Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

There are some South american native species that are quite rare (and even-non existent nowadays) in zoos outside SA, so here's some of them that I've seen (please correct me if some of those species that I'm listing here aren't that rare, I'm guiding myself through ZTL) :

Pantanal cat (Leopardus braccatus)
Marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
Black lion / Golden-rumped tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus)
Gray's bald-faced / Rio tapajós's saki (Pithecia irrorata)
Lesser grison (Gallictis cuja)
Gray brocket deer (Subulo gouazoubira)
Lear's macaw (Anodorhyncus leari)
Savannah hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)
Marbeled lancehead (Bothrops marmoratus)
Caatinga rainbow boa (Epichrates assisi)

I also recall seeing a species of Pampas deer in my local zoo in a long time ago, but I still want to check with the zoo's crew to see which one and until when these animals were kept there, in case I'm mistaking them with the Gray brockets.
 
ralph said:
I'm sure a lot of zoochatters have seen Lears macaw, most of which probably in either Prague or Pairi Daiza.
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I know, they're probably the most seen animal out of those that I have listed. I decided to include them because although they are kept in well-known and very visited zoos such as Prague, the amount of institutions that keep this species worldwide that keep them is small, so statistically that makes them somewhat rare.
 
Fingers crossed that this coming week I see Bermuda petrel (which I imagine is quite a rare sighting amongst Zoochatters)... Now I have said that, I won't though, of course!
 
oflory said:
Fingers crossed that this coming week I see Bermuda petrel (which I imagine is quite a rare sighting amongst Zoochatters)... Now I have said that, I won't though, of course!
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Fingers crossed! @Giant Eland and I were on the boat that got the northernmost record for that species off of New York a few years ago. Stunning bird! Though I know GE wished we'd seen some more whales instead :P

~Thylo
 
I am a Cincinnati native and so the rarest animal I have seen I believe is a Sumatran Rhino or the Aardwolf. There are probably other animals that I have seen at the Cincinnati zoo as a kid, but I do not really remember all that well.

The Sumatran rhino for me is something special. It is the most visually different rhino from all the other species and is something that is truly a spectacle to see. A work of art and evolution.
 
SpruceHeap0 said:
I am a Cincinnati native and so the rarest animal I have seen I believe is a Sumatran Rhino or the Aardwolf. There are probably other animals that I have seen at the Cincinnati zoo as a kid, but I do not really remember all that well.

The Sumatran rhino for me is something special. It is the most visually different rhino from all the other species and is something that is truly a spectacle to see. A work of art and evolution.
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I've always been grateful to my parents for taking me to Cincinnati to see their Sumatran Rhinos back in 2013.

~Thylo
 
I think it's time I updated this thread! Mammal and bird wise I don't think I have anything truly few zoochatters have seen besides the Dugong in captivity - I've seen a couple rarer species (eg. Aye-aye) but these are pretty much all from well-visited zoos that plenty of zoochatters would have visited. As for wild ones I'm less sure - how many zoochatters have seen Green Ringtail Possum or Red-chested Buttonquail?

Fish is where it gets interesting, I think. Of course, I don't know which species every zoochatter has and hasn't seen so I'm estimating here based on the number of photos of these species in the ZC galleries - these are some I have seen that I suspect few others here have:

Northern and Southern Japanese Brook Lampreys (Lethenteron hattai & L. mitsukurii)
Biwa Trout (Oncorhynchus biwaensis)
Bennett's Perchlet (Plectranthias bennetti)
Pretty Swallowtail/Wass' Anthias (Odontanthias wassi)
Emerald Notothen (Trematomus bernacchi)
Mawson's Dragonfish (Cygnodraco mawsoni)
Okhotsk Snailfish (Liparis ochotensis)
Bennett's Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides sp.)
Fenton's Butterflyfish (Prognathodes cf. geminus)
Red Handfish (Thymichthys politus)

As for invertebrates, I would have thought that Phronima sedentaria (Barrel Amphipod/Pram Bug/Parasitic Hyperiid Amphipod/whatever the hell you want to call it) would have been seen by few, but I imagine the temporary display of the species at Monterey Bay Aquarium would have bumped up the number of zoochatters that have seen it. The only notable invertebrate that I think few zoochatters have seen that I have is perhaps Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)?
 
I really am unsure if this animal is considered super rare but I do not believe there are many in zoos anywhere. When my wife and I volunteered at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we were involved in working in the Platypus habitat, where the only two in the world outside of Australia currently reside. We have never been to Australia so definitely have not seen them in the wild.
 
Randall Michal said:
I really am unsure if this animal is considered super rare but I do not believe there are many in zoos anywhere. When my wife and I volunteered at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we were involved in working in the Platypus habitat, where the only two in the world outside of Australia currently reside. We have never been to Australia so definitely have not seen them in the wild.
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By American or really any non-Aussie standards, yeah those are really rare! If you ask most Zoochatters I imagine they’d say the platypuses are the primary rarity that they’d visit the Safari Park to see; I know they are for me. I hope that they’ll become a little more common here because I love platypuses :)
 
Randall Michal said:
I really am unsure if this animal is considered super rare but I do not believe there are many in zoos anywhere. When my wife and I volunteered at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we were involved in working in the Platypus habitat, where the only two in the world outside of Australia currently reside. We have never been to Australia so definitely have not seen them in the wild.
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I'd imagine a good few zoochatters (myself included) have seen Platypus, because there are quite a few in Australian zoos, many zoochatters living in/visiting Australia may have seen them in the wild, and I'd imagine San Diego Zoo is pretty well-visited by zoochatters, so a good few people would have seen them there. Absolutely awesome animal though, I'm quite fond of the old platypus, probably my favourite mammal.
 
Local_Shark said:
I hope that they’ll become a little more common here because I love platypuses :)
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It would be fantastic to get more platypuses outside of Australia, but I don't have high hopes of it. The Australian government doesn't seem to like giving out permits to export native animals, and especially not those as iconic as the Platypus. It's mostly from a conservation standpoint, I believe, but I can't help but wonder if it has anything to do with fears of tourism loss if people can see things like the Platypus in foreign zoos.
 
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