Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

For some reason you usually have to search the same thing twice before it brings up photos, for some bizarre reason. I didn't find it my first try, I had to search again and then found it. Odd ZC quirk. :p
And, I've also found searching zoochat media on google images actually works pretty nicely too, probably would have worked better. In fact, I'll try that right now.
Yep, worked like a charm! :p
 
Off the top of my head I've seen Mariana's fruit bats (Guam Zoo), Philippine Deer? (not sure if they are rare or not, Guam Zoo, Talofofo Falls Park, Valley of the Latte Park), Booted macaque (Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo), Galapagos Shark (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)

I've probably seen the douc langur at Philadelphia and the Australian turtle species at the National Aquarium, but I remember little about those trips and I'm sure many other people have seen them. (I will hopefully be returning to Baltimore this summer however!) I've also seen whale shark and Oceanic manta at Georgia Aquarium, but I have no doubt dozens upon dozens of people on this site have seen them
 
Brilliant to hear that another zoo here is keeping them.
Fortunately, the Pomerode zoo also houses some specimens.

Bush Dogs I think are now down to no more than ten individuals altogether in North America, another five to ten years and the species will probably be gone. Only 4 zoos are still confirmed to have them.

Horned screamers are currently kept by only two zoos in Europe, I do not believe there are any in North America.

Both crested caracara species are not too difficult to find in Europe, the northern species is uncommon in North American zoos. Yellow-headed Caracara is also in Europe in small numbers.
Thanks for sharing these data.
 
Are ornate hawk eagles common at zoos? Because I have seen one. Also, I was looking at some pictures of my second visit to the Itatiba zoo and I discovered that I have seen Brazilian mergansers.
 
Are ornate hawk eagles common at zoos? Because I have seen one. Also, I was looking at some pictures of my second visit to the Itatiba zoo and I discovered that I have seen Brazilian mergansers.
The Dallas World aquarium has them; I don’t know about other zoos though.
 
Are ornate hawk eagles common at zoos? Because I have seen one. Also, I was looking at some pictures of my second visit to the Itatiba zoo and I discovered that I have seen Brazilian mergansers.

I know they have at least one at the San Diego Zoo, since I saw it the last time I was there.
 
Fish and invertebrates in the parts of the world underrepresented by ZooChat are prime candidates for being featured here. Alas, only some people on this site keep track (photograph and ID) them.

Here's some invertebrates I saw in Japan:

Japanese Fireflies
Australian Glow-Worm (Arachnocampa richardsae)
Diving Bell Spider
Antarctic Isopod (Glyptonotus antarcticus)
Antarctic Krill
Antarctic Nemertean Worm (Parborlasia corrugata)
Japanese Crayfish
3 species of Sea Spiders
Deep Sea Crabs
Backswimmer
4 species of East Asian diving beetles
Lake Baikal Giant Amphipod (Acanthogammarus victorii)
a dozen species of nudibranchs and sea hares
Coconut Crab (definitely kept elsewhere, too)
Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

Verryyyyy Special list! As an Invert lover I can say that I would love to see Acanthogammarus victorii, but any Acanthogammaridae would be epic. Sea spiders I want to see, and the other Isopods are super cool.
 
Looking through my old San Diego Zoo pictures from 2013-2014, I realized that I managed to see a Tongan Scrubfowl! It's not that good of a picture, so I circled the bird in red.

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Less is nothing! It's an unique animal in worldwide zoos, but SDZ is one of the most visited zoos of the world. However the aviary containing it is in a remote and sligthly hidden part of the zoo so I guess that most zoochatter visitors to SDZ have not seen the Tongan scrubfowl, overall taking in account that the enormous size of the zoo doensn't make easy to reach the far corners of it (such as this one) in a single day, unless one skip many other parts.

I have seen this critter too, but with so bad luck that was nearby closing time, so darkness didn't allowed me to take a photo of it.
 
Less is nothing! It's an unique animal in worldwide zoos, but SDZ is one of the most visited zoos of the world. However the aviary containing it is in a remote and sligthly hidden part of the zoo so I guess that most zoochatter visitors to SDZ have not seen the Tongan scrubfowl, overall taking in account that the enormous size of the zoo doensn't make easy to reach the far corners of it (such as this one) in a single day, unless one skip many other parts.

I have seen this critter too, but with so bad luck that was nearby closing time, so darkness didn't allowed me to take a photo of it.

I’ve heard about where this animal is held but I don’t have a good idea is it in the red, black, or blue. It sounds like the old pheasantry but I didn’t think you could go back there.
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The scrubfowl has been in a few places over the years. It used to be in Owen's Aviary for some time in the past. When I visited in early 2018, she was about where the black circle is on that map. The pathway indeed has always been marked as non-public but when I was there keepers paid no mind to us walking down to the aviaries for a peak (I think we were the only ones at that time on both days). Sadly, as @Great Argus has said, I've heard the path has been fenced off now and the animals either taken off-display or moved. I'm not sure where the scrubfowl ended up in the end.

~Thylo
 
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