Are These in Captivity? #2

TinoPup said:
Extremely uncommon :( 1 holder of american marten (possibly one other), 5 holders of pine marten (at least 1 is behind the scenes). 4 of those are in the dakotas and montana, so really out of the way for most people to visit.
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Little over a year ago we had this, quite different from the numbers you just gave.

American Marten (4 holders)
Ecomuseum Zoo
Salomonier Nature Park (atrata)
Shubenacadie Provincial Wildlife Park
ZooAmerica (2.1)

Yellow-throated Marten (1 holder)
Assiniboine Park Zoo

Pine Marten (2 holders)
Dakota Zoo
Turtle Back Zoo
 
Great Argus said:
Little over a year ago we had this, quite different from the numbers you just gave.

American Marten (4 holders)
Ecomuseum Zoo
Salomonier Nature Park (atrata)
Shubenacadie Provincial Wildlife Park
ZooAmerica (2.1)

Yellow-throated Marten (1 holder)
Assiniboine Park Zoo

Pine Marten (2 holders)
Dakota Zoo
Turtle Back Zoo
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Yours includes Canada, they asked for USA ;) Pine is also at Animals of Montana, Bear Country (SD), and Triple D Game Farm (MT).
 
birdsandbats said:
Tracy Aviary has Common Nighthawk, I believe they are the only North American zoo to hold any nightjar species on a permanent basis.
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I seem to recall somewhere having whip-poor-will at some point, I could be wrong though. The group as a whole are barely represented, though the related Tawny Frogmouth is fairly widespread.
 
TheChukaulorian said:
Are there members of the gannet family (Sulidae) in captivity?
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Several zoos in Europe keep and even breed Northern Gannet.
Red-footed Booby is kept as a rescue at a handful of places, Aquarium of the Pacific for one.
Masked and Brown Boobies are in seabird centers here and there as well.
 
Wild Bactrian camel (Not the domesticated ones, the still critically endangered wild ones)

Iriomote Cat

San Jose Brush Rabbit

Jamaican Flower Bat

Pygmy three toed sloth
 
Tapir Master said:
Wild Bactrian camel (Not the domesticated ones, the still critically endangered wild ones)

Iriomote Cat

San Jose Brush Rabbit

Jamaican Flower Bat

Pygmy three toed sloth
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The Dallas aquarium was embroiled in a huge scandal a few years ago when they tried to import a number of pygmy sloths illegally to the USA from Panama (the animals were confiscated by the authorities and returned to the wild).

There are no pygmy sloth in captivity as far as I'm aware and nor should there be as the effort to conserve them should focus on in-situ.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
The Dallas aquarium was embroiled in a huge scandal a few years ago when they tried to import a number of pygmy sloths illegally to the USA from Panama (the animals were confiscated by the authorities and returned to the wild).

There are no pygmy sloth in captivity as far as I'm aware and nor should there be as the effort to conserve them should focus on in-situ.
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Very interesting article about it here, as well as other bits. Mentions Zoochat even.
What Happened When One Man Built His Dream Zoo
 
Great Argus said:
Very interesting article about it here, as well as other bits. Mentions Zoochat even.
What Happened When One Man Built His Dream Zoo
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So, a very interesting and in depth article and study / insight on the character of Richardson.

Frankly from what I've read about him in this piece I have literally no sympathy for Richardson and only contempt for his obsessional collector of species mindset which is clearly not at all compatible with conservation.

It seems like he was a very unpleasant character too in interpersonal terms and really quite a bully / tyrant with very very poor leadership skills when all is said and done.

I feel as if he should have kept to the modern art world / tech and catering business rather than venturing into zoos with that kind of mentality.
 
@Tapir Master
Wild Bactrian camel
From what I see, most Wild Bactrian Camels are found around China/Mongolia area, and few were seemingly in captivity as of 2006 - making it unlikely that it is still so today.
Iriomote Cat
From what I could find, this subspecies has very rarely appeared in captivity, and the only time it has appeared in a mainstream zoo of sorts being the Okinawa Zoo in 1979.
San Jose Brush Rabbit
I could not find any information of this species ever being kept in captivity - even for conservation purposes.
Jamaican Flower Bat
I could only find information about a single, unspecified holding of a female in 1965.
Pygmy three toed sloth
None in captivity, but as said by Onychorhynchus coronatus, there was a fairly recent attempt made by Daryl Richardson of the Dallas World Aquarium to illegally smuggle some animals of Panama for public display, leading to their confiscation, and return to the wild.
 
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