Umm; if they’ve had them that long, I should have seen them, but I have no recollection of them! I struggle to believe they could have left no impression on me! Oh well!
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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It is a very endangered species in the wild and I would imagine that it is very uncommon in captivity too.
There are several collections in Hawaii that keeps them. The only zoo outside of Hawaii to do so is the Minnesota Zoo (and SeaWorld San Antonio until a few years ago). Very few ZooChatters have visited Hawaii, and very few have visited Minnesota or SW San Antonio, so it qualifies for this thread.
I'd hardly call the second-largest city in Germany hard to reachit's got direct train connections to all the other major cities in the country, and as Thylo may recall I actually suggested he use it as a base to visit Walsrode from during his 2018 European zoo tour, rather than his eventual decision of Hannover.
It may not be hard to reach(I went there once many years ago and found it probably the most disappointing of all the German zoos I visited, perhaps tying for first= with Hanover) but it does seem off the main circuit rather.
A good many I think, as you note from the gallery. They have a fair draw given they currently are the only place in the Pacific states for Orca, Beluga, Pilot Whale, and possibly subantarctic penguins. Plus the Guadalupe Fur Seals, Ringed Seal, and Emperor Penguin exclusive to them in North America.
Several?
Waikiki and the Sea Life Park at least, I thought I remember hearing there was one more.
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The only two I'm aware of are Waikiki Aquarium and Ke Kai Ola, which is a rehab facility.
I'm not sure Sea Life Park currently has any.
The seal exhibit is still on their map, seal included, but there is no reference to the exhibit or seals on their exhibits page so they likely do not have any currently.
The way their map is done, it'd be hard to update just for one exhibit. Their species page for monk seals no longer exists, there's no mention of them elsewhere on the website, no images on social media going back well over a year, not on USDA..
In zoos, usually. The color morph itself is not.
Tiger shark at Tokyo Sea Life Park (it was a juvenile, less than a metre long, not a full-grown shark)
White-sided dolphin at Osaka Aquarium
Blue-ringed octopus at Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA)
Olive sea snake at Cairns Aquarium and Reef HQ Aquarium
Thanks! Looks like I won't be seeing them anytime soon though, because I don't live anywhere near Japan or Australia.
Where did you see the bettongs?
I missed chuditches on two occassions. I gues you visited the NT some years after me. I had the luck seeing multiple small dasyurids as well as the mentioned hare-wallabies and antilopine wallaroo (you didn't see black wallaroo?), but the golden bandicoot, rock ringtail and rock wallabies weren't kept yet. I did see a Wilkin's rock wallaby in the wild though.
