The only zoo in the United States to see...

Gladys Porter Zoo - harnessed bushbuck?

And if we want to go with color morphs (which may or may not count)...

Nashville Zoo - white eurasian lynx, white american bullfrog
Caldwell Zoo - white turkey vulture
Phoenix Herp Society - white/red (amelanistic or euthrysitic?) king cobra
 
Erie Zoo has a Grivet Guenon.ISIS does not not have these listed as being held anywhere.Does anyone no if they are exhibited anywhere else?

Team Tapir
 
San Antonio- Topi, Habu, Russian Blunt Nose Viper
Little Rock- Angolan Talapoin, Bamboo Viper
Omaha- Pale Giant Squirrel, Fierce Snake
DWA- Guiana Crested Eagle, Jabiru, Blue Mountain Toucan, Red Howler
Gladys Porter- Bushbuck
St Louis- Fea's Viper, Mt. Viper, Lebanon Viper, Dinniks Viper, Russian Viper, Common Adder, Moorish Viper
Sedgewick- Tailed Frog, Lesser Antillean Iguana
Dallas Zoo- Philippine Cobra
Miami Zoo- King Cheetah
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loxodonta said:
Miami Zoo- King Cheetah
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Yes, but only if you are lucky enough to be at one of the shows when they take him out. I have never understood why they did not put that animal on display. Seems like having the only one on public display in the country would be a major tourist draw (it would have gotten me there). There is (or at least was) another one used by a private cat eduacation group in California, but of course that is not in a zoo.
 
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ISIS, Confusion, & the Grivet

Team Tapir - I checked ISIS. Erie still has the grivet. There is a dispute whether a grivet is related to the vervets, Chlorocebus aethiops, or to the guenons, Cercopithecus aethiops. I looked under its scientific name Chlorocebus aethiops and found it there. ISIS is wrong because it calls Chlorocebus aethiops, the Green Monkey. The Green Monkey is Chlorocebus sabaeus. So Erie still has the grivet, but in other Chlorocebus aethiops entries though, it mentions San Diego, Rosamund Gifford, Wildlife World, and Great Bend also having this species. But since their is an error between scientific name and common name, who knows which species each of these other zoos has in their possession. I apologize for the all scientific names, but sometimes it is easier to find an animal that way since names can vary.

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TigerValley98 said:
Team Tapir - I checked ISIS. Erie still has the grivet. There is a dispute whether a grivet is related to the vervets, Chlorocebus aethiops, or to the guenons, Cercopithecus aethiops. I looked under its scientific name Chlorocebus aethiops and found it there. ISIS is wrong because it calls Chlorocebus aethiops, the Green Monkey. The Green Monkey is Chlorocebus sabaeus. So Erie still has the grivet, but in other [I

]Chlorocebus aethiops[/I] entries though, it mentions San Diego, Rosamund Gifford, Wildlife World, and Great Bend also having this species. But since their is an error between scientific name and common name, who knows which species each of these other zoos has in their possession. I apologize for the all scientific names, but sometimes it is easier to find an animal that way since names can vary.

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Thanks for the info.We visited Erie yesterday on our way back from Niagara Falls and they have it listed as a Grivet Guenon we both were unsure whether we had seen one before.So checked ISIS when we got back and came up empty.We appreciate your help clearing this up.

Team Tapir
 
Arizona Docent said:
Yes, but only if you are lucky enough to be at one of the shows when they take him out. I have never understood why they did not put that animal on display. Seems like having the only one on public display in the country would be a major tourist draw (it would have gotten me there). There is (or at least was) another one used by a private cat eduacation group in California, but of course that is not in a zoo.
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All three times I have been to Miami the King has been in the show. I also understand that they are planning a new cheetah enclosure so the King can be on display, along with the normal female they have. If you are visiting Miami zoo do not plan on seeing him soon because they are renovating the Ampitheater.

As a side note, DWA is probably the facility with the most "only place to see in the U.S.". and will continue this trend in the future....
 
BeardsleyZooFan said:
The disgraceful Capital of Texas Zoo- Fanaloka, Bettong
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which species of bettong, because aren't there brush-tailed bettongs in several US zoos?
 
Yes. Brush-tailed bettongs (the only species present in US) though not common are found at a number of institutions.
 
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which species of bettong, because aren't there brush-tailed bettongs in several US zoos?
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Sorry, I made a mistake about the bettongs.
Rosamond Gifford Zoo is the only zoo in North America to have a White-Winged Vampire Bat.
Cincinnati Zoo is the only zoo in the world to have a Razo Island Skink.
 
The Prospect Park Zoo has dingoes, now, as well, although most of you are past that, it seems. :)
 
AnaheimZoo said:
The Prospect Park Zoo has dingoes, now, as well, although most of you are past that, it seems. :)
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I saw the video on the new dingoes, and thought that it was a pretty decent habitat. I might make a trip to Prospect Park to see some species I haven't seen before (dingoes, bettongs, hamadryas baboons, pallas cats, etc., etc., etc.)
 
BeardsleyZooFan said:
I saw the video on the new dingoes, and thought that it was a pretty decent habitat. I might make a trip to Prospect Park to see some species I haven't seen before (dingoes, bettongs, hamadryas baboons, pallas cats, etc., etc., etc.)
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I, too, would love to see the Pallas' cats and hamadryas baboons. They're on my must-see list!
 
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