ZooChat Challenge North America 2019

San Diego keeps a number of species but due to poor record keeping the identifications are for the most part tentative and different sources indicate different species. I have contacted the zoo for more information only to be steered to their website, which is, of course, useless in this matter. Until further clarification is made through research or by the zoo, it would be best to get Galápagos tortoise points from other zoos.

 

The worst part is San Diego is the only zoo I've been to this year that has any of the species. It'll be one species for now until the situation is clarified.

 

Agreed - keep it one species for now but should you start to see pure individuals, remove it in favor of them.

 

Binder Park Zoo - August 17 2019

Mammals
10. Collared Lemur Eulemur collaris

Reptiles
29. Dumeril's Ground Boa Acrantophis dumerili

Total: 62

 

Trevor Zoo
Mammals-
23) Japanese Serow Capricornis crispus

Livingston-Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Birds-
59) Meller’s Duck Anas melleri
60) Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana
61) Laysan Teal Anas laysanensis
62) New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae

TOTAL: 159

~Thylo

 

@jayjds2 , I forgot to mention that I currently have a photo of a Galapagos tortoise from my visit to San Diego 7 months ago.
Galapagos tortoise - ZooChat
I'm wondering if this is identifiable at species level for a slight update.

 

Brief glance, I want to say guntheti - but give me some time to be sure.

 

Forgot one:

Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Birds-
63) Hawaiian Goose Branta sandvicensis

TOTAL: 160

~Thylo

 

Mammals
11. Booted Macaque Macaca ochreata
12. Celebus Macaca nigra

Total: 64

 

Zoo Knoxville (again) - 08/11/19

Mammals
-No change

Birds
-No change

Reptiles
36. Ploughshare Tortoise (Astrochelys yniphora)

Philadelphia Zoo - 09/15/19

Mammals
11. Blue-eyed Black Lemur (Eulemur flavifrons)
12. Mongoose Lemur (Eulemur mongoz)
13. Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii)
14. Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)

Birds
12. Raggiana Bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana)

Reptiles
37. Flat-backed Spider Tortoise (Pyxis planicauda)
38. Pacific Tree Boa (Candoia bibroni)
39. Standing’s Day Gecko (Phelsuma standingi)
40. Indefatigable Island Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis porteri)

Current total is 66.
Philly visit was very rushed because I got there close to closing so I know I missed several species I would have otherwise been able to see. In any case, I hope to visit a few more major collections before the end of the year so I can reach a decent final total.

 

Potentially the last update of the year!

Bronx Zoo
Birds-
64) Yellow-Crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea

Reptiles-
75) Four-Lined Girdled Lizard Zonosaurus quadrilineatus

TOTAL: 162

~Thylo

 

Six Flags Great Adventure 9/22/19

Birds:

60. Moluccan cockatoo, Cacatua moluccensis

Total: 157

 

Do you have a species list of their ungulates?

 

I didn’t write them down, but based on my few photos and memory:

Common eland
Black wildebeest
Blue wildebeest
Addra gazelle
Addax
Beisa oryx
Scimitar-horned oryx
Grant’s zebra
Southern white rhino
Domestic water buffalo
Roosevelt’s elk
Blackbuck
Fallow deer
Hybrid giraffe
Sable antelope
Greater kudu
Various domestics

 

I just realized I forgot to say what zoo this was at! It was at Special Memories Zoo.

 

I heard they had Lechwe. Is this true?

 

Yes, now you mention it - they had some red (or whatever we’ve got) lechwe, though I don’t recall how many.

 

thanks

 

Based off of this new information, I have one new addition:

Riverbanks
76) Aruba Island Rattlesnake Crotalus unicolor

TOTAL: 163

~Thylo

 

Reptiles
30. Aruba Island Rattlesnake Crotalus unicolor