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Happy new year ZooChat!! I apologize for the delay in posting this year’s challenge, especially to those waiting in the more Eastern time zones. This year’s challenge? Predators. The fearsome hunters which dominate the food chains of the earth, seas, and skies. They have razor sharp talons...

As a continuation to @Leaf Productions 's challenge, this challenge will see what member can see the most Planet Zoo species in zoological facilities during 2025. This challenge will be global so all Zoochat members can participate. Linked here is a spreadsheet of all eligible species, note...

Previous thread is here: Captive Orca Population Due to the old thread getting quite large, I have created a new thread to keep track of the Global Captive Killer Whale Population. The purpose of this thread is to document the births, deaths, and transfers of killer whales from facilities...

Hello friends, acquaintances, fellow ZooChatters. Nearly 10 years ago now, in 2013, former member @filipinos expanded on the idea by @Shorts to host a game where ZooChat members would compete to see the most of a selected animal group within a one year period. This game, as opposed to the...

Welcome back everybody to the eighth installment of the ZooChat Global Challenge! We're heading into the uncharted territory of a new decade and with that I decided to really think outside of the box this year and by that I mean I decided to give you all the one thing you never thought I'd do...

New Year, new challenge! We are now on the seventh installment of this competition and every year I face my own challenge of coming up with a new group of animals that are engaging for participants, well represented in zoos around most of the world (with Oceania usually getting snubbed...

This is a thread for zoo births around the globe. If you want to find birth news easily, I would suggest checking out the website ZooBorns. It provides you with daily animal births around zoos and I find it extremely helpful to use. The link is here: ZooBorns

This thread will focus on animal transfers from one zoo to another. I thought that there was a lot of transfers going around in zoos so I thought to make a kind of eternal zoo transfer centre.