What animals would you like too see more.

GiratinaIsGod

GiratinaIsGod

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I see a lot of people complaining about species. They see to often in zoos *coughs meerkats. But here is a diffrent question. What species of animals, would like too see more often. For me it would definativly be Muskox and Slothbears. Both are quite rare animals in captivity.
 
Coldwater marine species in general. A lot of aquariums don't have them in favour of the more colourful reef species. What few coldwater exhibits i have seen were very cool (pun absolutely intended).
 
For India, meerkats and lemurs, maybe Bat-eared foxes.
While I know that the first two are incredibly common in the 'west', they are quite rare in India, and probably not that hard to take care of.
I would also love to see orangs, gorillas and rhinos more, but considering how hard to care for and rare they are, it may be a good thing if they are not that common.
 
Yi Qi said:
I'd like to see shoebills and mandrills.
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the racoon has spoken said:
Shoebills and any rare/poorly known species of reptiles, amphibians, bats, brackish fish and small mammals.(Especially geckos)
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I'm going to jump on the shoebill train, I'd love to see more of them (and any of the other taxa mentioned, honestly).

Clouded leopards as well, especially considering I've never actually seen them. From my understanding they're trickier to house well due to their arboreal needs, and stress from proximity to other carnivores, but having more zoos make the effort would be great.
 
African Leopards need better representation in America. I'm tired of seeing them replaced with Amur Leopards. Penguin exhibits usually only exhibit 1-3 different species of penguins but it is possible to do five in one exhibit so that would also be nice.
 
Dugongs, African, and Amazonian manatees I’d like to see in more aquariums, provided the tanks are spacious and enrichment is provided.
 
Other than the obvious elephant in the room (Brookfield, you know we missed these trunkers for a while), it would be nice to see more hyenas and certain African hoofstock (buffalo and certain antelopes like oryxes) more.
 
Tapir Master said:
Other than the obvious elephant in the room (Brookfield, you know we missed these trunkers for a while), it would be nice to see more hyenas and certain African hoofstock (buffalo and certain antelopes like oryxes) more.
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Oryxes are everywhere :) I'd always love to see more hyenas, though.
 
If I had to name a few species I'd like to see more of in Zoos in my vicinity...
- Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger)
- Dhole (Cuon alpinus)
- TONS of smaller cats; Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus), caracal (Caracal Caracal), jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
- Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)
- Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
- Little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor)
- Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)
- King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa)
 
To be honest I would like to see more of any of the smaller mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates etc that are in dire need of ex-situ assurance populations in zoos.

In Brazilian zoos I would like to see more endangered and critically endangered native / endemic species being kept and as part of decent captive breeding programs such as :

Buffy tufted marmoset
Buffy headed marmoset
Black lion tamarin
Pied tamarin
Superagui lion tamarin
Southern Muriqui
Northern Muriqui
Red Uakari
Bush dog
Short eared dog
Pampas cat
Brazilian three banded armadillo
Brazilian merganser
Spix macaw
Lear's macaw
Araripe manakin
Blue eyed ground dove
Golden lancehead viper
Alcatrazes lancehead viper
Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle
 
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