Animal Capitals: Is your zoo one?

Moebelle

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10+ year member
Does your zoo display the most of a certain species? Is it for the country, continent, hemisphere, or the even the World?

Cincinnati

US: Malayan elephant (2), Gorilla babies (48 going on maybe 50).

Continent: Little Penguin (25).

Western Hemisphere: Sumatran rhinoceros (2), Aardwolf (2), Grey's crowned guenon (8), Banded palm civet (1), Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba columba) (8), Imperial Shag (1), Emerald beetle, Western Hercules Beetle, Tin-foil beetle.

World: Razo Island skink (1), Spring Salamander (group) (2), Eastern Gulf Coast Waterdog (4), Opal-rumped Tanager (Tangara velia iridina) (1+), Tri-colored Heron (Egretta tricolor ruficollis) (2), Least Auklet (8), Whiskered Auklet (7), Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis melanopis) (1), Bullet Ant (non-group), Jacob's sheep (10), Black-footed Cat (4), Everglades Rat snake (5), Kea (12).

Other zoos.

Aardvark: Brookfield Zoo (6)
Addax: Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (57)
Addra Gazelle: Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (105)
African Buffalo: Réserve africaine de Sigean (25)
 
The Jacksonville FL Zoo is supposed to be renowned for breeding the jaguar:

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The Jacksonville FL Zoo is supposed to be renowned for breeding the jaguar:

Yep. I'm not sure if it is true anymore but as of 2005 every black Jaguar in North America was descended from Zorro, a male black Jaguar who lived most of his life at the Jacksonville zoo.
 
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