Animals No Longer At Your Zoo You'd Like To See There Again

[filipinos]

I wasn´t there to see them, but according to a Book i have about the history of the zoo there was a giant sable antelope that lived there from 1972 till 1991. Don´t know much more. The zoo had all the Hippotraginae family members, and currently only lacks the giant sable antelope and the beisa oryx.

 

[AnaheimZoo]

Yes, Beardsley did use to have Asian Elephants

When was that?!

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I may be wrong, but I believe that they had Asian Elephants around the time the zoo opened because, I think, they were circus retirees and many of the zoo's first animals were either pets or Barnum & Bailey Circus animals.

 

[zoomaniac]

As for my hometown Zoo, Zoo Zurich, Switzerland (from about 1969 and from my mind):

MAMMALS:
Pygmy Hog (around 1970ies/early 80ies)
Pakarana
Red Tree Kangaroo
Southern Swamp Wallaby
Polar Bear
Westafrican Chimpanzee (subspecies verus, complete Group now in Gelsenkirchen, Germany)
Spectacled Langur
Katanga Spot-nosed Guegnon
Wolly Monkey
Australian Short-nosed Echidna
Congo-Leopard (subspecies ituriensis)
Black Wildebeest
Gemsbock
Jaguar
Clouded Leopard
Margay
Southern White Rhino
Common Hippo

BIRDS:
Blue Crane
Andean Condor
Red-billed Oxpecker
Bare-throated Bellbird

REPTILES:
Common Cobra

AMPHIBIAS:
Corroboree Frog/Toad

 

[BeardsleyZooFan]

When was that?!

Up until the 70's maybe?

 

[Jabiru96]

Taronga:

Clouded leopard (not since 2005)
American Black Bear (since 1980's)
Chilean Flamingo (since approx. 2007)
Patas monkey (since early 1990's)
Mandrill (since 1980's)
Scimitar horned oryx (since approx. 2006/2007)
DeBrazza's guenon (since approx. 2008)
Silvery gibbon (since 2009)

 

[ungulate nerd]

Charles Paddock Zoo:

Arabian oryx
Indian muntjac
Aoudad
Sun Bear
Asian black bear
Bengal tiger
Golden bellied mangabey

Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park:

Gunthers dik dik
Mule deer
Dromedary camel
Collared peccary
Sika deer
Llama
Alpaca
Capybara
Patagonian cavy
African crested porcupine
Celebes crested macaque
Lion tailed macaque
Baboon
Rhesus macaque
Diana monkey
Golden bellied mangabey
Spot nosed guenon
Greater bushbaby
Bobcat
Ocelot
Oncilla
Geoffreys cat
Mountain lion
American black bear
American alligator
Emerald tree boa
Greater flamingo
Channel billed toucan
Chestnut mandibled toucan
Currasow
Emerald toucanet
Tinmou


Orange County Zoo:

Pronghorn
Harbor seal
Mexican gray wolf

If there is anything i am missing, please let me know

 

[DavidBrown]

Charles Paddock Zoo:


Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park:


Orange County Zoo:

Pronghorn
Harbor seal
Mexican gray wolf

If there is anything i am missing, please let me know

Charles Paddock Zoo used to have a jaguar, servals, and an American alligator when I visited in 2000.

Santa Ana Zoo had a flock of Pacific parrotlets in the small exhibit in the entry way of their Amazon aviary. They were great fun to watch.

Orange County Zoo had a cacomistle, groundhog, and some armadillos (don't remember what species) that all came from the indoor zoo at the Ontario mall that closed.

 

[ungulate nerd]

Charles Paddock Zoo used to have a jaguar, servals, and an American alligator when I visited in 2000.

Santa Ana Zoo had a flock of Pacific parrotlets in the small exhibit in the entry way of their Amazon aviary. They were great fun to watch.

Orange County Zoo had a cacomistle, groundhog, and some armadillos (don't remember what species) that all came from the indoor zoo at the Ontario mall that closed.

Thanks david, i really appreciate that, i work at Santa Ana Zoo and i didnt realize that we ever had Pacific parrotlets, i have been going to the Orange County Zoo since i was an infant and i never realized that they ever had those animals, when was this ???, and about Charles Paddock Zoo, i have never been there but i have read about and seen pictures of that zoo

 

[MJMcB]

I used to love the Gray wolf exhibit at the Bronx zoo, but they replaced it with the amazing Tiger Mountain. But I still miss my wolves

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I'm still looking through old labeled pictures to see what they had in the past but this is what I have on the Bronx Zoo so far:
African Forest Elephant
Eastern Lowland Gorilla
Indian Leopard
Thylacine (If only)
Barbary Lion
Platypus
Marine Iguana
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chimpanzee
Blesbok (I actually saw this one)
Arabian Oryx
Cheetah
Proboscis Monkey
Binturong
World of Darkness

Smithsonian National Zoo;
Nile Hippopotamus
Pygmy Hippopotamus
New Guinea Singing Dog
Capybara
Thylacine (If only, again!!)

New York Aquarium;
Galapagos Penguin

Maritime Aquarium;
African Penguin

 

[arcticwolf]

I know people have already posted about past toronto zoo animals, but here are some that either I remember or were at the zoo before I was born.

Tasmanian Devil
Giant Salamander (might come when pandas come)
Wildebeest
Mandrill
Patas Monkey
Dall's Sheep
North Chinese Leopard
African Dwarf Buffalo
False Gharial
Cape Fur Seal

 

[ungulate nerd]

Honolulu Zoo:

Deer (not sure what species, For some reason I would guess Axis deer though)
American bison
Dromedary camel
Pygmy hippo

If i am missing anything, please let me know !

 

[ungulate nerd]

You forgot Beira antelopes

Regarding Beira antelopes, I misread that and it turns out it was Beisa oryx, not beira antelope, and on my last visit in 2003 i for some reason remember Hartebeest or Topi, can somebody confirm this please ?

 

[ungulate nerd]

I'd like to see these animals return to Milwaukee County Zoo:

Indian Rhinoceros
Capybara
Caracal

These species were exhibited at the zoo in the past as well:

Cougar
Asian Elephant
White Rhinoceros
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Striped Hyena
Bengal Tiger (white)
Blackbuck
Wolverine
North American Porcupine
Koala
Arctic Wolf
Proboscis Monkey
Coquerel's Sifaka*

*Because one is featured on the wood sign outside of the Small Mammals Building, the zoo must have had them at some point, but I don't know for sure.

You forgot Amazon river dolphins, which I found out for sure that they had them

 

[Milwaukee Man]

@ungulate nerd: Where did you find out about the Amazon river dolphins? Also, I just remembered that Milwaukee had bottlenose dolphins at some point too. (I believe that was in the 1980's. Anyone know about this?)

 

[ungulate nerd]

@ungulate nerd: Where did you find out about the Amazon river dolphins? Also, I just remembered that Milwaukee had bottlenose dolphins at some point too. (I believe that was in the 1980's. Anyone know about this?)

This is my refernece to the Amazon river dolphins, it is a very great website it tells you the history of cetaceans in captivity and tells you about former and current holdings of the species listed on this site, enjoy !!! Cetacean Lifestyle

 

[Milwaukee Man]

Just looked through some of the site. Very interesting. Thanks.

 

[epickoala123]

Trotter's world of animals had pichi armadillos(although no reference on zootierliste).

 

[Pacarana]

For Denver Zoo:

Mishmi Takin
Chinese Goral
Pudu
Steenbok
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Babirusa
Bush Pig
White-lipped Deer
Musk Ox
Caribou
Moose
Addra Gazelle
Gemsbok
Pallas' Cat
Margay
Jaguar
Bengal Tiger
Wolverine
Pine Marten
Fisher
Western Spotted Skunk
Black-footed Ferret
Spectacled Langur
Demidoff's Bushbaby
Coppery Titi
Mustached Tamarin
Giant Mouse Lemur
Owl Monkey
Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur
Slender Loris

Reptiles:

Lined Leaf-tailed Gecko
William's Dwarf Day Gecko
Mexican Beaded Lizard
Rhinoceros Iguana
Albino American Alligator
Fly River Turtle
False Chameleon
This list can go on, so I'll stop at my most favorites.