rare in captivity

Landau Reptilium 2021 Sorry for the Bad Photo but Nocturnal Houses are Not Photograph Friendly. These are one of the Nocturnal Highlights and they are the only Acacia Rats in a German Zoo.

Heidelberg Zoo 2021 This Aviary Houses some of the Zoos rarest Animals. The Reed Buntling can only be found in 3 Other european Zoos. The Bluethroat can even be found only in the Plzen Zoo and of course in Heidelberg.

Due to innovation and improving husbandry, some animals have gotten much easier to take care of in captivity, and have gone from being rare to now easily breedable and almost commonplace outside their native ranges in captivity. One example that I have heard of is that the Komodo Dragon used to...

Oxynotus centrina, taken on the 9/10/20

There is lots of beautiful and interesting fish which are rarely seen in public aquaria. I wonder which fish Zoochatters would like to see more?

In talking about the purpose of zoos in another thread, I brought up the tooth-billed pigeon as a species I wished zoos would try to conserve but which gets no attention, AFAIK. So here's my list of bird and mammal species (like most people, I'm sadly biased towards birds and mammals and know...