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

Here are some species gone from certain Texas Zoos, 4 out of 8 of these zoos, Joneil238 made lists for, but I am making lists of species I'd like to see back at these zoos that Joneil238 didn't mention

HOUSTON ZOO:

Nile lechwe
Red hartebeest
Dorcas gazelle
American bison
Eastern lowland gorilla
Banded palm civet

SAN ANTONIO ZOO:

Zebra duiker
Tsessebe
Cokes hartebeest
Roberts gazelle
Mountain gazelle
Arabian goitered gazelle
Thomsons gazelle
Bushbuck
Himalayan tahr
Pampas deer
Mountain tapir

FORT WORTH ZOO:

Amazonian manatee
Zebra duiker
Giant pangolin

DALLAS ZOO:

Saiga
Natal red duiker
Hirola
Suni
Arabian goitered gazelle
Mule deer
Red fronted gazelle

GLADYS PORTER ZOO:

Zebra duiker
Hirola
Spekes gazelle
Yucatan brown brocket
Bay duiker
Red shanked douc langur
Gelada baboon
Red uakari
Kowari
Margay

DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM:

Yapok
Pygmy sloth
Red brocket

CALDWELL ZOO:

Black backed jackal
Topi

ELLEN TROUT ZOO:

Suni
 
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Here is a more complete list of past animals at Busch Gardens Tampa, I would very much like to see ALL of these species back there:

Aders duiker
Topi
Uganda kob
Hirola
Oribi
Lichtensteins hartebeest
Bohor reedbuck
Mountain gazelle
Dorcas gazelle
Soemmerrings gazelle
 
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Because the history of my local zoo (Apenheul Primate Park) does not extend to before the 70s, most species they once kept, are still there today. Here's a list of some species that they previously kept and would be excellent additions today:

Gray mouse lemur 1990-1996
Giant anteater 2007-2012
Dark cusimanse 2012-2013
Cotton-top tamarin
North American porcupine
Red-faced spider monkey
Gray`s piping-guan 2008-2013
Razor-billed curassow
 
Well, There are two that come to mind at the Phoenix zoo; One is alligators. I know we supposedly have a Chinese alligator at the Komodo dragon exhibit, but I have yet to see it. The other is Gorillas. I don't know why the zoo got rid of them.
 
The Abilene Zoo is the one I would consider my home zoo, it's a 2 1/2 hour drive, but still by far the closest, and it is the one I visited the most growing up. From memory, here's a few of the animals they've had at one time or another over the last 20 years-

African Elephant
Common Gnu
Ring-Tailed Lemur
California Sea Lion
Polar Bear
Meerkat
De Brazza's Monkey
American Bison
Spotted Hyena
Pronghorn
Collared Peccary (replaced with Chacoan Peccary in the Oak Creek exhibit displaying central Texas wildlife- no problem there, right?)
Coyote
Secretary Bird
 
ungulate nerd said:
I forgot these:

Dibatag
West caucasian tur
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Other species that Omaha had in the past that I forgot about include

Raccoon dog
Japanese squirrel
Margay
Six banded armadillo
Three banded armadillo
Brown hyena
Dalls sheep
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
Transcaspian urial
Markhor
Nubian ibex
Bezoar ibex
Bontebok
Scimitar horned oryx
Sumatran tiger
 
Animals No Longer at Cleveland Zoo

Cleveland Zoo used to have-
Malayan tapir
Pygmy hippo
Nile hippo
Capybara in the Pachyderm building?
Matschie's tree kangaroos
Double-wattled cassowary
Bruijn's pademelon (the pademelons shared with cassowaries in the exhibit right past the boardwalk near the lorikeets).
South American tapir
Tarsier (I enjoy watching lemurs, but have never seen tarsiers but CMZ had them at one time)
Clouded leopard?
Brush-tailed bettong (IDK if they still do)
Sugar glider in the Yagga Tree
Animals in Wolf Wilderness like salamanders, screech owl, deer mice, etc.
Turkey vulture
Some sort of hornbill
Yellow-flanked? duiker
New Guinea singing dog
 
The Capybara are in the aviary rainforest now, and happily breeding :)

I have no idea if the clouded leopard is still at the zoo but its old enclosure is currently part of the nocturnal display and is home to an Aye-Aye now. I know they had a incident a few years ago they had him/her in the rainforest but it pushed through the wires and was having a fun time walking around by itself. Maybe they decided it was best to send him somewhere else after that or he could still be there just waiting for a new home.

New Guinea singing dogs were replaced by dingos. Really wish they would have kept both species. It would have been cool imho, a lot of people thought they were dingos before reading the signs. Could have been a nice way of teaching people the differences.

And yeah its really sad about losing such cool species like the Hippos and Tapirs for budget reasons when they redid the elephants. All of them were so awesome to see and kinda hard to find a zoo with any of them anymore. Makes me sad I only remember them from when I was a kid. :(
 
Ekaterinburg zoo: penguins, ground hornbills, crowned pigeons, bovids, cervids, lowland tapir, red kangaroo (all were present in Soviet times but died out, and our current mouse deer are NOT cervids!), also armadillos, monitors, arapaima & boxfishes...
 
Focusing more so on what I'd like to see back than what isn't there in general...

Lincoln Park Zoo:
- Elephants (With a new exhibit to boot.)
- Orangutan (From the old Great Ape House. If they ever add a fourth primate exhibit, please let it be orangs.)
- Koala (It was on loan but still.)
- Spotted Hyena (...um, more hyenas?)
- Sun Bear (Technically still there but I'm gonna miss it when it's gone.)
- California Sea Lion (I think they had them before? I'm not sure?)
- Arabian Oryx (Grew to be my favorite antelope because of LPZ.)
- King Penguin (I'm welcoming the new penguins with open arms but shoot, king penguins are cool.)

Brookfield Zoo:
- Elephants (With a new exhibit to boot.)
- Hoppopotamus (I love pygmies and all, but still)
- Indian Rhinoceros (Never saw 'em. Want to.)
- Forrest Buffalo (one of my favorite parts of the Forest)
- Mandrill (They were fun?)
- Chimpanzee/Bonobo (I'm told they have some off-exhibit right now.)
- Jaguar (More South America)
- Andean Bear (More South America; assuming the old exhibit's empty)
- Kudu, Sable Antelope, Wildebeest, Sitatunga (More antelopes.)
- Walrus (You think with Olga's popularity and those ridiculously big pools...)
- Hamadryas Baboon (I miss 'em but they do need a new home.)
- Ibex (They're in the old Dall Sheep exhibit, basically limping to the barn. A new 'ibex island' could be fun.)
- Raccoon (The only Children's Zoo animal I remember being particularly fond of at Brookfield.)
- Reptiles (I wish I had more images/video of the old Reptile House, I never really got a good look in there and miss it to bits now.)
- Giant Panda (Hey, a guy can dream?)

Dall sheep
Mountain Goat (They were on the original plan for great bear wilderness but they ended up being left out)
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Would've loved to see either of those show in GBW - my biggest issue with the final exhibit was there was originally a promise of a few small mammals or an additional herbivore but all the focus falls on predators.

Milwaukee County Zoo:
- Cougar (saw them in the old Big Cat House; ****** exhibit but I'd like em' back.)
- Koala (Only ever saw one sleeping briefly. Rumor mill is they couldn't afford the fresh eucalyptus anymore.)
- Acrtic Wolves (They've been replaced with Mexican Gray Wolves for year)

I also have a strange, distinct memory of seeing a large monitor lizard at one of these zoos and I'd love to see one of those, or a Komodo dragon like the Shedd Aquarium had temporarily.
 
ungulate nerd said:
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
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Santa Ana Zoo had Asian elephants, but only for $5 elephant rides. When I visited in July 2014 (SA Zoo) they had dromedary camels.
 
Cleveland Zoo-
Nile hippo
Pygmy hippo
Kirk's dik-dik
Polar bear
Pacarana
Agouti
Tarsier
Baird's tapir
Clouded leopard (cloudedleopard :D)
Thylacines (Alive) :)
Kodiak bear
New Guinea singing dog
Warthog
Red river hog
Malayan tapir
Double-wattled cassowary
Bruijn's pademelon
Matschie's tree kangaroos
Kirk's dik-dik
Chimpanzee
Pallas' cat
White-lipped deer
Rock hyrax
Siamang
etc.
Akron Zoo-
Domestic rabbit
American crow
Chinese alligator
Barking deer
White-handed gibbon
Koi
Columbus Zoo-
Drills
Lemurs? (I have never seen them, but it is weird that Columbus doesn't have any lemurs).
Black bear
Fishing cat
Prevost's squirrel
Brush-tailed bettong
Children's python
 
San Francisco Zoo~

Tapirs (any species)
Pygmy Hippos
American Alligator
Broad-snouted Caiman (and other Crocodillian species)
Blackbuck
Muntjac
Saiga
Nyala
Giant Eland
Gernuk
Sun Bears
Spectacled Bears (or any smaller bear species
Ocelots
Painted Dogs
Coyote
Bush babies
Mouse lemur & any other small nocturnal prosimians
Diana Monkey
Orangutans
rescued seals of any species (the zoo has two rescued seal lions, but has also rehabilated elephant seal pups in the past)
 
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Species I'd Like to see again at the Milwaukee County Zoo

Milwaukee County Zoo. *I have a book from 1967, so when I say the zoo had them from the 1960s, they might have been exhibited at the old Washington Park Zoo before it moved to its current location.

-Wolverines (We had them until 2000)
-Koalas (We had them from 1992-2004, then two visited in summer 2007)
-Capybaras (I believe the last left some time between 2005 and 2007)
-Bald Eagle (We have 1, but its only used in the birds of prey show)
-Crowned Cranes (We had some back in the 1960s-80s? or 90s?)
-Adelie Penguins (We had a colony from the 1960s-1990s)
-Macaws, any macaws. (We had them from the 1960s- 1990s?)
-Red Uakari (We had them from the 1960s-1990s)
-Tayra (We sent them off in 2012 or 2013)
-Cougars (1960s-2003)
-Giant Anteater (The 1967 book says that they had them but I'm sure they've been gone for a while as nobody I know remembers ever seeing them)
 
Fresno Chaffee Zoo

Would love to see Gorillas and Grizzlies Bear back at the zoo. Heard that Gorillas might be apart of the future phases of African Adventure, so hopefully it's true.
 
Central Florida Zoo (Most in Substandard Exhibits and Many Highly Unlikely to Return):
- Asian Elephant
- Nile Hippopotamus
- Mandrill
- Red Kangaroo
- Emu
- Addra Gazelle
- Black Bear (Coming back soon)
- Tiger (Way before my time and rumors of return have been around for years)

Lowry Park Zoo:
- Bison
- Warthog
- Bactrian Camel
- Asian Elephant (Gone since 1993)

Jacksonville Zoo
- Cape Buffalo (Sorely missed)
- Koala
- Wildebeest
- Sitatunga
- Asian Elephant
 
Out of curiosity why have so many major zoos phased out hippos and bison? Both are popular animals but have silently disappeared from so many collections.
 
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