Animals that used to be in zoos! 11-22-19

[Luke da Zoo nerd]

Here I have a list of animals that used to be in zoos but aren't anymore. Feel free to discuss anything about animals that used to be in captivity. Note: Extinct animals obviously do not count. You may post your own lists as well.
-Sumatran Rhino
-Demidoff's bushaby
-Asiatic cheetah
-African golden cat
-Northern white rhino
-Kakapo
-Pink fairy armadillo

 

[Chlidonias]

Note: Extinct animals obviously do not count.

Why not?

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Here I have a list of animals that used to be in zoos but aren't anymore. Feel free to discuss anything about animals that used to be in captivity. Note: Extinct animals obviously do not count. You may post your own lists as well.
-Sumatran Rhino
-Demidoff's bushaby
-Asiatic cheetah
-African golden cat
-Northern white rhino
-Kakapo
-Pink fairy armadillo

I'm pretty sure that a single African golden cat is still kept in captivity in a sanctuary somewhere in Africa and the pink fairy armadillo is kept in at least one Argentinian zoo (Temaiken Bioparque ?).

 

[birdsandbats]

There are probably more animals that used to be in zoos than ones that are right now.

 

[Luke da Zoo nerd]

Why not?

Sorry, I forgot to mention this earlier! Extinct animals do not count because I am strictly allowing myself (and other chatters) to have non extinct animal list since their is a lot to list if we counted those.

There are probably more animals that used to be in zoos than ones that are right now.

That;'s true

 

[Chlidonias]

Extinct animals do not count because I am strictly allowing myself (and other chatters) to have non extinct animal list since their is a lot to list if we counted those.

How do you figure that? I could probably list off the top of my head all the extinct species which were kept in zoos at one point. There aren't that many of them...

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

How do you figure that? I could probably list off the top of my head all the extinct species which were kept in zoos at one point. There aren't that many of them...

Agreed , I also think there are a lot more extant species formerly but not currently kept in zoos than ones which are now extinct.

 

[FBBird]

How do you figure that? I could probably list off the top of my head all the extinct species which were kept in zoos at one point. There aren't that many of them...

Let me see:
Pink-headed Duck, Quagga, Thylacine, Falklands Wolf, where's my copy of John Edwards' book when I need it? Thinking there's a wild ass taxon and a hartebeest type thing.....

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Let me see:
Pink-headed Duck, Quagga, Thylacine, Falklands Wolf, where's my copy of John Edwards' book when I need it? Thinking there's a wild ass taxon and a hartebeest type thing.....

Passenger pigeon , Bali tiger , Caspian tiger , Barbary lion , glaucous macaw, Cuban solenodon (maybe?) , laughing owl , lesser bilby ?

 

[Tim May]

Let me see:
Thinking there's a wild ass taxon and a hartebeest type thing.....

Syrian wild ass and bubal hartebeest

 

[FBBird]

Passenger pigeon , Bali tiger , Caspian tiger , Barbary lion , glaucous macaw ,

How could I forget the Passenger Pigeon? London Zoo even bred them.

 

[FBBird]

Syrian wild ass and bubal hartebeest

Thank you!

 

[iluvwhales]

Javan rhino used to be in zoos, though none recently of course. Last one died in Adelaide, Australia in 1907.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Javan rhino used to be in zoos, though none recently of course. Last one died in Adelaide, Australia in 1907.

Off topic , but there is a taxidermy specimen of a female Javan rhino in London's Natural History Museum , do you think this could have been an animal kept at ZSL in the 19th century ?

 

[Tim May]

Javan rhino used to be in zoos, though none recently of course. Last one died in Adelaide, Australia in 1907.

And whilst in Adelaide Zoo it was labelled as an Indian rhinoceros; it wasn't confirmed as a Javan rhino until 1950 when its remains were studied in Adelaide museum.

 

[Tim May]

Off topic , but there is a taxidermy specimen of a female Javan rhino in London's Natural History Museum , do you think this could have been an animal kept at ZSL in the 19th century ?

London Zoo only had one Javan rhino, a male; it arrived in 1874 and died in 1885.

I don't believe this is the animal in the Natural History Museum.

 

[amur leopard]

Off topic , but there is a taxidermy specimen of a female Javan rhino in London's Natural History Museum , do you think this could have been an animal kept at ZSL in the 19th century ?

There was one there from March 1874 to January 1885

EDIT: Cross-posted

 

[birdsandbats]

Let me see:
Pink-headed Duck, Quagga, Thylacine, Falklands Wolf, where's my copy of John Edwards' book when I need it? Thinking there's a wild ass taxon and a hartebeest type thing.....

Passenger pigeon , Bali tiger , Caspian tiger , Barbary lion , glaucous macaw, Cuban solenodon (maybe?) , laughing owl , lesser bilby ?

Syrian wild ass and bubal hartebeest

Schomburgk's Deer, Carolina Parakeet, Poo-Uli.

 

[Pertinax]

And whilst in Adelaide Zoo it was labelled as an Indian rhinoceros; it wasn't confirmed as a Javan rhino until 1950 when its remains were studied in Adelaide museum.

I've seen a very old postcard of it on Ebay a few times.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

London Zoo only had one Javan rhino, a male; it arrived in 1874 and died in 1885.

I don't believe this is the animal in the Natural History Museum.

Yes, I think you are probably right about that. It looks like it was alive more recently than the 19th century , it would be very interesting to find out where this London specimen was originally obtained from.

I am now wondering whether it was simply one "collected" by some trigger happy colonial in South East Asia. Maybe early to mid 20th century ?