Lincoln Park, plenty in Europe.
Are These in Captivity?
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Just four zoos keeps Kagu in Europe... I won't say that's plenty.
The only other species of nighttjars I have seen were kept in Australia; in Europe and probably US it is only the Tawny Frogmouth.
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I think it also doesn't help that most European species have North American counter parts and its easier to get species locally than import.
Grizzly Bear - Brown Bear
Grey Wolf - Grey Wolf
Moose - European Elk
American Beaver - European Beaver
American Elk - Red Deer
Bison - Wisent
The only exception I can think of is Caribou as there are far more Reindeer in captivity as they are domesticated.
Most common European species I can think of Eagle Owls, Eurasian Lynx, Mouflon, Wild Boar, Giant Legless Lizard.
Yes at Paira Daiza in Belgium
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Yes, this species only survives in captivity.
They're extremely rare in the wild, there's only a few of them. They're also very important to native tribes in their areas.
I believe BC Wildlife Park has the only kermode bear in captivity. (Snowleopard profile picture)
Few decades ago when both AZA and EAZA were new and forming, wise old men from both continents had a meeting and agreed that AZA zoos will not start breeding programs for European species and EAZA zoos will also phase-out NAmerican species over time.
Reasons were - both regions are rich and stable enough to be able to run their respective rescue breeding programs for local species without need of outside help. Lack of available space that should be better used. Potential of accidental escape and hybridisation with local (sub-)species or introduction of allien species originating from similar climatic region thus able to establish itself quickly.
However, this didn´t go fully as planned. AZA is pretty monolitic and has well organized and behaving members so most of European species were indeed marked to be phase-out and zoos mostly heeded this advise so over time European species in N America wanished or diminished to few animals or private or non-AZA zoos.
Situation is Europe is different. European region is larger and highly diverse and EAZA has nowhere the same power and well behaved membership as AZA does. It also has low penetration in Eastern Europe and Balkan, and even members often treat its rules only as suggestions, not something put in stone. So while EAZA tried to phase-out NA species, many of its members didn´t take it seriously.
Back in the 1980's( or maybe it was earlier?) San Diego had one of the bluemorph ones, a male. But presumably never bred any more from it.
I must say that for some species like bison, timberwolf, wapiti/elk (Cervus canadensis), skunk, porcupines, prairie dogs and many other species I don't think it's a problem that they are still around in Europe, I'm even glad that we still have a nice diversity of North-American fauna here. For the wood bison that are on a fase-out in AZA I'm actually very glad that at least we have a population here in Europe. Only when it comes to species that have an European alternative that isn't kept in big European wildlife parks I believe problems arise, like for example the American minks and Canadian beavers taking up space that could be used for European minks and European beavers. For a lot of species however there is enough space to keep both the American and European version, even though it isn't always managed so well (prairie dogs and sousliks for example).
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Yes, I think I agree about that European alternative point. Incidentally, why are European mink not being kept by more zoos ?
Noah Butas
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Is there a list of vultures in US captivity?
No list is available to just type up here, but you can always just search the zoochat wesbite for various media of vultures.
They all are
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Good point lol !
Exactly what I was thinking!
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