Whats your Holy Grail zoo animal?

Whats your Holy Grail zoo animal?

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Chlidonias said:
This thread has gone on for long enough without some swatty nerd posting "these are the animals mentioned so far which I have seen". So these are the animals mentioned so far which I have seen.


Black-faced Spoonbill
Yangtze Softshell Turtle
Dugong
Crested Ibis
Leopard Seal
Marbled Cat
Secretary Bird
Platypus
Cheetah
Kakapo
Kagu
Numbat
Long-beaked Echidna
(Sunda) Pangolin
Sumatran Rhino
Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
Lammergeier
Moloch
Northern Cassowary
Owston's Palm Civet
Banded Palm Civet
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Wondered when someone would do that...:D
 
TZDugong said:
Is it even possible to see these animals on the islands of Java and Sumatra? I don't tink there are any captive Javan Rhinos, and I'm not sure if there are any Sumatran Rhinos in captivity as well. As such, you'd have to take your chances seeing one in the wild and with the number of them left and the area they live in, the odds of seeing one would be slim to none.
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I'm pretty sure it is possible to get a tour of the Sumatran Rhinoceros Sanctuary and see Sumatran rhinos. As for Javan rhinos, you are correct, the odds that I or @Anteaterman will ever see one are likely lower than 1 percent.
 
The rangers that guard them are lucky to see 1 Javan rhino per year. Sort of oddly I've seen Sumatran rhinos at 2 different zoos-LA and Cinn (of course). Maybe with luck sumatrans will in the future be seen in zoos. As for Javan- if they can
relocate them to start another population that may well be a springboard for their exhibition also. I believe the Sumatran government would just as soon they both go extinct :(
 
Daktari JG said:
The rangers that guard them are lucky to see 1 Javan rhino per year. Sort of oddly I've seen Sumatran rhinos at 2 different zoos-LA and Cinn (of course). Maybe with luck sumatrans will in the future be seen in zoos. As for Javan- if they can
relocate them to start another population that may well be a springboard for their exhibition also. I believe the Sumatran government would just as soon they both go extinct :(
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I unfortunately believe that within my lifetime the Sumatran and Javan rhinos, along with the northern whites, will fall into extinction.
 
I actually at the moment feel fairly positive about the Javan
but they need at least 1-2 more viable locations
 
Chlidonias said:
This thread has gone on for long enough without some swatty nerd posting "these are the animals mentioned so far which I have seen".
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OK I'll play too. These are the animals mentioned so far that I have seen:-

mountain gorilla
golden snub-nosed monkey
red uakari
aye-aye
marbled cat
African forest elephant
northern white rhino
Sumatran rhino
mountain tapir
Amazon river dolphin
royal antelope
saiga antelope
zebra duiker
Jentink's duiker
cheetah
Owston's palm civet
banded palm civet
long-beaked echidna
pangolin
giant armadillo
Hispaniolan solenodon
northern cassowary
secretary bird
imperial amazon
Spix's macaw
lammergier
kagu
 
Tim May said:
OK I'll play too. These are the animals mentioned so far that I have seen:-

mountain gorilla
golden snub-nosed monkey
red uakari
aye-aye
marbled cat
African forest elephant
northern white rhino
Sumatran rhino
mountain tapir
Amazon river dolphin
royal antelope
saiga antelope
zebra duiker
Jentink's duiker
cheetah
Owston's palm civet
banded palm civet
long-beaked echidna
pangolin
giant armadillo
Hispaniolan solenodon
northern cassowary
secretary bird
imperial amazon
Spix's macaw
lammergier
kagu
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I've bolded the two I think are the most lucky.
 
Tim May said:
OK I'll play too. These are the animals mentioned so far that I have seen:-

mountain gorilla
golden snub-nosed monkey
red uakari
aye-aye
marbled cat
African forest elephant
northern white rhino
Sumatran rhino
mountain tapir
Amazon river dolphin
royal antelope
saiga antelope
zebra duiker
Jentink's duiker
cheetah
Owston's palm civet
banded palm civet
long-beaked echidna
pangolin
giant armadillo
Hispaniolan solenodon
northern cassowary
secretary bird
imperial amazon
Spix's macaw
lammergier
kagu
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I have bolded the ones I have seen...

Believe it or not, I have in fact seen cheetahs. ;)
 
Animals I could conceivably see at some point
Lammergeier
Eastern Gorilla
Amazon River Dolphin
Aardwolf (living, there's a dead one about 5 feet away from me rn)
Arabian Oryx
Spix's Macaw
Mountain Tapir
Emperor Penguin
Hawaiian Monk Seal

Cool animals I've seen in person
Secretary Bird
Cheetah
Kagu
Aye-Aye
Tree Pangolin
Kihansi Spray Toad
 
Love threads like this, so time to chime in. I've seen the following species that have already been mentioned:

Mountain & Eastern Lowland Gorilla
golden snub-nosed monkey
red uakari
aye-aye
golden-crowned sifaka
diademed sifaka
marbled cat
cheetah
Northern Lion
Aardwolf
Banded linsang
Owston's palm civet
banded palm civet
otter civet
Leopard Seal
Hawaiian Monk Seal
northern white rhino
Sumatran rhino
mountain tapir
Amazon river dolphin
Blue Whale
Dugong
Hirola
Arabian Oryx
royal antelope
Saiga
zebra duiker
Jentink's duiker
Numbat
long-beaked echidna
Platypus
pangolin (3 species)
giant armadillo
Silky Anteater
Hispaniolan solenodon
Honduran white bat

secretary bird
lammergier
kagu
Jabiru
Black-faced Spoonbill
Crested Ibis
Northern Cassowary
Emperor Penguin

Moloch

With very near misses for wild Falanouc and Javan Rhino. :(
 
The black tree-kangaroo is my holy grail.

On the other hand, as a seventeen-year-old, I have already seen many rare species many here would like to see, including:
- Alagoas curassow (Belo Horizonte zoo);
- Alcatrazes tree frog (São Paulo zoo);
- Amazonian manatee (São Paulo aquarium);
- Black hawk eagle (São Paulo and Sorocaba zoos);
- Blonde capuchin monkey (São Paulo zoo);
- Crowned solitary eagle (São Paulo and Sorocaba zoos):
- Giant armadillo (many zoos);
- Harpy eagle (many zoos);
- Lear's macaw (Rio de Janeiro zoo);
- Golden lancehead (Instituto Butantan, São Paulo and Sorocaba zoos);
- Marsh deer (Itatiba, Belo Horizonte and Gramado zoos);
- Jabirou stork (Itatiba, Sorocaba and Gramado zoos);
- Ornate hawk-eagle (São Paulo zoo);
- Red uakari (Itatiba zoo);
- Short-tailed parrot (Itatiba zoo);
- Southern muriqui (São Paulo and Sorocaba zoos);
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo (Pomerode zoo);
- Tanimbar python (São Paulo zoo);
- Uta Hick's bearded saki (Rio de Janeiro and Sorocaba zoos);
- Yellow baboon (São Paulo zoo);

Futurely, I might become the sole ZooChatter to have seen an Eastern silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), as I will visit ZooParque Itatiba in mid-December.
 
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