Marsupials in the United States

Here's my list for AZA members, based on their websites as of 4/18:

Bennett’s Wallaby – Binder Park, Blank Park, Brookfield, Buffalo, Charles Paddock, Cincinnati, Cleveland Metroparks, Erie, John Ball, Lake Superior, Lincoln Park, Potawatomi, Roger Williams, Sunset, Turtle Back, Virginia

Brush-tail Bettong – Capron Park, Columbus, Lake Superior, Prospect Park, Smithsonian

Brush-tailed Possum – Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Brush-tailed Rat-Kangaroo – Birmingham

Common Opossum - Smithsonian

Common Wallaroo – Oakland, Racine

Dama Wallaby – Buffalo

Eastern Grey Kangaroo - Erie, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, Potawatomi, Saginaw Children’s Zoo, Virginia

Feather-tailed Glider – Cincinnati, Columbus

Great Grey Kangaroo – Turtle Back

Koala – Cleveland Metroparks, Columbus, Los Angeles, Palm Beach (Queensland), Riverbanks, San Diego, San Francisco, Zoo Tampa

Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo – Cheyenne Mountain, Columbus, Dallas World Aquarium, Kansas City, Minnesota, Riverbanks, Roger Williams, Saint Louis, Santa Fe College, Zoo Miami

Parma Wallaby – Cincinnati, Peoria, Happy Hollow, Kansas City, Peoria, Point Defiance, Sunset

Red Kangaroo – Binder Park, Bramble Park, BREC Baton Rouge, Brevard, Capron Park, Chahinkapa, Cleveland Metroparks, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Dickerson Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Fort Worth, Franklin Park, Fresno Caffee, Kansas City, Lake Superior, Lee Richardson, Lehigh Valley, Nashville, Philadelphia, Potter Park, Pueblo, Racine, Riverbanks, Rolling Hills, Roosevelt Park, Sacramento, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Tulsa, Zoo Atlanta

Red-necked Wallaby – Alexandria Zoo, Cape May County, Cheyenne Mountain, Detroit, Idaho Falls, Peoria, Riverbanks, Rolling Hills, Trevor Zoo

Short-beaked/nosed Echidna – Brookfield, Cleveland Metroparks, Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, St Louis

Short-tailed Opossum - Memphis

Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat – Brookfield, Los Angeles

Sugar Glider – BREC Baton Rouge, Charles Paddock, Lake Superior, Milwaukee County, Potawatomi, Zoo Boise

Swamp Wallaby – Brevard, Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Tammar Wallaby – Greensboro Science Center, Jacksonville, Lehigh Valley, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, Saint Louis

Tasmanian Devil – Albuquerque, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, Saint Louis, San Diego, Toledo

Tasmanian Wombat – Albuquerque

Virginia Opossum – Alexandria Zoo, Birmingham, Boonshoft Museum, Brevard, Buttonwood Park, Living Desert, Louisville, Potawatomi, Rosamond Gifford, Santa Barbara, Sunset, Tennessee Aquarium

Western Gray Kangaroo – Brookfield, Cleveland Metroparks, Potter Park

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby - Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, Palm Beach, Sacramento

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“Grey Kangaroo” - Disney’s Animal Kingdom
“Kangaroo” – Albuquerque, Busch Gardens, Oglebay’s Good Zoo, Staten Island
“Opossum” - Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Point Defiance, Saint Louis, Scovill, Virginia Living Museum, Western NC Nature Center
“Tree Kangaroo” – Albuquerque, Gladys Porter
“Wallaby” – Busch Gardens, Gladys Porter, Oglebay’s Good Zoo, Salisbury, Scovill, Toledo, Tulsa, Woodland Park, ZooTampa
“Wallaroo” – Binder Park, Busch Gardens, Cleveland Metroparks, Wildlife Safari, Woodland Park
“Wombat” – Memphis, San Diego
 
TinoPup said:
Here's my list for AZA members, based on their websites as of 4/18:

Bennett’s Wallaby – Binder Park, Blank Park, Brookfield, Buffalo, Charles Paddock, Cincinnati, Cleveland Metroparks, Erie, John Ball, Lake Superior, Lincoln Park, Potawatomi, Roger Williams, Sunset, Turtle Back, Virginia

Brush-tail Bettong – Capron Park, Columbus, Lake Superior, Prospect Park, Smithsonian

Brush-tailed Possum – Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Brush-tailed Rat-Kangaroo – Birmingham

Common Opossum - Smithsonian

Common Wallaroo – Oakland, Racine

Dama Wallaby – Buffalo

Eastern Grey Kangaroo - Erie, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, Potawatomi, Saginaw Children’s Zoo, Virginia

Feather-tailed Glider – Cincinnati, Columbus

Great Grey Kangaroo – Turtle Back

Koala – Cleveland Metroparks, Columbus, Los Angeles, Palm Beach (Queensland), Riverbanks, San Diego, San Francisco, Zoo Tampa

Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo – Cheyenne Mountain, Columbus, Dallas World Aquarium, Kansas City, Minnesota, Riverbanks, Roger Williams, Saint Louis, Santa Fe College, Zoo Miami

Parma Wallaby – Cincinnati, Peoria, Happy Hollow, Kansas City, Peoria, Point Defiance, Sunset

Red Kangaroo – Binder Park, Bramble Park, BREC Baton Rouge, Brevard, Capron Park, Chahinkapa, Cleveland Metroparks, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Dickerson Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Fort Worth, Franklin Park, Fresno Caffee, Kansas City, Lake Superior, Lee Richardson, Lehigh Valley, Nashville, Philadelphia, Potter Park, Pueblo, Racine, Riverbanks, Rolling Hills, Roosevelt Park, Sacramento, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Tulsa, Zoo Atlanta

Red-necked Wallaby – Alexandria Zoo, Cape May County, Cheyenne Mountain, Detroit, Idaho Falls, Peoria, Riverbanks, Rolling Hills, Trevor Zoo

Short-beaked/nosed Echidna – Brookfield, Cleveland Metroparks, Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, St Louis

Short-tailed Opossum - Memphis

Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat – Brookfield, Los Angeles

Sugar Glider – BREC Baton Rouge, Charles Paddock, Lake Superior, Milwaukee County, Potawatomi, Zoo Boise

Swamp Wallaby – Brevard, Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Tammar Wallaby – Greensboro Science Center, Jacksonville, Lehigh Valley, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, Saint Louis

Tasmanian Devil – Albuquerque, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, Saint Louis, San Diego, Toledo

Tasmanian Wombat – Albuquerque

Virginia Opossum – Alexandria Zoo, Birmingham, Boonshoft Museum, Brevard, Buttonwood Park, Living Desert, Louisville, Potawatomi, Rosamond Gifford, Santa Barbara, Sunset, Tennessee Aquarium

Western Gray Kangaroo – Brookfield, Cleveland Metroparks, Potter Park

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby - Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, Palm Beach, Sacramento

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“Grey Kangaroo” - Disney’s Animal Kingdom
“Kangaroo” – Albuquerque, Busch Gardens, Oglebay’s Good Zoo, Staten Island
“Opossum” - Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Point Defiance, Saint Louis, Scovill, Virginia Living Museum, Western NC Nature Center
“Tree Kangaroo” – Albuquerque, Gladys Porter
“Wallaby” – Busch Gardens, Gladys Porter, Oglebay’s Good Zoo, Salisbury, Scovill, Toledo, Tulsa, Woodland Park, ZooTampa
“Wallaroo” – Binder Park, Busch Gardens, Cleveland Metroparks, Wildlife Safari, Woodland Park
“Wombat” – Memphis, San Diego
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Thanks for this!

Couple questions/notes...
I was always of the understanding that Bennett's and Red-necked Wallabies were the same species, Macropus rufogriseus. Where are you basing off of?

San Diego has Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats.

Short-beaked Echidna is a monotreme, not a marsupial. Still a very interesting species though!
 
Do we really only have Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo here in the states? I understand Goodfellow's is more prominent in Europe, did AZA phase them and other species out?
 
Great Argus said:
Couple questions/notes...
I was always of the understanding that Bennett's and Red-necked Wallabies were the same species, Macropus rufogriseus. Where are you basing off of?
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There are a number of double-ups in that list: Bennett's and Red-necked Wallaby; Dama and Tammar Wallaby; Great Grey and Eastern Grey Kangaroo.
 
TinoPup said:
Here's my list for AZA members, based on their websites as of 4/18:

Bennett’s Wallaby – Binder Park, Blank Park, Brookfield, Buffalo, Charles Paddock, Cincinnati, Cleveland Metroparks, Erie, John Ball, Lake Superior, Lincoln Park, Potawatomi, Roger Williams, Sunset, Turtle Back, Virginia

Brush-tail Bettong – Capron Park, Columbus, Lake Superior, Prospect Park, Smithsonian

Brush-tailed Possum – Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Brush-tailed Rat-Kangaroo – Birmingham

Common Opossum - Smithsonian

Common Wallaroo – Oakland, Racine

Dama Wallaby – Buffalo

Eastern Grey Kangaroo - Erie, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, Potawatomi, Saginaw Children’s Zoo, Virginia

Feather-tailed Glider – Cincinnati, Columbus

Great Grey Kangaroo – Turtle Back

Koala – Cleveland Metroparks, Columbus, Los Angeles, Palm Beach (Queensland), Riverbanks, San Diego, San Francisco, Zoo Tampa

Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo – Cheyenne Mountain, Columbus, Dallas World Aquarium, Kansas City, Minnesota, Riverbanks, Roger Williams, Saint Louis, Santa Fe College, Zoo Miami

Parma Wallaby – Cincinnati, Peoria, Happy Hollow, Kansas City, Peoria, Point Defiance, Sunset

Red Kangaroo – Binder Park, Bramble Park, BREC Baton Rouge, Brevard, Capron Park, Chahinkapa, Cleveland Metroparks, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Dickerson Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Fort Worth, Franklin Park, Fresno Caffee, Kansas City, Lake Superior, Lee Richardson, Lehigh Valley, Nashville, Philadelphia, Potter Park, Pueblo, Racine, Riverbanks, Rolling Hills, Roosevelt Park, Sacramento, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Tulsa, Zoo Atlanta

Red-necked Wallaby – Alexandria Zoo, Cape May County, Cheyenne Mountain, Detroit, Idaho Falls, Peoria, Riverbanks, Rolling Hills, Trevor Zoo

Short-beaked/nosed Echidna – Brookfield, Cleveland Metroparks, Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, St Louis

Short-tailed Opossum - Memphis

Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat – Brookfield, Los Angeles

Sugar Glider – BREC Baton Rouge, Charles Paddock, Lake Superior, Milwaukee County, Potawatomi, Zoo Boise

Swamp Wallaby – Brevard, Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Tammar Wallaby – Greensboro Science Center, Jacksonville, Lehigh Valley, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, Saint Louis

Tasmanian Devil – Albuquerque, Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, Saint Louis, San Diego, Toledo

Tasmanian Wombat – Albuquerque

Virginia Opossum – Alexandria Zoo, Birmingham, Boonshoft Museum, Brevard, Buttonwood Park, Living Desert, Louisville, Potawatomi, Rosamond Gifford, Santa Barbara, Sunset, Tennessee Aquarium

Western Gray Kangaroo – Brookfield, Cleveland Metroparks, Potter Park

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby - Los Angeles, Omaha’s Henry Doorly, Palm Beach, Sacramento

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“Grey Kangaroo” - Disney’s Animal Kingdom
“Kangaroo” – Albuquerque, Busch Gardens, Oglebay’s Good Zoo, Staten Island
“Opossum” - Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Point Defiance, Saint Louis, Scovill, Virginia Living Museum, Western NC Nature Center
“Tree Kangaroo” – Albuquerque, Gladys Porter
“Wallaby” – Busch Gardens, Gladys Porter, Oglebay’s Good Zoo, Salisbury, Scovill, Toledo, Tulsa, Woodland Park, ZooTampa
“Wallaroo” – Binder Park, Busch Gardens, Cleveland Metroparks, Wildlife Safari, Woodland Park
“Wombat” – Memphis, San Diego
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What exactly is a "Great Grey Kangaroo"?
 
Great Argus said:
Thanks for this!

Couple questions/notes...
I was always of the understanding that Bennett's and Red-necked Wallabies were the same species, Macropus rufogriseus. Where are you basing off of?

San Diego has Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats.

Short-beaked Echidna is a monotreme, not a marsupial. Still a very interesting species though!
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As I said, my list (taken from my spreadsheet) is based off of each zoo's website. What they're listed as in my post is what that facility calls their animals. That's also why I've kept generics listed as they are, unless I'm informed otherwise (like san diego's wombat).

Thanks for that about san diego, they have a fairly bad website when it comes to species IDs!

Ha, oops! Forgot I combined marsupials and monotremes on my spreadsheet and wasn't thinking when I did the post.
 
jayjds2 said:
Yes, pardon my typo. I saw in in 2017 but I know it was present before that. There are two species of cuscus which have been imported privately (one of which has bred) but no zoos have acquired any yet.
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Any idea where in America these two cuscus species are kept privately as well as any contact information?
 
TinoPup said:
As I said, my list (taken from my spreadsheet) is based off of each zoo's website. What they're listed as in my post is what that facility calls their animals. That's also why I've kept generics listed as they are, unless I'm informed otherwise (like san diego's wombat).

Thanks for that about san diego, they have a fairly bad website when it comes to species IDs!

Ha, oops! Forgot I combined marsupials and monotremes on my spreadsheet and wasn't thinking when I did the post.
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Ah, gotcha. Though that does apparently have some issues, as Chlidonias noted there were three double ups. Would be much easier if people would only use one name for a species.

You're welcome. Agreed they don't, sometimes the species are mentioned lower down in the "At the Zoo" section, but not always. Nor is a list there complete necessarily.

It's okay!
 
I completely agree, you'd think AZA would at least want to streamline the names that zoos use! I used only African Wild Dog and Mountain Lion on my spreadsheet, but everything else I just went with what each site said. So I don't derail this thread, here's my spreadsheet thread: Animals in AZA Institutions, a spreadsheet
 
jayjds2 said:
Well, there are these things called scientific names... ;)
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Well yes. But most people don't use them... The average zoo-goer does not go to see the Panthera leo and the Macropus rufus, they go to see the lions and the kangaroos. If only scientific names were used, things would be a lot simpler name-wise. (Except maybe spelling... :))
 
jayjds2 said:
Well, there are these things called scientific names... ;)
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In addition to what Great Argus said, scientific names are changing rather frequently, as well, even for larger mammals. One of the jackals (black-backed?) is moving to a new genus. The discoveries of there being more than one giraffe and african elephant created new names. A lot of hoofstock names vary, since we can't agree on species. And that's just mammals... birds, reptiles, etc constantly get changed and moved around. I was trying to look up the name of a lizard I saw at a zoo last year and along with several normal (regular? english? what's the word I'm looking for?) names, I found three different latin names, with no general timeline indicating which is the most proper.
 
TinoPup said:
In addition to what Great Argus said, scientific names are changing rather frequently, as well, even for larger mammals. One of the jackals (black-backed?) is moving to a new genus. The discoveries of there being more than one giraffe and african elephant created new names. A lot of hoofstock names vary, since we can't agree on species. And that's just mammals... birds, reptiles, etc constantly get changed and moved around. I was trying to look up the name of a lizard I saw at a zoo last year and along with several normal (regular? english? what's the word I'm looking for?) names, I found three different latin names, with no general timeline indicating which is the most proper.
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It’s hardly that much of a problem. People recognize that taxonomy is a changing science. Even when species are moved to a new genus, people will know what is meant by their old names. Every “new” giraffe was already recognized at subspecies level: in fact, during the elevation of some of them to species level, we actually lost two taxa, making it simpler. For groups of animals which are highly debated, just pick a taxonomy to follow and go with it. Scientific debates will follow. Everyone leaves smarter ;)
 
I'm aware of all that, but when you're making a list of species in zoos, it doesn't make things easier than using regular names.
 
TinoPup said:
I'm aware of all that, but when you're making a list of species in zoos, it doesn't make things easier than using regular names.
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It does, actually. Otherwise how would one know that Hillar's sideneck turtle, Argentine sideneck turtle, spot-bellied side-necked turtle, and Hillaire's toadheaded turtle are all the same thing, Phrynops hillari? Or that pink-bellied side-necked turtle, Jardine River turtle, red-bellied short-necked turtle, diamond head turtle, red-bellied side-necked turtle, pink-bellied short-necked turtle, and northern short-necked turtle are all Emydura subglobosa? The list goes on, but by now you hopefully get the point...
 
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