Species you've photographed which have since disappeared from UK collections

TeaLovingDave said:
Rutland Owl and Falconry is where the young male was sent :) the falconry side of things is public, but they have a small private collection of big cats which occasionally opens to the public for specially bookable days where - annoyingly - all photography is banned!
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Now I never knew that! Just had a look at their species list and it does quite sparse, three subspecies of leopard, puma and seven birds of prey and owl species. What's the deal with this place?
 
TeaLovingDave said:
I know the young leopard Cyrus held at Chessington was sent to a private collection in Rutland due to a non-breeding order after he was diagnosed with a heart condition, but I'm not sure whether the breeding pair - his parents - have also left, or indeed have died.
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The parents were certainly still there in February this year - please see the attached photo of them (sorry for the quality of it).
 

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Are there still Peruvian thick-knees in any UK zoo now? The only UK ones on Zootierliste (and the ones I photographed) were at Leeds Castle Aviary which I believe has now closed. Did they go elsewhere in the UK or go to the continent?
 
 
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Another species now gone from the UK that I have photographed previously- the marbled polecat that is now no longer listed as being at Tropical Wings Zoo.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Another species now gone from the UK that I have photographed previously- the marbled polecat that is now no longer listed as being at Tropical Wings Zoo.
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Possibly not gone altogether; I believe Edinburgh sent theirs to Tropical Wings and one other location when they went out of the species a few months ago. Unfortunately the other location has not announced they have the species yet, and no one has reported seeing them there on zoochat, so as I was told this information offrecord I haven't added it to ZTL, or identified the collection on here.

In case they are indeed gone altogether....

 
IanRRobinson said:
In view of the uncertainty over the taxonomy of the Pampas Cat, it would be interesting to know if anyone has preserved the animals that were in the UK 30 or 40 years ago. There was at least one animal at Chester as well, although I never saw it.
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The Chester Pampas Cat was a specimen of the chilean subspecies, Chilean Pampas Cat (Lynchailurus colocolo colocolo). He and the 2.0 held at Kilverstone were exported from the same source.

Not really read this thread thoroughly but a few birds have come to mind that I photographed and are no longer kept in the U.K. as far as I know.

Giant Coot
North Island Weka Rail
L:ittle Black Bustard
Northern Black-bellied Bustard
Pesquet's Parrot
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Black-necked Stork
Fire-tufted Barbet
Falkland Fightless Steamer Duck
Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo
Blond-crested Woodpecker
Varied Lorikeet
Wagler's Oropendola
Pallas Sandgrouse
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
Mauritius Kestrel
Rodrigues Fody
 
I still should have some photographs of the Flat-headed cat and the White-necked Picathartes at Rotterdam Zoo and have some time ago already up-loaded a picture of the Quetzalt at Walsrode.
These one spring in my mind but I'm sure I must have more pictures of 'lost' species.
 
vogelcommando said:
I still should have some photographs of the Flat-headed cat and the White-necked Picathartes at Rotterdam Zoo and have some time ago already up-loaded a picture of the Quetzalt at Walsrode.
These one spring in my mind but I'm sure I must have more pictures of 'lost' species.
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That would make a great thread, species disappeared from Europe in our time.
 
If we're considering Europe, I have photos from the early '70s of some rather special species:- zebra duiker, mountain tapir, monkey-eating eagle (Philippine eagle), grey-necked Picathartes (all Frankfurt), hairy-nosed wombat, Ruwenzori black and white colobus (Basle), southern elephant seal (Hanover & Munich), Tasmanian devil (Stuttgart), white-nosed saki (Cologne) and probably quite a few more that I have forgotten.
I now have all my slides in the same place as my scanner :) I just need new software and plenty of time :( (so don't hold your breath).

It is important to remember that we have had many gains as well as losses in UK zoos (and European ones too). I can remember that in the early '70s Regents Park had one bush dog, one maned wolf and one anoa, all of them were elderly and I remember thinking that I must try to photograph each of them because when they died I might never see those species in the UK again. I am so pleased that I was quite wrong.
Likewise at that time I never expected to see saki monkeys (bearded or white-faced), howler monkeys, sifaka, fossa, koala or aye-aye in British zoos and I'd never even heard of gentle lemurs :D

Alan
 
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Have Copenhagen lost their Tasmanian Devils now? I'm surprised you didn't get photographs of them at London too. I'd love to see them back there, but guess that's about as likely as seeing a Javan Rhino there now!
 
Did nobody ever get photo's of the following species in the UK :-
Marbled cat,
African golden cat,
Baikal seal,
Pampas cat,
Either species of olingo at Kilverstone,
Proboscis monkey,
douc langurs?
 
Brum said:
Did nobody ever get photo's of the following species in the UK :-
Marbled cat,
African golden cat,
Baikal seal,
Pampas cat,
Either species of olingo at Kilverstone,
Proboscis monkey,
douc langurs?
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There are definitely photos of doucs in the gallery and possibly Baikal seal
 
pipaluk said:
There are definitely photos of doucs in the gallery and possibly Baikal seal
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I have seen the photos of both in the gallery, I have spent some time reliving seeing the Baikal seals as they were a childhood favourite at Twycross. I was hoping for some different pictures... ;)
 
Brum said:
I have seen the photos of both in the gallery, I have spent some time reliving seeing the Baikal seals as they were a childhood favourite at Twycross. I was hoping for some different pictures... ;)
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Sorry, misunderstood you, as you did say did nobody have photos of them.
As for the Olingo at Kilverstone, I visited there at least 5 or 6 times in the late 70s & 80s and took plenty of poor quality photos, but don't think I have any of them- didn't even know what they were then!
I have loads of the cats (including the Bobcat, which qualifies for this thread) , monkeys, otters and penguins, shame i missed several rarities now though!
 
pipaluk said:
Sorry, misunderstood you, as you did say did nobody have photos of them.
As for the Olingo at Kilverstone, I visited there at least 5 or 6 times in the late 70s & 80s and took plenty of poor quality photos, but don't think I have any of them- didn't even know what they were then!
I have loads of the cats (including the Bobcat, which qualifies for this thread) , monkeys, otters and penguins, shame i missed several rarities now though!
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I agree, I could have worded that better, I blame it on the fact that I'm knackered though! :)
I'm not one for taking pictures but in the family archives there are photo's of the Eastern lowland gorilla at Chester, the Baikal seals and red howlers at Twycross and some other juicy species. I really should try and scan them at some point.
You being older than me must have some aces up your sleeve... ;)
 
pipaluk said:
Have Copenhagen lost their Tasmanian Devils now? I'm surprised you didn't get photographs of them at London too. I'd love to see them back there, but guess that's about as likely as seeing a Javan Rhino there now!
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I don't know about that. If the advocacy/insurance population gets going outside of Australia (i.e. in NZ, USA and Europe) then they may reappear in the UK in the future. Devils have relatively short life-spans which means they breed fast, so captive populations can be built up rapidly (but equally can fall rapidly with bad luck). The more that are bred outside of Australia, the more zoos will display them.
 
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