Species no longer held in Australian zoos

[tetrapod]

Similar situation in Perth who thought they had regular run-of-the-mill zebra, to find out later it was Mountain zebra.

Species that come to mind: hanuman langur, purple-face langur, olive & chacma baboons, talapoin, gelada, kloss gibbon, spot-nose guenon, Japanese brown bear, raccoon dog, Indian porcupine, coyote, Arctic timber wolf, lowland (?) anoa, ocelot, Canadian lynx, jungle cat, jaguarundi, Pallas cat, thick-tailed bushbaby, Senegal bushbaby, springhaas, European hedgehog, hairy armadillo, southern elephant seal, douroucouli (not sure whether they are still present in the country)

 

[Chlidonias]

Similar situation in Perth who thought they had regular run-of-the-mill zebra, to find out later it was Mountain zebra.

Species that come to mind: hanuman langur, purple-face langur, olive & chacma baboons, talapoin, gelada, kloss gibbon, spot-nose guenon, Japanese brown bear, raccoon dog, Indian porcupine, coyote, Arctic timber wolf, lowland (?) anoa, ocelot, Canadian lynx, jungle cat, jaguarundi, Pallas cat, thick-tailed bushbaby, Senegal bushbaby, springhaas, European hedgehog, hairy armadillo, southern elephant seal, douroucouli (not sure whether they are still present in the country)

of those, just one ocelot left in Australia (at Crocodylus Park)

 

[Steve Robinson]

of those, just one ocelot left in Australia (at Crocodylus Park)

Should be some Chacmas left at Bullen's. I swapped them some young females from Wellington Zoo in 1982.

 

[Chlidonias]

Should be some Chacmas left at Bullen's. I swapped them some young females from Wellington Zoo in 1982.

if they have any left they'd be on their last legs I should suspect. All the chacmas in NZ are now dead.

 

[Lyrebird]

Should be some Chacmas left at Bullen's. I swapped them some young females from Wellington Zoo in 1982.

- There's only Hamadryas Baboons left at Bullens, in regards to baboon species.

 

[Steve Robinson]

Should be some Chacmas left at Bullen's. I swapped them some young females from Wellington Zoo in 1982.

- There's only Hamadryas Baboons left at Bullens, in regards to baboon species.

That's a shame. They had a nice little colony of them in the 80s. I swapped them my last two young females, that I had brought back from NZ, in an endeavour to keep their colony going.

The Hamadryas that I got in exchange have kept my Hamadryas holdings going until recent years when some additions and imports have been necessary.

They also had one or two Olives back in those days - last ones I saw in this part of the world.

 

[Lyrebird]

Geez, you had to import Hamadryas?
Couldn't score any from that colony of 100 or so from the research faciltiy in Sydney?
I guess their genetics wouldn't be crash hot anyways. Nice to see someone other than Melbourne giving baboons a chance on display

 

[Steve Robinson]

Geez, you had to import Hamadryas?
Couldn't score any from that colony of 100 or so from the research faciltiy in Sydney?
I guess their genetics wouldn't be crash hot anyways. Nice to see someone other than Melbourne giving baboons a chance on display

Yes - the Wallacia lot are a bit Tasmanian these days. We imported a couple of females from Poland and will probably import a few more in a year or so.

 

[tetrapod]

of those, just one ocelot left in Australia (at Crocodylus Park)

Oh okay, didn't realise there were any left.

 

[ungulate nerd]

From my book here are the Mammals that were exhibited at Adelaide Zoo between 1878 and 1978:

Monotremes and Marsupials-

Tachyglossidae:

Short beaked echidna

Didelphiade:

Virginia opossum

Macropodidae:

Eastern gray kangaroo
Western gray kangaroo
Wallaroo
Agile wallaby
Red kangaroo
Bennetts wallaby
Black striped wallaby
Pretty faced wallaby
Toolache wallaby
Dama wallaby
Parma wallaby
Swamp wallaby
Red bellied pademelon
Northern nail tailed wallaby
Brush tailed rock wallaby
Black flanked rock wallaby
Yellow footed rock wallaby
Quokka
Brown dorcopsis
Grizzled tree kangaroo
Bennetts tree kangaroo
Matschies tree kangaroo
Goodfellows tree kangaroo
Dorias tree kangaroo
Rufous rat kangaroo
Eastern bettong
Brush tailed bettong
Potoroo

Phalangeridae:

Common brushtail possum
Northern brushtail possum
Common ringtail possum
Sugar glider
Squirrel glider
Greater glider
Koala
Common wombat
Hairy nosed wombat

Peramelidae:

Eastern barred bandicoot
Short nosed bandicoot
Bilby

Dasyuridae:

Tiger quoll
Eastern quoll
Northern quoll
Tasmanian devil
Fat tailed dunnart
Kowari
Common planigale

Thylacinidae:

Thylacine

Primates-

Lemuridae:

Ring tailed lemur
Black and white ruffed lemur
Black lemur
Mongoose lemur
Common brown lemur
White fronted lemur
Red fronted lemur
Weasel sportive lemur
Fat tailed dwarf lemur

Lorisidae:

Slow loris
Senegal bushbaby

Cebidae:

Douroucouli
Titi (2 species)
Brown capuchin
Common squirrel monkey
Black faced spider monkey
Geoffreys spider monkey
Humboldts wooly monkey

Callithricidae:

Common marmoset
Cotton top tamarin
Santerem marmoset

Cercopthecidae:

Bonnet macaque
Lion tailed macaque
Pig tailed macaque
Crab eating macaque
Rhesus macaque
Stump tailed macaque
Japanese macaque
Barbary macaque
Moor macaque
Celebes crested macaque
Sooty mangabey
Red capped mangabey
Hamadryas baboon
Yellow baboon
Chacma baboon
Olive baboon
Guinea baboon
Mandrill
Drill
Gelada baboon
Vervet monkey
Blue monkey
Sykes guenon
Mona monkey
DeBrazzas monkey
Patas monkey
Hanuman langur

Pongidae:

White handed gibbon
Hoolock gibbon
Siamang
Orangutan
Common chimpanzee

Edentata-

Myrmecophagidae:

Giant anteater

Bradypodidae:

Two toed sloth
Hoffmans sloth

Dasypopidae:

Hairy armadillo
Nine banded armadillo

Lagomorphs and Rodents-

Lagomorpha:

European hare
European rabbit

Scuiridae:

Black giant squirrel
Fox squirrel
Eastern gray squirrel
Variable squirrel
Prevosts squirrel
Woodchuck
Black tailed prairie
Alpine marmot

Castoridae:

North american beaver

Muridae:

Mitchells hopping mouse
Australian water rat
Bush rat
Black footed tree rat
Greater stick nest rat
Plains rat
Fawn hopping mouse
Giant white tailed rat

Hystricidae:

African crested porcupine
Indian crested porcupine

Erethizontidae:

Brazilian porcupine

Cavidae:

Montane guinea pig
Patagonian cavy


Hydrochoeridae:

Capybara

Dasyproctidae:

Lowland paca
Red rumped agouti

Chinchillidae:

Plains viscacha

Capromyidae:

Coypu

Carnivora and Pinnipedia-

Canidae:

Indian wolf
Timber wolf
Coyote
Asiatic golden jackal
Black backed jackal
Dingo
New guinea singing dog
Red fox
Fennec fox
Azaras fox
African wild dog

Ursidae:

Asian black bear
European brown bear
Kodiak bear
Syrian brown bear
American black bear
Polar bear
Sun bear
Sloth bear

Procyonidae:

North american cacomistle
South american coati
White nosed coati
Kinkajou
Red panda

Mustelidae:

European polecat
Greater grison
Tayra
European badger
American badger
Striped skunk
Oriental small clawed otter
European otter
North american river otter

Viverridae:

Pardine genet
African civet
Malayan civet
Small toothed palm civet
Asian palm civet
Binturong
Slender tailed meerkat
Indian gray mongoose

Hyaenidae:

Spotted hyena
Striped hyena
Brown hyena

Felidae:

Leopard cat
Flat headed cat
Bobcat
Serval
Fishing cat
Marbled cat
Temminks golden cat
Mountain lion
Clouded leopard
African leopard
Indian leopard
Asian lion
African lion
Bengal tiger
Jaguar
Cheetah

Pinnipedia:

Gray seal
Australian sea lion
Australian fur seal

Proboscidea and Hyracoidea-

Proboscidea:

Indian elephant
Sri lankan elephant

Hyracoidea:

Cape hyrax

Perrisodactyla-

Equidae:

Przewalskis horse
African wild ass
Persian onager
Mountain zebra
Damara zebra
Chapmans zebra

Tapiridae:

Malayan tapir
Brazilian tapir

Rhinocerotodae:

Javan rhinoceros
Black rhinoceros

Artiodactyla-

Suidae:

Indian wild boar
European wild boar
Babirusa

Tayassuidae:

Collared peccary

Hippopotamidae:

River hippopotamus

Camelidae:

Llama
Alpaca
Guanaco
Dromedary camel
Bactrian camel

Tragulidae:

Java mouse deer

Cervidae:

Indian muntjac
Fallow deer
Axis deer
Hog deer
Bornean sambar
Malayan sambar
Javan rusa
Sri lankan sambar
Formosan sika deer
European red deer
Kashmir stag
Maral
North american wapiti
Pere davids deer

Giraffidae:

Giraffe

Bovidae:

Sitatunga
Common eland
Nilgai
Asian water buffalo
Lowland anoa
Javan banteng
Yak
American bison
Cape buffalo
Black wildebeest
Blue wildebeest
Blackbuck
Dorcas gazelle
Chinkara gazelle
Springbok
Himalayan tahr
Spanish ibex
Aoudad
European mouflon


I hope that you guys found this interesting, if anyone is interested I can share a list of the birds and herps from this book that were at the Adelaide Zoo between 1878 and 1978

 

[Astrobird]

Hippopotamidae:

River hippopotamus

I notice the pygmy hippos are not on the list - does this mean they only got them after 1978? their last one died recently

 

[ungulate nerd]

Hippopotamidae:

River hippopotamus

I notice the pygmy hippos are not on the list - does this mean they only got them after 1978? their last one died recently

From my research, I didn't see reference to Pygmy hippos, so it probably is the case that they got them after 1978

An interesting thing I forgot to mention about River hippos was that they were from East Africa, so they were probably (Hippopotamus amphibius kiboko)

 

[MattyP]

It's sad how many amazing species have been lost from Australian zoos. I'm guessing most would now be impossible to get back here again.

 

[Zorro]

Some will never return others maybe at some stage in the future, part of the problem is some in the zoo world in this country believe fewer species is better

 

[steveroberts]

Perth Zoo had at least one Hairy Armadillo I remember seeing in 1992, 1993 and 1994 in the Nocturnal House exhibit which it shared with either Ringtail or Brushtail Possum/s. I believe it may have still lived there in 1995 and 1996 but I'm fairly certain it was gone when I visited again in 1997. I remember the Slow Loris and the Dorocouli that were housed there too during the mid '90s and the Fennec Fox in the last exhibit near the exit before they were moved to the Savanna nocturnal cave exhibit for a time and the Nocturnal House became an Australian animal only themed exhibit.

Does anyone have any information about the Hairy Armadillo/s (gender, name, where it came from, where it went?) or any info on the Lorises or Dorocouli?

 

[tetrapod]

Perth Zoo had at least one Hairy Armadillo I remember seeing in 1992, 1993 and 1994 in the Nocturnal House exhibit which it shared with either Ringtail or Brushtail Possum/s. I believe it may have still lived there in 1995 and 1996 but I'm fairly certain it was gone when I visited again in 1997. I remember the Slow Loris and the Dorocouli that were housed there too during the mid '90s and the Fennec Fox in the last exhibit near the exit before they were moved to the Savanna nocturnal cave exhibit for a time and the Nocturnal House became an Australian animal only themed exhibit.

Does anyone have any information about the Hairy Armadillo/s (gender, name, where it came from, where it went?) or any info on the Lorises or Dorocouli?

Not sure where the armadillos came from but they were a pair (never bred, to my knowledge). I believe that all of the slow lorises that have ended up at the zoo were confiscations. Most of the time the zoo has only had one at any time. The douroucouli (not sure if there was only the one or a pair) may have been from the group used in malaria testing in QLD?