popular species

Although camels are sort of a taken for granted, ABC animal, domestic Bactrian camels can serve as animal ambassadors for wild Bactrian camels. I do enjoy seeing dromedary camels contrasted next to Bactrian camels, personally, and I slightly prefer dromedaries. Honorary mention for guanacos...

What are some animals that are overhyped but disappointing to see in person at the zoo?

How do zebras rank in popularity among hippos, gorillas, lions, giraffes, elephants, rhinos with zoo visitors? Are they above or below the Cape buffalo? Just the things I think about.:D

Per a suggestion posed by @snowleopard here (Subspecific Tigers in US Zoos), I decided to expand my evaluation of how common tigers were in major American zoos to other popular/ubiquitous zoo animals (also known as ABC animals). As in that thread, I used the list of zoos and aquaria in SL and...

In this thread, I noted that some animals are almost ubiquitous as zoo animals (at least in zoos that call themselves zoos), but are split between multiple species, making no particular species ubiquitous. However it seems like some groups of animals are absolutely required for a zoo to be a...