Odd Toed Ungulates in the USA

MonkeyBat

MonkeyBat

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I've decided to make a list of the current holders of different types of even toed ungulates. Here are the rules I'm considering

1.) Holders have to be places readily available to the public.
2.) I'm not going to be including domestic types or hybrids such as domestic horses, domestic donkeys, mules, zedonks, or zorses
3.) For zebras, subspecies will not be considered. There are way too many places with zebras and I idon'thave the time or energy to find out whether a holder has Grant's, Bruchell's, Chapman's, ect.)

Let's start! First off is rhinos. If you notice anything missing or holders that don't have the species, let me know!

Eastern Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis michaeli)
Abilene Zoo
Blank Park Zoo
BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Buffalo Zoo
Busch Gardens Tampa
Caldwell Zoo
Chehaw Park (labeled as Southern black?)
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo
Denver Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (labeled as Southern black?)
Great Plains Zoo
Honolulu Zoo
Kansas City Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Little Rock Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
Oregon Zoo
Pittsburgh Zoo
Potter Park Zoo
Racine Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
San Diego Safari Park
San Francisco Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
Tanganyika Wildlife Park
White Oak Conservation Center (labeled as Southern black?)
Zoo Atlanta
Zoo Miami

Indian Rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis)
BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Buffalo Zoo
Central Florida Zoo
Denver Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Hemker Park Zoo
Mesker Park Zoo
Montgomery Zoo
Oklahoma City Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Safari Park
San Francisco Zoo
Tanganyika Wildlife Park
The Wilds
Toledo Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo
White Oak Conservation Center
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa

Southern White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum)
ABQ Biopark
Audubon Zoo
Birmingham Zoo
Brevard Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Busch Gardens Tampa
Cameron Park Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Ellen Trout Zoo
Erie Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Gulf Breeze Zoo
Henry Vilas Zoo
Hollywild Zoo?
Houston Zoo
Indianapolis Zoo
Jackson Zoo
Jacksonville Zoo
Lazy 5 Ranch?
Lion Country Safari
Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo?
Louisville Zoo
Maryland Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Nashville Zoo
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch
Niabi Zoo (Future)
North Carolina Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo
Out of Africa Wildlife Park
Peoria Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Phoenix Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Reid Park Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Safari West
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Safari Park
Seneca Park Zoo
Six Flags Great Adventure
Southwick’s Zoo
The Wilds
Tulsa Zoo
Utah’s Hogle Zoo
Virginia Safari Park
Virginia Zoo
Wild Wilderness Drive Through Safari?
Wildlife Safari
Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium
White Oak Conservation Center
Zoo Knoxville
Zoo Tampa

Tapirs coming soon...
 
It seems San Diego Zoo Safari Park holds three species/subspecies of rhinoceros, and The Wilds holds two. Very interested to see what the new Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Park will do; the main zoo has Eastern Black Rhinoceros, which I imagine they will try to keep at the WildCare Park, too. But they may also try to breed other, equally-endangered subspecies. Time will tell.
 
imaginarius said:
It seems San Diego Zoo Safari Park holds three species/subspecies of rhinoceros, and The Wilds holds two. Very interested to see what the new Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Park will do; the main zoo has Eastern Black Rhinoceros, which I imagine they will try to keep at the WildCare Park, too. But they may also try to breed other, equally-endangered subspecies. Time will tell.
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I feel they will keep the Eastern Black rhinos at the zoo, and keep/breed Southern White and/or Indian rhinos at the WildCare Park. This would make sense since the main zoo has already been successful and is doing well with breeding Eastern Black rhinos, and with the expansive field habitats at the WildCare Park they would be able to keep/breed large herds of Southern White and/or Indian rhinos.
 
birdsandbats said:
There are is a decent number of holders of Baird's and Malayan Tapirs in the US, but very few with Lowland and only one zoo with Mountain.
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There are few with lowland tapirs ? o_O That is bizarre and very suprising.

I thought that the LA zoo and Cheyenne mountain zoo held the mountain tapir and that there were others too.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
There are few with lowland tapirs ? o_O That is bizarre and very suprising.

I thought that the LA zoo and Cheyenne mountain zoo held the mountain tapir and that there were others too.
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I think Cheyenne and LA are the only holders. San Francisco had them for a while in the 2000s however. From what I've gathered so far lowland are quite common in safari parks and other roadside attractions
 
MonkeyBat said:
I think Cheyenne and LA are the only holders. San Francisco had them for a while in the 2000s however. From what I've gathered so far lowland are quite common in safari parks and other roadside attractions
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Sounds about right in terms of the lowland tapir, they are not that hard to breed and I imagine though they may not be common they are very unlikely to be rare.
 
MonkeyBat said:
I think Cheyenne and LA are the only holders. San Francisco had them for a while in the 2000s however. From what I've gathered so far lowland are quite common in safari parks and other roadside attractions
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I thought Cheyenne's Mountain Tapir had died?

MonkeyBat said:
I think Cheyenne and LA are the only holders. San Francisco had them for a while in the 2000s however. From what I've gathered so far lowland are quite common in safari parks and other roadside attractions
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Sounds about right in terms of the lowland tapir, they are not that hard to breed and I imagine though they may not be common they are very unlikely to be rare.
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Lowland are around in private hands but certainly not common, they are rare in public collections.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Why are lowland tapirs so uncommon ? It seems so strange to me
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The AZA and EAZA work together when it comes to breeding programms. It doesn't make sense to make the animals travel from one continent to the other in order to maintain a geneticaly diverse population, therefore Lowland tapirs are taken care of in Europe, while the Baird's tapir are the priority in North America.
Same thing with for example Dama gazelles, Europe deals with the Mhorr gazelles (mhorr), NA with the Red-necked subspecies (ruficolis).

This is the reason the Baird's tapir population in Europe is so low (2 collections), while the lowland tapirs is held at 157. 23 collections have Mhorr gazelles in Europe, while only 2 have Red-necked gazelles.
 
Rayane said:
The AZA and EAZA work together when it comes to breeding programms. It doesn't make sense to make the animals travel from one continent to the other in order to maintain a geneticaly diverse population, therefore Lowland tapirs are taken care of in Europe, while the Baird's tapir are the priority in North America.
Same thing with for example Dama gazelles, Europe deals with the Mhorr gazelles (mhorr), NA with the Red-necked subspecies (ruficolis).

This is the reason the Baird's tapir population in Europe is so low (2 collections), while the lowland tapirs is held at 157. 23 collections have Mhorr gazelles in Europe, while only 2 have Red-necked gazelles.
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I see, I wasn't aware of this arrangement between the AZA and EAZA but it does seem to make sense given the higher amount of Baird's in the USA.
 
MonkeyBat said:
Eastern Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis michaeli)
Abilene Zoo
Chehaw Park (labeled as Southern black?)
Fort Worth Zoo
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (labeled as Southern black?)
Tanganyika Wildlife Park
White Oak Conservation Center (labeled as Southern black?)
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All of these facilities plus Disney (and some private facilities) do, indeed, have the south-central subspecies, D. b. minor, which is usually labelled as just "southern".
 
Kudu21 said:
All of these facilities plus Disney (and some private facilities) do, indeed, have the south-central subspecies, D. b. minor, which is usually labelled as just "southern".
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I will definitely change that when I get the entire list done. Thanks for the info. Do you by any chance know which private facilities?
 
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