern Grey-Kangaroo
4. Koala
5. Red Kangaroo
6. Red-Necked Wallaby
7. Short-Beaked Echidna
8. Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
9. Swamp Wallaby
10. Tasmanian Devil

Don't You Forget About Me

Spoiler: Don't You Forget About Me

Bats
1.
2.
3.
4.
Armadillos
1.
2.
Elephants
1. Asian Elephant
2.
Other (Tree-Shrew, Anteater, Sloth, Sea-Cow & Hyrax)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Don't Turn On the Lights

Native Species Challenge

Embrace the ABCs Challenge (1/2)

Spoiler: Embrace the ABCs Challenge

1.
2. Asian Elephant
3. Asian Small-Clawed Otter
4.
5. Red-Necked Wallaby
6. Ring-Tailed Lemur
7. Tiger
8.
9. White Rhinoceros
10. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
11.
12.
13.
14. Saltwater Crocodile
15. Murray River-Turtle
16. White-Lipped Tree-Frog
17.
18.

Second Chance Red List Challenge

Spoiler: Second Chance Red List Challenge

Vulnerable
1. Aldabra Giant-Tortoise
2. Asian Small-Clawed Otter
3. Binturong
4. Brush-Tailed Rock-Wallaby
Endangered
1. Asian Elephant
2. Komodo Dragon
3. Rhinoceros Iguana
4. Tasmanian Devil
Critically Endangered
1. Elongated Tortoise
2. Fijian Crested-Iguana
3. Radiated Tortoise
4.
Extinct in the Wild
1.
2.

Island Hoppers Challenge

Spoiler: Island Hoppers Challenge

Mammals
1. Ring-Tailed Lemur
2. Tasmanian Devil
3.
4.
5.
Birds
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Reptiles
1. Aldabra Giant-Tortoise
2. Fijian Crested-Iguana
3. Komodo Dragon
4. Radiated Tortoise
5. Rhinoceros Iguana
6.
Amphibians
1.
2.
3.
Freshwater Fish
1.
2.

I'm Hot Blooded (for Cold Blood)

Spoiler: I'm Hot Blooded (for Cold Blood)

Monitors
1. Komodo Dragon
2. Merten's Water-Monitor
3.
4.
Geckos
1.
2.
Agamid
1. Boyd's Forest-Dragon
Venomous Snakes
1. Coastal Taipan
2. Common Death-Adder
3. Eastern Brown-Snake
4. Eastern Diamondback-Rattlesnake
5. Inland Taipan
6. King Brown-Snake
7. King Cobra
8. Red-Bellied Black-Snake
9. Tiger Snake
10.
Pythons
1. Burmese Python
2. Scrub Python
3. Woma Python
Crocodilians
1. Freshwater Crocodile
2. Saltwater Crocodile
3.
4.
Tortoises/Turtles
1. Aldabra Giant-Tortoise
2. Elongated Tortoise
3. Indian Star-Tortoise
4. Krefft's Turtle
5. Murray River-Turtle
6. Radiated Tortoise
7. Saw-Shelled Turtle

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge

Spoiler: Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge

1. American Alligator
2. Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
3. Boa Constrictor
4. Dingo
5. Eastern Diamondback-Rattlesnake
6. Red Kangaroo
7. Southern Cassowary
8.
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14.
15.

Rio Challenge

Spoiler: Rio Challenge

1. Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
2. Green-Winged Macaw
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

The Unbearable Challenge

Hall of Champions

Spoiler: Hall of Champions

1. Aldabra Giant-Tortoise
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One-Zoo Wonder

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter

Thylo's Bonus Challenge

 

This looks like a great way to organise this! May I ask how you do the spoiler drop-downs?

 

The rules for the Island Hoppers Challenge state that mainland Australia doesn't count. Tasmania isn't part of mainland Australia so I think I can still use Tasmanian Devil for this challenge.

 

@ThylacineAlive The wording here is throwing me off. Do I actually have to see any 2 fox species and Bat-Eared Fox and Grey Fox? Or would those two not normally count?

 

I imagine those are just being included there because they aren't part of the genus Vulpes and so otherwise people might have thought they don't count as foxes for the challenge.

 

I assume this would be because the 'true foxes' are included in the Vulpes, and Bat-Eared/Grey Fox are not included in the genus. So for the challenge, seeing any two Vulpes or Bat-Eared/Grey would count.

EDIT: Crosspost with May .

 

Snap

 

A question about the scoring of this challenge

Does this mean that there will be a 'winner' for each challenge not fully completed by anyone and that those challenges will count as complete for the person who had the most progress in the channel, or is the scoring simply whoever had the most fully completed challenges as well as most additional species?

 

Lake Superior Zoo - January 4 2023

Fly the Coop - 0/1 megapode 0/2 cracidae 0/2 guineafowl 1/1 New World quail 1/6 Phasianidae
1. Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
2. Cabot's Tragopan Tragopan caboti

Small but Will Fight - 0/2 mongoose 1/5 small cat 2/2 fox 0/1 red panda
2. Swift Fox Vulpes velox
3. Pallas's Cat Otocolobus manul

See, Don't Touch - (3)
1. Bumblebee Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates leucomelas
2. Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates auratus
3. Anthony's Poison Dart Frog Epipedobates anthonyi

Let's Give This Another Go - (2)
2. Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata

Don't You Forget About Me - 2/4 bat 0/1 treeshrew 2/2 armadillo 0/1 anteater 1/1 sloth 0/1 sea cow 0/2 elephant 0/1 hyrax
2. Southern Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus
3. Egyptian Fruit Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus
4. Six-banded Armadillo Euphractus sexcinctus
5. Linnie's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus didactylus

Don't Turn On The Lights - 10/10 - NOW COMPLETE
8. Southern Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus
9. Large-spotted Genet Genetta tigrina
10. Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata

Embrace the ABCs Challenge - 3/18 started, 2/18 completed
Bald Eagle: 1/2
Ring-tailed Lemur: 1/2
Tiger: 1/2
Green Iguana: 1/2
African Bullfrog: 1/2

Second Chance Red List Challenge - 4/4 VU 4/4 EN 4/4 CR 0/2 EW
7. Axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum (CR)
8. Tiger Panthera tigris (EN)
9. Ring-tailed Lemur Lemur catta (EN)
10. Cotton-top Tamarin Saguinus oedipus (CR)
11. Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata (CR)
12. Golden Coin Turtle Cuora trifasciata (CR)

Island Hoppers Challenge - 1/5 mammals 1/6 birds 2/6 reptiles 1/3 amphibians 0/2 fish
2. Ring-tailed Lemur Lemur catta
3. Sambava Tomato Frog Dyscophus guineti
4. Golden Coin Turtle Cuora trifasciata
5. Prehensile-tailed Skink Corucia zebrata

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) - 1/4 monitor 1/2 gecko 0/1 Agamidae 0/10 venomous snake 1/3 python 0/4 crocodile/gharial (11 chelonian)
9. Burmese Python Python bivittatus
10. Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina
11. Red-footed Tortoise Chelonoidis carbonarius
12. Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus
13. Merten's Water Monitor Varanus mertensi

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - 3/15
2. Reeves’s Muntjac
3. Laughing Kookaburra

The Rio Challenge - 2/8
1. Green-winged Macaw Ara chloropterus
2. Blue-and-yellow Macaw Ara ararauna
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In-Progress:
Fly the Coop - 0/1 megapode 0/2 cracidae 0/2 guineafowl 1/1 New World quail 1/6 Phasianidae
We're Going to Need a Bigger Trap - 3/10
Thylo's Top 20 - 1/8
Small but Will Fight - 0/2 mongoose 1/5 small cat 2/2 fox 0/1 red panda
See, Don't Touch - (3)
Let's Give This Another Go - (2)
Don't You Forget About Me - 2/4 bat 0/1 treeshrew 2/2 armadillo 0/1 anteater 1/1 sloth 0/1 sea cow 0/2 elephant 0/1 hyrax
Second Chance Red List Challenge - 4/4 VU 4/4 EN 4/4 CR 0/2 EW
Island Hoppers Challenge - 1/5 mammals 1/6 birds 2/6 reptiles 1/3 amphibians 0/2 fish
I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) - 1/4 monitor 1/2 gecko 0/1 Agamidae 0/10 venomous snake 1/3 python 0/4 crocodile/gharial (11 chelonian)
Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - 3/15
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - 1/3 North America 0/1 global

Embrace the ABCs Challenge - 3/18 started, 2/18 completed
Bald Eagle: 1/2
Ring-tailed Lemur: 1/2
Tiger: 1/2
Green Iguana: 1/2
African Bullfrog: 1/2
Pond Slider: 2/2
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach: 2/2

Completed - 3
-Check Your Feeders
-One-Zoo Wonder
Don't Turn On The Lights

 

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the California Academy of Sciences also has Lake Oku clawed frog (Xenopus longipes) in their Amazon Flooded Forest, as reported by @macaw-maniac-91

 

I believe @Kalaw had the Scarlet chested sunbird (which I do believe may well be the only captive population in the world of the species) down for the bonus and the Lake Oku clawed frog down only for the challenge relating to unique species on the continent. Therefore, while interesting, I don’t think it has a bearing on their totals.

 

Isn't it endemic to Hainan and Hong Kong?