Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

Tetzoo Quizzer said:
Having just read through the whole thread, let’s try a few species for fun; all wild
Tibetan Gazelle
Blue Sheep
Indri
Oilbird
Marvellous Spatuletail
Wattled Ploughbill
Crab Plover
Bornean Bristlehead
Ribbon-tailed Astrapia
Blue Bird-of-Paradise
Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise
Flame Bowerbird
Ifrit
Wrenthrush
Red-shouldered Vanga
Crossley’s Vanga
Banded Wattle-eye
Junin Grebe
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i got the crab plover
 
Herps in Japan:

Mamushi
Malagasy Leaf-Nosed Snake (some at the Bronx Zoo too, not super rare)
Sakishima Grass Lizard
Japanese Keelback
Lesser Caymans Iguana
lots of Japanese endemic salamanders
Smooth Helmeted Iguana (some in the US)
Common Basilisk (much rarer than Plumed Basilisk in zoos)
Galapagos Land Iguana
Lesser Antillean Iguana
Exuma Island Iguana
Cuban Rock Iguana
Bahamian Rock Iguana
Angel Island Chuckwalla
Galapagos Lava Lizard
Earless Monitor (getting more common in Europe)
Yellow-Spotted Tropical Night Lizard
Southeastern Plated Lizard (Zonosaurus maximus)
Giant Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Psychedelic Rock Gecko
Texas Indigo Snake
Hime Habu
Santa Cruz Giant Tortoise
Ryukyu Black-Breasted Leaf Turtle
Flat-Backed Spider Tortoise
Goliath Frog
Japanese endemic frogs
Anderson's Salamander
Bredl's Python
Black-Banded Sea Krait
Blue-Lipped Sea Krait
Madagascar Water Skink
Bocourt's Water Snake
Indian Flapshell Turtle
Okinawa Habu
Ryukyu endemic snakes
Ryukyu Yellow-Margined Box Turtle
Sakishima Habu
Ryukyu Yellow Pond Turtle
Galapagos Green Turtle
 
RatioTile said:
Herps in Japan:

Mamushi
Malagasy Leaf-Nosed Snake (some at the Bronx Zoo too, not super rare)
Sakishima Grass Lizard
Japanese Keelback
Lesser Caymans Iguana
lots of Japanese endemic salamanders
Smooth Helmeted Iguana (some in the US)
Common Basilisk (much rarer than Plumed Basilisk in zoos)
Galapagos Land Iguana
Lesser Antillean Iguana
Exuma Island Iguana
Cuban Rock Iguana
Bahamian Rock Iguana
Angel Island Chuckwalla
Galapagos Lava Lizard
Earless Monitor (getting more common in Europe)
Yellow-Spotted Tropical Night Lizard
Southeastern Plated Lizard (Zonosaurus maximus)
Giant Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Psychedelic Rock Gecko
Texas Indigo Snake
Hime Habu
Santa Cruz Giant Tortoise
Ryukyu Black-Breasted Leaf Turtle
Flat-Backed Spider Tortoise
Goliath Frog
Japanese endemic frogs
Anderson's Salamander
Bredl's Python
Black-Banded Sea Krait
Blue-Lipped Sea Krait
Madagascar Water Skink
Bocourt's Water Snake
Indian Flapshell Turtle
Okinawa Habu
Ryukyu endemic snakes
Ryukyu Yellow-Margined Box Turtle
Sakishima Habu
Ryukyu Yellow Pond Turtle
Galapagos Green Turtle
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Do you know if any American collections hold these snakes? I've always been interested in seeing them, but I don't have the time or money to travel to Japan.
 
The leaf-nosed snakes are quite rare in captivity actually, only a few holders. Unfortunately, Bronx's snake died some time ago.

SpinyLiving said:
Do you know if any American collections hold these snakes? I've always been interested in seeing them, but I don't have the time or money to travel to Japan.
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San Antonio has Okinawa Habu (or did in 2018).

~Thylo
 
Fish and invertebrates in the parts of the world underrepresented by ZooChat are prime candidates for being featured here. Alas, only some people on this site keep track (photograph and ID) them.

Here's some invertebrates I saw in Japan:

Japanese Fireflies
Australian Glow-Worm (Arachnocampa richardsae)
Diving Bell Spider
Antarctic Isopod (Glyptonotus antarcticus)
Antarctic Krill
Antarctic Nemertean Worm (Parborlasia corrugata)
Japanese Crayfish
3 species of Sea Spiders
Deep Sea Crabs
Backswimmer
4 species of East Asian diving beetles
Lake Baikal Giant Amphipod (Acanthogammarus victorii)
a dozen species of nudibranchs and sea hares
Coconut Crab (definitely kept elsewhere, too)
Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
 
Herps in Singapore:

Southern River Terrapin (Batagur affinis)
Burmese Roof Turtle (Batagur trivittata)
Asian Giant Toad
Regal Horned Lizard
Malayan Flat-Shelled Turtle
Angonoka Tortoise
Clouded Monitor (wild)
D'Albertis Python
Large-Eyed Pit Viper
Elephant Trunk Snake

Herps in Taiwan:

Chinese Cobra
Formosa Kukri Snake
Taipei Frog
Taipei Tree Frog
Swinhoe's Green Frog
LaTouche's Frog
Taiwan Japalure
Okinawa Tree Lizard
 
Would whale shark and ocean sunfish count as species few ZooChatters have seen? Several aquariums around the world have them, but 1) not everyone's interested in fish and would intentionally seek them out and 2) a lot of ZooChatters live in places geographically distant from the aquariums with them.

In contrast, most ZooChatters who have been to aquariums would be familiar with sand tiger shark and blacktip reef shark.
 
RatioTile said:
Would whale shark and ocean sunfish count as species few ZooChatters have seen? Several aquariums around the world have them, but 1) not everyone's interested in fish and would intentionally seek them out and 2) a lot of ZooChatters live in places geographically distant from the aquariums with them.

In contrast, most ZooChatters who have been to aquariums would be familiar with sand tiger shark and blacktip reef shark.
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I think for the scarcity and distance factors they probably do count, although I would imagine those two are notable enough species most Zoochatters would see them if visiting an aquarium with the species on display. I know Georgia Aquarium is on a lot of US people's "want to go" lists simply for the Whale Sharks and the mantas.
 
RatioTile said:
Would whale shark and ocean sunfish count as species few ZooChatters have seen? Several aquariums around the world have them, but 1) not everyone's interested in fish and would intentionally seek them out and 2) a lot of ZooChatters live in places geographically distant from the aquariums with them.

In contrast, most ZooChatters who have been to aquariums would be familiar with sand tiger shark and blacktip reef shark.
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I would say whale shark and ocean sunfish are the few species of fish that people would seek for, and sunfish are also keep in both N.A and Europe.
 
aardvark250 said:
I would say whale shark and ocean sunfish are the few species of fish that people would seek for, and sunfish are also keep in both N.A and Europe.
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Some rummaging around the Zoochat galleries puts some weight behind this, both are well represented by a good number of members. Confirmed sightings are also in fair supply in threads. Whether the species have only been seen by "a few" zoochatters is probably still where they fall, although among active/previously active members perhaps not.

Also worth noting there are wild photos of both species in the galleries. At least one person has seen Whale Shark in the wild, and no less than three have seen wild sunfish. There are a couple additional members I strongly suspect may have also seen either species in the wild.
 
animalszoos said:
Not sure if they are all rare in captivity but:
Sunda Pangolin
Sunda Clouded Leopard
Bornean Pygmy Elephant
Sumatran Rhino
Proboscis Monkey (both captive and wild)
Iberian Lynx
Platypus
Arabian Leopard
Speke's Gazelle
Arabian and African Wolf
Also seen wild silvery lutungs and colugos
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Forgot to mention the Sumatran Rhino subspecies seen was the Eastern Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), perhaps making it a rarer zoo sighting - does anyone know which subspecies was kept in American zoos?
 
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