And here are the last view Czech collections, including their best zoo, Prague.
Ecocentre Huslik: Caspian gull
Praha (Stanice přírodovědců):
Herb field mouse, Allison's anole, Baracoa anole, Common wondergecko,
Cyclades four-lined snake,
Western giant anole.
Zoo Praha
Universally accepted as the best Czech zoo, Zoo Praha is also definitely one of the greatest European zoos owing to its excellent collection and exhibits. It notably holds a large number of unique species - though still only half as many as the collection just West of it. Notable rarities include the only (publicly visible) Brown hyenas in Europe as well as a dozen or so unique bird species.
Mammals: Black and rufous sengi, Brown dorcopsis,
Brown hyena, Central African ratel,
East African springhare, Eastern wallaroo,
Egyptian Sundevall's jird,
Forest giant pouched rat, Ganzhorn's mouse lemur, Garnett's greater galago, Javan leopard, Javan rusa, Kellen's African dormouse, Malayan tapir, Malayan tiger, Matthey's mouse,
Mechow's mole-rat,
Mexican spider monkey, Neumann's grass rat, Oncilla, Palawan leopard cat, Pale golden spiny mouse, Philippine palm civet, Philippine porcupine, Smith's bush squirrel, Spix's moustached tamarin, Sri Lankan elephant, Tasmanian devil, Wagner's gerbil,
Xeric four-striped mouse.
Birds: Ashy woodpigeon, Atlantic harlequin duck, Austral parakeet,
Bar-backed partridge, Barred cuckoo-dove,
Barred laughingthrush, Blue-fronted fig parrot, Blue-naped parrot, Blue-streaked lory, Boehm's buffalo weaver, Bronze-tailed peacock pheasant, Brown lory, Brush bronzewing, Buffy fish-owl,
Chestnut-crowned pitta, Chinese spotted dove, Coleto, Collared trogon, Common linnet, Common tern, Cordilleran parakeet, Corncrake, Crested oropendola, Eastern bluebonnet, Eastern purple heron, Edwards' fig-parrot, Giant Canada goose, Golden-crested myna, Golden-shouldered parrot,
Greater yellownape, Green woodhoopoe, Hartlaub's duck,
Helmeted friarbird,
Indian cotton pygmy goose, Javan green magpie, Kagu,
Large fig parrot, Lear's macaw, Lesser yellow-headed vulture, Little pied cormorant, Luzon hornbill, Malayan peacock pheasant, Milky stork, Mindanao lorikeet,
New Guinea bronzewing, Northern rosella, Oriental greenfinch, Palawan hornbill,
Pel's fishing owl, Peruvian thick-knee, Pesquet's parrot,
Philippine hanging parrot, Philippine metallic pigeon, Philippine rufous night heron, Pink-headed imperial pigeon, Raggiana bird of paradise, Red-billed buffalo weaver, Red-breasted merganser,
Red-fronted laughingthrush, Red-winged laughingthrush,
Ruddy turtle dove,
Rufous-cheeked laughingthrush, Saffron finch,
Salvadori's fig-parrot, Salvadori's pheasant,
Scaly laughingthrush, Scaly-breasted lorikeet,
Scaly-naped pigeon,
Scarlet-faced liocichla,
Scarlet-fronted parakeet, Scarlet-headed blackbird, Shoebill,
Silver-eared laughingthrush, Slender-billed parakeet, Spot-billed pelican, Spotted crake, Spotted imperial pigeon,
Spotted palm thrush, Stella's lorikeet,
Sunda laughingthrush, Sunda teal, Tataupa tinamou, Vernal hanging parrot, Western black lory, White-faced ibis,
White-throated piping-guan,
Yellow and green lorikeet, Yellow-faced myna, Yellow-hooded blackbird.
Reptiles: African whole-toed gecko,
Banded leaf-toed gecko,
Banded spiny-tailed gecko, Brown roofed turtle,
Calabar burrowing python, Chiapas giant musk turtle, Collared flat lizard, Common death adder, Common variable skink, Common wondergecko, Crowned river turtle, Cuban skink, D'Albert's python, East African egg-eating snake,
Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle, Eastern Montpellier snake,
Enigmatic leaf turtle, Gharial, Gia Lai pricklenape, Giant horned lizard, Giant Madagascar chameleon,
Impressed tortoise, Indian roofed turtle, Iraqi spiny-tailed lizard, Kazakhstan steppe tortoise, Keeled slug-eating snake,
Langbian pricklenape, Long-nosed tree snake, Malayan flat-shelled turtle, Northern blue-tongued skink, Northern Vietnamese box turtle,
Nose-horned chameleon, Oaxacan spiny-tailed iguana, Oldham's leaf turtle,
Pinzon giant tortoise,
Puff-faced water snake,
Radde's toad-headed agama, Ravergier's racer, Ruthven's kingsnake, Santa Cruz giant tortoise,
Secret toadheaded agama, Short-horned chameleon,
Somalian mastigure,
Southern river terrapin,
Spotted butterfly lizard, Steppe agama,
Striped velvet gecko, Texas gopher tortoise, Tunisian spur-thighed tortoise, Turkestan rock agama, Turner's gecko,
Uratian rat snake, Vaillant's mabuya,
Variegated racerunner, West African rainbow lizard, Western cliff anole,
Western collared snake, Western Madagascar tree boa,
Yucatan spinytail iguana,
Zebra-tail lizard
Amphibians: Red rubber frog,
Ruby-eyed tree frog, Tschudi's Caribbean frog.
Fish: Bleher's rainbowfish, Clown barb, Vermiculate river stingray.
In summary,
185 rarities, which is half Plzen's tally but twice the previous largest collection (Haus des Meeres at 92). Of these,
30 are unique in Europe and
23 more only found in a couple of the continent's collections.
Zoo Milicov (Praha):
Crested bobwhite
Sea World Praha: Bucktooth tetra,
Johanna pike-cichlid, Polka-dot splitfin.
Prosec (Zachranna stanice) - Northern bullfinch
Protivin (Krokodýlí zoo)
An intriguing collection, holding one of the most complete sets of crocodilians in Europe, but doesn't score particularly highly in rarities due to their specialisation in a fairly commonplace group in zoos.
Reptiles: American crocodile, Black caiman, Gharial, Mugger crocodile, New Guinea crocodile, South African Nile crocodile, West African crocodile.
Fauna Park Sedlec: Eastern lesser white-nosed monkey.
Zoopark Stezery: Lowe's monkey, Blue-eyed cockatoo, Diademed amazon, Northern festive amazon.
Zoo Tabor: Curacao brown-throated parakeet, Dusky-headed conure, Green conure, Lesser yellow-naped amazon.
Biopark Teplice:
South African multimammate mouse, Baracoa anole, Moroccan ocellated lizard, Sand skink, Japanese fire-bellied newt, Desert goby, Jumbie teta bristlenose pleco.
Teplice Schlossgarten: Bonnet macaque
Teplice Minizoo:
Yellow-billed long-tailed finch
Usti nad Labem
One of the larger Czech zoos again, with several mammal rarities though fewer in the other classes.
Mammals: Bear cuscus, Black-backed jackal, Bonnet macaque,
Island flying fox,
Mount Kilimanjaro guereza,
Silvered leaf monkey, Sykes' monkey, Taiga musk deer,
Vietnamese small flying fox.
Reptiles: Durango Mountain kingsnake.
Amphibians: Argentine toad, Black-spotted casque-headed treefrog, Treasury Island tree frog.
Fish: Axelrod's rainbowfish, Bleher's rainbowfish, Jumbie teta bristlenose pleco.
In summary,
16 rarities, of which
3 are unique in Europe and a further
3 are only found in a couple of the continent's institutions.
Rybarske muzeum: Stinging catfish
Zlin-Lesna (Zoologická zahrada):
Definitely one of the best zoos in the country apart from the big two above it, Zlin also has an excellent collection, holding a scintillating collection of storks, screamers and seriemas, being the only holder of several species.
Mammals: Graell's tamarin, Indian sloth bear, Kalahari lion, Spix's moustached tamarin, Woolly monkey.
Birds: Black curassow,
Black-legged seriema,
Black-spotted barbet, Capuchinbird, Crowned hawk-eagle, Curl-crested aracari, Fire-tufted barbet, Green oropendola, Kufl's brown-necked parrot,
Lesser adjutant, Milky stork, Northern brown kiwi,
Northern screamer, Painted stork,
Red-bellied macaw, Red-rumped cacique, Scarlet-headed blackbird, Spot-billed pelican,
Spotted wood-owl, Sulawesi knobbed hornbill, Western piping hornbill, White-bellied go-away bird, Yellow-rumped cacique.
Amphibians: Kurdistan newt, Rococo toad.
Fish: Itaitaba freshwater stingray, Pearl of Likoma.
In summary,
32 rarities, of which
5 are unique in Europe and a further
2 are only found in a couple of the continent's institutions.
And here is the Czech map:
And that is Czechia done and dusted! Massive country for zoos - the country's two big zoos immediately apparent, but then the host of medium-sized zoos in the South of the country also clear, with Brno, Zlin, Ostrava and Jihlava the main zoos in the the South-eastern area of the country. However, unlike any of the other countries we have seen so far, the collections are fairly spread out, with every region of the country having at least one zoo with a rarity, and several of them (South Bohemia and South Moravia) having a particularly impressive density of good zoos.
Next, I will move on to Denmark, Estonia and Finland, in one or two posts, and then France. In the meantime, hope this is all helpful for those planning trips
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. Didn't quite mean it like that but... 
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