That's kind of surprising, they seem to be nearly everywhere these days. I remember back when they were rare.
Animals you miss from your hometown zoo
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Haliaeetus
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The Fennec Foxes (never seen).
They were kept in Beauval Zoo in the 1990's / 2000's, before my first visit in this zoo.
They were kept in Beauval Zoo in the 1990's / 2000's, before my first visit in this zoo.
Bison *should* be returning to Buttonwood soon. The public plan has also said acquiring more after Sarah died, and it's only been a few months bison free. It's a little bit too early to say the zoo's out of bison entirely. Stone also should still have a Jaguar, right?
But they also had a male, hence the zoo still having a jaguar.
cloudedleopard611
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Really? I haven't seen them in any of the other zoos I've been to.
Yeah, something like 40-45 US zoos have them now IIRC. In the early 90's there were only three zoos that had them (Cincinnati, National and San Diego) - then National and Miami had hatchlings in the early and mid 90's and they kind of spread all over the place.
Hopefully you can see them again, they are really impressive animals.
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You must be very unlucky to not have visited a zoo with Komodo Dragons. They are pretty commonplace in both big and small zoos, so looks like Saint Louis is a notable exception at least among major zoos. I personally have been to 5 zoos in the past 10 months that have Komodo Dragons, all in the American Southeast. And that doesn't include my home zoo, the NC Zoo, who, IIRC, currently has them off display until they complete their Asia expansion.
I agree. Komodo dragons are promoted far more than other monitors (Varanus).
According to ZTL,
85 collections have savanna monitors (V exanthematicus)
73 collections have Asian water monitors (V salvator)
58 collections have spiny-tailed monitors (V acanthurus)
44 collections have blue-throated tree monitors (V macraei) and/or green tree monitors (V prasinus)
39 collections have Nile monitors (V niloticus)
38 collections have Komodo dragons (V komodoensis)
23 collections have crocodile monitors (V salvadorii)
22 collections have white-throated monitors (V albogularis)
21 collections have yellow-spotted monitors (V panoptes)
20 collections have Mindanao water monitors (V cumingi)
18 collections have lace monitors (V varius) and/or mangrove monitors (V indicus)
14 collections have black tree monitors (V beccarii)
13 collections have quince monitors (V melinus)
11 collections have Gould's monitors (V gouldii), Timor monitors (V timorensis) and/or Mertens' monitors (V mertensi)
10 collections have long-tailed rock monitors (V glauerti)
9 collections have grey monitors (V griseus)
7 collections have blue-tailed monitors (V doreanus), rough-necked monitors (V rudicollis) and/or Reisinger's tree monitors (V reisingeri)
6 collections have Mitchell's water monitors (V mitchelli) and/or peach-throated monitors (V jobiensis)
5 collections have northern blunt-spined monitors (V primordius)
4 collections have Gillen's pygmy mulgas (V gilleni), Gray's monitors (V olivaceus) and/or freckled monitors (V tristis)
3 collections have Dumeril's monitors (V dumerilii) and/or northern Pilbara rock monitors (V pilbarensis)
2 collections have Biak tree monitors(V kordensis), tri-coloured monitors (V yuwonoi), ornate monitors (V ornatus), New Guinea spotted tree monitors (V similis) and/or Bengal monitors (V bengalensis)
1 collection has Auffenberg's monitors (V auffenbergi), Yemen monitors (V yemenensis), turquoise monitors (V caeruliverens), Spencer's monitors (V spenceri), Rainer Gunther's monitors (V rainerguentheri), pygmy rock monitors (V kingorum), line-tailed pygmy monitors (V caudolineatus), Negos water monitors (V nuchalis) and/or giant monitors (V giganteus)
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Primate, Cat and Aquatics Bldg. (PCA)- black-footed cat, striped possum
African Elephant Crossing- African gray parrot, Taveta golden weaver
Australian Adventure- rainbow lorikeet, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, cane toad, carpet python, White's tree frog, kea, Parma wallaby, swamp wallaby, dromedary camel, double-wattled cassowary, Bruijn's pademelon
The RainForest- Vietnamese mossy frog, Vietnamese blue beauty snake, red-eyed tree frog, wattled jacana, scarlet macaw
African Savanna- Kori bustard, klipspringer, Thomson's gazelle, slender-horned gazelle, rock hyrax
Wilderness Trek/Northern Trek- polar bear, Bactrian camel
Pachyderm Bldg. and adjacent (former)- red river hog, warthog, Nile hippo, pygmy hippo, Kirk's dik-dik, Malayan tapir, yellow-backed duiker, saddle-billed stork, turkey vulture, okapi
Akron Zoo
Legends of the Wild- blue-eyed black lemur, sika deer
Komodo Kingdom- Chinese alligator
Tiger Valley (former)- Sun bear
Wild Prairie- thick-billed parrot, burrowing owl
Primate, Cat and Aquatics Bldg. (PCA)- black-footed cat, striped possum
African Elephant Crossing- African gray parrot, Taveta golden weaver
Australian Adventure- rainbow lorikeet, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, cane toad, carpet python, White's tree frog, kea, Parma wallaby, swamp wallaby, dromedary camel, double-wattled cassowary, Bruijn's pademelon
The RainForest- Vietnamese mossy frog, Vietnamese blue beauty snake, red-eyed tree frog, wattled jacana, scarlet macaw
African Savanna- Kori bustard, klipspringer, Thomson's gazelle, slender-horned gazelle, rock hyrax
Wilderness Trek/Northern Trek- polar bear, Bactrian camel
Pachyderm Bldg. and adjacent (former)- red river hog, warthog, Nile hippo, pygmy hippo, Kirk's dik-dik, Malayan tapir, yellow-backed duiker, saddle-billed stork, turkey vulture, okapi
Akron Zoo
Legends of the Wild- blue-eyed black lemur, sika deer
Komodo Kingdom- Chinese alligator
Tiger Valley (former)- Sun bear
Wild Prairie- thick-billed parrot, burrowing owl
cloudedleopard611
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I guess its looking like I'll also have to add Chinese alligators. Looks like they are gone from the St. Louis Zoo.
endogenylove
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Some things I remember and miss from Pittsburgh:
Sacred Ibis
Snow Leopard
Reeve's Muntjac
Springbok
Dama Gazelle
Mandrill
Cotton Top Tamarin
White Faced Capuchin
African Painted Dog
American Bison
Pronghorn Antelope
Amazon River Dolphin (although I would never want him to return to the tank he used to occupy...)
Sand Tiger Shark
White Tailed Deer
Wild Turkey
Grizzly Bear
Spectacled Bear
American Black Bear
King Penguin
There are almost certainly more I have forgotten.
Sacred Ibis
Snow Leopard
Reeve's Muntjac
Springbok
Dama Gazelle
Mandrill
Cotton Top Tamarin
White Faced Capuchin
African Painted Dog
American Bison
Pronghorn Antelope
Amazon River Dolphin (although I would never want him to return to the tank he used to occupy...)
Sand Tiger Shark
White Tailed Deer
Wild Turkey
Grizzly Bear
Spectacled Bear
American Black Bear
King Penguin
There are almost certainly more I have forgotten.
Cassynatorium
Active Member
The golden jackals at burgers', they were sent away and their neighbours, panthers, would get a their enclosure expanded. If it were up to me it'd be the other way around.
Kalaw
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I miss the Borneo Bearded Pigs and Amazilia Hummingbirds at London. Both fascinating species, and the collection hasn't felt the same since. For Whipsnade, I miss the Eurasian Elk and the recently departed Sloth Bear - both responsible for many fond memories over the course of my childhood.
Brookfield Zoo - I deeply regret not spending more time appreciating the ibex, which I have taken much more interest in almost as a result of their absence. The loss of ostriches, warthogs and baboons always leaves the savannah a little incomplete as well, but I miss no species more immensely than the aardvark, which were critical to me falling in love with the zoo on my first visit. I'm also disappointed I never had a chance to enjoy the Andean bear while they were present. We could also use walrus back, which were also key to my first visit.
But if you ask me to pick one, aardvarks.
But if you ask me to pick one, aardvarks.
Corangurilla
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1) Aardvarks aren't members of the anteater family.
2) Brookfield doesn't have every species of anteater.
3) There are more than four species of anteater.
Corangurilla
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1) I know that1) Aardvarks aren't members of the anteater family.
2) Brookfield doesn't have every species of anteater.
3) There are more than four species of anteater.
2) I also know that
3) The “quadfecta” I was referring to was Anteater (any species), Aardvark, Echidna, Pangolin. I guess “myrmecophagous quadfecta” would be more accurate.
When did Brookfield get rid of aardvarks? I thought they still had them.
The Aardvark House was closed around 2016, I believe? It is now a blank spot on the map and was ambiguously referred to by its historic name as Small Antelope House recently.