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Bactrian Wapiti Paddock at The Living Desert, 1998

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Wow i never knew the Living Desert had bactrian wapitis, when was the last time they had Bactrian wapitis ?
 
Did you actually see them in here? I think I remember them building an exhibit for them but never actually getting any.
 
Did you actually see them in here? I think I remember them building an exhibit for them but never actually getting any.

If you look very closely at the photo it looks like there is two Bactrian wapiti lying down, well that's kind of what I see anyway
 
Yeah, there's two lying down in the middle of the photo. Didn't have a very good camera at this time, I'm afraid!
 
How common are those in zoos?

As far as I know, only 1 AZA zoo currently keeps them and that zoo is The Wilds, besides The Wilds and Living Desert, they also had them at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park, I think the Zoological Society of San Diego first imported them in the 1980s

The Los Angeles Zoo wanted to get them, but that plan never ended up happening, they are a lot more common in European collections but still not the most common Cervid, I don't think that there are still any in Canadian collections but the now closed Alberta Game Farm in Edmonton used to have them.

There are probably still several zoos in Central Asia that have them, examples would include Almaty, Dushanbe, Tashkent etc
 

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