You mean wild? As I believe there's quite a few in captivity around the world, like even I've seen one (in captivity).
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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Yes wild (but I can’t recall seeing them in captivity btw).
A couple of thousand greater white-fronteds winter in my local area, and I live well outside the main geese wintering hotspots in my country. In good years almost a million of them are present in the Netherlands in winter - and it is almost impossible not to see them when visiting the main river area or the northern provinces.
Blackbrook had Black-necked Cranes for many years, and Walsrode still has them as of my visit last month. Off the top of my head the only other place I've seen them was Olmense in the pre-Pakawi Park days. Definitely not common, but even just between those three I suspect quite a few have seen them.
Not wild though..!
Greater White Fronts winter in various places in UK, but numbers have dropped dramatically in recent years; seems like the majority are stopping off in Netherlands.
Axe Valley Wildlife Park, Ark Wildlife Park and Sanctuary, Wild Zoological Park and Hamerton all have Jaguarundi, with the Axe pair breeding most recently (I believe this is the last breeding pair in the country). I believe the Hamerton individual is also off show now, leaving three zoos with "on-show" Jaguarundi.I wasn’t aware the rise of Jaguarudi in the UK, although I wish the same would happen here in the states, as there aren’t many (if any) left.
Bengal Tiger
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Lol yeah but for me the species is a very rare thing to see. Though I guess many of you have seen it.
Thing is, this thread is "Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen" not "Animals You've Personally Only Seen Once That Many Zoochatters Have Seen"
This is a fantastic list that includes some great species kept in zoos many decades ago in USA. While I may have missed the following domestically. I was at least able to see them internationally.
1. Lumholtz's. Tree Kangaroo @ David Fleay Wildlife Park
2. Brown Hyena @ Berlin TP, Prague Zoo & Opel Zoo
4. Pink River Dolphin @ Duisburg Zoo
8. Hunters Hartbeest. @ Tsavo East National Park
17. marbled Cat @ Al Bustan
19. Rusty Spotted Cat @ Le Parc des Félins & Berlin Zoo
The rest of the mammals on your list I've seen in good ole America, but I never saw a Great White Shark and not sure if I've ever seen a Rough Scaled Python.
Aardwolf
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I've gotten brown hyena in the wild, but would love to see one in a zoo for a better-lit look!
Now that I've seen a lot more birds, here's an updated list of wild birds:
Mexican Duck
Harlequin Duck
White-winged Scoter
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter
Ruffed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken (subspecies pinnatus)
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Inca Dove
Ruddy Ground Dove
Eastern Whip-poor-will
White-throated Swift
Rivoli's Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Virginia Rail
Sora
Northern Jacana
Upland Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Baird's Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Sniper
Parasitic Jaegar
Sabine's Gull
Franklin's Gull
Least Tern (subspecies athalassos)
Neotropic Cormorant (this species may be common across NA in a few decade or two though)
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Northern Goshawk
Northern Harrier
Gray Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Gilded Flicker
I'll do passerines later.
Mexican Duck
Harlequin Duck
White-winged Scoter
Surf Scoter
Black Scoter
Ruffed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken (subspecies pinnatus)
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Inca Dove
Ruddy Ground Dove
Eastern Whip-poor-will
White-throated Swift
Rivoli's Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Virginia Rail
Sora
Northern Jacana
Upland Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit
Baird's Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Sniper
Parasitic Jaegar
Sabine's Gull
Franklin's Gull
Least Tern (subspecies athalassos)
Neotropic Cormorant (this species may be common across NA in a few decade or two though)
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Northern Goshawk
Northern Harrier
Gray Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Gilded Flicker
I'll do passerines later.
I forgot if I have already posted in this thread once, but I saw Mediterranean monk seal (she was an individual famous for being raised as a rescue, but since Turkey is a bit under developed regarding exotic animal husbandry, let alone piniped rehab-release, her rehab was contreversial), and Key deer (anyone can see the young stag in Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo)
Bengal Tiger
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Lol yeahThing is, this thread is "Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen" not "Animals You've Personally Only Seen Once That Many Zoochatters Have Seen"
How long ago did you see the Monk Seal? Any idea if the animal is still in captivity?
It was around 2011. My family and my brother's family were being guided through some Agean coves for a week. Badem (the name of the seal, it means almond in Turkish) was just dumped into the wild. As I tried to say, Turkey isn't great with marine mammal release. She just got an ‘aversion therapy’ before being dumped so she still liked human interraction back we saw her. I believe you are better off looking for Monachus in a facility in Greece than anywhere in Turkey.
Brown hyena in the wild where??
Aardwolf
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Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa. It was the weirdest thing ever - I was on safari, and the first day out the guide asks if there are any animals we really want to see. I've always had a huge soft spot for hyenas, and since the brown is the only species I hadn't seen yet in a zoo or in the wild, I said that, and to my surprise, he said, "No problem." That night, we were back in camp having dinner, and the guide beckons to me. We walk about thirty yards in the dark, he turns on his flashlight and there, sitting like a dog just a few yards off, is a brown hyena. He said that she was a regular visitor to the camp at night, but he usually didn't mention her because it wasn't an animal a lot of people had much interest in seeing. Sorry for the lousy picture - I've got to get a better camera.
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Bengal Tiger
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That is incredible!!! I have only seen one species of hyena, so I am very jealous.
Bengal Tiger
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Jealous!!!