ZooChat Challenge Global 2023 - 10th Anniversary Special!

ChunkyMunky pengopus said:
It could be because there is a colony on The island of Tierra Del Fuego (AKA The 'grand' Island of Tierra Del Fuego)
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That's not what I'm asking. In my using of the website, I've always seen islands listed separately from mainlands. As a quick example, the Island Fox is described as being from the Channel Islands, with each island specifically mentioned, vs saying southwest California or southwest USA.
 
TinoPup said:
That's not what I'm asking. In my using of the website, I've always seen islands listed separately from mainlands. As a quick example, the Island Fox is described as being from the Channel Islands, with each island specifically mentioned, vs saying southwest California or southwest USA.
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That would be inconsistent then, as a search on sites like iNat or eBird only seem to have birds on the mainland (In the vicinity of Punta Arenas) sparingly, as visitors/vagrants, and every other resource only mentions the archipelago as breeding grounds
 
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Just gonna wait for Thylo's judgement on the matter of king penguins. If they are allowed that's another species I gotta add and would complete the bird portion of Island Hoppers.
 
TinoPup said:
As a quick example, the Island Fox is described as being from the Channel Islands, with each island specifically mentioned, vs saying southwest California or southwest USA.
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Not saying you’re wrong about the King penguins but there’s a good chance that’s because the fox is only found on those islands, so saying anything other than the islands would be misleading. Perhaps because Tierra del Fuego is so large and so close to the mainland (2km at narrowest point) it made sense just to put Southern Chile for ease of understanding.

Either way it’s not that big a deal :).
 
amur leopard said:
Not saying you’re wrong about the King penguins but there’s a good chance that’s because the fox is only found on those islands, so saying anything other than the islands would be misleading. Perhaps because Tierra del Fuego is so large and so close to the mainland (2km at narrowest point) it made sense just to put Southern Chile for ease of understanding.

Either way it’s not that big a deal :).
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I just used that one as an example because it's the first thing that popped in my head :)
 
red river hog said:
Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens - 4/1

2016 (Part II): Let That Ruminate

Bovids:
7. Yellow-backed Duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor)

2018 (Part III): Carnivore Carnival

2. Ratel (Mellivora capensis)

2019 (Part I): See, Don't Touch

3. Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates auratus)

2021: Don't You Forget About Me

Sloth:
1. Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus didactylus)

Island Hoppers Challenge

Mammals:
4. Red Ruffed Lemur (Varecia rubra)
5. Mongoose Lemur (Eulemur mongoz)

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood)

Pythons:
2. Reticulated Python (Malayopython reticulatus)
3. Burmese Python (Python bivitattus)

Turtles/Tortoises:
3. Leopard Tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)
4. African Spurred Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata)
5. Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
6. Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Aldabrachelys giganteus)
7. Red-footed Tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius)

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge

8. Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
9. Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Aldabrachelys giganteus)

The Unbearable Challenge

1. American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)

Hall of Champions

2013: Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Aldabrachelys giganteus)

ZooTampa at Lowry Park - 4/7

2013: Penguimonium

1. African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

2014: Fly the Coop

Guineafowl:
1. Kenya Crested Guineafowl (Guttera pucherani)

Phasianidae:
1. Edwards's Pheasant (Lophura edwardsi)
2. Crested Partridge (Rollulus rouloul)

2015: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Trap

1. Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata)

2016 (Part I): How Many Toes Am I Holding Up?

Rhinoceroses:
3. Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

Tapirs:
1. Malayan Tapir (Acrocodia indica)

2016 (Part II): Let That Ruminate

Pigs/Peccaries:
3. Red River Hog (Potamochoerus porcus)

Hippopotamuses:
2. Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)

Bovidae:
8. Lowland Anoa (Bubalus depressicornis)
9. Lowland Nyala (Tragelaphus angassii)
10. Bay Duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis)
11. Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus)

2017 (Part I): Check Your Feeders

1. Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus)
2. Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

2017 (Part III): Thylo's Top 20

4. Hooded Pitta (Pitta sordida)
5. Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus)

2018 (Part III): Carnivore Carnival

3. Binturong (Arctitis binturong)

2020: Let's Give this Another Go

4. Yellow-footed Rock-Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus)

Embrace the ABCs Challenge

11. African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

Island Hoppers Challenge

Birds:
3. Sulawesi Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus)
4. Javan Pond-Heron (Ardeola speciosa)
5. Luzon Bleeding-Heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)
6. Leaf Lorikeet (Trichoglossus weberi)

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood)

Monitors:
3. Biak Tree Monitor (Varanus kordensis)

Venomous Snakes:
1. Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius)
2. Eastern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
3. Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus milarius)
4. Florida Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon conanti)
5. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamenteus)

Crocodiles/Gharials:
3. Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)
4. False Gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii)

Turtles/Tortoises:
8. Giant Asian Pond Turtle (Heosemys grandis)
9. Black Pond Turtle (Geoclemys hamiltoni)
10. Asian Forest Tortoise (Manouria phayrei)
11. Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis)
12. Common Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus)
13. Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata)
14. Arrau Turtle (Podocnemis expansa)
15. Pig-nosed Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
16. Common Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina)
17. Radiated Tortoise (Astrochelys radiata)
18. Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis niger)
19. Eastern Long-necked Turtle (Chelodina longicollis)

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge

10. Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
11. Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
12. Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
13. Reeves' Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesii)
14. American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
15. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamenteus)

The Unbearable Challenge

2. Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus)

Hall of Champions

2020: Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)

Florida Aquarium - 4/8

2017 (Part I): Check Your Feeders

3. Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
4. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Island Hoppers Challenge

Amphibians:
2. Tomato Frog (Dyscophus antongilii)

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood)

Geckos:
2. Standing's Day Gecko (Phelsuma standingi)
3. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (Phelsuma grandis)

Turtles/Tortoises:
20. Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii)
21. Florida Softshell Turtle (Apalone ferox)
22. Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin)
23. Barbour's Map Turtle (Graptemys barbouri)
24. Florida Red-bellied Cooter (Pseudemys nelsoni)
25. Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides)
26. Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
27. Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)
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Central Park Zoo - 4/15

2013: Penguimonium

2. Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus)
3. King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)
4. Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
5. Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua)

2014: Fly the Coop

Phasianidae:
3. Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)
4. Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus)

2017 (Part II): Asian Songbird Challenge

1. Bali Myna (Leucopsar rothschildi)

2017 (Part III): Thylo's Top 20

6. Red-billed Blue-Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha)

2018 (Part I): Small but Will Fight

Mongooses:
1. Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)

Red Panda:
1. Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens)

2018 (Part II): Pinni-Party

1. California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)
2. Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)

2021: Don't You Forget About Me

Bats:
2. Rodrigues Flying Fox (Pteropus rodricensis)
3. Seba's Short-tailed Bat (Carollia perspecilliata)

2022: Don't Turn On the Lights

1. Seba's Short-tailed Bat (Carollia perspecilliata)
2. Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)

The Unbearable Challenge

2. Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)

One-Zoo Wonder

1. Pinni-Party
 
red river hog said:
Central Park Zoo - 4/15

2013: Penguimonium

2. Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus)
3. King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)
4. Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
5. Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua)

2014: Fly the Coop

Phasianidae:
3. Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)
4. Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus)

2017 (Part II): Asian Songbird Challenge

1. Bali Myna (Leucopsar rothschildi)

2017 (Part III): Thylo's Top 20

6. Red-billed Blue-Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha)

2018 (Part I): Small but Will Fight

Mongooses:
1. Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)

Red Panda:
1. Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens)

2018 (Part II): Pinni-Party

1. California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)
2. Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)

2021: Don't You Forget About Me

Bats:
2. Rodrigues Flying Fox (Pteropus rodricensis)
3. Seba's Short-tailed Bat (Carollia perspecilliata)

2022: Don't Turn On the Lights

1. Seba's Short-tailed Bat (Carollia perspecilliata)
2. Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)

The Unbearable Challenge

2. Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)

One-Zoo Wonder

1. Pinni-Party
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It might be useful if you either wrote ‘complete’ next to a challenge you have completed or had a list at the end of every post saying which ones are done (or both, really) as it’s quite hard to figure out which ones are actually done as it is :).
 
Neil chace said:
Utica Zoo:
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Trap (6/10):
6. Patagonian Cavy- Dolichotis patagonum

How Many Toes Am I Holding Up? (4/9):
4. Hartmann's Mountain Zebra- Equus zebra hartmanni

Let That Ruminate (5/11 plus 9 bovids):
5. Visayan Warty Pig- Sus cebifrons
Bovids:
9. Transcapian Urial- Ovis vignei arkal

Let's Give This Another Go (3/unlimited):
3. Bennett's Wallaby- Macropus rufogriseus

Native Species Challenge (2/5):
2. Barn Owl- Tyto alba

Embrace the ABC's (11/36):
9. Bennett's Wallaby- Utica Zoo
10. African Lion- Utica Zoo (2/2)
11. Bald Eagle- Utica Zoo (2/2)

Island Hoppers (16/22):
16. Visayan Warty Pig- Sus cebifrons

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge (8/15):
8. Reeve's Muntjac- Muntiacus reevesi

Challenges completed remains 4/29.
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Rosamond Gifford Zoo is a zoo that seems to get me a few surprise species every time I visit:
Fly The Coop (3/11):
3. Helmeted Curassow- Pauxi pauxi

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Trap (7/10):
7. Cape Porcupine- Hystrix africaeaustralis

Don't You Forget About Me (6/13):
6. Large Hairy Armadillo- Chaetophractus villosus

Don't Turn On The Lights (10/10) NOW COMPLETE:
10. Large Hairy Armadillo- Chaetophractus villosus

Challenges Complete: 5/29

Next month is when my bigger zoo visiting for the year is going to pick up, but as of right now I have a solid foundation for being only four months into the year. I know I'm not going to finish all of the challenges (mainly because of umbrellabirds, sun bears, pandas, and a few aquatic mammals), but with the upcoming zoo visits I have planned I should be able to get closer than ever before!
 
Zoos visited:

Adelaide Zoo (30 January)
Melbourne Zoo (4 February)
Werribee Open Range Zoo (18 February)
Healesville Sanctuary (19 February)
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (28 March)
Nogeyama Zoo (31 March)
Kanazawa Zoo (31 March)
Zoorasia (1 April)
Ueno Zoo (2 April)
Sunshine Aquarium (3 April)
Sumida Aquarium (6 April)
Sendai Unimo-mori Aquarium (7 April)
Asa Zoo (12 April)
Kobe Animal Kingdom (15 April)
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan (17 April)
Tennoji Zoo (18 April)

Completed:
  1. Check Your Feeders
  2. The Rio Challenge
  3. One-zoo wonder
  4. Pinni-Party
  5. Bona-Fide Rarity Hunter
  6. Thylo’s Bonus Challenge
  7. Don’t turn on the lights
  8. Sea Shepherds
  9. How many toes am I holding up?
  10. Usborne’s Scavanger Hunt
  11. We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Trap
  12. River Giants
  13. I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) (fixed portion)
  14. Second chance Red List challenge
  15. Let that Ruminate (fixed portion)
  16. Small But Will Fight
  17. Island Hoppers Challenge
2013: Penguimonium

  1. Little penguin
  2. Emperor penguin
  3. Chinstrap penguin
  4. Gentoo penguin
  5. Adelie penguin
  6. African penguin
  7. Magellanic penguin
  8. King penguin
  9. Southern rockhopper penguin
  10. Humboldt’s penguin

2014: Fly the Coop

  1. Malleefowl (1/1 megapodes)
  2. Lady Amherst’s pheasant - (1/6 pheasants)
  3. Indian peafowl - (2/6 pheasants)
  4. Common ring-necked pheasant (3/6 pheasants)
  5. Crested argus (4/6 pheasants)
  6. Vulturine guineafowl
  7. Chinese bamboo partridge (5/6 pheasants)
  8. Golden pheasant (6/6 pheasants)
  9. Bare-faced curassow (1/2 cracids)

2016 Part II: Let That Ruminate

  1. Giraffe
  2. Fallow deer (1/4 deer)
  3. Pygmy hippopotamus (1/2 hippos)
  4. Collared peccary (1/3 pigs and peccaries)
  5. Common hippopotamus (2/2 hippos)
  6. Sika deer (2/4 deer)
  7. Okapi
  8. Red river hog (2/3 pigs and peccaries)
  9. Reeve’s muntjac (3/4 deer)
  10. Wild boar (3/3 pigs and peccaries)
  11. Pére David’s deer (4/4 deer)
  1. Scimitar-horned oryx
  2. American bison
  3. Blackbuck
  4. Lowland nyala
  5. Common eland
  6. Bighorn sheep
  7. Japanese serow
  8. Bharal
  9. Arabian oryx
  10. Golden takin
  11. Barbary sheep
  12. Cape buffalo
  13. Mouflon

2017 Part II: Asian songbird challenge

N/A

2017 Part III: Thylo’s Top 20
  1. White-headed buffalo-weaver

2018 Part III: Carnivore Carnival

  1. Binturong
  2. Cheetah
  3. Fossa

2019 Part I: Look but don’t touch

  1. Dyeing poison dart frog
  2. Blue poison dart frog
  3. Yellow-banded poison dart frog
  4. Green and black poison dart frog

2020: Let’s Give This Another Go

  1. Red kangaroo
  2. Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
  3. Koala
  4. Fat-tailed dunnart
  5. Brush-tailed bettong
  6. Greater bilby
  7. Squirrel glider
  8. Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo
  9. Common ringtail possum
  10. Southern hairy-nosed wombat
  11. Tasmanian devil
  12. Kangaroo Island kangaroo
  13. Tammar wallaby
  14. Eastern grey kangaroo
  15. Short-beaked echidna
  16. Common wombat
  17. Eastern quoll
  18. Long-footed potoroo
  19. Mountain pygmy possum
  20. Spot-tailed quoll
  21. Parma wallaby
  22. Sugar glider
  23. Striped possum

2021: Don’t You Forget About Me

  1. Asian elephant (1/2 elephants)
  2. Southern tamandua
  3. Cape hyrax
  4. Ryukyu flying fox (1/4 bats)
  5. Southern three-banded armadillo (1/2 armadillos)
  6. Six-banded armadillo (2/2 armadillos)
  7. African forest elephant (2/2 elephants)
  8. Leschenault’s rousette (2/4 bats)
  9. Linnaeus’ two-toed sloth
  10. Egyptian rousette (3/4 bats)

Native Species Challenge

  1. Gouldian finch
  2. Australian green tree frog
  3. Platypus

Embrace the ABCs Challenge

Seen twice:
  1. Meerkat
  2. Ring-tailed lemur
  3. Little penguin
  4. Lion
  5. Western lowland gorilla
  6. Green tree frog
  7. Indian peafowl
  8. Asian elephant
  9. Tiger
  10. Asian small-clawed otter
  11. Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Seen once:
  1. Wedge-tailed eagle
  2. Spiny stick insect
  3. Southern white rhinoceros
  4. Murray River turtle
  5. Red-necked wallaby
  6. Saltwater crocodile
  7. Sand tiger shark

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood)

  1. Central netted dragon (1/1 agamids)
  2. Rough-scaled python (1/3 pythons)
  3. Broad-headed snake (1/10 venomous snakes)
  4. Komodo dragon (1/4 monitors)
  5. Inland taipan (2/10 venomous snakes)
  6. Southern death adder (A.antarcticus) (3/10 venomous snakes)
  7. Red-bellied black snake (4/10 venomous snakes)
  8. Olive python (2/3 pythons)
  9. Jungle carpet python (3/3 pythons)
  10. Coastal taipan (5/10 venomous snakes)
  11. Mexican cantil (6/10 venomous snakes)
  12. Monocled cobra (7/10 venomous snakes)
  13. Freshwater crocodile (1/4 crocodiles)
  14. Southern Pilbara rock monitor (2/4 monitors)
  15. Merten’s water monitor (3/4 monitors)
  16. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (8/10 venomous snakes)
  17. Eyelash viper (9/10 venomous snakes)
  18. Common tiger snake (10/10 venomous snakes)
  19. Philippine crocodile (2/4 crocodiles)
  20. Lace monitor (4/4 monitors)
  21. African dwarf crocodile (3/4 crocodiles)
  22. Leopard gecko (1/2 geckos)
  23. Gharial (4/4 crocodiles)
  24. Tokay gecko (2/2 geckos)

Turtles and Tortoises
  1. Pig-nosed turtle
  2. Aldabra giant tortoise
  3. Murray River turtle
  4. Spur-thighed tortoise
  5. Eastern snake-necked turtle
  6. Horsfield’s tortoise
  7. Carolina box turtle
  8. Indian star tortoise
  9. Elongate tortoise
  10. Twist-necked turtle
  11. Chinese three-striped box turtle
  12. Leopard tortoise
  13. Northern long-necked turtle
  14. Red-bellied short-necked turtle
  15. Loggerhead turtle
  16. Green turtle
  17. Hawksbill turtle
  18. Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle
  19. Spotted pond turtle
  20. Ploughshare tortoise
  21. Radiated tortoise
  22. Spider tortoise
  23. Eastern box turtle
  24. Asian giant tortoise
  25. Egyptian tortoise
  26. Indian roofed turtle
  27. Northern river terrapin
  28. Bell’s hingeback tortoise
  29. West African mud turtle
  30. Sri Lanka black turtle
  31. Annam leaf turtle
  32. Galapagos giant tortoise
  33. South American yellow-footed tortoise
  34. South American red-footed tortoise
  35. Red-eared slider
  36. Reeve’s pond turtle
  37. Japanese pond turtle
  38. Chinese soft-shelled turtle
  39. Burmese star tortoise
  40. Hilaire’s Toad-headed turtle
  41. Asian yellow pond turtle
  42. Amboine box turtle
  43. Roti Island snake-necked turtle
  44. Alligator snapping turtle
  45. New Guinea snake-necked turtle

The Unbearable Challenge

  1. Asiatic black bear
  2. Polar bear
  3. Spectacled bear
  4. Giant panda
  5. Sun bear
  6. Brown bear
  7. American black bear
Hall of Champions

  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Wedge-tailed eagle
  3. Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
  4. Superb lyrebird
  5. Blue-faced honeyeater
  6. Eastern quoll
  7. Okapi



2017 Part I: Check Your Feeders - COMPLETE

  1. Gouldian finch
  2. Crested bellbird
  3. Striped honeyeater
  4. Regent honeyeater

The Rio Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Brown-throated conure
  2. Illiger’s macaw
  3. White-bellied caique
  4. Scarlet macaw
  5. Sun conure
  6. Blue-and-yellow macaw
  7. Hyacinth macaw
  8. Yellow-crowned Amazon

One-Zoo Wonder - COMPLETE

  1. Check Your Feeders
  2. Rio Challenge

2018 Part II: Pinni-party - COMPLETE

  1. Australian sea lion
  2. Long-nosed fur seal

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - COMPLETE

  1. Pygmy Blue-Tongue Lizard (worldwide bonus - only displayed at Adelaide Zoo)
  2. Collared peccary (only displayed in Melbourne Zoo, Australasian region)
  3. Vervet monkey (only displayed in Werribee Zoo, Australasian region

2022: Don’t Turn On the Lights - COMPLETE

  1. Spinifex hopping mouse
  2. Greater stick-nest rat
  3. Tawny frogmouth
  4. Fat-tailed dunnart
  5. Brush-tailed bettong
  6. Greater bilby
  7. Squirrel glider
  8. Common ringtail possum
  9. Eastern quoll
  10. Long-footed potoroo

2016 Part III: Sea Shepherds - COMPLETE

  1. Common bottle-nosed dolphin
  2. Beluga

2016 Part I: How Many Toes am I Holding Up? - COMPLETE

  1. Brazilian tapir - (1/3 tapirs)
  2. Malayan tapir (2/3 tapirs)
  3. Plains zebra (1/3 equids)
  4. Takhi/Przewalski’s horse (2/3 equids)
  5. White rhinoceros (1/3 rhinos)
  6. Grevy’s zebra (3/3 equids)
  7. Baird’s tapir (2/3 tapirs)
  8. Greater one-horned rhinoceros (2/3 rhinos)
  9. Black rhinoceros (3/3 rhinos)

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Red kangaroo
  3. Lady Amherst’s pheasant
  4. Blue-and-yellow macaw
  5. Bolivian squirrel monkey
  6. Southern cassowary
  7. Dingo
  8. American alligator
  9. Pygmy hippopotamus
  10. Sumatran orang-utan
  11. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
  12. Blue-winged kookaburra
  13. American bison
  14. Greater one-horned rhinoceros
  15. Polar bear

2015: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Trap - COMPLETE

  1. Patagonian mara
  2. Capybara
  3. African crested porcupine
  4. Japanese squirrel
  5. Black-tailed prairie dog
  6. Naked mole-rat
  7. Degu
  8. Brazilian guinea pig
  9. Small Japanese flying squirrel
  10. Woodland dormouse

2019 Part II: River Giants - COMPLETE

  1. Japanese giant salamander
Second Chance Red List Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Broad-headed snake (1/4 Vulnerable)
  2. Pygmy blue-tongue lizard (1/4 Endangered)
  3. Komodo dragon (2/4 Endangered)
  4. Aldabra giant tortoise (2/4 Vulnerable)
  5. Brazilian tapir (3/4 Vulnerable)
  6. Golden lion tamarin (3/4 Endangered)
  7. Ring-tailed lemur (4/4 Endangered)
  8. Greater bilby (4/4 Vulnerable)
  9. Brush-tailed bettong (1/4 Critically Endangered)
  10. Cotton-top tamarin (2/4 Critically Endangered)
  11. Northern white-cheeked gibbon (3/4 Critically Endangered)
  12. Swift parrot (4/4 Critically Endangered)
  13. Scimitar-horned oryx (1/2 Extinct in the Wild)
  14. Pére David’s deer (2/2 Extinct in the Wild)

2018 Part I: Small But Will Fight - COMPLETE

  1. Meerkat (1/2 mongooses)
  2. Serval (1/5 small cats)
  3. Fennec Fox (1/2 foxes)
  4. Red panda
  5. Tsushima leopard cat (2/5 small cats)
  6. Pallas’ cat (3/5 small cats)
  7. Dwarf mongoose (2/2 mongooses)
  8. Japanese red fox (2/2 foxes)
  9. Sand cat (4/5 small cats)
  10. Fishing cat (5/5 small cats)

Island Hoppers Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Komodo dragon (1/6 reptiles)
  2. Aldabra giant tortoise (2/6 reptiles)
  3. Rhinoceros iguana (3/6 reptiles)
  4. Ring-tailed lemur (1/5 mammals)
  5. Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo (2/5 mammals)
  6. Java sparrow (1/6 birds)
  7. Black-and-white ruffed lemur (3/5 mammals)
  8. Fijian crested iguana (4/6 reptiles)
  9. Sumatran orang-utan (4/5 mammals)
  10. Philippine crocodile (5/6 reptiles)
  11. Philippine sail-finned dragon (6/6 reptiles)
  12. Clown loach (1/2 fish)
  13. Tasmanian devil (5/5 mammals)
  14. Japanese rice fish (2/2 fish)
  15. Kagu (2/6 birds)
  16. Japanese giant salamander (1/3 amphibians)
  17. Tokyo salamander (2/3 amphibians)
  18. Japanese fire-bellied newt (3/3 amphibians)
  19. Lidth’s jay (3/6)
  20. King penguin (4/6 birds)
  21. Victoria crowned-pigeon (5/6 birds)
  22. South Island brown kiwi (6/6 birds)
 
CGSwans said:
Zoos visited:

Adelaide Zoo (30 January)
Melbourne Zoo (4 February)
Werribee Open Range Zoo (18 February)
Healesville Sanctuary (19 February)
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (28 March)
Nogeyama Zoo (31 March)
Kanazawa Zoo (31 March)
Zoorasia (1 April)
Ueno Zoo (2 April)
Sunshine Aquarium (3 April)
Sumida Aquarium (6 April)
Sendai Unimo-mori Aquarium (7 April)
Asa Zoo (12 April)
Kobe Animal Kingdom (15 April)
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan (17 April)
Tennoji Zoo (18 April)

Completed:
  1. Check Your Feeders
  2. The Rio Challenge
  3. One-zoo wonder
  4. Pinni-Party
  5. Bona-Fide Rarity Hunter
  6. Thylo’s Bonus Challenge
  7. Don’t turn on the lights
  8. Sea Shepherds
  9. How many toes am I holding up?
  10. Usborne’s Scavanger Hunt
  11. We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Trap
  12. River Giants
  13. I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) (fixed portion)
  14. Second chance Red List challenge
  15. Let that Ruminate (fixed portion)
  16. Small But Will Fight
  17. Island Hoppers Challenge
2013: Penguimonium

  1. Little penguin
  2. Emperor penguin
  3. Chinstrap penguin
  4. Gentoo penguin
  5. Adelie penguin
  6. African penguin
  7. Magellanic penguin
  8. King penguin
  9. Southern rockhopper penguin
  10. Humboldt’s penguin

2014: Fly the Coop

  1. Malleefowl (1/1 megapodes)
  2. Lady Amherst’s pheasant - (1/6 pheasants)
  3. Indian peafowl - (2/6 pheasants)
  4. Common ring-necked pheasant (3/6 pheasants)
  5. Crested argus (4/6 pheasants)
  6. Vulturine guineafowl
  7. Chinese bamboo partridge (5/6 pheasants)
  8. Golden pheasant (6/6 pheasants)
  9. Bare-faced curassow (1/2 cracids)

2016 Part II: Let That Ruminate

  1. Giraffe
  2. Fallow deer (1/4 deer)
  3. Pygmy hippopotamus (1/2 hippos)
  4. Collared peccary (1/3 pigs and peccaries)
  5. Common hippopotamus (2/2 hippos)
  6. Sika deer (2/4 deer)
  7. Okapi
  8. Red river hog (2/3 pigs and peccaries)
  9. Reeve’s muntjac (3/4 deer)
  10. Wild boar (3/3 pigs and peccaries)
  11. Pére David’s deer (4/4 deer)
  1. Scimitar-horned oryx
  2. American bison
  3. Blackbuck
  4. Lowland nyala
  5. Common eland
  6. Bighorn sheep
  7. Japanese serow
  8. Bharal
  9. Arabian oryx
  10. Golden takin
  11. Barbary sheep
  12. Cape buffalo
  13. Mouflon

2017 Part II: Asian songbird challenge

N/A

2017 Part III: Thylo’s Top 20
  1. White-headed buffalo-weaver

2018 Part III: Carnivore Carnival

  1. Binturong
  2. Cheetah
  3. Fossa

2019 Part I: Look but don’t touch

  1. Dyeing poison dart frog
  2. Blue poison dart frog
  3. Yellow-banded poison dart frog
  4. Green and black poison dart frog

2020: Let’s Give This Another Go

  1. Red kangaroo
  2. Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
  3. Koala
  4. Fat-tailed dunnart
  5. Brush-tailed bettong
  6. Greater bilby
  7. Squirrel glider
  8. Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo
  9. Common ringtail possum
  10. Southern hairy-nosed wombat
  11. Tasmanian devil
  12. Kangaroo Island kangaroo
  13. Tammar wallaby
  14. Eastern grey kangaroo
  15. Short-beaked echidna
  16. Common wombat
  17. Eastern quoll
  18. Long-footed potoroo
  19. Mountain pygmy possum
  20. Spot-tailed quoll
  21. Parma wallaby
  22. Sugar glider
  23. Striped possum

2021: Don’t You Forget About Me

  1. Asian elephant (1/2 elephants)
  2. Southern tamandua
  3. Cape hyrax
  4. Ryukyu flying fox (1/4 bats)
  5. Southern three-banded armadillo (1/2 armadillos)
  6. Six-banded armadillo (2/2 armadillos)
  7. African forest elephant (2/2 elephants)
  8. Leschenault’s rousette (2/4 bats)
  9. Linnaeus’ two-toed sloth
  10. Egyptian rousette (3/4 bats)

Native Species Challenge

  1. Gouldian finch
  2. Australian green tree frog
  3. Platypus

Embrace the ABCs Challenge

Seen twice:
  1. Meerkat
  2. Ring-tailed lemur
  3. Little penguin
  4. Lion
  5. Western lowland gorilla
  6. Green tree frog
  7. Indian peafowl
  8. Asian elephant
  9. Tiger
  10. Asian small-clawed otter
  11. Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Seen once:
  1. Wedge-tailed eagle
  2. Spiny stick insect
  3. Southern white rhinoceros
  4. Murray River turtle
  5. Red-necked wallaby
  6. Saltwater crocodile
  7. Sand tiger shark

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood)

  1. Central netted dragon (1/1 agamids)
  2. Rough-scaled python (1/3 pythons)
  3. Broad-headed snake (1/10 venomous snakes)
  4. Komodo dragon (1/4 monitors)
  5. Inland taipan (2/10 venomous snakes)
  6. Southern death adder (A.antarcticus) (3/10 venomous snakes)
  7. Red-bellied black snake (4/10 venomous snakes)
  8. Olive python (2/3 pythons)
  9. Jungle carpet python (3/3 pythons)
  10. Coastal taipan (5/10 venomous snakes)
  11. Mexican cantil (6/10 venomous snakes)
  12. Monocled cobra (7/10 venomous snakes)
  13. Freshwater crocodile (1/4 crocodiles)
  14. Southern Pilbara rock monitor (2/4 monitors)
  15. Merten’s water monitor (3/4 monitors)
  16. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (8/10 venomous snakes)
  17. Eyelash viper (9/10 venomous snakes)
  18. Common tiger snake (10/10 venomous snakes)
  19. Philippine crocodile (2/4 crocodiles)
  20. Lace monitor (4/4 monitors)
  21. African dwarf crocodile (3/4 crocodiles)
  22. Leopard gecko (1/2 geckos)
  23. Gharial (4/4 crocodiles)
  24. Tokay gecko (2/2 geckos)

Turtles and Tortoises
  1. Pig-nosed turtle
  2. Aldabra giant tortoise
  3. Murray River turtle
  4. Spur-thighed tortoise
  5. Eastern snake-necked turtle
  6. Horsfield’s tortoise
  7. Carolina box turtle
  8. Indian star tortoise
  9. Elongate tortoise
  10. Twist-necked turtle
  11. Chinese three-striped box turtle
  12. Leopard tortoise
  13. Northern long-necked turtle
  14. Red-bellied short-necked turtle
  15. Loggerhead turtle
  16. Green turtle
  17. Hawksbill turtle
  18. Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle
  19. Spotted pond turtle
  20. Ploughshare tortoise
  21. Radiated tortoise
  22. Spider tortoise
  23. Eastern box turtle
  24. Asian giant tortoise
  25. Egyptian tortoise
  26. Indian roofed turtle
  27. Northern river terrapin
  28. Bell’s hingeback tortoise
  29. West African mud turtle
  30. Sri Lanka black turtle
  31. Annam leaf turtle
  32. Galapagos giant tortoise
  33. South American yellow-footed tortoise
  34. South American red-footed tortoise
  35. Red-eared slider
  36. Reeve’s pond turtle
  37. Japanese pond turtle
  38. Chinese soft-shelled turtle
  39. Burmese star tortoise
  40. Hilaire’s Toad-headed turtle
  41. Asian yellow pond turtle
  42. Amboine box turtle
  43. Roti Island snake-necked turtle
  44. Alligator snapping turtle
  45. New Guinea snake-necked turtle

The Unbearable Challenge

  1. Asiatic black bear
  2. Polar bear
  3. Spectacled bear
  4. Giant panda
  5. Sun bear
  6. Brown bear
  7. American black bear
Hall of Champions

  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Wedge-tailed eagle
  3. Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
  4. Superb lyrebird
  5. Blue-faced honeyeater
  6. Eastern quoll
  7. Okapi



2017 Part I: Check Your Feeders - COMPLETE

  1. Gouldian finch
  2. Crested bellbird
  3. Striped honeyeater
  4. Regent honeyeater

The Rio Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Brown-throated conure
  2. Illiger’s macaw
  3. White-bellied caique
  4. Scarlet macaw
  5. Sun conure
  6. Blue-and-yellow macaw
  7. Hyacinth macaw
  8. Yellow-crowned Amazon

One-Zoo Wonder - COMPLETE

  1. Check Your Feeders
  2. Rio Challenge

2018 Part II: Pinni-party - COMPLETE

  1. Australian sea lion
  2. Long-nosed fur seal

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - COMPLETE

  1. Pygmy Blue-Tongue Lizard (worldwide bonus - only displayed at Adelaide Zoo)
  2. Collared peccary (only displayed in Melbourne Zoo, Australasian region)
  3. Vervet monkey (only displayed in Werribee Zoo, Australasian region

2022: Don’t Turn On the Lights - COMPLETE

  1. Spinifex hopping mouse
  2. Greater stick-nest rat
  3. Tawny frogmouth
  4. Fat-tailed dunnart
  5. Brush-tailed bettong
  6. Greater bilby
  7. Squirrel glider
  8. Common ringtail possum
  9. Eastern quoll
  10. Long-footed potoroo

2016 Part III: Sea Shepherds - COMPLETE

  1. Common bottle-nosed dolphin
  2. Beluga

2016 Part I: How Many Toes am I Holding Up? - COMPLETE

  1. Brazilian tapir - (1/3 tapirs)
  2. Malayan tapir (2/3 tapirs)
  3. Plains zebra (1/3 equids)
  4. Takhi/Przewalski’s horse (2/3 equids)
  5. White rhinoceros (1/3 rhinos)
  6. Grevy’s zebra (3/3 equids)
  7. Baird’s tapir (2/3 tapirs)
  8. Greater one-horned rhinoceros (2/3 rhinos)
  9. Black rhinoceros (3/3 rhinos)

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Red kangaroo
  3. Lady Amherst’s pheasant
  4. Blue-and-yellow macaw
  5. Bolivian squirrel monkey
  6. Southern cassowary
  7. Dingo
  8. American alligator
  9. Pygmy hippopotamus
  10. Sumatran orang-utan
  11. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
  12. Blue-winged kookaburra
  13. American bison
  14. Greater one-horned rhinoceros
  15. Polar bear

2015: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Trap - COMPLETE

  1. Patagonian mara
  2. Capybara
  3. African crested porcupine
  4. Japanese squirrel
  5. Black-tailed prairie dog
  6. Naked mole-rat
  7. Degu
  8. Brazilian guinea pig
  9. Small Japanese flying squirrel
  10. Woodland dormouse

2019 Part II: River Giants - COMPLETE

  1. Japanese giant salamander
Second Chance Red List Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Broad-headed snake (1/4 Vulnerable)
  2. Pygmy blue-tongue lizard (1/4 Endangered)
  3. Komodo dragon (2/4 Endangered)
  4. Aldabra giant tortoise (2/4 Vulnerable)
  5. Brazilian tapir (3/4 Vulnerable)
  6. Golden lion tamarin (3/4 Endangered)
  7. Ring-tailed lemur (4/4 Endangered)
  8. Greater bilby (4/4 Vulnerable)
  9. Brush-tailed bettong (1/4 Critically Endangered)
  10. Cotton-top tamarin (2/4 Critically Endangered)
  11. Northern white-cheeked gibbon (3/4 Critically Endangered)
  12. Swift parrot (4/4 Critically Endangered)
  13. Scimitar-horned oryx (1/2 Extinct in the Wild)
  14. Pére David’s deer (2/2 Extinct in the Wild)

2018 Part I: Small But Will Fight - COMPLETE

  1. Meerkat (1/2 mongooses)
  2. Serval (1/5 small cats)
  3. Fennec Fox (1/2 foxes)
  4. Red panda
  5. Tsushima leopard cat (2/5 small cats)
  6. Pallas’ cat (3/5 small cats)
  7. Dwarf mongoose (2/2 mongooses)
  8. Japanese red fox (2/2 foxes)
  9. Sand cat (4/5 small cats)
  10. Fishing cat (5/5 small cats)

Island Hoppers Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Komodo dragon (1/6 reptiles)
  2. Aldabra giant tortoise (2/6 reptiles)
  3. Rhinoceros iguana (3/6 reptiles)
  4. Ring-tailed lemur (1/5 mammals)
  5. Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo (2/5 mammals)
  6. Java sparrow (1/6 birds)
  7. Black-and-white ruffed lemur (3/5 mammals)
  8. Fijian crested iguana (4/6 reptiles)
  9. Sumatran orang-utan (4/5 mammals)
  10. Philippine crocodile (5/6 reptiles)
  11. Philippine sail-finned dragon (6/6 reptiles)
  12. Clown loach (1/2 fish)
  13. Tasmanian devil (5/5 mammals)
  14. Japanese rice fish (2/2 fish)
  15. Kagu (2/6 birds)
  16. Japanese giant salamander (1/3 amphibians)
  17. Tokyo salamander (2/3 amphibians)
  18. Japanese fire-bellied newt (3/3 amphibians)
  19. Lidth’s jay (3/6)
  20. King penguin (4/6 birds)
  21. Victoria crowned-pigeon (5/6 birds)
  22. South Island brown kiwi (6/6 birds)
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Normally it's a good idea to note where each species was seen in a list such as this. I'm not suggesting that your list is inaccurate or that you are intentionally being misleading, but it helps everyone else reading these lists if zoo names are included, and it helps maintain a level of accountability with reporting as well.
 
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Chlidonias said:
Where ever this was seen, it was a North Island Brown Kiwi.
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I thought that was probably the case, but the zoo labels it as A.australis and I’m not equipped to tell the difference. Either way, it counts as completing the challenge.

Neil chace said:
Normally it's a good idea to note where each species was seen in a list such as this. I'm not suggesting that your list is inaccurate or that you are intentionally being misleading, but it helps everyone else reading these lists if zoo names are included, and it helps maintain a level of accountability with reporting as well.
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Understand, but it’s far too much work to notate for every species. If you have any queries I’m happy to confirm where given species were seen.
 
CGSwans said:
I thought that was probably the case, but the zoo labels it as A.australis and I’m not equipped to tell the difference. Either way, it counts as completing the challenge.
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Yeah, A. australis is the pre-split name which is still used (probably by most zoos). There are no South Island Browns kept in zoos. But now you can also use it for that other challenge requiring a North Island Brown Kiwi.
 
I came back from a work trip in Baltimore and also ended up visiting Colonial Williamsburg and the Virginia Zoo afterwards. Also stopped at other zoos and some wildlife centers along the way. Unfortunately could not make it to Smithsonian National Zoo to see the new bird house, though. List of visited facilities used in this challenge:

Upper Schuylkill Valley Park = USVP
Plumpton Park Zoo - PPZ
Maryland Zoo = MZ
National Aquarium = NA
Marshy Point Nature Center - MPNC
Virginia Zoo = VZ

I will say, National Aquarium definitely helped with the turtle challenge :)



2014: Fly the Coop - 10/11 (+1)
New World Quail - 1/1
Northern Bobwhite - USVP


2016 (Part II): Let That Ruminate (BOVIDAE) - 24 (+1)
24. Lesser Kudu - MZ


2016 (Part III): Sea Shepherds - 1/2 (+1)
1. Bottlenose Dolphin - NA


2018 (Part III): Carnivore Carnival - 6/6 (+1) - COMPLETE
6. Binturong - PPZ


2019 (Part I): See, Don't Touch - 11 (+5)
7. Harlequin Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga histrionica) - NA
8. Strawberry (Oophaga pumilio) - NA
9. Splashback (Adelphobates galactonotus) - NA
10. Yellow-striped (Dendrobates truncatus) - NA
11. Golden (Phyllobates terribilis) - NA


2021: Don't You Forget About Me - 10/13 (+1)
Treeshrews 1/1
1. Northern Treeshrew - VZ


2022: Don't Turn On the Lights - 9/10 (+2)
8. Hellbender - MZ
9. Seba's Short-tailed Bat - MZ


Embrace the ABCs Challenge - 16/18 (+2) + 2 in-progress
15. African Penguin - MZ, New York Aquarium
16. Sand Tiger Shark - NA, New York Aquarium

In-Progress
a) African Bullfrog - VZ
b) Hyacinth Macaw - Brevard Zoo


I'm Hot Blooded (Mandatory) - 23/23 (+2) - COMPLETE
Monitors 4/4
3. Green Tree Monitor - VZ
4. Black Tree Monitor - VZ


I'm Hot Blooded (TESTUDINES) - 66 (+18)
49. Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) - VZ
50. Egyptian Tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni) - VZ
51. Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) - MPNC
52. Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) - MZ
53. Northern Red-bellied Turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris) - MPNC
54. McCords Box Turtle (Cuora mccordi) - VZ
55. Striped Mud Turtle (Kinosternon baurii) - MZ
56 Black Mud Turtle (Pelusios subniger) - MZ
57. Red-headed Amazon Turtle (Podocnemis erythrocephala) - NA
58. Arrau River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa) - NA
59. Cotinga Toad-headed Turtle (Phrynops tuberosus) - NA
60. White-throated Australian Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula) - NA
61. Northern Australian Snapping Turtle (Elseya dentata) - NA
62. Mary River Turtle (Elusor macrurus) - NA
63. Red-bellied shortneck Turtle (Emydura subglobosa) - NA
64. Northern Yellow-faced Turtle (Emydura tanybaraga) - NA
65. Victoria Shortneck Turtle (Emydura victoriae) - NA
66. Sawshell Turtle (Myuchelys latisternum) - NA


The Unbearable Challenge - 7/8 (+1)
7. Asiatic Black Bear - VZ


Hall of Champions - 9/11 (+1)
9. (2020) Blue-faced Honeyeater - NA


Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (North America) - 3/4 (+1)?
3. Northern Yellow-faced Turtle (Emydura tanybaraga) - NA

I think one of the newly discovered Australian turtles are only found in National Zoo? Can someone please confirm if there is any only found here?


Challenges Completed: 12
We're Gonna Need A Bigger Trap
Check Your Feeders
Thylo's Top 20
Carnivore Carnival
Small But Will Fight
Pinni-party
River Giants
Island Hoppers Challenge
I'm Hot-blooded (Non-testudines)
Usborne's Scavenger Hunt
Rio Challenge
One Zoo Wonder

Challenges In-progress: 12
Fly The Coop - 1 left
How Many Toes - 4 left
Let That Ruminate (Non-bovid) - 1 left
Sea Shepherds - 1 left
Asian Songbird Challenge - 1 left
Don't You Forget About Me - 3 left
Don't Turn On the Lights - 1 left
Native Species Challenge - 1 left
Embrace the ABCs Challenge - 2 left
Second Chance Red List Challenge - 1 left
The Unbearable Challenge - 1 left
Hall of Champions - 2 left
Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - 1 left?

Open-ended Challenge Totals
Penguimonium - 5
See, Don't Touch - 11
Let's Give this Another Go - 6
Bovids - 24
Testudines - 66

Not Started
Thylo's Bonus Challenge
 
Coelacanth18 said:
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium - Mar 17

Second Chance Red List Challenge
Critically Endangered:
2. Giant Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas)
3. Bocaccio Rockfish (Sebastes paucispinus)
Vulnerable:
2. California Sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher)
3. Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) (also saw at CALM, didn't realize it counted)
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Some more updates from
Aquarium of the Pacific - April 22
unless otherwise noted

Penguimonium (1)
1. Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus)

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Trap (4/10)
4. Nelson's Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni) - CALM Apr 13

Check Your Feeders (3/4)
3. Common Raven (Corvus corax) - Vasquez Rocks Nature Center, Mar 16

Pinni-Party (Completed) (2/2)
1. California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)
2. Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)

Carnivore Carnival (1/6)
1. Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)

See, Don't Touch (3)
1. Anthony's Poison Dart Frog (Epipedobates anthonyi)
2. Red-backed Poison Dart Frog (Ranitomeya reticulata)
3. Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas)

River Giants (completed) (1/1)
1. Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis)

Native Species Challenge (2/5)
2. Panamanian Golden Toad (Atelopus zeteki)

Second Chance Red List Challenge (12/14)
CR
4. Panamanian Golden Toad (Atelopus zeteki)
EN
1. Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
2. Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
3. Golden Mantella (Mantella auriantiaca)
4. Banggai Cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni)
VU
4. Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus)
Unfortunately Guam Kingfisher is off-exhibit, so no EWs...

I'm Hot Blooded (for Cold Blood)
Turtles (3):
2. Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
3. Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

One Zoo Wonder (Completed)
Pinni-Party at Aquarium of the Pacific

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter (2/3)
1. California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica) - CALM Jan 8/Apr 13
2. Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
I'm pretty sure the first species also counts as the bonus Global Rarity, but can we double-count the bonus like that or do I need 4 total to get the bonus?

Progress (of 29)
Completed: 3
In Progress: 18
Not Begun: 8
 
Kudu21 said:
Finally back with a new facility for the year! I had really good luck with the turtles, but I missed more marsupials than I saw…


San Diego Zoo (San Diego, CA) -- 04 April 2023:

Let That Ruminate (11/11): COMPLETE
  1. Bovidae (46/∞):
    1. Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
Carnivore Carnival (6/6): COMPLETE
  1. Binturong (Arctictis binturong)

Let’s Give This Another Go (10/∞):
  1. Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
  2. Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)

I’m Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) (24/24): COMPLETED
  1. Turtles/Tortoises (77/∞):
    1. Argentine snake-necked turtle (Hydromedusa tectifera)
    2. Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata)
    3. Broad-shelled snake-necked turtle (Chelodina expansa)
    4. Chinese stripe-necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis)
    5. Chinese three-striped box turtle (Cuora trifasciata)
    6. Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra indica)
    7. Malayan snail-eating turtle (Malayemys macrocephala)
    8. Marginated tortoise (Testudo marginata)
    9. Northern river terrapin (Batagur baska)
    10. Parker’s snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri)
    11. Western pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata)
    12. Yellow pond turtle (Mauremys mutica)
The Unbearable Challenge (6/8):
  1. Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)

Hall of Champions (11/11): COMPLETE
  1. Blue-faced honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)

TOTAL:
Completed: 21/29
In-Progress: 5/6
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I FINALLY made it to SeaWorld for the first time today!

SeaWorld San Diego (San Diego, CA) -- 26 April 2023:

Penguimonium (11/∞):
  1. Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)
  2. Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus)
  3. Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
  4. Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua)
  5. King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)
  6. Macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus)
  7. Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus)

Sea Shepards (2/2): COMPLETE
  1. Orca (Orcinus orca)
  2. Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)

Pinni-Party (2/2): COMPLETE
  1. Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)

Embrace the ABCs (16/18):
  1. Blacktip reef shark (2/2)

I’m Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) (24/24):
  1. Turtles/Tortoises (79/∞):
    1. Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
    2. Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

TOTAL:
Completed: 23/29
In-Progress: 3/3
 
Second Whipsnade visit of the year.

ZSL Whipsnade Zoo (22/04/2023):

Let That Ruminate:
18) Common Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius)
19) Lowland Anoa (Bubalus depressicornis)

Embrace The ABC’s:
5) Meerkat (2) (Suricata suricatta)

The Unbearable Challenge:
1) Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)

COMPLETED = 5/29
 
]Zoos visited:

Adelaide Zoo (30 January)
Melbourne Zoo (4 February)
Werribee Open Range Zoo (18 February)
Healesville Sanctuary (19 February)
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (28 March)
Nogeyama Zoo (31 March)
Kanazawa Zoo (31 March)
Zoorasia (1 April)
Ueno Zoo (2 April)
Sunshine Aquarium (3 April)
Sumida Aquarium (6 April)
Sendai Unimo-mori Aquarium (7 April)
Asa Zoo (12 April)
Kobe Animal Kingdom (15 April)
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan (17 April)
Tennoji Zoo (18 April)
National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium (26 April)
Taipei Zoo (27 April)
Xpark Aquarium (28 April)

Completed:
  1. Check Your Feeders
  2. The Rio Challenge
  3. One-zoo wonder
  4. Pinni-Party
  5. Bona-Fide Rarity Hunter
  6. Thylo’s Bonus Challenge
  7. Don’t turn on the lights
  8. Sea Shepherds
  9. How many toes am I holding up?
  10. Usborne’s Scavanger Hunt
  11. We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Trap
  12. River Giants
  13. I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood) (fixed portion)
  14. Second chance Red List challenge
  15. Let that Ruminate (fixed portion)
  16. Small But Will Fight
  17. Island Hoppers Challenge
2013: Penguimonium

  1. Little penguin
  2. Emperor penguin
  3. Chinstrap penguin
  4. Gentoo penguin
  5. Adelie penguin
  6. African penguin
  7. Magellanic penguin
  8. King penguin
  9. Southern rockhopper penguin
  10. Humboldt’s penguin
  11. Macaroni penguin

2014: Fly the Coop

  1. Malleefowl (1/1 megapodes)
  2. Lady Amherst’s pheasant - (1/6 pheasants)
  3. Indian peafowl - (2/6 pheasants)
  4. Common ring-necked pheasant (3/6 pheasants)
  5. Crested argus (4/6 pheasants)
  6. Vulturine guineafowl
  7. Chinese bamboo partridge (5/6 pheasants)
  8. Golden pheasant (6/6 pheasants)
  9. Bare-faced curassow (1/2 cracids)
  10. Great curassow (2/2 cracids)

2016 Part II: Let That Ruminate

  1. Giraffe
  2. Fallow deer (1/4 deer)
  3. Pygmy hippopotamus (1/2 hippos)
  4. Collared peccary (1/3 pigs and peccaries)
  5. Common hippopotamus (2/2 hippos)
  6. Sika deer (2/4 deer)
  7. Okapi
  8. Red river hog (2/3 pigs and peccaries)
  9. Reeve’s muntjac (3/4 deer)
  10. Wild boar (3/3 pigs and peccaries)
  11. Pére David’s deer (4/4 deer)
  1. Scimitar-horned oryx
  2. American bison
  3. Blackbuck
  4. Lowland nyala
  5. Common eland
  6. Bighorn sheep
  7. Japanese serow
  8. Bharal
  9. Arabian oryx
  10. Golden takin
  11. Barbary sheep
  12. Cape buffalo
  13. Mouflon
  14. Formosan sermon
  15. Bongo

2017 Part II: Asian songbird challenge

N/A

2017 Part III: Thylo’s Top 20
  1. White-headed buffalo-weaver

2018 Part III: Carnivore Carnival

  1. Binturong
  2. Cheetah
  3. Fossa

2019 Part I: Look but don’t touch

  1. Dyeing poison dart frog
  2. Blue poison dart frog
  3. Yellow-banded poison dart frog
  4. Green and black poison dart frog

2020: Let’s Give This Another Go

  1. Red kangaroo
  2. Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
  3. Koala
  4. Fat-tailed dunnart
  5. Brush-tailed bettong
  6. Greater bilby
  7. Squirrel glider
  8. Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo
  9. Common ringtail possum
  10. Southern hairy-nosed wombat
  11. Tasmanian devil
  12. Kangaroo Island kangaroo
  13. Tammar wallaby
  14. Eastern grey kangaroo
  15. Short-beaked echidna
  16. Common wombat
  17. Eastern quoll
  18. Long-footed potoroo
  19. Mountain pygmy possum
  20. Spot-tailed quoll
  21. Parma wallaby
  22. Sugar glider
  23. Striped possum

2021: Don’t You Forget About Me

  1. Asian elephant (1/2 elephants)
  2. Southern tamandua
  3. Cape hyrax
  4. Ryukyu flying fox (1/4 bats)
  5. Southern three-banded armadillo (1/2 armadillos)
  6. Six-banded armadillo (2/2 armadillos)
  7. African forest elephant (2/2 elephants)
  8. Leschenault’s rousette (2/4 bats)
  9. Linnaeus’ two-toed sloth
  10. Egyptian rousette (3/4 bats)

Native Species Challenge

  1. Gouldian finch
  2. Australian green tree frog
  3. Platypus

Embrace the ABCs Challenge

Seen twice:
  1. Meerkat
  2. Ring-tailed lemur
  3. Little penguin
  4. Lion
  5. Western lowland gorilla
  6. Green tree frog
  7. Indian peafowl
  8. Asian elephant
  9. Tiger
  10. Asian small-clawed otter
  11. Sulphur-crested cockatoo
  12. Spiny stick insect
  13. Southern white rhinoceros

Seen once:
  1. Wedge-tailed eagle
  2. Murray River turtle
  3. Red-necked wallaby
  4. Saltwater crocodile
  5. Sand tiger shark

I'm Hot Blooded (For Cold Blood)

  1. Central netted dragon (1/1 agamids)
  2. Rough-scaled python (1/3 pythons)
  3. Broad-headed snake (1/10 venomous snakes)
  4. Komodo dragon (1/4 monitors)
  5. Inland taipan (2/10 venomous snakes)
  6. Southern death adder (A.antarcticus) (3/10 venomous snakes)
  7. Red-bellied black snake (4/10 venomous snakes)
  8. Olive python (2/3 pythons)
  9. Jungle carpet python (3/3 pythons)
  10. Coastal taipan (5/10 venomous snakes)
  11. Mexican cantil (6/10 venomous snakes)
  12. Monocled cobra (7/10 venomous snakes)
  13. Freshwater crocodile (1/4 crocodiles)
  14. Southern Pilbara rock monitor (2/4 monitors)
  15. Merten’s water monitor (3/4 monitors)
  16. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (8/10 venomous snakes)
  17. Eyelash viper (9/10 venomous snakes)
  18. Common tiger snake (10/10 venomous snakes)
  19. Philippine crocodile (2/4 crocodiles)
  20. Lace monitor (4/4 monitors)
  21. African dwarf crocodile (3/4 crocodiles)
  22. Leopard gecko (1/2 geckos)
  23. Gharial (4/4 crocodiles)
  24. Tokay gecko (2/2 geckos)

Turtles and Tortoises
  1. Pig-nosed turtle
  2. Aldabra giant tortoise
  3. Murray River turtle
  4. Spur-thighed tortoise
  5. Eastern snake-necked turtle
  6. Horsfield’s tortoise
  7. Carolina box turtle
  8. Indian star tortoise
  9. Elongate tortoise
  10. Twist-necked turtle
  11. Chinese three-striped box turtle
  12. Leopard tortoise
  13. Northern long-necked turtle
  14. Red-bellied short-necked turtle
  15. Loggerhead turtle
  16. Green turtle
  17. Hawksbill turtle
  18. Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle
  19. Spotted pond turtle
  20. Ploughshare tortoise
  21. Radiated tortoise
  22. Spider tortoise
  23. Eastern box turtle
  24. Asian giant tortoise
  25. Egyptian tortoise
  26. Indian roofed turtle
  27. Northern river terrapin
  28. Bell’s hingeback tortoise
  29. West African mud turtle
  30. Sri Lanka black turtle
  31. Annam leaf turtle
  32. Galapagos giant tortoise
  33. South American yellow-footed tortoise
  34. South American red-footed tortoise
  35. Red-eared slider
  36. Reeve’s pond turtle
  37. Japanese pond turtle
  38. Chinese soft-shelled turtle
  39. Burmese star tortoise
  40. Hilaire’s Toad-headed turtle
  41. Asian yellow pond turtle
  42. Amboine box turtle
  43. Roti Island snake-necked turtle
  44. Alligator snapping turtle
  45. New Guinea snake-necked turtle
  46. Chinese stripe-necked turtle
  47. Spiny turtle
  48. Yellow-marginated box turtle
  49. Diamondback terrapin
  50. Mata mata

The Unbearable Challenge

  1. Asiatic black bear
  2. Polar bear
  3. Spectacled bear
  4. Giant panda
  5. Sun bear
  6. Brown bear
  7. American black bear
Hall of Champions

  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Wedge-tailed eagle
  3. Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
  4. Superb lyrebird
  5. Blue-faced honeyeater
  6. Eastern quoll
  7. Okapi



2017 Part I: Check Your Feeders - COMPLETE

  1. Gouldian finch
  2. Crested bellbird
  3. Striped honeyeater
  4. Regent honeyeater

The Rio Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Brown-throated conure
  2. Illiger’s macaw
  3. White-bellied caique
  4. Scarlet macaw
  5. Sun conure
  6. Blue-and-yellow macaw
  7. Hyacinth macaw
  8. Yellow-crowned Amazon

One-Zoo Wonder - COMPLETE

  1. Check Your Feeders
  2. Rio Challenge

2018 Part II: Pinni-party - COMPLETE

  1. Australian sea lion
  2. Long-nosed fur seal

Bona Fide Rarity Hunter - COMPLETE

  1. Pygmy Blue-Tongue Lizard (worldwide bonus - only displayed at Adelaide Zoo)
  2. Collared peccary (only displayed in Melbourne Zoo, Australasian region)
  3. Vervet monkey (only displayed in Werribee Zoo, Australasian region

2022: Don’t Turn On the Lights - COMPLETE

  1. Spinifex hopping mouse
  2. Greater stick-nest rat
  3. Tawny frogmouth
  4. Fat-tailed dunnart
  5. Brush-tailed bettong
  6. Greater bilby
  7. Squirrel glider
  8. Common ringtail possum
  9. Eastern quoll
  10. Long-footed potoroo

2016 Part III: Sea Shepherds - COMPLETE

  1. Common bottle-nosed dolphin
  2. Beluga

2016 Part I: How Many Toes am I Holding Up? - COMPLETE

  1. Brazilian tapir - (1/3 tapirs)
  2. Malayan tapir (2/3 tapirs)
  3. Plains zebra (1/3 equids)
  4. Takhi/Przewalski’s horse (2/3 equids)
  5. White rhinoceros (1/3 rhinos)
  6. Grevy’s zebra (3/3 equids)
  7. Baird’s tapir (2/3 tapirs)
  8. Greater one-horned rhinoceros (2/3 rhinos)
  9. Black rhinoceros (3/3 rhinos)

Usborne's Scavenger Hunt Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Aldabra giant tortoise
  2. Red kangaroo
  3. Lady Amherst’s pheasant
  4. Blue-and-yellow macaw
  5. Bolivian squirrel monkey
  6. Southern cassowary
  7. Dingo
  8. American alligator
  9. Pygmy hippopotamus
  10. Sumatran orang-utan
  11. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
  12. Blue-winged kookaburra
  13. American bison
  14. Greater one-horned rhinoceros
  15. Polar bear

2015: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Trap - COMPLETE

  1. Patagonian mara
  2. Capybara
  3. African crested porcupine
  4. Japanese squirrel
  5. Black-tailed prairie dog
  6. Naked mole-rat
  7. Degu
  8. Brazilian guinea pig
  9. Small Japanese flying squirrel
  10. Woodland dormouse

2019 Part II: River Giants - COMPLETE

  1. Japanese giant salamander
Second Chance Red List Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Broad-headed snake (1/4 Vulnerable)
  2. Pygmy blue-tongue lizard (1/4 Endangered)
  3. Komodo dragon (2/4 Endangered)
  4. Aldabra giant tortoise (2/4 Vulnerable)
  5. Brazilian tapir (3/4 Vulnerable)
  6. Golden lion tamarin (3/4 Endangered)
  7. Ring-tailed lemur (4/4 Endangered)
  8. Greater bilby (4/4 Vulnerable)
  9. Brush-tailed bettong (1/4 Critically Endangered)
  10. Cotton-top tamarin (2/4 Critically Endangered)
  11. Northern white-cheeked gibbon (3/4 Critically Endangered)
  12. Swift parrot (4/4 Critically Endangered)
  13. Scimitar-horned oryx (1/2 Extinct in the Wild)
  14. Pére David’s deer (2/2 Extinct in the Wild)

2018 Part I: Small But Will Fight - COMPLETE

  1. Meerkat (1/2 mongooses)
  2. Serval (1/5 small cats)
  3. Fennec Fox (1/2 foxes)
  4. Red panda
  5. Tsushima leopard cat (2/5 small cats)
  6. Pallas’ cat (3/5 small cats)
  7. Dwarf mongoose (2/2 mongooses)
  8. Japanese red fox (2/2 foxes)
  9. Sand cat (4/5 small cats)
  10. Fishing cat (5/5 small cats)

Island Hoppers Challenge - COMPLETE

  1. Komodo dragon (1/6 reptiles)
  2. Aldabra giant tortoise (2/6 reptiles)
  3. Rhinoceros iguana (3/6 reptiles)
  4. Ring-tailed lemur (1/5 mammals)
  5. Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo (2/5 mammals)
  6. Java sparrow (1/6 birds)
  7. Black-and-white ruffed lemur (3/5 mammals)
  8. Fijian crested iguana (4/6 reptiles)
  9. Sumatran orang-utan (4/5 mammals)
  10. Philippine crocodile (5/6 reptiles)
  11. Philippine sail-finned dragon (6/6 reptiles)
  12. Clown loach (1/2 fish)
  13. Tasmanian devil (5/5 mammals)
  14. Japanese rice fish (2/2 fish)
  15. Kagu (2/6 birds)
  16. Japanese giant salamander (1/3 amphibians)
  17. Tokyo salamander (2/3 amphibians)
  18. Japanese fire-bellied newt (3/3 amphibians)
  19. Lidth’s jay (3/6)
  20. King penguin (4/6 birds)
  21. Victoria crowned-pigeon (5/6 birds)
  22. North Island brown kiwi (6/6 birds)
 
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