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

For years, Lubee held the only specimens for many tropical fruit bat species in captivity. They are now slowly loaning surplus to other institutions. Just like Duke with its lemurs.
 
Quartz92 said:
I think there are fruit bats at the Toronto Zoo.
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You are correct :) Egyptian Fruit Bats, the same species that is kept at Niagara's Bird Kingdom. At one time (I remember her in the early to mid nineties) there was a free-flying Grey-headed Fruit Bat in the Australasia pavilion.

Another rare species that the Toronto Zoo has currently is the New Guinea Singing Dog and I believe they are a rarer species, the Swamp Wallaby and Matschie's Tree Kangaroo.
 
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Someone told me it is an error in the ISIS. No brown hyena anywhere in the US collection. I hope I am wrong on that.
 
The more I read this thread, the more I realize how great the Tierpark Berlin (the "other Berlin zoo") is! They have 3 varieties of hyenas (striped, spotted, and brown), all displayed by each other. They also have all 4 varieties of llamas (including vicunas), side-by-side in huge yards.
 
Ungulate said:
Over the past decade or so, there have been quite a number of species which have disappeared from North American collections, or at least accreditted facilities. Here is a quick list of some mammal species that are either gone (from accreditted collections - I know there may be some in private hands), or very rare:

"Extinct"
Grizzled grey tree kangaroo
Tasmanian devil
Ground cuscus
Mountain paca
Tarsiers
Proboscis monkey
Eastern lowland gorilla
Yellow-throated marten
Amazon river dolphin
Lesser Malayan chevrotain
Bawean deer
Black muntjac
Pampas deer
Hunter's hartebeest
White-tailed gnu
Oribi
Russian saiga
Zebra duiker
Nilgiri tahr
Snow sheep

Very rare:
Tiger quoll
Leadbeater's possum
Paca
Pacarana
Crowned guenon
Douc langur
Javan gibbon
Temminck's golden cat
Jaguarundi
Rusty-spotted cat
Dhole
Raccoon dog
South African fur seal
Kiang
Northern white rhino
Bushpig
(Giant forest hog)
Vicuna
Siberian musk deer
Persian fallow deer
Javan rusa deer
Red brocket
Topi
Red-fronted gazelle
Suni antelope
Wisent
Bushbuck
Maxwell's duiker
Jentink's duiker
Common (grey) duiker
Chamois
East Caucasian tur
Spanish ibex
Siberian ibex
Blue sheep
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Which North American zoo had Black muntjacs ?
 
I wasn't sure if this warranted a new thread or not, but I just randomly came across this site which says leaf muntjac (Muntiacus putaoensis) are in the USA?
Muntjac Deer Info, Leaf Muntjac Deer, Muntiacus puntoensis
The two smaller species, the Leaf Muntjac and Reeves Muntjac, are currently being bred in the United States

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The Leaf Muntjac is from Southeast Asia and China and lives deep in the mountains. The Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Society found the Leaf Muntjac high in the mountains of Asia and introduced them in the United States in 1999.

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Yeah does anyone have any clue what zoo had Black Muntjacs in the US? Also what's the deal with these Leaf Muntjacs? Where are they!? How can I photograph them!?

I've been stuck at 2 species of Muntjac for like 20 years now. And they just keep discovering new ones, only worsening my percentage.
 
Giant Eland said:
Also what's the deal with these Leaf Muntjacs? Where are they!? How can I photograph them!?
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don't get too excited about the leaf muntjac. I'd be willing to bet there are none outside Asia. I'm pretty sure the photo on my link is actually a baby Reeves' muntjac. I can't find any other info saying they are in America, except that one site and a bunch of mislabelled photos (including a baby Reeves' at Woodland Park Zoo on Flickr labelled as a leaf muntjac).
 
I did some digging and found some "leaf muntjacs" for sale. I'd be willing to bet that this is like the "mountain coatis" for sale and not actually what they say they are.
 
Ituri said:
I did some digging and found some "leaf muntjacs" for sale. I'd be willing to bet that this is like the "mountain coatis" for sale and not actually what they say they are.
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I hate it when I find something interesting like this on the internet because I then spend far too long trying to dig into it!

I found loads of American sites selling leaf muntjac and, yes, I'd say it would be exactly the same as the mountain coatis. I was even wondering if the sellers were just calling baby Reeves' muntjacs "leaf muntjacs" because they are small? (All the photos I've seen on sellers' sites appear to be baby Reeves' but it isn't clear if they are their own photos or off the internet; one was certainly a photo of a baby Reeves' taken from the Daily Mail in the UK and relabelled as a leaf muntjac).
 
Haha thanks guys, I got a little excited but it was late and didn't feel like digging myself. And of course one quick look at that link and the photo is clearly not an adult muntjac of any species...oh well, there goes the awkward phone conversation with some random breeder somewhere "No, no..I don't want to buy it, I just want to fly to you and photograph it"
 
Smokeycat3 said:
There are Indochinese tigers in the Birmingham Zoo (Alabama) and that is a nice zoo.
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All of the Indochinese tigers (P. t. corbetti) in North America and Europe have been reclassified as Malayan tigers (P. t. jacksoni).
 
kiang said:
Vicuna have never really been established in North America apart from Winnipeg, why is this is it due to the ban on the export of their wool?
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San Diego Zoo used to have them in Horn and hoof Mesa, and the now closed Alberta Game farm in canada used to have them
 
ungulate nerd said:
San Diego Zoo used to have them in Horn and hoof Mesa, and the now closed Alberta Game farm in canada used to have them
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Ohhh any idea what years San Diego had Vicuna?? It always bothered me that at least from 1988 onward (when my zoo-ing began) that Vicuna have not been in the United States! Every other Camelid was available to see, but Vicuna I'd have to go to Europe or South America (or Winnipeg, but I'm not going to go all the way to Winnipeg just for Vicuna). It wasn't until 2009 when I finally went to Europe for the first time that I was able to cross them off my list and complete the Camelid collection (wild camel species not included).
 
Ituri said:
I did some digging and found some "leaf muntjacs" for sale. I'd be willing to bet that this is like the "mountain coatis" for sale and not actually what they say they are.
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Outside of zoos, why would anyone want to buy a muntjac? I wouldn't think that it would be legal to keep them many places. but then I guess some places like Texas let you keep just about anything.

Hopefully people don't hunt muntjacs?
 
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