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

ZTL includes the following species formerly living at London Zoo:
Ethiopian wolf, thylacine, hairy-eared dwarf lemur, crescent nail-tailed wallaby, Falkland Islands wolf, Nubian wild ass, quagga, Schomburgk's deer, Mediterranean monk seal, little Swan Island hutia, passenger pigeon, huia and Galapagos land and marine iguanas.
 
Pertinax said:
I've seen a very old postcard of it on Ebay a few times.
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Is that a postcard depicting the living Javan rhino in Adelaide Zoo or its mounted skin in the museum?
I regret that I've never seen a postcard of this specimen for sale on ebay (either live in the zoo or stuffed in the museum).
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Passenger pigeon , Bali tiger , Caspian tiger , Barbary lion , glaucous macaw, Cuban solenodon (maybe?) , laughing owl , lesser bilby ?
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birdsandbats said:
Schomburgk's Deer, Carolina Parakeet, Poo-Uli.
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FBBird said:
How could I forget the Passenger Pigeon? London Zoo even bred them.
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Passenger pigeon , Bali tiger , Caspian tiger , Barbary lion , glaucous macaw, Cuban solenodon (maybe?) , laughing owl , lesser bilby ?
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Ok.. I guess were including extinct animals now. You guys know how to run threads way better Than I do!:)
 
Tim May said:
Is that a postcard depicting the living Javan rhino in Adelaide Zoo or its mounted skin in the museum?
I regret that I've never seen a postcard of this specimen for sale on ebay (either live in the zoo or stuffed in the museum).
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The live animal...I have seen it offered for sale more than once(or maybe different copies)- but its very expensively priced for a postcard..
 
Pertinax said:
The live animal...I have seen it offered for sale more than once(or maybe different copies)- but its very expensively priced for a postcard..
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Thanks for your reply; I'll have to keep a look out for one and hope it's not too expensive.
 
Tim May said:
Thanks for your reply; I'll have to keep a look out for one and hope it's not too expensive.
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I've probably only seen it for sale twice. Each time the asking price was something like 60 $ Aus...it comes under a billing 'electric candles' whatever that means.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
.....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 ?
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Tim May said:
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.
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
.... it would be very interesting to find out where this London specimen was originally obtained from.
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After some searching on-line, I found references to the mounted skins of two female Javan rhinos in the British Museum (Natural History). One was shot in Burma in 1920; the other shot in Malaya in 1932.

I assume the specimen currently on show is one of these.
 
Tim May said:
After some searching on-line, I found references to the mounted skins of two female Javan rhinos in the British Museum (Natural History). One was shot in Burma in 1920; the other shot in Malaya in 1932.

I assume the specimen currently on show is one of these.
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Thank you very much for checking this out Tim , much appreciated.

I have been unable to find any information on it's origin. I think that one of these rhinos that you have mentioned must have been the specimen on display. Judging by the quality of the taxidermy (I'm no taxidermy expert though this is just my intuition) I would be inclined to think that it may have been the one obtained later in Malaya.
 
I was told via email correspondance some information today regarding the African golden cats listed on Tierlist as being historically kept by the Aspinall parks. This email was sent by a conservationist who remembers these animals, some people might find this interesting as these were the very last (if I'm correct in making that statement?) of these felines kept ex-situ outside Africa.

There were originally four of them (parents and adult offspring) that arrived in 1982 from the private collection of Dr Paul Leyhausen ( Germany ?) after he retired. Three of these individuals were of a reddish morph and a single one (a female cat) was grey. The parents had originally been obtained from Togo and so all of these animals were of the Western African type (C. a. celidogaster ).

A bit later two younger male individuals of the Central African subspecies (C. a. aurata) arrived from the Rotterdam zoo and also lived at the Aspinall parks. Behaviourally they were similar to caracals and very agile (particularly when ascending trees) and would apparently leap quite high for food and while hunting / stalking prey.

Apparently these cats thrived in captivity (perhaps unsuprisingly as only the parents of the first arrivals had any experience of the wild) and settled which is rather sad IMO considering the fact they have now disappeared from zoos and ex-situ conservation outside of Africa.
 
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-Crow Honeyeater?
-North Island Kokako (not yet, but the last captive one probably won't be replaced and I doubt that any other facilities will get to keep the species in the near future)
-Bornean Ground Cuckoo?
 
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