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ZooChat Challenge North America 2018

Discussion in 'Quizzes, Competitions & Games' started by jayjds2, 30 Dec 2017.

  1. geomorph

    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    175. Asian Yellow Pond Turtle Mauremys mutica
    176. Black Spiny-necked Swamp Turtle Acanthochelys spixii
    177. Black Tree Monitor Varanus beccarii
    178. Blue Spiny Lizard Sceloporus serrifer
    179. Burmese Brown Tortoise Manouria emys
    180. Chinese Alligator Alligator sinensis
    181. Common Green Iguana Iguana iguana
    182. Desert Iguana Dipsosaurus dorsalis
    183. Desert Tortoise Gopherus morafkai
    184. Dumeril's Ground Boa Boa dumerili
    185. Eastern Indigo Snake Drymarchon couperi
    186. Fiji Island Banded Iguana Brachylophus fasciatus
    187. Frilled Lizard Chlamydosaurus kingii
    188. Giant Leaf-tailed Gecko Uroplatus fimbriatus
    189. Giant South American River Turtle Podocnemis expansa
    190. Girdle-tailed Lizard Cordylus tropidosternum
    191. Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus
    192. Grand Cayman Iguana Cyclura lewisi
    193. Green Basilisk Lizard Basiliscus plumifrons
    194. Hogg Island Boa Boa constrictor imperator
    195. Hosmer's Skink Egernia hosmeri
    196. Indian Python Python molurus
    197. Jamaican Boa Epicrates subflavus
    198. Malaysian Giant Turtle Orlitia borneensis
    199. Mangrove Monitor Varanus indicus
    200. Mexican Beaded Lizard Heloderma horridum
    201. Mojave Rattlesnake Crotalus scutulatus
    202. Neotropical Rattlesnake Crotalus durissus
    203. Northern Spider Tortoise Pyxis arachnoides
    204. Philippine Sailfin Lizard Hydrosaurus pustulatus
    205. Radiated Tortoise Astrochelys radiata
    206. Red Diamondback Rattlesnake Crotalus ruber
    207. Smooth-fronted Dwarf Caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus
    208. Southern River Terrapin Batagur affinis
    209. Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata
    210. Sudan Uromastyx Uromastyx dispar
    211. Sulawesi Forest Turtle Leucocephalon yuwonoi
    212. Yellow-headed Temple Turtle Hieremys annandalii
    213. Yellow-spotted River Turtle Podocnemis unifilis

    Subtotals:

    5 crocodilians
    59 lizards
    99 snakes
    50 chelonians
     
  2. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Not to mention I didn't think to bold my lifers until after I'd started the list and when you copy and paste a list into the forum they put an annoying space between each line..

    No promises! ;) There are still a few species I've been missing at Bronx on my visits this year.

    ~Thylo
     
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  3. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    While I cannot give you a real answer, I can assure you there are a lot more than what I've seen thus far! There's even more once you look into the private trade, too..

    ~Thylo
     
  4. birdsandbats

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    I disagree. I think he needs to work if he suddenly shows up in the middle of the year with 410 species.
     
  5. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Trust me, I put a lot of work into getting those 410 species ;)

    Stats would be interesting, though.

    ~Thylo
     
  6. Vision

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    And I think you're being unnecessarily pedantic. Jay made a suggestion to add subtotals, but this was never made into an official rule. Why would you think people have to work? It's a game...

    Besides all this, I'm impressed by the total counts already! I don't think anyone got 400 (not even sure if anyone got 300?) in the 2016 British and Belgian/Dutch challenges with the same theme!
     
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  7. Mehdi

    Mehdi Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I totally agree with @Vision , it was never a rule to add subtotals and Thylo clearly has put lot of work in listing the species he saw; let alone adding their binomial names for all of them. As such I think you're being very pedantic as said before and very insisting on something that was never necessary in the beginning (nor is it now).

    Also does it occur to you that if maybe he just posted everything he saw, it's because he didn't have time; just discovered the topic or maybe waited to have enough additions to post? As the rules say: your word is your bond so doubting of someone only because he has been to quite some zoos (and even has photographic proof that he has been to all those zoos, look at the gallery); is quite ridiculous to me...
     
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  8. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I think you should stop trying to be funny, because this is just rude and not for the first time.
     
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  9. jayjds2

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    My reptile lifelist is about 625 right now, but considering my low frequency of seeing wild animals I’d say probably around 600 of those are captive in American collections. Based on my knowledge at what’s kept at zoos I haven’t been to (or off exhibit at those I have) I’d say a safe number is 850-900. The number is much higher when considering the private trade.
     
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  10. TeaLovingDave

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    For the record, and to save @ThylacineAlive from having to go to the effort of defending himself further against needless, rude and provocative jibes.....

    I am given to understand that the reason it took him until now to upload his total for the challenge is that until this week he was still going through his extensive notes and photographs from the trip he undertook throughout the southern USA at the start of this year - this being the source of the first 356 species in his list - as before uploading a total he wanted to ensure he had correctly identified those species which he had seen but which were unlabelled.
     
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  11. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Right you are! I haven't thoroughly gone through my photos for my zoo visits since that trip yet so the total may go up slightly due to any "to be identified" animals I've forgotten about.

    ~Thylo
     
  12. geomorph

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    214. Banded Water Snake Nerodia fasciata

    Subtotals:

    5 crocodilians
    59 lizards
    100 snakes
    50 chelonians
     
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    Well sorry...
     
  14. jayjds2

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    Georgia Aquarium 4/19/18:

    144. Pond slider Trachemys scripta (scripta & elegans)
    145. River cooter Pseudemys concinna
    146. Razor-back musk turtle Sternotherus carinatus

    Smithsonian National Zoo 6/2/18:
    147. Asian water dragon Physignathus cocincinus

    National Aquarium in Baltimore 6/3/18:
    148. Marbled prehensile-tailed lizard Polychrus marmoratus
    149. Australian water dragon Intellagama lesueurii
    150. Wood turtle Glyptemys insculpulata

    Subtotals:
    9 crocodilians
    37 lizards
    49 snakes
    51 chelonians
     
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  15. geomorph

    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    I'm surprised there weren't more hard-to-see-elsewhere species here for you, was it too packed to get around in there?
     
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    Your subtotal is off by 4 species! ;)
     
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    He visited beforehand, that's why.
     
  18. jayjds2

    jayjds2 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I visited earlier in the year (in March) and got about 20 species then.
    :eek: I don’t know how I continue to mess it up! Anyways, I believe I should have 41 lizards and that should fix the issue.
     
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    91. Two-Lined Mud Turtle Kinosternon baurii
    92. Cagle's Map Turtle Graptemys caglei
    93. Diamondback Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin
    94. Nile Crocodile Crocodylus niloticus
    95. Brown Basilisk Basiliscus vittatus

    96. Green Basilisk Basiliscus plumifrons
    97. Argentine Black-And-White Tegu Tupinambis merianae
    98. Red-Footed Tortoise Chelonoidis carbonarius
    99. Indian Spotted Pond Turtle Geoclemys hamiltonii
    100. River Cooter Pseudemys concinna
    101. Maputo Plated Lizard Gerrhosaurus major
    102. Burmese Mountain Tortoise Manouria emys
    103. Pancake Tortoise Malacochersus tornieri
    104. West African Sideneck Turtle Pelusios castaneus
    105. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko Phelsuma grandis
    106. Mali Uromastyx Uromastyx maliensis
    107. Steppe Runner Lizard Eremias arguta
    108. Frog-Eyed Gecko Teratoscincus scincus

    109. Green Tree Python Morelia viridis
    110. Rainbow Boa Epicrates cenchria
    111. Blood Python Python brongersmai
    112. Nile Monitor Varanus niloticus
    113. Veiled Chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus
    114. Warren's Galliwasp Celestus warreni
    115. Timor Monitor Varanus timorensis

    5 crocodilians
    29 lizards
    49 snakes
    37 chelonians
     
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    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    What a nice selection of reptiles for an aquarium! Lots of first timers for you, as they would be for me too, except Nile Crocodile and Diamondback Terrapin.
     
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