Corangurilla
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Brookfield, Memphis, LA, and Columbus all have Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombats, & I've seen them at the latter 2 (never been to Memphis, and I couldn't find the ones at Brookfield).
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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All very common in captivity.
Kalaw
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I can't comment on the Americas, but in Europe, there are 64 zoos with Giant Gourami, 99 with Nicobar Pigeon and 67 with Luzon Bleeding-Heart.
I made a long list of species here, but then realised that most of the zoo's listed (London, Longleat, Chester, Burgers' etc) were fairly often visited by members of this forum. Other rarities (Chilean Puma at Vincennes, Indochinese Binturong and Bluestripe Garter Snake at Exmoor) are only rare on a subspecies level.
Sicarius
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Try finding species of which you expect others have never encountered them. If you need a comparison, there is a German website called Zootierliste. If you give in a scientific name into the search bar, you will see the species appear and the number of parks in Europe listed that keep this species. America does not have such a tool, but many species overlap. If a species has no holders in Europe, you can start checking if any zoo in your continent holds them. You can do so by simply browsing Zoochat gallery or by looking for the species in a zoo on Google. But as it's not kept across the sea, it will already be very rare to Europeans. That's a far bigger step than the species you have now mentioned, which are all very much represented in captivity around the world. Good luck!
A tip for you since you're fairly new to the forum @Van Beal: if you want to get an idea of whether a species is rare or not, you can use the search bar to search the forum for references to that species. You can also do this in the media gallery to see where photos of these animals have been posted from. Doing so will be able to rule out many of these species for you. As you can probably guess, the bar is pretty high for "zoo animal that few zoo enthusiasts have seen"
I'm working on a resource that hopefully will give everyone a decent idea of what herps are common or rare in the United States, but for now I can confidently say that the skink (also called Prehensile-tailed Skink) is one of the most common lizard species found in zoos.
Van Beal
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Alright thanks for the tip!A tip for you since you're fairly new to the forum @Van Beal: if you want to get an idea of whether a species is rare or not, you can use the search bar to search the forum for references to that species. You can also do this in the media gallery to see where photos of these animals have been posted from. Doing so will be able to rule out many of these species for you. As you can probably guess, the bar is pretty high for "zoo animal that few zoo enthusiasts have seen"
I'm working on a resource that hopefully will give everyone a decent idea of what herps are common or rare in the United States, but for now I can confidently say that the skink (also called Prehensile-tailed Skink) is one of the most common lizard species found in zoos.
In Georgia? When?
AndyJ08
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A few years ago, the sign just read “Civet Cat” although the scientific name Fossa fossana was listed and it definitely fit the description of a Fanaloka. I’ve heard that there are several private dealers who breed this species. Plus, this was seen in the shabby reptile house of the infamous “Wild Safari”.
Nile Hippo Expert
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I'm sure some of you have seen them, but I have seen Northern White Rhinos at San Diego Safari Park back in 2011. I found an article in 2019 that stated that the Northern White Rhino has the smallest population (2) of any surviving animal species on earth.
Sicarius
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Van Beal
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Yeah and upon that article being published, both individuals were female, deeming the species virtually extinct. NatGeo did a special article on extinction back in 2019 (October edition of the magazine if I'm not mistaken) and the death of the last male was the spotlight article.
The species has its own thread on ZooChat where all the latest news about it can be found :
The Revival of the Northern White Rhino?
doggoswoofwoof
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Sable Island horse (no longer on display), American pine marten, Snowshoe Hare, swift fox, and Fisher all seen at the Shubenacadie Provincial Wildlife Park
I've seen these two, and I know a few people on here who have seen marten and fisher.
not counting the domestic, the only one I haven’t seen is the marten
There's only 7 places in the USA that have had the marten in the last 5+ years, with two of those being in the dakotas, one in montana, and one in Alaska (assuming they're all American and not Pacific). It's a pretty rare species! Snowshoe hare is only kept by one place in the USA currently.
Pekan and swift fox are a bit more common, 15-20 US holders each, with a few of those being more visited zoos. With them it's more of an issue of actually seeing them
I've seen both Fisher and Snowshoe Hare in the wild.
