International Crane Foundation type places?
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Not sure I understand the question...
St Augustine Alligator Farm has all species of crocodilians (except I don't know if that is still true with the new species of crocodiles) if that answers the question.
Drill is asking if there are other facilities that only focus on a specific family of animals, like the International Crane Foundation.
I suppose big cat rescue facilities sort of count... they generally only have cats, although the exhibit quality can vary widely. Also there's little to no breeding as I understand it.
How do you know that's what he's asking? The post is only one sentence long, and ambiguous as to meaning.
I agree it was rather short and ambiguous as a thread starter. That was what I interpreted the thread to be about, and it appears ZooBinh and Daktari JG interpreted similarly. If @drill could clarify the question more that would be helpful to the thread.
Do you mean:
a) Other collections that focus exclusively on cranes?
b) Other collections that focus exclusively on one type of animal?
c) Other collections that are breeding centers without traditional zoo enclosures?
d) Other.
drill
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A collection with every kind of species in one family.
Than as Daktari JG has said, there is St. Augustine Alligator Farm, but would also like to add to that the Duke Lemur Center.
drill
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The Duke Lemur Center does not have every kind of lemur.
Well, many species in many different families aren't available so that one organization can get a hold of all of them. So my answer would be that I don't know, to be honest, as not all species in every family can be held in captivity.
Emerald Forest Bird Gardens comes close in toucans... they're missing a couple species though I believe.
Remember reading something recently on another thread that there's a zoo in Europe housing all bears but the brown bear... that's pretty close if accurate.
I'm assuming small families are excluded here. Can think of several species that are the sole representative of their family. Considering larger families, I can't think of any that are all housed in the same place...
Remember reading something recently on another thread that there's a zoo in Europe housing all bears but the brown bear... that's pretty close if accurate.
I'm assuming small families are excluded here. Can think of several species that are the sole representative of their family. Considering larger families, I can't think of any that are all housed in the same place...
St. Augustine also doesn't have every species of crocodile based on the latest insights in croc taxonomy.
Kakapo
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Many zoos keep all the species of the aardvark, emu, fly river turtle, hammerkop, kagu, ostrich, red panda, secretarybird, shoebill, sunbittern and zebra shark families. And this not including other monotypic families that are more rarely kept, such as aye-aye, bowfin, dugong, springhare...
Some zoos also keep all species of the beaded lizard, giraffe, hippopotamus, rhea and turkey families. Probably some have also all species of camel family. I wonder if any managed to get all species of the flamingo and horse family at same time, this would be not difficult to get...
Berlin Tierpark keeps all species of the hyena family. And it comes very close to keep all species of pelicans of the world: it only lacks the brown pelican. In fact all the pelican species share the same enclosure. You can see 6 pelican species in this photo that I've took here:
Some zoos also keep all species of the beaded lizard, giraffe, hippopotamus, rhea and turkey families. Probably some have also all species of camel family. I wonder if any managed to get all species of the flamingo and horse family at same time, this would be not difficult to get...
Berlin Tierpark keeps all species of the hyena family. And it comes very close to keep all species of pelicans of the world: it only lacks the brown pelican. In fact all the pelican species share the same enclosure. You can see 6 pelican species in this photo that I've took here:
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The Berlin Zoo has all but one flamingo (Chilean), but between the Zoo and the Tierpark all species are present. The Zoo has all horses on the species level, except when one splits the zebra and hartmannae.
Are there any zoos with somali ostrich?
Tierpark Berlin currently has every species of pelican but the hyena collection is not complete anymore.
Kakapo
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Shame about the loss of some hyena species! Which one it was? And good to know that they added the brown pelican for complete the pelican collection! I didn't knew about completion of horses (it includes domestic horse and domestic donkey too?), and of course I find the spliting of Equus zebra hartmannae as a species, as nonsensic as spliting the ostrich in more than one species 
It is off course the Berlin Tierpark that keeps all Equid species. Slimbridge is the only zoo to keep all 6 flamingo species.
@Kakapo , disregarding the Somali ostrich split is rather uninformed. This species diverged from the other Ostriches >3 million years ago, which is 4 times older than the Chimpanzee -Bonobo split and a lot more when counting generations instead of years.
@Kakapo , disregarding the Somali ostrich split is rather uninformed. This species diverged from the other Ostriches >3 million years ago, which is 4 times older than the Chimpanzee -Bonobo split and a lot more when counting generations instead of years.
Sorry for the typo. It should indeed be the Tierpark. Thanks for the correction.