Thought it would be interesting to bump this thread with a few updates:
The Marsh Mongoose and Chinese Golden Cat have been entirely lost from the UK - and in the case of the latter, from European collections in total.
The Senegal Galago disappeared from UK collections for a time after the last individual at Glasgow Amazonia died, but has now returned due to onshow individuals at Cotswold Wildlife Park and Suffolk Wildlife Park.
Since I wrote this, one of the HWP pair died; however, the collection does now have a pair once again and further individuals are on-display at Wildwood and Axe Valley. As such, the species is more secure in UK collections than it has been for many years.
Unfortunately, this individual - the last in Europe - passed away in April 2014.
The Heythrop individual passed away in 2016. Inca is still alive, last I heard - but is extremely geriatric. Can't be long now, surely......
Due to the closure of RSCC, we are now once again down to a single Echidna in the UK - the old fellow at Paignton is still chugging along and when I last saw him in December 2016 seemed as active as ever
Not too long after I posted this, Chester Zoo went into the Northern Luzon species, which eventually went on-display in autumn 2016.
The last Arabian Mountain Gazelle died in December 2015; this marked the loss of the species from European collections.
As far as Striped Hyena go, I believe the last remaining Arabian animal at Twycross is still at the collection but remains suplus and as such may leave at any time; otherwise, the only individuals in the UK are a singleton at Belfast, which arrived from Suffolk Wildlife Park, and the elderly individuals at Heythrop.
The Wallaby has remained absent from the UK, as has the Viscacha - however, as the former species is faring better on the continent than they have for some time I would not rule out a return at some point. The latter species is all-but gone from Europe now, sadly.
The Greater Egyptian Jerboa has returned to public display in the UK, at Wild Animal Adventure in Stockton; interestingly enough, the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa has also now re-appeared in the UK, being displayed at Tropical World Leeds.
The Swamp Monkey is still present at Paignton.
My predictions here were rather inaccurate - only the species highlighted in bold within the quote are now absent from the UK to the best of my knowledge; however, the Bolivian Night Monkey may well be gone now given the fact that Tropical World was down to a single geriatric individual as of April 2016 when I last visited.
It is worth noting that the Brush-tailed Bettong are a recent loss; I believe the remaining individuals at SLWAP were sent as a job lot to supplement the group at Duisberg.
Taking into consideration the ages of the individuals concerned, breeding successes and other changes in the collections holding the species I listed, and being a little *less* pessimistic than I was previously, I would guess that the likeliest species of those mentioned above to be lost from the UK in the coming year would be the following:
Mona Monkey - only a single geriatric individual held at the Welsh Ape/Monkey Sanctuary, and by all accounts too infirm to display. May already be deceased.
Bolivian Night Monkey - as noted above, Tropical World holds only a single geriatric individual.
Southern Aardwolf - the last individual in Europe is getting pretty old; I believe he was born in 1999 and as such is approaching the lifespan record for the species - I think the only two individuals to have reached a higher age were his mother, and the last geriatric male at Twycross.
Ethiopian Eagle Owl - the last individual in Europe - held at Rodbaston since the closure of the WOT - is now off-display, extremely old and increasingly infirm.
Mitred Surili - a small handful of individuals are still held at Howletts; however, given the age of the individuals and the tendency of the collection to shed oddities lately, I think they are reasonably likely to disappear from the UK and thus Europe.
The last remaining St Vincent Amazon is still alive, to the best of my knowledge.
The Marsh Mongoose and Chinese Golden Cat have been entirely lost from the UK - and in the case of the latter, from European collections in total.
The Senegal Galago disappeared from UK collections for a time after the last individual at Glasgow Amazonia died, but has now returned due to onshow individuals at Cotswold Wildlife Park and Suffolk Wildlife Park.
Since I wrote this, one of the HWP pair died; however, the collection does now have a pair once again and further individuals are on-display at Wildwood and Axe Valley. As such, the species is more secure in UK collections than it has been for many years.
Unfortunately, this individual - the last in Europe - passed away in April 2014.
The Heythrop individual passed away in 2016. Inca is still alive, last I heard - but is extremely geriatric. Can't be long now, surely......
Due to the closure of RSCC, we are now once again down to a single Echidna in the UK - the old fellow at Paignton is still chugging along and when I last saw him in December 2016 seemed as active as ever
Not too long after I posted this, Chester Zoo went into the Northern Luzon species, which eventually went on-display in autumn 2016.
The last Arabian Mountain Gazelle died in December 2015; this marked the loss of the species from European collections.
As far as Striped Hyena go, I believe the last remaining Arabian animal at Twycross is still at the collection but remains suplus and as such may leave at any time; otherwise, the only individuals in the UK are a singleton at Belfast, which arrived from Suffolk Wildlife Park, and the elderly individuals at Heythrop.
The Wallaby has remained absent from the UK, as has the Viscacha - however, as the former species is faring better on the continent than they have for some time I would not rule out a return at some point. The latter species is all-but gone from Europe now, sadly.
The Greater Egyptian Jerboa has returned to public display in the UK, at Wild Animal Adventure in Stockton; interestingly enough, the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa has also now re-appeared in the UK, being displayed at Tropical World Leeds.
The Swamp Monkey is still present at Paignton.
My predictions here were rather inaccurate - only the species highlighted in bold within the quote are now absent from the UK to the best of my knowledge; however, the Bolivian Night Monkey may well be gone now given the fact that Tropical World was down to a single geriatric individual as of April 2016 when I last visited.
It is worth noting that the Brush-tailed Bettong are a recent loss; I believe the remaining individuals at SLWAP were sent as a job lot to supplement the group at Duisberg.
Taking into consideration the ages of the individuals concerned, breeding successes and other changes in the collections holding the species I listed, and being a little *less* pessimistic than I was previously, I would guess that the likeliest species of those mentioned above to be lost from the UK in the coming year would be the following:
Mona Monkey - only a single geriatric individual held at the Welsh Ape/Monkey Sanctuary, and by all accounts too infirm to display. May already be deceased.
Bolivian Night Monkey - as noted above, Tropical World holds only a single geriatric individual.
Southern Aardwolf - the last individual in Europe is getting pretty old; I believe he was born in 1999 and as such is approaching the lifespan record for the species - I think the only two individuals to have reached a higher age were his mother, and the last geriatric male at Twycross.
Ethiopian Eagle Owl - the last individual in Europe - held at Rodbaston since the closure of the WOT - is now off-display, extremely old and increasingly infirm.
Mitred Surili - a small handful of individuals are still held at Howletts; however, given the age of the individuals and the tendency of the collection to shed oddities lately, I think they are reasonably likely to disappear from the UK and thus Europe.
The last remaining St Vincent Amazon is still alive, to the best of my knowledge.
it is certainly quite a strange state of affairs when, as far as I know, there are more aardwolves in the UK than any other species of hyena!
slightly better state of affairs than I feared, then.
and also where you got your records to begin with.