Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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devilfish
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I've seen about 125 of those (kept losing count). BUT I've counted Chaetophractus nationi (now widely considered to be an invalid species) and the alleged 'golden civets' which *are* mislabelled but I've seen the same animals which you have.
I've seen 10 on Giant Elands mega list.
Thought of some others -Palmer's Chipmunk (wild)
ash meadows armargosa pupfish (wild)
Horned Guan -St Louis
Red Wolf - Endangered Wolf Center
Thought of some others -Palmer's Chipmunk (wild)
ash meadows armargosa pupfish (wild)
Horned Guan -St Louis
Red Wolf - Endangered Wolf Center
I skimmed through quick and I think I have 9.
Give me some time and I'll catch up some, hopefully get a few to make you jealous in between
~Thylo
I live for this kind of jealousy haha! Just adds to my motivation!
Where to next? I'm not missing too many currently captive species I'm aware of
. Here's a smattering of what keeps me awake at night lol:Outside of Beijing, China is an untouched region for me (Tibetan & Przewalski's gazelle, Spotted Linsang, Mainland Serow, Chinese Desert Cat).
I need to revisit India to see Pygmy Hogs as well as the Red Serow and assorted primates at the Assam State Zoo, maybe an Indus River Dolphin sighting if lucky. I'm also haunted by both the Nilgiri Tahr (never got a proper photo from San Diego) and Nilgiri Langur (couldn't find it at Erfurt when I arrived 1 hour before closing in 2010- was probably in area that had closed for the day). Seeing those in the wild would be nice and I think possible in the same day (kills me that the Nilgiri Tahr in Texas are so impossible to gain access to)
Indonesia left a bunch of behind the scenes animals off the table for me (i.e. Javan Warty Pigs, Sunda Clouded Leopard, some Tarsier species, the now deceased Bay Cat) and the out of the way Black spotted cuscus (if it's still there). A successful trek to see Javan Rhinos of course would just end any competition haha! New Guinea would probably yield a couple new Tree Kangaroos (one of my all time favorite species to add).
Tamaraw might've been possible with more days spent in Philippines (I also missed their Tarsier, Pangolin and Colugo- the later two I'm not sure are actually held anywhere).
In Japan I missed out on Bearded & Ringed Seals, African Forest Elephant, Pygmy Killer Whale, and Amami Rabbit but each one would probably require it's own day.
For Australia the Greater glider, Barton's Long Beaked Echidna, Leadbeater's possum, long-nosed bandicoot and Mala all hurt to miss out on.
Africa is wide open so South Africa might get Common Reedbuck, and both Grysbok. Gabon has that African golden cat, African Forest Elephants as well as some primates and maybe duikers or water chevrotain. Ethiopia and Madgascar are my 2 most hopeful destinations chock full of wild endemics like Mountain Nyala, Ethiopian Wolf, Walia Ibex, Big-headed African mole-rat (not to mention Bohor Reedbuck), Indri, and a much needed infusion of ANY sportative lemurs or additional mouse lemurs and Sifakas (painfully missed the Diademed at Duke).
New for me primates and Opossums are always bound to pop up in South America as well as the Mountain Coati and Tucuxi both currently in Colombian locations. Hispaniolan solenodon in DR is at the top of my list especially because it's so close to Florida which I visit a decent amount. (DR and/or Colombia may be my next international trip if I can pull it off).
Europe and North America are basically down to a few bats, hedgehogs, rabbits and rodents I haven't seen (plus some unique subspecies for sure). Some notable exceptions are the Bearded Seals at Brest, and possibly Side-striped Jackals in Missouri.
A super successful trip to Antarctica might yield 4 species of Seal I've never seen, and some cetaceans (How many Zoochatters have been to Antarctica!?) A beaked whale anywhere in the world is still high atop my wishlist as well.
For now you've got those damn Montane Guinea Pigs that I didn't even know I missed at the Domestic area of Schönebeck (feral European Rabbits in that same area as well, double gut-punch!)
I have 2.
Ah yes the mighty @devilfish. I figured you would have one of the best chances at the challenge. Well done chap!! Can I convince you to make your own sort of mega-list??
I've seen the Pigmy Hog, Red Serow, and River Dolphin. Also Golden Langur.
I saw Nilgiri Langurs in the trees along the road while waiting for the Nilgiri Tahr reserve to open for the day - but they are really difficult monkeys to photograph in the wild because they are heavily-poached and hence very skittish.
A quick count brought me to 18 (
) species from your list ( was so lucky to visit Antwerp, Rotterdam, Wassenaar and Amsterdam regulary in the mid-1970s - mid-1980s which all had large collections at that time with a good number of rarely seen species ).I guess with birds I had done a lot better
.
I think I take first place for the least amount seen: one!
Not so fast, we're tired. I've seen the Hawaiian monk seal. Which one have you seen?
It was on my list (Sumatran Rhinoceros).
Pygmy Hog at the breeding center?
Ahh you've got quite the lead on me in Nilgiri mammals. Seen a Nilgiri Marten??
Pigmy Hog at the breeding centre at Nameri (photos in India - Other I think). Serow was at the Assam State Zoo. Ganges Dolphin and Golden Langur were wild (the Golden Langurs at the zoo were either hiding, off-display, or not there)
I haven't seen the Nilgiri Marten, no - was somewhat foiled by the attitudes of the guards at the park at which I was going to look for them.
I've gone through your list and taken out all the species I've seen. I only keep track of wild animals though, so my list might be a bit off. I've just copied your lay-out and added my comment after the animal, so the formatting etc is just as you had it. I've put an asterisk next to some species for which I'm not sure or for which I've seen a close replacement species.
I make it 67 plus six with asterisks.
*(Zaglossus bruijni) western long-beaked echidna [I haven't seen this one but I've seen Barton's Long-beaked Echidna Z. bartoni at Taronga Zoo]
*(I have to skip all your American opossums because I haven't seen any species at all)
(Parantechinus apicalis) Dibbler [Perth Zoo]
(Dasyurus geoffroii) Chuditch or Western Quoll [Perth Zoo]
(Myrmecobius fasciatus) Numbat [Perth Zoo]
(Isoodon macrourus) Northern Brown Bandicoot [wild]
(Isoodon fusciventer) western brown bandicoot [wild]
(Parameles gunnii) Eastern Barred Bandicoot [Healesville]
(Trichosurus caninus) short-eared Possum [wild]
*(Trichosurus cunninghami) Mountain Brushtail possum [I've probably seen this, maybe at Healesville, but I don't remember; I haven't seen a wild one at any rate]
(Strigocuscus celebensis) Sulawesi dwarf cuscus [wild]
(Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) Musky Rat-kangaroo [wild]
*(Bettongia gaimardi) Tasmanian Bettong [maybe - not sure]
(Bettongia lesueur) burrowing bettong [at least at Dryandra, perhaps elsewhere too]
(Dendrolagus lumholtzi) Lumholtz’s Tree-kangaroo [wild]
(Macropus antilopinus) Antilopine Wallaroo [wild]
(Macropus dorsalis) Black-striped Wallaby [pretty sure I'd have seen this one, but I can't think which zoo]
(Macropus Irma) Western Brush Wallaby [Perth Zoo I think, otherwise not]
(Macropus parryi) Pretty-faced, Whiptail Wallaby [wild]
(Pseudocheirus occidentalis) Western Ringtail [Perth Zoo]
(Petaurus australis) Yellow-bellied Glider [Moonlit Sanctuary, Taronga Zoo, and I think some other zoos]
(Petaurus gracilis) Mahogany Glider [definitely seen it - can't remember where though]
*(Have to skip most of your insectivores and bats)
(Macroderma gigas) Ghost bat [in a few zoos]
(Pteropus alecto) Black Flying Fox [wild]
(Tupaia minor) pygmy tree shrew [wild]
(Tupaia tana) large tree shrew [wild]
(Galeopterus variegatus) Malayan colugo [wild]
(Cephalopachus bancanus) Western Tarsier [wild, and at Lok Kawi]
(Tarsius spectrum) spectral tarsier [wild (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae), and captive (indeterminate species) at Singapore Night Safari]
*(Have to skip all your Madagascan and Neotropical primates, but I've seen all of your Asian ones except for three [Taiwan Macaque, Siberut Macaque, and Laotian Langur])
(Macaca assamensis) Assam macaque [in lots of zoos]
(Macaca leonine) northern pig-tailed macaque [wild and in lots of zoos]
(Macaca ochreata) booted macaque [Schumtzer Primate Centre]
(Macaca pagensis) Pagai Island macaque [Bukkitinggi Zoo]
(Pygathrix cinerea) grey-shanked douc langur [EPRC]
(Pygathrix nigripes) black-shanked douc langur [wild, and Saigon Zoo]
(Rhinopithecus bieti) black snub-nosed monkey [wild, and Beijing Zoo]
(Rhinopithecus brelichi) gray snub-nosed monkey [Beijing Zoo]
(Rhinopithecus roxellana) golden monkey [in a number of zoos in China]
(Trachypithecus barbei) Tenasserim lutung [Dusit Zoo]
(Trachypithecus crepusculus) Gray Langur [EPRC and Hanoi Zoo]
(Trachypithecus delacouri) Delacour's langur [wild, and EPRC]
(Trachypithecus germaini) Indochinese lutung [wild]
(Trachypithecus hatinhensis) Hatinh langur [wild, and EPRC]
(Trachypithecus margarita) Annamese silvered langur [wild, and Saigon Zoo]
(Trachypithecus poliocephalus) white-headed or cat ba langur [these are now generally treated as two separate species, but I've seen White-headed Langur at Shanghai Zoo and Cat Ba Langur at EPRC]
(Hylobates klossii) Kloss's gibbon [Schmutzer Primate Centre - I don't actually have any memory of seeing it but I mentioned it in my review so I must have done so]
(Hoolock hoolock) western hoolock gibbon [wild, and at a few different zoos]
*(Have to skip all your edentates and lagomorphs, and most of your rodents)
*(Hystrix javanica) Sunda porcupine [maybe/probably at Ragunan Zoo or somewhere like that, but I don't specifically recall]
*(Hystrix sumatrae) Sumatran porcupine [possibly at Medan Zoo. Note that your photos of Sumatran Porcupine actually show a Malayan Crested Porcupine]
(Petaurista elegans) spotted giant flying squirrel [wild]
(Rattus tanezumi) Tanezumi rat [wild]
*(Have to skip most of your carnivores too, as the majority of them are from the Americas)
(Melogale personata) Burmese ferret-badger [Saigon Zoo. Also animals labelled as being this species at Yadanabon Zoo which may have been Chinese Ferret-Badger Melogale moschata. I've also seen the latter species in the wild]
(Viverra zibetha) large Indian civet [wild, and at several zoos]
(Herpestes urva) crab-eating mongoose [wild, and Korat Zoo]
(Pardofelis marmorata) marbled cat [private]
(Prionailurus planiceps) flat-headed cat [wild, and Malacca Zoo]
(Arctocephalus forsteri) New Zealand fur seal [wild, and Auckland Zoo]
(Arctocephalus tropicalis) subantarctic fur seal [Auckland Zoo]
(Hydrurga leptonyx) leopard seal [wild, and Taronga Zoo]
(Mirounga leonine) Southern elephant seal [wild]
(Balaenoptera musculus) blue whale [wild]
(Physeter macrocephalus) sperm whale [wild]
(Orcaella brevirostris) Irrawaddy dolphin [wild]
(Cephalorhynchus hectori) Hector's dolphin [wild]
(Lagenorhynchus obscurus) dusky dolphin [wild]
(Trichechus senegalensis) African manatee [COEX Aquarium]
(Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) Sumatran Rhinoceros [Lok Kawi]
(Moschiola kathygre) yellow-striped chevrotain [I don't follow the dodgy Sri Lankan mouse deer splits, but I have seen meminna in the wild, and whichever forms are at the National Zoo in Sri Lanka and at Singapore Zoo]
(Muntiacus crinifrons) black muntjac [Shanghai Zoo]
(Muntiacus feae) Fea's muntjac [wild, and at Chiang Mai Zoo and Dusit Zoo]
(Tetracerus quadricornis) Four-horned Antelope [Delhi Zoo]
(Capricornis maritimus) Indochinese serow [at various zoos]
(Nilgiritragus hylocrius) Nilgiri tahr [wild]
*(Naemorhedus goral) Himalayan Goral [I've seen N. griseus in the wild - I've probably seen N. goral at Beijing Zoo or somewhere like that]
I’ve seen ten on Elands list.
9 I’m captivity and 1 in the wild.
1. Julia Creek Dunnart
2. Amazonian Manatee
3. Proserpine Rock Wallaby
4. Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
5. Yellow bellied Glider
6. Mahogany Glider
7. Leopard Seal
8. New Zealand Fur Seal
9. Pretty Faced Wallaby (wild)
10. Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo
9 I’m captivity and 1 in the wild.
1. Julia Creek Dunnart
2. Amazonian Manatee
3. Proserpine Rock Wallaby
4. Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
5. Yellow bellied Glider
6. Mahogany Glider
7. Leopard Seal
8. New Zealand Fur Seal
9. Pretty Faced Wallaby (wild)
10. Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo
I doubt you've seen Amazonian Manatee.
The ones in Singapore are regular West Indian Manatees if those are the ones you've seen.
Ahh, you would be correct. My mistake. I simply assumed because they were in an Amazonian exhibit that they were in fact Amazonian manatees.
Yup, that seems to happen quite often with those manatees.