Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

CheeseChameleon2007 said:
Yeah, I guess so. I just assumed that California condors were a little more frequent in collections, as Andean condors are.
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SDZ, SDZSP, LA, Santa Barbara, Oakland, Oregon, and World Center for Birds of Prey are it I think. Maybe Phoenix. Majority of birds are associated with SDZ parks, LA, and Oregon.

Andean Condor has around 30 holders in North America for comparison.
 
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How rare are Australian native freshwater fish overseas? I've only seen one, the nursery fish (Kurtus gulliveri) at any of the (admittedly few) zoos/aquariums outside of Australia. Even then, the lights on the tank were off/broken so you could hardly see a thing!
 
DaLilFishie said:
How rare are Australian native freshwater fish overseas? I've only seen one, the nursery fish (Kurtus gulliveri) at any of the (admittedly few) zoos/aquariums outside of Australia. Even then, the lights on the tank were off/broken so you could hardly see a thing!
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There's a few that are reasonably common but not many. A couple of the Australian Melanotaenia species are around, as is the Empire Goby, Purple Spotted Sleeper, and maybe one or two other species. I don't recall ever seeing larger native Australian fish at a zoo or aquarium. Far as North America anyway.
 
Great Argus said:
California Condor is on public display at I think only seven facilities, all but two of which are in California. So I'd say it would probably still count. Now a couple of those are highly visited facilities, but at least one also has Pronghorn and til recently the Giant Panda too it's perhaps hard to say. ;)
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You are including the breeding pair kept by Chapultepec zoo in Mexico City amongst the two I take it ?
 
Great Argus said:
There's a few that are reasonably common but not many. A couple of the Australian Melanotaenia species are around, as is the Empire Goby, Purple Spotted Sleeper, and maybe one or two other species. I don't recall ever seeing larger native Australian fish at a zoo or aquarium. Far as North America anyway.
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Those three are (somewhat) common aquarium species, so they would be the most easily obtainable species overseas. Makes sense they would be the most common.
 
Australian Lungfish is probably the most common larger Australian fish in aquaria over here. I've seen others, though, including Barramundi and a few rays such as U. dalyensis. For smaller marine endemics I've seen West Australian Seahorse, Australian Clownfish, and Pineapplefish. The National Aquarium in Baltimore has quite a good Australian animal collection and they have a lot of fish in their Australian exhibit so I'd bet they have some others, though not sure as far as Australian endemics go.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Australian Lungfish is probably the most common larger Australian fish in aquaria over here. I've seen others, though, including Barramundi and a few rays such as U. dalyensis. For smaller marine endemics I've seen West Australian Seahorse, Australian Clownfish, and Pineapplefish. The National Aquarium in Baltimore has quite a good Australian animal collection and they have a lot of fish in their Australian exhibit so I'd bet they have some others, though not sure as far as Australian endemics go.

~Thylo
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Wait what? Where did you see U. dalyensis? I thought Cairns Aquarium was the only holder of that species.
 
I have seen red uakaris, southern muriquis, black lion tamarins, bushdogs, hoary and crab-eating foxes, crab-eating raccoons, colocolos, Alagoas curassows, horned screamers, whistling herons, yellow and crested caracaras and purple-throated euphonias (I've only seen those in the wild). I don't know if some of these are commonly kept at zoos outside Brazil, but I doubt they are.
 
Enzo said:
I have seen red uakaris, southern muriquis, black lion tamarins, bushdogs, hoary and crab-eating foxes, crab-eating raccoons, colocolos, Alagoas curassows, horned screamers, whistling herons, yellow and crested caracaras and purple-throated euphonias (I've only seen those in the wild). I don't know if some of these are commonly kept at zoos outside Brazil, but I doubt they are.
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Red uakari is as far as I remember only kept at one zoo in the USA outside of South America.

Southern muriqui is only kept in zoos within Brazil, none in zoos outside the country.

Black lion tamarin is only kept outside of Brazil at Jersey zoo in the UK.
 
Enzo said:
I have seen red uakaris, southern muriquis, black lion tamarins, bushdogs, hoary and crab-eating foxes, crab-eating raccoons, colocolos, Alagoas curassows, horned screamers, whistling herons, yellow and crested caracaras and purple-throated euphonias (I've only seen those in the wild). I don't know if some of these are commonly kept at zoos outside Brazil, but I doubt they are.
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Both species of crested caracara are kept in fair numbers in the US and Europe. There's a handfull of crab-eating raccoons and horned screamers about, but they're not regular. Bush dogs are around but declining steadily in the US at least.
 
The irony is that there are certainly far more bushdogs in zoos in the USA and in Europe than in zoos in Brazil and South America.

This is a species that should have a presence in most Brazilian zoos but...nope.
 
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