All very interesting to hear. For the purposes of this challenge, though, I will take any Galapagos tortoise from the Chelonoidis niger complex regardless of ID or hybrid status - I'll count it in your score
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All very interesting to hear. For the purposes of this challenge, though, I will take any Galapagos tortoise from the Chelonoidis niger complex regardless of ID or hybrid status - I'll count it in your score
Manitowoc Lincoln Park Zoo (8/6/2022)
-MAMMALS
Cat Got Your Tongue (7/9) 5/6 Pantherinae 2/3 Regional Small Cat
7. Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
7. Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
-BIRDS
Duck Dynasty (9/18)
9. Tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus)
Parliament Is Now In Session (2/6)
2. Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
9. Tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus)
Parliament Is Now In Session (2/6)
2. Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
-ECTOTHERMS
Silk and Stinger (2/6) 2/3 spider 0/3 scorpion
2. Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
2. Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, (8/7/2022)
-BIRDS
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In Progress (24/29)
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (1/3)
Cat Got Your Tongue (7/9)
An Unbearable Challenge (3/5)
Ring ‘n Ruff (1/3)
Puny Primates (3/6)
Planet of the Apes (3/6)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)
Another Dang Meerkat (1/4)
Bovine Bonanza (8/20)
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (1/4)
Rookery Roundabout (3/6)
Duck Dynasty (12/18)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)
The Edgar Allen Poe (3/5)
Polly Wants 20 (2/20)
The Big Squeeze (3/5 constrictor snakes)
Slow and Steady (3/4)
The Sobek Six-Pack (3/6)
One Drop, One Life (6/20)
Silk and Stinger (2/6)
Cold as Ice (2/3)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (9/12)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (2/3)
Completed Trials - (7/36)
Nighttime Birding (1/1) COMPLETE
Redemption Arc (1/1) COMPLETE
Pick Your Poison (6/6) COMPLETE
Sharknado (6/6) COMPLETE
Release the Kraken (1/1) COMPLETE
The Steve Irwin (15/15) COMPLETE
One-Zoo Wonder (1/1 challenges) COMPLETE
-BIRDS
Duck Dynasty (12/18)
10. Black scoter (Melanitta americana)
11. Redhead (Aythya americana)
12. Wood duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)
3. Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)
4. Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
The Edgar Allen Poe (3/5) 2/2 Corvus 0/1 magpie 1/1 jay 0/1 bonus corvid
1. Common raven (Corvus corax)
2. American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
3. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
10. Black scoter (Melanitta americana)
11. Redhead (Aythya americana)
12. Wood duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)
3. Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)
4. Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
The Edgar Allen Poe (3/5) 2/2 Corvus 0/1 magpie 1/1 jay 0/1 bonus corvid
1. Common raven (Corvus corax)
2. American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
3. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
-MAMMALS
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4) 0/2 elephants (1/2) Tapirs
1. Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (1/3)
1. Grevy’s Zebra (Equus grevyi)
Cat Got Your Tongue (7/9) 5/6 Pantherinae 2/3 Regional Small Cat
1. Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
2. Lion (Panthera leo)
3. Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
4. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
5. Clouded Leopard (Neogelis nebulosa)
6. Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes)
7. Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
An Unbearable Challenge (3/5)
1. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
2. Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)
3. Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus)
Ring ‘n Ruff (1/3) 1/1 Ring-tailed Lemur 0/2 Ruffed Lemurs
1. Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)
Puny Primates (3/6)
1. Callimico (Callimico goeldii)
2. Pied Tamarin (Saguinus bicolor)
3. Golden-headed Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
Planet of the Apes (3/6) 2/3 Great Apes 1/3 Gibbons
1. Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
2. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
3. White-cheeked Gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)
1. Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)
2. Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri)
Another Dang Meerkat (1/4)
1. Brookfield Zoo (6/3/22)
Bovine Bonanza (8/20)
1. Addax (addax nasomaculatus)
2. Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)
3. Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)
4. Kirk’s Dik-Dik (Madoqua kirkii)
5. Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
6. Yellow-backed Duiker (Cephalophus silviculator)
7. Red-flanked Duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus)
8. Sichuan Takin (Budorcas taxicolor tibetana)
Redemption Arc (1/1) COMPLETE
1. Black-handed Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
-BIRDS
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (1/4)
1. Ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Rookery Roundabout (3/6)
1. Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus)
2. Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
3. Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)
Duck Dynasty (12/18)
1. Brazilian teal (Amazonetta brasiliensis)
2. White-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
3. Puna Teal (Spatula puna)
4. Rosybill Pochard (Netta peposaca)
5. Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)
6. Baer's Pochard (Aythya baeri)
7. Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)
8. Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)
9. Tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus)
10. Black scoter (Melanitta americana)
11. Redhead (Aythya americana)
12. Wood duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)
1. Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
2. Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
3. Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)
4. Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
Polly Wants 20 (2/20)
1. Hawk-headed parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
2. Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata)
The Edgar Allen Poe (3/5) 2/2 Corvus 0/1 magpie 1/1 jay 0/1 bonus corvid
1. Common Raven (Corvus corax)
2. American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
3. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
1. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
-ECTOTHERMS
The Big Squeeze (3/5 constrictor snakes) 0/1 Anaconda, 1/1 Reticulated Python, 1/1 Burmese Python, 0/1 Boa Constrictor, 1/1 other boa or python
1. Emerald tree boa (Corallus batesii)
2. Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus)
3. Burmese Python (Python bivittatus)
Slow and Steady (3/4) 1/2 Giant Tortoise 1/1 Madagascar Tortoise 1/1 Gopherus sp.
1. Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis vicina)
2. Madagascar Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides arachnoides)
3. Texas Tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri
The Sobek Six-Pack (3/6) 1/2 alligators, 0/2 gharials, 2/2 crocodiles
1. American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
2. African Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
3. Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius)
One Drop, One Life (6/20)
2/8 Rattlesnakes 3/4 Non-rattlesnake Vipers, 0/4 elapids 0/1 Komodo Dragon 1/1 Heloderma
1. Santa Catalina Island Rattleless Rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis)
2. Aruba Island Rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)
3. Western Gaboon Viper (Bitis rhinoceros)
4. Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum)
5. Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)
6. Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii)
Pick Your Poison (6/6) COMPLETE
1. Golden poison dart frog (Phyllobates terribilis)
2. Splashback poison dart frog (Adelphobates galactonotus)
3. Black-legged poison dart frog (Phyllobates bicolor)
4. Yellow-headed dart frog (Dendrobates leucomelas)
5. Phantasmal dart frog (Epipedobates anthonyi)
6. Dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius)
Sharknado (6/6) COMPLETE
1. Bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo)
2. Zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum)
3. Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
4. Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
Silk and Stinger (2/6) 2/3 spider 0/3 scorpion
1. Goliath bird-eater tarantula (Theraphosa blondi)
2. Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
Release the Kraken (1/1) COMPLETE
1. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi)
-MULTI-CLASS
Cold as Ice (2/3)
1. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
2. Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
The Steve Irwin (15/15) (5/5) mammals (5/5) birds (5/5) reptiles/amphibians COMPLETE
1. Red-bellied short-necked turtle (Emydura subglobosa)
2. Fly river turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
3. Western Gray Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
4. Bennett’s Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
5. Magnificent Tree Frog (Litoria splendida)
6. Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi)
7. Green Tree Python (Chondropython viridis)
8. Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
9. Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
10. Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
11. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
12. Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
13. Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
14. Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria)
15. Brush-tailed Bettong (Pettongia penicillata)
One-Zoo Wonder (1/1 challenges) COMPLETE
Sharknado (6/6)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (9/12) 2/4 Mammals 4/4 Birds 3/4 Herps
1. Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
2. Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota)
3. Curl-crested Aracari (Pteroglosssus beauharnaesii)
4. Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)
5. Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus)
6. Frilled Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii)
7. Lake Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus)
8. Pygmy Hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis)
9. Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (2/3)
1. African White-bellied Tree Pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis)
2. Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata)
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4) 0/2 elephants (1/2) Tapirs
1. Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (1/3)
1. Grevy’s Zebra (Equus grevyi)
Cat Got Your Tongue (7/9) 5/6 Pantherinae 2/3 Regional Small Cat
1. Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
2. Lion (Panthera leo)
3. Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
4. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
5. Clouded Leopard (Neogelis nebulosa)
6. Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes)
7. Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
An Unbearable Challenge (3/5)
1. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
2. Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)
3. Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus)
Ring ‘n Ruff (1/3) 1/1 Ring-tailed Lemur 0/2 Ruffed Lemurs
1. Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)
Puny Primates (3/6)
1. Callimico (Callimico goeldii)
2. Pied Tamarin (Saguinus bicolor)
3. Golden-headed Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
Planet of the Apes (3/6) 2/3 Great Apes 1/3 Gibbons
1. Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
2. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
3. White-cheeked Gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)
1. Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)
2. Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri)
Another Dang Meerkat (1/4)
1. Brookfield Zoo (6/3/22)
Bovine Bonanza (8/20)
1. Addax (addax nasomaculatus)
2. Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)
3. Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)
4. Kirk’s Dik-Dik (Madoqua kirkii)
5. Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
6. Yellow-backed Duiker (Cephalophus silviculator)
7. Red-flanked Duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus)
8. Sichuan Takin (Budorcas taxicolor tibetana)
Redemption Arc (1/1) COMPLETE
1. Black-handed Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
-BIRDS
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (1/4)
1. Ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Rookery Roundabout (3/6)
1. Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus)
2. Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
3. Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)
Duck Dynasty (12/18)
1. Brazilian teal (Amazonetta brasiliensis)
2. White-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
3. Puna Teal (Spatula puna)
4. Rosybill Pochard (Netta peposaca)
5. Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)
6. Baer's Pochard (Aythya baeri)
7. Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)
8. Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)
9. Tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus)
10. Black scoter (Melanitta americana)
11. Redhead (Aythya americana)
12. Wood duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)
1. Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
2. Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
3. Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)
4. Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
Polly Wants 20 (2/20)
1. Hawk-headed parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
2. Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata)
The Edgar Allen Poe (3/5) 2/2 Corvus 0/1 magpie 1/1 jay 0/1 bonus corvid
1. Common Raven (Corvus corax)
2. American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
3. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
Nighttime Birding (1/1) COMPLETE1. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
-ECTOTHERMS
The Big Squeeze (3/5 constrictor snakes) 0/1 Anaconda, 1/1 Reticulated Python, 1/1 Burmese Python, 0/1 Boa Constrictor, 1/1 other boa or python
1. Emerald tree boa (Corallus batesii)
2. Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus)
3. Burmese Python (Python bivittatus)
Slow and Steady (3/4) 1/2 Giant Tortoise 1/1 Madagascar Tortoise 1/1 Gopherus sp.
1. Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis vicina)
2. Madagascar Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides arachnoides)
3. Texas Tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri
The Sobek Six-Pack (3/6) 1/2 alligators, 0/2 gharials, 2/2 crocodiles
1. American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
2. African Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
3. Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius)
One Drop, One Life (6/20)
2/8 Rattlesnakes 3/4 Non-rattlesnake Vipers, 0/4 elapids 0/1 Komodo Dragon 1/1 Heloderma
1. Santa Catalina Island Rattleless Rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis)
2. Aruba Island Rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)
3. Western Gaboon Viper (Bitis rhinoceros)
4. Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum)
5. Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)
6. Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii)
Pick Your Poison (6/6) COMPLETE
1. Golden poison dart frog (Phyllobates terribilis)
2. Splashback poison dart frog (Adelphobates galactonotus)
3. Black-legged poison dart frog (Phyllobates bicolor)
4. Yellow-headed dart frog (Dendrobates leucomelas)
5. Phantasmal dart frog (Epipedobates anthonyi)
6. Dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius)
Sharknado (6/6) COMPLETE
1. Bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo)
2. Zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum)
3. Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
4. Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
Silk and Stinger (2/6) 2/3 spider 0/3 scorpion
1. Goliath bird-eater tarantula (Theraphosa blondi)
2. Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
Release the Kraken (1/1) COMPLETE
1. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi)
-MULTI-CLASS
Cold as Ice (2/3)
1. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
2. Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)
The Steve Irwin (15/15) (5/5) mammals (5/5) birds (5/5) reptiles/amphibians COMPLETE
1. Red-bellied short-necked turtle (Emydura subglobosa)
2. Fly river turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
3. Western Gray Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
4. Bennett’s Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
5. Magnificent Tree Frog (Litoria splendida)
6. Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi)
7. Green Tree Python (Chondropython viridis)
8. Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
9. Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
10. Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons)
11. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
12. Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
13. Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
14. Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria)
15. Brush-tailed Bettong (Pettongia penicillata)
One-Zoo Wonder (1/1 challenges) COMPLETE
Sharknado (6/6)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (9/12) 2/4 Mammals 4/4 Birds 3/4 Herps
1. Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
2. Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota)
3. Curl-crested Aracari (Pteroglosssus beauharnaesii)
4. Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)
5. Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus)
6. Frilled Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii)
7. Lake Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus)
8. Pygmy Hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis)
9. Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (2/3)
1. African White-bellied Tree Pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis)
2. Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata)
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In Progress (24/29)
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (1/3)
Cat Got Your Tongue (7/9)
An Unbearable Challenge (3/5)
Ring ‘n Ruff (1/3)
Puny Primates (3/6)
Planet of the Apes (3/6)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)
Another Dang Meerkat (1/4)
Bovine Bonanza (8/20)
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (1/4)
Rookery Roundabout (3/6)
Duck Dynasty (12/18)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)
The Edgar Allen Poe (3/5)
Polly Wants 20 (2/20)
The Big Squeeze (3/5 constrictor snakes)
Slow and Steady (3/4)
The Sobek Six-Pack (3/6)
One Drop, One Life (6/20)
Silk and Stinger (2/6)
Cold as Ice (2/3)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (9/12)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (2/3)
Completed Trials - (7/36)
Nighttime Birding (1/1) COMPLETE
Redemption Arc (1/1) COMPLETE
Pick Your Poison (6/6) COMPLETE
Sharknado (6/6) COMPLETE
Release the Kraken (1/1) COMPLETE
The Steve Irwin (15/15) COMPLETE
One-Zoo Wonder (1/1 challenges) COMPLETE
How do you not have Parliament is Now in Session complete? Were most of Bay Beach's owls off-exhibit or something?
I didn't visit the raptor trail
You missed the best part.
I'm well aware, it wasn't by choice
This will probably be my last update for the year, unfortunately, although I'm happy I at least half-completed the challengeFinally decided to get around to joining the challenge. I now realize that I should've just updated after each visit. Going zoo by zoo would be too long and confusing so I just did one update for all my visits, and added which zoo the species was first seen at.
Dates for the Zoos I've visited:
Toronto Zoo - First visit Jan 22 but multiple since
Seattle Aquarium - July 9
Woodland Park Zoo - July 10
Monterey Bay Aquarium - July 18
California Academy of Sciences - July 21
San Francisco Zoo - July 22
Have Trunk, Will Travel: (1/4)
1. Malayan Tapir, Tapirus indicus - Woodland Park
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes: (2/3)
1. Grevy's Zebra, Equus grevyi - Toronto
2. Plains Zebra - Equus quagga - Woodland Park
Cat Got Your Tongue: (6/9)
1. Lion, Panthera leo - Toronto
2. Tiger, Panthera tigris - Toronto
3. Jaguar, Panthera onca - Woodland Park
4. Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia - Toronto
5. Cougar, Puma Concolor - Toronto
6. Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus - Toronto
An Unbearable Challenge: (4/5)
1. Brown Bear, Ursus arctos - Toronto
2. Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus - Toronto
3. American Black Bear, Ursus americanus - San Francisco
4. Sloth Bear, Melursus ursinus - Woodland Park
Ring ‘n Ruff: Completed
1. Ring-Tailed Lemur, Lemur catta - Toronto
2. Red Ruffed Lemur, Varecia rubra - San Francisco
3. Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur, Varecia variegata - San Francisco
Puny Primates: (2/6)
1. Common Marmoset, Callithrix jacchus - Toronto
2. Golden Lion Tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia - Toronto
Planet of the Apes: (5/6)
1. Western Lowland Gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla - Toronto
2. Sumatran Orangutan, Pongo abelii - Toronto
3. Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes - San Francisco
4. Siamang, Symphalangus syndactylus - Woodland Park
5. Lar Gibbon, Hylobates lar - Woodland Park
Three Little Pigs: Completed
1. Babirusa, Babyrousa celebensis - Toronto
2. Visayan Warty Pig, Sus cebifrons - Woodland Park
3. Chacoan Peccary, Catagonus wagneri - San Francisco
Another Dang Meerkat: (3/4)
1. Meerkat, Suricata suricatta - Toronto, Woodland Park, San Francisco
Bovine Bonanza: (11/20)
1. American Bison, Bison bison - Toronto
2. Bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus - San Francisco
3. Greater Kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros - Toronto
4. Common Eland, Taurotragus oryx - Toronto
5. Grant's Gazelle, Nanger granti - Woodland Park
6. Blue Wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus - Toronto
7. Barbary Sheep, Ammotragus lervia - Toronto
8. Chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra - Toronto
9. West Caucasian Tur, Capra caucasica - Toronto
10. Mouflon, Ovis gmelini - Toronto
11. Mountain Goat, Oreamnos americanus - Woodland Park
Redemption Arc: Completed
1. Elk, Cervus canadensis - Woodland Park
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly: (3/4)
1. Ostrich, Struthio camelus - Toronto
2. Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae - Woodland Park
3. Southern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius - San Francisco
Pretty in Pink: (1/4)
1. Chilean Flamingo, Phoenicopterus chilensis - San Francisco
Rookery Roundabout: (2/6)
1. African Penguin, Spheniscus demersus - Toronto
2. Magellanic Penguin, Spheniscus magellanicus - San Francisco
Duck Dynasty: (3/18)
1. White-Faced Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna viduata - Woodland Park
2. Ruddy Duck, Oxyura jamaicensis - San Francisco
3. Maccoa Duck, Oxyura maccoa - Woodland Park
Parliament Is Now In Session: (3/6)
1. Barn Owl, Tyto alba - San Francisco
2. Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus - Toronto
3. Spectacled Owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata - Toronto
Polly Wants 20: (3/20)
1. Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus - San Francisco
2. Blue and Yellow Macaw, Ara ararauna - Toronto
3. Kea, Nestor notabilis - Woodland Park
The Alfred Russell Wallace: (0/1)
The Edgar Allen Poe: (2/5)
1. Green Jay, Cyanocorax yncas - San Francisco
2. Azure-Winged Magpie, Cyanopica cyanus - Woodland Park
Nighttime Birding: Completed
1. Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides - Toronto
The Big Squeeze: (4/5)
1. Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus - California Academy of Sciences
2. Reticulated Python, Malayopython reticulatus - Woodland Park
3. Woma Python, Aspidites ramsayi - California Academy of Sciences
4. Boa Constrictor, Boa constrictor - Toronto
Slow and Steady: (3/4)
1. Aldabra Tortoise, Aldabrachelys gigantea - Toronto
2. Desert Tortoise, Gopherus agassizi - San Francisco
3. Spider Tortoise, Pyxis arachnoides - Toronto
The Sobek Six-Pack: (3/6)
1. American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis - Toronto
2. False Gharial, Tomistoma schlegelii - Toronto
3. Dwarf Crocodile, Osteolaemus tetraspis - Toronto
One Drop, One Life: (9/18)
1. Komodo Dragon, Varanus komodoensis - Toronto
2. Gila Monster, Heloderma suspectum - Toronto
3. Massasauga Rattlesnake, Sistrurus catenatus - Toronto
4. Northern Pacific Rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus - Toronto
5. Canebrake Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus - California Academy of Sciences
6. Gaboon Viper, Bitis gabonica - Toronto
7. Southern Copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix - California Academy of Sciences
8. Monocled Cobra, Naja kaouthia - Toronto
9. Eyelash Palm-Pitviper Bothriechis schlegelii - Toronto
Pick Your Poison: (5/6)
1. Strawberry Poison-Dart Frog, Oophaga pumilio - California Academy of Sciences
2. Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates auratus - California Academy of Sciences
3. Dyeing Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates tinctorius - Toronto
4. Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates leucomelas - Toronto
5. Golden Poison Frog, Phyllobates terribilis - Woodland Park
Sharknado: Completed
1. Leopard Shark, Triakis semifasciata - Monterey Bay Aquarium
2. Swell Shark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum - Monterey Bay Aquarium
3. Broadnose Sevengill Shark, Notorynchus cepedianus - Monterey Bay Aquarium
4. Pyjama Shark, Poroderma africanum - California Academy of Sciences
Silk and Stinger: Completed
1. Black Widow, Latrodectus hesperus - Toronto
2. Goliath Birdeater, Theraphosa blondi - Toronto
3. Giant Hairy Scorpion, Hadrurus arizonensis - California Academy of Sciences
4. Arizona Bark Scorpion, Centruroides sculpturatus - California Academy of Sciences
5. Asian Forest Scorpion, Heterometrus spinifer - San Francisco
6. Brilliant Jumping Spider, Phidippus clarus - San Francisco
Release the Kraken: Completed
1. Giant Pacific Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini - Seattle Aquarium
Kingmaker: (0/3)
Cold as Ice: (1/3)
1. Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus - Toronto
Champion of the Sun (1/3)
1. Sunbittern, Eurypyga helias - Toronto
The Steve Irwin: Completed
1. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo, Dendrolagus matschiei - Toronto
2. Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons - Toronto
3. Koala, Phascolarctos cinereus - San Francisco
4. Red Kangaroo, Macropus rufus - San Francisco
5. Common Wallaroo, Macropus robustus - San Francisco
6. Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae - Toronto
7. Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides - Toronto
8. Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Goura victoria - Toronto
9. Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae - Woodland Park
10. Southern Cassowary, Casuarius casuarius - San Francisco
11. Solomon Islands skink, Corucia zebrata - Toronto
12. Woma Python, Aspidites ramsayi - California Academy of Sciences
13. Green tree python, Morelia viridis - Toronto
14. Pig-Nosed Turtle, Carettochelys inscripta - Toronto
15. Central Bearded Dragon, Pogona vitticeps - Toronto
One-Zoo Wonder: Completed
Completed Ring 'N Ruff at San Francisco - I feel like I should get a bonus point as the challenge was not just completed in one zoo but one enclosure
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval: (7/12)
1. Pygmy Hippo, Choeropsis liberiensis - Toronto
2. Coquerel's sifaka, Propithecus coquereli - San Francisco
3. Spotted Hyena, Crocuta crocuta - Toronto
4. Indian Flying Fox, Pteropus medius - Woodland Park
5. Hamerkop, Scopus umbretta - Toronto
6. Toco Toucan, Ramphastos toco - Woodland Park
7. Meller's chameleon, Trioceros melleri - Toronto
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter: Completed
1. Chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra - Toronto
2. Peppermint Angelfish, Centropyge boylei - California Academy of Sciences
3. Bloodybelly Comb Jelly, Lampocteis cruentiventer - Monterey Bay Aquarium
Breakfast of Champions: (0/1)
Completed: 10/36
In Progress: 23/26
Kansas City Zoo - August 19, 2022
Have Trunk, Will Travel: (2/4)
2. African Elephant, Loxodonta africana
Cat Got Your Tongue: (7/9)
7. Leopard, Panthera pardus
8. Black-Footed Cat, Felis nigripes
Puny Primates: (3/6)
3. Cotton-Top Tamarin, Saguinus oedipus
Planet of the Apes: Completed
6. Northern white-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus leucogenys
Bovine Bonanza: (15/20)
12. Lesser Kudu, Tragelaphus imberbis
13. Scimtar-Horned Oryx, Oryx dammah
14. Blue Duiker, Philantomba monticola
15. Addax, Addax nasomaculatus
Rookery Roundabout: Completed
3. King Penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus
4. Macaroni Penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus
5. Chinstrap Penguin, Pygoscelis antarcticus
6. Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua
Duck Dynasty: (8/18)
4. Marbled Teal, Marmaronetta angustirostris
5. Radjah shelduck, Radjah radjah
6. Ruddy Shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea
7. Common Shelduck, Tadorna tadorna
8. Mandarin Duck, Aix galericulata
Polly Wants 20: (5/20)
4. Sulpher-Crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita
5. Green-winged macaw, Ara chloropterus
The Big Squeeze: Completed
5. Burmese Python, Python bivittatus
Pick Your Poison: Completed
6. Anthony’s poison arrow frog, Epipedobates anthonyi
Kingmaker: (1/3)
1. King Penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus
Breakfast of Champions: Completed
1. Dingo, Canis familiaris
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium - August 20, 2022
Another Dang Meerkat: Completed
1. Meerkat, Suricata suricatta - Toronto, Woodland Park, San Francisco, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium
Bovine Bonanza: Completed
16. Yellow-Backed Duiker, Cephalophus silvicultor
17. Impala, Aepyceros melampus
18. Takin, Budorcas taxicolor
19. Chinese Goral, Naemorhedus griseus
20. Klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus
Pretty in Pink: (2/4)
2. American Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber
Duck Dynasty: Completed
9. Bar-Headed Goose, Anser indicus
10. Red-Crested Pochard, Netta rufina
11. Cinnamon Teal, Spatula cyanoptera
12. Chestnut Teal, Anas castanea
13. Yellow-Billed Duck, Anas undulata
14. Cape Teal, Anas capensis
15. African Pygmy Goose, Nettapus auritus
16. Baer's Pochard, Aythya baeri
17. Redhead, Aythya americana
18. Ringed Teal, Callonetta leucophrys
Parliament Is Now In Session: Completed
4. Burrowing Owl, Athene cunicularia
5. Eastern Screech Owl, Megascops asio
6. Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Bubo bubo
Polly Wants 20: (10/20)
6. Lesser Vasa Parrot, Coracopsis nigra
7. Hyacinth Macaw, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus
8. Red-Crowned Amazon, Amazona viridigenalis
9. Military Macaw, Ara militaris
10. Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao
The Sobek Six-Pack: (4/6)
4. American Crocodile, Crocodylus acutus
One Drop, One Life: (15/18):
10. Santa Catalina Rattlesnake, Crotalus catalinensis
11. Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Crotalus cerberus
12. Cape Cobra, Naja nivea
13. Zebra Spitting Cobra, Naja nigricincta
14. Black Mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis
15. Cantil Viper, Agkistrodon bilineatus
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval: (9/12)
8. Greater Roadrunner, Geococcyx californianus
9. Lake Titicaca Water Frog, Telmatobius culeus
Completed: 19/36
In Progress: 16/17
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Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo - September 4 2022
Polly Wants a 20 - 16/20
16. Yellow-headed Amazon Amazona oratrix
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In-Progress Trials
Have Trunk, Will Travel - 1/2 elephant 2/2 tapir
An Unbearable Challenge - 4/5
Puny Primates - 5/6
Rookery Roundabout - 5/6
Polly Wants a 20 - 16/20
The Sobek Six-Pack - 2/2 alligator 0/2 gharial 2/2 crocodile
Champion of the Sun - 1/3
Completed Trails - 27/36
-Parliament Is Now In Session
-One-Zoo Wonder
-Nighttime Birding
-Sharknado
-Redemption Arc
-White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes
-Duck Dynasty
-The Edgar Allen Poe
-One Drop, One Life
-Silk and Stinger
-Breakfast of Champions
-You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly
-The Steve Irwin
-Pretty in Pink
-The Big Squeeze
-Cold as Ice
-Ring ‘n Ruff
-Planet of the Apes
-Three Little Pigs
-Slow and Steady
-Release the Kraken
-Another Dang Meerkat
-Cat Got Your Tongue
-Bovine Bonanza
-Bona Fide Rarity Hunter
-The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval
-Pick Your Poison
Buffalo Zoo (9/5/22)
Another Dang Meerkat (2/4):
2. Meerkat- Suricata suricatta
Completed Challenges: 14/36
In Progress: 18/22
pichu
Well-Known Member
Buttonwood Park Zoo:
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4)
Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus)
Polly Wants 20 (1/20)
Sun Conure (Aratinga Solstitialis)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)
Sun Conure (Aratinga Solstitialis)
Puny Primates (2/6)
Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)
Callimico (Callimico goeldii)
Duck Dynasty (3/18)
Indian Pygmy Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
African Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus)
Redhead (Aythya americana)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (1/12)
Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis)
Current Progress
In-Progress Trials
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (1/12)
Duck Dynasty (3/18)
Puny Primates (2/6)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)
Polly Wants 20 (1/20)
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4)
Completed Trails - 0/36
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4)
Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus)
Polly Wants 20 (1/20)
Sun Conure (Aratinga Solstitialis)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)
Sun Conure (Aratinga Solstitialis)
Puny Primates (2/6)
Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)
Callimico (Callimico goeldii)
Duck Dynasty (3/18)
Indian Pygmy Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
African Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus)
Redhead (Aythya americana)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (1/12)
Green Aracari (Pteroglossus viridis)
Current Progress
In-Progress Trials
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (1/12)
Duck Dynasty (3/18)
Puny Primates (2/6)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)
Polly Wants 20 (1/20)
Have Trunk, Will Travel (1/4)
Completed Trails - 0/36
Hi All,
So, as you can see, I am late to this challenge, but keep track of everything I see in the zoos I visit. So far this year, I have been to Columbus Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Toledo Zoo, Akron Zoo and a couple little-known institutions in Northeast Ohio- Wagon Trails Animal Park in Vienna (which closed permanently on September 5) and North Chagrin Nature Center in Mayfield Village. I have seen several of these species in more than 1 zoo, but I have put where I saw the species first.
Have Trunk, Will Travel (2/4)- African elephant (Cleveland) and Asian elephant (Columbus)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (2/3)- plains zebra (Columbus) and mountain zebra (Cleveland)
Cat Got Your Tongue (9/9)- lion (Columbus), tiger (Columbus), jaguar (Akron), leopard (Columbus), snow leopard (Cleveland) and clouded leopard (Cleveland) + ocelot (Cleveland), cheetah (Cleveland) and fishing cat (Cleveland)
An Unbearable Challenge (5/8)- North American black bear (Columbus), sun bear (Columbus), grizzly bear (Columbus), polar bear (Columbus) and spectacled bear (Cleveland)
Ring ‘n Ruff (3/3)- ring-tailed lemur (Cleveland), red ruffed lemur (Cleveland) and black-and-white ruffed lemur (Cleveland)
Puny Primates (5/6)- golden lion, pied and Geoffrey’s tamarins (Cleveland), white-fronted and Goeldi’s marmosets (Cleveland)
Planet of the Apes (6/6)- gorilla (Columbus), orangutan (Columbus), bonobo (Columbus), white-cheeked gibbon (Toledo), siamang (Columbus) and white-handed gibbon (Columbus)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)- red river hog and warthog (Columbus)
Another Dang Meerkat (2/4)- Toledo and Cleveland
Bovine Bonanza (10/20)- bontebok (Cleveland), Thomson’s, slender-horned and Dama gazelles (Columbus), greater kudu (Columbus), lowland nyala (Toledo), Speke’s gazelle (Akron), takin (Cleveland), American bison (Wagon Trails Animal Park, Vienna, Ohio) and water buffalo (Wagon Trails).
Late to the Party (8/8)- American bison, river otter, moose, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, grizzly bear, polar bear and American beaver (Columbus)
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (4/4)- ostrich (Wagon Trails), emu (Cleveland), rhea (Wagon Trails) and cassowary (double-wattled- Toledo)
Pretty in Pink (2/4)- Chilean flamingo (Columbus) and American flamingo (Toledo)
Rookery Roundabout (2/6 or 2/12)- African penguin (Toledo) and Humboldt penguin (Columbus)
Duck Dynasty (18/18)- freckled and spotted whistling ducks (Columbus), snow goose (Columbus), ruddy duck (Columbus), harlequin and long-tailed ducks (Toledo), white-faced whistling ducks and ring teals (Cleveland), emperor, lesser white-fronted and red-breasted geese (Toledo), magpie goose (Columbus), Mandarin duck (Cleveland), wood duck (Cleveland), Baikal teal, scaly-sided merganser, rosy-billed pochard and redhead (Akron)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)- barn owl (Akron), snowy owl (Akron), Eastern screech owl (Toledo), great horned owl (North Chagrin Nature Center, Mayfield Village, Ohio),
Polly Wants 20 (8/20)- hyacinth macaw (Akron), budgerigar (Cleveland), Bourke’s parrot (Toledo), cockatiel (Toledo), Australian rainbow lorikeet (Columbus), African gray parrot (Toledo, Columbus), eastern rosella (Columbus), blue-and-gold macaw (Wagon Trails)
The Alfred Russell Wallace (1/1)- Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Toledo)
The Edgar Allen Poe (2/5)- azure-winged magpie (Columbus), blue jay (Akron)
Nighttime Birding (1/1)- kiwi (Columbus)
The Big Squeeze (4/5)- anaconda (Toledo), reticulated python (Columbus), Burmese python (Cleveland) and green tree python (Columbus)
Slow and Steady (3/4)- Galapagos tortoise (Toledo), Aldabra tortoise (Columbus) and northern spider tortoise (Cleveland)
The Sobek Six-Pack (4/6)- American alligator (Columbus), Indian gharial (Cleveland), West African dwarf crocodile (Cleveland) and saltwater crocodile (Toledo)
One Drop, One Life (17/20)- eastern massasauga, banded rock, timber, canebrake, eastern diamondback and dusky pygmy rattlesnakes (Columbus), Aruba and mottled rock rattlesnakes (Toledo), eyelash viper (Cleveland), Russell’s, jumping and rhinoceros vipers (Toledo), Komodo dragon (Toledo), Gila monster (Columbus), cape and red spitting cobras (Columbus) and false water cobra (Toledo)
Pick Your Poison (6/6)- green-and-black poison arrow, Anthony’s poison arrow, golden poison dart and bumblebee poison dart frogs (Columbus), strawberry poison dart frog (Toledo) and blue poison dart frog (Cleveland)
Sharknado (4/4)- epaulette shark, white-spotted bamboo shark, chain catshark and coral catshark (Toledo)
Silk and Stinger (6/6)- Indian ornamental, Brazilian salmon pink and orange baboon tarantulas (Cleveland) and Big Bend, stripe-tailed and Arizona bark scorpions (Toledo)
Release the Kraken (1/1)- giant Pacific octopus (Cleveland, Akron)
The Kingmaker (1/3)- king cobra
Cold as Ice (3/3)- polar bear (Columbus), arctic fox (Columbus) and snowy owl (Akron)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)- sun bear (Cleveland)
The Steve Irwin (15/15)- red kangaroo, gray kangaroo, koala and Tasmanian devil (Columbus), Bennett’s wallaby (Cleveland), rainbow lorikeet, kookaburra and tawny frogmouth (Columbus), budgerigar and sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cleveland), prehensile-tailed skink, Macklot’s python, carpet and Children’s pythons and northern Australian snapping turtle (Columbus)
One-Zoo Wonder- none
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (4/15)- spotted hyena (Columbus), Malayan large flying fox (Columbus), green aracari (Cleveland) and Jackson’s chameleon (Toledo)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (0/3)
Breakfast of Champions/TinoPup’s Namesake Challenge (1/1)- dingo (Cleveland)
So, as you can see, I am late to this challenge, but keep track of everything I see in the zoos I visit. So far this year, I have been to Columbus Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Toledo Zoo, Akron Zoo and a couple little-known institutions in Northeast Ohio- Wagon Trails Animal Park in Vienna (which closed permanently on September 5) and North Chagrin Nature Center in Mayfield Village. I have seen several of these species in more than 1 zoo, but I have put where I saw the species first.
Have Trunk, Will Travel (2/4)- African elephant (Cleveland) and Asian elephant (Columbus)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (2/3)- plains zebra (Columbus) and mountain zebra (Cleveland)
Cat Got Your Tongue (9/9)- lion (Columbus), tiger (Columbus), jaguar (Akron), leopard (Columbus), snow leopard (Cleveland) and clouded leopard (Cleveland) + ocelot (Cleveland), cheetah (Cleveland) and fishing cat (Cleveland)
An Unbearable Challenge (5/8)- North American black bear (Columbus), sun bear (Columbus), grizzly bear (Columbus), polar bear (Columbus) and spectacled bear (Cleveland)
Ring ‘n Ruff (3/3)- ring-tailed lemur (Cleveland), red ruffed lemur (Cleveland) and black-and-white ruffed lemur (Cleveland)
Puny Primates (5/6)- golden lion, pied and Geoffrey’s tamarins (Cleveland), white-fronted and Goeldi’s marmosets (Cleveland)
Planet of the Apes (6/6)- gorilla (Columbus), orangutan (Columbus), bonobo (Columbus), white-cheeked gibbon (Toledo), siamang (Columbus) and white-handed gibbon (Columbus)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)- red river hog and warthog (Columbus)
Another Dang Meerkat (2/4)- Toledo and Cleveland
Bovine Bonanza (10/20)- bontebok (Cleveland), Thomson’s, slender-horned and Dama gazelles (Columbus), greater kudu (Columbus), lowland nyala (Toledo), Speke’s gazelle (Akron), takin (Cleveland), American bison (Wagon Trails Animal Park, Vienna, Ohio) and water buffalo (Wagon Trails).
Late to the Party (8/8)- American bison, river otter, moose, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, grizzly bear, polar bear and American beaver (Columbus)
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (4/4)- ostrich (Wagon Trails), emu (Cleveland), rhea (Wagon Trails) and cassowary (double-wattled- Toledo)
Pretty in Pink (2/4)- Chilean flamingo (Columbus) and American flamingo (Toledo)
Rookery Roundabout (2/6 or 2/12)- African penguin (Toledo) and Humboldt penguin (Columbus)
Duck Dynasty (18/18)- freckled and spotted whistling ducks (Columbus), snow goose (Columbus), ruddy duck (Columbus), harlequin and long-tailed ducks (Toledo), white-faced whistling ducks and ring teals (Cleveland), emperor, lesser white-fronted and red-breasted geese (Toledo), magpie goose (Columbus), Mandarin duck (Cleveland), wood duck (Cleveland), Baikal teal, scaly-sided merganser, rosy-billed pochard and redhead (Akron)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)- barn owl (Akron), snowy owl (Akron), Eastern screech owl (Toledo), great horned owl (North Chagrin Nature Center, Mayfield Village, Ohio),
Polly Wants 20 (8/20)- hyacinth macaw (Akron), budgerigar (Cleveland), Bourke’s parrot (Toledo), cockatiel (Toledo), Australian rainbow lorikeet (Columbus), African gray parrot (Toledo, Columbus), eastern rosella (Columbus), blue-and-gold macaw (Wagon Trails)
The Alfred Russell Wallace (1/1)- Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Toledo)
The Edgar Allen Poe (2/5)- azure-winged magpie (Columbus), blue jay (Akron)
Nighttime Birding (1/1)- kiwi (Columbus)
The Big Squeeze (4/5)- anaconda (Toledo), reticulated python (Columbus), Burmese python (Cleveland) and green tree python (Columbus)
Slow and Steady (3/4)- Galapagos tortoise (Toledo), Aldabra tortoise (Columbus) and northern spider tortoise (Cleveland)
The Sobek Six-Pack (4/6)- American alligator (Columbus), Indian gharial (Cleveland), West African dwarf crocodile (Cleveland) and saltwater crocodile (Toledo)
One Drop, One Life (17/20)- eastern massasauga, banded rock, timber, canebrake, eastern diamondback and dusky pygmy rattlesnakes (Columbus), Aruba and mottled rock rattlesnakes (Toledo), eyelash viper (Cleveland), Russell’s, jumping and rhinoceros vipers (Toledo), Komodo dragon (Toledo), Gila monster (Columbus), cape and red spitting cobras (Columbus) and false water cobra (Toledo)
Pick Your Poison (6/6)- green-and-black poison arrow, Anthony’s poison arrow, golden poison dart and bumblebee poison dart frogs (Columbus), strawberry poison dart frog (Toledo) and blue poison dart frog (Cleveland)
Sharknado (4/4)- epaulette shark, white-spotted bamboo shark, chain catshark and coral catshark (Toledo)
Silk and Stinger (6/6)- Indian ornamental, Brazilian salmon pink and orange baboon tarantulas (Cleveland) and Big Bend, stripe-tailed and Arizona bark scorpions (Toledo)
Release the Kraken (1/1)- giant Pacific octopus (Cleveland, Akron)
The Kingmaker (1/3)- king cobra
Cold as Ice (3/3)- polar bear (Columbus), arctic fox (Columbus) and snowy owl (Akron)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)- sun bear (Cleveland)
The Steve Irwin (15/15)- red kangaroo, gray kangaroo, koala and Tasmanian devil (Columbus), Bennett’s wallaby (Cleveland), rainbow lorikeet, kookaburra and tawny frogmouth (Columbus), budgerigar and sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cleveland), prehensile-tailed skink, Macklot’s python, carpet and Children’s pythons and northern Australian snapping turtle (Columbus)
One-Zoo Wonder- none
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (4/15)- spotted hyena (Columbus), Malayan large flying fox (Columbus), green aracari (Cleveland) and Jackson’s chameleon (Toledo)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (0/3)
Breakfast of Champions/TinoPup’s Namesake Challenge (1/1)- dingo (Cleveland)
Corangurilla
Well-Known Member
This challenge is actually complete! You only need 5 bears, but maybe you’ll get a shout out at the end of the year if you get all 8
.Looks like I’m no longer the only person who unwittingly completed this challenge with Sharknado!
This challenge is actually complete! You only need 5 bears, but maybe you’ll get a shout out at the end of the year if you get all 8
Looks like I’m no longer the only person who unwittingly completed this challenge with Sharknado!
Whoops! I forgot sloth bear (Columbus and then Cleveland- but Columbus first). I hope to go to the Detroit Zoo and Keystone Safari in Grove City, PA, before the year is out, but neither of them have giant panda or Asian black bear. Asian black bear is the only bear I haven't seen- the closest holders to me are Nemacolin Wildlife Preserve in PA (3 1/2 hours) and T&D Cats of the World, also in PA (5 hours).
And I forgot that I got One Zoo Wonder!!! I hope to add some more to the challenges I haven't completed yet before the end of the year, but not sure what else I can add to since I'll probably just be going to Detroit Zoo and Keystone Safari.
Sharknado was just one of three trials that they One-Zoo Wonder'd! The others were Ring 'n Ruff at Cleveland and Late to the Party at Columbus.
Oh, whoops! Thank you for letting me know. I wish I could edit!
Corangurilla
Well-Known Member
Detroit would complete the zebra challenge, add wildebeest and eland to bovines, clean up the penguins (one of them being King Penguins), add Chinese alligator to the six-pack, and giant salamander to the stamp of approval.
Also, I checked your totals and you’re actually at 9/20 for bovine bonanza. Water Buffalo don’t count because they are domestic. Sorry. (Neither do yaks)
Reposted to fix a few errors-
So, as you can see, I am late to this challenge, but keep track of everything I see in the zoos I visit. So far this year, I have been to Columbus Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Toledo Zoo, Akron Zoo and a couple little-known institutions in Northeast Ohio- Wagon Trails Animal Park in Vienna (which closed permanently on September 5) and North Chagrin Nature Center in Mayfield Village. I have seen several of these species in more than 1 zoo, but I have put where I saw the species first.
Have Trunk, Will Travel (2/4)- African elephant (Cleveland) and Asian elephant (Columbus)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (2/3)- plains zebra (Columbus) and mountain zebra (Cleveland)
Cat Got Your Tongue (9/9)- lion (Columbus), tiger (Columbus), jaguar (Akron), leopard (Columbus), snow leopard (Cleveland) and clouded leopard (Cleveland) + ocelot (Cleveland), cheetah (Cleveland) and fishing cat (Cleveland)
An Unbearable Challenge (6/5 or 6/8, depending)- North American black bear (Columbus), sun bear (Columbus), grizzly bear (Columbus), polar bear (Columbus), sloth bear (Columbus) and spectacled bear (Cleveland)
Ring ‘n Ruff (3/3)- ring-tailed lemur (Cleveland), red ruffed lemur (Cleveland) and black-and-white ruffed lemur (Cleveland)
Puny Primates (5/6)- golden lion, pied and Geoffrey’s tamarins (Cleveland), white-fronted and Goeldi’s marmosets (Cleveland)
Planet of the Apes (6/6)- gorilla (Columbus), orangutan (Columbus), bonobo (Columbus), white-cheeked gibbon (Toledo), siamang (Columbus) and white-handed gibbon (Columbus)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)- red river hog and warthog (Columbus)
Another Dang Meerkat (2/4)- Toledo and Cleveland
Bovine Bonanza (11/20)- bontebok (Cleveland), Thomson’s, slender-horned and Dama gazelles (Columbus), greater kudu (Columbus), lowland nyala (Toledo), Speke’s gazelle (Akron), takin (Cleveland), American bison (Wagon Trails Animal Park, Vienna, Ohio), water buffalo (Wagon Trails) and Tibetan yak (Wagon Trails).
Late to the Party (8/8)- American bison, river otter, moose, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, grizzly bear, polar bear and American beaver (Columbus)
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (4/4)- ostrich (Wagon Trails), emu (Cleveland), rhea (Wagon Trails) and cassowary (double-wattled- Toledo)
Pretty in Pink (2/4)- Chilean flamingo (Columbus) and American flamingo (Toledo)
Rookery Roundabout (2/6 or 2/12)- African penguin (Toledo) and Humboldt penguin (Columbus)
Duck Dynasty (18/18)- freckled and spotted whistling ducks (Columbus), snow goose (Columbus), ruddy duck (Columbus), harlequin and long-tailed ducks (Toledo), white-faced whistling ducks and ring teals (Cleveland), emperor, lesser white-fronted and red-breasted geese (Toledo), magpie goose (Columbus), Mandarin duck (Cleveland), wood duck (Cleveland), Baikal teal, scaly-sided merganser, rosy-billed pochard and redhead (Akron)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)- barn owl (Akron), snowy owl (Akron), Eastern screech owl (Toledo), great horned owl (North Chagrin Nature Center, Mayfield Village, Ohio),
Polly Wants 20 (8/20)- hyacinth macaw (Akron), budgerigar (Cleveland), Bourke’s parrot (Toledo), cockatiel (Toledo), Australian rainbow lorikeet (Columbus), African gray parrot (Toledo, Columbus), eastern rosella (Columbus), blue-and-gold macaw (Wagon Trails)
The Alfred Russell Wallace (1/1)- Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Toledo)
The Edgar Allen Poe (2/5)- azure-winged magpie (Columbus), blue jay (Akron)
Nighttime Birding (1/1)- kiwi (Columbus)
The Big Squeeze (4/5)- anaconda (Toledo), reticulated python (Columbus), Burmese python (Cleveland) and green tree python (Columbus)
Slow and Steady (3/4)- Galapagos tortoise (Toledo), Aldabra tortoise (Columbus) and northern spider tortoise (Cleveland)
The Sobek Six-Pack (4/6)- American alligator (Columbus), Indian gharial (Cleveland), West African dwarf crocodile (Cleveland) and saltwater crocodile (Toledo)
One Drop, One Life (17/20)- eastern massasauga, banded rock, timber, canebrake, eastern diamondback and dusky pygmy rattlesnakes (Columbus), Aruba and mottled rock rattlesnakes (Toledo), eyelash viper (Cleveland), Russell’s, jumping and rhinoceros vipers (Toledo), Komodo dragon (Toledo), Gila monster (Columbus), cape and red spitting cobras (Columbus) and false water cobra (Toledo)
Pick Your Poison (6/6)- green-and-black poison arrow, Anthony’s poison arrow, golden poison dart and bumblebee poison dart frogs (Columbus), strawberry poison dart frog (Toledo) and blue poison dart frog (Cleveland)
Sharknado (4/4)- epaulette shark, white-spotted bamboo shark, chain catshark and coral catshark (Toledo)
Silk and Stinger (6/6)- Indian ornamental, Brazilian salmon pink and orange baboon tarantulas (Cleveland) and Big Bend, stripe-tailed and Arizona bark scorpions (Toledo)
Release the Kraken (1/1)- giant Pacific octopus (Cleveland, Akron)
The Kingmaker (1/3)- king cobra
Cold as Ice (3/3)- polar bear (Columbus), arctic fox (Columbus) and snowy owl (Akron)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)- sun bear (Cleveland)
The Steve Irwin (15/15)- red kangaroo, gray kangaroo, koala and Tasmanian devil (Columbus), Bennett’s wallaby (Cleveland), rainbow lorikeet, kookaburra and tawny frogmouth (Columbus), budgerigar and sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cleveland), prehensile-tailed skink, Macklot’s python, carpet and Children’s pythons and northern Australian snapping turtle (Columbus)
One-Zoo Wonder- Sharknado (Toledo), Ring 'n Ruff (Cleveland) and Late to the Party (Columbus)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (4/15)- spotted hyena (Columbus), Malayan large flying fox (Columbus), green aracari (Cleveland) and Jackson’s chameleon (Toledo)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (0/3)
Breakfast of Champions/TinoPup’s Namesake Challenge (1/1)- dingo (Cleveland)
So, as you can see, I am late to this challenge, but keep track of everything I see in the zoos I visit. So far this year, I have been to Columbus Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Toledo Zoo, Akron Zoo and a couple little-known institutions in Northeast Ohio- Wagon Trails Animal Park in Vienna (which closed permanently on September 5) and North Chagrin Nature Center in Mayfield Village. I have seen several of these species in more than 1 zoo, but I have put where I saw the species first.
Have Trunk, Will Travel (2/4)- African elephant (Cleveland) and Asian elephant (Columbus)
White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes (2/3)- plains zebra (Columbus) and mountain zebra (Cleveland)
Cat Got Your Tongue (9/9)- lion (Columbus), tiger (Columbus), jaguar (Akron), leopard (Columbus), snow leopard (Cleveland) and clouded leopard (Cleveland) + ocelot (Cleveland), cheetah (Cleveland) and fishing cat (Cleveland)
An Unbearable Challenge (6/5 or 6/8, depending)- North American black bear (Columbus), sun bear (Columbus), grizzly bear (Columbus), polar bear (Columbus), sloth bear (Columbus) and spectacled bear (Cleveland)
Ring ‘n Ruff (3/3)- ring-tailed lemur (Cleveland), red ruffed lemur (Cleveland) and black-and-white ruffed lemur (Cleveland)
Puny Primates (5/6)- golden lion, pied and Geoffrey’s tamarins (Cleveland), white-fronted and Goeldi’s marmosets (Cleveland)
Planet of the Apes (6/6)- gorilla (Columbus), orangutan (Columbus), bonobo (Columbus), white-cheeked gibbon (Toledo), siamang (Columbus) and white-handed gibbon (Columbus)
Three Little Pigs (2/3)- red river hog and warthog (Columbus)
Another Dang Meerkat (2/4)- Toledo and Cleveland
Bovine Bonanza (11/20)- bontebok (Cleveland), Thomson’s, slender-horned and Dama gazelles (Columbus), greater kudu (Columbus), lowland nyala (Toledo), Speke’s gazelle (Akron), takin (Cleveland), American bison (Wagon Trails Animal Park, Vienna, Ohio), water buffalo (Wagon Trails) and Tibetan yak (Wagon Trails).
Late to the Party (8/8)- American bison, river otter, moose, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, grizzly bear, polar bear and American beaver (Columbus)
You Must Be This Tall to (Not) Fly (4/4)- ostrich (Wagon Trails), emu (Cleveland), rhea (Wagon Trails) and cassowary (double-wattled- Toledo)
Pretty in Pink (2/4)- Chilean flamingo (Columbus) and American flamingo (Toledo)
Rookery Roundabout (2/6 or 2/12)- African penguin (Toledo) and Humboldt penguin (Columbus)
Duck Dynasty (18/18)- freckled and spotted whistling ducks (Columbus), snow goose (Columbus), ruddy duck (Columbus), harlequin and long-tailed ducks (Toledo), white-faced whistling ducks and ring teals (Cleveland), emperor, lesser white-fronted and red-breasted geese (Toledo), magpie goose (Columbus), Mandarin duck (Cleveland), wood duck (Cleveland), Baikal teal, scaly-sided merganser, rosy-billed pochard and redhead (Akron)
Parliament Is Now In Session (4/6)- barn owl (Akron), snowy owl (Akron), Eastern screech owl (Toledo), great horned owl (North Chagrin Nature Center, Mayfield Village, Ohio),
Polly Wants 20 (8/20)- hyacinth macaw (Akron), budgerigar (Cleveland), Bourke’s parrot (Toledo), cockatiel (Toledo), Australian rainbow lorikeet (Columbus), African gray parrot (Toledo, Columbus), eastern rosella (Columbus), blue-and-gold macaw (Wagon Trails)
The Alfred Russell Wallace (1/1)- Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Toledo)
The Edgar Allen Poe (2/5)- azure-winged magpie (Columbus), blue jay (Akron)
Nighttime Birding (1/1)- kiwi (Columbus)
The Big Squeeze (4/5)- anaconda (Toledo), reticulated python (Columbus), Burmese python (Cleveland) and green tree python (Columbus)
Slow and Steady (3/4)- Galapagos tortoise (Toledo), Aldabra tortoise (Columbus) and northern spider tortoise (Cleveland)
The Sobek Six-Pack (4/6)- American alligator (Columbus), Indian gharial (Cleveland), West African dwarf crocodile (Cleveland) and saltwater crocodile (Toledo)
One Drop, One Life (17/20)- eastern massasauga, banded rock, timber, canebrake, eastern diamondback and dusky pygmy rattlesnakes (Columbus), Aruba and mottled rock rattlesnakes (Toledo), eyelash viper (Cleveland), Russell’s, jumping and rhinoceros vipers (Toledo), Komodo dragon (Toledo), Gila monster (Columbus), cape and red spitting cobras (Columbus) and false water cobra (Toledo)
Pick Your Poison (6/6)- green-and-black poison arrow, Anthony’s poison arrow, golden poison dart and bumblebee poison dart frogs (Columbus), strawberry poison dart frog (Toledo) and blue poison dart frog (Cleveland)
Sharknado (4/4)- epaulette shark, white-spotted bamboo shark, chain catshark and coral catshark (Toledo)
Silk and Stinger (6/6)- Indian ornamental, Brazilian salmon pink and orange baboon tarantulas (Cleveland) and Big Bend, stripe-tailed and Arizona bark scorpions (Toledo)
Release the Kraken (1/1)- giant Pacific octopus (Cleveland, Akron)
The Kingmaker (1/3)- king cobra
Cold as Ice (3/3)- polar bear (Columbus), arctic fox (Columbus) and snowy owl (Akron)
Champion of the Sun (1/3)- sun bear (Cleveland)
The Steve Irwin (15/15)- red kangaroo, gray kangaroo, koala and Tasmanian devil (Columbus), Bennett’s wallaby (Cleveland), rainbow lorikeet, kookaburra and tawny frogmouth (Columbus), budgerigar and sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cleveland), prehensile-tailed skink, Macklot’s python, carpet and Children’s pythons and northern Australian snapping turtle (Columbus)
One-Zoo Wonder- Sharknado (Toledo), Ring 'n Ruff (Cleveland) and Late to the Party (Columbus)
The Coelacanth Stamp of Approval (4/15)- spotted hyena (Columbus), Malayan large flying fox (Columbus), green aracari (Cleveland) and Jackson’s chameleon (Toledo)
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (0/3)
Breakfast of Champions/TinoPup’s Namesake Challenge (1/1)- dingo (Cleveland)
Whoops... didn't realize yaks and water buffalo didn't count! I knew animals such as domestic cattle, goats, pigs, horses and sheep didn't, but wasn't so sure about yaks and water buffalo. Thanks for the info about Detroit! I just don't know what I can see because I'll be going in December, but I'll be on the lookout for those species. I'd probably add a couple things at Keystone Safari in Grove City, Pa., too...