I've seen about fifteen of these ones.
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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Lots of American and African species here which aren't over on my side of the world, so I've only seen a sixth of these (22 species), but over half of that number I have seen in the wild.So I'm just going to make a real long list and you guys can all go through it if you'd likeWild animals have an asterisk. For the most part I tried to leave out rare species that are at zoos such as the San Diegos and Berlins which will have been seen by a great many zoonerds by now, and most famous individuals (ie Baby at Duisburg) who are specifically sought out by many zoonerds.
Mammals
Common Opossum
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Striped Possum
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Cape Hartebeest
Mountain Anoa
Japanese Serow
Spanish Ibex
Royal Antelope
Bay Duiker
Maxwell's Duiker
West African Bushbuck
American Moose**
Calamian Deer
Bawean Deer
Formosan Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Coues's Deer**
Siberian Musk-Deer
Fin Whale**
Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Grey Whale**
Black-Backed Jackal
San Clemente Island Fox
Corsac Fox
Oncilla
Slender Mongoose
Brown Hyena
Greater Grison
Zorilla
American Marten
Beech Marten
Short-Tailed Weasel
Long-Tailed Weasel
Black-Footed Ferret
European Polecat
Siberian Weasel
Fisher
Marbled Polecat
African Palm-Civet
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Northern Elephant Seal**
Harp Seal
Spotted Seal
Ringed Seal
Ussuri Brown Bear (Hokkaido)
Kodiak Bear
Syrian Brown Bear
Owston's Civet
Feline Genet
Haussa Genet
Banded Civet
Malayan Civet
Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
White-Winged Vampire Bat
Southern Long-Nosed Bat
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Gambian Epauletted Bat
Livingstone's Flying Fox
Lyle's Flying Fox
Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox
Little Red Flying Fox
Ruwenzori Rousette
Pallid Bat
Little Brown Bat**
Northern Short-Tailed Shrew**
Eurasian Water Shrew
Eastern Tree Hyrax
Western Tree Hyrax
Antelope Jackrabbit**
Snowshoe Hare**
European Mountain Hare
New England Cottontail**
Daurian Pika
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chinese Pangolin
Tree Pangolin
Nancy Ma's Night-Monkey
Three-Striped Night-Monkey
Spix's Night-Monkey
Guatemalan Howler Monkey
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
Peruvian Spider Monkey
Wied's Marmoset
Red-Mantled Saddle-Backed Tamarin
Spix's Moustached Tamarin
Lowe's Guenon
Blue Monkey
Common Mona Monkey
Heck's Macaque
Olive Baboon
Guinea Baboon
Sumatran Surili
Red-Shanked Douc
Tarai Grey Langur
Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur
Ganzhorn's Mouse Lemur
Goodman's Mouse Lemur
Eastern Hoolock
Muller's Gibbon
Grey-Headed Lemur
Eastern Bamboo Lemur
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Red Slender Loris
Bornean Elephant
Ansell's Mole-Rat
Northern Mountain Viscacha
Woodland Vole**
White-Footed Mouse**
Alabama Beach Mouse
Mexican Dwarf Porcupine
Botta's Pocket Gopher**
Asian Garden Dormouse
Desert Pocket Mouse
Tipton Kangaroo-Rat
Ord's Kangaroo-Rat
Hairy-Footed Gerbil
Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat
Southern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Grandidier's Tufted-Tailed Rat
White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel
Plantain Squirrel
Gunnison's Prairie Dog**
Yellow-Bellied Marmot**
Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
Franklin's Ground Squirrel**
Abert's Squirrel**
Arizona Grey Squirrel**
Yucatan Squirrel
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel
I'll carry out with birds, herps, etc. at a later date perhaps.
~Thylo
Sticking to just wild sightings for birds
Birds
Northern Goshawk
Zone-Tailed Hawk
White-Tailed Kite
Mississippi Kite
Mexican Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
Common Swift
Buff-Bellied Hummingbird
Common Pauraque
California Condor
Piping Plover
Caspian Tern
Western Gull
Black-Legged Kittiwake
Black Skimmer
Roseate Tern
Least Tern
Sandwich Tern
Upland Sandpiper
Dunlin
Purple Sandpiper
Little Stint
Least Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Arctic Skua
Inca Dove
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Plain Chachalaca
Red-Throated Loon
American Purple Gallinule
Eurasian Skylark
Snow Bunting
Pyrrhyloxia
Painted Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
American Treecreeper
European Short-Toed Treecreeper
California Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
House Martin
Cliff Swallow
Sand Martin
Altamira Oriole
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Curve-Billed Thrasher
Tree Pipit
European Pied Flycatcher
Black Redstart
Whinchat
Black-Crested Titmouse
Bridled Titmouse
Tropical Parula
Iberian Sparrow
Willow Warbler
Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Spotless Starling
Cactus Wren
Western Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird
Clay-Colored Thrush
Vermilion Flycatcher
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Bell's Vireo
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Heron
Glossy Ibis
Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Iberian Green Woodpecker
Western Grebe
Crested Grebe
Least Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
Black-Vented Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Anhinga
Neotropical Cormorant
~Thylo
Birds
Northern Goshawk
Zone-Tailed Hawk
White-Tailed Kite
Mississippi Kite
Mexican Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
Common Swift
Buff-Bellied Hummingbird
Common Pauraque
California Condor
Piping Plover
Caspian Tern
Western Gull
Black-Legged Kittiwake
Black Skimmer
Roseate Tern
Least Tern
Sandwich Tern
Upland Sandpiper
Dunlin
Purple Sandpiper
Little Stint
Least Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Arctic Skua
Inca Dove
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Plain Chachalaca
Red-Throated Loon
American Purple Gallinule
Eurasian Skylark
Snow Bunting
Pyrrhyloxia
Painted Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
American Treecreeper
European Short-Toed Treecreeper
California Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
House Martin
Cliff Swallow
Sand Martin
Altamira Oriole
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Curve-Billed Thrasher
Tree Pipit
European Pied Flycatcher
Black Redstart
Whinchat
Black-Crested Titmouse
Bridled Titmouse
Tropical Parula
Iberian Sparrow
Willow Warbler
Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Spotless Starling
Cactus Wren
Western Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird
Clay-Colored Thrush
Vermilion Flycatcher
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Bell's Vireo
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Heron
Glossy Ibis
Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Iberian Green Woodpecker
Western Grebe
Crested Grebe
Least Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
Black-Vented Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Anhinga
Neotropical Cormorant
~Thylo
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We're gonna need a bigger sand bank...
(Martin, methinks, rather than Marten
)Your list is an intriguing mix of a few species I dream of seeing, quite a few species I've seen once or a few times, and quite a few others I see multiple times a year..! Common Swift are summer visitors, but there is a big population around me and I will probably see them pretty much daily for the months they are here without any special effort.
So I'm just going to make a real long list and you guys can all go through it if you'd like
Mammals
Common Opossum
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Striped Possum
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Cape Hartebeest
Mountain Anoa
Japanese Serow
Spanish Ibex
Royal Antelope
Bay Duiker
Maxwell's Duiker
West African Bushbuck
American Moose**
Calamian Deer
Bawean Deer
Formosan Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Coues's Deer**
Siberian Musk-Deer
Fin Whale**
Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Grey Whale**
Black-Backed Jackal
San Clemente Island Fox
Corsac Fox
Oncilla
Slender Mongoose
Brown Hyena
Greater Grison
Zorilla
American Marten
Beech Marten
Short-Tailed Weasel
Long-Tailed Weasel
Black-Footed Ferret
European Polecat
Siberian Weasel
Fisher
Marbled Polecat
African Palm-Civet
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Northern Elephant Seal**
Harp Seal
Spotted Seal
Ringed Seal
Ussuri Brown Bear (Hokkaido)
Kodiak Bear
Syrian Brown Bear
Owston's Civet
Feline Genet
Haussa Genet
Banded Civet
Malayan Civet
Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
White-Winged Vampire Bat
Southern Long-Nosed Bat
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Gambian Epauletted Bat
Livingstone's Flying Fox
Lyle's Flying Fox
Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox
Little Red Flying Fox
Ruwenzori Rousette
Pallid Bat
Little Brown Bat**
Northern Short-Tailed Shrew**
Eurasian Water Shrew
Eastern Tree Hyrax
Western Tree Hyrax
Antelope Jackrabbit**
Snowshoe Hare**
European Mountain Hare
New England Cottontail**
Daurian Pika
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chinese Pangolin
Tree Pangolin
Nancy Ma's Night-Monkey
Three-Striped Night-Monkey
Spix's Night-Monkey
Guatemalan Howler Monkey
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
Peruvian Spider Monkey
Wied's Marmoset
Red-Mantled Saddle-Backed Tamarin
Spix's Moustached Tamarin
Lowe's Guenon
Blue Monkey
Common Mona Monkey
Heck's Macaque
Olive Baboon
Guinea Baboon
Sumatran Surili
Red-Shanked Douc
Tarai Grey Langur
Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur
Ganzhorn's Mouse Lemur
Goodman's Mouse Lemur
Eastern Hoolock
Muller's Gibbon
Grey-Headed Lemur
Eastern Bamboo Lemur
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Red Slender Loris
Bornean Elephant
Ansell's Mole-Rat
Northern Mountain Viscacha
Woodland Vole**
White-Footed Mouse**
Alabama Beach Mouse
Mexican Dwarf Porcupine
Botta's Pocket Gopher**
Asian Garden Dormouse
Desert Pocket Mouse
Tipton Kangaroo-Rat
Ord's Kangaroo-Rat
Hairy-Footed Gerbil
Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat
Southern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Grandidier's Tufted-Tailed Rat
White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel
Plantain Squirrel
Gunnison's Prairie Dog**
Yellow-Bellied Marmot**
Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
Franklin's Ground Squirrel**
Abert's Squirrel**
Arizona Grey Squirrel**
Yucatan Squirrel
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel
I'll carry out with birds, herps, etc. at a later date perhaps.
~Thylo
Not great but not terrible, clearly I need to see some more mammals! I stuck with wild sightings for birds like you did, though I will note I have seen California Condor, just not wild.
So I'm just going to make a real long list and you guys can all go through it if you'd like
Mammals
Common Opossum
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Striped Possum
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Cape Hartebeest
Mountain Anoa
Japanese Serow
Spanish Ibex
Royal Antelope
Bay Duiker
Maxwell's Duiker
West African Bushbuck
American Moose**
Calamian Deer
Bawean Deer
Formosan Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Coues's Deer**
Siberian Musk-Deer
Fin Whale**
Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Grey Whale**
Black-Backed Jackal
San Clemente Island Fox
Corsac Fox
Oncilla
Slender Mongoose
Brown Hyena
Greater Grison
Zorilla
American Marten
Beech Marten
Short-Tailed Weasel
Long-Tailed Weasel
Black-Footed Ferret
European Polecat
Siberian Weasel
Fisher
Marbled Polecat
African Palm-Civet
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Northern Elephant Seal**
Harp Seal
Spotted Seal
Ringed Seal
Ussuri Brown Bear (Hokkaido)
Kodiak Bear
Syrian Brown Bear
Owston's Civet
Feline Genet
Haussa Genet
Banded Civet
Malayan Civet
Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
White-Winged Vampire Bat
Southern Long-Nosed Bat
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Gambian Epauletted Bat
Livingstone's Flying Fox
Lyle's Flying Fox
Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox
Little Red Flying Fox
Ruwenzori Rousette
Pallid Bat
Little Brown Bat**
Northern Short-Tailed Shrew**
Eurasian Water Shrew
Eastern Tree Hyrax
Western Tree Hyrax
Antelope Jackrabbit**
Snowshoe Hare**
European Mountain Hare
New England Cottontail**
Daurian Pika
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chinese Pangolin
Tree Pangolin
Nancy Ma's Night-Monkey
Three-Striped Night-Monkey
Spix's Night-Monkey
Guatemalan Howler Monkey
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
Peruvian Spider Monkey
Wied's Marmoset
Red-Mantled Saddle-Backed Tamarin
Spix's Moustached Tamarin
Lowe's Guenon
Blue Monkey
Common Mona Monkey
Heck's Macaque
Olive Baboon
Guinea Baboon
Sumatran Surili
Red-Shanked Douc
Tarai Grey Langur
Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur
Ganzhorn's Mouse Lemur
Goodman's Mouse Lemur
Eastern Hoolock
Muller's Gibbon
Grey-Headed Lemur
Eastern Bamboo Lemur
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Red Slender Loris
Bornean Elephant
Ansell's Mole-Rat
Northern Mountain Viscacha
Woodland Vole**
White-Footed Mouse**
Alabama Beach Mouse
Mexican Dwarf Porcupine
Botta's Pocket Gopher**
Asian Garden Dormouse
Desert Pocket Mouse
Tipton Kangaroo-Rat
Ord's Kangaroo-Rat
Hairy-Footed Gerbil
Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat
Southern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Grandidier's Tufted-Tailed Rat
White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel
Plantain Squirrel
Gunnison's Prairie Dog**
Yellow-Bellied Marmot**
Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
Franklin's Ground Squirrel**
Abert's Squirrel**
Arizona Grey Squirrel**
Yucatan Squirrel
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel
I'll carry out with birds, herps, etc. at a later date perhaps.
~Thylo
Awesome list.
I got 16. 
11 out of the 16 species that I saw from your list, I saw in American zoos. Out of the 5 I saw in Australian Zoos, 3 were Aussie native species, and the other two were the Kodiak and Syrian Brown Bears, which I saw at the Taronga and Melbourne Zoos respectively.
17, plus a couple more in captivity.
Species I have seen in bold.This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.
Captivity:
Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin
Wild:
Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe
So I'm just going to make a real long list and you guys can all go through it if you'd like
Okay
bold for seen, underlined if seen in wild.Common Opossum
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Striped Possum
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Cape Hartebeest
Mountain Anoa
Japanese Serow
Spanish Ibex
Royal Antelope
Bay Duiker
Maxwell's Duiker
West African Bushbuck
American Moose**
Calamian Deer
Bawean Deer
Formosan Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Coues's Deer**
Siberian Musk-Deer
Fin Whale**
Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Grey Whale**
Black-Backed Jackal
San Clemente Island Fox
Corsac Fox
Oncilla
Slender Mongoose
Brown Hyena
Greater Grison
Zorilla
American Marten
Beech Marten
Short-Tailed Weasel
Long-Tailed Weasel
Black-Footed Ferret
European Polecat
Siberian Weasel
Fisher
Marbled Polecat
African Palm-Civet
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Northern Elephant Seal**
Harp Seal
Spotted Seal
Ringed Seal
Ussuri Brown Bear (Hokkaido)
Kodiak Bear
Syrian Brown Bear
Owston's Civet
Feline Genet
Haussa Genet
Banded Civet
Malayan Civet
Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
White-Winged Vampire Bat
Southern Long-Nosed Bat
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Gambian Epauletted Bat
Livingstone's Flying Fox
Lyle's Flying Fox
Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox
Little Red Flying Fox
Ruwenzori Rousette
Pallid Bat
Little Brown Bat**
Northern Short-Tailed Shrew**
Eurasian Water Shrew
Eastern Tree Hyrax
Western Tree Hyrax
Antelope Jackrabbit**
Snowshoe Hare**
European Mountain Hare
New England Cottontail**
Daurian Pika
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chinese Pangolin
Tree Pangolin
Nancy Ma's Night-Monkey
Three-Striped Night-Monkey
Spix's Night-Monkey
Guatemalan Howler Monkey
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
Peruvian Spider Monkey
Wied's Marmoset
Red-Mantled Saddle-Backed Tamarin
Spix's Moustached Tamarin
Lowe's Guenon
Blue Monkey
Common Mona Monkey
Heck's Macaque
Olive Baboon
Guinea Baboon
Sumatran Surili
Red-Shanked Douc
Tarai Grey Langur
Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur
Ganzhorn's Mouse Lemur
Goodman's Mouse Lemur
Eastern Hoolock
Muller's Gibbon
Grey-Headed Lemur
Eastern Bamboo Lemur
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Red Slender Loris
Bornean Elephant
Ansell's Mole-Rat
Northern Mountain Viscacha
Woodland Vole**
White-Footed Mouse**
Alabama Beach Mouse
Mexican Dwarf Porcupine
Botta's Pocket Gopher**
Asian Garden Dormouse
Desert Pocket Mouse
Tipton Kangaroo-Rat
Ord's Kangaroo-Rat
Hairy-Footed Gerbil
Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat
Southern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Grandidier's Tufted-Tailed Rat
White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel
Plantain Squirrel
Gunnison's Prairie Dog**
Yellow-Bellied Marmot**
Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
Franklin's Ground Squirrel**
Abert's Squirrel**
Arizona Grey Squirrel**
Yucatan Squirrel
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel
Nice, I see you’ve seen many of the species I saw on my last two trips to Australia - Southern cassowary and Platypus (North Queensland); and Humpback whale and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Perth/Rottnest).
FunkyGibbon
Well-Known Member
I think it would be interesting, and useful, if we could pin down exactly what this thread means. Most lists being posted seem a little too broad, with many people laying claim to quite a lot of the species therein.
Possibly we could keep tabs on species claimed as seen by few, but subsequently revealed to be more commonly seen than thought?
Possibly we could keep tabs on species claimed as seen by few, but subsequently revealed to be more commonly seen than thought?
AmbikaFan
Well-Known Member
I had the great fortune of a surprise close-up encounter with Nola, SDSP's late northern white rhino. It was amazing to look her over closely and try to.commit every feature to memory, lest I never saw the species again. She was also at the very start of the infection on her rump, the one the resisted most treatment, so I was able to more-easily visualize and understand changes to the wound as they came about.
I also saw the great Asian elephant Packy. When I was small, his historic birth made headlines for years, and I remember learning about him at NZP. To see this truly--and impressively tall--special bull after we had both grown up was really special.
These are Baby-the-River-Dolphin moments for me.
I also saw the great Asian elephant Packy. When I was small, his historic birth made headlines for years, and I remember learning about him at NZP. To see this truly--and impressively tall--special bull after we had both grown up was really special.
These are Baby-the-River-Dolphin moments for me.
This brings up a point, are the deer I've seen free-roaming on Whipsnade's grounds considered to be a wild living introduced population?
Side note: While it doesn't make too much of a difference, the Uinta Ground Squirrels on my list were seen wild.
~Thylo
Whipsnade's free-ranging Chinese water deer and Reeves' muntjac are listed annually in Whipsnade's Animal Inventory so I would consider them as part of the animal collection (like the free-ranging mara and Bennett's wallaby) rather than as a wild living introduced population, although they have been there for many decades ever since the early days of Whipsnade.
Golden-collared Manakin? Appears to only be held by San Diego and DWA, which while both heavily visited has the species been seen by most people visiting?