Zoochat Challenge North America 2022

ZooAmerica, Jan 26 2022

Cat Got Your Tongue 0/6 required, 1/3 others
American cat species - Bobcat, Lynx rufus
(A mammal, finally!)

Parliament is Now in Session 5/6
1. Barred owl Strix varia
2. Barn owl Tyto alba
3. Long-eared owl Asio otus
4. Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia
5. Snowy owl Bubo scandiacus

Polly Wants 20 9/20
9. Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

Edgar Allen Poe 1/5
1. Common Raven Corvus corax

Slow and Steady 1/4
1. Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus

Sobek Six Pack 1/4, 1/2
1. American Alligator Alligator mississippiensis

One Drop, One Life 1/2, 3/8, 0/4, 1/4
1. Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum
Rattlesnakes
1. Eastern Diamondback Crotalus adamanteus
2. Pygmy Rattlesnake Sistrurus miliarius
3. Sidewinder Crotalus cerastes

Cold as Ice 1/3
1. Snowy owl Bubo scandiacus

Stamp of Approval 1/4, 1/4, 0/4
1. Bat species - Vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus

(didn't see American black bear, cottonmouth)

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Partial
3. Cat Got Your Tongue 1/9
16. Parliament is Now in Session 5/6
17. Polly Wants 20 9/20
19. Edgar Allen Poe 1/5
20. The Big Squeeze 2/5
21. Slow and Steady 1/4
22. Sobek Six Pack 2/6
23. One Drop, One Life 5/18
29. Cold as Ice 1/3
30. Champion of the Sun 2/3
32. The Steve Irwin 10/15
34. Stamp of Approval 2/12

Complete
11. Redemption Arc 1/1 Complete
26. Silk and Stinger 6/6 Complete
24. Pick Your Poison 8/8 Complete
25. Sharknado 4/4 Complete
26. Silk and Stinger 6/6 Complete
33.One-Zoo Wonder 1/1 Complete

 

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ZooAmerica, Jan 26

Cat Got Your Tongue 1/9 required
American cat: Canada Lynx, Lynx canadensis

Redemption Arc 1/1 required; COMPLETED
1. American Pine Marten (Martes americana)

Parliament is Now in Session 5/6 (so close...)
1. Barred owl Strix varia
2. Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia
3. Barn owl Tyto alba
4. Long-eared owl Asio otus
5. Snowy owl Bubo scandiacus

Polly Wants 20 1/20
1. Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

Edgar Allen Poe 1/5
1. Common Raven Corvus corax

The Big Squeeze 1/5
1. Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata

Slow and Steady 1/4
1. Gopher Tortoise Gopherus polyphemus

Sobek Six Pack 1/6
1. American Alligator Alligator mississippiensis

One Drop, One Life 1/2, 3/8, 0/4, 0/4
1. Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum
Rattlesnakes
1. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Crotalus adamanteus
2. Pygmy Rattlesnake Sistrurus miliarius
3. Sidewinder Rattlesnake Crotalus cerastes

Cold as Ice 1/3
1. Snowy owl Bubo scandiacus

Stamp of Approval 1/4, 1/4, 0/4
Mammals
1. Vampire bat Desmodus rotundus
Birds
1. Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

1/36 trials completed: Redemption Arc
10/36 trials in progress

 

Forgot to add the roadrunner to mine You saw the cottonmouth and didn't tell me?!

 

Weird; I thought we'd found it and you had just forgotten to add it like with the roadrunner. But I just re-read your post and realized I have no memory of seeing it. I think what happened is that it was the first enclosure I saw and I spaced what we did there because I was still trying to adjust one of the camera lenses. I dropped it from my list so I think everything is good now.

 

I tried but never found it, thought you must have since you were looking a little longer. I meant to go back in and look again before we left but forgot.

 

I finally got my butt out of the house and to a zoo! And what a better zoo to kick it all off with than the Dallas World Aquarium?

Dallas World Aquarium (Dallas, TX) -- 28 January 2022:

Cat Got Your Tongue? (1/9):

1. Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

Puny Primates (6/6): COMPLETE

1. Cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus)
   
2. Emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator)
   
3. Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)
   
4. Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
   
5. Pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor)
   
6. Pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)

Pretty in Pink (1/4):

1. American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

Rookery Roundabout (2/6):

1. African penguin (Spheniscus demersus)
   
2. Little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor)

Duck Dynasty (9/18):

1. Black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis)
   
2. Black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
   
3. Chiloé wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
   
4. Orinoco goose (Neochen jubata)
   
5. Rosy-billed pochard (Netta peposaca)
   
6. Ringed teal (Callonetta leucophrys)
   
7. Silver teal (Spatula versicolor)
   
8. Southern pochard (Netta erythrophthalma)
   
9. White-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata)

Parliament is Now in Session (3/6):

1. Barred owl (Strix varia)
   
2. Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)
   
3. Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)

Polly Wants 20 (7/20):

1. Blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis)
   
2. Bronze-winged parrot (Pionus chalcopterus)
   
3. Hawk-headed parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
   
4. Pesquet’s parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus)
   
5. Red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
   
6. Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
   
7. Yellow-headed Amazon (Amazona oratrix)

The Alfred Wallace (1/1): COMPLETE

1. Lesser bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea minor)

The Big Squeeze (3/5):

1. Emerald tree boa (Corallus caninus)
   
2. Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
   
3. Red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor)

Slow and Steady (1/4):

1. Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata)

The Sobek Six-Pack (2/6):

1. Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii)
   
2. Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius)

One Drop, One Life (4/18):

1. Eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii)
   
2. Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum)
   
3. Middle American rattlesnake (Crotalus simus)
   
4. Terciopelo (Bothrops asper)

Pick Your Poison (6/6): COMPLETE

1. Amazonian poison frog (Ranitomeya amazonica)
   
2. Brazilian poison frog (Ranitomeya vanzolini)
   
3. Dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius)
   
4. Red-headed poison frog (Ranitomeya fantastica)
   
5. Sira poison frog (Ranitomeya sirensis)
   
6. Summers’ poison frog (Ranitomeya summersi)

Sharknado (1/4):

1. Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)

Silk and Stinger (3/6):

1. Curlyhair tarantula (Tliltocatl albopilosus)
   
2. Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi)
   
3. Mexican fireleg tarantula (Brachypelma boehmei)

Release the Kraken (1/1): COMPLETE

1. Giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)

Champion of the Sun (1/3):

1. Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias)

The Steve Irwin (6/15):

1. Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei)
   
2. Lesser bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea minor)
   
3. Pesquet’s parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus)
   
4. Pheasant pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis)
   
5. Red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
   
6. Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria)

The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (3/12):

1. Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
   
2. Amazonian mot-mot (Momotus momota)
   
3. Red-breasted toucan (Ramphastos dicolorus)

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (3/3): COMPLETE

1. Brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
   
2. Long-wattled umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger)
   
3. Many-banded aracari (Pteroglossus aracari)

One Zoo Wonder: COMPLETE

1. Puny Primates
   
2. The Alfred Wallace
   
3. Pick Your Poison
   
4. Release The Kraken
   
5. Bona Fide Rarity Hunter

TOTAL:

Completed: 6/36

In Progress: 15/30 remaing

 

Unfortunately no you can only count one of these, per the rules for that trial:

I think any of those three species should count for 1 of your 3 spots, so doesn't really matter which one you go with.

For future reference, One Zoo Wonder can't be claimed for trials that only require one species. However, thanks to the callitrichids and PDFs you still got it anyway. Speaking of which:

That's a lot of Ranitomeya! I haven't even heard of some of those species. Are they all mixed together in one terrarium or do they have multiple enclosures?

 

Oops! That's my bad. I must have read right over that when I skimmed back over the rules before posting. I'll amend the trial in my next post. Thanks!

I did actually remember that rule! I just copied over my "completed" trials at the end and didn't think a thing about it... I will fix that as well.

It certainly is! They have a whole wall of Ranitomeya terrariums (one for each species) in the Cloud Forest Trek exhibit-- there was even a sixth species (!), but I could not find it.

 

Ah, that's cool. With Cloud Forest Trek being new that's probably how I didn't know about them until now. If you happen to have any photos some of those might be new species for the media gallery (I'm thinking 4-6 in particular).

Out of curiosity what was the sixth species?

 

Unfortunately, the terrariums were very misty and curve of the glass made for some pretty intense glare, so none of the pictures I have are really worth sharing. The sixth species was the mimic posion frog, Ranitomeya imitator.

 

Forgot to respond to this the other day, but that's an interesting statement to make. From the extensive research I've done, very few zoos have more than 1 or 2 species of mantella; the only ones I know of with 4 or more are Omaha and Detroit. That's why the target is set at 3 (originally it was 4).

 

I actually do have photos for most of the species as well as the general layout for the terrariums, which I'll be posting soon for my DWA thread.

 

Omaha's doesn't have four species in it. They have a sign that talks about mantella in general and has four species on it, but on my 2019 visit they had Climbing, Blue-Legged, and then one Splendid (plus Powder-Blue Reed Frog).

~Thylo

 

For some reason I forgot to copy paste an entry for bovine bonanaza to my last entry for Animal World.

Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo (1/25/22)
6) American bison (Bison bison)

Austin Zoo (1/29/22)

White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (2/3)
2) Grevy’s Zebra (Equus grevyi)

An Unbearable Challenge (2/6)
2) American black bear (Ursus americanus)

Puny Primates (5/6)
4) red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas)
5) common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

Three Little Pigs (3/3)
3) Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons)

Bovine Bonanza (8/20)
7) Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)
8) Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)

Redemption Arc (1/1)
1) Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Parliament Is Now In Session (3/6)
1) great-horned owl (Bubo virginianus)

Polly Wants 20 (16/20)
9) Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
10) Green-cheeked conure (Pyrrhura molinae)
11) African grey (Psittacus erithacus)
12) lilac-crowned amazon (Amazona finschi)
13) Military macaw (Ara militaris)
14) salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis)
15) Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
16) white-fronted amazon (Amazona albifrons)

Slow and Steady 4/4
3) Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger)
4) Texas tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri)

Completed Challenges: Ring ‘n ruff, The Big Squeeze, One-Drop One Life, Nighttime Birding, The Alfred Russell Wallace, Three Little Pigs, Redemption Arc, Slow and Steady

 

Those are the only two zoos I've been to with mantella frogs, so that would explain it.

 

Sedgwick County Zoo 1/29/22, 1/30/22

Have Trunk Will Travel
1. African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana)

White with Black Stripes
1. Grevy’s Zebra (Equus grevyi)

Cat Got Your Tongue
1. Leopard (Panthera pardus)
2. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
3. Tiger (Panthera tigris)
4. Lion (Panthera leo)
Eurasian
5. Caracal (Caracal caracal)

Planet of the Apes
1. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
2. Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
3. Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii)

Three Little Pigs
1. Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)

Another Dang Meerkat
1. Sedgwick County Zoo

Bovine Bonanza
1. American Bison (Bison bison)
2. Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)*off exhibit but visible from public area

Pretty In Pink
1. American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
2. Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Rookery Roundabout
1. Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)

Duck Dynasty
8. Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)
9. Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
10. Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
11. American Wigeon (Mareca americana)
12. Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)
13. Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Polly Wants 20
1. Regent Parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus)

One Drop, One Life
Rattlesnakes
2. Tiger Rattlesnake (Crotalus tigris)
3. Black-tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus)
4. Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi)
5. Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus)
6. Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)

The Steve Irwin
Birds
4. Regent Parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus)

 

I realized I've also seen them at Shedd Aquarium as well, and there were four species in that enclosure, too. Shedd no longer keeps mantella frogs, though.

 

I find this trial method very interesting. And since there’s a trial poking fun on how there’s meerkats “everywhere” I would have made a trial called “the little red menace” which is the red panda version of the meerkat trial. But then again I am not even participating so I have no right to give suggestions.

 

Meerkat was a weird choice though, given they're far from ubiquitous in the US and I usually only see them at 2 or 3 zoos a year. I would have made the challenge to see a bunch of Bobcats or Black-tailed Prairie Dogs.

 

Not weird when you consider that the “meerkats are everywhere” meme here on ZC. However that meme only exists because of how easy to obtain meerkats are on the Eastern hemisphere, where this site has a lot of members from. Still a weird animal to claim that it’s ubiquitous in the US.