Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

Great Argus said:
I've seen these two, and I know a few people on here who have seen marten and fisher.
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I think I saw a wild marten while I was in Colorado. I didn’t get a good look at it, but it was a medium-sized weaselly looking animal chasing a squirrel up a tree, so what else could it have been?
I also saw a wild fisher when I still lived in New Jersey, but I didn’t know what it was when I saw it because I was like 7 years old at the time. Naturally, I assumed it was a Falanouc (because those totally live in North America, right?). I was a weird kid…
 
Sandy zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) - very rare morph

Sandy zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) - very rare morph

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A very rare, recently discovered morph that is limited to a small place near the coast of Kenya.
Here is a morph that is worth mentioning. This is the 'sandy' zebra shark, a colour mutation only known from a small area off the coast of Kenya. The morph was only scientifically discovered and studied in 2019. I made this picture a few months later in a fish import company. It was at this point possibly the only specimen ever to be kept in captivity. I do not know if more turned up in recent years.
 
Most of mine are ones other zoochatters would be familiar with
-Tree Pangolin at Brookfield
-Whale Shark at Georgia Aquarium
-African Wildcat at Henry Doorly

Talking with a friend for some bootleg zoochat challenges, I believe the Northern Hawk Owl I saw at World Bird Sanctuary is one of a kind in captivity, at least in the US.

I've also seen Wooley Monkeys at Louisville Zoo.
 
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Talking with a friend for some bootleg zoochat challenges, I believe the Northern Hawk Owl I saw at World Bird Sanctuary is one of a kind in captivity, at least in the US.
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That is the only one I know of in NA, though Europe has more than 70 holders of the species. So likely wouldn't qualify as a species few zoochatters have seen.
 
A new lifer from my Saturday visit to Hawk Creek Wildlife Center that I think may be a new rarest animal I've seen:
Martial Eagle
 
Neil chace said:
A new lifer from my Saturday visit to Hawk Creek Wildlife Center that I think may be a new rarest animal I've seen:
Martial Eagle
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Certainly a nice species, and a decently rare one, but I am not sure if they would qualify for this category given that four UK collections display them, and the UK is the best-represented nation on this site. They are also held at Tierpark Berlin, which is also quite often visited by ZC members.
 
Kalaw said:
Certainly a nice species, and a decently rare one, but I am not sure if they would qualify for this category given that four UK collections display them, and the UK is the best-represented nation on this site. They are also held at Tierpark Berlin, which is also quite often visited by ZC members.
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Rather easy to see wild in several parts of Africa as well.
 
Kalaw said:
Certainly a nice species, and a decently rare one, but I am not sure if they would qualify for this category given that four UK collections display them, and the UK is the best-represented nation on this site. They are also held at Tierpark Berlin, which is also quite often visited by ZC members.
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Interesting. Didn't realize they were better represented in Europe. Only knew they are only kept at a handful of US facilities, none of which are frequented by many zoochatters.
 
Neil chace said:
Interesting. Didn't realize they were better represented in Europe. Only knew they are only kept at a handful of US facilities, none of which are frequented by many zoochatters.
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I've seen them wild, but the only zoo specimen I've seen was at the National Aviary. It was behind the scenes/off exhibit, so I wasn't able to photograph it, which I remain disappointed about to this day.
 
Neil chace said:
Since the title of this thread says "animals" not "species", I think this sighting at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo today qualifies.
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Well, if you want to be that technical - most individual zoo animals are "animals that [relatively] few zoochatters have seen", barring the big oddities that draw us in from near and far :p lots of us have seen raccoons, for instance, but how many other than myself have seen the raccoons at Wildgehege Klovensteen?
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Well, if you want to be that technical - most individual zoo animals are "animals that [relatively] few zoochatters have seen", barring the big oddities that draw us in from near and far :p lots of us have seen raccoons, for instance, but how many other than myself have seen the raccoons at Wildgehege Klovensteen?
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And how many Zoochatters ever saw that cat I had once? None, I'd wager. I win the thread.
 
Great Argus said:
That is the only one I know of in NA, though Europe has more than 70 holders of the species. So likely wouldn't qualify as a species few zoochatters have seen.
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One more example of how different the collections are in zoos on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
 
I can't think of many since I've been to pretty few zoos and Sweden's wildlife is similiar to that of other palearctic countries.
Fourhorn sculpin
Artic char
White-backed woodpecker
Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)
 
Lota lota said:
I can't think of many since I've been to pretty few zoos and Sweden's wildlife is similiar to that of other palearctic countries.
Fourhorn sculpin
Artic char
White-backed woodpecker
Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)
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I've seen Arctic Char.
 
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