Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Having just read through the whole thread, let’s try a few species for fun; all wild
Tibetan Gazelle
Blue Sheep
Indri
Oilbird
Marvellous Spatuletail
Wattled Ploughbill
Crab Plover
Bornean Bristlehead
Ribbon-tailed Astrapia
Blue Bird-of-Paradise
Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise
Flame Bowerbird
Ifrit
Wrenthrush
Red-shouldered Vanga
Crossley’s Vanga
Banded Wattle-eye
Junin Grebe

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Having just read through the whole thread, let’s try a few species for fun; all wild
Tibetan Gazelle
Blue Sheep
Indri
Oilbird
Marvellous Spatuletail
Wattled Ploughbill
Crab Plover
Bornean Bristlehead
Ribbon-tailed Astrapia
Blue Bird-of-Paradise
Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise
Flame Bowerbird
Ifrit
Wrenthrush
Red-shouldered Vanga
Crossley’s Vanga
Banded Wattle-eye
Junin Grebe

Any photographs you can upload of some of these species? Quite a few taxa listed there which we currently do not have represented in the Zoochat gallery!

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Sadly I’m a watcher rather than a photographer...

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Forgot to add
Slender-billed Curlew (in Morocco)

and Pomatoceros triqueter is easy enough , what about Doto eirana? Or Colpodaspis pusilla? Or Onchidella celtica?

 

[Jungle Man]

I didn't knew they were rare but I have also seen Oilbirds. It was when I was a kid and a long time ago, but I still remember them.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Not exceptionally rare, but not something you are likely to see by chance, and not a species kept in captivity as far as I know. Be interesting to see how many others have seen them.

 

[TZDugong]

Here are a few that I doubt many zoochatters have seen:

Darwin’s Frog
Chilean Water Toad
South American Grey Fox
Humboldt’s Hog-Nosed Skunk

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

I’ve seen the fox and the skunk.

 

[RatioTile]

Chilean Water Toad was a miss for me in Osaka. The exhibit was under renovation.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Slender-billed Curlew (in Morocco)

VERY special.

Humboldt’s Hog-Nosed Skunk

I know of a few Zoochatters who saw this species when it was briefly present in two Spanish collections in the early 2000s

 

[carl the birder]

Forgot to add
Slender-billed Curlew (in Morocco)

and Pomatoceros triqueter is easy enough , what about Doto eirana? Or Colpodaspis pusilla? Or Onchidella celtica?

what year did you see them ?

 

[TZDugong]

I know of a few Zoochatters who saw this species when it was briefly present in two Spanish collections in the early 2000s

What were the two collections? ZTL only lists Berlin and London as former holders.

Chilean Water Toad was a miss for me in Osaka. The exhibit was under renovation.

That’s unfortunate. I Didn’t know there were any outside Chile!

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Curlew in the early 1990’s
Will check exact date later

 

[TeaLovingDave]

What were the two collections? ZTL only lists Berlin and London as former holders.

Slight error in memory - the skunks in question (at Terra Natura and Barcelona) were labelled as Molina's Hognosed Skunk but it later turned out they had been misidentified; I merely mis-recalled the correct ID as having been Humboldt's, but checking the gallery and ZTL it was actually Amazonian.

 

[Maguari]

Slight error in memory - the skunks in question (at Terra Natura and Barcelona) were labelled as Molina's Hognosed Skunk but it later turned out they had been misidentified; I merely mis-recalled the correct ID as having been Humboldt's, but checking the gallery and ZTL it was actually Amazonian.

As one of the lucky few to see them - yes, they were definitely labelled as Molina's at the time.

 

[Giant Eland]

Here are a few that I doubt many zoochatters have seen:

Darwin’s Frog
Chilean Water Toad
South American Grey Fox
Humboldt’s Hog-Nosed Skunk

I've seen the SA Grey Fox and the Skunk but no Darwin's Fox quite yet unfortunately! Did you see Darwin's in the wild? Any photos?

 

[Chlidonias]

I've seen the SA Grey Fox and the Skunk but no Darwin's Fox quite yet unfortunately! Did you see Darwin's in the wild? Any photos?

That says Frog, not Fox...

 

[birdsandbats]

Having just read through the whole thread, let’s try a few species for fun; all wild
Tibetan Gazelle
Blue Sheep
Indri
Oilbird
Marvellous Spatuletail
Wattled Ploughbill
Crab Plover
Bornean Bristlehead
Ribbon-tailed Astrapia
Blue Bird-of-Paradise
Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise
Flame Bowerbird
Ifrit
Wrenthrush
Red-shouldered Vanga
Crossley’s Vanga
Banded Wattle-eye
Junin Grebe

What is an Ifrit?

Forgot to add
Slender-billed Curlew (in Morocco)

and Pomatoceros triqueter is easy enough , what about Doto eirana? Or Colpodaspis pusilla? Or Onchidella celtica?

Slender-billed Curlew is probably the single coolest wild animal sighting of any ZooChatter! Plus all the other cool stuff you have seen.

 

[TZDugong]

I've seen the SA Grey Fox and the Skunk but no Darwin's Fox quite yet unfortunately! Did you see Darwin's in the wild? Any photos?

I wish I saw saw Darwin's Fox! As Chilidonias notes I saw Darwin's Frog, at Santiago Zoo. The SA Grey Fox and Humboldt's Skunk were wild though, no photos for any of the species sadly (I don't really take pictures).

 

[ThylacineAlive]

In America, only Bronx, Louisville, and Smithsonian have them, at least as far as I know.

Many American zoos keep Cuban Crocodile, they're a program species. St. Augustine does indeed keep them, as does Gladys Porter and Sedgwick County Zoo off the top of my head.

~Thylo