@ThylacineAlive - If you go to France it is actually not that hard. You can get 26 species (and I mean full species, not counting subspecies) just by spending one day at Parc Felins.
Surprisingly, one they do not have that is available in captivity is black footed cat, which of course I have from US zoos. (My best shot was this summer at Fresno Chaffee Zoo).
Really. I thought vice versa and then Indochinese were phased-out in favore of the new subspecies but there were still a few remaining Indochinese. So there aren't any remaining Indochinese Tigers in the U.S.? I though the Brimingham Zoo still held Indochinese?
*Wow I can't believe you've seen that many!! Does that include subspecies? Can you name them all?
There should be a Feline Gallery where people can post all their feline photos. There'd be like a million lion and tiger photos, though.
So there's my list of the 14 feline species/subspecies that I've seen. Until quite recently I thought I'd seen Barbary Lions (Panthera leo leo) at the Smithsonian National Zoo but have since been told otherwise.
No, Beardsley ZooFan is correct about the tiger classification. Any zoos that still claim to have indochinese are just behind the times with the renaming. (When this first came about, I got personal letters confirming the status from the SSP coordinator at Cincinnati and the mammal curator at San Diego, so I am pretty sure about this one).
Yup, the same happened in Europe - all the Indochinese were reclassified as Malayans. It's the same population of animals that are in the zoos, just since the subpscies was split all the current European/N American individuals are from the Malayan side of the divide. And equally, there's the odd zoo that doesn't keep up: http://www.zoochat.com/59/malayan-tiger-berlin-zoo-31-08-a-237887/
@ Arizona Docent: Go to Kinabatangan River and Danum Valley in Malaysian Borneo, if you will see flat-headed cats and sunda clouded leopard, then most probably there. Both are very acessable and easy and safe to travel to. I saw a clouded leopard in Danum Valley in the middle of the day last year (and it even waited until I had taken a good picture!)!! That is very very rare, though - chances to see them at night is a little better.
@ Arizona Docent: Go to Kinabatangan River and Danum Valley in Malaysian Borneo, if you will see flat-headed cats and sunda clouded leopard, then most probably there. Both are very acessable and easy and safe to travel to. I saw a clouded leopard in Danum Valley in the middle of the day last year (and it even waited until I had taken a good picture!)!! That is very very rare, though - chances to see them at night is a little better.
can you show us the photo?! I only got one chance at a night drive in Danum due to the weather and little was seen, but reading back through the visitor book there, clouded leopard and marbled cats seem to be seen relatively frequently, and one person even claimed a bay cat sighting.
Arizona Docent, BeardsleyZooFan, Maguari- Thank you. Maguari, you certainly gave the best evidence. I wasn't convinved of them all being Malayans until I read the info. on the link. Sad that I have to travel to Southeast Asia just to see an Indochinese Tiger. At least I still can see them (like they're not Extinct). Just looking at the possitive side. I'm personaly more worried about seeing a South China Tiger. I guess I could one dayy visit Asia and see Bengals in India, Indochinese in Thailand or Vietnam or something like that, and finally, South Chinas in China (hopefully they're not Extinct by that time).
