Animal Bucket List

Javan Rhino said:
He's not the only one, I have a girlfriend to, and she's a poster on here :)
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I think I'm a rare breed, I have a girlfriend who isn't as nuts on animals as me... And even more of a shock is that some zoochatters have even managed to get married! :eek::p;)

As for 5 'bucket list' animals, at the moment they are (in no particular order) :-

Mediterranean monk seal
Arabian leopard
yapok
any linsang
Iberian lynx/otter civet*

This list is subject to change at any given time depending on what I've been reading or looking up! :p

*I just can't choose, it's too hard! :D
 
Chlidonias said:
I've seen three of those five animals already (sorry TeaLovingDave) :)
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So have I, but I doubt its the same three as you. Mine are; Numbat, Kakapo, Iberian Lynx. I may have seen Long-beaked Echidna too for all I know.

Top of my own list would probably be Spix Macaw.
 
Brum said:
I think I'm a rare breed, I have a girlfriend who isn't as nuts on animals as me... And even more of a shock is that some zoochatters have even managed to get married! :eek::p;)

As for 5 'bucket list' animals, at the moment they are (in no particular order) :-

Mediterranean monk seal
Arabian leopard
yapok
any linsang
Iberian lynx/otter civet*

This list is subject to change at any given time depending on what I've been reading or looking up! :p

*I just can't choose, it's too hard! :D
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Helly is almost as much of a zoonerd as me :) she has a profile on here, having registered at the same time as me, but if she wants to report something she tends to just ask me to post it, lol.

I'd love to see a linsang myself.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Helly is almost as much of a zoonerd as me :) she has a profile on here, having registered at the same time as me, but if she wants to report something she tends to just ask me to post it, lol.
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My girlfriend will happily come to the zoo with me, with or without the kids, but she is not quite as passionate as me. Paignton and the echidna was a prime example :-

Me: Look, it's moving. You know what that is?
Her: An echi-
Me: It's an echidna, it lays eggs and is one of only 3 mammals that do so.
Her (Sighs): I know.
Me: Do you know how it feeds its young?
Her: Yes, it's milk comes from glands. You talk about this thing all the time and I do actually listen. Now shut up and watch the bloody echidna!
Me (Mumbling): Sorry love

TeaLovingDave said:
I'd love to see a linsang myself.
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Linsangs are fantastic, I hate looking at the photo's of them on here. I start getting nerd-envy! :p
 
TeaLovingDave said:
I'd love to see a linsang myself.
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Just to make it worse for you- I saw a Banded Linsang(or two) in the Frankfurt Zoo many years ago. Had never heard of them then, but thought it was one of the most beautiful smaller mammals I had ever seen.:) I can't remember seeing any since then.
 
Pertinax said:
Just to make it worse for you- I saw a Banded Linsang(or two) in the Frankfurt Zoo many years ago. Had never heard of them then, but thought it was one of the most beautiful smaller mammals I had ever seen.:) I can't remember seeing any since then.
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I have a few choice words I'd like to say right now, none are suitable for a family forum though! :D
 
I'm basically running on the assumption, Pertinax, that the odds are in favour of you having seen any animal I want to see but likely never will ;)
 
Brum said:
I think I'm a rare breed, I have a girlfriend who isn't as nuts on animals as me... And even more of a shock is that some zoochatters have even managed to get married! :eek::p;)

As for 5 'bucket list' animals, at the moment they are (in no particular order) :-

Mediterranean monk seal
Arabian leopard
yapok
any linsang
Iberian lynx/otter civet*

This list is subject to change at any given time depending on what I've been reading or looking up! :p

*I just can't choose, it's too hard! :D
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Ohh Otter Civet's a good one! Doubt many, if any people on here have seen those. That would definitely make a long list of mine. I've been lucky enough to see Hawaiian Monk Seals, Yapok, (both of these on the same trip to Texas that included my first Rhebok and Fanaloka as well!) and Banded Linsang.

Not sure if I've ever seen an Arabian Leopard. Have those been kept in American Zoos any time recently?
 
Giant Eland said:
Ohh Otter Civet's a good one! Doubt many, if any people on here have seen those. That would definitely make a long list of mine. I've been lucky enough to see Hawaiian Monk Seals, Yapok, (both of these on the same trip to Texas that included my first Rhebok and Fanaloka as well!) and Banded Linsang.

Not sure if I've ever seen an Arabian Leopard. Have those been kept in American Zoos any time recently?
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No Arabian Leopards have ever been kept in captivity outside of the Middle East. I didn't know Yapok were kept in captivity. Everytime I hear that name I think of some endangered New Zealand bird. Hawaiian Monk Seals are on my bucket list. Those I do have a pretty good chance of seeing if I can get to the west coast or Texas any time in the immediate future (probably can't). Do any zoos/aquariums hold them closer to me? Any place near Orlando have them, too, because, if so, I have a good chance of seeing them because I have family down there.

You guys can make lists longer than 5. Hix was the one who proposed that, I honetly don't care how long the lists are.
 
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Giant Eland said:
Ohh Otter Civet's a good one! Doubt many, if any people on here have seen those. That would definitely make a long list of mine. I've been lucky enough to see Hawaiian Monk Seals, Yapok, (both of these on the same trip to Texas that included my first Rhebok and Fanaloka as well!) and Banded Linsang.

Not sure if I've ever seen an Arabian Leopard. Have those been kept in American Zoos any time recently?
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Your list of animals that you have seen turns me green with envy, I think your linsang photo's are the ones that turn I was referring to.

I too doubt anyone on here has seen an otter civet, would love to be proved wrong though, preferably with a photo or two! :p
 
Brum said:
I too doubt anyone on here has seen an otter civet, would love to be proved wrong though, preferably with a photo or two! :p
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It's not outside the realm of possibility - Wassenaar held the species from 1967 to 1972 I believe, and London did in the 1950's sometime.
 
Brum said:
I think I'm a rare breed, I have a girlfriend who isn't as nuts on animals as me... And even more of a shock is that some zoochatters have even managed to get married! :eek::p;)

As for 5 'bucket list' animals, at the moment they are (in no particular order) :-

Mediterranean monk seal
Arabian leopard
yapok
any linsang
Iberian lynx/otter civet*

This list is subject to change at any given time depending on what I've been reading or looking up! :p

*I just can't choose, it's too hard! :D
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I'm married. Took my wife to the zoo on our second date. It was a test. She passed. :cool:

Here's my list (today anyway...)
dingiso
botu
platypus
mountain nyala
proboscis monkey
 
Ituri said:
I'm married. Took my wife to the zoo on our second date. It was a test. She passed. :cool:

Here's my list (today anyway...)
dingiso
botu
platypus
mountain nyala
proboscis monkey
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I've seen 3 outta 5, but I had never heard of a dingiso before. Guess my recently discovered species info needs to be updated! I did a little googling and now I have a new species I wanna see! I love all the White and Black bi-colored animals. Malayan Tapir, Jentink's Duiker, Yapok come to mind.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
It's not outside the realm of possibility - Wassenaar held the species from 1967 to 1972 I believe, and London did in the 1950's sometime.
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I've heard that Wassenaar may have bred their civets, I'm fairly sure that they bred banded linsang as well. How mouth watering is that?

Ituri said:
I'm married. Took my wife to the zoo on our second date. It was a test. She passed. :cool:
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Good man, I snuck my hobby in and just sort of got her institutionalised over time! :p
 
Giant Eland said:
I love all the White and Black bi-colored animals. Malayan Tapir, Jentink's Duiker, Yapok come to mind.
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I always rather like the idea of a Zoo collection 'with a difference' devoted just to Black & White animals! Everything from Giant Pandas, Malayan Tapirs, Zebras, Ostrich (males only!) right down to Skunks, Magpie Geese, and including a children's farm/zoo with b/w rabbits, guinea pigs, goats, ponies, fresian cow, saddleback pig etc.:D
 
Pertinax said:
I always rather like the idea of a Zoo collection 'with a difference' devoted just to Black & White animals! Everything from Giant Pandas, Malayan Tapirs, Zebras, Ostrich (males only!) right down to Skunks, Magpie Geese, and including a children's farm/zoo with b/w rabbits, guinea pigs, goats, ponies, fresian cow, saddleback pig etc.:D
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The MZS (Monochromatic Zoological Society) - don't think I haven't thought of the wonders :p

Though, I would add striped possum, pied tamarins, pied crows and other such wonders :)
 
Pertinax said:
I always rather like the idea of a Zoo collection 'with a difference' devoted just to Black & White animals! Everything from Giant Pandas, Malayan Tapirs, Zebras, Ostrich (males only!) right down to Skunks, Magpie Geese, and including a children's farm/zoo with b/w rabbits, guinea pigs, goats, ponies, fresian cow, saddleback pig etc.:D
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And with that comes the best excuse ever for getting Killer Whales back into Zoos more as the star attraction of the black and white only zoo :)

Not too sure about male Ostrich, those necks, beaks and legs are pretty reddish at times, it's a close call that one :p
 
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