I suspect more zoochatters have seen these than you might think. I know I've seen the species at Buttonwood Park Zoo, one of a handful US Zoos keeping this species. It's the only one on your list I've seen though.
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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I suspect more zoochatters have seen these than you might think. I know I've seen the species at Buttonwood Park Zoo, one of a handful US Zoos keeping this species. It's the only one on your list I've seen though.
Only because bottlenose likes to be closer to shore than common. It depends on where but whale watching tours that go further out in area’s known to have common dolphins will almost always see them. It’s not that their rarer it’s just the means of seeing them is more difficult.
Both of these are what I am implying. There are only around 50 in captivity as it is, with about 23 in the US. When they are on display, they are a difficult animal to see for a variety of reasons.
Aye-Aye does not belong on this thread, if for no other reason, that Chester keeps them. Any animal kept at Chester Zoo is automatically disqualified from this thread.
I'd say Hungarian meadow viper and Rakali.
Are you trying to be funny?
I assume he's going off the fact a large number of people on the site are regular visitors or have visited Chester at least once. It's a known Zoochatter hotspot.
Over a quarter of Zoochat members are from the UK (only the USA ranks higher in members-per-country), most UK members will have been to Chester, and I'd wager a large proportion of those are regular visitors to the zoo. By definition, any species kept at Chester will almost certainly not be "rarely seen by Zoochatters".
Afaik there are only five holders currently in Europe, and four of them are in the UK. The fifth is Frankfurt.
No, Chlidonias explained it well.
Fine, fine, I relent on the Aye-aye. Sorry for derailing the thread, apparently.
Kakapo
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That means that Chester's aye-ayes are always easily visible, instead hidden inside nest boxes or barely visible in poorly illuminated night houses? (this said from a zoochatter than never visited Chester, so I'm genuinely ignorant about my questions).
On my last two, pre-COVID visits the Aye-ayes were active and easily visible.
Chester's and Frankfurt's Aye-ayes are more or less guaranteed.
Fanfin anglerfish
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I have seen the Aye-aye at SDZ but very poorly. Had to come back to the aye-ayes.
The Aye-Ayes at Omaha are very visible, too.
Last time I was at Jersey Zoo the single Aye-aye with outside access, would use the outdoor enclosure in the late afternoon. Even the indoor ones under reversed lighting were fairly visible.
Just thought of a few animals I’ve seen that maybe few Zoochatters have seen…..
Negros Bleedingheart Pigeon at the Negros Forest Park breeding centre on its native island.
Ashy Woodpigeon and Dusky Turtledove in private collections here in U.K.
A whole tranche of unusual Philippine species at Avilon Zoo on Luzon. Also American Badger there
Just thought of a few animals I’ve seen that maybe few Zoochatters have seen…..
Negros Bleedingheart Pigeon at the Negros Forest Park breeding centre on its native island.
Ashy Woodpigeon and Dusky Turtledove in private collections here in U.K.
A whole tranche of unusual Philippine species at Avilon Zoo on Luzon. Also American Badger there
Purchased a while ago. Interesting, (albeit quick) read.
I was able to see Bengal tigers at Vandalur Zoo back in 2018 and I did a little research and I'm fairly certain that they're purebred. There are no pure Bengals outside of India so they are most likely an animal only few zoochatters have seen.
There are actually a fair number of Zoochatters who have seen pure Bengal, both because of scattered individuals present in other South Asian zoos and (among the older segment of the forum population) those animals which were held in European collections until 1985.