I don't know where you can now. I've seen them at Special Memories and Minnesota Zoos, the former of which is now closed and the latter no longer keeps them.
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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Sicarius
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Also visible in three parks in Europe, in countries that have several Zoochatters.
Dr. Wolverine
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idk if they are rare or not, but I just realized that I've seen Hartmann's mountain zebra in Ueno Zoo before it died.
Green_mamba
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Mountain zebra are fairly common in Europe, i'm not sure about other continents.
Hartmann's Mountain Zebra are not rare, they're in plenty of zoos in Europe and North America.
This thread has really devolved since it started. We started off with users sharing super cool rarities they've seen over the years, now people are just listing off random animals they've seen and hoping someone will tell them that they're rare.
Sicarius
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Let's change that. Here are three rare species that I saw this year:
I wouldn't consider short bigeye for this. Almost every (every?) aquarium in New England has them, even the tiniest ones I've been to.
Sicarius
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I'm glad to hear that! They are never exported in the aquarium trade and this is one of few that ever entered Europe. Glad that they are so commonly found near their native area.
I hadn't heard of them before going up that way last year, and then they were one of several species that were everywhere
There's a bunch of smaller aquariums all over the place.
Dr. Wolverine
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Was this in the Yambaru Wildlife Conservation Center? It seems like a too good of a photograph to be taken in the wild.I'm guessing not many people have seen these?
Sicarius
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No, at Yanbaru Kuina Ecological Exhibition and Learning Facility Kuina no Mori, otherwise known as the Okinawa Rail Ecology Center. They have a single specimen on show.
Dr. Wolverine
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Do any facilities in Okinawa have Okinawa Woodpeckers?
the Chinese Bahaba (Bahaba taipingensis)
Rizz Carlton
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I've just seen a very large Javanese narrow-headed softshell turtle today in Ragunan Zoo, I'm pretty sure that it's not a common species to be seen in institutions outside of Indonesia.
cornu aspersum
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I didn't know they are rare but I've also seen chousinghas, mugger crocodiles, and Tibetan wolves.
I have seen Tibetan Wolf in the wild; a single individual running alongside our minibus in Qhinghai!
cornu aspersum
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That must have been an exciting experience.
I imagine I'm the only ZooChatter to have seen Red-legged Webfoot Salamander.
Kalaw
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I saw Tibetan / Mongolian Wolves at Zurich the day before they left to Tierpark Biel, making me quite possibly the last ZooChat member to have ever seen them at Zurich. The fact that I saw them half an hour before the zoo’s closure after they evaded me earlier in the day only made the experience even more satisfactory.
This means that Biel in Switzerland and two obscure specialist ‘wolf parks’ in Germany and France are the only places in Europe where this species can be seen, and as all of those collections aren’t exactly places that I am likely to visit in the forseeable future, I am tremendously grateful to have seen them while I had the chance!