Species formerly kept in Brazil

Next on our list is the African forest elephant. Apparently, an individual was delivered by the Dutch West India Company to Prince John Maurice of Orange, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, and governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in 1636. Prince John Maurice built the Vrijhof, or palace 1640, on the island of Antonio Vaz (close to Recife), Mauritzstad. Close to the palace, Prince John Maurice founded a small zoo, where the elephant was kept, and where the artist Albert Eckhout, made a chalk drawing of a young animal of the same species with tusks. I got some information from these website pages:
Vrijburgh royal menagerie in Brazil
unknown, an African forest elephant at Vrijburgh royal menagerie
1634 [vóór 14 april] tot 1636 [vóór 16 april]. Rijswijk | Elephant Hansken
 
Enzo said:
Next on our list is the African forest elephant. Apparently, an individual was delivered by the Dutch West India Company to Prince John Maurice of Orange, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, and governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in 1636. Prince John Maurice built the Vrijhof, or palace 1640, on the island of Antonio Vaz (close to Recife), Mauritzstad. Close to the palace, Prince John Maurice founded a small zoo, where the elephant was kept, and where the artist Albert Eckhout, made a chalk drawing of a young animal of the same species with tusks. I got some information from these website pages:
Vrijburgh royal menagerie in Brazil
unknown, an African forest elephant at Vrijburgh royal menagerie
1634 [vóór 14 april] tot 1636 [vóór 16 april]. Rijswijk | Elephant Hansken
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Well, really nice discovery. This menagerie in Recife must have been the oldest center of animal keeping in the country.
 
Enzo said:
I have them on my list, they were kept in a fair amount of locations: São Paulo (Safari Park included), São Paulo Safari Park (I probably saw one at the São Paulo zoo as well) and Curitiba.
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The Parque Dois Irmãos (the Recife city zoo) also kept wisent in the past (I found a video from the 1990's of the zoo which shows a bit of the animals, including one of those).
 
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There's a gray wolf (Canis lupus, from the European subspecies) in Brazil. It's a female and she lives in the house of the millionaire Eduardo Foz, along with more than a 100 other animals. According to Zoofoz's (his zoo is called Zoofoz and I believe it's open to the general public) Instagram account, she was donated by a breeding facility, so there might be other specimens in the country. Therefore, gray wolves (Canis lupus, could be from any subspecies) are out of the list.
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Apparently, Duda could either be an European wolf or a wolfdog. I was trying to find something about wolves in Brazil, but could not find anything, not even about any breeding center. I was only able to find things about breeding facilities for wolfdogs. Also, when Zoofoz announced on their Instagram account that she became the newest resident of the place, a woman said she thought Eduarda was a dog, and the zoo's team answered with "Wolfdog!". This leaves us with lots of ambiguity, since on the same post (and on other later posts), they say she is an European wolf. So, wolves could either be in or out of the list.
 
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Enzo said:
Apparently, Duda could either be an European wolf or a wolfdog. I was trying to find something about wolves in Brazil, but could not find anything, not even about any breeding center. I was only able to find things about breeding facilities for wolfdogs. Also, when Zoofoz announced on their Instagram account that she became the newest resident of the place, a woman said she thought Eduarda was a dog, and the zoo's team answered with "Wolfdog!". This leaves us with lots of ambiguity, since on the same post (and on other later posts), they say she is an European wolf. So, wolves could either be in or out of the list.
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Well, I'm not an expert of wolf classification, but looking on their instagram now, she seems pretty much like a wolfdog to me. If she's not, she's from a species that I have never seen before. By the way, This zoo looks a little messy in my opinion, but that doesn't matter now.
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Well, I'm not an expert of wolf classification, but looking on their instagram now, she seems pretty much like a wolfdog to me. If she's not, she's from a species that I have never seen before. By the way, This zoo looks a little messy in my opinion, but that doesn't matter now.
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It's messy because the zoo is in his own house and the animals live together. There aren't any special exhibits.
 
Since the presence of wolves in Brazil is uncertain, I think it'd be valid to discuss about them here. I'm 100% sure that they have been kept in Rio de Janeiro (no specified subspecies), São Paulo (according to @carlos55, they were Canadian timber and Eurasian ones) and at the Parque Dois Irmãos (once again, classified as Eurasian ones). I'm not sure, however, about other zoos in the country.
 
Enzo said:
Since the presence of wolves in Brazil is uncertain, I think it'd be valid to discuss about them here. I'm 100% sure that they have been kept in Rio de Janeiro (no specified subspecies), São Paulo (according to @carlos55, they were Canadian timber and Eurasian ones) and at the Parque Dois Irmãos (once again, classified as Eurasian ones). I'm not sure, however, about other zoos in the country.
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Yes, I'm also sure about São Paulo and Rio. Didn't know about the ones in parque dois irmãos until you said it, so I'm not sure about their subspecies too.
About São Paulo, in the old map archive I have, there were kept european individuals:
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David Matos Mendes said:
Yes, I'm also sure about São Paulo and Rio. Didn't know about the ones in parque dois irmãos until you said it, so I'm not sure about their subspecies too.
About São Paulo, in the old map archive I have, there were kept european individuals:
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According to the map, the São Paulo zoo kept palm-nut vultures. That's strange, because I don't remember seeing any during one of my ~10 exhibits. I'd say they probably had, due to the institution's size and importance and because I don't know what species have been kept in the area designed for the birds of prey,
 
Enzo said:
Since the presence of wolves in Brazil is uncertain, I think it'd be valid to discuss about them here. I'm 100% sure that they have been kept in Rio de Janeiro (no specified subspecies), São Paulo (according to @carlos55, they were Canadian timber and Eurasian ones) and at the Parque Dois Irmãos (once again, classified as Eurasian ones). I'm not sure, however, about other zoos in the country.
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Yes, I don't know whether they were North American or Eurasian but there were two grey wolves for a long time and these unfortunately have since died.
 
Enzo said:
According to the map, the São Paulo zoo kept palm-nut vultures. That's strange, because I don't remember seeing any during one of my ~10 exhibits. I'd say they probably had, due to the institution's size and importance and because I don't know what species have been kept in the area designed for the birds of prey,
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Hadn't realized this detail. It's a very beautiful species! Must have been phased out long ago though, cause this map shows silvery cheeked hornbills, chimpanzees in the former gorilla enclosure, and the area where nowadays the amphitheater is located still had some exhibits, wich shows it was elaborated long ago, probably before 2008 or something...
 
David Matos Mendes said:
Hadn't realized this detail. It's a very beautiful species! Must have been phased out long ago though, cause this map shows silvery cheeked hornbills, chimpanzees in the former gorilla enclosure, and the area where nowadays the amphitheater is located still had some exhibits, wich shows it was elaborated long ago, probably before 2008 or something...
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There is still a silvery cheeked hornbill at the Sorocaba zoo, it is obviously a really elderly individual though I'm not sure what its exact age is.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Yes, its still there as of 2020 and is kept in the last enclosure by the row of parrots and opposite the education center.

In the neighbouring enclosure are a pair of toco toucans and the hornbill evidently really dislikes them.
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Are there any nilgai at the zoo? According to its website, they housed some. I don't remember seeing any during my visit.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
There is still a silvery cheeked hornbill at the Sorocaba zoo, it is obviously a really elderly individual though I'm not sure what its exact age is.
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Yeah, I have heard about this individual. I only mentioned the one in São Paulo because the map had them registred, and the last one there died long ago, wich is another prove that this is a map from 2008/2009.
 
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