Top 20 Most Popular ABC's to the public.

MonkeyBat said:
My personal list of animals people want in a zoo

1. Lions (Immediate animal people think about, despite the fact they don't do much, used a lot in advertising)
2. Meerkats (Almost every zoo these days is expected to have them, to the dismay of ZooChatters)
3. Lemurs, specifically ring tailed (With the popularity of Madagascar, Avatar, Zooboomafoo, Dinosaur, and countless nature documentaries, these have leaped into people's hearts)
4. River otters (Kids love watching these, and I reluctantly do too)
5. Giant pandas (Do I need to explain?)
6. Red pandas (Definitely has become more popular among the public recently, used a lot in advertising)
7. Giraffes (Iconic zoo animal, feeding stations have become more common leading to the "feed a giraffe!" adverts seen a lot)
8. Elephants (Another iconic zoo animal, used for adverts a lot too.)
9. Tigers (less popular than lions IMO, but still expected, especially in zoos up north)
10. Great apes (Another iconic zoo animal, fun for the public to watch)
11. Tamarins, Spider monkeys (While tamarins may not be easily identified by the public, every zoo seems to have them, and spider monkeys, while not easily identified by the public, are what most cartoon monkeys resemble I think.)
12. Penguins (Used a lot in advertising, fun to watch)
13. Flamingoes (A feel like most people expect to see them when they first walk into a zoo)
14. Seals/Sea lions (Another fun animal to watch, used in advertising a lot)
15. Llamas/Sloths (Have become incredibly popular during the past few years due to the internet and videos/memes)
16. Poison dart frogs (I swear almost every zoo in North America has these things)
17. Lorikeets/Budgies (Most zoos advertise their Australian bird aviaries like you get to swim with dolphins, people love these things)
18. Bears (Another very well known zoo animal)
19. Kangaroos/Wallabies (Kangaroo walkthroughs have boosted in popularity)
20. Hippos (With the star that is Fiona and the overall intrigue of hippos, people love to see them)
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Not sure that people do actually go to zoos to see (or want to see in zoos) some of these like poison dart frogs, tamarins or spider monkeys.

I think that rather when visitors are at zoos and these animals happen to be on display they become a focal / talking point of attention but I don't think they are among the most popular species by any means.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Not sure that people do actually go to zoos to see (or want to see in zoos) some of these like poison dart frogs, tamarins or spider monkeys.

I think that rather when visitors are at zoos and these animals happen to be on display they become a focal / talking point of attention but I don't think they are among the most popular species by any means.
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Good point, just added them in due to their abundance in zoos.
 
Hvedekorn said:
Among wild animals, I would estimate the following are the most popular:

1. Elephants
2. Hippos (if a zoo has both species, then only common hippos reach ABC status)
3. Giraffes
4. Rhinos
5. Cetaceans
6. Diurnal lemurs
7. Monkeys (with the exception of night monkeys and callitrichids - the former are too nocturnal, the latter are still popular, but too small compared to other primates to reach true ABC status)
8. Great apes
9. Kangaroos and larger species of wallabies
10. Koalas
11. Polar bears
12. Giant pandas
13. Other bears if there aren't any polar bears or giant pandas present (otherwise, they're still popular, but maybe not quite ABC)
14. Lions
15. Tigers
16. Pinnipeds
17. Penguins
18. Large constricting snakes (nothing smaller than a boa constrictor)
19. Crocodilians
20. Sharks

Domestics are not ABC's in the sense that they can draw guests who've never visited before (with the exception of small "farm zoos" which advertise that guests can get up close with the animals), but a petting zoo is probably the exhibit that average families spend the most time by (unless you count playgrounds as exhibits). I also find that among less popular animals, domestic variants are ignored much less. (Most average guests won't give a Hawaiian goose the time of day, but they'll often stop for a brief while to look at domestic geese)
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No wolves?
 
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