Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

[Goura]

Lumholz's Tree kangaroo at Fleay's and Currumbin
Green catbird (Caversham wildlife park)

Bali Bird Park:
Black lory
Papuan bronzewing
Northern cassowary

Baikal seal (Hakone Machi Aquarium)

Ueno zoo:
Great slaty woodpecker
Lidth’s jay
Japanese black salamander (and assorted Japanese herps & amphibians)

Zoorasia:
Crested Argus
Tibetan macaque

Dorcas gazelle

Of course heaps at Prague, Plzen, Walsrode & Jurong

 

[Hipporex]

Today I visited the San Francisco Zoo and I saw a Spix's guan (Penelope jacquacu). I don't know how common/rare they are on other continents, but according to a sign at the zoo she is the only one in North America. (Also I tried taking a photo of her but she keep hiding behind bushes and going into her behind the scenes area so I was unable to)

 

[carl the birder]

if we count wild animals i have sen martius olive white eye with i don thin is in any zoos?

 

[Thatzookeeperguy]

Harlequin Gecko (Tukutuku rakiurae) - Auckland Zoo
New Zealand Lesser Short Tailed Bat (Mystacina tuberculata) - Auckland Zoo
Rough Gecko (Naultinus rudis) - Auckland Zoo
Shore Plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae) - Auckland Zoo ver department
Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) - Auckland Zoo Vet department
Greater Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx Haasti) Otorohonga Kiwi house
Little Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx owenii)- Otorohonga Kiwi House
Archeys Frog (Leiopelma archeyi)
- Auckland Zoo
Cobble skink - Auckland Zoo
Chesterfeild Skink - Auckland Zoo
Bear Cuscus- Wroclaw Zoo

 

[Chlidonias]

Harlequin Gecko (Tukutuku rakiurae) - Auckland Zoo

Have they got Harlequin Geckos? I had no idea. Is that currently, or previously?

 

[Kiwi1]

Have they got Harlequin Geckos? I had no idea. Is that currently, or previously?

I saw them there 9 months or so ago which was last time I was there. In small terrariums by forest walk through avairy

 

[gentle lemur]

I have uploaded scanned photos of the male "imperial pheasant" at London Zoo and of a juvenile Ruwenzori or Adolf Friedrich's black & white colobus at Basle to the respective galleries, to illustrate animals mentioned earlier in this thread.

"Imperial pheasant" 1972

• gentle lemur
• 12 Feb 2019
• 1

South Pheasantry, 17th July 1972.

"Imperial pheasant" 1973

• gentle lemur
• 12 Feb 2019
• 1

South Pheasantry, 2nd March 1973.

Ruwenzori black & white colobus (Adolf Friedrich's colobus) 1973

• gentle lemur
• 12 Feb 2019
• 1

Monkey House, Basle, 29th August 1973.

My oribi photo was even worse than I remembered (there are much better ones in the Gallery already) and I haven't yet found my other image of the colobus (but I'm still looking ).

 

[Ebirah766]

Ring tailed vonistra as well as the blacktip and silky sharks.

 

[Kakapo]

Well, blacktip reef shark is one of the most commonly kept sharks in zoos & aquariums...

 

[Ebirah766]

Well, blacktip reef shark is one of the most commonly kept sharks in zoos & aquariums...

No, BLACKTIP shark. It's a different species.

 

[Kakapo]

Oh, yes you're right. Sorry I'm not good with common names, despite have seeing this same species at Burgers only some months ago

 

[Gavinj90]

I'm nowhere near as on-the-ball as most people in here, so there's probably stuff I've seen that I didn't realise was rare, or perhaps stuff that I think is rare, but isn't.

I used to go to Chester Zoo on pretty much a monthly basis in the mid '90s, so anything that was there at the time (Mauritius kestrels spring to mind) would have been seen then.

Off the top of my head:

In Captivity

Tuatara - Chester (so not "rare" given the popularity of that zoo I guess)

Giant Chinese/Japanese salamanders - not rare in this part of the world, but unsure elsewhere

Sumatran Rhino - Malaysia, not Cincinnati, so more rare in that regard I guess

Platypus - Taronga (are they in any collections outside Australia?)

South China tiger - Chengdu Zoo if I remember correctly

Chinese white dolphin - Chimelong Ocean Kingdom

Liger - Everland and at least one Chinese zoo

In the Wild

Blue whale
Sperm Whale
Chinese white dolphin
Black Rhino
Kea

 

[Pertinax]

Sumatran Rhino - Malaysia, not Cincinnati, so more rare in that regard I guess

At one of the managed centres?

 

[birdsandbats]

Platypus (are they in any collections outside Australia?)

Not currently, though SDZ Safari Park has plans.

 

[Gavinj90]

At one of the managed centres?

This was back in 2008 at the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park near Kota Kinabalu. I haven't been keeping up, but from a quick search it seems that they don't keep them there any more.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Not currently, though SDZ Safari Park has plans.

Is there any evidence that they're still planning on them despite the enclosure that was initially meant for them was built? They removed them from their website long ago and there's been literally zero mention of them that I've heard of. No permits have been submitted for them either.

~Thylo

 

[birdsandbats]

Is there any evidence that they're still planning on them despite the enclosure that was initially meant for them was built? They removed them from their website long ago and there's been literally zero mention of them that I've heard of. No permits have been submitted for them either.

~Thylo

No idea.

 

[Justanotherzoovisitor]

I don't know how rare it is in the US, but I have seen the only Kodiak bear currently in Europe.
If anyone cares

 

[Black Footed Beast]

Is the Royal Antelope one not many people here have seen

 

[Ursus]

Would the baby manatee in Burgers' count

Are there any species from Burgers' zoo that could count?
I can only think of the blacktip shark, screaming piha and the ringtail.