Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

[AmbikaFan]

What roadside zoos?

These are the four holders I was thinking of: Wildwood Zoo, Toledo, Alaska, Space Farms.

Methinks @ThylacineAlive should hasten to one of these and have his picture taken beside one standing up at full height!

 

[Great Argus]

This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

Don't think I'd consider King Penguin particularly rare compared to the rest of that list! I've seen them in captivity and many others have too. Now wild King Penguin is a different ballpark!

Far as your wild list, I've seen Humpback Whale and Common Bottlenose Dolphin (wild and captive for the latter). Seen cassowary but not wild!

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Methinks @ThylacineAlive should hasten to one of these and have his picture taken beside one standing up at full height!

Probably wouldn't be difficult at Space Farms, they have their Kodiaks trained to stand on their legs to get dispensed "bear cookies" tossed to them by visitors.

~Thylo

 

[AmbikaFan]

This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

These are more common--even I have five. The Bronx has the little blue penguins, and Queens has the kings, so many people will have seen these just because the destination is so oft-frequented.

 

[AmbikaFan]

Probably wouldn't be difficult at Space Farms, they have their Kodiaks trained to stand on their legs to get dispensed "bear cookies" tossed to them by visitors.

~Thylo

Yes, but will you get the chance to go before you'll be looking down on them to give them their cookies lol?

 

[Hipporex]

It's interesting to see how this thread of mine has evolved: starting as a true quest to discover the lesser known species people have seen to calling Amur leopard a troll and making height jokes about Thylo.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

Six

 

[Great Argus]

Six

Interesting you've seen Sperm Whale but not Humpback, are Humpbacks not very common on the East Atlantic side? Or just haven't managed to run across them yet?

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Interesting you've seen Sperm Whale but not Humpback, are Humpbacks not very common on the East Atlantic side? Or just haven't managed to run across them yet?

I've possibly seen Humpback, as I've had a few whale sightings which were too fleeting and distant to identify and they *are* found around the UK coastline (including the Firth of Clyde, which is where a number of those sightings took place) - but as I said, I don't really know for sure.

Can't complain though, as I *have* seen Cuvier's Beaked Whale

 

[Great Argus]

I've possibly seen Humpback, as I've had a few whale sightings which were too fleeting and distant to identify and they *are* found around the UK coastline (including the Firth of Clyde, which is where a number of those sightings took place) - but as I said, I don't really know for sure.

Can't complain though, as I *have* seen Cuvier's Beaked Whale

Indeed, a sighting of any live beaked whale is no reason to complain!

 

[Jambo]

This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

Great list.

I’ve seen 12.

 

[Jakub]

I've seen 16.

 

[WhistlingKite24]

This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

A nice list with some lovely species. I have seen nine of them.

 

[WhistlingKite24]

These species have probably been seen by more Zoochatters than expected but I’ll give this a go...
- Spotted Handfish
-Greater Glider
- Yellow-bellied Glider
-Whiptail Wallaby
-Proserpine Rock Wallaby
-Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
-Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo
-Razor-billed Currasow
Honourable mentions go to Red-bellied Pademelon, Spectacled Flying Fox and Platypus.

Time for an update.

Mammals:
Barton's Long-beaked Echidna
Long-nosed Bandicoot
Greater Glider
Yellow-bellied Glider
Short-eared Brushtail Possum
Black-footed Tree Rat
Whiptail Wallaby
Proserpine Rock Wallaby
Black-footed Rock Wallaby
Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo
Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
Red-bellied Pademelon
Subantarctic Fur Seal
Dugong
Spectacled Flying Fox

Birds:
Fiordland Penguin
Razor-billed Currasow
Potentially a few species like Chiming Wedgebill, Hooded Robin and Regent Honeyeater.

Reptiles:
Bellinger River Turtle
Northern Blunt-spined Monitor

Amphibians:
Yellow-spotted Bell Frog
Southern Corroboree Frog

Fish:
Spotted Handfish

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Time for an update.

Mammals:
Barton's Long-beaked Echidna
Long-nosed Bandicoot
Greater Glider
Yellow-bellied Glider
Short-eared Brushtail Possum
Black-footed Tree Rat
Whiptail Wallaby
Proserpine Rock Wallaby
Black-footed Rock Wallaby
Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo
Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
Red-bellied Pademelon
Subantarctic Fur Seal
Dugong
Spectacled Flying Fox

Birds:
Fiordland Penguin
Razor-billed Currasow
Potentially a few species like Chiming Wedgebill, Hooded Robin and Regent Honeyeater.

Reptiles:
Bellinger River Turtle
Northern Blunt-spined Monitor

Amphibians:
Yellow-spotted Bell Frog
Southern Corroboree Frog

Fish:
Spotted Handfish

Only seen the curassow and the monitor here!

Maybe I'll have to make my own list soon.

~Thylo

 

[birdsandbats]

Ok, so here's a list of more uncommon ones on my list. Avoiding ones already listed in the quoted post. How about it @birdsandbats and @ThylacineAlive ?

Mountain Quail
Spruce Grouse
Sooty Grouse
Pacific Loon
Clark's Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant
Virginia Rail
Lesser Yellowlegs
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Short-billed Dowitcher
Heermann's Gull
Iceland Gull (Thayer's spp)
Arctic Tern
Royal Tern
Parasitic Jaeger
Thick-billed Murre
Rhinoceros Auklet
Northern Hawk-Owl
Black Swift
Vaux's Swift
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Lewis's Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Western Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Cassin's Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Cassin's Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Gray Jay
California Scrub-Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie
Northwestern Crow
Violet-green Swallow
Oak Titmouse
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Bushtit
Pygmy Nuthatch
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Pacific Wren
American Dipper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Varied Thrush
Sage Thrasher
California Thrasher
Phainopepla
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Macgillivray's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Green-tailed Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Tricolored Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Cassin's Finch
Pine Grosbeak
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak

(I know it's listed in an older taxonomy, I need to update my species track document to reflect the current one...)

Not many here! I have spent almost no time in western North America. I have the kinglet, and probably the yellowlegs (I haven't been able to ID a Lesser for sure but I've seen enough yellowlegs that I probably came across one at some point). I've heard the rail, the solitare, and the Alder Flycatcher but I've never seen one. In fact, just for fun, the birds highlighted in the post above are birds I've specifically looked for and failed to find!

 

[ThylacineAlive]

So I'm just going to make a real long list and you guys can all go through it if you'd like Wild animals have an asterisk. For the most part I tried to leave out rare species that are at zoos such as the San Diegos and Berlins which will have been seen by a great many zoonerds by now, and most famous individuals (ie Baby at Duisburg) who are specifically sought out by many zoonerds.

Mammals
Common Opossum
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Striped Possum
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Cape Hartebeest
Mountain Anoa
Japanese Serow
Spanish Ibex
Royal Antelope
Bay Duiker
Maxwell's Duiker
West African Bushbuck
American Moose**
Calamian Deer
Bawean Deer
Formosan Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Coues's Deer**
Siberian Musk-Deer
Fin Whale**
Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Grey Whale**
Black-Backed Jackal
San Clemente Island Fox
Corsac Fox
Oncilla
Slender Mongoose
Brown Hyena
Greater Grison
Zorilla
American Marten
Beech Marten
Short-Tailed Weasel
Long-Tailed Weasel
Black-Footed Ferret
European Polecat
Siberian Weasel
Fisher
Marbled Polecat
African Palm-Civet
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Northern Elephant Seal**
Harp Seal
Spotted Seal
Ringed Seal
Ussuri Brown Bear (Hokkaido)
Kodiak Bear
Syrian Brown Bear
Owston's Civet
Feline Genet
Haussa Genet
Banded Civet
Malayan Civet
Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
White-Winged Vampire Bat
Southern Long-Nosed Bat
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Gambian Epauletted Bat
Livingstone's Flying Fox
Lyle's Flying Fox
Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox
Little Red Flying Fox
Ruwenzori Rousette
Pallid Bat
Little Brown Bat**
Northern Short-Tailed Shrew**
Eurasian Water Shrew
Eastern Tree Hyrax
Western Tree Hyrax
Antelope Jackrabbit**
Snowshoe Hare**
European Mountain Hare
New England Cottontail**
Daurian Pika
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chinese Pangolin
Tree Pangolin
Nancy Ma's Night-Monkey
Three-Striped Night-Monkey
Spix's Night-Monkey
Guatemalan Howler Monkey
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
Peruvian Spider Monkey
Wied's Marmoset
Red-Mantled Saddle-Backed Tamarin
Spix's Moustached Tamarin
Lowe's Guenon
Blue Monkey
Common Mona Monkey
Heck's Macaque
Olive Baboon
Guinea Baboon
Sumatran Surili
Red-Shanked Douc
Tarai Grey Langur
Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur
Ganzhorn's Mouse Lemur
Goodman's Mouse Lemur
Eastern Hoolock
Muller's Gibbon
Grey-Headed Lemur
Eastern Bamboo Lemur
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Red Slender Loris
Bornean Elephant
Ansell's Mole-Rat
Northern Mountain Viscacha
Woodland Vole**
White-Footed Mouse**
Alabama Beach Mouse
Mexican Dwarf Porcupine
Botta's Pocket Gopher**
Asian Garden Dormouse
Desert Pocket Mouse
Tipton Kangaroo-Rat
Ord's Kangaroo-Rat
Hairy-Footed Gerbil
Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat
Southern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Grandidier's Tufted-Tailed Rat
White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel
Plantain Squirrel
Gunnison's Prairie Dog**
Yellow-Bellied Marmot**
Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
Franklin's Ground Squirrel**
Abert's Squirrel**
Arizona Grey Squirrel**
Yucatan Squirrel
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel

I'll carry out with birds, herps, etc. at a later date perhaps.

~Thylo

 

[birdsandbats]

So I'm just going to make a real long list and you guys can all go through it if you'd like Wild animals have an asterisk. For the most part I tried to leave out rare species that are at zoos such as the San Diegos and Berlins which will have been seen by a great many zoonerds by now, and most famous individuals (ie Baby at Duisburg) who are specifically sought out by many zoonerds.

Mammals
Common Opossum
Tiger Quoll
Feathertail Glider
Striped Possum
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Cape Hartebeest
Mountain Anoa
Japanese Serow
Spanish Ibex
Royal Antelope
Bay Duiker
Maxwell's Duiker
West African Bushbuck
American Moose**
Calamian Deer
Bawean Deer
Formosan Sika Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Coues's Deer**
Siberian Musk-Deer
Fin Whale**
Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Grey Whale**
Black-Backed Jackal
San Clemente Island Fox
Corsac Fox
Oncilla
Slender Mongoose
Brown Hyena
Greater Grison
Zorilla
American Marten
Beech Marten
Short-Tailed Weasel
Long-Tailed Weasel
Black-Footed Ferret
European Polecat
Siberian Weasel
Fisher
Marbled Polecat
African Palm-Civet
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Northern Elephant Seal**
Harp Seal
Spotted Seal
Ringed Seal
Ussuri Brown Bear (Hokkaido)
Kodiak Bear
Syrian Brown Bear
Owston's Civet
Feline Genet
Haussa Genet
Banded Civet
Malayan Civet
Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
White-Winged Vampire Bat
Southern Long-Nosed Bat
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Gambian Epauletted Bat
Livingstone's Flying Fox
Lyle's Flying Fox
Little Golden-Mantled Flying Fox
Little Red Flying Fox
Ruwenzori Rousette
Pallid Bat
Little Brown Bat**
Northern Short-Tailed Shrew**
Eurasian Water Shrew
Eastern Tree Hyrax
Western Tree Hyrax
Antelope Jackrabbit**
Snowshoe Hare**
European Mountain Hare
New England Cottontail**
Daurian Pika
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Chinese Pangolin
Tree Pangolin
Nancy Ma's Night-Monkey
Three-Striped Night-Monkey
Spix's Night-Monkey
Guatemalan Howler Monkey
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
Peruvian Spider Monkey
Wied's Marmoset
Red-Mantled Saddle-Backed Tamarin
Spix's Moustached Tamarin
Lowe's Guenon
Blue Monkey
Common Mona Monkey
Heck's Macaque
Olive Baboon
Guinea Baboon
Sumatran Surili
Red-Shanked Douc
Tarai Grey Langur
Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur
Ganzhorn's Mouse Lemur
Goodman's Mouse Lemur
Eastern Hoolock
Muller's Gibbon
Grey-Headed Lemur
Eastern Bamboo Lemur
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Red Slender Loris
Bornean Elephant
Ansell's Mole-Rat
Northern Mountain Viscacha
Woodland Vole**
White-Footed Mouse**
Alabama Beach Mouse
Mexican Dwarf Porcupine
Botta's Pocket Gopher**
Asian Garden Dormouse
Desert Pocket Mouse
Tipton Kangaroo-Rat
Ord's Kangaroo-Rat
Hairy-Footed Gerbil
Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat
Southern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Grandidier's Tufted-Tailed Rat
White-Tailed Antelope Squirrel
Plantain Squirrel
Gunnison's Prairie Dog**
Yellow-Bellied Marmot**
Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
Franklin's Ground Squirrel**
Abert's Squirrel**
Arizona Grey Squirrel**
Yucatan Squirrel
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Round-Tailed Ground Squirrel

I'll carry out with birds, herps, etc. at a later date perhaps.

~Thylo

I've bolded the 17 I have seen (3 in the wild).

 

[birdsandbats]

This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

Only three here but none wild!

Time for an update.

Mammals:
Barton's Long-beaked Echidna
Long-nosed Bandicoot
Greater Glider
Yellow-bellied Glider
Short-eared Brushtail Possum
Black-footed Tree Rat
Whiptail Wallaby
Proserpine Rock Wallaby
Black-footed Rock Wallaby
Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo
Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
Red-bellied Pademelon
Subantarctic Fur Seal
Dugong
Spectacled Flying Fox

Birds:
Fiordland Penguin
Razor-billed Currasow
Potentially a few species like Chiming Wedgebill, Hooded Robin and Regent Honeyeater.

Reptiles:
Bellinger River Turtle
Northern Blunt-spined Monitor

Amphibians:
Yellow-spotted Bell Frog
Southern Corroboree Frog

Fish:
Spotted Handfish

None.

 

[Chlidonias]

This isn't an easy list to make as if you're looking for people who have seen these species, this is the site to find them.

Captivity:

Chacma baboon
Great spotted kiwi
Temminck's golden cat (many would have seen this; but few going into the future)
Subantarctic fur seal
Blue-ringed octopus
Numbat
Ghost bat
King penguin

Wild:

Sperm whale
Humpback whale
New Zealand fur seal
New Zealand sea lion
Common bottlenose dolphin
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Dusky dolphin
Common dolphin
Hector's dolphin
Platypus
Southern cassowary
Yellow-eyed penguin
Little blue penguin
Northern royal albatross
Takahe

I've seen all of those.