Where do the Deer & Antelope Play?: A Look at America's Ungulate Populations
- Thread starter ThylacineAlive
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A couple other holders for impure american bison (assuming as not specifically listed as pure):
Bramble Park Zoo (Watertown, SD) approx. 0.0.10
Great Plains Zoo (Sioux Falls, SD) approx. 0.0.15
Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park (Ashland, NE) approx. 0.0.30
Riverside Discovery Center (Scottsbluff, NE) - 1.2
As a side note, there is 1.0 that is held at Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE.
Bramble Park Zoo (Watertown, SD) approx. 0.0.10
Great Plains Zoo (Sioux Falls, SD) approx. 0.0.15
Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park (Ashland, NE) approx. 0.0.30
Riverside Discovery Center (Scottsbluff, NE) - 1.2
As a side note, there is 1.0 that is held at Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE.
Lincoln Children's Zoo in Lincoln, NE has giraffe as well, assume not pure reticulated:
Lincoln Children's Zoo : Animals : Mammals : Reticulated Giraffe
Lincoln Children's Zoo : Animals : Mammals : Reticulated Giraffe
No, if they are labeled as Reticulated they would be generic.
Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, MO is another giraffe holder. They sign their herd as Rothschild's Giraffe (sign actually calls out Baringo Giraffe). However they could easily be generic. I'd have to look back through my pictures as it seemed only a couple had the Rothschild's pattern.
Birmingham has Hybrid giraffe.
The closest Guanacos to you would be at Animal Haven, Detroit, and Grant's Farm.
Jungle Man
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Maryland Zoo and the Animal Adventure Park have Generic Giraffe. Louisville Zoo has Masai Giraffe. As I am assuming all bison are considered impure, Animal Adventure Park also has them.
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Does TN Safari Park actually have this species? I've just been looking into it and I haven't found any proof they keep the species besides for them being on their species list. Their gallery has photos of pretty much all of their hoofstock and there are dozens of Llamas and Alpacas but I haven't spotted a single Guanaco.
~Thylo
I have no idea, I have no clue how to tell them apart. If they're anything like Virginia Safari Park, it could be difficult to get them in photos - VA has 150+ llama (felt like a thousand of them) but only 8 alpaca, and 300+ fallow deer with 20 chital and 50 sika, for example. Even with 50 sika, it was difficult to find them, especially if they were in a group hanging back from the road (like the 6 Pere David's, who were way off in the distance). They could also be kept separate; several of VA's species were in fenced off areas off show, and when I went to Six Flags, all 80+ fallow were in an off show yard that you'd only spot if you were looking hard for something.
There's a photo from a March 2018 review on Tripadvisor that shows a pair of genuine Guanaco at TN Safari Park, so that's at least somewhat recent evidence.
They're more distinctive looking that I thought!
Okay, big update and then new posts!
Giraffes
Masai Giraffe (28 holders)USA-
Brevard Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Franklin Park Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Houston Zoo
Kansas City Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Louisville Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Nashville Zoo
Oregon Zoo
Racine Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
Safari West
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Santa Barbara Zoo
The Wilds
Timbavati Wildlife Park
Toledo Zoo
Turtle Back Zoo
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Center
Toronto Zoo
Rothschild's/Nubian Giraffe (suspected) (3 holders)
Audubon Zoo
B. Bryan Preserve
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Giraffe (sensu lato) (79 holders)
USA-
Abilene Zoo
Animal Adventure (Harpursville)
Audubon Species Survival Center
Audubon Zoo
Bayou Wildlife Zoo
Binder Park Zoo
Birmingham Zoo
BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Buffalo Zoo
Central Florida Zoo
Chattanooga Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Como Park Zoo
Dallas Zoo
Denver Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Dickerson Park Zoo
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Frank Buck Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Giraffe Ranch
Gladys Porter Zoo
Great Plains Zoo
Hemker Park & Zoo
Henry Vilas Zoo
Hogle Zoo
Jacksonville Zoo
Indianapolis Zoo
Lion Country Safari
Lincoln Children’s Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago)
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Living Treasures Wild Animal Park (Moraine)
Maryland Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Milwaukee Zoo
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch
NEW Zoo & Adventure Park
North Carolina Zoo
Oakland Zoo
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
Oregon Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo & Garden
Roer’s Zoofari
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
Safari West
Safari Wild Animal Park & Preserve
St. Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
San Francisco Zoo
Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari (New Jersey)
Southwicks Zoo
Tanganyika Wildlife Park
Tennessee Safari Park
The Wilds
Timbavati Wildlife Park
Topeka Zoo
Tulsa Zoo
Utah’s Hogle Zoo
Virginia Safari Park
West Virginia Zoo
Wildlife Safari
Wildwood Wildlife Park
Woodland Park Zoo
Zoo Atlanta
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa
Canada-
African Lion Safari
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Calgary Zoo
Zoo Granby
Okapi (29 holders)
Audubon Special Survival Center
Brookfield Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Dallas Zoo
Denver Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Houston Zoo
Jacksonville Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Maryland Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Nashville Zoo
Oklahoma City Zoo
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Sedgwick County Zoo
Tanganyika Wildlife Park
White Oak Conservation Center
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa
~Thylo
Wild Cattle
American Bison (pure) (5 holders)Bronx Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Oakland Zoo
Oklahoma City Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
American Bison (impure) (53 holders)
USA-
Action Wildlife
Animal Adventure (Harpursville)
Animal Haven Zoo
Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo
Bear Country USA
Bearizona
Bergen County Zoo
Bramble Park Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Buffalo Zoo
Buttonwood Park Zoo
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Como Park Zoo
Dakota Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Doc’s Zoo
Glacier Ridge Animal Farm
Grant’s Farm
Great Plains Zoo
Henry Vilas Zoo
Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park
Living Treasures Wild Animal Park (Jones Mills)
Lincoln Park Zoo (Manitowoc)
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch
MacKenzie Center
Metro Richmond Zoo
NEW Zoo & Adventure Park
North Carolina Zoo
Queens Zoo
Riverside Discovery Center
Roer’s Zoofari
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari
Space Farms Zoo & Museums
Tennessee Safari Park
Turtle Back Zoo
Virginia Safari Park
West Virginia Zoo
Wildlife Safari
Wildlife World Zoo
Wildwood Zoo
Yellowstone Bear World
Zoo Idaho
Canada-
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
High Park Zoo
Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo
Zoo Sauvage de Saint Felicien
Wood Bison (4 holders)
USA-
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Center
Toronto Zoo
Lowland Anoa (10 holders)
Center for the Conservation of Tropical Ungulates (Rum Creek)
Fort Worth Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Micanopy Zoological Preserve
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
Roer’s Zoofari
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Timbavati Wildlife Park
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa
Javan Banteng (6 holders)
Center for the Conservation of Tropical Ungulates (Rum Creek)
Lee Richardson Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
St. Louis Zoo
The Wilds
Zoo Miami
Gaur (7 holders)
Bayou Wildlife Park
Bronx Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park
Living Treasures Wild Animal Park (Moraine)
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Zoo Miami
Cape Buffalo (4 holders)
Denver Zoo
Safari West
Safari Wilderness
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
African Forest Buffalo (1 holder?)
Micanopy Zoological Preserve?
~Thylo
Caprines
Sichuan Takin (27 holders)USA-
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Hemker Park & Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago)
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Mesker Park Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo
Peoria Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Pueblo Zoo
Red River Zoo
Riverview Park & Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Tennessee Safari Park
The Wilds
Zoo Montana
Canada-
African Lion Safari
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Edmonton Valley Zoo
Parc Safari
Mishmi Takin (2 holders)
Iron Mountain Ranch
San Diego Zoo
Golden Takin (1 holder)
San Diego Zoo
Muskox (12 holders)
USA-
Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Alaska Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Musk Ox Farm
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
R.G. White Large Animal Research Station
Canada-
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Calgary Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Safari Niagara
Zoo Sauvage de Saint Felicien
Yukon Wildlife Preserve
Kordofan Sheep (7 holders)
Dallas Zoo
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Barbary Sheep (generic) (24 holders)
USA-
Animal Adventure (Harpursville)
Animal Haven Zoo
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve
Dakota Zoo
Hemker Park & Zoo
Living Treasures Wild Animal Park (Jones Mill)
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch
Safari West
Safari Wild Animal Park & Preserve
Safari Wilderness
Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary
Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari (New Jersey)
Southwicks Zoo
Tennessee Safari Park
Timbavati Wildlife Park
West Virginia Zoo
Wilderness Trails Zoo
Wildwood Wildlife Park
York’s Wild Kingdom
Canada-
African Lion Safari
Greater Vancouver Zoo
High Park Zoo
Magnetic Hill Zoo
Toronto Zoo
West Caucasian Tur (4 holders)
USA-
Hemker Park & Zoo
Iron Mountain Ranch
Racine Zoo
Canada-
Toronto Zoo
Turkmenian Markhor (10 holders)
USA-
Bronx Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Iron Mountain Ranch
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Metro Richmond Zoo
Stone Zoo
Utah’s Hogle Zoo
Canada-
African Lion Safari
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Calgary Zoo
Alpine Ibex (5 holders)
USA-
Hemker Park & Zoo
Canada-
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Calgary Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Parc Omega
Nubian Ibex (8 holders)
BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Dallas Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Frank Buck Zoo
Iron Mountain Ranch
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Siberian Ibex (1 holder)
Canada-
Zoo Sauvage de Saint Felicien
Himalayan Tahr (6 holders)
USA-
Akron Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Canada-
African Lion Safari
Toronto Zoo
Zoo Granby
Nilgiri Tahr (1 holder)
Iron Mountain Ranch
Chinese Bharal (2 holders)
Iron Mountain Ranch
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (13 holders)
USA-
Bear Country USA
Buffalo Zoo
Dakota Zoo
Denver Zoo
Great Plains Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park
Wildwood Wildlife Park
Zoo Idaho
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Edmonton Valley Zoo
Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo
Zoo Sauvage de Saint Felicien
Desert Bighorn Sheep (7 holders)
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
California Living Museum
Hemker Park & Zoo
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Phoenix Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Dall Sheep (7 holders)
Alaska Zoo
Como Park Zoo
Dakota Zoo
Hemker Park & Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Manitowoc)
Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary
Wildwood Wildlife Park
Stone Sheep (2 holders)
Canada-
Assiniboine Park Zoo
Yukon Wildlife Preserve
Armenian Mouflon (4 holders)
Dakota Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
European Mouflon (11 holders)
USA-
Animal Haven Zoo
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve
Dakota Zoo
DeYoung Family Zoo
Erie Zoo
Lupa Zoo
Lynnwood Park Zoo
Space Farms Zoo & Museums
Canada-
High Park Zoo
Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo
Toronto Zoo
Transcaspian Urial (4 holders)
Minnesota Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Utica Zoo
Japanese Serow (5 holders)
USA-
Hemker Park & Zoo
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Trevor Zoo
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Zoo Granby
Central Chinese Goral (8 holders)
Lake Superior Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Oglebay Good Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
Tennessee Safari Park
The Wilds
Rocky Mountain Goat (15 holders)
USA-
Alaska Zoo
Bear Country USA
Bearizona
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Denver Zoo
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park
Oregon Zoo
Wildwood Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo
Yellowstone Bear World
Zoo Idaho
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo
Yukon Wildlife Preserve
Alpine Chamois (1 holder)
Canada-
Toronto Zoo
Thanks to @birdsandbats for giving me a good place to start with his previous thread (see: Caprines in North American Zoos). This has, by far, been the most difficult group to work our, especially as far as the wild sheep go. Any further additions more than welcome!
~Thylo
Camels
Guanaco (14 holders)USA-
Abilene Zoo
Animal Adventure (Harpursville)
Bergen County Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Louisville Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Santa Ana Zoo
Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Tennessee Safari Park
Canada-
Edmonton Valley Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Vicuna (2 holders)
USA-
Southwicks Zoo
Canada-
Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Center
A few of the Guanaco holdings posted earlier in this thread were difficult to confirm so I've left any I couldn't determine definitively out. A couple of the holdings posted turned out to be more Guanaco-like Llamas as well so those were also left out for obvious reasons. If I made any mistakes in my exclusions or if you have further information I'd be happy to hear it.
I also obviously left out Domestic Bactrian Camels and Dromedary Camels. Perhaps we can add those in as time goes on if people would like but I wanted to focus on the actual wild species here.
~Thylo
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Pigs & Peccaries
Chacoan Peccary (11 holders)USA-
Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago)
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Queens Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
Stone Zoo
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Collared Peccary (sensu lato) (7 holders)
USA-
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve
Detroit Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo
Orange County Zoo
Wildlife World Zoo
Canada-
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Red River Hog (31 holders)
USA-
Audubon Zoo
BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Center for the Conservation of Tropical Ungulates (Rum Creek)
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Denver Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Franklin Park Zoo
Houston Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago)
Metro Richmond Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Nashville Zoo
North Carolina Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Safari West
St. Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Sedgwick County Zoo
Southwicks Zoo
Tennessee Safari Park
Wildlife World Zoo
Zoo Tampa
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Toronto Zoo
Southern Warthog (26 holders)
USA-
Animal Adventure (Harpursville)
Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Dallas Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Erie Zoo
Franklin Park Zoo
Jacksonville Zoo
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Louisville Zoo
Maryland Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Safari West
San Diego Zoo & Safari Park
Sedgwick County Zoo
Southwicks Zoo
Tennessee Safari Park
Utah’s Hogle Zoo
Wildlife World Zoo
Zoo Miami
Canada-
Toronto Zoo
Eurasian Wild Boar (4 holders)
USA-
Minnesota Zoo
West Virginia Zoo
Canada-
Calgary Zoo
Greater Vancouver Zoo
Bornean Bearded Pig (2 holders)
Capital of Texas Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Visayan Warty Pig (11 holders)
Capron Park Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Erie Zoo
Jacksonville Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Garden
Mast Farm
Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo
Zoo Tampa
North Sulawesi Babirusa (14 holders)
Audubon Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Center for the Conservation of Tropical Ungulates (Rum Creek)
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Houston Zoo
Jacksonville Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Louisville Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo & Garden
Roger Williams Park Zoo
St. Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Zoo Tampa
Again, further information is more than welcome.
That's all for tonight!
~Thylo
The only immediate addition that I see is that Pittsburgh and Cincinnati both hold Visayan Warty Pig.
Thank you so much for putting this together!
Where is Iron Mountain Ranch and is it open to the public? I have not been able to find any information on it.
Additional giraffe holder: Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa.
Giraffe | Blank Park Zoo
Giraffe | Blank Park Zoo
doesn’t San Diego zoo Safari Park keep babirusa?