Oh, wow I didn't know about that. At one point they were the only zoo outside of their native range, but I guess not anymore.
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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A list of rare marine species I've seen:
Hawaiian deep anthias
O'opu species (don't remember which ones)
Atlantic tarpon
Bowmouth guitarfish
Silky shark
Blacktip shark
Madagascar panchax
Haplochromis ishmaeli
Giant isopod (again, don't know the specific species)
Green sawfish
Walrus
Pearl River stingray
Hawaiian deep anthias
O'opu species (don't remember which ones)
Atlantic tarpon
Bowmouth guitarfish
Silky shark
Blacktip shark
Madagascar panchax
Haplochromis ishmaeli
Giant isopod (again, don't know the specific species)
Green sawfish
Walrus
Pearl River stingray
I really don't think Walrus fits this thread.
Atlantic tarpon, bowmouth guitarfish, and giant isopod are not rare. Many Asian aquariums have them.
I think both @carl the birder and @Chlidonias have seen Pallas's gull, and I'm certain @Vision saw a Ross's gull. I'm not sure about Olrog's. Pallas's would be a very cool species to see, but alas It will probably take may years before I'm able to see one in the flesh.
yes i saw one or two in mongolia last year
I don't think they are kept outside of Hawaii so yes. Not very many ZooChatters have been to Hawaii.
I used to live there from mid 2018- to mid 2020 on the island of Oahu, but I recently moved back to the mainland.
Did you see any of the endemic birds while you lived there? I'm not sure any ZooChatter has seen any of those except for the waterfowl.
I mean, Walrus aren't exactly common so it's entirely possible many ZooChatters have not seen them, especially those living outside of the US and Central Europe/Russia.
~Thylo
Philadelphia had amakihi for many years until their last female's death a month or so after my visit in 2014.
~Thylo
Which amakihi?
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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I once saw a picture of an Ethiopian eagle owl here on zoochat. The caption under the photo read that it was rescued from some kind of situation of cruelty in that country by an Italian diplomat and sent to an owl sanctuary in Europe (I think it was the UK).
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The one Hawai'i 'Amakihi species
C. virens.
IIRC she was found for sale in a market destined for the cooking pot and was later sent to the Muncaster World Owl Trust before it closed "temporarily", at which point she and many other owls took residency at Rodbaston College where she would spend the rest of her days.
~Thylo
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Onychorhynchus coronatus
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First of all , very suprising (and depressing) to learn that owls are eaten in Ethiopia (there are a lot of taboos against eating owl in many parts of the world and they are not the usual targets of hunters) and second I take it from your use of the past tense that she has now passed away ?
I suppose that if she is no longer with us then it is worth considering that she was a very lucky owl to avoid becoming a stew and at least she lived out her days in a safe and decent environment.
She died earlier this year sadly, though it seems ZTL has yet to reflect this. She definitely had a good run, having arrived in the UK in 1996 and living a good 24 years in captivity.
Her name was Cugat
~Thylo