Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

The animals you are looking for must fullfill several criteria :
- the species has to be kept rarely in captivity and then only in zoos rarely visited by ZooChatters - a rare species kept at for example the London Zoo or the Bronx - New York are likely to be seen by a large number of ZooChatters.
- the species has to be rare in the wild and/ or live in a remote area rarely visited by ZooChatters. A species which is rare in for example European or North American zoos but common in the wild in Australia is likely to been seen by a good number of ZooChatters.
- to increase the change to have seen such a species, species kept not anymore in captivity are in favour.
I've been so lucky not only to see a species which fullfill these criteria but even took care for it ! I guess less then 10 ZooChatters have seen it alive and then only the few who visited Walsrode in the 1970s - 1980s. I'm meaning the Yellow-eared parrot, an endangered parrot which onces was almost extinct but by protection measurements it now is luckily again increasing in numbers. The chances it will ever be kept at a western zoo are very small.
 
Daktari JG said:
I'm assuming you are talking about...in captivity
I'm also assuming a fair number of posters have seen the rares at San Diego
(zoo, safari park and seaworld) and LA

so I'm go with some I think are fairly unusual though not necessarily rare
tuatara - St Louis
ozark blind cave fish- St Louis
cave salamander -St Louis (not all that rare but haven't seen them anywhere else)
green,yellowbelly,broadbanded,diamond back and northern watersnakes -St Louis (same deal not that rare but I haven't seen them elsewhere that I can recall and they were never labeled when on display at St Louis)
baikal seal -St Louis
acorn woodpecker -Palm desert
Devil's hole pupfish - Shark Reef
Pahrump killifish -in aquaria at Corn Creek outside Las Vegas
Bahamian hutia - Ardastra Gardens
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When did St. Louis keep Baikal Seal?
 
Mr. Zootycoon said:
Given that the species was until recently kept in Tierpark Berlin (which quite a lot of zoochatters have visited), as well as still being present in Hamerton I would expect quite a number of European zoochatters to have seen it.

A similar situation happens with other extreme rarities in zoos that are often the destination of travelling zoochatters. The trumpet manucode in Zoo Berlin, Baby the river dolphin in Duisburg and a seemingly endless list of birds in Walsrode come to mind.

For myself, maybe Spix' macaw or Bulwer's pheasant in Pairi Daiza? I don't know how many zoochatters have travelled to that part of Belgium since they were put on display.

Do wild animals count? I don't think a lot of zoochatters have seen Coues' arctic redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni exilipes), with the exception of the occasional birder (looking at you @Vision!).
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I thought about that a bit, but I was more on the side of "well, not many will see them now.".

I think it is only captive animals.
 
Mr. Zootycoon said:
I don't think a lot of zoochatters have seen Coues' arctic redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni exilipes), with the exception of the occasional birder
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Got that one :)

Having thought over the matter, I reckon the captive species I've been fortunate enough to see which has probably been seen by the fewest other Zoochatters - although I know for a fact there are a handful - is Wallcreeper.

If we're extending out to wild species, however, it would hands-down have to be Cuvier's Beaked Whale.
 
It doesn't just have to be captive animals. My list only included captive animals because I haven't seen any ultra rare animals in the wild. Unless, like @Great Argus said, we can include the Yellow-billed magpie, which I see flying around my town on a regular basis
 
birdsandbats said:
Lucky.
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Wait is the yellow-billed magpie actually considered a rarity? I know it's only found in California but I guess I just assumed zoos outside of the state held it. Heck, I see that bird flying around my school basically every day
 
Hipporex said:
Wait is the yellow-billed magpie actually considered a rarity? I know it's only found in California but I guess I just assumed zoos outside of the state held it. Heck, I see that bird flying around my school basically every day
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It is rare. It's only kept in captivity in CA and from what I've read they aren't that common in the wild there either.
 
Well I'm not 100% sure if this is considered a "rarely seen species" but since the lion taxa has changed again (I think) it's hard to say. The lions at Addis Ababa zoo was what I was going to go with but I'm not entirely sure on the taxa of the group. Last I checked they were just Ethiopian lions.

I've also seen Yellow-billed magpies, Californian condors, Chinese giant salamanders, Mountain tapirs, Tree pangolins, Bald Urakis, and a Spix Guan.
 
TheEthiopianWolf03 said:
Well I'm not 100% sure if this is considered a "rarely seen species" but since the lion taxa has changed again (I think) it's hard to say. The lions at Addis Ababa zoo was what I was going to go with but I'm not entirely sure on the taxa of the group. Last I checked they were just Ethiopian lions.

I've also seen Yellow-billed magpies, Californian condors, Chinese giant salamanders, Mountain tapirs, Bald Urakis, and a Spix Guan.
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In the wild or captive?
 
Barton's echidna: Regent's Park
Platypus: Taronga
Four-eyed opossum: Regent's Park
Rufous spiny bandicoot: Regent's Park
Leadbeater's possum: Regent's Park
Giant armadillo: Regent's Park
Golden bamboo lemur: Tzimbazaza
Greater bamboo lemur: Cologne, Vincennes
Angwantibo: Regent's Park
Bald uakari: Cologne (red and white); LA (red)
Neblina uakari: Cologne
Uta Hick's bearded saki: Cologne
Tonkean macaque: Mulhouse, Strassbourg
Red-nosed mouse: Tzimbazaza
Pacarana: Frankfurt
Mountain paca:
Chinese ferret badger: Regent's Park
Baikal seal: Regent's Park
Hawaiian monk seal: Waikiki Aquarium
Olingo: Exmouth, Kilverstone
Mountain and Baird's tapirs: LA
Sumatran rhinoceros: Bronx, LA, Port Lympne
Northern white rhinoceros: Regent's Park
Saiga: Berlin Tierpark, Cologne
Jentinck's duiker: Berlin Tierpark
Commerson's dolphin: Duisburg
Philippine eagle: Planckendael
Kagu: Berlin Zoo
Weka: Berlin Zoo
Tahitian lory: San Diego
White-necked picathartes: Frankfurt, Rotterdam
Grey-necked picathartes: Frankfurt
Iiwi: Honolulu
Plumbeous redstart: Regent's Park
Tuatara: Auckland, Berlin Zoo, Chester
Chinese giant salamander: Regent's Park
Peripatus: Regent's Park

I have seen other 'rare' species, but I'm not sure of their location
 
I´d like to add some rarities to my prior list:
Platypus - Taronga, Sydney Wildlife, Lone Pone Koala Sanctuary
Nabarlek - Teritorry Wildlife Park
Wilkins Rock Wallaby - Teritorry Wildlife Park
Chuditch - Perth Zoo, TWP
Dibbler - Perth Zoo
Golden Snub-nosed Monkey - Hong Kong Ocean Park
Uta Hicks Bearded Saki - Mulhouse Zoo
Saiga - Cologne Zoo
Northern white rhinoceros - Dvur Kralove
Baikal Seal - Leipzig
African Palm Civet - Bojnice Zoo
Banded Palm Civet - RSCC
Tarsier - RSCC, Night Safari Singapore
Spotted Cuscus - Ouwehands Zoo
Chinese and Sunda Pangolin - Leipzig, Night Safari Singapore
Derbys Woolly Opossum - Best Zoo
Chinese and Javan Ferret Badger - Praha + Brno Zoo
 
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