Fair enough - doesn't actually affect when the last holding of the taxon in the UK was, in any case.
Prosimian and New World Monkey taxa lost over the past 25 years:
Sanford's Lemur (Eulemur sanfordi) - last held at Hamerton in 2000. There are no photographs of this taxon in the Zoochat gallery, although I am aware of at least one film-photograph existing in a Zoochatter's personal collection.
Eastern Lesser Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur griseus) - last held at Port Lympne in 2013. Finding images of this taxon is complicated by the fact that for the final few years of this holding, the final individual was held in a mixed-exhibit with the very similar Western Lesser Bamboo Lemur. However, some photographs of the individual in question are present in the Zoochat gallery, for instance:
Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur (Allocebus trichotis) - last held at Paris Vincennes in 2002. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Red Mouse Lemur (Microcebus rufus) - last held at Landau in 2005. The only image of this taxon in the Zoochat gallery is a photograph of a wild individual which may not belong to this taxon.
Northern Giant Mouse Lemur (Mirza zaza) - last held at Marwell in 2009. This taxon was held in a number of European collections during the timespan in question, but was long misidentified as Coquerel's Lemur. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery under either common name.
Fork-crowned Lemur (Phaner furcifer) - last held at Paris Vincennes in the early 2000's. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Red-tailed Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur ruficaudatus) - last held at Paris Vincennes in 1993. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Red Slender Loris (Loris tardigradus) - last held at Dierenpark Planckendael in 2008. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Javan Slow Loris (Nycticebus javanicus) - last held at Zoo Decin in 2001. The only image of this taxon on the Zoochat gallery is of a captive individual in North America.
Demidoff's Bushbaby (Galagoides demidovii) - last held at Rotterdam in the early 1990's. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Rondo Bushbaby (Galagoides rondoensis) - last held at ZSL London in 1995. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery - unsurprisingly so, as the taxon was held for scarcely more than a month before the sole individual escaped!
Monteiro’s Galago (Otolemur monteiri) - last held at Poznan Nowe in 2003. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Cross River Bushbaby (Sciurocheirus cameronensis) - last held at Paris Vincennes in 1994. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Philippine Tarsier (Carlito syrichta) - last held at Skansen-Akvariet in the early 1990's. A single image of one of the individuals held at this collection, taken in the mid-1980's, has been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery:
Bald Uakari (Cacajao calvus) - last held at Köln in 2005. A single image of the final individual in Europe has been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery:
Neblina Uakari (Cacajao hosomi) - last held at Köln in 1992. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Dusky Titi (Callicebus moloch) - last held at Tier-und-Freizeitpark Thule in 2006. The only images of this taxon on the Zoochat gallery are of captive individuals in North and South America.
White-nosed Bearded Saki (Chiropotes albinasus) - last held at Köln in 2001 as an impure line containing hybrid input from Red-backed and Black Saki; the final pure individual having passed away in the late 1980's. The only images of this taxon on the Zoochat gallery are of a captive individual in South America.
Uta Hick's Bearded Saki (Chiropotes utahickae) - last held at Mulhouse in 2013. Several photographs of the final individual in Europe have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery, for instance:
Bolivian Red Howler (Alouatta sara) - last held at Twycross in 2007. A handful of photographs of the final individual in Europe have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery, for instance:
White-bellied Spider Monkey (Ateles belzebuth) - last held in 2007 at Omega Parque Jardim Zoologico. The only images of this taxon on the Zoochat gallery are of captive individuals in South America.
Geoffroy's Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix cana) - last held in 1993 at Apenheul. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Colombian Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix lugens) - last held in 1997 at Apenheul. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Wied's Marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii) - last held in 2009 at Zoo de La Palmyre. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Tassel-eared Marmoset (Mico humeralifera) - last held in 1992 at Kilverstone. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Illiger's Saddleback Tamarin (Saguinus illigeri) - last held in 2014 at Marwell. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Geoffroy's Saddleback Tamarin (Saguinus nigrifrons) - last held in 1992 at Jersey. No images of this taxon have been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery.
Geoffroy's Tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi) - last held in the early 2000's at Amsterdam. A single image of this taxon taken at Bristol has been uploaded to the Zoochat gallery:
Black Tamarin (Saguinus niger) - last held in 1992 at Kilverstone. The only images of this taxon on the Zoochat gallery are of a captive individual in South America.
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So, it appears that there are a few big gaps in our record of prosimians and New World monkeys - including a few surprising omissions, such as the Giant Mouse Lemur which was held in several European collections until relatively recently. It also appears that Paris Vincennes and Kilverstone were hot-spots for these taxa - in the case of the latter, even where the collection was not the *last* collection to hold a now-absent taxon, it did hold them.
As a matter of fact, there are *no* photographs taken at Kilverstone on Zoochat at all! Hopefully at least one or two Zoochatters will have a few tucked away...... even if they are not of absent-taxa they are still a big gap in our photographic record of UK collections.
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) Memory yes, photos, no.
I would not be surprised if quite a few of the missing species were indeed among those deleted from the gallery in the Great Purge - certainly some of the taxa which disappeared more recently yet have gone unrecorded, such as the Giant Mouse Lemur and Saddleback Tamarin at Marwell, and some of the odd pigeons at ZSL London, would stand a good chance of having been among them.