5 Must See Species Before You Die

It was really hard narrowing it down to five, so I managed to narrow it down to ten.

1. Kakapo
2. Night Parrot
3. Numbat
4. Thorny Devil
5. Spotted Cuscus
6. Kagu
7. Marsupial Mole (eithier species)
8. Long-beaked echidna (any species)
9. Leadbeters Possum
10. Bird of Paradise (any species)

Honorable mentions:
Striped Possum
Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Okapi
Great White Shark
Inland Taipan
Crow Honeyeater
New Caledonian horned Parakeet
Cloven-Feathered Dove
Terror Skink
Feminie Wrasse
Antipodes Island Parakeet
Western Swamp Tortoise

The chances of me seeing some of these species are highly unlikely, however I hope to one day be privelaged enough to have seen them all.
 
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1. Mountain Tapir
2. Mountain Nyala
3. Philippine Eagle
4. Sumatran or Javan Rhino
5. Tamaraw (or Dugong, I am not sure)
 
animal_expert01 said:
It was really hard narrowing it down to five, so I managed to narrow it down to ten.

1. Kakapo
2. Night Parrot
3. Numbat
4. Thorny Devil
5. Spotted Cuscus
6. Kagu
7. Marsupial Mole (eithier species)
8. Long-beaked echidna (any species)
9. Leadbeters Possum
10. Bird of Paradise (any species)

Honorable mentions:
Striped Possum
Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Okapi
Great White Shark
Inland Taipan
Crow Honeyeater
New Caledonian horned Parakeet
Cloven-Feathered Dove
Terror Skink
Feminie Wrasse
Antipodes Island Parakeet
Western Swamp Tortoise

The chances of me seeing some of these species are highly unlikely, however I hope to one day be privelaged enough to have seen them all.
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I've seen seven of your first ten, and about half of the honourables! (Of course I'm a lot older than you, so I've had more time to get around).
 
Chlidonias said:
I've seen seven of your first ten, and about half of the honourables! (Of course I'm a lot older than you, so I've had more time to get around).
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Lucky! I know for a fact that you haven't seen a night Parrot or a marsupial Mole, but what is the third animal you haven't seen?
 
It is true that there are many unique and rare species out in the world, this is just my list. (Which is heavily influenced by being bias towards groups of animals.)

1. Any Woolly Monkey
2. Mountain Gorilla
3. Rarer Australia-Area Mammals (Koala/Platypus/Tasmanian Devil) Based on how easy they are to view in the United States, that is. I haven't been lucky enough to see any of these yet.
4. Mountain Tapir
5. Eld's Deer (or any of the rarer to see deer species that are scare in North America)
 
Greater Adjutant Stork (alive)
Giant Ibis (alive)
Javan Rhinoceros
Bardia Giant Elephants
Southern Elephant Seal
 
Ethiopian wolf
Walia ibex
Mountain Nyala
Platypus
Mountain gorilla

My list was originally going to just be Ethiopian species but there are some other animals that I really want to see even over the Ethiopian species.
 
My list started out with 29 species: twelve birds, nine mammals, three reptiles, two amphibians, two invertebrates, and one fish (my avatar's namesake). After several iterations, I was able to narrow it down to five.

Platypus
River Dolphin (any species)
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Hoatzin
Hawaiian honeycreeper (any species)*

In a separate list, these are five species that I've seen in captivity but most want to see in the wild:

Harpy Eagle
Manta Ray*
Orangutan
Whale Shark
Walrus

*Despite my efforts, I missed both of these species while in Hawaii.
 
1. Any Rhinopithecus species
2. Sumatran rhino
3. Any Euplerids I haven't seen yet
4. Mountain tapir
5. Flat-headed cat

I'd also love to see an Amami rabbit, although it's highly unlikely unless Japan decides to enter into an ex-situ program with them.
 
Yangtze soft shelled turtle
hirola
Przewalski's gazelle
Philippine eagle
northwestern Mogollon Rim population of the Chiricahua leopard frog
AKA Vegas Valley leopard frog
 
Giant Eland said:
I thought of this list while going through photos from my recent 10 country zoo trip (photos to come!). I was lucky enough to see a Numbat in the Perth Zoo and 7 Colugo on the grounds of the Singapore Zoo/Night Safari.I was even on the right island for Javan Rhinos, however, didn't commit the time or energy to try and find one.

I've long fantasized about trips to Madagascar and Ethiopia, hopefully I can pull those off in the future, giving me cause to quote this message again.

For now my updated top 5 would probably be:

1. Javan Rhino
2. Indri
3. Mountain Nyala
4. Saola
5. Beaked Whale (any species)

Honorable mentions for:

1. Narwhal
2. Solenodon
3. Marsupial Mole
4. Red Colobus
5. Dingiso
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After quite the eventful trip around the continent of Africa I'm pleased to say I have cause to quote this message again! Time to update these lists!

1. Javan Rhino
2. Indri
3. Mountain Nyala :D
4. Saola
5. Beaked Whale (any species)

Honorable mentions for:

1. Narwhal
2. Solenodon :rolleyes:
3. Marsupial Mole
4. Red Colobus
5. Dingiso

And now my current list:

1. Javan Rhino
2. Indri
3. Saola
4. Beaked Whale (any species)
5. Narwhal

Honorable mentions for:

1. Marsupial Mole
2. Red Colobus
3. Dingiso
4. Water Chevrotain
5. Otter Civet
6. Chiru

I look forward to posting my photos from Zambia, South Africa and Ethiopia in the coming weeks!
 
Platypus
Whale Shark
Humpback Whale
Emperor Penguin
Lava Gull


But there are a lot of animals I would want to see in nature...
Like elephants, bears, terns, whales, rhinos...
 
In the wild:
- Sumatran rhino
- Javan green magpie*
- Bali myna*
- Purple-throated sunangel
- Okapi*

* seen in captivity

In captivity:
- American bison
- Sloth bear
- Platypus
- Southern plover
- Western bluebill
 
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