No longer kept/rarely kept species in North American zoos?

Zebraduiker said:
I think, a lot of american animals are rare in Us-Zoos, too. I've seen american badger in only one Zoo for example.
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American badgers show up in Wisconsin zoos (Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison, and maybe more) -- it IS the "Badger State", as you know. I've also seen them at Arizona-Sonora and rather active one in the Desert Dome of Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo (a couple weeks ago).
 
American badgers can also be found at the Northwest Trek Wildlife Park near Tacoma, the B.C. Wildlife Park in Canada, and the Greater Vancouver Zoo had one a few years ago.
 
Im wondering something from the beggining of this thread. Why do Austrialian animals have high importation rules/bans, etc?
 
As far as I know, it seems the government of Australia is as hesitant to let anything out as it is letting anything in.
 
I guess it makes sense in terms of the invasive species
 
To my knowledge, Disney does NOT have white-tailed gnu (aka black wildebeest). They do display eastern white-bearded wildebeest.
 
Aw,you beat me to it,lol.Yes Ungulate,your info is correct,as I remember the wildebeast at Animal Kingdom are white-bearded.
 
What is the status of the Asiatic Lion in North American collections? Extinct? Never been displayed? I'm looking through ISIS and can't seem to find any record of them in NA zoos, unless it's another ISIS goof.
 
There used to be an Asian lion SSP, until DNA testing determined that almost the entire North American population was not purebred Asian.
 
not really at this moment. I know there is currently a lot of work with re-doing the African Lion SSP, importing animals from africa and only breeding animals with known pedigrees.
 
I just saw two cape buffalo at Jacksonville Zoo, and there are a couple more at Mountain View Conservation Centre in Langley, British Columbia. Also, the Denver Zoo had some when I was there in 2006, but I agree that they are extremely rare in North American zoos.
 
snowleopard said:
I just saw two cape buffalo at Jacksonville Zoo, and there are a couple more at Mountain View Conservation Centre in Langley, British Columbia. Also, the Denver Zoo had some when I was there in 2006, but I agree that they are extremely rare in North American zoos.
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I know that they are rare in American zoos, but I've heard that nine cape buffaloes are exhibited in San Diego Wild Animal Park.
 
Ituri said:
As far as I know, it seems the government of Australia is as hesitant to let anything out as it is letting anything in.
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Quartz92 originally asked about this. Honestly, I think that to a large part this is a "tourism" thing for Australia. When you know that "only in Australia" can you see some of their unique animals (platypus, Taz devils, and to some degree, koalas) -- that increases your interest in taking a trip to the land Down Under. It sure makes ME want to go down there!
 
A few more points for this interesting thread:
1. Yes, Cape buffalo are very rare in American zoos. So rare that, by having them, the Jacksonville Zoo is America's ONLY zoo to exhibit all of the famous African "Big Five" -- Cape buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard, and rhino.

2. In just over a week, I'm going to see another species that qualifies for this thread, WHALE SHARKS! I'm going to see them at the amazing Georgia Aquarium. Never been there before, so I'm quite excited.

3. The Berlin Tierpark (sometimes called the East Berlin Zoo) probably displays many of the rare animals discussed on this thread, and it's the only zoo I've seen that has such a "complete" collection of many animal types. Examples: (a) they have spotted, striped, and brown hyenas; (b) both Sichuan and Mishmi takins; (c) All 4 types of llamas (llama, alpaca, vicuna, guanaco) in side-by-side large fields; (d) I believe they had 3 types of zebras in similar side-by-side pens; (e) much more!
 
ANyhuis said:
The Berlin Tierpark (sometimes called the East Berlin Zoo) probably displays many of the rare animals discussed on this thread, and it's the only zoo I've seen that has such a "complete" collection of many animal types. Examples: (a) they have spotted, striped, and brown hyenas; (b) both Sichuan and Mishmi takins; (c) All 4 types of llamas (llama, alpaca, vicuna, guanaco) in side-by-side large fields; (d) I believe they had 3 types of zebras in similar side-by-side pens; (e) much more!
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And this is why, despite the many issues which many people have with this zoo (justifiably so, in some cases) it is such a great place. Having the three larger hyena species togetehr, for example, is just wonderful. Cape buffalo next to the forest buffalo. A huge range of equids. And on and on and on.
 
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