Name a zoo which no other zoochatter visited!

Perhaps the Argyll Wildlife Park near Inveraray. Founded by a protegee of Sir Peter Scott, on my visits in the 80s it had a superb collection of wildfowl (including every subspecies of Canada Goose) plus free ranging Red Necked Wallabies and Soay Sheep and Mouflon and a nice collection of pheasants and cranes and of native and introduced Scottish taxa. When I visited again in the mid-90s it had changed hands and was owned by a former Clydeside shipyard joiner who had allowed the place to seriously decline. There were lovebirds in household birdcages next to the till in the ticket office, the waterfowl were nearly all domestic, and the enclosures were falling to bits. Ten years later I drove past the site and everything was gone bar a few derelict enclosures.
 
Come to think about it, as far as I’m aware; it appears I am currently the only ZooChatter to have visited the Chase Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservancy in Webster, Florida.
 
Come to think of it, I probably may be the only Zoochatter to have visited Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park and Sepahijala Zoo - the former having collaborated heavily with Rotterdam Zoo's red panda reintroduction program!
 
Come to think of it, I probably may be the only Zoochatter to have visited Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park and Sepahijala Zoo - the former having collaborated heavily with Rotterdam Zoo's red panda reintroduction program!
Photos from Padmaja Naidu exist in the gallery, under ‘India - Other,’ although I could only find one member who has uploaded images, so you may well be one of two.
 
Photos from Padmaja Naidu exist in the gallery, under ‘India - Other,’ although I could only find one member who has uploaded images, so you may well be one of two.
That makes more sense - I checked the gallery to see if there was a dedicated page, so it being in 'India - Other' tracks.
 
Hello.
Brazil:
- AquaRio (Rio de Janeiro, RJ);
- Fazendinha Rio (Rio de Janeiro, RJ);
- Zoológico Municipal de Volta Redonda (Volta Redonda, RJ);
- Fazendinha Estação Natureza (São Paulo, SP);
- The aquarium at Parque da Água Branca (São Paulo, SP);
- Aquário Municipal de Santos (Santos, SP);
- Acqua Mundo (Guarujá, SP);
- Passeio Público (Curitiba, PR);
- Bioparque Zoo Pomerode (Pomerode, SC);
- Parque Zoológico de Sapucaia do Sul (Sapucaia do Sul, RS);
- Gramadozoo (Gramado, RS).
I have also been to some small-sized zoos (e.g., O Fazendeiro, a restaurant in Miracatu (SP)), but they don't really count to me.
Hello.

@David Matos Mendes has been to AquaRio, Passeio Público and Sapucaia do Sul since I have typed in my list. However, I can add Parque Três Pescadores to it.
 
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Based on the gallery for Avilon on Zoochat: TeaLovingDave, Giant Eland, devilfish, yousuf89, and alexkant. There are additional people who have posted pictures in there as well, I just looked at the first 5 pages in the gallery real quick.

All right then, Marghazar in Pakistan?

Looks like there is at least one other as their are photos in the gallery from J I N X.

Always a good idea to check the ZooChat gallery at a minimum to see if someone has posted images from a visit to that zoo before posting here.
 
Based on the gallery for Avilon on Zoochat: TeaLovingDave, Giant Eland, devilfish, yousuf89, and alexkant. There are additional people who have posted pictures in there as well, I just looked at the first 5 pages in the gallery real quick.

I haven't; you'll note the photographs uploaded by myself to that gallery are explicitly credited to alexkant, who gave me explicit permission to upload them for the ongoing Photographic Guide project. The other individual who has uploaded photos to the gallery is Nick@Amsterdam.
 
I haven't; you'll note the photographs uploaded by myself to that gallery are explicitly credited to alexkant, who gave me explicit permission to upload them for the ongoing Photographic Guide project. The other individual who has uploaded photos to the gallery is Nick@Amsterdam.

Gotcha. I just did a quick scan of names on the images for this. Nick@Amsterdam is the other I saw in there, but also assumed there were like 12 more pages I could go through so likely more people would show up.
 
I visited Wildtierpark Edersee in Germany. It had the usual suspects as Wildparks go: deer, boar, wolf,... I couldn't even find it in the media. It would be cool if another zoochatter has visited this place, maybe one of the germans stumbled upon this place.
 
I visited Wildtierpark Edersee in Germany. It had the usual suspects as Wildparks go: deer, boar, wolf,... I couldn't even find it in the media. It would be cool if another zoochatter has visited this place, maybe one of the germans stumbled upon this place.

It appears there is one other ZooChatter that has been there at least. AWP has it on his list in the thread "How many zoos have you visited?"
 
If you stretch the definition of a zoo, I don't think anyone on here has went to Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary (has usual domestics with birds of prey, foxes, fishers, New England Cottontail breeding programs, etc.). I've also gone to Cape Cod Museum of Natural History (I think @ZooElephantMan Visited Here), Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (I believe @snowleopard Visited here) and Coral World Ocean Park (I think @Leaf Productions Visited here ) which are Visited by but I don't believe that many people on here have gone (no more than around 4 users probably)
 
If you stretch the definition of a zoo, I don't think anyone on here has went to Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary (has usual domestics with birds of prey, foxes, fishers, New England Cottontail breeding programs, etc.). I've also gone to Cape Cod Museum of Natural History (I think @ZooElephantMan Visited Here), Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (I believe @snowleopard Visited here) and Coral World Ocean Park (I think @Leaf Productions Visited here ) which are Visited by but I don't believe that many people on here have gone (no more than around 4 users probably)
I've also visited Cape Cod Nature Center. It's been a while since I've been there, but I still have vague memories of the place. Hopefully, I'll return once I'm in Cape Cod later this year!
 
If you stretch the definition of a zoo, I don't think anyone on here has went to Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary (has usual domestics with birds of prey, foxes, fishers, New England Cottontail breeding programs, etc.). I've also gone to Cape Cod Museum of Natural History (I think @ZooElephantMan Visited Here), Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (I believe @snowleopard Visited here) and Coral World Ocean Park (I think @Leaf Productions Visited here ) which are Visited by but I don't believe that many people on here have gone (no more than around 4 users probably)

I would definitely qualify Drumlin Farm as a zoological facility and wouldn't say it's a stretch. At least one other ZooChatter has visited it though as NNM. had it on his list in How many zoos have you visited?
 
Mexico City now has a second aquarium, Acuario Michin Ciudad de México. I visited late last year. No other zoo chatter has been there. It is a rather commercial venue like our other aquarium in Mexico City, Acuario Inbursa. The collection is adequate as are most of the exhibits, other than a rather ugly ring tailed lemur addition. It is interesting to note that about 12 years ago Mexico City did not have any aquarium at all and now we have 2.
 
Mexico City now has a second aquarium, Acuario Michin Ciudad de México. I visited late last year. No other zoo chatter has been there. It is a rather commercial venue like our other aquarium in Mexico City, Acuario Inbursa. The collection is adequate as are most of the exhibits, other than a rather ugly ring tailed lemur addition. It is interesting to note that about 12 years ago Mexico City did not have any aquarium at all and now we have 2.

This will be true for another two weeks or so... and then you'll be one of two. I'll be visiting while in Mexico City for a few days.
 
I don't think more than a hundred ZooChatters has visited Indonesia (Java and other islands that are not Bali specifically), I'm pretty sure that not a lot of people are even aware of half of the facilities that I've visited.

Most of those facilities are mini zoos with small collections, though. But Suraloka Interactive Zoo in Yogyakarta can be considered a zoo with a large number of species despite their small size. Notable collection include;
  • Formerly - Indonesian mountain weasel (Mustela lutreolina)
  • Sumba great-billed parrot (Tanygnathus megalorynchos sumbensis)
  • Western large fig parrot (Psittaculirostris desmarestii occidentalis)
  • Ornate pitta (Pitta concinna) - Likely the current only known captive holder in the world
  • Javan magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis amoenus)
  • Philby`s ornate mastigure (uromastyx ornata philbyi)
On another front, it's a largely mediocre facility in a style of any other Asian zoos; small or artistic exhibits, heavy marketing on interactions (I.e feeding, touching, taking photo with, etc.), and largely marketed towards family entertainment. They currently have no actual conservation breeding project.

Here are some photos that I had uploaded before to the gallery of some of the species mentioned above:
Suraloka Interactive Zoo - Sumba great-billed parrot (Tanygnathus megalorynchos sumbensis) - ZooChat

Suraloka Interactive Zoo - Yellow-faced fig parrot (Psittaculirostris desmarestii occidentalis) - ZooChat

Suraloka Interactive Zoo - Ornate pitta (Pitta concinna) - ZooChat

Suraloka Interactive Zoo - Javan magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis amoenus) - ZooChat

Suraloka Interactive Zoo - Rainbow uromastyx (Uromastyx ornata philbyi) - ZooChat
 
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