What animals does The USA have while all other countries don't?

Californian condor, Massai giraffe, South-central black rhinoceros.

(Also more okapis (around 110) than Europe (around 70), and I think more Indian rhinoceroses (~85 vs. ~65 for Europe). More Eastern bongos, than Europe? More koalas, more Malayan tigers, more orcas, more Matschie's tree kangaroos.)
The first three you list are all also kept outside the USA.

The second paragraph is irrelevant to the question of the thread.

I know, but just one in whole of Europe.
So, it is a species also kept outside of the USA.
 
I think Calamian deer are only found in captive arrangements at the Phoenix Zoo and Los Angeles Zoo outside their native range since the 1990s, at least concerning Europe animals. It was only three males recently but they could have passed by now.
 
So what’s the reason here, were they just deprioritized or is there actually something that causes them to struggle in other regions?

The species has always been fairly tricky to keep and breed in captivity, both in the USA and Europe, but the (formerly rather sizeable) captive population in Europe faltered to nothing a decade ago; a particularly virulent strain of hereditary kidney disease entered the European captive population in the mid-to-late 1990s due to new imports intended to combat inbreeding depression, and as a result more and more animals failed to reach breeding age before perishing. The last pair in Europe, at Port Lympne, bred once at the age of 4 or 5 years old, before both dying shortly afterwards; the resulting male kitten (the last BFC in Europe) would himself die only 18 months later in late 2014.

There is only 0.1 Allen's Swamp Monkey at a zoo in Poland, otherwise the species is only kept in US Zoos

There is also a pair in a Russian collection southeast of Sochi.

Merriam's Kangaroo Rat.

These are currently present in three European public collections too, along with several private holders I believe.

(Also more okapis (around 120) than Europe (around 70), and I think more Indian rhinoceroses (~85 vs. ~65 for Europe). More Eastern bongos, than Europe? More koalas, more Malayan tigers, more orcas, more Matschie's tree kangaroos.)

None of which is relevant to the subject of this thread :p
 
The species has always been fairly tricky to keep and breed in captivity, both in the USA and Europe, but the (formerly rather sizeable) captive population in Europe faltered to nothing a decade ago; a particularly virulent strain of hereditary kidney disease entered the European captive population in the mid-to-late 1990s due to new imports intended to combat inbreeding depression, and as a result more and more animals failed to reach breeding age before perishing. The last pair in Europe, at Port Lympne, bred once at the age of 4 or 5 years old, before both dying shortly afterwards; the resulting male kitten (the last BFC in Europe) would himself die only 18 months later in late 2014.



There is also a pair in a Russian collection southeast of Sochi.



These are currently present in three European public collections too, along with several private holders I believe.



None of which is relevant to the subject of this thread :p



Thank you for the replies on obscure other facilities that keep the species... my institutional listing was just according to ZIMS institutions
 
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