THE BIGGEST COLLECTION OF..............

kiang

kiang

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A thread to put some information together in the one place, simply put, with all the gathered knowledge, which collections hold the biggest collection of an order, group, species or even sub-species of any given animal, from insects right through to mammals.
I was inspired to start this thread from reading the Toba aquarium thread and their impressive collection of pinnipeds, could they indeed have the biggest collection of pinnipeds?
Over to you lot now, please fill up this thread.
 
The Loro Parque has for sure the biggest collection of psittacines. The almost have every (sub)species represented in captivity.
 
Howletts for gorilla
Edinburgh for gentoo penguin?
Dvur Kralove for rhino?
Walsrode, simply for birds.
 
What about Antwerp for gorilla. The only collection in the world that has both species in their collection.
 
Twycross for primates (No-one said anything about outstanding exhibitry!) ;)
Le Parc Des Felins for cats
Tierpark Berlin for tigers and leopards (3 subspecies of each plus melanistic leopards)
Racking my brain to think of some more...
 
Brum said:
Twycross for primates (No-one said anything about outstanding exhibitry!) ;)
Le Parc Des Felins for cats
Tierpark Berlin for tigers and leopards (3 subspecies of each plus melanistic leopards)
Racking my brain to think of some more...
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Yes but Twycross doesn't have the largest collection of Primates,and in fact they didn't even have the largest collection,when they gave themselves the name of The World Primate Centre,as a Primate Centre in Japan had more species and still does!
 
Kiang, I don't know if you already thought of it, but it is possible to collect people's inputs in some regularly updated list, maybe in the original post?

Possibly in Linnaean order, like this:

Hyenas: Tierpark Berlin
Psittacines: Loro Parque
Crocodilians: St. Augustine Alligator Farm
etc
etc

Though there is the problem that you cannot edit your posts after some time...
 
zoogiraffe said:
Yes but Twycross doesn't have the largest collection of Primates,and in fact they didn't even have the largest collection,when they gave themselves the name of The World Primate Centre,as a Primate Centre in Japan had more species and still does!
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Well I was taken in by their PR department then... :o Any idea what the name of this place in Japan is? I'm intrigued now!
Also just realised that Parc Des Felins has more leopards and tigers than the Tierpark but (and it's a big but) the Tierpark has Javan leopards! I think that along with Berlin zoo they're the only 2 places outside of Indonesia where you can see them. Surely that counts as a speciality of some sort! :)
 
Does St. Augustine Alligator Farm have more crocodilians then the Crocodile Zoo in Eskildrup Denmark?
 
DDcorvus said:
Does St. Augustine Alligator Farm have more crocodilians then the Crocodile Zoo in Eskildrup Denmark?
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Yes, St. Augustine has all 23 species while Crocodile Zoo is currently on 22 species.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Yes but Twycross doesn't have the largest collection of Primates,and in fact they didn't even have the largest collection,when they gave themselves the name of The World Primate Centre,as a Primate Centre in Japan had more species and still does!
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I could call my house 'World Spider Centre' but it still doesn't actually mean its got the biggest collection of Spiders in the World- its a meaningless title IMO.
 
I hereby nominate the redoubtable little Halls Gap Zoo as the "World Marsupial Centre".

With 31 species in their collection, they lead the next best Australian institutions (Perth on 24, then Healesville and Currumbin on 23) by a country mile. I'm willing to say with 99.9999% confidence there is no zoo outside of Australia that can top this. Halls Gap Zoo has the widest collection of marsupial species in the world.

With something like 38 species of Australian mammals in total, Halls Gap also wins the related crown of 'most Australian mammal species'. Not bad for a little zoo re-established 3 years ago, in a small eco-tourist hamlet 250km from the nearest large city.
 
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