Another year, another challenge. For the challenge's fourth installment, we're targeting Ungulates! While, as always, our friends in Australasia will be left out a bit I feel ungulates are still a very well represented clade of animals in captivity.
Now this may be a bit of a difficult and potentially controversial challenge due to all the recent splits, but for all intents and purposes we will generally be following the species list set by Groves and Grubb: A new perspective on Ungulate Taxonomy
Rules are as follows:
1. You have to actually see the animal, even if just for a second. You don't score if you visit a collection but don't see the animal (harsh, but fair);
2. Proof via photographs is not required, your word is your bond;
3. You have to see the animal via normal public access (i.e. not including zookeeper for the day or photography days behind the scenes) during normal public opening hours (i.e. no scoring because you know the keeper and can get access before/after hours). Basically the species has to be seen as Joe Public would;
4. Any severely limited opening or private collections don't count for this challenge. Controversial I know, but see previous point and I didn't think it fair to include a handful of days these collections might be open to the public as this might logistically disadvantage a large number of people;
5. Only public zoological collections count, animals seen at farms or pet stores do not count.
6. Report/update your progress on this thread as you go along;
7. Only one subspecies per species can be counted;
8. Cetaceans do count;
9. Elephants and other members of the Tethytheria clade do not count;
10. Domestics do not count, the animals must be in a wild form. You can count a species that's been domesticated just as long as the animal you're looking at isn't (i.e. Guanacos count but Llamas do not);
11. Hybrid animals do not count. So, while controversial, zoo-mix giraffes, klipspringers, ect. are not admissible;
12. Wild animals do not count, all species must be seen in captivity under all the conditions listed above;
13. Any issues anyone takes with any decision or any of the above rules is open to discussion but the rules are set and my decision is final;
14. Except for the unlikely event that someone gets to see all the species potentially see-able by 12/31/16 the winner will be deemed to be the person(s) who's seen the most at that date.
As always, thanks to Shorts for creating the majority of the rules and for the challenge idea in the first place (see http://www.zoochat.com/38/2016-zoochat-uk-challenge-433501/) and congratulations to LaughingDove for winning the http://www.zoochat.com/2/2015-zoochat-challenge-396793/.
Good luck to everyone out there and happy hunting!
~Thylo
Now this may be a bit of a difficult and potentially controversial challenge due to all the recent splits, but for all intents and purposes we will generally be following the species list set by Groves and Grubb: A new perspective on Ungulate Taxonomy
Rules are as follows:
1. You have to actually see the animal, even if just for a second. You don't score if you visit a collection but don't see the animal (harsh, but fair);
2. Proof via photographs is not required, your word is your bond;
3. You have to see the animal via normal public access (i.e. not including zookeeper for the day or photography days behind the scenes) during normal public opening hours (i.e. no scoring because you know the keeper and can get access before/after hours). Basically the species has to be seen as Joe Public would;
4. Any severely limited opening or private collections don't count for this challenge. Controversial I know, but see previous point and I didn't think it fair to include a handful of days these collections might be open to the public as this might logistically disadvantage a large number of people;
5. Only public zoological collections count, animals seen at farms or pet stores do not count.
6. Report/update your progress on this thread as you go along;
7. Only one subspecies per species can be counted;
8. Cetaceans do count;
9. Elephants and other members of the Tethytheria clade do not count;
10. Domestics do not count, the animals must be in a wild form. You can count a species that's been domesticated just as long as the animal you're looking at isn't (i.e. Guanacos count but Llamas do not);
11. Hybrid animals do not count. So, while controversial, zoo-mix giraffes, klipspringers, ect. are not admissible;
12. Wild animals do not count, all species must be seen in captivity under all the conditions listed above;
13. Any issues anyone takes with any decision or any of the above rules is open to discussion but the rules are set and my decision is final;
14. Except for the unlikely event that someone gets to see all the species potentially see-able by 12/31/16 the winner will be deemed to be the person(s) who's seen the most at that date.
As always, thanks to Shorts for creating the majority of the rules and for the challenge idea in the first place (see http://www.zoochat.com/38/2016-zoochat-uk-challenge-433501/) and congratulations to LaughingDove for winning the http://www.zoochat.com/2/2015-zoochat-challenge-396793/.
Good luck to everyone out there and happy hunting!
~Thylo
